tly: there are those in
which he fails; but God knows the list to choose out of is not long."

The letter containing this intelligence announced also the death of the
Duke of Chandos, who held the office of Lord Steward, with an
intimation that it was probable the new Lord Steward would be the Duke
of Dorset. Upon receipt of this information, Lord Buckingham wrote to
Mr. Grenville, expressing his desire to be appointed to the vacancy, and
urging also his claims upon promotion in the peerage. He felt strongly
upon this point. The personal obloquy and factious resistance he had
encountered and triumphed over in his Government, appeared to him to
demand some distinct and special mark of His Majesty's favour and
approbation; and as this was the mode most likely to make that
impression upon the public mind in Ireland which the dignity of the
Crown, and his own justification in the policy he had pursued,
emphatically called for, the feelings that were awakened throughout the
course of the following painful correspondence may be readily conceived.

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

Holwood, Oct. 5th, 1789.
MY DEAR BROTHER,

Your messenger brought me here, yesterday evening, your letter of
the 3rd instant; but I have deferred answering it till this
morning, because I wished for a little time to turn the subject of
it over in my own mind, and particularly to consider whether I
should communicate it to Pitt. After some deliberation with myself,
I have resolved not to make this communication, because I consider
the Lord Steward's staff as being, in fact, disposed of; and I
feel, on that account, an unwillingness to state, even to Pitt,
that you had entertained a wish to succeed to that office. I am
sure I need not say, that if this idea had ever come across my
mind, I should have given you the earliest intelligence in my power
of the death of the Duke of Chandos; and should have endeavoured to
prevent any steps being taken for filling up his office, till I
had heard from you. As it is, you will already have heard from me,
that our intention was to offer it to the Duke of Dorset; there not
being the smallest ground to imagine that the Duke of Leeds wishes
to quit his present situation. This offer was accordingly made two
days ago; and the Duke of Dorset has all but accepted it, desiring
only to have five m