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gracious condescension and kindness : in such a manner
indeed, as afforded a gratifying -and consoling proof to him
that his poor services were most favourably regarded by his
Sovereign. So much personal kindness was then exhibit-
ed to him, that he could. only. now express his sorrow that
it was no longer in his power to give the aid of his feeble
talents and exertions to the service of his Majesty. He,
should always feel proud of •the reception which his Ma,..
'jest), had given him upon that occasion. After he returned,
from the audience, he received the following letter from
the Duke of Wellington :

(No. 10 )
London, May 26, 1828.
My dear Huskisson—l have received your letter of yes-
terday, accompanied by another letterrfrom you dated also
yesterday, which I had returned to Lord Dudley, under
the impression that ought not to open it without your
previous consent, upder.the circumstances that existed at;
the time tliat I received it.
I have laid both before the King. In answer I have,
only to repeat that I considered your letter of the 20th as a,
formal tender of the resignation of your office; and that
.the_cirentostance of its Leing marked " priVilte and con-.
fidentiql," ,did not alter the character of the letter, or re-
lieve niri frOm the painful duty, of communicating its con-
tents to his Majesty, as I did in person.
You:'' subsequent letters did not, according, to my under..
standing of them, convey any disavowal of your intention
to tender your resignation. I laid• them before his Ma-
jesty, and my answers•to thetn;andcommunicated to Lord
Dudley that I had done so.
The King informed me, I think on Wednesday the 21st,
that you bad desired to have, an audience of his Majesty ;
and that he intended to receive you on the day but one
'after. I did not consider it My duty to advise his Majesty
to receive you at an earlier period.
It is scarcely necessary for me to observe, that your letter
to me of the 20th was entirely your own act, and wholly
unexpected by me. If the letter was written hastily and
inconsiderately, surely the natural' course was for you to
withdraw it altogether, and thus relieve me from the posi-
tion iu which, without any fault, of mine, it had placed
me--compelling me either to accept the resignation which.
it tendered, or to solicit you to icoutinue to hold your
office.

This latter step was, in my opinion, calculated to do me
personally,and to the King's Government, great disservice ;
and it appeared to me that the only mode by which we
'could be extrieated from the difficulty in which your letter
had plaeed us, was that the withdrawal of your letter
should be your spontaneous act, and • that it should be
adopted without delay.
The interference of his Majesty, pending our correspon-
dence, would not only have placed his Majesty in a situa-

tion in which he ought not to be placed in such a question,
tut it-Wilithiliae subjected me to the imputation that that
interference had taken place on my suggestion, or with my
connivance. . , _

I (lid not consider it my duty to advise his Majesty to
interfere in any manner whatever.
His Illajesty informed me this day that he had written
to you this morning, appointing au audience in the course
of the day.

Believe me, ever your's, most sincerely.
(Signed) WELLINGTON.
Right Hon. W. Husasson.
. .

Now, as he had already stated, he only wanted justness and
a fair representation. Ile was considered to have made a
formal resignation, though be had never intended any such
thing;. and he received an acceptance just as formal as his
resignation was supposed to be. He ought, perhaps, to
state, that he had certainly heard rumours that be had with-
drawn what had been called his resignation ; and, hearing
this rumour from so many quarters, it came aersss his
Mind, that lie was expected (which was never told him) that
he should dO 'what he had not done—recall what was called
his resignation. Now, if it were ever intended that he
should recall a resignation which he bad never made,—
that he should admit of a misconstruction which he not
only never did admit, but which he had protested,—it was.l
intended that lie, should adant that: his explanation was
totally unfounded, and lay open his character and conduct to
the most injurious suspicions. Such conduct .could, pot
have been expeeted of him in that place; but the underAand-
ing would have been, that he had tendered his resigna-
tion, and then recalled it. He was addressing a society
of gentlemen,-and he appealed to them, i f it were possible
that he could have taken these steps, what would have been
said of him if he bad? What would have been said of him
but that he was no longer a fit prison to hold a place. in his
Majesty's councils? Could he, under such. circumstances,
• have discharged. the duties of his office faithfully to the
country, and with a due regard to his own character? . He
might have continued to attend the Cabinet, but could he
have concealed from himself the nate of abject degradation
into which he had fallen? No, fur lie should have been
constantly reminded of it ; be must have read it in the looks
of those around situ as clearly as if it had been expressed in
the strongest characters, and conveyed in the most powerful
language.--(Cheers.) If such bad been his. conduct, be
should have deserved to be expelled for ever from any honour-
able .
post. Nay, he should have been compelled to re-
linquish at last what had now been taken away. from him—
the power, the rank, and
,the emoluments of office. These
were gone; but he had preserved his self approbation, he
had preserved his personal honour, lie bad preserved his pub •
liccharacter, and he. bad not forfeited his claim to the
support of his personal and political friends.--(Cheets.)
Would this have been the case if he had adopted
the other line of conduct? Should he then have retained,
what he did now retain, the power of still continuing,
with untarnished character, to bestow zealous attention on
the public interests of the country :—(Cheers.)—To win
and to wear this power was, fortunately, in this country,
not the exclusive privilege of any particular class of per-
sons, however powerful. It was his birthright as an
Englishman—not being a Catholic—(Loud and continued
cheering)—and in the exercise of that birthright he would
continue to deservethe approbation of his fellow-country-
men.—(Cheeri.)--He began by stating,—he was really
sorry to detain. the House at so great length.--(Hear, hear)
—he began by stating that it was not for him to account
for the motives which induced his expulsion from office.
When the present Administration was formed by the
Noble Duke, he . (Mc.; Huskisson), contrary to the
advice of several of .his Mends; consenter,. to take+ a
share in that Administration. He did so exclusively on

