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                                                      Bushy House
                                                     Novr. 12th: 1827.
                                                     Late at Night

My Dear Lord
                    I am to acknowledge Your
Lordship's letter of yesterday and rejoice it
has been in my power thus early to employ
Commander Crole whose future welfare
I will watch if he acts as I trust and believe
he will properly.

Your Lordship the son of an old first Lord
of the Admiralty and one who has ever been
alive to the interests of the Empire must feel
pleased at the result of the event in Navarino
by the able Sir Edward Codrington and brave
officers and men under his command. I believe