ses me on the road. Mr.
Braddye gave me your letter an hour ago, I will do all I can to
make Frankfort pleasant to him, but this is almost as impossible as
to make the Prussians act.

I probably shall be here still a fortnight. I will write again
soon.

Ever yours most truly and sincerely,
MALMESBURY.

The curious revelations that are made in the next letter respecting
Ireland are of infinite value in enabling us to estimate correctly the
events that afterwards took place in that country under Lord
Fitzwilliam's government, and the circumstances which led to its abrupt
termination. Two important facts are authenticated in this
communication: the first, that Lord Fitzwilliam, before he assumed the
government, and even before his appointment to it was advanced so far as
the removal of his predecessor, had not only determined upon the
introduction of a new system, involving extensive changes of policy and
persons, but that he had made known his determination to the heads of
that party in Ireland who had obstructed Lord Buckingham on the Regency
question; and the second, that this determination was formed without any
previous concert with Mr. Pitt and the Cabinet, and to a great extent in
opposition to their known and avowed principles.

LORD GRENVILLE TO MR. THOMAS GRENVILLE.

(Private.) Dover Street, Oct. 15th, 1794.
MY DEAREST BROTHER,

I think it probable that you may receive with this letter, others
mentioning to you the unhappy misunderstanding which has clouded
all our prospects, and which seems to threaten the worst
consequences to that system, from the permanence of which I had
looked, as you did, for the safety of this country, under all the
difficulties of our present situation. Everything has continued up
to this hour to go on in the most satisfactory manner, with the
single exception of this unfortunate subject of Ireland, which now
is brought to that sort of point which must, as I fear, unavoidably
produce the immediate dissolution of the union, which we were both
so anxious to maintain and perpetuate.

It would be difficult for me to give you an exact account how this
mischief has originated, because I am of course ignorant of the
manner in which the Duke of P. and Lord F. received the
impressions, on which they appear to have acted. About the time I
wrote my last letter to