Pray give my kindest love to all at Home, from, my Dearest Father, your ever Affectionate and Dutiful Son,
Wm. Warre.
I wrote two days ago to my mother, and suppose the letter will go by the same conveyance as this. Adieu.
[12] See Memoir, and p. 101.
Lisbon, 13th July, 1809.
My Dear Father,
Though I wrote to you a very long letter by last Packet, and am now somewhat prest for time, I will not delay thanking you for your affectionate letters of 20th of May and 1st of June, which did not reach me till yesterday, having travelled to Porto and back again after me, and in it my uncle Wm’s. very kind letter of 20th May, for which pray thank him with my kindest love, and tell him I will answer very shortly, as also Hardy’s, whose entire recovery gives me the sincerest pleasure, and I hope soon to hear that he has got a ship. At a time when so much is doing in all parts of the world, I know it must be irksome to him to be unemployed.
We were to have left this place yesterday to join the army assembled about Guarda, etc., and to advance into Spain as an army of observation, but business has prevented the General, and we only set off to-morrow morning, and proceed direct to Guarda, where we shall remain but a few days, I suppose.