anxious to hear of your son after his arrival at Dublin, for I did
not think the account of his leg at all comfortable. If the Irish
news continues good, you will not, I think, have any other Militia
regiments besides those now there. We expect Lord Camden to-day.
Lord Darnley made a useful speech last night, in which he told us,
amongst other things, that he had never witnessed so much
satisfaction from any event at Dublin, as from the destruction of
Lord Moira's town. Lord M. was not there, and kept the Prince of
Wales away.

Ever most affectionately yours,
G.

Lord Buckingham arrived in Dublin towards the end of June, to the
infinite satisfaction of Lord Cornwallis, who found himself surrounded
by the usual perplexities of Irish Government, considerably increased by
the excited condition of the country.

The general opinion entertained in England of the change that had
recently taken place in the character of the Irish insurrection, may be
gathered from a passage in a letter addressed to Lord Buckingham by Mr.
Thomas Grenville, on the 5th of July.

As far as I can judge from the public accounts in the newspapers,
the rebellion seems rather to have changed its shape than to have
abandoned its object, and it may be a question whether much
advantage is gained in its becoming a Maroon war of plunderers and
banditti, rather than continuing to be a formal array regularly
opposed to the regular army in the country; because though it may
be true that the danger of a large army of rebels may be a danger
of greater magnitude, as well as more immediate, yet it furnishes
at least the opportunity of meeting that danger, and of grappling
with it; whereas this plundering, robbing, and burning war,
carried on by an infinite number of small parties, associated
together and hiding together like the thieves in the cave of Gil
Blas, puts the peace and the security of the country in greater
danger, keeps up a more constant alarm, is more difficult to
resist, because it is more difficult to find and to prepare
against, and, what is not the least consideration, it utterly ruins
and destroys the hopes of these men, after indulging long in such
habits, returning again either to labour or even to subordination.

To me, therefore, I own it seems to be more necessary than ever to
make the