iment met yesterday,
at the request of Charles Lenox; they did not come to a decision
till about an hour ago. I hear it is that Lenox acted with courage,
but not with judgment.

There was some difficulty in finding a successor for Mr. Grenville in
the House of Commons. The choice at last fell on Mr. Addington. The
selection was not altogether unexceptionable; but, upon the whole, he
was the best person that could be found.

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

Whitehall, June 1st, 1789.
MY DEAR BROTHER,

I have this morning received your two letters, of the 26th and 28th
together, which was a great relief to me from the uneasiness which
I should have felt from your first letter, if I had received it
separately. I most sincerely hope that you will feel no further bad
effects from this accident. Lady B. has been some days on her road
to Dublin, and is probably with you before this time. I cannot
express to you how much I am concerned that any parts of my letter
on the subject of the promotions should have appeared to you in the
smallest degree wanting in that kindness and warmth of affection
which I so sincerely feel, and always wish and mean to express. I
have no copy of that letter, nor have I any recollection of the
particular turn or expression of it which can at all serve me to
remember what part of it can have impressed your mind with this
sensation. I can therefore only say that, whatever it was, it has
been most remote from my intention, and that as to any expression
which can bear such an interpretation--_totum hoc indictum volo_.

With respect to the King's health, on which you ask me so
particularly, I can only repeat to you what I said in my last
letter--which I have from what I believe to be the very best
authority--that he continues perfectly well, both in mind and body,
and, with respect to the latter, is growing stronger every day. I
beg you to believe, that though I should write you any contrary
account with much pain and mortification, yet that I feel too much
the importance of your being well and accurately informed on the
subject, to have a moment's hesitation in stating anything of that
sort to you as soon as I heard it myself. But, in truth, I believe
that all these reports originate in nothing else than the anxiety