The Sun.
London, England, 1809-11-28 00:00:00

TO THE EARL CAIIIIIO7, &C. &C. &c.

MY Loan,--The Statement, which has been
published in the newspapers, in your Lordship's
name, has decided a qoestion On
,which I had be-
fore been hesitating, as to the necessity of an authen-
tic detail of the transactions (so far as lam con-
verned in them.; or am acquainted with them) to
which that Statement refet-a.

For that purpose, I think a dire& address toyour
Lordship more decorcds, both towards your Lord-
ship and for myself, 'than an anonymous paragraph
in a newspaper.
It is with the -most painfUl reluelance that I
recur to a subjea, which, so far as it concerns
Lord Castlereagh. and myself, had been settled,
in a manner, which is usually, I believe, consi.
dered as final.

Discussions of the causes of dispute more com-
monly precede, than follow the extreme appeal to
whch Lord Castlereagh resorted ; and when, after,
mature consideration, his Lordship had determined
to resort to that appeal in the first instance, I should
have thought, that such a choice, deliberately made,
would have bedn felt by his friends to be equally
conclusive upon them, as upon himself.

But your Lordship needs not to be informed, how
assiduously my charader has been assailed by wri-
ters in the newspapers, espousing Lord Castlereagh's
quarrel, and supposed (I trust, most injuriously) to
be his Lordship's particular friends.
The perversions and misrepresentations of ano-
nyinotis writers, however, would not have extorted
from rue any reply. But, to them succeeded the,
publication of Lord Castlereagh's letter to me of the
19th of September.
I entirely disbelieve that Lord Castlereagh, and I
distindly deny that I myself, had any knowledge of
this publication.
But, by what means it matters ndt, the letter is
before the world; and though the course originally
chosen by Lord Castlereagh precluded me from of-
fering any explanation to him ;—the course which
has since been adopted on his behalf (though un-
doubtedly without his privity), might perhaps have
been considered as rendering such an explanation
due to myself. It is, however, only since your
Lordship's publication that I have felt it to be indis-
pensably necessary.
The statement on my behalf, which has also
found its way (without my consent and against my
wish) into the public papers, was written under a
sense of delicacy and restraint as to the particulars of
the transadtion, which, from the charader of the
transadion itself, must always continue to prevail in
a oat dsgrge; -btat from whigb, Wodaesday,

toe ti th of o:Aober, the lay on which I gave up
the Seals,, I had not an opi attirnity of soliciting any,
dispensation. '
,pt.the indulgence which I then most humbly sd-
lic;te`d, I trust I shall be alsle to avail Myself stitliCi:
ently fae my oiku vindication; without losing sight
of those considerations of duty and propriety; by
which the use'of such an indulgence Mtist. necessarily
be regulated and confined.
•••
It is stated in Lord Castlereagh•s Letter,. ,« Tha.
I had demanded and prbetired from the Dtrke of
Portland, before the rising ol Parliament,, a promise
for Lord Castlereagh's removal from the War De-
partment ; that, by this promise,• Lord Castle-.
reagh's situation, as a Minister of the Crown, was'
made dependent .upon my pleasure ; and thatrhis
promise I afterwards thought myself entitled to en-
force ;" _ .

" That, after and notwithstanding this. virtual su-
persessio❑ of Lord Castlertiagh in\his office, "allow-
ed him to originate and condu6t the ExpeclitiOn to
the Scheldt.;"

Ahd that, during the whole period, I knew that
the agitation, and the decision, of the question for
his removal, were concealed from him; and was
party to this concealment."
Lord Castlereagh -indeed admits,
Thit he " has no right, as a public man, to re-
sent my . demanding Jipon public grounds, hii re-
moval from his office, or even from the Administra-
tion, as a condition of my continuing a Member of
the Government."

. But he contends, that a proposition " justifiable
in itself," ought not to have been " executed in an
unjustifiable manner;" and he makes me responsi-
ble for the manner in which the " Head of the Ad-,
ministration," and some Members of the GOvern-
men!, " supposed to be his (Lord 'Castlereagh's)
friends," executed the proposition, which he' at.,
tributes to me.

