ts were made for
augmenting the Militia, and raising voluntary subscriptions for the
maintenance of the war. The spirit of the country was awakened to the
defence of those constitutional principles which presented the surest
safeguard for the public liberties; and the delusions which at first had
seized upon the factious and discontented rapidly vanished as the war
advanced. Success alone was wanted to confirm the confidence of the
people; but as yet the genius and headlong valour of France was in the
ascendant, and the solid endurance of England was doomed to a long and
harassing term of fluctuating fortunes.

The Correspondence traces some of the principal events of the year; and
maps out in advance the plans and difficulties of Ministers, by which we
are admitted, so to speak, to the deliberations of the Cabinet upon
nearly every fresh exigency that arose in the course of the campaigns.

MR. T. GRENVILLE TO THE MARQUIS OF BUCKINGHAM.

Charles Street, Jan. 1st, 1794.
MY DEAR BROTHER,

I had no sooner received your letter, than I communicated it to
Lord Grenville; and desired him to write to you as soon as he
could. It gives me great pain to see, by the language of it, how
very much your mind is oppressed and disturbed in the impression
under which you write. Of the proposition which you suggest, it
certainly does not in any shape become me to offer any opinion; I
am precluded from doing so, both by the magnitude of the question,
and by its being of a nature upon which I cannot have either the
pretence or the means of exercising any judgment; and I so
expressed myself to Lord Grenville, when I read your letter to
him; all that, on my part, can be for me to do is, what I am sure
you will believe is the honest feeling of my mind, to express to
you the anxious and earnest wish of my heart, that all disquietude
and uneasiness may vanish from your mind; and that you may heartily
and happily continue to co-operate with Lord Grenville and Pitt, at
a time when the greatest interests which this country ever knew
seem to me to be at stake. For myself, you know that I am but a
private man, and have no other concern in these great public
questions, than that sense of common danger and common interest,
which ought, I think, to produce but one common voice in the
country. Mr. Wilberforce, you see, thinks otherwise