r resigning the Government in consequence of
it to Lords Justices appointed under the Act of last year. I trust,
however, that these favourable accounts [of the King's health] will
have put this idea out of the question. But if not, for God's sake
consider whether there is any one principle in which you deny the
right of the two Houses to appoint a Regent by address, which does
not apply equally to prove that they cannot either appoint or
remove a Lord-Lieutenant by resolution. I am persuaded, the more I
think of it, that it is impossible for you to quit the Government
in any other manner, than in consequence of a recal from hence, or
a resignation grounded on the removal of the Ministers here, or on
the Regent's acceptance of the office, under what you consider an
illegal appointment.

Mr. Pitt entirely concurred in these views, and it was resolved that
Lord Buckingham should remain in Ireland till he had overcome the
confederacy by which the security of the British power in that kingdom
was so seriously perilled. In a subsequent letter, Mr. Grenville conveys
the assurances of Mr. Pitt's determination to support Lord Buckingham in
any measures he should think necessary to the maintenance of the
supremacy of the Crown, and the vindication of his conduct in these
transactions. One of the measures which was considered indispensable, as
marking the sense and upholding the authority of the Government, was the
immediate dismissal of all those persons who, holding offices and
emoluments under the Crown, had joined in a factious resistance to the
policy of Ministers.

I had, yesterday evening, a long conversation with Pitt on the
subject of your letter of the 25th. I have already told you that
his ideas agree entirely with yours as to the proposition of your
remaining in your present situation long enough to complete your
victory over this combination, and to establish a Government
founded on a better system. We both consider it as a point of
absolute necessity and of indispensable duty, that we should resist
this profligate conspiracy against the Government of both kingdoms,
by every means, and to the last extremity; and we agree in thinking
that this battle ought, both for your own credit and for ours, to
be fought by you, preferably to any other person. He desires me to
say that there cannot be the least