The Sun.
London, England, 1803-12-07 00:00:00

LETTER. TO THE

SIR,

A correspondence has taken place between Mr. Addington
atuttinyself, • on a. subjeet.whicbdee;.ly involves my Honour
and Charaelcr. The answers which I have received from
that Gentleman, the communication which he has moat to
the House of Commons, leave rrie no hope but in an appeal
to the justice of your Majesty. I make that appeal with
confidence, because I feel that you am my natural advocate,
and with the sanguine hope that the ears of an atkaienate
Father may still be opened to the supplii:Atious'nf a dutilwl
Son.

I ask to be allowed to display the ,best energies of my
charadee; to shed the last drop Of "my blOnd in support oft
Your 'Majesty's, Person, -Crown, and Dignity ; tOr this is,
not a war cat empire,. glory, or, dominion, but for existence.
In this contest„the lowest and humblest of Your Majesty's
Subjects have been called on ; it would therefore little be.
come me, who alto theft:fiend who stand at the very footstool
of the Throne, to remain a tame, an idle, and lifeless spectator
of the mischiefs which threaten us, unconscious of the dangers
which surround us, and indifferent to theconseouencex Which
may fellow. Hanover is lost—England menaced with I nVA.,
slim—lreland is in Rebellion Europe is at the foot of France.
M such a moment the Pritice of Wales, yielding to none of
your Servants in iCia and devotion—to none of your Subjetts
in duty-I-loom of your Children In
~. tenderness and Olio-
tick% -presumes to approach you, and 'again tb repeat ?those;
.. ttt rhwlllch.-Ite already made through your Majesty's Mini..
feeling of honest ambition ; a sense of what I owe:
to'Apyself and to ray fainily ; and, above-all, the fear oil
,sinking In the estimation of thilt gallailt,Artny which may be
the support of Your Majesty's Crown, and my best hope here.
after,, Command sue th persivere, and assure your Majesty,
with all humility and respett, that consciops of the justice,
of my claim, no human power cau ever indUce me to rclin.
quish it.

.Allowyns to say, Sir, that I am bound to adopt this line of:
condud by every motive dear to me as a man, and sacred to
me as a Prince. Ought I not to come forward in a.mornent 1.
of unexampled difficulty and danger ? Ought I pot to share
in the gliaty of vidory, when t have every thing to lose
by defeat ? The highest places in your Majesty's Service.
rc lilted by the younger branches of thd Royal amity ;
to inc ;110110 -no place is assigned.. I- am not thought
worthy to he the-Junior Major-qtneral of your Army. U I
cotthiiiuhatit in silences to suckindignitles; 1 whou a indeed.
dubeive such 'treatment, and prove to the satisfadion of your `,
Enemies,' and city ovvii, that I am entirely incapable OH
those exorliens, which my birth and the circumstances of
the times peculiarly call for. Standing so near the Throte,
whet) I am debased, the cause of Royalty i; wounded; I can-
not sink in public opinion, without the participa ion of Your
Majesty in my degradation. 'Chereforc, every motive of pri.
vats feeling, and Of public duty, .induce rag to implore Your 1
Majesty, to review your decision, and. to.. place me in that
situation', which My birth, the duties of my station, the
example of my predecessors, and the expedatious of the
People of Ertgltud, eptitle mote claim.
Shotild I be dis;ppointed in cite hope which i< have form•
rxl, elioold this last appeal to the justice of my Sovereign,
-;antinhe alfedion rainy rather, fail of success, I shall lament
iii adeiß submiSsien #his determination, but Europe, the
Worlde+ithri posterity, must judge between us.
littaillatione my duty ; my conscience acquits me ; my
reason oils 'me bat I was pettedly justified in the request
I have made, because no reasonable arguments have
;ever been adduced in answer to nlYvloarerteir:u sit ionite;heiTtcyepe cot,'rec
dents in our History are in myt.au.
thr tinge:, iii which we live, and especially the exigencies of
into present moment, require us to Oman* an'examplo to our
Posterity.

