promotions; but, on very mature reflection, I was persuaded that it
was risking too much, with regard to the principal and important
point, to mix with it any other business on which it was always
possible that some difficulty might arise in the King's mind. In
the course of the next week, I hope to be able to write to you on
that subject; but I trust you will not be unwilling to rely a
little on me with regard to the exact time, which I assure you I
will not delay, except I think I see very material reasons for it.
You must also make some allowance for the very great additional
delay which is created in all this sort of business, by the King's
residing wholly at Windsor, which gives Pitt fewer opportunities of
seeing him, and for a shorter time.

I mentioned to you, in my last letter, that Lodge Morres would be
immediately removed. I have desired that the letter notifying this,
may contain some such expressions as you mention; but I cannot
answer for this, because I cannot, as things now stand, interfere
in the wording of those letters, except by a very circuitous mode.

I also answered your question about Pitt, but I did it shortly; nor
indeed could any expressions that I could have used do justice to
the warm and anxious feeling which he has shown on this occasion. I
am inclined to impute this termination of the business, so much
more favourable than I had expected, almost entirely to his
judgment and address.

I have had the pleasure this morning of seeing Lady B. and your
children. You will have heard that she has had a feverish cold, but
I hope it has now quite left her. Your children are all well.

Adieu, my dear brother. I cannot express to you what a weight is
removed from my mind by the success of Pitt's journey.

Ever most affectionately yours,
W. W. G.

The promotions and creations glanced at in these letters were
recommended by Lord Buckingham as proper marks of His Majesty's sense of
the services rendered to the Government during the late crisis in
Ireland by some influential men in both Houses of Parliament. As those
who had abandoned the Administration were dismissed, it was no less an
act of justice that those who had supported it should receive some
testimony of the King's approbation, and the Lord-Lieutenant's _carte
blanche_ embraced this dispensing