be better enabled then to decide upon that point, and it will
be perfectly easy for you then to state this, and to resign on the
ground of the injury which the King's service would sustain from
any longer absence. But I am sure I need not mention to you, who
are so well acquainted with that country, the absolute and
indispensable _necessity_ of your doing everything (in the event of
your going to Bath) which may give the _strongest impression_ of
your _determination_ to return. If this is not done, you must feel
that the Government will be thrown loose, and that the mischief of
such an interval may be such as to be irretrievable. If, on the
contrary, this persuasion prevails, I see no fear of inconvenience
from your absence on this account.

I enclose to you, under a flying seal, a letter of congratulation
and compliment to Fitzgibbon, which expresses no more than I really
feel on that subject. Adieu, my dear brother.

Believe me ever most affectionately yours,
W. W. G.

P.S.--You will, of course, immediately recommend Fitzgibbon for a
Barony; but if you can dissuade him from it, pray do not let him
take the title of Limerick, actually possessed by Lord Clanbrassil.
The instance of Earl of Buckingham_shire_ (so created) and Marquis
of B. by no means applies, and it would look invidious.

Lord Buckingham's resolution to relinquish the Government of Ireland was
now finally taken. He communicated his intentions, in the first
instance, in a private letter to Mr. Grenville, to which the following
is the reply.

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

Wimbledon, Sept. 14th, 1789.
MY DEAR BROTHER,

I received your letter of the 6th respecting your resignation, and
your subsequent letters of the 10th and 11th. You are too much
aware of the extreme difficulty of finding persons willing and
qualified to undertake the office which you are quitting, not to
expect some little delay before we can say anything to you
respecting the choice itself, or the mode or exact period of your
resignation; though I certainly agree with you, that, if you have
entirely abandoned the idea of returning, the formal notification
of that intention ought not to be long delayed. It certainly would
have been a satisfaction to me, both on public and private grounds,
if