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Mr LORD--The statement. which has been pub-
lished in the newspapers, in ••aur Lorsiship's wswie,
has decided a question on which I had before been
hesitating, as to the necessity of au authentic de-
twil of the transactions (so far es lam coneernetl in
them. or tun acquaititeJ with them) to which that
stet einent refers.

For that purpose, I thick a direct address to your
Lordship more decorous, both towards your Lord-
ship and fur myself, than an anonymous paragraph
in a newspaper.
It is with the most painful reluctance that I re-
cur to a subjects which, so far as it concerns Lord
Castlerengh and myself, had been settled in a man-
ner which is usually. I believe. considered as final.
Discussions of the causes of dispute more com-
monly precede. than follow, the extreme appeal, to
which Lord Castlereagh resorted :—And when. af-
ter mature consideration, his Lordship had deter-
miiirti to resort to that appeal in the first instance. I
should have thought, that such a choice, delibe-
rately made, would have been felt by his friends to
be equally conclusive upon them, as upon himself.
But your Lordship needs not to be informed, how
amitiumisly my character has been assailed by wri-
ters in the newspapers, eiliousing Lord Castlereagh's
querrel, and sappowd (I trust. most injuriously),
to he his Lordship's particular friends.
The perversions and misrepresentations of. ano-
nymous writers. however. would not have extorted
from me any reply. . lint to them succeed, il the
publication of Lord Castlereagh.* Letter to sue of
the 19th of September.
I rotir4y disbelieve that Lnrd Castlereagh. and
I distinctly deny that l niyself. had any knowledge
of this public:dins.
11,0,—!)y what means it matters ast„--the Let-
tarts before the world : and though the elms* ori-

" And that,' during this whole period, I knew
that the Agitation; and the decioion, of the question
for his removal, were concealed from him : and was
party to this concealment."
Lord Castlereagh indeed admits,
That he " has uo right, as a public man, to re-
sent my demanding, upon public grounds, his re-
inrwalTruni his once or even from the Administra-
tion, as is condition of my continuing a member of
the GOVerllllltlli ;.!

But he contends, that a proposition " justifiable
in itself," aright not to hate been " executed Mud
unjustitialole manner:" anal he makes me respon-
elide for the manner in which the " Head of the
Administration," and some 11feinhers'of the Go-
vernment, u supposed to he his (Lord Castle-
repiTh'r) friend.," executed the proposition which he
attributes to me..
He is ready to acknowledge, indeed, " that I
pressed for a eh...closure, at• the some time that
pre w4ed for a ; and' that the disclosure was
wasted • Ify the I ) uke Ifjtettand-sud .hie ().wed
CwalereaTfra) supposed fro&s."

But, in this circumstance, Lora/ Castlereagh pro-
fesses not to awe any justification or what he Con-
ceives to hove been my conduct towards him ;—be.
cause, I.y acquiescime in the advice or intreaties of
his 0. Siliorrobed friends," I adruittert an nation-
ty" on their part. which I must hate koown them
not to pussess;"--4p-cause, by .0 pressing fur dis-
choose, I sheared any own 'cicaa of the " unfair-
ness" 0 conceriimenti--saud because, with that
sense, 1 " Oa hr conceives me not to have
done), .0 to have availed myself of the seine alter-
native,—namely, any own resignation,—to enforce
disclosure, which I did to enforce decision."

Without offering, n wont in tins wily of or-
foment. l sh,ol. by 4 de,tinet detail of facts. lib the
order of their dater substantiate saiy cootratlictiou
of these charges..
I shall only premise,

lst.--4.lrit I had (e• is admitted by Lord Castle-
reagh) an nuipe-tionuble right to require on
ground% a change in the War I).•!)artment,
tendering, at the saute time, the alternative of my
own resignation. . _ _

.
4dly.—Willt no man at all eeTinintert with the
cower of ou'ore lanai:less will dispute, that the re-
gular, effeciaial, and straigat-forward course for
bringing that alternative to issue. was to state it
directly to the a Bead of the. Administration;'—
the King's Chief Nlinister, to be laid by that Nle.
niater before-the King.
I pmcerif to the detail of Nem.

