“My dear Lockhart,—On the subject of Burns, I think it fair to a very good man to say, that Lord Sidmouth entertained the purpose of attending to his promotion. This I learned from George Ellis, to whom Lord Sidmouth spoke on the subject as they happened to meet on a morning ride. I have also understood it from the old statesman himself. It was a piece of justice which Ellis rendered a Minister to whom (as being himself an intimate friend of Canning) he was not at the period very partial.
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“I think it a curious point of Burns’s character which should not be suppressed, that he copied over the very same letters, or great part of them, and sent them to different individuals.”