No, culler caute of rerusal has Or Call be assigued,, except
that it was the wilt of Your lklajesty . To that will and
pliasure I bOW With tvery &green!' inunii,ty and ri.signiitic,ni

but 1 caa neve: cease to complain of tb& severity which
been exercised against m; and of the injdstice which I hoe
suffered, till I cease to exist. I have the Honour to subsoollhe
myself, with all possible devotion,

Xour Majesty's most ,dutiful and ainetionam
Son and S übjed, •
(Signed) G, P.

Brig/4qt, Arg.6.,

_
FRQIVI Tltt KING.
MY DEAR SA 0 41‹, "Windsor, Agiat, 1851'.
Though 1 iiiplawityour zeal and your spirit, of 'which,
trust, no onecait suipose any of my Family wanting; yet
considering the repeated declaratiOns f have made of df•
terinlnation on your former, applications to the same purpogo
I had flattered myself to have heard no farther on the sublet.
Should tho implacable Enemy so far succeed as to land, ymi
will have an opportunity of skewing your teal at the /tend
of yOur Regiment. It will be the duty of every, man to
stand forward on such an occasion; and 1 shall certaiPlY
think it mine to set an example in defance of every thing that"
s dtatto Inc and to my People.
- I ever remain, my dear Son, '
Your most affectionate rather,
(Sigced) C. IC

FROM THE PRll'4'Cli TO THE. KINO•
SIR, Prigoirov, sad ring. ttlej.
I have delayed thus long an answer to the letter which
Your Majesty did me the honour to write, from a wish to
refer to a, former Correspondence which tack place betero
us in the year 1798. Those letterswere mislaid, 310 some
days eliapsed before I coulddliover them ; they have stare
been found. Allow me then, Sir, to renal to your recollec-
tion the eapresiions you were graeiottsTy phrased to use, ar,a
which I once before took the liberty of resnindini: Ycu O.
alien- I _solicited , foreign service, upon- my "frst "firdP4
into 0014eth:19t:rhiy. • They sve;e, Sir, that Yon: :`,l:iestY 414
not then seethe opportunity for it ; but' that- if any thir'S
WAS 'to arise at honV,: I. ought to be "first and forernott."
I' twroc3anot be a strOnger expression its the English langvaget,
consonant to the feelings which anialatte 111.Y.lie:irr.
In this I agree most perfctly With Your Majesty-7." brq,,,,bt
to be /frit and !draws/, lt is the place vyhtch my blith assigns,
me—whicls Europe—which the English,Nation expea me to
fill—andwhieh the fortnet assurances of Your Majgty Might
naturally haveled meta hope I should occupy: After such
a dt‘4l
ular.rijesttir4fisu:iid IniEdlY
eipeei to be told that Mi Pbcc
was at thelo,4#YAKetinen t;r Ii r.igo'oll6. , • ,
4 fliditt lotir".iiialesty, that it is your lOW'
- htpdpiliyvilee'nt'e Sexyi:ro:Birlioornsschollte)::6l:an:irlitCl6:iei;:it:idtlllll'b!i^ft'4'':tbih:ertilgec' e;ooefp"ler:'°Iefti'llr'eFfist"c1:111611:111::::
the Dike or Yotk, conunands the ArinY ;
the young! brarwhes of my Family arc ;either 6"*"14
dr Lieutenant•Genefaisi and I; ~,,,, he ant the plinet et Ai .S'',
ant to remain a Colonel Of biagoons. There is adtnettun& °()
humiliating in the contrast, that those- who 5N at 4 ditr,:lt
twvh 01.elvii.:1.cAllittoluteiscollyt9hunti,tyd:Unini4bginintlilelettotirtle:tillitiv,y,:01:0SU.:17:::::::013.ec :10!iic'*-1...:1-11
lIIC service. had asked for the rat* of a General Otlicerin
_ . .
itici 4
11:1411
interest
anyel' larl a)etcomstn„ett, i
alt)sot:Oi
roorup:t :city ttrol,:cicii:jelnivYlut:coor(iliurl'h,itgaNlll4v,:iditir;u7ecita'°ll3:.lhYtiottinir:lticog,:rl/Pcl:::lnje:tillytitlsllhteiltl:4;cait'inic,eoti:hty:icbilt•:::t;:ho4l3ll}:ll:ll:l4.l:ll:ll4l:tidesrtr vetut:t:islakitt-li
dearer, tar dearer', to tue than life. 1 sin called upon by tho,t
I receive that aatisfaetWa Which the justice of my ;WO,
leads rot to ex/ ea . .
I' •I these .' ' ,
Lr, " unhappy times, the world, Sjr, examillet tit°.
cDndutl of Primes with a jealous., a aCturztiaill, a Ittaiil4flatti,
CYO.. No snarl is more aware than /am of the Cltistellf:C 0!
such a disposition, and no inall'is thatOfarit Mot@ sietennined
to place himself above all, uspicion,
ii,„ 1° desiring to be placed a forward situation, I ItaYe er
'4'4lllr cti °tle duty to the People: of England ; I ;twat per
a
perform 'Anther, and humbly supplicate your
.14 oj:stY t
aisigh those reasons which have inductii you to refuse.a f_4.:
' quc6i which appears to 1114 and to the world so reatePaor
and so rational. , rt•
Ll"Hutt. , 1 "I again repeat my' cOttirit that I ant obligta ""°,,,
tinue a Cur respondosb whith I ii.eir Is not so grateful En ),...
Majesty I could iirsiL- -1 havtiiainined my own b! if
or
,attt of tic« pistiee or inY cao'c'f tile I)" rivilietc
4nY ""tives•Res-ii;d'HonouittOid me to yield ;1131
no-reason is alitilKed I.• ant justified in the conclusion
none can be given. h " 4
Int 414 desalts tap shish of the feelings vatic- hi
rated and ticluteicd my woutulfd mind, I hope ll° eit,P1:111101:
has escaped inc which can be construed td 0011 the z
; any
disreepeel to Your Majesty. I most soleMnlY dila" • itla
h tattt,'"l
such ieteotiotrii but the circumstances of t"' '1,040,11
danger of Invasion—the appeal which has ben rn, to mieri
your Subjeds, oblige met to, recollcet 'what I Q*lo, to
yolic
own Honour anti ttltnt own I.:bander, and to
term
with 'it
Majesty,. with pleinnets, truth, anti cia4or,
2 tyit6tiopate
the submission of 'a Sajea, and tha.dOty of lin' hl,Ol it ii in
Son, the injuties. under which I labour, ~na I" - igjrai•
the. power of Your hlajesty alone at eneinornent t° '• _ oil
It is with seutirrtents of the 'protesindiSt venerstilP
resPett, thifl have tholionour to subscribe mystify
. .. .
• Your hiajesty's rnost dutiful,
Mott obechent
,S au aild Sub,ica, ~,,
. , oivic4l) 6' r.