In the beginning'of April, I addressed a letter to
the i)uke of Portland. containing it representation
on the State of his Administration, and expressing
my wish and intention, unless some &Hoge were
ei-
fccted in it, to Reign.
Cl,Oll the Doke of Portland's requiring a more
4etailed exptanation, as to the motives of my prof-
fered resignation, I stated, among other things, that
a change, either in my own department, or in Lord
Castlereagh's. appeared to me to be expedient
for the public service. I stated my perfect willing-
ness that the alteriintive should he decided tor .ny
retirement; and only requested that the derision
might (if possible) take place before the re-eoni-
meneement of business in Parliament, utter the
FAstrr holidays.
The Duke of Portland requested me to enapend
the execution of nay intention to resign.;
to have an opportunity of consulting with some of
our colleagues, before he determined what adrke
to lay berme the King.
The Easter holidays thus passed away. On the
16th or April, shortly after his etraye's return to
town from Bulstmde, the Duke of Portland opened
the subject to one of the Members of the embiurt,
whose name, (not having been hitherto 6rought fur-
ward)' I do not think it necessary to menrioo.—
Your Lordship is perfectly acquainted with it.
By the Doke of Portland's desire, I had a corn-
emigration with that member or the Cabinet, a ith-
in n very few days after his interview with the Doke
of Portland,. Ile strongly represented the (lA-
cell of molting any new arrangement, during the
sitting of Parliament ; and urgent the to rlofer the
pressing my min resignation t• 11 the end of the •es-
stun. Tu this recuatinendiiii.ru I did out ptv

iir
raise tb accede : but we agreed, (whether upon his
suggestion or upon mine I am tiot confident), that,
at /All events, illo step whatever couldproperly he ,
taken, until after the decision of the ipteetien upon
the writership ; which Win. about this time wrought
forward in the House of Cuitmeoes.
That question was decided on Tuesday the 25th
of April. .
On Friday the eeth, the Duke of Portland eons•
rattnicated fully with }our Lordship ; and stifoinsed
me, as the restat of that communication, that your
Lordship their ht a change in Lord Castlereegh's
situation in the Government desirable.—pros Med '
it ci.uld be effie;ted honourably for Lord Cobb:-
reach, and that it .‘ could be recuucilcii to Lerd
Cardleneigh's feilingv."
From this period, I understood that your Lord-
ship was constantly consulted -by the Duke of
Portland in every step of the transaction. Other
nieinbers of the Cabinet were Mao consulted by
the Duke of Portland :—but, how mute of theses,
or at terra recite periods, I neither Lew at the
time, nor can now uncle/eela to say. ..
Shortly after your Lordship's first interview with . •
I the Duke of Pottland, (I am sure before the 3th
of May) that Aleinher of the Cabinet with whom
his Grace had first tointisunieated, reported to we
a suggestion of your Lordship's of a change or
Ace for Lord Castlereagh. evidently calculated ou ~
the principles which your Lordship had stated as
indispensable to such a chauge. Whether this tom.
snunication to me was in the nature of a direct .
thessuge from your Lordship, I do not exactly know.
But I understood distinctly that you knew of its
being made to me; and that whatever oheervatipri
I might make upon it, was to be reported to your
Lordship. What I observed upon it, was in sub•
idiom—that it was not fur me to presume to
say what change would be proper ;—that I had
done all that I had thought myself either call-
ell upon or at liberty to do, is rotating to the
Duke of Portland my opinions, and my intention
to resign ;—that the Duke of Porthted alone could
either propose any change, or obtain this necessary
authority for carryiag it into effect ;-.-and the* I
therefore recommended that Our
,Lordship should
state your suggeetiou to the Duke of Portland.
On the sth of May. the Duke of Portland in.
formed In-, that he had determined to ley the whole
subject, ou the followiug %Wednesday, briers His
Majesty.
Os Wednesday, the 10th of May, he informed
the, that he had done so; and that His Maj.:sty had
been graciously pleased to say, that he would take
the subject into has eerious comiticr own.
Ott Wednesday the 31st of Mnys apprehending
it to be poteilde that my iittention might not have -
been fully explained to Ilia Majesty, and thinking
it ray dot" to !ea..* uct doold upon it, 1 hamlet: roc- ,
posted to His Msjesty the representatictie which 1
had before made to the Duke of Portland, and
humbly tendered my resignation. I received there-
upon Ills Majesty's grucions cotninands, to roam
my eittratiou until His Majesty should have consi-
dered the while subject.
..§oloa time ;ii the course of the next week, I think
on the Bth of June, the Duke of Portlaml stated to
;toe, that he had received His Majesty's comet Inds.
Yo, wopitae, and to carry, into ether, sit the rut, of
the Serwinti of Parliament, an arratigewent fur a pa:.
tilt, change in the War Departtneut.
The particulars of this arrangement I do not
think it proper to detail : ft cling it my ditty to li-
mit myself strictly to what • is absolutely necessary
fur the explanation of my owe conduct. It issuffi i.
, eft to state, that the object of this arrangement sac
not the removal of Lord Csdlerengli, but, a new dis.
bamboo of the basitiess of the War Departments
whereby that part of it C 1 hiell was connected with po.
litical correspondence, would have been beinSferred
to the Foreign Office; and the business °Coin:other
office, then secant. would have been transferred to
Lord Castlereagh. It is only necessary to add. that
the effect of this new distribution would not here
been to take out of Lord Castlereagh's hinds the
superintesdante of the Eepedition to the Scheldt. ,
On the 13th of June, 1 wrote to the Duke of
Portland, signifying to him that, although such no
arrangement had never entered into my contempla.
tion, and although I did not thick it cnlctilated to
remedy ell the difficulties which had induced me
In bring the state of the 'Ail iii i i tietration tinder tau
Grece'e consideration. 1 was reerlyi so tar as I was
temeerned, to undertake and dischar.ge. to the best
of my &ability, any ditty which Iles Majesty might
he gereinietly pleased to devolve upon me : but I
ex pretaied at the same time, great doubts, witother'
Oise arrangeractit could be expected to he secret.
able to Lord Castlereagh, or (in all its parbi) stabs.
factory to the public /*Mine.