He is ready to acknowledge, indeed, " that I
pressed for a disclosure, at the same time that I
pressed for a decision ; and that the disclOsure -was
resisted by the Duke of Portland and his (Lord Cas-
tlereagh's) supposed friends." .
But in this circumstance,. Lord Castlereagh pro,
fesses not to see any justification of what he conceives
to have been .my cOndutt towards him ;—because,
by acquiescing in- the advice or entreaties of his
" supposed friends," I admitted-" an authority" on
their part, " which I must have known them not
to possess;"---because, by " pressing for disclosure,"-
shewed: my own sense of the " unfairness of
concealment;—and because, with that sense,. I
ought," (as he conceives me not to have done),
"- to have availed myself of the same alternatiye,---
narpely, my own resignation,—to enforce disclosure.,
which I did to enforce decision."

Without offering a single word in the way, of ar—
gument,. I, shall, by A distil-id detail of facts in the.
order of their dates, suhstantiate my contradietion of
these charges. . .

I shall only premise,
Ist—That I had (as is admitted by. Lord Castle-
reagh) an unquestionKble right to require, on public
grounds, a change in the, War Department, tender-
ing, at the same time, the alternative of. my own re-
signation.
2dly—(Wl-eit no man at all acquainted
course of public busiuesi, t that the re-
gular, effeanal, and straight-forward course
..for
bringing that alternative to.issue, was to state it di:
rectly to the " Head .of. the Administration,"—the
King's Chief Minister,—to be laid by that Minister
before the King.! . •
..
I proceed to a 'detail of facts. 0, .•
April the.beginning tsf April, I addressed a
letter to the Duke of , Portland, containing a repre-
sentation on the State of MI Administration"; and
expressing my wish and • intention, unless.,"Soute
change were effected in it, to resign:
April 4to ti.--Upon the Duke of Portland's re-
quiring a more detailed
,explanation, as to the mo-
tives of my proffered resignation, I stated among
other things, that a change either in my own De-
partment or in Lord .Castiereagh's, appeared to me
to be expedient for the public service. I stated my
perfect willingness that the alternative should be de-
cided for my retirement ; and only requested that
the deciiion might (if possible) take place before the
re-commencement 'of besiness in Parliament after-
the Easter holidays.
The Duke of Portland requested me to suspend'
the execution of my intention to resign; wishing to
have an opportunity of consulting with some of our
Colleagues, before be determined what advice to lay
before the King.
, April 16—TheEaster holidays thus passed away.—
, On the t tub of April, shortly after his Grace's return
to town from Bulstrode, the Duke of Portlaed open-
! ed the subjeet-to one .ofthe Members of,the"Cabinet,
whose name, .not having been hitherto brought for-
ward, I do not think it necessary to mention.—.
Your Lordship is perfe&ly acquainted with it.-
By the Duke of Portland's desire, I had a com-
munication with that Member of the Cabinet, with-
in a very few days after his interview with the
Duke of Portland. He strongly represented the dif-
ficulty of making any new arrangement ;during the sit-
ting of Parliatneet,and urged me to.defer the pressing
my own resignation till the end of the Session. To
Ibis recommendation I did not promise to accede ;
but we agreed (whether upon his suggestion or upon
mine I am not confident), that, at all events, no step
whatever could properly be taken, until after the de-
cision of the question upon the Writership s—which
was about this time brought forward in the House
of Commons.

April 25.—That question was decided on Tuesday
the 25th of April.

• April 28.—0 n Friday the 28th, :the Duke of
Portland communicated fully with your Lordship ;
and informed me, as the result of that communica-
tion, that your Lordship thought a change in Lord
Castlereagh's situation in the Government desirable,
provided it could be eifeoed honourably for Lord
Castlereagh, and that it " could be reconciled to
Lord Castlereagh's feelings."
From this period, I understood that your Lordship
was constantly consulted by the Duke of Portland in
every. step of the tratisaaion. Other Members of the
Cabinet were also consulted by the Duke of Portland;
but how many of them, or at what precise periods,
I neither knew at the time, nor can now undertake
to say.
Shortly after your Lordship's first interview with
the Duke of Portland (I am su re before the sth of
Ma fi that-Member' of the Cabinet with whom bit

