should be any mistake in this,
I send this letter by the post. The enclosure I will send by the
messenger.

I received your letter of the 3rd this morning. You may easily
conceive that I cannot now enter into the particulars of it. I
will only say that, with regard to the papers, I am persuaded
that, if you yourself have an opportunity of conversing with M.
(as is perhaps too probable), there will be no difficulty in
anything which you desire.

Ever most affectionately yours,
W. W. G.

There is one point on which I much wish for your answer, with as
little delay as possible. Suppose an immediate dissolution, and
an opposition started in Bucks--as will certainly be the case,
either for one or both members--would you have me stand? I
mention this, because the delay may be decisive.

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

Nov. 7th, 1788.

My dear Brother,

I have written to you by this day's post, and now take the
opportunity of Lord Sydney's messenger. I am afraid that it
would be very sanguine indeed to say that there is even _any_
hope that the King will recover both his health and his
understanding, though the physicians do not say that it is
absolutely impossible for his disorder to have a crisis which
may produce such an effect. His disease is now almost entirely
confined to his brain. He has all along had an agitation of
spirits, which has been gradually increasing; and for these two
days he has been quite delirious. It is apprehended that this is
the effect either of water on the brain, or of an ossification
of the membrane. If it is only an humour checked, it is still
possible that he might throw it out by some violent crisis, such
as either to destroy him, or entirely to restore him. But this,
I again repeat, there seems little reason to hope.

If his indisposition of mind continues, without some more
material bodily illness, he may live years in this melancholy
state; and this, of all events that can happen, is perhaps the
most to be feared. He was, however, thought yesterday to be in
imminent danger of death. Should this not happen, but the other,
it seems generally agreed that the Prince of Wales must be
appointed Regent, with kingly power.

We have no grounds on which to judge of our own situation,
except from such