184

114/11

THE

GRENVILLE PAPERS.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

GEORGE WOODFALL AND SON,
ANGEL COURT, SKINNER STREE

KONINKLIJKE BIBLIOTHEEK

0707 3676

THE

GRENVILLE PAPERS:

BEING

THE CORRESPONDENCE

OF

RICHARD GRENVILLE EARL TEMPLE, K.G.,

AND

THE RIGHT HON: GEORGE GRENVILLE,

THEIR FRIENDS AND CONTEMPORARIES.

NOW FIRST PUBLISHED FROM THE ORIGINAL MSS., FORMERLY PRESERVED AT STOWE.

EDITED, WITH NOTES,

BY WILLIAM JAMES SMITH, Esq.,

FORMERLY LIBRARIAN AT STOWE.

KONINKLIJKE

BIBLIOTHEEK

VOL. II.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

1852.

CONTENTS

OF

THE SECOND VOLUME.

1762.

5

Mr. Fox to Mr. Grenville. November 11.-Sir Charles Hardy

and the Expedition to Brest. Care should be taken that no

Action occurred after the

Mr. Grenville to Mr. Fox.

squadron to go to sea.

hostilities until after the

Earl Temple to Mr. Wilkes.

signing of the Preliminaries of Peace

November 11.-Sir Charles Hardy's

The Admiralty cannot put a stop to

exchange of the ratifications

November 13

Earl Temple to Mr. Wilkes. November 21.-The assertion that
Mr. Pitt approves of the Peace is untrue. Cannot sufficiently
admire the North Briton of this week: it is unanswerable, as
founded on stubborn facts

Mr. Wilkes to Earl Temple.

Earl Temple to Mr. Wilkes.

upon the state of parties.

Administration

Earl Temple to Mr. Wilkes.

November 23.

November 25.-Satirical remarks

Pitiful appearance of our grand

November 28.-Thanks for the

competent idea he gives him of the humours of St. Stephen's
Chapel. The glorious and lasting Peace

Admiral Rodney to Mr. Grenville. December 4.-Description of

the West India Islands

Countess Temple to Earl Temple. December 17.-The King,

Lord Bute, and the Duke of Devonshire

Earl Temple to Mr. Wilkes.

spondence makes time pass

Militia disembodied

Earl Temple to Mr. Wilkes

VOL. II.

b