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LONDON,

WEIDtiESDA.Y, ,mAx.27, 1812:

Our Readers will sge, by_ a reference to the
proceedings in Parliament yesterday, that some
questions were proposed by Mr. WHITBREAD re-
specting the arrangements for a new Administra-
tion, and that Lord CASTLEREAGH declared that
the situation of the present 'Ministers was pre-
cisely what it was last Friday, and that nothing
definitive had been settled. Tb.is morning has •not
produced anything new upon the subject to enable
us to -speak with greater certainty upon it than
we have hitherto done. But though we cannot
tell our Readers with precision what is likely to
be the result of this important /Negotiation, we
can enable them to form their own opinions upon
the subject, by telling them very accurately what
has passed. The Marquis WELLESLEY, after re-
ceiving the -Pnltzcz's commands, applied, as we
before stated, to the several Noblemen and Gen-
tlemen who are supposed to be at the head of
the Opposition, and also to Lord LIVERPOOL
and his colleagues. The propositions submit-
ted by the Marquis WELLLESLEY
.to them were
as follow :

Ist. An early and dispassionate consideration of
the Catholic Claims, with a view to their amicable
and final adjustment.

2d. A vigorous and more extended prosecution
of the war in the Peninsula.

T'ne answers returned were as follow :

LORDS GREY AND GRENVILLE.

Their joint Letter begins by declaring their rea-
diness to sacrifice all personal feelings in order to
give effect to the Vote of the House of Commons
in the present alarming crisis of public affairs.—
They also express their deep acknowledgments to
Lord WELLESLEY for his powerful exertions in
support of the Catholic claims ; and they state
their perfect concurrence in the first principle
proposed by Lord WELLESLEY on the subject.
With respect to the war in the Peninsula, they
declare that no persons can feel more deeply than
they do for its successful termination ;—that as to
its management, it were difficult for any person not
in office to offer a decided opinion upon such a
point, without a full consideration of its details and
circumstances, which can only be known to the
Ileinbers of the Government, but that they are
perfectly ready to enter into a full and fair discus-
,sion of that very important question. At the same
time they think it but fair to declare that they en-
tertain great doubts, whether, in the present dis-
tressed state of the country, it will be found' prac-
ticable to increase the public burdens.
Lords HOLLAND and LANSDOWNE concur gene-
rally in the same opinion ;. but more particularly
in that part which refers to the powerful exer-
tionsof Lord WELLESLEY in vindication of the
Catholic claims.

Lords MoIRA and ERSKINE, Messrs. SHERIDAN'
and WELLESLEY POLE entirely concur with Lard
WELLESLEY, without exception.

ANSWER OF LORD LIVERPOOL AND HIS
COLLEAGUES.

They observe, that it is unnecessary to discuss
the principles proposed by Lord WELLESLEY as the
basis of a new Administration, because he (Lord
DVERPOOL) and his Colleagues desire to decline
being Members of any Administration which might
be formed. by, Lord 'WELLESLEY.

Lord MELVILLE' assented to the principles, and
is v., iiiing to serve with, but not under Lord WEL-

LEl' 11Y.

From the above statement it appears, -as we
before mentioned, that some obstacles do exist to
the fofination of an Administration that would
meet with the unanimous approbation of the
country, yet they do not appear to us to be of an
insurmountable natnrc,. and we still indulge the
hope that a Ministry will be formed including the
Marquis W'ELLESLEY and Mr: CANNING, the
leading Members of the present Cabinet, and Lord
MOIRA and Mr. SHERIDAN. In the present ar-
duous situation of the country, both with
a view to its foreign _and domestic policy, we
trust that the Noblemen, and Gentlemen to
-(virom we ,have alluded, will feel the necessity
of exerting themselves cordially in compliance
with the wishes of the Regent and the Country,
form an united and a vigorous Administration.
Lord MoiaA lard an .interview with the PRINCE
REGENT yesterday. In this situation this . most
ininortant business at present stands; we do not
think it necessary to detail to our Readers all the
idlerumours which are in circulation, because-we.
kilow that they are founded more ,upon the wishes
and hopes of those-by whoni iheyi are propagated
than upon any authentic information. The mo-
ment any definitive arrangement is concluded;
we shall communicate it to the public.

SiCOND EDITION,

SUN-OFFICE.

HALF PAST TWO O'CLOCK.