the 18th of Jim.. (Parliament being
expected to rise on the 40th or 2lst). I 'wrote to the
Duke of Portland, to inquire 'whether this iirsinge..
merit. or any other, was to take 'blare? statio.; to
hi,,., that, le if things remained as they then were.
I was determitteel not to remain in °Him." -
In answer, the Doke of Portland inentioned to
me a new plan of arraugement, altogether did...relit
from that which he had been authorised to carry
into efrret ; end stated. that he had sei.t for your
Lordship, and the other Nleoulver of the Cobiort
with whom your Lordship mid the Duke of Port-
land lied been in constant communication, to co-
operate with him, wt forwarding this new plan, east
to urge Lord Cast:i•resigh to consent to it.
The particular,. of this new plan, 1 do not rhi.,k
it necessarf to state, as I kerne from the Duke of
Portland, either the nett cloy or the day following
it, that to this plan Lord Civt ereagh ceetaility could
not bzbrooght to agree. ll'hedler this was known
to his Grace onto from yrs'''. L 4114141144 or throst4h
your Lordship from Lord Castlereagh himself, I
was ant apprizeil.
• On ‘l'ediisielsy the 2lst. the day of the using of
Puliatakelt, 1 was assort/ill hy the D.ske of Pythiad,
that the speenier arrang,rnir.t wbi+•h he hurl is the •
Ira irstotor prooosed, no. the wrw shattilaarioa of

e flreintess of tte War Departeteet, should he
*feted into effect:—and that His Majesty had di-
rected Nita to desire your Lordship to commatii-
age his decision to Lord Castlereagh. 't
On Tuesday June the .I,7th, finding no commis.
wication had yet been made to Lord Castlerrugh,,l
wrote to the Duke of Portland, in terms of the
strongest remonstrance, both against the conceal-
ment end the delay ; and intimated my determina-
tion to recur to my original intention, and to press
the acceptanceof my resignation.
Accordingly, on the following day, Weduesday,
the tub of June, I had an audience of the King, iu
which I humbly and earnestly repeated to Ilis Ma
Testy the tender of my resignation.
That same eveuing, the Duke of Portland in-
formed Ise that he had that day signified to your
Lordship the King's desire, that kraut Lordship
should corumfinicate tips intended arrangement to
• Lord Castlereagh; and that the thimmumcation
was to be made by your Lordship, as soon us the
Espeolition had sailed, which, it was cipectesl,
would be iu less than a fortnight horn that time.
But before this fortnight elapsed, viz. on Wed-
nesday the sth of July, the Duke of Portland in-
funned me, that, in consideration of the difficulties
attending the proposed ariangetnent. he, and these
with whom he had consulted, were elopinion, that
another should be substituted for it, which he
trusted would also be more agreeable to me. He
told me that hopes were entertained that your
Lordship wield determine to offer your resignation,
for the purpose of facilitating a general arrange-
writ. 1.1 which a complete change in the war de-
partin-ait might he effected crinsistehtly with Lord
Castlereagh's feelings. He said. however, that
your Lordship hail not yet finally made•up your
mind upon the subject : but that you would pro-
bably come to a decision before the following Wed-
nesday,
The Mike of Portland stated his intention, in
the event of your Lordship's resignation, to submit
to His Majesty the nomination of Lord IVellesley
to the War Department.
It was well known by. the Duke of Portland that
had been alwayi anxious for Lord iVellesley'a
accession to the Cabinet ; hut this was the first
mention to me iu the-COWS* of tins transaction, of
his introduction into the War Department.--But
for a vet•ere indisposition, Lord iVellesley would,
before this time, have been on his way to Simi..
On Thursday, the 13th of Jnly, the Duke of
Portland 111fOrWra me, that your Lordship hail,
the day before, actually tendered your resignisjion;
but that your Lorilship had annexed to it the con-
Albums, that no change should take *piece till after
the teittlinntiois of the expedition to the Scheldt ;
and that it should he left to your Loulship to
choose the time of makingasny commuiticution to
I..nril Castlereagh.
I made the atmagest remonstrances against this
new delay, and this indefinite renewal of the cortceel-
ment from Lord Castlereagh. 1 said. that after
the repeated postponements which hail already
taken place, and after the reserve which had al-
ready been practised towards Lund Castlereagh, I
could not rely upon the execution of any arrange-
Ineut which should not be stow completely settled
In all its parts. And, if this; were not to be done,
I most earnestly entreated that His Majesty might
be advised now to accept my resignation.

