The National Register.
London, England, 1812-06-21 00:00:00

384

11111111111111
that the certain lois of character which must arise from it to ourselves,
could be productive only of disunion and weakness in the Adminis-
!ration of the public interests.
We have the honour to be, with great respect, &c.
(Signed) GREY.
(Signed) GRENVILLE.
June 3, 181€2.
MY DEAR Lotto=-The answer which you and Lord Grenville have
returned to the proposal made by Lord Wellesley seems to throw
an oblique imputation upon me ; therefore I entreat your reconsidera-
tion of your statement as far as it may convey that impeachment of a
procedure in which I was involved. You represent the proposition for
an arrangement submitted to you as one calculated to found a Cabinet
upon a principle of counteraction. When the most material of the public
objects which were to be the immediate grounds of that Cabinet's exertion
had been previcusly understood between the parties. I own it is difficult
for me to comprehend what principle of counteraction could be intro-
duced. If there be any ambiguity, which toes not strike me, in Lord
Wellesley's last paper, surely the constructions ought to be sought in
the antecedent communication ; and I think the basis on which that
communication had announced the intended Cabinet was to stand
perfectly clear.—With regard to the indication of certain individuals, I
can assert that it was a measure adopted through the highest spirit
of fairness to you and your friends.
Mr. Canning's name was mentioned, because Lord Wellesley would
have declined office without him ; and it was a frankness to apprise you
of it : and Lord Erskine's and mine were stated with a view of show-
ing, that Lord Wellesley, so far from having any jealousy to maintain a
preponderance in the Cabinet, actually left a majority to those who had
been accustomed to concur upon most public questions ; and he specified
Lord Erskine and myself, that you might see the number submitted for
your exclusive nomination was not narrowed by the necessity of advert-
ence to us. The choice of an additional Member of the Cabinet left to
you must prove how undistinguishable we considered our interests and
your's, when this was referred to your consideration as a mere matter of
convenience, the embarrassment of a numerous Cabinet being well
known. The reference to Members of the late Cabinet, or other per-
sons, was always to be coupled with the established point that they
were such as could concur in the principles laid down as the founda-
tion of the-projected Ministry • and the statement was principally
dictated by the wish to show, that no system of exclusion could inter-
fere with the arrangements which the public service might demand.
On the selection of those persons, I aver the opinions of you, Lord
Grenville and the others whom you might bring forwarA as hiem-
bers of the Cabinet, were to opera+ e is fully as our own, and this was
to be the case also with regard :o subordinate offices. The expres-
sion that this was left to be proposed. by Lord Wellesley, was intend.
ed to prove that his Royal Highness did not, even in the mast indirect
manner, suggest any one of those individuals.
It is really impossible that the spirit of fairness can have been carried
farther than has been the intention in this negotiation. I therefore la-
ment most deeply that an arrangement so important for the interests
of the country should go off upon points which I cannot but think
wide of the substance of the ease.

(Signed)

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.

MOIRA.

Boweta.—Circumstances having occurred which prevented Bowle
from being brought up to Marlborough-street for re-examination, the
examination of witnesses has taken place, and the whole have been
bound over to prosecute at the ensuing Old Bailey Sessions. Mr. Bur-
rows is well enough to walk out, and Bowler is better of his lameness,
and quite steady in his intellect.
Monday, N. Daly. late a publican, at the Lower Watergate Deptford,
for forging a seaman's will; and T. Flannagan, and G. Smith, for utter-
ing forged Bank-notes, were executed in the Old Bailey. The two for-
mer, being Roman Catholics, were am nded by a Priest of that persua-
sion; the latter by the Ordinary. They all conducted themselves with
suitable decorum. In cutting down one of them, the executioner and
his man, over-reached themselves, and, with the body, were precipitated
through the platform to the flooring of the drop, but did not receive ma-
terial injury.
MAR Lawton cu-STRUT.—?he Right lion. George Tierney, charged
Mr. Jefferys, a book-seller, On Saturday, at this Office, with assaulting
him in Pall-Mall. It appeared in evidtnce, that the prosecutor was in
company with Lord Spencer, walking along Pall-Mall, when Mr. Jef-
fery's assailed him in the most affronting language, and upbraided the
Noble Lord in company with Mr. Tierney, for walking with him.—
The prosecutor, to avoid the defendant, attempted to enter a shop in
Pali-Malt, but the defendant got between him and the door, and putting
himself in a boxing attitude, prevented it. It appeared that Mr. Jef-
fery's had conceived that the prosecutor had attempted to injure him in
trade ; but Mr. Tierney disclaimed any such attempts, and added, on
the contrary, that he had even recommended him. Mr. Tierney ob-
served, he had not the slightest animosity against the defendant, but he
must insist on his finding sureties, to prevent himself being again thus
molested. The defendant was held in bail to keep the peace, himself in
2001.. and two sureties in 501. each.

bi
fe
tl
••
sI
• '
•. 2