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therefore my leaving England, as leaving the World, and prepared myself for the one, as I would have done for the other. Besides settling all my private Affairs with that View, I settled too, as well as I could, all that related to my publick Situation I held very free Discourse, both with the Ministers ^ [[addition]] with [[/addition]] whom I had Intimacy, and with considerable Men in different Parties and Situations with whom I had been us'd to discourse with Freedom. I represented to such the publick Situation in the Light I saw it in, and they did not differ much with me, or between one another in opinion as to that. I ask'd Them severally what part I could take, that could be beneficial to the Publick. (For as to what might be beneficial to myself in this Country, even in a view of Vanity; That consideration was excluded absolutely from the View I was then taking.) I forc'd those I discours'd with to own, that I was free in every Light to think of my own Health, when I could neither act nor think at that time with any Use to the publick, And I was sorry to be convinced by them, that they could do just then, almost as little Good as I could.~ One Satisfaction more I felt was wanting to me before my Departure, to justify or excuse myself personally to the King, whose Favor had been from my first Entrance into the World, tender'd to me, and that Tender frequently repeated, insomuch that from the Time of Sr. Robt. Walpole's Removal The King himself had frequently expressed his Desire to show me Marks of his Favor, and this had been signified to me by every Minister he had from that time repeatedly. Adding to this the particular Civility with which his majesty had always treated me, and the Regard which I had conceived for his personal character I felt that I could not be quite satisfied in leaving England without expressing My Gratitude to his Majesty, and explaining to him, why I had not till then avail'd myself of his proffer'd Favor, and had still no new Favor to desire, having only desired in my [[catchword]] whole- [[/catchword]]
