next the Lords will debate thereon. Lords Townshend,
Romney, Radnor, and many other occasional opponents, I understand
to be decidedly with us on the second Whig resolution.

In speaking of our debate, I had forgot Burke, who, after I
finished my last night's letter, finished his wild speech in a
manner next to madness. He let out two of the new
titles--Fitzwilliam to be Marquis of Rockingham, and Lord G.
Cavendish, jun. His party pulled him, and our friends calling
"Hear, hear," we lost the rest of the twenty-five new Peers, who
would all have come out.

For the King's health, the world is yet in expectation of some
crisis. The St. James's notes of last night "quiet," or "unquiet,"
are disregarded, as too general, or as of course; and accounts from
ladies about the Queen, and from the physicians themselves, pass in
the greater circles, still mentioning violent intermitting fevers,
and profuse occasional perspirations. Having generally, in my last,
stated that the faculty had conspired to render the public less
sanguine, I mention to _your Lordship only_ what T. Warner, above
seventy years of age, and forty years first surgeon of Guy's and
St. Thomas's Hospitals, told me, "Being at the head of these city
hospitals, he has been often called in to meet the physicians of
Bethlem, where a surgeon for scalping, &c., was required, and that
a madness after fifty, without a clear assignable cause--and that
cause to be reached by surgery or medicine--did not admit a
perfect recovery above one time in an hundred." The opinions of
many others of the faculty are bandied about; but, as matter of
conversation for your private ear, I give this particular one as
authentically coming to my own knowledge.

You'll observe in this day's papers, a meeting advertised of the
bankers. It is understood to be for the purpose of tendering W.
Pitt, on his going out of office, a transfer of L3000 per annum,
Bank Stock, or a principal of L50,000, in the name of the
commercial world.

Adieu, my dear Lord. Health and prosperity be yours, and be assured
that you have no one more devotedly attached than your most
affectionate and obliged friend and servant,

W. YOUNG.

MR. W. W. GRENVILLE TO THE MARQUIS OF BUCKINGHAM.

Whitehall, Dec. 23rd, 1788.
MY DEAR B