. _
The Duke of Portland most anxiously depre-
cated my resignation, as !radio:, in hilt apprehen-
sion, to the dissolution of the Ad iii 33 istration. Ne
declared himself to he authorised to assure Me, in
the must solemn manner, that the arrangement now
in contemplation, should pot.itively bike place at
the ternnuation of the Expedition ; that the seals
of the %'ar Departinesit snoold then lie offered to.
Lord Wellesley—an ~Ifice. (to he vacated by meat ii
of your Lordship's retuQrsietit) being at the same'
title to be offered to Lord Custlereagh; and that, in
the interval, and without loss of time, Lord Cast le-
laugh's friends should take oppertuuitiee of pre-
paring hint for the chime, and. reconciling him to
ft. by representing to hint the greut advantages to
be derived from it, in the ae4uisition of additiousl
strength to the Government.
Not only the Duke of Portland, but ether mein-
Wm of the Cabinet, Lord Castlereagh's friends,
some directly, and amine through common friends,
urged me, in the most ert•siest manlier, to ecquiesce
In the postponement new tOrApatell. It Was repre-
sented to me, that if. Instead of pressing for the
execution of the arrangement wow, time were at.
lowed to. Lord Cestlerragh's friends to prepare him
fur the change, acid to tociviril- him to it, the er-
rangetneut might ultimately takcplace in an ami-
cable limner ; that every public otrieet might thus
be answered, without any unties ...ire harshness to
he feriinge of inilivi lit Os: soil tiro, so far from
finding fresh imped!sivoits r.ii.rd to the execution
of the arrangement, whim this time arrived. I should
bud all gime. to whose releusentations I yielded.
considering eeinselves pledged equally, tilt the
Duke ni l'o-tlentl, to see it carried into effect.
It is doe to your Lordship, to sal) liar your Lard-
ship'. name was not. an fir as I. recollect, specifical-
ly mentioned to me on this ()erasion: lout it is equal-
ly (ie to iniselt; to &chie, th it I never for n mo-
ment nor con 's I have believed, that the gr.
nerd discriptaini of Lord Casilereigh's friends;"
• at staid to me without except 1111 l or iiiialdication
by Ili.. Dake of Portland, did not etenprehutel
yoor Lordship, whose proffered resigredinii was the
leis a of the whoie arrarigriuent, anti without whose
e visress voisent, therefore no other "person could
announce the arrangement to Lord Castlereagh.
• By these reprearoletions and lissome...li, at
length. most rehtetaitily, confess against my
better judgment. I w is induired to acluierce in the
proPreied postpneement of the change; and con-
sented to remain in office till the termination of the
Expedition.
On Saturday September the id, the result of the
Expedition to the Scheldt bring then known, I
wrote to the Duke of Portland. at Hidstrode, re-
Wing his (iraer, that the.perind fixed for offer-
ing the seals of the W4r Derportnient to Lord Wel.
le der was arrived.
On the following Weilitesdar. the 6th of Sepeem.
Ler, the Duke of Porthole! iafornic.l or, that ho
steps whatever hail been takeu•by any of Lord Calf:
tleresgh's friends, to reconcile him to the change,
or to 'Tepee* hien fir it ; that the execiitioe of the
arrangement' would he attended with other resigna-
tions, or at least with omit ot))ir resignation (of.
which I had sever before rectifed the alight.. intl.

