h a man as he has
decided it against himself, it would neither be creditable, nor
even safe, for me to persevere in the old practice.

This makes me think it considerably better, that you should
endeavour to negotiate an exchange for me with some person on
your side of the water, who may not be troubled with the same
scruples. Pitt is to see Kenyon on Monday; and has promised to
inquire more particularly into this point. I shall not deliver
your letter to Lord Sydney till I hear again from you upon it.
If it was not for the difficulty of two re-elections, I should
think the best way would be, that I should take the Rolls
immediately, and take my chance with respect to any exchange
that I could make afterwards; but that, I fear, cannot now be
done.

I will write to you again, when I hear from Pitt what he has
learnt from Kenyon.

Ever most affectionately yours,
W. W. G.

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

Whitehall, April 21st, 1788.

My dear Brother,

I have this morning received yours of the 18th enclosing the
recommendation during pleasure. I am not a little distressed at
this circumstance, as I apprehend, from what you mention about
the Chancellor, that your destination of the office will
immediately become public. I am unable as yet, under these
circumstances, to satisfy my mind as to delivering or keeping
back the letter to Lord Sydney; but as I thought it necessary
that he should have your private letter, I called upon him with
that, and mentioned to him my wish of keeping back the other, at
least for the present, in order that I may have time to think it
over, and to consult Pitt upon it. But my present disposition
is, I think, to withhold it till I can hear again from you, in
answer to my letter of Saturday.

My opinion on the subject itself remains entirely the same. If
the grant is made during pleasure what ground can there be for
thinking that another Government would not instantly create it;
especially after it has become, as it probably must, a ground of
some popular clamour, and after that specific office has been in
a manner applied for by their friend the Duke of Leinster.
Surely, under those circumstances, it can never be worth while,
either on your account or even on my own, that I should accept
an object w