e of it which can at all vary
them. I still continue very desirous that this business may not
proceed to those extremities which you have mentioned, because I
think such a step, independent of its public consequences, would
close our political prospects in this country, and would, besides,
be liable to a construction which we should most wish to avoid. But
I also continue in the full determination to abide by your decision
upon it, and that your conduct shall regulate mine; because I feel
this as no less due to myself than to you, on an occasion in which
I certainly think the King has been much wanting to you.

If I were to write volumes to you, I could only enlarge upon these
points, on which I have already fully written to you, and with the
same freedom and sincerity as if I were thinking aloud. I always
feel some embarrassment and difficulty in writing upon points in
which I am myself so much interested; although I have not, on this
occasion, suffered that consideration to weigh with me, so as
either to say what I should not otherwise have said, or to leave
unsaid anything which I felt I ought to say. I have now, therefore,
only to conclude, with my sincere assurances of the uniform and
warm affection with which I am,

My dear brother, most truly yours,
W. W. G.

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

Whitehall, April 16th, 1789.
MY DEAR BROTHER,

I came to town yesterday with Mr. Pitt, and found your letter of
the 11th, and this morning I received yours of the 12th. I was much
mortified that I was not able to write to you yesterday evening,
as I had intended to do, first by the post, and afterwards by a
messenger. But different circumstances arose, which made it
impossible. I could have wished to have answered your letter at
length, in order to state to you everything that occurs to me upon
it; but I cannot now do this without unnecessarily delaying the
messenger, and I wish to lose no time in letting you know the exact
state of the business, as it now stands. Taylor has accepted, which
considerably increases the difficulty of making a point with the
King to undo what he has done for him. But another solution has now
offered itself, on which I cannot help feeling rather sanguine. We
have just heard of the death of