great respect, I have the honour to be,

My dear Lord,

Your Lordship's obliged and obedient humble Servant,

B. BLOOMFIELD.

But Caroline of Brunswick would not have been Caroline of Brunswick had
she suffered this well-meant intervention to influence her purpose. The
sad business, therefore, proceeded in the saddest possible way:--

LORD GRENVILLE TO THE MARQUIS OF BUCKINGHAM.

June 27, 1820.

All speculation is at fault in attempting to follow these daily
changes of plans and operations.

Certainly, it is far more convenient and more becoming to let this
matter be first investigated in the House of Lords. But how this is
to be reconciled to the present state of the business in the House
of Commons, it seems difficult to imagine; but by this time that
difficulty will have been solved in one way or another, and I need
not trouble myself about it.

As to popular impressions, the only way by which they can now be
counteracted, is by bringing the matter as soon as possible into
some regular form of proceeding.

What is to result from all this, it is impossible to conjecture;
but he must be sanguine indeed who can hope that it will turn to
good.

RIGHT HON. THOMAS GRENVILLE TO THE MARQUIS OF BUCKINGHAM.

Dropmore, June 28, 1820.

MY DEAR LORD B----,

When I came here I found an entire concurrence of opinion as to the
extreme folly of Ministers pressing on the Secret Committee in the
House of Lords, after they had pledged themselves in the House of
Commons to bring forward a charge upon their own responsibility; I
was therefore much gratified to see in your letter, just received,
that if there was a question upon that subject, you should vote
against the Secret Committee, though if the Committee were
appointed, you might in that case continue your name upon it. The
proceeding is become so odious and unpopular, that the general
prejudice against it is in itself great ground of objection to it;
and as the Ministers have already taken the charge upon their own
responsibility, it seems now likely to answer no other end than
that of furnishing to their adversaries a fund of clamour and of
invective, on a topic by which, while Ministers gain nothing, they
must lose much. But by this time the question must be already
decided, and therefore it is useless to