truce
i scl iirst commniticeed, repoileu to men 5u,..f,7
gestion of your Lordship's of a chanl.p of ofNx for
Lord Castlereagh, evidently,ciculated on the pritki:
pies which_ your Lordship had stated as indisper
ble to suif,i a change: .Whether this cohirtitinicatioti
to me was in the name of a, direa message firini your
Lordship, m'tatily -know. Bat I titt'ior:.
stood distinarthat you knew Of its being made id
me;—and that whatever observation I might Make
upon it, was to be reported to your Lordship. 'that
I olaseivecl upon,it was in substance; that it was riot
for.me to presum,e to say, what change would fie
proper; that I had done all'that had thouglirniy7,
self either called upon or at liberty to do; stating
to the Duke of POrtland my opinions; a`hd my in-
tentions'to resign.; .that the Duke of Portland
'could 'either propose any change or obtain the. neees-
sarr auth;itity for ca'ryiOg it into 'etfeti,.-3nd
that I:therefore recommended that yOur.Lordhiel
should state your .suotiestion to the Duke of '.Port•-•
land. - • .

Mny 5.-=-On 'the sth:of May•the Duke of Part;.
land informed we, that he had determined to lay the'
whole snblea, on the following Wedneseby below
hrii Majesty.. •

May loth.--..0n Wednesday' the i 0 th bf M y, 116
informed me that he had donee so'; and that his
jesty had been graciotily pleased to sny, that, he
would take the subject into his serious
deration.

May 3 1 st.-00 Wednesday, the 31 st of May; tip;
prehending it to be possible, that my intention Might
not have been fully explained to hiS Majesty, atpd
thinking it my duty to leave no doubt upon it;
I. humbly repeated to his Majesty the representationt
which I had before made to the Duke of Portland and
humbly tendered my resignation. I 'received there-
upon his Majesty's .tracious cominands to retain ray
situation until his Majesty should ' have c,:nisidered
-the whole subject.
June Bth.—Sume time in the course of the next
week, I think on the 8 Ova June, :Abe Duke of
Portland stated to me, that he had received his Ma...
jesty's commands to propose, and to carry into
tea, at the end of the Session of Parliamezit, an ar.a,
rangement for a partial change in the War ;)pat:;-_
went.

The particulars of this arrangement I du not
think it proper to detail;. feeling it my duty to
myself strictly to what is absolutely
,necessary for
the explanation of my own condua. It is sufficieitt
to state, that the objea.of this arrangement was not
the removal of Lora, Castlereagh, but,a new distfie
bution of the' business of the War Deix.sulinenti
whereby that part of it which was conneled with
political' correspondence would have been tratisfared
to the Foreign:Office ; and the business of another
office, thentVacant, would have been transferred to
Lord Castlereagh. It is only necessary to add} that
the effea 61 this new distribution would.mot. have
been to take out of Lord Castlereagh's• hands th*
auperintendanCe of- the Expedition to the SelrtAtit
Junes 3th—On the 13th of June, I wrote. to
Duke of Portland, signifying to him that,' although
such an arrangement bad
.never t:titere4 into my
contemplation, and although J did noo think it cal=
culated to'remedy lin.. the Ltiff ni, its which bad in.,
duced me to bring the state. of the
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under his Graice'i conshieration, I was ready, sk..tar
as I w.ts concerned, to undertake arid.4iset;art,' to
the best'ot ability, atiy thity vdtich his Maj..2s.iy
Might be graciously pleased to devolve upon me j'.
but I expressed at the same time g,reat doubts, whj-
ther this arrangement could be ex-p t..61e.c1.t0 -be accep.
table to Lord Castlereagh; or, in all its partS, satts
faaory to the public feeling.'
June 18.-041 Sunday, the 18th of June,:(PArlia-
ment heing expected to rise on the 20th or e Ist) I
wrote to the Duke of Portland; to. enquire whether
this arrangement, or any other waS to take place
stating to him, that «if things remained As they
then- were, I %vas determined not to remain id
office."'

