ent
expenses of the Government! Judge how this will operate upon the
seamen and soldiers, who are daily expecting to be paid off, and
who, God knows, do not seem to want so strong an inducement to
mutiny as must be afforded them by the total want of money. The
licentiousness of the people, already arrived at a pitch never
known in this country, is daily inflamed by newspapers and
pamphlets, while there is no Government whatever to restrain its
effects. These considerations hold out little encouragement to
any man; but they afford an inducement to every good citizen to
risk much, not only of personal ease and personal safety, but
also of personal situation and character, in the hopes of
averting the calamities which seem to threaten us. But if the
attempt should be unsuccessful (and who shall say it will be
otherwise?), it would plunge the Government into greater
difficulties, by cutting off from the King his only resource and
refuge.

Two or three days must, by their events, and by the King's
letter to you, enable you to judge decisively upon the situation
of the country, present and to come. The prospect is truly
gloomy, and the combination of calamitous circumstances such as
to leave very little reason in my apprehension to hope that this
situation will be such as we must all wish--that of a settled
Government, even in hands which we dislike, if it can be settled
in no other. In the meantime, I do not think you called upon to
transmit to the King any answer to this conversation; especially
as, I suppose, you must naturally send one to his letter,
whenever it arrives.

Adieu, my dearest brother,
Believe me ever most sincerely and affectionately yours,
W. W. G.

P.S.--The Treasury have written to Hamilton to give assurances
of the repayment of the money advanced to Lord Rawdon's
regiment, and to desire a state of that money. The natural way
would have been, to have given you credit for the whole money
due from them to the regiment; but as it is, I hope you will not
any longer think it necessary to stop the subsistence, as it has
so harsh an appearance.

Having traced the history of the coalition up to this point, we now come
to His Majesty's answer to Lord Temple, referring to these transactions.
It was transmitted in the following letter from Mr. Grenville.