still be young enough for politics. With regard to expence, travelling
through the East is rather inconvenient than expensive: it is not like
the tour of Europe, you undergo hardship, but incur little hazard of
spending money. If I live here I must have my house in town, a
separate house for Mrs. Byron; I must keep horses, etc., etc. When I
go abroad I place Mrs. Byron at Newstead (there is one great expence
saved), I have no horses to keep. A voyage to India will take me six
months, and if I had a dozen attendants cannot cost me five hundred
pounds; and you will agree with me that a like term of months in
England would lead me into four times that expenditure. I have written
to Government for letters and permission of the Company, so you see I
am _serious._

You honour my debts; they amount to perhaps twelve thousand pounds,
and I shall require perhaps three or four thousand at setting out,
with credit on a Bengal agent. This you must manage for me. If my
resources are not adequate to the supply I must _sell_, but _not
Newstead._ I will at least transmit that to the next Lord. My debts
must be paid, if possible, in February. I shall leave my affairs to
the care of _trustees_, of whom, with your acquiescence, I shall _name
you_ one, Mr. Parker another, and two more, on whom I am not yet
determined.

Pray let me hear from you soon. Remember me to Mrs. Hanson, whom I
hope to see on her return. Present my best respects to the young lady,
and believe me, etc.,

BYRON.