MY DgAR Bit"Tßltit, . .Brigiva, Ile:
By the last atighes Gazette, which I hays this moment re
I;ei/ed. I pereeoe that all ClaellliVe Promotion has' to re
place in the Atiny, wtterein my pretensions .iit: not noticed,
a circumstance Which, whatever mai have hapixfod Pis°
Other occasions, it is impossible for MC N pass by, at this tria'
mentous crisis, without observation. •
M). 4 t"Ulding in the Army, according-to the roost Ordidg)
TOUtiLIC Of ptOitiOtiCll, had it been followed up, would bs,l
Played Stae either at the bottom of the Ilsi of Generll4, Qrh,ll
the head of the list of Lieutcoant.Genctals, IVII6/ I-,
Y branches of my leartity are promoted to the Dig44l;
military situitions, my ilttit, ascot to the disTinilk4ll
usually conferred OA itAWOUId 114640 Atitl me first on to
li*l. 11': • _...ithl
1 hope you know me too well, toltiagine that Idle or-
*vmor
rank is in my vices ; 111401 less is thaw irealon and a..-
Of the Military department an objeet hie suits ivy Oil'
tip
the State, or my inclinations ; but, in a ,nwillent at tsi
danger of the Country is thought by Goveriimeat setulr ^,..d
,- I cannot IP'
mean forth the energy of every aim in its defence, - ,i 0
feel myself degraded, bath a$ a 'Prince and 4 SiMirls 11%
tail
rot allowed to take a fetWalli Ana LitatilKilisll ii ;Ail I's; ,i,
44:10 of th4t Empire rutCCiown, of the glory, 101)`

