sonal motives of indolence, disinclination, or
inattention to that service which is so truly flattering to me;
nor in others more disgraceful, because they would be more
prejudicial to your Government. And suffer me to hope that your
Majesty sees me yielding to a necessity which I cannot avert,
with a heart filled with the most lively emotions of gratitude,
respect, and affection. With these feelings, it is my fervent
prayer, that your Majesty's wisdom and firmness may save the
kingdom from the calamities which must be the consequences of
this unprincipled coalition--unprincipled, because they can be
bound to no political or moral principles in common. And with
these feelings, I shall retire with satisfaction to that
obscurity from which your Majesty's great goodness called me,
desirous, however, on all occasions to sacrifice every private
feeling, which would naturally lead me to indolence and
retirement, whenever your Majesty shall call upon me to give you
that assistance which every honest man owes to rescue the
Government from a system, which will either be disgraceful and
dangerous if it comprehends the whole of this faction, or weak
and inefficient if it is partial.

Once more, Sire, I entreat your Majesty's pardon for this long
detail; in which, however, many very important considerations,
which have been suggested by the present situation of Ireland,
are necessarily omitted. My reasons for wishing to quit Ireland
have been necessarily secret; and possibly your Majesty will not
think it for your service that they should be avowed. To your
wisdom, and to your justice I submit them; and must once more
urge to your Majesty those sentiments of gratitude, affection,
and respect, with which it is my pride to subscribe myself,

Sire,
Your Majesty's very faithful and devoted subject and servant,
N. T.

To this very able and lucid statement His Majesty returned an answer
under his own hand; but it is desirable, before we lay that remarkable
document before the reader, to trace, through the intervening
correspondence, the "lets and hindrances" which in the interim marked
the progress of the struggle between His Majesty and the high
contracting parties on the other side.

MR. W. W. GRENVILLE TO LORD TEMPLE.

Saturday Night, March 18th, 1783.

My dear Brother,

I have just