tudienl ; and that he had himself, determined to
retire.
Open receiving this intelligence) I immediately
disclaimed any wish. that the arrangement, how-
ever positively I understood it to have been 'settled,
should be carried into eflect, under circumstances
tome so unexpected; and initautly reverted to that
alternative" which, upon each successive stage of
difficulties and delays, 1 had uniformly pressed,—
that of the tender of my own resignation ;—which I
desired the Duke of Portland tp lay that day be-
fore the King.
On the following day, Thursday the 7th of Sep-
tember, I declined attending the Cabinet; stating
in a letter to the Duke of Portland (which I left it
to his Grace to communicate to the Cabinet if he
should think proper), 'that I consideted my resig-
nation as in Ilis :Majesty's hands ; and in) self as
holding my office only until my Successor should
be named.

On Friday the Bth, t heard from the Doke of
Portland that Lord Castlereagh had sent in his
resignatmn. I have been informed since (but
whether correctly or not I canuot affirm), that he
did so, in consequence of • communication made
to him, by your Lordship, after the Cabinet of the
preceding day..
On Thufsdey, the 14'1i of September, your Lord-
ship called u• on me at the Foreign Office, by your
own apps,inttiwat. tor the purpo,e of explinoing
the raurew which heel prevented your making any
communication to Lord Castlereagh in th• earlier
stages of the transaction.

On Tuesday, Septeinher 19. your Lordship, iu
■n►wer ton letter of noon of the preceding day, ex-
pl.thostl to rite she grounds of your silence to Lord
Cn•tlrreagh, during the hitter period of the trans-
action.

On We +tiesdny morning, September the 2nth, I
received from Lord Castlereagh the Letter which
produced our meeting.
from this aeon of facts it appears,
• - '

That, in April. I made a representation to the
King's First Minister. on the general state of the
Administration ; and that, in the tonne of the dis-
cussions arising oat of that representation. I pro-
posed on public grounds, not, as Lord Castlereagh
appears to have been informed, his removal from
the Administratign. but the alternative of a change,
eithrr in the War sr Foreign Department.
That, on the loth of May, the Doke of Portland
submitted to Ilia Majesty the subject of my repre-
sentation; and informed me, that pI. Majesty
would be pleased to take it into his consideration ;

That, irons the loth of May until the sth of
June, I was wholly unapprized of the result of that
consideration; but that, for leer of misapprehe► sion.
had, in venom, (luring that interval,—viz. on the
3 lit of May,—humbly srpeated my representation,
and tendered toy resignation, to Ills Majesty ;
That, on or about the nth of June, for the first
tittle, an arrangement w3/4 stated to nte, whit h had
for its object a new diatribtif of the business of
the War Department ; and that, on the 13th, I
signified my aerpoesoence iu that arrangement, an
far as I was concerned ;

That, on the itstli, another arrangement was
stated to tsar. as intended to he substituted for that
in which I had acquiesced: but. that, ion the 21st,
it was announced to sue that the first arrangement
was finally detailed upon; was to he innauediately
carried intii effect ; and was to be communicated to
Lord Castlereagh by your Lordship;
That, on the /711 s of June. no step appearing
to hare been taken, either to execute the Intend-
ed urr-sigetrictit, or to apprise Lord Gastleresigh
of
it, 1 reationstrated against the delay,•and against
the concealment front Lord Castlereagh : and that.
on the gath. I again tendered my resignation ; and
that on the Issue slay your Lordship received an
injunction to communicate the intended arrange-
ment to Lord Castlereagh ;
That, on the sth of July, a new plan was stated
Itp inc to he in contemplation ; a plan originating
with your Lordship, and depending for its execu-
tion upon a step to be takes, by yourself : that this
plan was, on the lith. announced to me as settled,
and as intended to be substituted for that which
had been first proposed ;
That I at that time renewed my remonstrances
in the stronge►t manner, both against the delay and
against the concealment ; but that it was stilted to
me to be an indispensable condition of this plan on
your Lordship', part; that it should not be sctcd
upon till the termination of the expedition to the
Scheldt; and that the time of retaking jhe commu-
nication to Lord Castlereagh should be left to your
Lordship's discretion:
That at length, in compliance with the represen•
tonnes and entreaties of the Duke of Portland, and
of others, Lord Castlereagles friends, and upon the
most solemn *sou relives that Lard Castlereagh should
in the mean time be prepared by his friends for the
change, and that the change should positively take
place at the period fixed by your Lordship, I con-
sented to remain in office ;

That on Wednesd.ie the 6th of September, find-
ing that nothing had ficen done towards preparing
Lord Caslerragh for the arrangstment ; and thut the
exectition of it would be awil.ll with difficulties
of which I had not before that time been apprised.
I dr4red the Doke of Portland to lay my resiztut-
lion before the King.

