lution, which is to be proposed on Monday.
It is, therefore, probable, that we shall not carry this by so
triumphant a majority as we have the other questions. I think,
however, there is little doubt that we shall carry it; and that is
the point of real importance.

I shall be anxious to hear the event of your meeting. You will have
observed that, by Lord Sydney's despatch, a latitude is given you
of proroguing, in stating the opinion of the King's servants on the
different points. I thought, when the despatch was shown to me,
that this was a favourable circumstance, as, from your letters, it
seemed to me at that time very doubtful whether you would not have
adopted that measure; and, in that case, I felt that you would
certainly have been glad to have this sort of sanction.

Believe me ever most affectionately yours,
W. W. G.

The Duke of Leinster has, as I suppose you know, written to the
Prince of Wales, to offer himself to him. The consequence has been,
that Lord Charles Fitzgerald has declared, that he does not
consider himself in a situation to be turned over from party to
party every half-year; and that he has hoisted an Orange cape. He
will, as I understand, not go over to Ireland at the meeting; and I
take it for granted, that in case of a dissolution the Duke will
not re-elect him.

MR. W. W. GRENVILLE TO THE MARQUIS OF BUCKINGHAM.

Whitehall, Jan. 19th, 1789.
MY DEAR BROTHER,

Since I wrote my other letter of this date, I have received yours
of the 15th, stating your alarm at the lies spread in Ireland about
the proceedings of the Committee of the House of Commons. You will,
long before this, have received the report itself from me, and by
reading it, will have found how much more favourable the account of
the King's situation appears from that examination, and how much
you are in the wrong to suffer your noble spirit to be cast down by
such weak inventions of the enemy; and above all, how monstrous the
idea is that Fox is to gain with the public by a transaction which
only shows their inveterate malice against the King and Queen, and
its utter impotence. Your expressions of duper and duped, you will
see are equally inapplicable to our representations of the King's
situation, which I think you will still believe to be