Unquestionably, though in the first instance lie should not have felt justified in neglecting his duty to his family by quitting a lucrative profession without the prospect of something like compensation, yet when he found his majesty thought his services might be advantageous to the interest of the country, and when he saw the Crisis in Which That Country was placed, he felt it no longer to be a matter of option with him, but that whatever might be the consequences 199 to himself, his sovereign should command the utmost exertion of his humble abilities.