It is probable, indeed nearly certain, that the situation will be offered to me.
The advantages are very great.

It is a post of the highest dignity and consideration.

The salary is ten thousand pounds a year.

I am assured by persons who know Calcutta intimately, and who have themselves mixed in the highest circles and held the highest offices at that Presidency, that I may live in splendour there for five thousand a year, and may save the rest of the salary with the accruing interest.

I may therefore hope to return to England at only thirty-nine, in the full vigour of life, with a fortune of thirty thousand pounds.