t

C

iltta evttt oxistence of iiiir reopte, iu a)) v%llA.ll.rniiic Is the

greatest stair. •
To be told I-mardisplay this zeal solely and simply at the
head of my Regiment, is a
.d trading Avekety:
If that be the only situation allotted me, Ishali ecrtainlY.
do my doty, as others will, but the conilderaiions to which
I have already alluded, entitle me to eakei, and bind me in.
every way to require, a situation
,more. 'correspondent to the
dignity of my own charatter and to the public eapeetaticu.
,fit is for, the sake of tendering My services in a h;ay tl-(re
formal and official than I have before pursued, that I address
this to you, fay dear Brother, as the Conintatler in Chief, by
wbo6e COMA* the Constitution presumes that.the Military
Department-is administered. •
If these who have. the honour to advise His Majesty on
this occasion, shall deem my pretensions, among those of all
the Royal Family, to be the only ones fit to be rejetle4.l and
difdained, I may at least hope, as a debt of
..instice and ho-
'our, to have it explained, that ain laid by in virtue of that
judgment, and not in consequence of any omission bi want of
energy on Illy Vail. &c. dcc. Are.
(Signed) P. W.
ilia Royal llighttets the Duke of York,

Herie.Gmardr, oa. 6, I 8.3-
USARtS?
Nothing but an extraordinary► press of businestyvould have
prevented me from acknowledging sooner your letter of tl►e
24 but, whidh I received while at °Atlantis on Monday even- 1,
kW.

I trust that you are too well acquainted with MY alicaio•ti
fit posh which has existed. since our most tender, years, ,not
to be 'assured of the satisfaEtion I. eVer have felt; and ever .
must feel, in forwarding when in my power, evcrydeslre or
objeCt of your:3 and therefore will believe how much I re-
gret the impossibility there is, upon the present occasion, of
my executing yOur Avishei of laying the representation con-
tained in your letter before His Matesty.
Suffer me, my dearest .Brother, as the only answer that I
can properly give you. to recal to your memory what passed
upon the same sulijc4 soqn alter His Majesty was graciously
pleased to place me at the head of the Army; and I have no
doubt that..,with your usual candour, you will yOurself ace
the absolute necessity of my declining it
In the year x/oc, upon' a general prototion t place,
St.your instance I"dt:livered a 'letter from you' to His Majesty,
urging your pretensions to promotion in the Army ; to which
His Majesty was pleased to 'prover, thit hefOre ever Ike had
kppointod you to the commattit of theloth Light Dragoons,
pia had caused it *the fully explained to you what his semi-
ments.ufre with reespeet top P tined of. Wales enterinf into
the Army, and the public grounds upon whiCh he never could
admit of your considering-it as a profession, roof yciur being.
promoted in the *rite, And His Majesty, at the same time;
aided his telitivr totosamd: and ireminitioxs to tot; -never to
Mention this subject again to him,' and to decline being the
bearer of any application of the same nature, should it be pro-
knelt to me ; which message I was of Course under the,ne.
oessity of delivering to you, and have constantly Made it the
itile of my condua ever since, and indeed have ever consi-
feted it as one of the greatest proofs of afliiiien and consi-
eleration towards me, on the part of His Majesty, that he
never allowed me to becerne a party in this holiness.
Having thus stated t0...y0u, fairly and candidly, what has
'Passed, I mutt trust you. will see that there can be tio ground
for the apprehension expressed in the latter, part of your let.
ter, that any slur can attach to your charaeler as an Officer—
Nrtioularly as I rcrollall your mentioning, to me yourself,
on the day on which you received the notification of your ap.,
• pointment to the tech Light Dragoons, the explanation and
coadition attacked reit by His Majesty; and therefore surely
you Must be satisfied that your not. being advanced in mill-
tart' rank, proceeds entirely from His Majesty's sentiments.
respeaing the high rank you hold lr. the State, and not from
ail impression utifavounahleN you
Believer me ever, with the greatest. truth.
Dearest Brother,
Your most at/alienate Brother,