June answer, the Duke nf Portland men.;,
tioned to me a new plan of arraugement, altogether
different from that, which he had,been authorised to
carry into effect; and stated that he had sent tar
your Lordship, and the.other Member of the Ca-
binet with whom yoUr Lordship and the Duke 'of'
Portland had,been in constant combfunicationoo co-
operate with him, in-foiwarding this new'plana-and
to 'urge Lord-Castlereagh to consent to it:

The.partieulars of this new plan, 1 do not think
it necessary to state, as I learnt from the Duke of
Portland, either3ile'next day, or the day following
it, that to this-plan :Lord- Castlereagh certainly
not be brought to agrde. 'Whether this was known
to his Grace only.: from your Lordship,- or. through
your Lordship, from Lord Castlereagh himself, I
was not apprised.

•
June 21.,--On Wednesday the 21st, the day
,of
the rising of Parliament, .1 was assured by the Duke
of Portland, that, the specific arrangement which he
had in the first instance proposed, viz. the new dis
tribution of the business of -the—War Department;
should be ,carried into -effect; and that his Majesty
had direeted him to, desire, your Lord Ship to com-
municate his decision -to Lord Castlereagh, •
June 27.—On.Tuesday, the 27th, finding that no
communication 'had:been yet made to -Lord Castle,
teagh, wrote to the Duke of Portland in terrlis of
the, strongest remonstrance, both againSt the
cealtoent and the delay ; and intimated my deter-
mination to recur to my original intention, and to
press the acceptance of my resignation..

June '28.----Accordingly, on the following day,
Wednesday, the 28th of June, I had an antlienee of
the King, in which I humbly and earnestly repeated
to his Majesty the tender of my'resignation,
• June 28.,--That same evening the Duke of Port-
land.informed me, that he had that day signified to
your Lordship the King's desire, that your Lord,,
ship should communicate the intended arrangement:
to Lord Castlereagh ; and that the communication
was to be n\ade by your Lordship as soon as the Ex-
pedition had sailed ;
.which. it was expected would
be in less that\ a fortnight from that time.
June s,—But befdre this fortnight elapsed,
on Wednesday, the sth of July,, the Duke of Port-
land informed me, that, in consideration of the dif-
ficulties attending the' proposed arrangementl he,
and those -.with whom he had consulted) were of
opinion, 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 would determine to orii:r your resignation,
for the purpose of facilitating a general nrrangeineut
in, which a uomplew Ghauge in thcWar Department

ing any communication to Lord 'Castlereagh itt ti e
earlier stagils of the transaction.
Sept. 19.—0 n Tuesday September 19, your Lord-
ship,' in answer to.ia letter (Amine of the preceding
day, explained- to me the grounds of your silenCe to
Lord Castlereagh, during the loiter period of the
transadion.
Sept. 2u.--On Wednesday morning, September
the 20th, freaeived from Lord Castlereagh the let-
ter which-produced our meeting. ,
.From this series of facts it appears,
That, in April, I made a representation to the
King's First Minister, on the general -stale of the
"Administration ; and that, in the course of the
discussions arising out of , that representation, 1,
proposed on public grounds, 'not as Lord Castle-
reagh.appears to have been informed, 'his removal
from the Administration, but the alternative of a
change, either in the .War or Foreign Department ;.
That on the 10th of May, the Duke of Portland
submitted to His Majesty the subject of my repre-
sentation ; and informed me that his Majesty would
•
be pleased to take it into hiS consideration ;
That, from the loth of May until the. Bth of
-June, I was wholly unapprized of the, result of that
consideration; but that, for fear of misapprehen—
sion, I had, in person, during that.interval, viz. On
the 31st of May, humbly repeated my representa-
tion,•and tendered my resignation to his Majesty ;
That, on or about the Bth of June, for the first
time, an arrangement waif stated to rue, which had
for its objet a new distribution of the business of
the War Department, and that, on the 13thi
signified my acquiescence in that arrangement, so
, far as I was concerned ;
That, 'on the -t sib, another arrangement was
stated to me, as intended to' be substituted tor
that in which I had acquiesced ;_ but that, on. the,
21st,' it w'As announced to me that the first arrange-
ment was finally decided upon, wtis to be irurnedi-
, ately carried into
,effeat, and -was to be cotittnuni-
.
cated to Lord Castlereagh by your Lortlstop;

