t of tacit consent. You will have seen in the
papers the further demands made by the Emperor, on which the
business has stopped.

Ever yours,
G.

The Queen's behaviour is said to have been admirable.

Early in this year, Ministers had moved and carried an Address from His
Majesty, reporting the failure of his negotiations to bring about a
peace between Russia and Turkey, and desiring to augment his naval
forces for the sake of giving more weight to his interposition. This
Address was vehemently, but unsuccessfully, opposed in both Houses, on
the ground that such a course was calculated to lead to hostilities, and
plunge the nation into an unnecessary expenditure. Advantage was taken
of the occasion to make it appear that Mr. Pitt wanted to involve the
country in the war, and that his policy was essentially injurious to the
industry and material welfare of the people. The following interesting
passage from a letter of Lord Grenville's, dated the 17th of August, not
only disproves the imputation, but shows how anxious Ministers were to
secure peace, how much they were relieved and gratified by its
accomplishment, and to what a height of prosperity they had succeeded in
bringing the commerce and revenue of the kingdom.

We received this morning the account that the negotiations at
Sistovo are at last satisfactorily concluded. A definitive treaty
of peace, on the grounds of the _status quo_ strict, was to be
signed on the 4th of this month, under the mediation of the Allies;
and at the same time a separate Act, by which the Austrians and
Turks treat as powers between whom peace is already concluded (and
consequently without mediation) for some such arrangements of
frontier, and the settlement of a dispute about Old Orsova, which
town is to remain in the hands of Austria. You may suppose this
event gives me no small satisfaction; and I hope I shall now begin
to breathe a little, which I have hardly done since April last. You
can hardly form to yourself an idea of the labour I have gone
through; but I am repaid by the maintenance of peace, which is all
this country has to desire. We shall now, I hope, for a very long
period indeed enjoy this blessing, and cultivate a situation of
prosperity unexampled in our history. The state of our commerce,
our revenue, and, above all, that of our public funds, is such as