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P. S. Since writing the above this morning, Mrs. West has 

 informed im- that she received Mrs. Trumbull's letter, dated New 

 York, January 2. It has given Mrs. West and myself much 

 pleasure to find you are well. Make my love to her, and, when 

 you have an opportunity, let me hear from you. If you are in tho 

 way of seeing Mr. Jay and Mr. King, I beg you to present my 

 respects to them, and say that a great man with us often inquires 

 after their health. I beg also to be remembered to Mr. Murray, 

 Jun., and to Mr. Archibald Robinson. I have not forgot the cast 

 of the anatomy figure which we have in the Royal Academy. 



It will be sent to the Academy at New York in the course of 

 next summer. 



Haste prevents me from copying this letter ; you will therefore 

 excuse its incorrectness. 



JOHN TRUMBULL, Esq. 



LORD GRENVILLE TO COLONEL TRUMBULL. 



November 23, 1814. 



SIR, No apology whatever could be necessary for your letter, 

 conveying information on a subject in which I take so deep an 

 interest. Among the circumstances to which I look back with 

 most pleasure in the close of a long, and I hope not wholly use- 

 less, public life, is that of the uniform, though frequently ineffect- 

 ual, efforts which I have made for the maintenance of peace and 

 of friendship between my own country and the United States. 

 How much the conduct of both governments has contributed to 

 disappoint those wishes, I need not say to a person as well in- 

 formed on the subject as you are. 



Lamenting deeply the existence and continuance of the war, I 

 felt additional grief when I saw it assuming a shape of unusual 

 and revolting ferocity, unnecessarily aggravating the public and 

 general evils of such a state by the wanton infliction of private 

 and individual calamity. To do all in his power to check the 

 progress of such a system, seems to me the duty of every man, 

 and I took the very first opportunity of expressing my abhorrence 

 of it, (on whatever side it originated,) and of calling for official 

 measures to prevent its continuance. Had this claim been re- 

 sisted, I was prepared and resolved to pursue the subject further. 

 Nor did I desist from that intention until I received public and 



