mparatively easy task.

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

(Private.) Whitehall, June 13th, 1789.
MY DEAREST BROTHER,

You will receive with this the official notification of
Fitzgibbon's appointment to the Seals, which I send with the more
pleasure at this particular moment, because I know that it will
relieve your mind from one of the points on which you have felt a
peculiar degree of anxiety. The decision on this point gives me
great satisfaction, on many accounts, as an act of justice towards
him, and as an example both to our friends and our enemies; but the
interest which you took in it makes the event infinitely more
agreeable to me than it would otherwise have been, however much I
am convinced that it was right and necessary.

The particular occasion, however, of my writing this letter, was
not so much the conclusion of this business, as something which
relates to another, more nearly concerning yourself. In consequence
of your letter, and of the alarm which I have since had on your
account, I thought it very material that the idea of your going to
Bath should be opened to the King, in order to ascertain how far it
was practicable for you to avail yourself of this, which I am
persuaded will be the best of all remedies for you, without, at the
same time, giving up the idea of returning to Ireland, if you
should feel yourself desirous of it. I accordingly took to-day the
first opportunity which I have had, of mentioning this to the King,
and I have great pleasure in saying, that he not only acquiesced in
the idea, but that he lent himself to it with the greatest
readiness, and seemed desirous that you should not omit this if it
could be useful to you. If, therefore, on consultation with Austin,
you should find that a journey to Bath will be of service to you,
there remains nothing for you to do, but to write an official
letter "requesting the King's permission to be absent from Ireland
for a limited time, in order that you may go to Bath for the
recovery of your health," and I shall be able to return you an
answer, signifying the King's consent, before your preparations for
your journey can be made. If, after some residence at Bath, you
should find your health and spirits not equal to the returning, you
will