Autograph letter signed : "Hans?" Camp, to Lord Grenville, [1792] Sept. 27.

Sharing his thoughts on the Duke of Brunswick, the recall of Lord Gower and his concerns for the progress of the Campaign; saying "In addition to what I have written it may not be improper to mention to your Lordship that the Duke of Brunswick so far from being satisfied with Lord Gower's recall seemed to be much disappointed with the note which accompanied it. He repeated two or three times with some asperity, vous l'avez fait d'une maniere bien douce, & the sort of confidence which he shewed to me at first appears to be entirely withdrawn. Indeed any thing he has said to me since he heard of it, that is since he came to Verdun, has rather tended to mislead me. I trust however that will not prevent me from fulfilling in some degree the object of his Majesty's wishes;" relating the "circumstances of the Campaign and its difficulties and expressing his concern that "...if the French army can encamp with impunity almost within Cannon Shot of the Prussians, it is clear that the latter can never advance to Paris. I must suppose that the Duke must dislodge them, but unless it be in some way very brilliant I [illegible] indeed I shall entertain great doubts of the accomplishment of the object of the Campaign. I believe that the Duke of Brunswick entered France with hopes much too sanguine of the dispositions of the people & of the incapacity of the ruling Party to resist his Progress. I have every day stronger reason to be convinced of the general attachment of the Inhabitants to the cause for which they are fighting, so that the effect even of the Possession of Paris seems to be very problematical."