might- be effeaed, ceusistently with Lold Ceallea
reagh's- feelings. He said, however, t hat your Lord,
ship had. not yet finally made up your mind upon
the subjed ; but that yea would prob:•ibly come to
a decision before the following Wedeesday. .
•The Duke of Portland stated his intention in the
event •of.-Lour Lordship's resignation, to subtaiit to
bis. Majesty the neroination of Lord Wellesley to the
War Department. •
It was Well 'known by the Poke of Portland that I.
had been always anxious for Lord Wellesley's eccesa
sion to the Cabinet : -hut this-was the first mention
/ to me in the coarse of the transadion, of his intro-
dilation into the. War Department. But for a :se-
- were, indisposition, Lord Wellesley would, before
this time, have been on his way to Spent.
July 13..—0 n Thursday, .the 13th of July, the
Duke of Portland informed nit-) that your Lordship
had the day before actually tendered your resigna-
tion ; but that y6ur Lordship had annexed ao it the
conditions, flat no change should take place till af-
ter the termination of the Expedition to the Scheldt ;
and that it should be left to our Lordship to choose
the time of making any communication to LetelCas-
tlereagh. •
July 13th to 30th—I made-the strongest remon-
strances against this new delay, and this indefinite
renewal of the concealment from Lent Castlereagh.
',said that after the repeated postponements which
had-already taken place, and atter the reserve which
bad already been practised towards Lord Castle-
reggh, I could not rely upon . the execution of
,any
arrangement -which should not nom be completely
settled in all its parts. And if Una were not to be
done, I most earnestly . entreated that his Majesty
might be advised now to accept my resignation..
The Duk6 of fortland most anxiously deprecated
try resignation, as leading, in his apprehension; to
tee disaohition of the Administration. He declared
himself to be authori-ied to assure meein the most so-
lemn manner, that the arrangement • now in con-
templation should positively take place at the termi-
nation of the Expedition ; that the Seals of
.the
-War Department should then be offered to Lvrd
Wellesley—an office (to. be vacated by' Means of
your Loralehip's retirement), being at the saine time.
• to be offered to Lord Castlereagh ; and that in the
interval, and without loas, of times Lord Castle-
, • reagh's friends should take opportunities of prepay-:
i'ng him for the change) _and reconciling him to in;
by representing to him the great advantages to be de-
yed irony it, in the itcqpisition 01 additieear strengt
Ii
to .the Government..
- July 13th to 20th.--Not only the Duke of Port-i
land, but •• other 'Members of- The Cabinet, Lord-
Castleyeagles friends, • sortie- clirettly, and conie.
through common urged me in the .mi.st
earnest .manner, to acquiesce in the postpdnernent.
now proposed. It was•represented to me, that if,
instead of-pressing for the execution of tbeartange-
trent now, time were allowed to Lord Castlereagh's
friends to prepare him for theaalsange, and to-.recon-
cile him to -the arm:gen-mat might ultimately
take place in an amicable manners; that every pub-
lic objed might thus be answered, without aey -un-
necessary harshness to the_ feelings of individuals;
and that so far from finding fresh impeditnents raised
to the executive of the arrangement, when the time
arrived, I should find all, t lee,. to whose represera-
tations I yielded, considerieg -themselves pledged
equally,. with the Duke of Pulliam!, to see it carried
into cited. •
It is due to your Lordship, to say, that your
Lordship's name was note so far as I recollect; spe-
cifically mentioned to me.on this occasion ; but it is
equally due to myself, to declare that I never for a
moment,imagined, nor could have believed that the
general description of " Lord Castlereagh's friends,"
as stated to me without exception or qualification
. by the Duke of Portland, did -not comprelietul-your
Lordship, whose proffered resignation was the basis
• of the whole arrangement, and without whose ex-
press consent, therefore, no other person could an-
nounce the arrangement tci Lord Castlereagh. •. •
July 20th.—By these rePreientatioes -and aasur-
, antes, at length, most reluctantly, and I conte9ta
against my better judgment, -I was induced, to ,ac-
, quiesce in the ptoposed.postponement Of the change,
and consented to remain in office till the termina-
tion of the Expedition. •
Sept.. 2.—On Saturday, September the 2d, the
result of the • Expedition to the Scheldt being then-
known, I. wrote to. the Duke of Portland; at Bul-
strode, -reminding. his Grace, that the. period fixed
for offering. the Seals. of the War Department to
Lord Wellesley, was arrived. -
Sept. 6th.-- On the following Wednesday, the
6th of. September, the Duke of Portland informed
me, that no steps. whatever had been taken•by any
of Lord Castlereagh's friends to reconcile him to
the change, or to prepare him for it; that • the exe-
cution of -the arrangement would- be attended with
other resignations; or at-least -with one-other resigna-
tion (of which I bad never before received • the
slightest intimation) ; and .that he had himself de- -
termined to retire.
Upon receiving this intelligence, I immediately
disclaimed any wish that the arrangement; howa
ever positively I understood it to have been settled,
should be carried into • effect under circumstances.
to me so • ernexpeded.; and instantly reverted to
that " alternative," 'which,. upon each succesaive
stages of ditlicnities and . delay s, I - had uniformly
pressed,—that of the tender of Foy own resignation.;
which t desired the Duke of Portland to lay that.
day before the -Ling. •
• Sept. 7.—On the following day, Thursday the
7th of September, I declined attending the• Cabinet ;
stating in a letter to the Duke of Portland, iwhich I
left to -his Grace to communicate to the Cabinet if
he should think-proper,, that I considered my resig-
nation as in his.. Majesty's hands ; and myself as
holding my office only until my successor should be
named. , • - -
Sept. B.—On Friday , the sth, I heord from the
Duke of Portland that Lord Castlereagh had sent in
his resignation. I have been infortued.sinces bat
whether correaly or not-I cannot affirm, that he did
so, irt consequenee of a communication made to
hi:n, by your Lordship, after the Cabinet of the pre-
ctmdwg day.. . .
Sept. 14.—0 n Thursday the .14th of September;
your Lordship called open rue at the Foreign Ogee
voile:is:hi appointment, .for atlie purpose of ex.-
pluining the causes which had prevented -your mak-