As it seems now tb be admitted in the best in-
formed political circles, that the hope of forming
new Administration under the Marquis WEL-
LESLEY is no longer entertained, the general idea
in the same quartets at present is, that it is not
unlikely that both Lord WELLESLEY and Lord
LIVERIgOOL are disposed to make some abate-
ment of their respective expectations, in order
to put a period to the unpleasant state of the
Nation at this moment, and that they will agree to
act under Lord MoIRA,as Premier, with the admis-
sion of Mr. CANNING and Mr. HUSRISSON. Lord
MELVILLE, we are assured, interposes his ami-
cable offices, 'in order tokffect an immediate and
satisfactory arrangement between the Marquis and
the present IVlinisters, and for that purpose had
yesterday an interview with Mr. CANNING. The
latter suggested certain questions to his Lordship,
the answers to which would decide his own con-
duct. Lord MEl.vri.r.e is said to have observed,
that though it was in his power Co answer those
questions at once, yet he deemed it proper to sub-
mit them to the consideration of the Cabinet. In
consequence a Council was held last night, and
Mr. CANNING isvas 'to be informed of the result.
(which we understood to be of a favourable na-
tuie) this day.
We think we can confidently assert that Lord
MOIRA -5* 'y concurs in the principles and
wishes of the PRINCE 'REGENT, and therefore we
hope that he will readily co-operate with the pre-
sent Ministers.,

Mr. WHITBREAD, we understand, convened a
number of h'is political friends, yesterday, far the
purpose of considering v►•hether a motion should
be made in Parliament to exclude the present Mi-
nisters for ever from his Councils ! Such a mea-
sure was, however, deemed too violent, and par-
,
ticularly inconsistent, on account of the over-
tures which had been made to them by. Marquis
WELLESLEY and Mr. CANNING, and, because the
two latter would of course vote against so very
intemperate a proposition, and therefore the op-
position would be left in a minority. It is add-
ed, that no interview has taken place between-the
PRINCE REGENT and Marquis WELLESLEY since
Monday last.

Monday evening the Cabinet Ministers had a
general meeting athe Earl of Liverpool's house at
Whitehall, and sat till a late hour.
Yesterday, about 11 o'clock, the Duke of York
had an audience of the Prince Regent, previous
to his setting off for Ascot Heath races.
Yesterday Lords EldQn, Liverpool, and Moira,
attended at Carlton-house ; the two former about
half-past twelve o'clock, and the latter about five
On Saturday his Royal Highness the Duke of
Kent, gave a splendid dinner at Kensington
Palace, to a number of the Vice-Presidents, Me-
dical Officers, and Friends of the Eastern Dispen-
sary, of which his Royal' HighneSs is a most zeal-
ous patron; The company were all highly gratifi=
ed with the affable manners and polite attentions
of their Royal Host.
The Order of the Bath is to be extended to
fifty, including the Sovereign and the Grand
Masten—Twenty-three are to be installed next
Monday, at Westminster Abbey, which. is the
largest number that ever took place at one time,
which will render. the sight the grandest that ever
was seen of the kind,-

Lord Viscount COMPTON' was: yesterday elected
Member for Northampton, in the room of the late
Right Hon. SPENCit 13CEVAL, 'without op-
position.
Yesterday the Boardof Agriculture unanimously
adopted a Petition to both Houses of. Parliament,
prepared by the Right Honourable Sir John Sin-
clair., Bart. their PreSident, praying that a Bill
for a General Inclosure of Waste Lands, through-
out England, might pass into a Law, as the best.
means of increasing the quantity of bread-corn.
HUDDERSFIELD, MAY. 22.—The arms-stealing
system still prevails in this neighbourhood ; there
have been several stand stolen by the • Luddites
this last week, from persons who had .perempto-
rily refused to deliver them up to Major Gordon„
Two men (one in a' very shabby dresS),-Were ap-
prehended in this town, on Wednesday last, :on
suspicion of putting off forged- Bank-notes. On
their examination it turned out one had been en-
gineer in Mr. Burton's factory in Lancashire, and.
had given information against some of; the ner-.
sons concerned in 'setting fire to Mr.. Burton's
house ; and the other haci. prevailed 6n him to
leave that country, in order that he might not ap-
pear in evidence against.them,on their approach-
ing trials at Lancaster : they had in their pockets
about ten pounds each, in Bank of England note s,
and had been going. from shop to -shop in this
town, purchasing wearing apparel, offering notes
in payment at each shop, and requiring change,
which excited suspicion. They were
,es.corted by
a troop of the Queen's Bays to the Public-Office,
Manchester, yesterday. The man who had been
prevailed upon to leave the county of Lancaster,
appeared very much agitated, and said, he had
been threatened by the Luddites with utter 'de-
struction if he appeared in evidence against the
rioters, and that they would likewise murder his
father and mother

Daniel Isaac Eaton stood in the pillory yester-
day in pursuance of his sentence by the Court of
King's Bench, for publishing the Third part-of
Paine's Age of Reason. A hand-bill, describing
him to be a sufferer, for the,Liberty 'of the Press,
was circulated among the 'crowd, who cheered
him during his punishment.