w whether there will be any accounts from
Dublin. If there are, I will add them before I close this letter.
Those of yesterday were, as I understood from the Duke of P. and
King, perfectly good, but I did not see them. The only thing that
appears at all distressing is that the communication with the south
was still interrupted, and although this may arise from the
disturbed state of any one point through which the roads pass, yet
it is productive of uneasiness, and may afford opportunities for
spreading alarms in the south, the consequences of which might be
very serious. No disturbance had shown itself in the north.

Buonaparte is gone to Toulon instead of Rastadt, and it is now
publicly declared at Paris that his object is Cadiz, Portugal, or
Ireland. If we are not more than commonly unfortunate, _il trouvera
a qui parler en chemin_.

I do not think Pitt could avoid answering Fremy's call, and as it
has turned out it is certainly better as it is. One shudders to
think what might have happened.

Ever most affectionately yours,
G.

I do not enclose the "Gazette," because I conclude you have it.
There was nothing else of any importance from Ireland last night,
and nothing at all this morning.

In the month of June, Lord Cornwallis, upon whose military talents the
Cabinet placed great reliance, was appointed to succeed Lord Camden in
the government of Ireland; and the Irish Secretaryship was again offered
to Mr. Thomas Grenville, and declined.

MR. T. GRENVILLE TO THE MARQUIS OF BUCKINGHAM.

Aylesbury, June 11th, 1798.
MY DEAREST BROTHER,

By a letter from Cleveland Row which I have this moment received, I
find the Irish storm, which I told you I had seen gathering, is
likely to fall as I had expected it. It is settled that Lord
Cornwallis is to go Lord-Lieutenant, and in case of Pelham's
declining on account of his health, I see I shall be urged in the
strongest manner possible to fill his situation there. I have
already talked this matter so much over with you, and you know so
entirely, both my utter aversion to it, and my reluctance to
decline any personal risk or inconvenience in these critical times,
that I cannot on either side add anything upon this subject; but
upon a matter of so much anxiety and importance to me, a matter too
o