to the end-, I wad not only ready, bit. desirous fo
terminate them by resigning.
But when the-opinion of the expediency of •a
change in the War Department had been ado led
by so many of the immediate friends of Lord Cas-
' tlereagh upon the condition that it should be recont
-oiled to Lord Castl6reagh's feelings, and when they,
and your Lordship among the fio't, had devised and
'concerted.with the King's First Minister the mode
of 'carrying that 'object 'into execution, I cannot help
thinking 'that I should have_heen much and justly
blamed, if I had insisted upon taking the cotutnani-
cation to Lord Castlereagh out of your hands into
.my own.
Know come to your Lordship's maternent. That
statement is asfollows.:

" As.it may be inferred, froma statement which has ai)-
'peared •iir the public p.ipers, that Lord Caiiiden• withheld
from -Lord Castlereagh, a dommuMeation which lie;liaii.been,
desired to make,to him, it is necessary it: should be tinder,
stoodohat bOwever Dlr, Canning night have conceived time
communication alluded to, to have been made to Lord Cam-
den, it was ,never s.:ated to Lord ,Camden, . that the. cornmu-
alication was.made at the desire Of, Mr. Canning; and, so tar
-from Lord Camden, having been.authorized to make the corn,
inunication to Lord Castlereagh, be was absolutely restricted
from so doing.
"As it may also be inferred that Lord Camden was ex-
,petted-t6 prepare_Lord Castlereagres mind for any proposed
'change, it is necessary that it should be understood, that
Lord Camden never, engaged to communicate to LortiCastle-•
reagh any circurnsrances respecting it, betore the termination
of the Expedition."—llf,rning Chromde, Od. to.

This statement appears to me to have been muck
misunderstood. It ''has been construed, as it your
.Lordship had meant to ,aver that what you were re-
stricted from doing, and what you• had not engaged
to do,_ were one and the same thing ;—whereas your
Lordship's statement, in point of tact, contains two
distill& propositions, and refers to two separate pe-
riokis of time.

