I can at all depend.

There are no fresh accounts from the Bannat. The troops of
Denmark, acting in Sweden, had agreed on the 10th to a
suspension of hostilities for eight days, and there seemed
reason to hope that this period would be prolonged. They had
passed the Gothelba on which Gothenburg stands, but had
retreated again beyond it.

27th.--I have heard no further account of the King. The story
which you will see in the papers about Lord Holland, is, I
believe, utterly unfounded. I have found the list of the deeds,
&c., contained in the iron chest. Camplin says that Colonel
Nugent has two duplicates of it. I have therefore directed him
to send the list itself over to you by this day's post. You will
see that Lord G. B.'s renunciation deed is not mentioned in the
list; and Camplin, who made the list, says he never heard of it.

Ever yours,
W. W. G.

The letters that follow, depict the distressing anxieties which, day by
day, throughout this painful interval, attended the progress of the
fatal malady.

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

Whitehall,

Nov. 5th, 1788, Five o'clock.

My dear Brother,

I have delayed till this hour writing to you to-day, as I have
nothing of any consequence to write about, excepting the King's
health; and I wished to send you the account which I have just
received from Pitt, and which I now enclose. The general alarm
on the subject is very great, and it is impossible not to feel
that so long an illness without much amendment, if any on the
whole, and without coming to any crisis, has a most serious
appearance. You may naturally conceive the exultation, not
wearing even the appearance of disguise, which there is in one
party, and the depression of those who belong to the other. I
think some few days more must now decide the point, not,
perhaps, by the blow actually happening within that time, which
I trust there can be no reason to fear, but by showing whether
he has strength sufficient in his constitution to throw out the
disorder which is evidently lurking in it, and which will
otherwise infallibly destroy it by no very slow degrees.

Ever most affectionately yours,
W. W. G.

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

Whitehall, Nov. 7th, 1788.

My dear Brother,

I waited