continued in the but i have mentioned to the board of his wish to be in a and when a proper opportunity offers and it is judged that he has taken his turn in a ship i hope he will be removed with regard to your son now in the london i am glad i can give you the assurance that his promotion is likely to take place very soon as lord has been so good as to say he would include him in an arrangement that he making in a short time relative to some in that quarter there i may now finish my letter and go and hang myself for i am sure i can neither write nor do anything which will not appear to you after this i really think he will soon be made and only wish we could communicate our of the event to him whom it principally concerns my father has written to to desire that he will inform us if he can when the commission is sent your chief wish is now ready to be accomplished and could lord give happiness to at the same time what a joyful he rt he would make of yours letters of j i have sent the same extract of the sweets of to charles who poor fellow though he sinks into nothing but an humble attendant on the hero of the will i hope be contented with the prospect held out to him by what the admiral says it appears as if he had been designed kept in the but i will not torment myself with conjectures and facts shall satisfy me frank had not heard from any of us for ten weeks when he wrote to me on november in consequence of lord st being removed to when his commission is sent however it will not be so long on its road as our letters because all the government are forwarded by land to his from with great regularity i returned from this morning and found my mother certainly in no respect worse than when i left her she does not like the cold weather but that we cannot help i spent my time very quietly and very pleasantly with miss is agreeable enough i do not want people to be very agreeable as it me the trouble of liking them a great deal i found only and her when i got to on thursday we dined together and went together to to seek the protection of mrs with whom were lady her eldest son and mr and mrs letters of se our ball was very thin but by no means unpleasant there were thirty one people and only eleven ladies out of the number and but five single women in the room of the gentlemen present you may have some idea from the list of my partners � mr wood g rice a mr belonging to the temples a sailor and not of the th light mr temple not the horrid one of all mr wm cousin to the man mr john and mr who appeared as usual with his hat in his hand and stood every now and then behind and me to be talked to and abused for not dancing we him however into it at last i was very glad to see him again after so long a separation and he was altogether rather the genius and of the evening he inquired after you there were twenty dances and i danced them all and without any fatigue i was glad to find myself capable of dancing so much and with so much satisfaction as i did from my slender enjoyment of the balls as for dancing i had not thought myself equal to it but in cold weather and with few couples i fancy i could just as well dance for a week together as for half an hour my black cap was openly admired by mrs and secretly i imagine by everybody else in the room letters of jane poor edward it is very hard that he who has everything else in the world that he can wish for should not have good health too but i hope with the assistance of stomach complaints and he will soon be restored to that blessing likewise if his nervous complaint proceeded from a of something that ought to be thrown out which does not seem unlikely the first of these may really be a remedy and i sincerely wish it may for i know no one more deserving of happiness without than edward is the lords of the will have enough of our at present for i hear from charles that he has written to lord himself to be removed i am afraid his serene will be in a passion and order some of our heads to be cut off you deserve a longer letter than this but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve god bless you yours affectionately jane � the snow came to nothing yesterday so i did go to and returned home at nine o clock at night in the little carriage and without being very cold miss park letters of jane xl friday december my dear � frank is made he was yesterday raised to the rank of commander and appointed to the now at a letter from has just announced this and as it is confirmed by a very friendly one from mr to the same effect one from admiral to the general we have no reason to suspect the of it as soon as you have cried a little for joy you may go on and learn further that the india house have taken captain s petition into consideration � this comes from � and likewise that lieutenant charles john is removed to the � this comes from the admiral we cannot find out where the is but 