Sir W. Coventry agreed with me so as to say, that
unless the King hath the wealth of the Mogull, he would be a
beggar to have his businesses ordered in the manner they now are:
that his garrison must be made places only of convenience to
particular persons: that he hath moved the Duke of York in it:
and that it was resolved to send no Governor thither till there
had been Commissioners sent to put the garrison in order, so as
that he that goes may go with limitations and rules to follow,
and not to do as he please, as the rest have hitherto done. That
he is not afraid to speak his mind, though to the displeasure of
any man; and that I know well enough. But that when it is come
(as it is now), that to speak the truth in behalf of the King
plainly do no good but all things bore down by other measures
than by what is best for the King, he hath no temptation to be
perpetually fighting of battles, it being more easy to him on
those terms to suffer things to go on without giving any man
offence, than to have the same thing done, and he contract the
displeasure of all the world, as he must do, that will be for the
King.
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