Your Lordship 0111 therefore perceive.
That up to the nth of June, so for front being in
prissessien of any promise for Lord Castlereagh's
removal." and from his continuance in office twins/
tnsde therapy '• dependent upon ny pleasure ;"
nn deri.ion wl►at.yer.httd. to my -knowledge.
been token. up to that e; no proposal hail been
tootle to the by the D of Poulain'. to any way
atfectinK Lord Castle We political situatioti; and
no intimation had giros to me. whether my
own resignation won be finally accepted or de-
clined ;

That the arrangement which was in contemplation
from the Slit of June to the sth of July. in no de-
gree affected, and was never intended to allot.
64 the conduct of the Expedition to the Scheldt :"
That Lord Co.tlercagles " removal from the War
Department" was first determined upon as part 01.
the plan of which your Lordship's resignation wAs
the basis ;

That his "removal from di,. Administration"
was not at any.titne demanded" Lyme;

And. laraly. that I did i•mploy the tender of rny
owe reignation, not to I. enforce decn.ion,"anig.
(as Lord Cutleresgh's Letter supposes.) but

equally to " enforce disclosure; and thit is 'let I
did ultimately resign, rather than " auforce" the
intended Change, under circumstances so different
from those which I had been authorised to expect.
Jr cannot be expected that I should labour very
anxiiithly to refute the charge of my having " sup-
posed" your Lordship and others "to be Lord
Cio•tlerragli's frisisds;" and having, under that
impression, deferred to your opinion and " au-
thority," in a matter affectiu„.• Lord Castlereagh's
interests and feelings.
That your Lordship, in particular, as well from
near connection as from an active and anxious par-
tiality, was entitled to consultation, and to defe-
rence on such an occasion--is • persuasion which
I felt in common, as I believe, with every Member
of the Government ; and which not even Lord
Castlereagli's disclaimer has induced me to re-
tiOU nee.

I should not have been surprised, nor should I
.have thought myself entitled to take the smallest
offence, if your Lordship had, imstrad of cuuturrin,g
iu the expediency of a change in Lord Castlereagh it
department, protested against it, and bed recom-
mend.t to the, Duke of Portland, to advise the
King trlaccept my resignation: and it was perfect-
ly known by the Duke of Portland, and lam con-
fident, not unknown by your Lordship, that, a
any moment from the beginning of these discus-
sions to the end. 1 was not only ready, but desirous
to terminate them by resigning.
But when tbsk. opinion of the expediency of a
change in the War Department had been adopted
by so many of the immediate friends of Lord Castle-
reagh, upon the condition that it shoulJ be recon-
ciled to Lord Coat lereagli's feelings, and.whea they,
and your Lordship among the first, had devised and
concerted with the King's first Minister the mode
of carrying that object into execution, 1 cannot
help thwking that 1 should have been much, and
justly, blamed, if 1 had insisted upon taking the
communication to Lord Castlereagh out of your
hands into my own.
1 now come to your Lordship's statement. That
statement is fits IVIIOWS

" As it may be i-.:(erred, from • statement which has ap-
peared in the public papers, that Lord Camden withheld
from Lord Castlereagh a communication which he had beeu
&wind 14 make to hint, it is iiecrssary that it should be un-
drnitood, that however Mr. Canning might have conceived
the runitunnication alluded-to, to have been made to Lord
Camden, it was fieVCI stated to Lord Camden, tharthe coin.
muoicetion was made at the desire of Mr. Canning; aud, so
far from Lord Camden having been authorised to make the
communoation to Lord Castkreagliv he was absolutely re.
stricted from so doing.
" As it may also be Wetted that Lord Camden was ex.
petted to prepare Lard Castlereagh** Naiad for nay proposed
change, it is necessary that it Should be understood, that
Lord Camden never engaged to eontioutnicalc to lord Castle-
any c ircuinstaacis respecting it, before the terming
tiun of the C.xpeditiou."--,'.1/oramg Chosticle, Oct. 19.)

This statement appears to me to have been much
misunderstood. It has been construed, as if your
Lordship had meant to aver that what you were rf-
strktelfrose doing sued wind you Lad not ergaged to
d••„ were one and the same thing :—whereas your
Lordship's statenient, in point of thet, contains two
distinct propositions, and refers to tau scoerate pe-
riods of tune.

