Ambassador to Paris: Letter from Lord Grenville

Description:As hostilities increased, a further letter dated December 1792 from William Wyndham Lord Grenville (1759-1834) refers again to the Duke’s diplomatic position. Following the withdrawal of the British Embassy in August 1792 Grenville writes 'there seems so little prospect of our having soon again an Ambassador at Paris, that I feel it would on many accounts be wrong…to continue the name & appearance of any one having that function & character'.

Grenville’s letter alludes to George Granville's difficulties in obtaining passports for his family to leave France, referring to ‘the manner in which you left Paris, & the expence to which you must have been subjected on that account’.