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London, England, 1812-05-21 00:00:00

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SOLEM QUIS ULCER/ FALSUNI ALIDLAT?

UIVDOI,

THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1812.

We this day lay before our Readers.a statement
which has been published of ►he conversations

that took place, and letters which passed, during
the late negotiation for the introduttion of the Mar-
quis WELLESLEY and Mr. CANNING into the Ad-
ministration. This statement, we have no doubt,
will be perused with considerable interest; but we
cannot avoid expressing the greatest regret that this
disclosure has been made, because we are convinced
.that such appeals lo the public are calculated to pro-
duce the most s:•tious consequences. It must always
happen that there will be some shades of difference
of opinion upon extensive and complicated systems,
even among those who agree most cordially upon
general principles ; but though the public curiosity
may be gratified by knowing exactly what those
sliadts of difference are, the public interest must be
materi4y injured by the publication of the opinions,
the intentions, and plans, both with regard to fo-
reign, and domestic policy, either of men in office,
or of those who may aspire to a share in the
Councils of the Country. Suppose, for instance,
that a 'difference should arise in the Cabinet,
or bAween the Cabinet and some persons who
might be invited- to join the Administration,
upon an offer from the enemy to negotiate; that
in the opinion of some it would be expedient,

and even necessary, to -make•certain concessions to
the enemy, while, in the opinion of others, those
concessions were neither necessary nor expedient,—
can any thipg be conceived wore injurious to this
countr), or more adt antgeous to the enemy, than to
be put in possession of the exact views and intentions
of those who formed, as well as of those who were
likely to form the Administration of Great Britain---to
t•_11 him before hand what points would be conceded
and what refu,,ed—to inform him what demands
he might urge with a certainty of success, and what
he trust abmdon as hoeeless ? It may be said that
• we are putting an extravagant case ; but would not
the same principle upon which the present disclo-
sure is to be defended, justify one in the case which
we have imagined,? Does not the publication to which
e are no c rclerring contain information of which
must be highly advantageous to BUONAPARTE to be
in possessioo ? Is it not most important to him to be,
as it were informed of the views of the Bri-
tish Government with regard to the war in the Pen-
insuia,—to know exattly, whetliet our effoirts in
that quarter are to be continued, or whether our
operiitions ate to be carried on upon a more or less
ex ienjed scale ? Is it of no advantage to him, just
cu the point of commencing a war in the North
of ill'urope, to know with precision the degree of
pressure which he will have to resist in the South
It would be easy to amplify upon this subject, but
the iticutive:.ieoce, as well as the danger of these
disclosures, are too obvious to require
,further com-
ment; and we trust that we shall never again, from
a similar cause, be called upon to advert to the
bjetl.

A new. Wr;t was moved last night, in the House
of Commons, in consequence of the appointment of
Mr-. VANSITT.ART to be Chancellor of We Exche-
quer. Lord BATHURST succeeds to the War De-

pan went.

Yesterday the LORD CHANCELLOR, the Earl of
I..ivEtiPooL, and LUICICASTLEREAGII, bad audiences
ui the I.ItoENT at Calltoll House.
The A:-Cd6istiop of CANTERBURY gave an ele-
gant chnoer ytstelday, JO Sir tiBORGE and Lady
BORNE, alit; a large party •ot his relatives, irr
-houour vt N ece's marriage, at the Palace L3III-

Beth. •
1,01,d EARDLEY gave an elegant entertainment
yesterday; to, his Highness the Duke of Gweens-
TErt acid a large party of Noblemen, at his house in
Lower'Grosvenor-street.
By the New York Gazette, of the nth of
we learn, that no less than 46 ships, 24 brigs, 47
schooners, and 23 sloops, had, on the rumoured
embargo, taken in' their lading, and sailed in the
gregest. hurry ; These, with theseveral inward-bound
vessels, which had been inieecepted by the owners,
and ordered elf, made at least 140 sail trona that
/port alone.
We regret to state, that letters received yester-
day trout Nottingham communicate, that on Satur-
day night last a Mr. Gaunt, of Huckuel, a gentle.
tuan.wito had been particularly active in discovering
the Luddites, was shot in his own 'neighbouihood.
It is not ceitain whether 'Ole wound he received
*ould prove fatal of ant.

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