d Denman called in and heard in support of the petition,
and the House adjourned until to-morrow, when Lord Grey is to make
his motion for rescinding the order respecting the Secret
Committee. When this motion is disposed of, Lord Liverpool will
move that the Secret Committee shall meet on Wednesday. I cannot
ascertain the temper of the House positively, but I perceive no
alteration in it of any description.

Yours, my dear Lord, sincerely,

W.

LORD GRENVILLE TO THE MARQUIS OF BUCKINGHAM.

Dropmore, July 2, 1820.

I am glad you are so near the end of your labours, though that end
is to be the beginning of a fresh and very painful scene. I am
clear, however, that in the state to which the matter is now
brought, the course at last adopted was the only one which affords
any hope of concluding it without the most alarming consequences.
And if the House of Lords manifests, as I trust it will, a
temperate and truly judicial spirit in the conduct of the trial, I
am sanguine enough to believe that much lost ground may still be
recovered.

I am utterly at variance with Charles's notion, that such
proceedings ought to commence in the House of Commons; and I am
sure in this case it was of unspeakable importance that the matter
should first undergo a judicial investigation, before it was
brought any more under the cognizance of a body so liable to act on
momentary impressions, in place of the settled rules and permanent
principles of legal proceeding.

RIGHT HON. THOMAS GRENVILLE TO THE MARQUIS OF BUCKINGHAM.

Dropmore, July 5, 1820.

MY DEAR LORD B----,

I cannot help writing a line to say how well satisfied I am with
the result which this post has brought us, and how glad I am that
no secondary matter has been tacked on to that which is of primary
interest. We neither of us can as yet collect by what precise
course the matter is to be so charged as to give the proper notice
so as to enable the party concerned to provide a reply. I should,
of course, suppose that by this time the whole march of all the
proceedings is foreseen and determined upon, if there was not such
frequent occasion to remark that foresight and decision are much
more frequently to be desired than to be found.

I should suppose that the Bill must contain specific charges, or
that t