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Gait erea for the change. the same reserve had been continued
towarts him, against which Mr. Canning had before so earneilt-
iy remanstrate& Being informed of this circumstance by the
Duke of Portlaud, and learning at the same time from his Grace,
that there were other difficulties attending the promised arrange-
ment, of which Mr. Canning had not before been appri3ed ;
and that the Duke of Portland had himself come to a determine
ation to retire from office, Mr. Canning instantly, and before
any step whatev'er had been taken towards carrying the propos-
ed arrangement into effect, withdrew his claim, and requested the
Duke of •Portiaod to tender his (Mr. Canning's) resignation, at
the same time with his Grace's, to the King. This was on
Wedbesday the 6th of September, previously to the Levee
that day.
All question of the performance of the promise made to Mr.
Canning being thus at au end, the reserve which Lord Castle-
reagh's friends had hitherto so perseveringly practised towards
Lord Castlereagh appears to have been laid aside. Lord Castle-
reagh was now made acquainted with the nature of the ar-
rangement vihich had been intended to have been proposed to
him.

What may have bees the reason which prevented Lord
Castlereagh's friends from fulfilling the assurances given to Air.
Canning, that Lord Castlereagh 's mind should be prepared by
their communications for the arrangements intended to be carried
into effect; and what the motives for the disclosure to Lord
Castlereagh after that arrangement had ceased to be in contem-
plation, is not for Mr Canning to explain.

CORRESPO,IVAEACE RESPECTING THE LATE
OPERTURES.
No. I.—(copy,)

"LIOTTEE SENT IN DUPLICATE TO EARL •REY AID LORD

GRENVILLC.

• " MY LOOP, . " Windsor, Sept. 23. 1809.
•
" The Duke of Portland having signified to his 1-.lajessy his
intention of retiring from his Majesty's-service, in coti.equence
of the state of his Grace's health, his Majesty has• authorised
Lord Liverpool, in conjunction with myself, to iotratuiii'eute
with 'our Lordship and Lord Grey, for the purposeuf furlong
an e‘tended pod combined-Administratiou.
I hope, therefore, that your. Lordship, in consequence of
this communication will come to town, in order that .as little
dose as possible may be lost in forwarding this important object,
and that you will have the goodness to inform me of your arrival.
am ulto to acquaint yohr Lordship, that 1 have received his
Majestv's commands to make a similar•cOmmunication is Lord
Grey of his Majesty's pleasure. ' . • ••.
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I think it proper to add, far your Lordship's informatioli,
that Lord Castlereagh and Mr. Secretary Canning have intimated
their intentions to resign their offices.—l have the honour to
be, &c. &c. (Signed) " SPENCER PuncavAL."

No. 11.—(copy.)
. ANSWER FROM EARL GREY.
" SIR, " Hotvick, Sept. 426.
" I i►ave this evening had the honour of receiving your letter
of the_ '2,1 I, informing me, that in consequence of the Duke of
Portia:nib intention of retiring from,his Majesty's service, his
Majesty bad authorised you, in conjunction with the Earl of
Liverpool, to communicate with Lord Grenville and myself, for
the purpose of forming an extended and combined Administra-
tion, and expressing a hope, that in consequence of this com-
munication 1 would go to town, in order that as little time as
possible may be lost in forwarding this important object.
" had his Majesty been pleased to signify that he had any
comma►'ds for me personally, I should not have lost a moment
in shewing my duty and obedience, by a prompt attendance on
his Royal pleasure. But when it is proposed tome to communi-
cate with his Majesty's present Ministers, for the purpose of
forming a combined Administration with them, 1 feel that I
sh►►uld he wanting in duty to his Alajesty,and in fairness to them,
if 1 did not frankly and at once declare, that such an union is,
with respect to a►e, under the present circumstances, impossible.
This being the answer that 1 find myself under the necessity of
giving, my appearance in London could he of no advantage,: and •
might possibly at a moment like the-present, Ge attended with
some inconvenience.

