The Sun.
London, England, 1812-06-13 00:00:00

MY LORD,
I had last-night the, honour of receiving your
Lordship's letter, inaosing a paper explanatory
of the difference which I had remarked between'
yourLOasnip's minute and Mr. Canning's, toge-
ther with 'a4opy of the latter.
I beg your, Lordship ,to he assured that in the
oliServAtion to which I had.tlibught it. necessary to
call ,your Ldrdship's attention, I could have ne
object but that of preventing the possibility of
any future misunderstanding. We had riot enter-
ed into any explanation, which, under the circum- ,
stances Of the moment, would perhaps have been
yretnature, of the details of conduct'necessary to.
to-give effect to the first of the propositions offer-
v(i by your Lordship as,the.basis of a new Admi-
niqratiorr. FrOm the differenee,of the terms used
by Mr. Canning in stating that proposition, 1 was
upprehensive thatit might he his opinion, in con-
CtitreliCe with. your Lordship's, that no • Parlia-.
mentary proceedings, with reference to the claims:
of the Catholics, should take place during the
pre,ent ,Tirsuch an opinion I could not
Lace assented ; and I felt it to be due both to your
Lordship and. Mr. Canning, 'immediately to, draw
your attention to a point on which it was so de-
sirable that there-should be a. clear understanding'
between us.
I hope it is unnecessary -for me to state; that 1
can look at.the situations 'of the Catholics '(both
Irish and English) with nn other view than that
of the public interest; and that nothing cair..be
f irther-from my disposition, or my intention, in a
matter •of sayh pre-eniinent importance, than to
give o:,e F-Ji-y a triumph at the exp(mce.of
,another. ~tut io not conceive, that the repeal of
the disabilitie§ of ivhich the CathOlies complain,
can-. give any just. cause for' discontent to
their Protestant fellow-subjects and. I am
• strongly. -of opinion, that the. efficacy-of that
measure must in a great deg Tee depend on its, b e in
carried into --effect with the least posSible delay,
and with the clearest de'uonstrations of a concili-
a:i.,:ry-and 'Conading spirit. Under this impression
I should very reluctknAy abandon the hope of
pa.3,idg a Bill for such a repeat, even 'during• the
present Session ; but if this:, cannot be done, I

No. 17.--Letter from Lords Grey and tirenvilic to Lord Wei- r
Lesley, CoinelfOrd-gouse, June 3, iblZ.
MY Loßo,
We have considered with the most serious at-
tention the minute which we have had the honour
to receive from your Lordship.; and we have com-
municated it to such of our Friends as we have had
an opportunity of consulting.
On occasion of a, proposal made to us under the
authority of his Royal. Highness the Princeßegent;
we wish to renew, in the most solemn manner,
the declaration of our unfeigned desire to have fa-'
cilitated, as far as was in- our power, the means
'of,giving effect to the.. ate Vote of the. House of
Commons, and of averting, the imminent and MT-
paralleled dangers of the country.' No sense of.
the 'public distress, and difficulty--no per4onal feel-
ings of whatever description, would have pre-
\ vented- us, under such Circumstances, from ac-
cepting; with dutiful submission, any situations
in which we could.bave hoped to serve his Royal
Highness usefully and lumourably 'but it appears
to us, on the most dispassionate .reflection, that
the proposal stated' by your Lordship cannot jus-
tify, any such. expectation. ..
We are invited, not to discuss with your Lord-
;ship, or With any other public men, according to
the,usual practice in such cases, the various: and
important considerations, both of Measures, and of
arrangements, which belong to the formation of
a iltw' Government, in all its branches; but to
recommend to his Royal Highness' a nurnber limit-
edby previous stipulation,'of persons, willing to
be included in a Cabinet;of which the outlines' are
already definitively arranged,.
To this proposal we . could not accede without
the sacrifice-of the very object which the House of
CommonS has recommended—the forination of a
strong and efficient Government. •
We enter not into the examination of the rein-
• tive proportions, or of the particular arrange-
onents, which it has, been judged necessary thus
previously_to establish. It is to the principle of

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