of trefoils and roses alternate. Townshend will write, or has
wrote, to you for a plan, which plan is meant to include Badges,
and all other playthings belonging to it. You'll break Percy's
heart if you settle it all without him. Pray oblige me, as a
herald, so far as to appoint a genealogist, and to make the
Knights deliver in pedigrees three descents back at least: that
is the number in the Garter Statutes, which I send to you. The
Thistle and Bath have both genealogists--the last must be an
arduous office. I do not apprehend that the names are meant to
be sent as part of the plan, nor indeed can you do that yet. Do
you offer one to the _Nolo Privy Councillari_, or do you draw
the line of none but Privy Councillors?

I called the other day on the Archbishop of Cashel, and was told
that he was gone for Ireland; but I'll know in a day or two.
Adieu.

Ever yours,
W. W. G.

The King seems to expect to get two Red Ribands by it--Lord A.
and Lord B. Query the latter.

MR. W. W. GRENVILLE TO LORD TEMPLE.

Pall Mall, Dec. 30th, 1782.

My dear Brother,

I have been with Townshend this morning, and have had a long
conversation with him. He showed me his despatch to you, and
that brought on the conversation, which I managed so that I
might at any time have produced your last letter; but upon the
whole I thought it better not shown, although the words of his
despatch are certainly by no means satisfactory. He spoke very
openly to me, and said that as his despatch had been written
without the concurrence of Cabinet, he thought he could hazard
no more. In this I could not but agree with him, especially as
it gave me occasion to press upon him, for his sake as well as
yours, the necessity of something being finally settled.

He then went at large into the difficulties. He was convinced,
he said, that it would come in the end to your proposition. But
in the meantime Thurlow was against it, and meant to oppose the
Bill; and Shelburne wanted to be forced to it, and said that he
was sure a stand would be to be made somewhere; and why not now?
I answered that it did not seem to me the most prudent step to
choose a post where no man of any description would stand by
you. We had much more conversation of the same sort. There were
those, Townshend said, who had