L30/14/247/3

From Prince de Masserano, Madrid to 2nd Baron Grantham. [Text in French]:

15 Apr 1774

From: 1774 To: 1774

Translation: Milord, I also would have liked to have had the time, my dear Ambassador, to have had the pleasure of embracing you personally before leaving, but it is impossible given that I have not changed the plans I have made about the day of my departure, and I am so busy that the pace of the day is as long as it is tiring, and I do not expect to get any rest until I am on the road. Your Excellency knows that in London as anywhere else I may be, that he may honour me with his orders, and that when I have the good fortune of arriving at Court, I will not neglect to give the English Ambassador his due in that he has earned the friendship and esteem of our entire country. I thank you, Milord, for the good wishes for my journey, I flatter myself that it will be a good one and that I will have the honour and satisfaction of paying court to His Majesty the King of Great Britain and of finding Him in good health. I beg you to continue to do me the honour of remembering me and our friendship, I dare to hope that you value it for the sincerity of the my devotion, with which I have the honour to be, Milord, Your Excellency's very humble and obedient servant, Le Prince de Masserano I have received the note from R. I beg you to give my compliments to your brother and I will certainly give yours to Mme de Masserano and to my son.

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