not mending fast, we shall certainly propose
another adjournment on the 4th. This will perhaps be opposed, but
if it is, we shall clearly have the opinion of people in general
with us on that point.

It is quite impossible for me to enter into the other discussions
in your letter, important as they are, for it is with difficulty
that I write this desultory stuff.

There seems to be a notion among Lord North's friends that he is
preparing to take a more moderate line, and more inclining to the
King than Fox's people. I suppose he has a mind to make a parade of
gratitude. He has not five votes in this Parliament, and yet any
appearance of difference of opinion might assist us.

If I am better to-morrow, I think of going to Stanlake for a few
days. I shall have the Windsor news as soon there as in town, and
will write to you from thence.

Ever yours,
W. W. G.

Your cypher is, as I feared, spoilt by the unequal extension of the
paper in pasting. In future, in using the old cypher, I will use
_ou_ instead of _out_, and _er, es_, and _or_, in the three places
that are now occupied by _word, blank_, and _ends_. The cypher may
be set by the first letter, which is written _en clair_, as _I_ in
this letter.

[Footnote A: The letter thus written in _italics_ is the key to a new
cypher in which these communications were carried on.]

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

Whitehall, Nov. 24th, 1788.
MY DEAR BROTHER,

The same contradiction still prevails between all the private
accounts, even those of the physicians themselves, and the public
information which they give either to Ministers or to the country.
At the same time, the medical people seem so confident in their
declarations of his not being better, that it cannot but shake the
trust which one should otherwise place in the accounts of his
improvement.

My head is by no means better to-day, so that you must excuse the
shortness of this.

Ever yours,
W. W. G.

LORD BULKELEY TO THE MARQUIS OF BUCKINGHAM.

Baronhill, Nov. 25th, 1788.
MY DEAR LORD,

When I left London last Saturday, the accounts were not arrived of
the state of the King's health. He was much better on the Friday
morning, but relapsed in the evening. I am afraid it is a very