(Signed) FREDERIPK,
61: ROW filgbiltre the Prince of Wales.
MY At AKBitot ant.lt • Brighton 011. 9 /803.
have taken two days to consider, the Contents of your
setter 0.rp0t,4 order to be as accurate as possible in
lilyanswer,lll.o) Must account to you for. its‘being'longer
perhaps ih4ri.l intersied,qsr I could havoWiihed. •
Confide frit.irob lei the peisonal kindness 4nct arceli°3
ttpressed in yjaurtjetker; and am, for that ICASOn, the more
unwilling to trouble you again an a painful subjeit-, in which
yon are riot free to ail, as your inclination I am sum leads
you. But, as it is not at all irip:ohable, that every part of
this transaction may be publicly canvassed hereafter, it is
of the utmost importance to <my Honour, without which I
can have no happiness, that my conduit in It shall be fairly
represented, and correilly. understood.. When I made a ten.
der of my servites to Nis Majesty's Ministers, it was with a
Jun and natural tape/400m, that my offer would have been
;tcePtedt in the way in which alone it could hrts been most
beneficial to my Country, or creditable to myself t or, if that
'Med, that ;Utast (in jisatiesi to ate)the masons for a refusal
would have bnen,distin4ly stated; no that the Natio Si might
too satiided, that nothinglla:t been omitted on itmy pArt, and
enabled to judge of the validity of the reasons assigned lOa
such refusal. In the first Instance, I was referred to ills
Majesty's will and pleasure; and now I am info:mod by your
letter, that • before " He had appointed MS to the command
of the toth Light Dragoons, He had eallSeci It to be fully ex.
'tattled to me, what his sentiments 'mere with rasped .to
Prince of Wales entering into the Army."
It is impossible, my dear Brother, that I should know-
all that passed between the Xing and you ; but I perfeilly
recolk4 the statement you .tirade of the conversation you
had ltskwlth His Majesty, and which, atridly corresponds
with that in your, letter now before me; But, I must, at the
name time, recall to your memory my positive denial at that%
time. Of any condition or stipulation having been made, upon
lily first coming into the Army; and I am in possession of
full aid complete documents, which. prove lhat no terms
whatever were then proposed, at lease to me, whatever might
,bette been the intention; and the comniunications I have
found it necessary sflbsequently to make, have ever disclaim-
ed the existence °fascias:it composmise at -any neilod, as no.
thing Could be mere averse to my nature, or more remote
from my
As to the conversation you quote in 096 (whet% the. King
Was pleased to appoint me to succeed Sir Wm. Pitt). I, have
not the most slight 'recolleilion of its having taken placebo-,
twcon us. My dear brother, if your date is right,,you must:
be Mistaken in yourexatt terms, or, at least, in the cone.
Oen you thew from it; tur, in the intimacy and familiarity,
of ptivate converiation, it is not at all unlikely that I should
have remembered the ethumuniestien you nude me the year