The period during which your Lorits!iip states
}mural If to have turn " al solately restricted" from
making a commuuication to Lord Castlereagh, ex-
tends from the -2fith of April, on which day the
first communication was made by the Duke of
Portland to your Lordship, to the time itt which the
proposed arrangement for the new distribution of
the business of the War Department wits sneer-
seded by your Lordship's-tender of your resignation.
The period during which your Lordship states
yourself " not to have engaged" to make n commu-
nication to Lerd Castler-agh, extends from the
time of the tender of your Lordship's resignation
to the termination of the Expedition to the Scheldt.
It ought, however. to be obseryrd„ that during
the first of these two periods,—from the t2lith of
April to the 11th of July,—the nature of the coin-
snunicatiou to be made to Lord Castlereagh, and
the nature of the restriction' imposed upon your
Lordship, were entirely changed.
Pembina, to the Eith of J uue—the communica-
tion which your Lordship would have had to make
to Lord Castlereagh, was simply that I had repre-
sented the expediency of a change either in his
department or mine; and that no decision whatever
had yet been taken upon this representation.
With respect to this communication, it does sp-
pear that the restriction upon your Lordship was
absolute and isideliisitc. But knew nothing of
its existence.

Subsequently to the sth of June, the communicao
Lion to be made to Lord Castlereagh was, that ■n
arrangement was in contemplation for a new dis-
tribution of the bu►iness of the War Department.
With respect to this communication, not only
was the restriction, upon your Lordship not indefi-
nitely continued; but your Lordship actually receiv-
ed on the 28th of June an injunction to mike skis
coa►►uuaication to► Lord Castlereagh at a Feriod dis-
tinctly verified, vie. the exiling of the Expedition.
Aid this injunction was only superseded by a ►tolun-
tary act of your Lordship's, your tender of your own
reaignation on the 12th of July, as the basis of ano-
ther arrange►neet.
During Ake whole of the period. from the 2Rth
of April to the 12thi of July, the concealment prnc-
tise►l towards Lord Castlereagh was either without
my knowledge and contrary to my belief, or it was
against ►oy earnest remonstrances.

—lt was Without my knowledge and contrary to my
np to the week ia which Parliament rou ;
and from that time forth it was against my earnest
remonstrances.

Even when I learnt. in Jnne, that the communi-
cation had wit been made by your Lordship to Lord
Castlereagh.l did not learn that van hurl beta
prevented from making it by any absolute restric-
tion.

It was not till the moritlinf July, in the course of
the cliscuasions which took place from the 13th to
the Roth of that month, respecting the prowl:Al for
pesitponiisu the new arrangement to be founded on
your Lordship's reelepiation. and for leavimeto your
Lorchhip's dowretion the tune of disclosure to Lord
Castlereagh, that I learnt that the silence which you
had hitherto observed towards him, had been im-
posed upon )Our Lordship by the it junctiou of the
Duke of Portland. 1 did not till then know with
whom the concealment hitherto practised hai ori-
ginated; I frankly own that I thought it had origin-
ated with your Lordship; 1 was auxious, above all

thiags. that it sltottlgl not he ever sesiwcted that it
had originated with me; or that I had horn a con.
senting party to it. or even (till a lite period) coo.
scions ()tits existence.

in my correspondence with the Unke of Port.
land at this period, therefors? at the same time that
I resisted the new delay then proposed, 1 disclaimed
any concurrence in the concealment which littd her!,
hitherto practised--oud requested " :hat it tnimi,t
be remembered hereuftvr, %hi:never that conceal-
nieut should he alleged against ice, as an act of in.
justice to Lord Castlereagh, that it did not origin.
ate in my suggestion, that, so far. from desiring it,
1 had conceived (however erroneously) your Lord-
ship to be the sure channel of communication to
Lord Castlereagh; and that up to a very late pe-
riod I had bettered such communication to have
been actually made.". _ _

