He is sorry to trouble her a second time. He remembers the
Duke of Dorset with the sincerest regard, and as the most availing efforts of his friends on his claim in India have, he thinks, failed, he returns to the subject of the family portraits begun by him, under a tacit agreement with the Duke. Could she please excercise her interest to secure him a place on the Commission of the Lottery? It would make all the difference to his position.