o carry out his threat of
sending his brother to India. That service was reserved for a later day.
Sir George Yonge's project appears to have been over-ruled, at least so
far as Arthur Wellesley was concerned, and the young aide-de-camp was
duly forwarded to his post of honour. In the month of April, Lord
Mornington writes again to the Viceroy, thanking him for the kindness
with which he has treated his _protege_.

My principal reason for intruding on you now, is to express my
warm and hearty thanks for your great kindness to my brother, of
which I have not only received the most pleasing accounts from
himself, but have heard from various other quarters. You will
easily be persuaded, that I must feel your goodness to him as
the strongest and most grateful instance of your regard for me.
I must also do my brother the justice to assure you that he
feels as he ought to do on this subject, and that you have
warmly attached him to you. All his letters that I have seen,
not only to me, but to many others totally unconnected with you,
speak the most sincere language of gratitude and affection for
the reception you have given him. He also expresses great
obligations to Lady Buckingham, whom I must beg you to thank in
my name.

Mr. Grenville's correspondence with his brother was now resumed with the
same activity as before, ranging over every question of public moment
affecting the foreign and domestic policy of the country. One of the
topics which began to occupy a large space in the public mind about the
beginning of the year was the contemplated movement for the abolition of
the Slave Trade. The abstract justice of the abolition, and the
practical difficulties in the way of effecting it, were equally obvious
to Mr. Grenville.

The business of the Slave Trade is referred to the Committee of
Trade. It is a very extensive investigation, and by no means a
pleasant subject of inquiry at such a board, because I take it
the result will clearly be what one knew sufficiently without
much inquiry--that on every principle of humanity, justice, or
religion, the slave trade is unjustifiable, and that at the same
time it is, in a commercial point of view, highly beneficial,
though I believe not so much as those who are concerned in it
pretend. On this view of the question I have certainly formed my
opinion, that the duty of Parliament