ayed this desperate game, deeply answer it; and upon
that subject (as far as it relates to this kingdom) I will say
nothing, as you will, from my despatches, have collected all
that can occur to me. God knows whether this may still find you
Secretary; if it should, I wish you to write to me an ostensible
letter, in the strongest terms, upon the conduct of the
Portuguese, with respect to our trade at Lisbon. If you had all
remained in office I should have seriously proposed reprisals on
their effects in our ports, as the only means to bring them to a
sense of what is due to Ireland; as it is, I wish for many
reasons to leave to Ireland a proof of the pains which you know
I have taken upon that subject.

Adieu, my dear Townshend; excuse the name, it has dropped from
my pen, and reminds me that I have not assured you of the
cordial interest I take in your creation; but till I am more
familiarized to Sydney, the former name more easily recalls
those feelings of regard, with which I am ever,

Your very faithful and affectionate servant,
(Signed) Nugent Temple.

Many thanks for your exertions on Lord Rawdon's business: it has
been shamefully delayed, and I thought the stoppage of
subsistence the likely means to bring it forward; but you will
easily believe that I have taken care, though it is nominally
stopped, yet that the men are paid.

Rt. Hon. Lord Sydney.

By this time the arrangements were completed, and the new Ministers had
kissed hands.

MR. W. W. GRENVILLE TO LORD TEMPLE.

Pall Mall, April 2nd, 1783.

My dear Brother,

I enclose a paper containing the new arrangement, who kissed
hands to-day. The King sent last night to Lord North, to bid him
tell them that they were to come to the levee to-day to kiss
hands.

You will, as I understand, have the supreme felicity of
receiving from the Right Honourable Frederick Lord North, a
notification of his appointment; though I hear to-day that Fox
is to take Ireland as part of the _Foreign_ Department.

I hear nothing of your successor. Adieu.

Ever yours,
W. W. G.

On the day on which this letter was written, the Duke of Portland was
publicly announced as First Lord of the Treasury, Fox and Lord North as
joint Secretaries of State (an arrangement which explains Mr.
Grenville's allusion to Ireland as pa