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My dear Canning,
Very faithfully your'4,
(Signed) , LIVERPOOL

(Signed) GEORGE CANNING.

No. 7...-u-Letter from Lord LIVERPOOL to Mr. CANNING, dated
Fife-house, May 24, 1812.
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MY DEAR CANNING,
I have this moment received your answer to my
letter of last night.
As that letter was not written without all due
consideration, I do not feel that it'can be neces
sary for me to call my Colleagues again together
upon the subject of it,
I can dris-ffer, however, for myself, (and I aril
confident equally for them), that am not actu-
ated, in declining the proposal made to us, by any
objection of a nature purely personal. But when
I advert to the opinions and statements recently
sent forth to the world respecting public men with
whom I have been connected, and public meEt.
sures in which I have been engaged, I do not feel
that I should have acted consistently with my own
honour and character, or with the respect which
I must ever owe, and shall'•ever feel, to my de-
parted friend, if under such circumstances, I could
have consented to have entertained the proposal.
which you were authorised to submit to inc.
As these considerations afforded an insuperably
obstacle to my becoming a party to the proposed
arrangements, I thought it wholly unnecessaryto
enter into any explanation on the two principles
on which the Administration is stated as intended
to be formed, or on other points of the greatest
public importance, and I must protest against any
inference whatever being drawn from my silence
in this respect.
I can assure you that I am tnost.willing to ren-
der you every. degree of justice for the motives
which have dictated your answer to my letter.
And I remain, with sincere regard, &c. .
<Signed) LIVERPOOL.

No. F2.—Letter of Lord GREY to Lord WELLEsi.2.Y, dated
Portman}-square, May. 27, 1812.

Mt LORD,

I have the honour of returning the papers which
your Lordship was so good as to put into my
hands this morning. ,
I observe a material difference between the
terms in which the two principles, proposed as
the basis of. a new Administration, are stated in
Mr. Canning's minute, and in that sent to Lord
Grenville and me by your Lordship. I think it
necessary, to call your Lordship's attention to this
circumstance, because if these discussions should
proceed farther, it 'may become of the utrimst
importance.

lam witl the highest regard, -
My Lord,
Your Lordship's very faithful
Humble servant,
GRUY

(Signed)
The Marquis Wellesley.

No. la—Letter of Lord, WELLESLEIr to Lord Getty, dated
Apsley-lionce, May QS, 1812.

My LORD,

I !should have returned an. earlier acknowledge=
nient of the honour of your Lordship's letter of
yesterday, had I not thought necessary to see
Mr:Canning beforei troubled your, Lordship With
any answer to your obsetwations on our,'respective
minutes.

,Uaving carefully examined those papers, and
compared them with our view of the points to
Which they refer, we have drawn the inclosed
paper for your Lordship's information, and have
authenticated it by our respective signatures.
I have the honour to be, •
With the greatest respect,
My Lord,
Your Lordship's faithful humble servant,
(Signed) WELLESLEY.

The Earl Grey.

No. 14.—Paper signed by Lord WELLESLEY and Mr. CAN-
NING.

The variance in point of phrase in the two pro-
' positions as stated by Lord Wellesley and Mr.
Canning in their minutes of conference arises
from this circumstance, that Lord Wellesley
Mr. Canning went to their respective conferences
without having thought it ne:.3essary previously tcl
reduce into a written force the conantunicationg

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4.—Letter from Lord Lit-n*l,ooi to Mr. CANNIN ), dated
Fife-hone., May 28ti, IS-12.

Mr DEAR CAS:ICING,
I have communicated to my Colleagues‘the me-
Morandum which I received from you this after-
noon.

They do not think it necessary to enter. into any
disCussion of the principles stated in that mcznc:“.
randum ; because they all feel themselves bound,
particularly after what has 'recentl.y pssed, to de-
cline the proposal of becoming Mcmhers of
an Administration to be formed by Lord Wel-
lesley. Believe me to be, with sincere personal
regard, • •

No. 6.—Letter from Mr. CANNING to Lord Lzvtitroot., dated.
Gloucester Lodge, May 24, 1812 ; half-past 8 A.M.
MY DEAR LIVERPOOL,
I have received your letter of last night; which
I will inunediately tra,tAnit to Lord Wellesley.
Before I do so, however, and of course, there-
fore, without Lord Wellesley's consent or privity;
. I cannot forbear suggesting to you to consider,
whether the sort of personal objection which your
letter 'evidently and exclusively implies, Will stand
fairly before the country, at such a mornezt, as a'
justification for refusing to act ib an Adrhinistra.,
tion, to the public principles of which you do not
feel, or at least do not. state„ any insurmountable
repugnance. •
I would suggeSt to you further to consider, wile-
tiler, resting your refusal On an objection merely
personal, you do quite justly either by yourselves
or by the individual concerned, in leaving the
precise nature of that objection wholly unex-
plained.
In offering these suggestions, I perhaps exceed
the limits of a correspondence shell as ours, is;
upon this occasion ; but they strike me Ad torsi.
bly, that I think I owe it to you, not to withhold
them.• Whether to Communicate them to yowl
colleagues or not, I leave entirely to your discre7
tion 3- but you; at least, will not resent; so far
as you are yourself concerned; A freedom which
may be justified by that regard with which I
ever, &c.