" 1 have thought it better to request, that you will have the
goodness to lay my duty at the feet of his Majesty, humbly in-
treating him not to attribute to any want of attachment to big

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Royal Person, or to diminished zeal' or his service, my &chit"
ing a communication, which, on the terms proposed, could lead
to no useful result, and which might be of serious detriment to
the country, if in consequence of a less decisive answer frotu tae
any further delay should take place in the formation of a settkd
government.-11 am, &c. _ s

(Signed)
No.
FIRST ANSWER. FROM LORD GRENVILLE.
46 SIR, " flocunnoc, Sept. 25, 1809.
" I have the honour to acknowledge your letter of the 23d
inst. and understanding it as an official signification of his Majes
ty's pleasure for my attendance in town, I shall loseno time in
repairing thither, in bumble obedience to his MaJestyls cons.
mandsi. I must beg leave to defer until my arrival all observa-
tions ou the other matters to which your letter relates.
" I have, • &c.
(Signed)
No. IV.—(copy.)
SECOND •NSWER roost LORD GRENVILLE.
44 SIR, " Sept. 29, 1809.
" Having last night arrived here, in humble obedience to his
Majesty's commands, I think it now my duty to lose no time in
expressing to you the necessity under which I feel myself of de-' •
dining the communication proposed in your letter; being satis-
fied that it could not, under the circumstances there mentioned,
be prwductive of any public advanta;,e. I trust I need not any,
that this opinion is neither founded in any sentiment of penunai
hostility, nor in a desire of unnecest.arily prolonging political.
differences.
" To compose, nut is inflame the divisions of the Empire has
always been my anxious w inn, and is now more than ever the
duty of every loyal subject: but my acces•!on to the existing,
Administration could, I am confident, in no respect contribute
to this object; nor could it, I think, he considered in.any other
light than as a direliction of public principle. This answer,
which I must have given to any such proposal if made while
the Government was yet entire, cannot be varied by the retreat'
of some of its Members. My objections are not personal—they
apply to the principle of the Government itself, and to the cirr.
cutustances which attended its appointment.
"'1 have now, therefore, :only to request, that you will dQ
me the honour of submitting, in the most respectful terms, these
my humble opinions to his Majesty, accompanied by the dui i
ful and sincere assurance of my earnest desire at all times in t. -
tify, by all such means as are in my power, my unvaried zeal'
fi:,r his Majestes service. I have, &c.
. (Signed)
No. V.—(copy).

" Garr."

" GISENTILLS."

" GnENviLLE.." •

LETTER FROM MR. PURCLYAL TO LORD GREN VII. I.V/ •
"MY LORI), " Sept. 29, 1;.:09. ,
" I lost no time in communicating to Lord Liverpool your
Lordship's letter of this day.
•. It is with great cancers, that we'have learnt from it, that
your Lordship feels yintrself under the necessity of declining the
communication which I have had the honour to propose, . •
" In proposing to your Lord-hip and Lord Grey, under his
Majesty's authority, to communicate with Lord Liverpool and
myself, n•t for the accession of your Lordship to the present
Administration, but for the purpose of forming a combined.
and extended Administration, uo idea existed in our minds of
the necessity of any dereliction of public principle oo either side.
" Your Lordship may rest assured, that in commut►ieutiog to
his Majesty the necessity under which you feel yourself of de..
dining the communication which I bad the honour to propose to
your Lordship, I will do every justice to the respectful (emu,
and the dutiful and sincere assu ranee of your Lordship's uneasiest'
zeal for his Majesty's service, with which the expression of that
nocessity was accompanied.

" I Cannot conclude without expressing the satisfaction of
Lord Liverpool and myself at your Lordship's assurance. that
the failure of this proposal is not to be ascribed to any /Mai.
went of personal hostility. I have, &c. &c.
(Signed) " Sr. PICRCSTAL.
" Lord Grenville.'

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