I am engaged on Wednesday to dine at the Albion Tavern with the Directors of the East India Company; now my servants; next week, I hope, to be my masters.
Ever yours T.B.M.
To Hannah M.Macaulay.
London: November 22, 1833.
My dear Sister,--The decision is postponed for a week; but there is no chance of an unfavourable result.

The Chairs have collected the opinions of their brethren; and the result is, that, of the twenty-four Directors, only six or seven at the most will vote against me.
I dined with the Directors on Wednesday at the Albion Tavern.

We had a company of about sixty persons, and many eminent military men amongst them.

The very courteous manner in which several of the Directors begged to be introduced to me, and drank my health at dinner, led me to think that the Chairs have not overstated the feeling of the Court.

One of them, an old Indian and a great friend of our uncle the General, told me in plain words that he was glad to hear that I was to be in their service.