bef .re i but, th.tt I ariuirketd.in, Of refetred*
a compronsc,, will:A I never made, ia.utterly impossible.
Neitber Innis h.lajeziy's:Letter to me, nor in the Corres-.
pendenci wait' .Me. Addington, (Of which .You may not be.'
fully informed) is. there one! word, nor .tite.,inost distant
. allusions to the conditions stated in your Letter.? aixi-evcn if
I had accepted the command of. a Regiment on such terms,:'
Amy acquieskence9.l4l4
,only have relation to the ordinary:
situation of the Country, and Spot te. a care so cOMpletely.out,.
°fall content plation; at that titupos the *bs.ble or: projetied
iivasion oft I lis Kingdom bTitiereigtabree,lullici`ent to bring
,its safetyinto question. .Wlaart•tfic King is pleased to tell
me, " That should the Enemy land, H 4 shalltkink it is duty
to set an example in defence "of the 'tiiintrr.;" that is, to
expose the only life :which;:for the public welfari, ought not'
to be hazarded,: I respeet :and admire the principle which
.diaates that resclu'ionvitird- as my heart glows with the
Same sentiments, I wish acilpartake in the same danger, that
••Is, with dignity and itreitt '7 IV heneVer His Majesty appears
as King, he ads and; tdttimands ; you are• Commander in
Chiefi others of mi;fanifly'lirc -Vigil in military station ; and
even by the last Brevet, a considerable number of lunior
cera are put over me. in. all these arrangements the Prince of
Wales alone, whose interest in the event yiefds to none but
thatrOf the King, litiistegaided, omitted; his services re.
jeEti'it So that, in raft; post or station whatsn't cr,
lit a contest 'on which fate' of the Crown and the King-
' dont may depend "
• ''t do not, my dear Prettier, wonder,that in the hurrynf
'your present occupation, thes'e Cansideratioir should 'kr
been overlooked. They are now in your view, and I think
capnot fall to make a due impression.
As to the rest, with every degree of esteem possible far
your judgment of what is due to a Soldier's Honour, I mug
be tlte guardian of mine to the utmost irl my power, tec, 44C.
G. P.
lii: ; •
Royal r the Duke r/ Yank. _

MY DE A itBROTH !a,' flint Guards, Ohl. r I 003-
I hien this moment, npon my arrival in town, found your
Letter, and lose no time in answering that part of it, which
it app,:ars to la: highly necessary should be clearly wider-
stem&

I tideedmy dear Brother,you must give me leave to repeat to
you, that upon the (ulleiCeetisideration, 1 perfectly recoiled
your having yourself told in; at Lariton-Hoase, in the year
179:;, on the day uu Which yOu Was Wormed of His Alajesty
having; arc uicaceel an your iiittiseal)Of being appotAted to the
ConiidaiitfUf me loth Itegilbeilttotlight I..)ragwps, of which
Sir,, Williatri :Pitt was then eollencl, jbless• age and
'Oorn4ttontwhich:V3S delivered LO' you. front His Majesty
whiali His Majesty, lepeated to me, in the year 1795.
in my Leiter of Thursday last. And .1
Prceriot tullest reason to knew, that there 'are others to
1Y1.4.11t114 tiq you mentioned the. same cireuinstatice;
.flor have t..,11.• least recottedioneit your having denied it to
me, when 1 delivered to ypu the King's Answer, asiiihuuld
certainly have felt it incumbent upon ine to teat *your
.mentdry, what you 'had told. me yourself in the year 1791.

Nu t;yltvrrsativit whatever' pasted between us, is yOUJUsily
remart,.. the mr. t7gs, tvhdrt Sir Wllliant Vitt was pro-
ITlOtea to the King's Dragoon Guard; which was done in
iviwequenee of What was arranged, in r 793, upori your first
apPointizieut to the loth Light' Ttiiiiocins I and I conceive;
that your uentioning iityotir Letr.r, my haVing:stateda con-,
VOrSatiOil to have passed between us in 1798011U:it liiiVe'aritiO4
front mime misapprehension, as I do mu And ii 4e Yeid eva
adverted to in my Letter.

I have thought k due to us both, my dear Brother, thus
fully to reply to thOse parts of your letter in which you Ap.
to have mistaken Mine but, as I am totafLy. utt.ie-
qtainted 'with the Correspondence which has taken
upon tilt* subject, I must &iliac entering any further into It.
1 ieniaiti ever, my dear Brother, with the greatest truth,
• Your inoSt tUiletiohate tot !ter, '
(Signed) T k E U Ir P. I C K..

Ml', PEAR BitoTlipti

Briglitem, Wider iz, ISo3.

