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LONDON,

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1809.

Mr. PERcEvAt. kissed hands yesterday, on being
appointed First Lord of the Treasury. The disposi-
tion of the other vacant offices tiot being as yet com-
pletely arranged, no other presentation took place.
Mr. DUNDAS is expelled to return irom Ireland he-
tote toeXt Levee.

Mr. PERCFNAL is now to be considered as the

Minister or the Country ; he has obtained the sitna-

lion, neither by overheating pretensions, or under-
hand hitt igues, but has been called to it by the una-
nimous opinion of those who best knew hirfl. It is

in Pirli.►tnent, perhaps, that his talents are most
justly appreciated; the weight which he has in the
Howe of Commons is public and acknowledged.

But it is i❑ the Cabinet, and in his capacity as a
Councillor, that the disinterested openness of his
character has been most eminently distinguish-
ed. The entire purity of his views and ac-
tiows, in a season of discordance and intrigue,
have united with his atitivity, acuteness, and accu-
racy, in painting him out as the fittest person to
lead the Councils of the King. Whether the situa-
tion of Prime Minister be at ►his moment an objea
of just envy may very well be doubted; but no man
cet tainly ever attained the post under circumstances
more flattering to himself, and to which he could,
upon his death-bed, look back with less regret than
those which have produced the eleetion of Mr. PER..

CEVA L.

We are led to these refle&ions, not by any un-
worthy desire of flattering the Minister of the day,
but by the base insinuations of a contemporary, that
Mr. PEIWEVAL'S appointment is the result of inordi-
nate ambition ! Insinuations utterly inconsistent,
not only with truth, but with the knowledge of
facts possessed by the writer. We have carefully ab-
stained, (and we shall persist in our forbearance)
from discussing the merits of the late unfortunate
dissensions in the Cabinet : we have left the ex-
clusive friends of Lord CASTLEREAGH and of Mr.
CANNING (for we admire them both) to state their
ovn cases but we should not have done this, if
tither of the pailies had ventured to assert what we
knew to be untrue, in regard to a third party. We
wDuld not have tamely acquksced in the statement,
that it was otherwise than contrary to the earnest
w,AI ct Mr. I'EItCEVAL that the question of pre-
e eqce was ever mooted between Mr. CANNING
an himself.

But what was Mr. PERCEVAL'S condtl6l, when a
Concurrence of circumstances had brought the ques-
tion to that issue, 'and when the decision of it had
placed within his reach the supposed object of his
Inordinate amtition ? Did he eagerly and confident-
ly grasp it ?—No ! ire voluntarily offered to share it
li.ose, whose pettish refusal alone left it in his
ha • .

suppose that we shall again told, in de-
fi f notorious facts, that Mr. PERCEVAL mere-
ly called upon Lords GREY and GRENVILLE 10 up-
hold him in his ill-gotten power ! As often as this
assertion is made, so often will we flatly contradi&
it ; 'but it is utterly irreconcileable with the new dis-'
covery of Mr. PERCEVAL'S " inordinate ambition',
for the post of First Minister, unless, indeed, we
should believe that Afr. PERCLVAL intended to offer
to ,Lo'rd GREY and Lord GRENVILLE to accept office
under hill), be being acknowledged as Prime Mini-
ster. Grossly and artfully as the offer has been mis-
represented, we do not apprehend that it is even pre-
tended to believe this.

14 one sense, indeed, it is to " inordinate am.
bition" that Mr. PERC!?.VAL owes hiselevation; he

owes it, truly, to the ambition. of others, who now
attempt to charge him with the failing, to which
they themselves must attribute their own disappoint-
ment and discomfiture!

existence.

We consider the circumstances under which Mr.
PERCEVAL'S Administration is formed, as not more
calculated to gratify his own feelingS,, than to obtain
for it the support and confidence of:.the Country.
The unity of sentiment and principle, which has
been so loudly called for, is not only found in the
new Cabinet, but has aatually been the cause of its
We confidently trust that it will also be

the means of its preservation, and the best security
fur the wisdom of its measures. ' •

'We this day received Dutch Papers down to the ist
ins z. We have extra&ed the chief .part of their con-
tents. TheErench statement or d 1 in Bo-
hemia is probably mere i.nvention to discourage people
from locking with hope to the future efforts ofAustria.
The article trout Sa-asbagh states, that the Araii-