nd from the
nature of the King, that the mere personal disappointment is
what you will not allow to influence your determination on a
subject of so much consequence to the public service, and to us
all. I am satisfied, however, that you will find no difficulty
in obtaining your object for him on some more favourable
occasion, which I hope may occur before long; and if I can find
any way of making any arrangement on this side of the water,
which can make an opening earlier than it would otherwise occur,
you may depend upon my doing everything I can for that purpose.

I have not time to add more now, but will write in a few days in
answer to your former letter. You will easily imagine how
impatiently I shall wait for an answer to this.

Believe me ever, my dear Lord,
Sincerely and affectionately yours,
W. Pitt.

I enclose extracts of those parts of the instructions and
commission to which I refer.

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

Whitehall, July 14th, 1788.

My dear Brother,

I now sit down to answer your three letters of the 5th, the 8th,
and the 9th, the last of which I received this morning. I am
much concerned that anything which I have said respecting this
business should have given you the impression of my having
treated it with unfairness towards you. I do most solemnly
assure you, that in every reflection that has passed in my mind
upon the subject, I have endeavoured to put myself in your
place, and to ask what line of conduct would be the most
desirable for you to adopt, with a view not only to any present
impression, but to your permanent reflections upon it. You must
allow me to say, that I persevere in my opinion, that your
resigning your office on this ground would neither be justified
in the opinion of the world in general, nor by your own cooler
reconsideration of the subject; and I must beg you to observe
that this is not my sentiment only, but that of every one of the
few other friends with whom you have communicated upon it.

The only reason which you yourself adduce, in support of such a
measure, injurious to yourself and to your friends, is the sort
of impression which you say this transaction has made in Dublin.
To this I reply, in the first place, that I must still think
that you, of all men, who ever held