.• That, on the. 271 h 'of June, no step appearing to
hare been taken, either to execute the intended ar-
rangement, or to apprize Lord:Castlereagh of it, I
remonstrated against the delay,-and against the con-
c:ealnient. from Lord. Castlereagh'; and inat, ou the
28th, l'again tendered my resignation; and that, on
rite,sarne-day, your Lordship received an injunction
to communicate the- intended' arrangement to Lord
Castlereagh ;
That, on 'the sth ofJuly,.a new plan was stated to
me to be in -contemplation; a plan- originating with
your Lerdship, and 'depending, for its execution,
upon a step to be taken by‘yoursell; that this plan
was, on the 13th, announced. to me as settled, and
• ~.as intendea *to be substituted 'for that which had
been first proposed ;
That I, att.that time, renewed my remonstrances
in the strongest manner, both against the delay and
against the concealment ; tut that. it was stated to
me to be an indispensable condition of this plan on
'your Lordship's part,—that -it . should not be aged
the termination of -the Expedition to the
I. Scheldt ; •.and that the time of making the commu-
picot ion to:Lord Castlereagh should
,be left to your
Lordshi'p's-discretion ;
That at length, in compliance with the. repre-
sentations and iutreaties of the Duke of Portland,
and Of-rah2l-s, Lord Castlereagh's friends, and upon
the most solemn assurances that Lord Castlereagh
should in the mean time be 'prepared by his friends
for the change, and that the change should positi-
vely take place at the period fixed by your Lotaiship,
I consented to remain in office;
That on Wednesday:the 6.th of September, find-
ing that nothing had been done toWratcli•prepating
Lord Castleieigh for the arrangement ;
,and that the
execution of it would be attended with difficulties
of which I had not before _been apprized, I desir-cl
the Doke of Portland to lay my resignation before
the King.,
Your Lordship will therefore perceive,' •
That.up to the Bth of June, so far Irotn-being
in
possession of any " prOmiSe for Lord Castlereagh's
removal," and from his continuance in office being
made. thereby ". dependent upon my pleasure ;"
no decision Whatever had, to 'my knowledge, been
taken, up to that time ; no proposal had,been made
to me by the,Duke Of Portland, in any wayaffeCting.
Lord Castlereagh's political situation ; and no Intl-
-11130013 had been. given to me, whether my own re-
signation would be findlyaccepted'or declined;
That' the arrangement, ;which ,was in contempla-
tion from the Bth of June to the
.sth of July, in no,
degree 'affeeted, and was never intended to affeal
".the conduct of the Expedition to the Scheldt ;"
That Lord Castlereagh's " removal from the
War Department" was first determined upon as part .
of the plan of which your. Lordship's Resignation
was,the basis ;
That his" removal from the Administration" was
not at any time ". demanded" by me ;
And. lastly, that I did employ the tender of my
own resignation, not to ", enforce decision" only (as.
Lord Castlereagh's letter supposes,) but equally to
" enforce.dis‘closure ;" and that in fact I did • tiltt
mately resign, rather than " enforce". the:intent-hid,
change, under circumstances so .different from those,
which I had been authorized to expeEt.
It cannot be expeaed that I should labour very
anxiously to refute the charge of my having " sup-,
posed" your Lordship and others ",. to. le Lord Cas-
tlereagh's friends;" and having, under that inipres-
sion,aleferred to your opinion and " authority," in
a matter affecting Lord Castlereagh's interests, and
feelings. ,
ThAt your-Lordship, in-particular, as well from
hear connection as from an active and anxious par-
tiality, was entitled to consultation and to deference
on such an occasion ;—is a persuasion which I felt
in colninon, as I believe, with every Member of the
Government ; arid 'which not even Lord CastlereaghtS
disclaimer has induced me to renounce.
I should not 'have been surprized, nor should I
have thOught myself entitled to tlike the smallest
offence, if your Lordship had, instead- of 'coneur-
ring in the expediency of a change in Lord CaStle-
reagh's 'Department, protested affainst - it,. and had
recommended. to the Duke of °Pirtland to advise
the King to accept my resiguatibn t and it wag per 7
.knOwn by the Duke of Portland,-,arid I -am
confident, not unknown'hy your Lordship, that, at
any -moment from the,beginning of these diseussiOns

