f peace, to which we are neither of us
competent to decide; and I have thrown, if not the disagreeable
consequences, at least the responsibility of the measure on him.

In this situation of things, I thought you would rather choose
that I should remain here to give you the very first moment of
news, and to press then a Cabinet upon the affairs of Ireland in
general, than that I should run back to you in our present
uncertainty. You will observe, that although I have rather
expressed myself to you satisfied with the affair, I have taken
infinite pains not to let it appear to them; but on the
contrary, have left Lord Shelburne in no small uneasiness about
the manner in which you may take it; so that if you should be
dissatisfied, I have by no means pledged you. If you think with
me, the whole merit of it will lay at your door.

I desired Townshend to state to the King that I was ready to
obey His Majesty's commands, if he wished to ask me any
questions. He told me to-day that the King expressed himself
perfectly ready to give me an audience _if I wished for one_.
This I thought was better declined. I shall go to the levee on
Friday, and shall be very impatient for your answer to this long
detail.

Whatever your opinion may be of the line of conduct which I have
held, I trust you will do justice to my zeal for your interests
and honour, inseparably connected as they are, and I hope will
ever remain, with my own, and to the sincere affection with
which I am,

Ever most truly yours,
W. W. G.

MR. W. W. GRENVILLE TO LORD TEMPLE.

Pall Mall, Saturday, Nov. 30th, 1782.

My Dear Brother,

I have just been with Townshend, who sent for me on the subject
of a despatch from you, relating to the proceedings in the
King's Bench here, on an Irish cause.

I have seen Troward, the attorney concerned in the cause, and
from him have learnt, what you probably know by this time, that
the case has been argued here, and the judgment of the Court in
Ireland affirmed; so that nothing can be done in it here,
especially as the Term has been over these two days. It is
impossible not to see the use which will be made in Ireland of
this unlucky business. You say nothing in your letter to
Townshend of the Protest, nor have I heard a word on that or any
other subject from