.By my replying to your Letter of the 6th instant, which
convalied no sort of answer to mine of the ad, we have fallen
into a very ft'ivulous aikeniation tipott a topic winch is quite
tOreign to the pest purpose. Indeed the whole importance
of it lies in a seeiniageontradiakininthe statement of a fad
which is unpleasant, even uppritht Idlest occaddn.,,,,.
I mean to assert, that no previOus.e'ondition to forego all
rttell44ll3 to ul,itrior rank, under any circumstances, had
ben imposed up,,ii me, or even sub:aired tw.mei in any
shape whatsoem-, on my first comingiiitO the Service, and
with as much COlifttiCllol as can bt tiged in Maintaining a NO.
c, I repe that assertion.
:Wlien first became acrtuaintod with His Majesty's put..
-pas: to
.I,ithheld 'from ma further advancement, it is im.
possible to recoiled, but that it was so early as the year
1793, i do not remember, and it your expressions Were less
positive, 1 ahould add, or believe ; bid I certainly knew
it, 'as you well. know, .in 1795. .and possibly before.—We
were' then engaged in War, therefore could not tidbit of
resigning my Regiment,. if under other circumstances
had been disposed to do so ; but, in truth, my rank in the
Nation trittLit military rank, in ordinary times; a matter'
of little consequence, except to my own private feelings..
This sentiment I conveyed to you in My Letter of the se.
cond,, ssyrng expressly, that mot Idle, N4E014 rank, was in
nOstirt u y object ; but upon the pipspett of an emergency,
'when tie King was to take the geld, and the spirit of every
Briton was roused to exertion, the place which I ocenpy in
the Nation,' Made it indispensable to demand a post'corre.
80i:indent to that Place, and to the public expedation. This
Sentiment, 1 have the happiness tube assured, in a letter on
this occasion, made a Wort impressios wpm the twine, artd corn -
vilfided the restrei and admiNticas of one very high IA Govern.
mint. s.

The only purpose of this letter, mydear Brother, Is to ex-
plain, since that is necessary, that my former ones meant not
to give you the tiouble of interceding as my advocate 'for
mere Rank in the Army. Urging further my other more im-
portant claims upon Government would he vainly addressed to
any person, who really think that a former refusal urrnere
Rank, under circumstances so widely cliitintnt, or the most
expresi waving/Of such pretonsions, isl,SJuat had bc.enihe case,
furnishes the slightest colour int the answer I have :received
to the teinders 1 have now tpti aof tnyorvicts.
Your department, my dear Brother, wits meant, if I must
repeat it, simply as a channel to convey that tender to Co:.
vernthent, and to obtain either their attention to it, or an open
avowal of their Missal, arc. &C.
(Signed) C. P.
Ti His Rval Hiebnis tit Duos erect,

MAR BROYialiR, Mow Gagsrds. OfNer, ijt 1143.

1 liAve received your letter this notniq, and Atu sorry to
boa that you think Out i hocatieeettireieed the oteaniod et

. . . . .
`friiitiosi 14tet, the whole Idiot of whiA, tilt igt the ritittoy
_promotion which AaVe tisb to its led me naturally•to suppose.
your dtfsiie was, thtit 1 Should- apply to His Majestyk in my
official Capacity, to give yott-Pbittky Rank, to which might '
.. be attached the idea of subsequent Command. .
' That 1 found myself under the necessitk of declining, in
' obedience to His Majesty's pointed ors • I explained to
you in my Letier of the 4th Lost. Rut, from your Letter Of ,
st.day, I am to understand.that.yOur objed is ncd Militari
Rank, but that a post should be allotted 'to you,' upon the.
present emergency; 'suitable to yotlr situation 10 the State.
This I conceive to be purely a•POlitical consideration, and
as such totally ode-6f p,y detiartinetit 1 and' as I have most
carefully avoided, at al,l times, and under all circumstances,
ever interfering in any political points, I must hopet that you
will not call upon me to deviate front the princiPlestay which
I have been invariably goVerned . : .
; • lielieVe me, •my dent- Brother, . - • . ,
• .4: : ,
Your mor.t Afrcet'!onote Brailier,
(STgned) ' FREDERICK
MI
,R9b;litieness the Prbree of Wales.

