" ' Thus upwards of five hundred volumes and bundles of papers were thoroughly and carefully examined in the State Paper Office. Each document desired for transcription was indicated by a slip of paper, and subsequently reexamined by a gentleman connected with the Foreign Office, under Lord Aberdeen's direction. Such of them only as were not obje(;ted to were copied. The copies were made by the regular clerks of the office on the terms above stated and in every instance the orthography of the originals was scrupulously followed. ;

In making my selections, the greatest care and caution were necessary in order to avoid marking duplicates of papers, which are very numerous and the immense number of the ;

documents themselves, and the unexpectedly high charge for transcribing, were also causes of considerable embarrassment. I cannot close this reference to my researches in the State Paper Office, without bearing testimony to the excellent and orderly arrangement of every part of the establishment and I should be greatly wanting to my feelings if I were to omit ;

an expression of my admiration of the politeness and attention of Messrs. Charles Lechraere and Robert Lemon, the deputy keeper and chief clerk. To the latter gentleman, particularly, I feel under great obligations, not only for his personal courtesies to myself, but for the ready and zealous interest he manifested in the success of the undertaking I was charged by the State to execute. " Presuming that the office of the Privy Council might contain information relative to the '