The National Register.
London, England, 1809-10-08 00:00:00

OCT. 8.

LATE OVERTURES.

The following are said to be the most correct particulars
of the late Overture to Lords Grey and Grenville :
The Overture was made by a Letter from Mr. Perceval,
which, in substance, stated, that, in consequence of the
Duke of Portland's resignation, his Majesty had autho-
rised Mr. Perceval and Lord Liverpool " to communicate
with Lords Grey and Grenville, for the purpose of forming
an extended and combined Administration :" for that pur-
pose Mr. Perceval expressed a hope that the Noble Lords
would come to town; stating to each respectively, that he
had by the King's command made a similar communication
to the other, and adding, that Lord Castlereagh and Mr.
Carming had also resigned.
LortGrey, who received the letter in Northumberland,
immediately acknowledged the receipt of it, hut declined
corning to town, stating, that if his Majesty had had any
commands for him personally, he would have obeyed in-
stantly, but that as it was proposed to him to communicate
with his Majesty's present Ministers for the purpose of
forming a combined Administration with them, he must
at once declare that such a union was, with respect to him,
under present circumstances, impossible.
Lord Grenville was in Cornwall ; he also immediately
acknowledged the receipt of Mr. Perceval's letter, and
stated, that understanding it as an official signification of his
Ofajesty's pleasure for his attendance in town, he would
lose no time in repairing thither in obedience to his Ma-
jesty'S commands, deferring until his arrival all observa-
tions on the other matters to which the letter referred.—
His Lordship arrived in town accordingly on Thursday
night; and on Friday morning wrote another letter to Mr.
rtreeval, in which, after noticing his arrival in town the
preceding night, he states, that he thought it his duty to
lose no time in expressing the necessity under which he
felt of declining the communication proposed, as not likely
tole productive of any public good. The letter proceeds
to state in civil terms, that his opinions were not founded
in any feeling of personal. hostility, nor iu a desire of unae-
cessarily prolonging political differences..
"That his object has always been to compose,,not to
inflame,, the divisions of the empire, which was.now mo
than ever the duty of every loyal subject ; but that " his
accession to the existing Administration" could not contri-
bute to that object, and could only be considered as a de-
reliction of public principle.
" That his objections were not personal ; that they ap-
plied to the principle of the Government itself, and to the
circumstances which attended its appointment,"
't'o this letter we understand that Mr. Perceval replied
by expressing his and Lord Liverpool's great concern at his
Lordship's having declined the communication' and by
stating, that in making the proposal to his Lordship anti
Lord Grey, under his Majesty's authority, to communicate
with him and Lord Liverpool, "not far the accession of his
Lordship and Lord Grey to the present Administration, but
for the purpose of forming an extended and combined Ad-
ministration," they had not conceived any dereliction of
p:iblic principle necessary on either side; and, after some
acknowledgment of the civil expressions in Lord C ren-
ville's letter, Mr. Perceval concluded by assuring big Lord-
ship, that in informing the King that his Lordship had de-
clined the communication proposed, he would do justice to
the dutiful expressions with which the refusal was accom-
panied.
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