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wish ardently Your Majesty's favour & indulgence in it.

I have not ventur'd hitherto myself to represent to Your Majesty, my earnest wish that the Earl of Bute might be plac'd in some principal situation about my person; but being now commanded by Your Majesty to explain myself upon that subject; I presume most humbly to lay before Your Majesty this my most ardent request, & my only one with regard to an Establishment Your Majesty most graciously intends