L30/14/315/26

From 2nd Baron Grantham, Madrid to Beilby Porteus:

18 Jul 1774

From: 1774 To: 1774

Acknowledges previous letter, assures Porteus long letters are welcome. Waddilove has returned from England and brings much news. On the King of Spain Porteus judged right "in supposing that [his] Regularity keeps other People in order...". The King prefers old to young people and "the notice he takes of ye former is very marked, let their Rank be what it will & he distinguishes without affection, the father of a Family from an old Batchelor". Thinks he would disapprove of Lord Chesterfield's book; Grantham also thinks about it as Porteus does etc.. Refers to Dr. Hawkesworth's Preface to Swift's letters regarding the problems of publishing Confidential Letters, requests Porteus to transcribe and sent it if he finds the passage. Has received a package of books. Impressed with Porteus' Sermon at the Asylum. Two books by Griante he will keep until his return to England and then perhaps "hide them on a shelf" although he has been asked to convey them to the Universities.

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Waddilove,
Chesterfield,
Hawksworth,
Charles III of Spain