people, whose speeches I have stated so very loosely and
shortly, and it would be known for a Government publication. I
think, even for mine, you had better wait till you get the
English papers, from which it would naturally be copied in
Ireland, and then insert mine instead. Adieu.

Ever yours.

I enclose Mornington's account to Grattan.

In my reply to Fox I said, that so far from any desertion, &c.,
&c., of the Duke of Portland's friends, all that was intended
was, in the expressive words of one of those gentlemen: that as
it was now necessary that Great Britain should speak again upon
the Irish subject, she should speak clearly and openly.

Those are not exactly his words; but they are in his letter to
the "Trala Vol." Pray find them; for I think they describe the
transaction well.

Rumours of resignations and changes, short as the term of the
Administration had been up to this time, were beginning to be bruited
abroad. As yet there was nothing certain: Pitt was firm, and Shelburne
mysterious as usual; but it could no longer be concealed that the
Cabinet, in addition to the dangers which threatened it from without,
was suffering in its influence from internal dissensions.

MR. W. W. GRENVILLE TO LORD TEMPLE.

Pall Mall, Jan. 25th, 1783.

My dear Brother,

The enclosed memorial of Captain Mingay describes so very hard a
case, that I could not resist sending it to you; although the
answer which I gave to the Lord Advocate, who put it into my
hands, was that it must come through the Commander-in-Chief.

Sir Charles Thompson called upon me with the memorandum upon Sir
J. Irvine. He had been ordered by the King to make it out for
Lord Shelburne, who referred him through me to you. Upon the
last paragraph, I observed that the effects were already sold
before the balance due to Government was known. He then proposed
the expedient of a temporary pension till a Government should
fall, with a provision for applying such proportion of the
income of the Government as should be thought fit, in discharge
of the debt to the public account.

Bulkeley spoke to me yesterday from Lord Northington, about Lady
Ligonier. I desired him to advise Lord Northington, as from
himself, to write to you about it. If you should then think you
can do anything in it, which I cannot help hopin