I am sorry to hear that the state of Mr. Larpent’s health induced him to contemplate his retirement from the public service.
(Signed) Robert Peel.
To the Duke of Wellington,
&c. &c.
(Copy.) No. 4.
Whitehall, March 3rd, 1843.
Dear Sir,
From my high sense of your public services, I have heard with very sincere regret, on public as well as on private grounds, that the state of your health compels you to contemplate the immediate retirement from the important appointment which you hold, the duties of which you have discharged with great ability and integrity, and with unremitting zeal.
I have been so incessantly occupied by important public business, that I have been unable, since the receipt of your letter, to confer with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the subject to which the enclosure in your letter refers, but I will do so without delay, and with every desire to take as favourable a view of it as the state of the law and the usage in similar cases may permit,
I have the honour to be,
Dear Sir,
Your obedient and faithful Servant,
(Signed) Robert Peel.
To F. S. Larpent, Esq.