22 THE INFLUENCE OF GRENVILLE ON PITT’S FOREIGN POLICY. 
the counter-revolutions in France, the risings in Vendee, and the cap¬ 
ture of Toulon gave promise of a rapid victory for the allies, it became 
necessary for England to manifest more clearly than she had as yet 
done her ideas in regard to the proper form of government and the 
proper political conditions to be established in France. It was in this 
connection that the first difference of opinion on the conduct of the 
war arose between Pitt and Grenville. While Pitt proceeded to draft 
a declaration to be published at Toulon, Grenville drew up a manifesto 
to be approved by the allies and to set forth England’s objects in the 
war. The former was primarily a military proclamation, the latter a 
document of state, but both necessarily were drawn on similar lines. 
Pitt at first wished to postpone any general declaration until some con¬ 
siderable time after the issue of that from Toulon, but he soon yielded 
to Grenville’s insistence, and the documents were ultimately issued in 
the reverse order from that desired by Pitt. Concerning the subject- 
matter of Grenville’s manifesto, Pitt wrote to Grenville on October 5 : 
“ With respect to your paper, the most material suggestion which I 
have stated is that which proposes a more pointed recommendation of 
monarchical government with proper limitations. I do not see that we 
can go on secure grounds if we treat with any separate districts or 
bodies of men who stop short of some declaration in favour of monarchy ; 
nor do I see any way so likely to unite considerable numbers in one 
vigorous effort, as by specifying monarchy as the only system in the re¬ 
establishment of w T hich we are disposed to concur. This idea by no 
means precludes us from treating with any other form of regular gov¬ 
ernment, if, in the end, any other should be solidly established ; but it 
holds out monarchy as the only one from which we expect any good, 
and in favour of which we are disposed to enter into concert.” * 
It is evident that the mental reservation here suggested by Pitt in 
favor of “ any other form of regular government, if, in the end, any 
other should be solidly established,” could not be included in the public 
declaration. If so included, the reservation would in itself negative 
the ‘ ‘ specifying monarchy as the only system in the re-establishment 
of which we are disposed to concur.” Yet to issue the declaration in 
the form proposed by Pitt, without the insertion of the saving clause, 
would just as effectively tie the hands of the British government, whether 
in future negotiations or in Parliamentary discussions, as if no reserva¬ 
tion had been intended. Pitt also insisted on the insertion of a clause 
which demanded the restoration of the “ancient judicature,” and 
was unquestionably influenced by Burke and to a lesser degree by the 
*Pitt to Grenville, Oct. 5, 1793. Dropmore, II, 438. 