The Duke of Portland in answer acknowledged
my repeated remonstrances against the conceal.
tricot ; stating himself at the seine time not to hsw
hemi aware that I had at any time believed the tin,-
munication to hate been actually made; lint hi•
luring me that he should be of ull times recut io
avow thit the "concealment kid originated with
himself, (the Duke of Portland) ; that he hod in.
joined it to all those with yrhom he had conumiiii-
rated, from motives dhich he was at all times
ready to justify ; .and that he was desirous of tak-
ing whatever blame might have been, or might at
my time be, incurred by it, upon himself."
This, as 1 have said, was my tiist knowledge of
any restriction whatever upon your Lordship',
communication to Lord Castlereagh.
111 am asked why I believed your Lordship to
have actually wade the communication, I answer,
because it was natural that you should muke it;
because the expectation of your making it was
the motive which induced we to desire, (and
1 did desire) that the conanunicrition should
be made to your Lordship ;—bccause the unto-
ner in which you . first received that commu-
nication (as reporfsd to me by the Duke if
Portland) tended to confirm the belief that your
Lordship was the tit channel of coinmunication to
Lord Castlereagh ;—und because I knew not of the
existence of auy impeiiiinent to your pu:suing
what appeared to me (and does still appear to me)
the natural ea obvious course to he pursued upon
such an occasion.

If it be objected, that i ought not to hare been
contented with persornia7 the disclosure to have
'been made, but ought to havediligently ascerlained
that it was so;—first, I answet—that no person na-
turally sets about ascertnin;ng that of which he en.
tertairis oo doubt :--and, secondly, I answer, that
the moment that my suspicion of the fact was ex-
cited, I dill set about 94certainiug the troth; and
that upon ascertaining it, I did remonstrate in Ike
strongest manlier against the Concealment; and
enforced that remoastrnin.e by the tender of my
own resignation.

It wa;Ois the 2Gth or 27th of June (live or silt
days after Parliament rose) tlitai 1 discovered my
suspicion to he founded.—On the 27tb I rennin.
stratvd.—On the 29th I tendered my resignation.
—And in the course of the same day, your Lord-
ship•(ita 1 have already stated) received au irjuiu.
t tuti 'to make the COTUIL 11 ion a wail the f.A.
putlition should hate gaited.

The second of the two periods to which your
Lordship's statempnt refers, begins from the 12th
•f Joly, the day of the ttuder of your Lordship's
resignntioii. _ . _

It do.-s not appear, nor does your Lordship's
statement neer, that at any time during second
period die restriction whicliJiad originally been im-
posed upon your Lordship was. tem wed ; or that
any oilier existed, except that which your Lordship
had imposed Nom yourself, and which was there-
fore no longer binding upon your Lordship, than
while you might yourself he willing that it should
bind you.
Of the extent to which this self-imposed restric-
tion appears to have gone, 1 had not any suspicion.
1 knew; indeed, that your Lordship had stipulated
to keep the time of the disclosure, to Lord Castle-
reagh, in your own hands; but. subsequently to my
being made acquainted with that stipulation, 1 had
received the assurances, which 1 have already
described, on behalf of " Lord Castlereagh's
friends:" Lid find relied upon those assurances.
It was not till the Uth of September, that I learnt
that those assurances bad not been carried into ef-
fect. It was not till the loth of Septeuiber •that I
learntthat your Lordship had been no party to
them. Then indeed, 1 learnt that your Lordship
had!tiot only "not engaged" to make the communi-
cation previously to the " issue of the' Expedition
being known here."—but that in July you had,
" stated to one of our colleagues."—(rint the Doke
of Portland)—" who was urging an earlier mime.
ideation, that the time of communication, so f it us
you were concerned, was for you to decide ; but
that ao one bad a right to ss', you did net perform
that part in the transaction in which you were con.
cenied, fryou did not open gea► lips to Lord Castle-
reagh blare the issre of the Expedition MU known
here."

This information I receiver! from your Lordship.
in a fetter (Lard the l9th of September. It wctl
then perfectly pew to nit,
I leave your Lord.hip to judge what most have
been iny surprise, when after receiving from your
I.ord%hip, on the evening of the 19th at September.
this frank avowal of the real origin of the conceal-
ment maintained. duriug this latter and moat im-
portant period, towards Lord Castlereagh, I re-
ceived on the following morning Lr•rdCaatt.•reaghs
letter of the same date, making ore responsible liar
that concealment.

I have mot to trouble your Lordship with any
farther observations. I have confined myself to
meters growitig out of Lord Castlereagh's letter,
and out of your Lordship's statement: on thuac
alone have I any right to claim your i..ordship's at-
tention.

To this address to your Lordship I have hero
compelled to resort. however reluctantly. to sloth-
&se toy private honour. Ar to suy charges against
my public rouduct—tbis is not the mode to reply
to them. !laity such shall he brought against me,
at the proper time and ia the proper place I shall ba
prepared to repel them. 'I haie the honour to be,
With great respert,•my Lord,
Your Lordship s
Moat obedient bU Ige servant. ,
GLouo► Carouse.