public grounds. When he considered that the offer
which was made to him was made jointly to others who
had formed a part of the late Administration,—when he
reflected that the policy which he adopted was perfectly
similar to that of his friends who were to be associated with
hips,—when he considered what important departments of
the state were committed to their charge, when,, also, he
had himself received certain conditions,—he did think that,
as a public man, he was bound to remain in the ,King's,
service, and he did also think that by so continuing in the
anxious.
mightyous.
nfluence
of i
King's service, he should find the best chance of forward-
ing and upholding those measures and principles
iti3futpluebtliict
policy to_ which he was known to be attached,—for the
eh etwtas known
blind
ti to th
l
to be
Let it not, be sup-
be
posed that with the experience of the last 12 months he
was of
lVi o which
opposed
supposed
l
tit lieh:
was blind to this.- And, lie ivould ask, had these in-
fluences, powerful as he knewthem to be, again become pre-
dominant hear. )_-Had it been given distinctly
to be understood, that the time was now come when it
was no lotiger possible to obtain the assistance of those who
joined the Noble Duke during the struggles of the last sea-
sion, if he (Mr. Huskisson) still formed a part,of this Ad-.
ministration ?—(1-lear, hear,) When he looked at the
transactions of the last and present Session,.-,-when he saw
ji,ow this incideht, which regarded himself had been caught
hold of,---he was bound to say, that it appeared to him that,,
in order to obtain the co-operation Of those who had so sup-
ported the Ntkle Duke it was necessary that he (Mr. H.),
should he removed.:,;(llear, hear,). this were neces-
sary, he must say. that • it would have been much more sa-*
tisfactory to him to have been told that it was 'necessary—;
to haVe been told. " Such is the dislike to your principles,
and measures,--such the apprehension of . the views
you espouse,,--such the consequence. of them to the,
friends on whom I relied for carrying on my
4drninistration, that in order to obtain their cordial
support J must get rid of you." If his removal had
become necessary,' he shoUld have preferred 04 mode of
conimunidittini the 'fact 'tr., Lim.; and When lie looked at
the proceedings of the last Session,—when he compared
them with what bad taken place since,—he could not
help thinking that some such time had arrived, and that
some such view had been" taken as that which he bad de,.
scribed.—(Cries of " Ifear.")—When his letter IY33before
the Noble Duke, it might ' have occurred to the recollec-
(Mr. Hilskissoto
149 of oue person at least, that he
haie entertained such vent.nirnts as ttn'Ae
incoming.to tl • or the decision was,
founded hasty its . a.
founded in error, I or.ght to have beeo '.'4l°l'Pe(l. I, had
always been on the best terms of gdoothwill and
deuce with all my colleagues. I wool appeal to the Mi-
nisters present whether I ever made difficulties, or ever
acted otherwise than with a view to accommodate differ-
ences of opinion. Then, if I took a hasty or intemperate
view of thii. ease, I Its!: them why they did not .coine for-
: ward and'rentler Me the se 'vicWWlikh bad; more than
one, rendered to others, by r•Preseriting. tliat I was
Wrong 'llhey were all'eubject.to the itup,r(eutions tti
human nature, and be might have been wrong. But,
when a person went to the Noble Duke and said, " You
misconceive and mistake this letter, and I tell yon of it be.