e _precis_, and you will certainly have them
whenever there is news to send. The army is safe, and I hope quiet,
in its winter quarters. Lord Moira sets out to-morrow morning, and
will find everything ready for him at Portsmouth. You see how right
you was about the impossibility of keeping secret at Portsmouth the
new destination of this force. Luckily, it is so ready, that the
thing itself will take place even now as soon as the news can reach
Paris.

Lord Malmesbury is going to Berlin, to bring our good ally to a
point--ay or no. I think it will end in no.

I certainly will not forget my engagement; and I still hope we
shall find a Saturday and Sunday for Stowe.

God bless you, my dear brother, and believe me

Ever most affectionately yours,
G.

LORD GRENVILLE TO THE MARQUIS OF BUCKINGHAM.

St. James's Square, Dec. 12th, 1793.
MY DEAREST BROTHER,

At your request, I certainly will do a thing extremely disagreeable
to myself, by putting into Mr. Pitt's hands the letter you desire
me to show him. In any case where _you_ or _yours_ could have the
smallest interest, I should never consider whether a compliance
with your wishes is or is not pleasant to me; but I freely own,
that I hardly think you would be repaid, by Mr. Pigott's getting
his company, for the uneasiness I feel in being made (unprofitably,
too, as I think, even to the object) the channel of such a
communication between two persons whom I have so much reason to
love and value.

The accounts of the Duke of Brunswick's victory, though they have
not come to us from any channel that we can consider as strictly
official, are such as to leave no doubt of the fact. There appears
to have been different actions for three days, from the 29th of
November to the 1st of December; and on the last of these days the
victory was obtained, which persons, pretty well informed, seem to
consider as decisive of the fate of Landan. The great object of the
French was to relieve that place, and surround Wurmser; and in both
they have failed, having been repulsed in a last attack they made
on the latter the 1st instant. It appears likely now that little
more will be done on that frontier till Landan is obliged to
surrender; nor anything after that.

All our expectations are turne