e •
MY PEA It•Blt OT {Mt Cat4;n- itarpt, On. m, kSO3.
It cFMier but be painful tointe',te.he reduced to the neces-
sity of further explanation, on tt. subjed which it was my
earnest wish to have closed, anti which Was of so Hear a(cd
'distlita a naturi as, in my humble judgment, ;to te-
cluded,the possit)ility. of eitlicr doubt,or misuntlerstatiding.•
! , Surelytberc must some, strange fatality obsetirel my lat
itatenient; or !hire ttae 's3tnel,vhat deWelent it' the
powers ot:explanation, when it can lead your mind, nit clear
Droller, to suctka naipablemtsconsttuetion (for far be it fiorn
the to, fac-cy it wiltiil) of my tueakting,, as to suppese for'a
tnbuient I uneonneeted my Objeo4 with eljfrient 111ilrrary
Rakk, and triiiSNrred It entirely to 'the ‘viti
St.yiln, when you venture. to tell nurf.f!, my objeCi is nor
litary'ltanl4 but that a Post shOuld, be potted:to me, upon
the pre:semt emergency, suitable to my situation in the state."
—Upon what ground you scan hazard such an .assertion, et
Upon what piiuciptes you,c4o draw buch an. inference, I am
utterly at a loss to determine. For I defy the most skilful
Logician,' in torturing the Englishlanguage, to apply Ykith
fairims such a construction to any.word .or,phrase qt; mine;
contained in any one of the letter; I have ever Vai”CtlOst this,
is me, most interesting subject. •
I call upon you to re-peittit the Correspondence. IstFy
letter of the 2.(1 inst,. I told you
,:ifrcquivocally that hoed
you knit+, me too well to itMliine, that die ina,lll.e Ratawas
in my view ; and that. aentiment„ I beg you carefully tool,-
serve, I haveln no inswee whatever ter one single 1114;/illelli

relinquished or cLwarted from. •
Giving, as I did, all the considerations of tnrilf.art to the
delicacy and ditlitiiilties of your situation, nothing could have
been more repugnant to my thoughts, or to my dispositi9n,
than to have imposed. uPon you, rny dear Brother, either in
your4spacityi as. Commander in Chief, or in the near relation
ship which subsists between us, the task, inuclilaii'thee'x.
peetation, of causing yott to risque anxdispleastue from Hig
MajeSty,by disobeying istao, degree //il Gommantliolthough
they 'were even to militate against. myself. But, with the
impulse of my feelings towards yduiand quickly conceiving
what friendship and atii:dion may be capable ot; I did not, I
own, think it entirely impossible that you might, consider.
ing the magnitude and importante which the object carries
with it, have unit:hilly advanced my, wishes, as a matter of
propriety, in aciat.s.ry rwea amel atbieltie* command, through
Ilia Itilatiessiiall inisters, for that di rail- purpose; especially
when the honour of my character anti my future fitMe in life
were so deeply involved in the consideration. Ittir, I must
here repeat, ,4 that Ralik was
Nty in.my View, and Military Rank, with iti.conSequent
Command, was NZVLR Out of it."
Feeling how useless, as xvel I as ungracious, controversy is,
upon:every occasion, and knowing It* tatally it operates on
huinau friendships, I must entreat that our • correspondrnce
on this subjeit shall cease here : for nothing could be more
distressing t 4 me, than, to prolong, a topic en which, it is
now clear to me, my dear Brother, that you and I can never
agree, dc,' :c, •
(Signed)
,G. P.

Copy'of a Letter from the Right Hort. PIENIY
A 1) CI No.TOW, (Wed, •
01. 23, igoi.
IN consequence of some intelligenciPwltich has reached-nie,
I am impeile,l by a sense of detty,iiii'your Royal Highness,
and to the Public, to express att• earnest and ailXiOltS hope,
that voti max be induced to postpone your return toArighton
until,l shall have had an opportunity of making further in-
quiries, and.!pts titating the result of them to your Royal
Highness. • •
I hsvo the Hoopla tO be, with the utmost deferetwe
,;ntl
respell, -Sir* • •
Vont Royal Highnels'3 faithful ; •
And most htihtbi,-: Servant,
(Signedi • 4. 0:141AltV 'ADDINGTON,;