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they wee tU make; being in full-posgession
-of eßch other's sentiments upon the ,subject of
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M;Illite1-Cre written by theni as con-
ta'ui,ng the sul:st-tnee of.their respective commu-
Lie!-tions ; Arf. .can in Lord Liver-
Tuqsence ; that -of Lord Wellesley imme-
diniely after hi return from Lord Grey.
ne,re does not appear. to Lord Wellesky and
.31r. Cc:l-mint!: to be any su'Lmtantial ariance in the

, • PropOSItIOU. - •
Tl-I'2 word " early"' in Mr. Canning's minute
, might be exchanged for the word '' immediate,"
tif;e.d. by 'Lord Wellesley, without in any degree
altering 'the-sense : as, with a' motion actually
ykk-ndi»g in the House of •CoinntonS, which, (but
for the events that have recently, tali,en place)
xv-ould have coma on this very day, the object of
whichw.as to compel the Executive Government
to tatiL.e,the:subject of the Catholic quetion into
Consideration, it cannot be necessary to say that
Mr. Canning has no vri4. to 'defer that considera-
ti.n. On the other hand, consideration by the
Execrative Cx,,lvernment ;1 the object which it i§
'Lord WellesleY's intention to recommend ; nor
does be Conceive any f4ither Parliamentary pro-
ceeding to be necessary or practicable this Session
than such a,s might be 'sufficient to .insure, either
by compulsion upon a hostile administration, or
.by pledge from a friendly one, the consideration
- of the questiwn during the recess with a view
to' its being brought before Parliament by the re-
:corn' niencla9..on of the Crown, early in. the en-

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suing SessiOn.
A Committee to inquire into the state of the
laws has bees7ft already negatived in. both Houses
this Sessior..
A " conciliatory adjustment" of the claims of
the Irish Catholics is the object which Lord Wel-
lesley mid Mr. Canning have ekivally at heart :
and it enters equally into both their views that to
lie " conciliatory" that - adjustment must be .so
• framed as to embrace the interests and opinions
,of the English CathOlics,—also to obtain the en-
liencened and deliberate con.sent of the Protest--
al-as of both countries. They,would think any
aAiustnieni,very imperfect which, instead of ex-
tingii=.shing, discontent, only transferred' it from
the cathOlic to the Protestant.
Bat they concur in entertaining a confident be-
lief,.th-,it the. great purpose of, sdturing the peace
..of the Empire may .be best answered, not by giv-
, ing,a.triumph to any one party; but, by reconcil-
ing all.
in the substance of the second proposition,
there is no-variance as to any practical and pro-
spective purpose, though undoubtedly there is,
and it is natural there should, be, some as to the
past, arising from the difference of Mr. Cauning's
and Lord Wellesley's respective situations.
When. Mr. Canning says, that the Peninsular
-war is. to be -carried' on `‘ with the-best means of
the (ountry," he
.inte,hds the. greatest scale of ex-
ertion which the
_Means of the country may be
found capable.of sustaining. •
• if Lord Wellesley's expression, " a scale of
adequate vigour," may be construed to imply the
proposition, that the late exertions of this coun-
try have nOt been proportionate to the great object
of. the war, or have not been duly distributed or
apportioned, this proposition- Mr. Canning cer-
. tmitily does not intend either to affirm; or to deny;
because, not having been in the Govern-
nieni during the last two Years, he has not suffi-
ci, information- to be able to pronounce an
opinion, whether the exertions of those two
years have or have not been below the. proper
scale, or have been well or ill administered ; nor
bow far they may now admit of being extended
or more judiciously, applied.
He tc4eur.-4,.however, entirely with Lord Wel-
lesley, in to extend them to the utmost
power of the country, and to apply them in the
manner best calculated•to answer their end. . •
"(Signed). • :WELLESLEY. =
GEORGE CANNING.

I;3.—Letter from Lord Grey to Lord Wellesley, dated
• I'ortman-square, May 29,1812.