I have done on my side every thing that I could do to satisfy him; but it was decreed that a blind jealousy should make him regardless of every thing that ought to have been dear to him." To Portland himself the King wrote in language still more touching.

"I hope that you will oblige me in one thing.

Keep your key of office.

I shall not consider you as bound to any attendance.

But I beg you to let me see you as often as possible.
That will be a great mitigation of the distress which you have caused me.