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affectionate relation, the renewal of which on your part, my
mind has ever been anxious for, and ever eager to bring about,
from the first moment that political differences had separated
us; for, upon political subjects, my mind receives no impression
that can stop in it the feelings of relationship, kindness, and
affection, all of which I will hope, my dearest brother, the
latter words of your note again open the way to--a way in which
I cannot too often repeat, how gladly and happily I should go
forward in.

Ever your very affectionate brother,
Thomas Grenville.

The following passage, in the Marquis of Buckingham's hand-writing,
apparently cut out of a former letter to which the above is the reply,
seems to contain the observations from which Mr. Thomas Grenville
extracted the hope of reconciliation. It is enclosed in his letter as if
it had been returned to the writer.

When you joined in the vote which impeached my honour, and
possibly my life, you forgot the feelings of a brother, and
dissolved the ties between us. I loathe the looking back, still
less do I mean to reproach: my heart is still alive to those
feelings which nature and religion dictate to me.

I have no false pride, and, therefore, have no conditions to
propose to you. All that I look for is a _brother_; but in that
word I comprehend all the sentiments of affection which I feel I
discharged faithfully towards you till the moment of our
separation. Consult your feelings, and God direct them.

In the next letter, Mr. W. W. Grenville communicates a scrap of
political gossip to his brother.

MR. W. W. GRENVILLE TO THE MARQUIS OF BUCKINGHAM.

Oakley, Sunday, August 9th, 1785.

My dear Brother,

Having just heard a most curious piece of news, I take the first
moment of acquainting you with it, though, perhaps, you will
have been informed of it through some other channel. It is no
less than a sudden resolution taken by Wyndham of resigning his
office, in consequence of an inflammatory fever with which he
was seized at Oxford, on his way back to Dublin. Lord
Northington's friends in London have undertaken very kindly to
supply his loss, and have offered his secretaryship to Tom
Pelham, who has accepted, and waits only for the form of being
appointed by Lord Northington to the situation of his