Selina professes that she is ready to die with envy of the fine houses and verandahs.

I heartily wish we were back again in a nice plain brick house, three windows in front, in Cadogan Place or Russell Square, with twelve or fifteen hundred a year, and a spare bedroom,--( we, like Mrs.
Norris, [A leading personage in Miss Austen's "Mansfield Park."] must always have a spare bedroom,)--for Edward and Margaret, Love to them both.
Ever yours T.B.M.
To Macvey Napier, Esq.
London: December 5, 1833 Dear Napier,--You are probably not unprepared for what I am about to tell you.

Yesterday evening the Directors of the East India Company elected me one of the members of the Supreme Council.

It will, therefore, be necessary that in a few weeks,--ten weeks, at furthest,--I should leave this country for a few years.
It would be mere affectation in me to pretend not to know that my support is of some importance to the Edinburgh Review.

In the situation in which I shall now be placed, a connection with the Review will be of some importance to me.