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The period during which yOur4 Lordship states
yourself to have been" atrOluiely restriaerl" from
making a communication to Lord CiStlereagh, ex-
tends from the. 23;:h of April, on which day the first
communication was made by the Duke of Portland
to your Lor.iship, to the time at which the proposed
arrangement fir the new distribution of the business
at the War Department .was superseded by your
Lordship's tender of your resignation.
The .period during which your Lordship states
yourself. ‘. not to have engaged to make a coinmuni.,.
cation to :Lord Castlereagh, extends "from the time
1 of the tender of your Lord Ship's resignation to the
termination of the Expedition to the Scheldt.
I.
It ought,. however, to be observed, that during the
first of these two periods, from the 28th of April to
i the 12th of July, . the nature of the communication
to
.k..... made Co Lord Castlereagh, and the. nature of
the restriction imposed upon your Lordship were
i entirely _changed. .
Previously to the, Bth'of June---this communica,
tion which your Lordship would have bad to make
i to
.Lord Castlereagh, was 'simply, that_ I had re-
presented the expediency jai a change either in his
Department .or •in mine ; • and . that no decision.
whatever had yet been taken upon this representa-
i' tion. .

With resped- to Ws communication, it does ap-.
pea; that the: restriction upon your Lordship was
absolute and indefinite. But I knew nothing of
its existence.
Sl' '44:tinily to tle.tith of June, the commitni-
cation to be made to Lord Castlereagh was, that
an arrangement was' in 'contemplation for a new
distributicmi of the busin,zss of the War Depart-
ment,.
With respeiSt.to !his communication, not only was
the restrielion ,upon your Lordship.not indefinitely
continued; but your Lordship 'thually ,received on
the 28th of June an injunction to make this commu-
nication to Lord Castlereagh at a period distindly
specified, viz. the sailing of the ExpeditiOn. And
this injunetion was only sup.erstided by a voluntary
at of- your. Lordship's--your. tender of your own.
resignation on the
,12th of July as the basis of,' ano-
ther arrangement.
During the whole-of the period, :from: the 28th of
April-to the j 52th of July, the concealment practised
towards Lord' Castleteagh was either, without my.
knowledge, and contrary to my'belief, or it was
against my earnest remonstrances. . .
It was without my knowledge., and contrary tomy
belief, up to ihe week in which Parli;.::hent rose
and frotm that tiin'd forth it was against my earnest
remonstrances, '

Even when I learnt in June, that the communi-
cation bad not been made by yctur- Lordship
:to,
Lord Castlereagh, I did not learn • that you had
been prevented from making it by any abSolnte re-
striCtion..
It was not till the month ofJUly, in the course of
, the discussions which took place from the 13iii to
the 20th .of that Month, respeding the proposal fbr
postponing the new arrangement to be founded On.
youir Lordship's resignation, and for leaving to yolur
Lordship's discretion the ti ale- of disclosure to Lord
Castlereagh, that 'learnt that the silence which you
had hitherto Observed towards hith had been imposed
upon your Lordship by the injundion of: the Drilie,
Of Portland. I did not till then know' with whom
the cbticeaTment hitherto pradisect had originated ;
I frankly
,oWn that, I thought it had oriinated`
with your ',.Lordship ; I was anxious abqve all
things that it should not -be even suspected, 1h
had originated with me, or that I had been con-
senting party to it, or even (till a late period). eon-
. scions of its existence.
t In my correspondence With the buke of Portland
at this period,.therefore, at the Saine‘time that I re-
sisted the Pew delay then proposed, tdisclaimed any
• concurrence in the concealment which had been: hi-
' therto practised—and requested " that it might, be
remembered hereafter, wheneVer that concealintit
should be alleged against me as an at of injuitiee
to Lord Castlereagh, that it did not'originate to nay
suggestion ; that so far from desiring it I had con-
ceived (howver erroneously) your Lordship to be
the sure channel of communication to Lord Castl-
reagh ; and that up to a very late peribd. I had
believed such communication to have been actually
made."

The Duke of 'Portland, in answer, acknowledged
my repe.ned remonstrances against the conceal-
ment, stating biniSelt at the same time nouto have
beenaware that I had at any time believed the com-
munication to hair been aaually made ; but assur-
ing me " tliat he should be at all fillies ready to
avow that the concealment had origina.e:.l v li h

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