Lord North ー I can easily imagine You must be anxious to know how matters stand with Lord Howe, I therefore before I get to dinner-just take up my pen to acquaint You that things are very fax from desperate that if no one will interfere I do not dispair of bringing things to rights: by a greater digree: [sic] of rightheadness in Lord Sandwich then wrongheadedness in the other party; therefore rest satisfied till You hear more from Me.
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Queens House Feby 2d 1776. pt 5 P.M. 46
1. Fortescue, ed., Correspondence of George Ill, III, 336:
