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London, England, 1829-02-12 00:00:00

THE CATHOLIC QUESTION IN 1812.

Those who arrogate to themselves exclusively the
title of the King's friends, and who vindicate their
claims to the title by the disgusting liberties they
take with his private circle, endeavour on all deca-
sions to represent his Majesty as decidedly hostile,
personally, to the concession of the Catholic Claims.
That there is no foundation for such a representation
may be inferred from the evidence already befors the
world, that this is not the first time of his Majesty's
consenting to the formation of a Cabinet agreed on
the principle' of concession. When it was endea-
voured to form an Administration including Lords
Grenville and Grey, previous to that of the Earl of
Liverpool, his Majesty distinctly expressed himself
in favour of concession. The following documents
are conclusive :

MINUTE OF MR. CANNING'S COMMUNICATION TO THE

EARL OF LIVERPOOL, MAT 2g.
" Fife-house, May 23, IFfrlg.
. _

" The Prince Regent having laid his commands oil
Lord Wellesley to form a plan of an Administration to to
submitted for his Royal flighaess's approbation, Mr. Can-
ning wa., requested by Lord Wellesley (as the channel of
communication thought likely to be most agreeable to
Lord Liverpool) to inquire of Lord Liverpool, whether
there would be a disposition on the prt of Lord Liver-
pool, and of his colleagues, or of any of them, to entertain
auy proposal which should he made to them for forming
part of such an Administration.
" The principles upon which the Administration was
intended to be formed were stated to be—

" Firstly, The tsking into the early and serious con-
sideration of the Executive Government the state of the
laws affecting the Roman Catholics, with a sincere and
earnest desire to bring that important question to a final
and satisfactory settlement.
" Secondly, The prosecution of the war in the Penin-
sula with the best means of the country.
"It AVIS stated that there would be the strongest wish
to comprehend in the arrangement, without any individual
or patty exclusion whatever, as many as possible of such
persons as might be able to agree in giving their public
service to the country on these two principles.
6" With respect to the distriLution of offices, it was
stated, that nothing of any sort was decided, or stipulated ;
but that every thing would be open to be arranged to the
honour and satisfaction of all parties."

No. IV.

ItiNuTE OF A COMMUNICATION MADE RV LORI) WtL

LESLEY TO LORDS GREY AND GRENVILLE, AT LORD.

GREY'S HOUSE, MAT 'M.

" Lord Wellesley Ptated, that he had received the emu-,
wands of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent to lay
before his Royal Highness the plan of such an Administra -
don as lie (Lord 'Wellesley) might deem adapted to the
present crisis of affairs.

" That he had apprised his Royal Highness of the ne-
cessity of ascertaining the views and dispositions of all par-
ties, with regard to certain general principles, previously to
the tOrmation of any such plan.
" That he considered himself merely as the instru-
ment of executing his Royal Highness's commands on this
occasion, and that he neither claimed nor desired for him-
self any station in the Administration which it was in his
Royal Highness's contemplation to form.
Under these circumstances, be requested to know
whether any obstacle existed to the concurrence of Lords
Grey and Grenville, or their friends, in the following gene-
ral principles, as the basis upon which an Administration
might be formed :

First, That the state of the laws affecting the Roman
Catholics, and the claims of that body of his Majesty's sub-
jects, should be taken into immediate consideration, with e
view to a conciliatory adjustment of those claims.
" Secondly, That the war in the Peninsula should he
prosecuted on a scale of adequate vigour.
" Lord Wellesley slated, that as Mr. Canning and be
agreed in these principles, he had requested Mr. Canning
to communicate them to Lord Liverpool.

" Lord Wellesley has reduced th, substance of this coal_
munication to writing, and now submits it to Lord Grey
and Lord Grenville. " WELLESLEY."

MINUTE: OF A COMMUNICATION MADE Pl,' Lox') wEL-

LESLEY TO LORD GREY, AT LORD GREY'S HOUSE,

JUNE Isl., 1812.

" Lord Wellesley stated, that he had on that morning
received full authority from the Prince Regent to form an
Administration tinder his Royal Highness's commmanda ;
and that he was specially authorised to communicate with
Lords Grey and Grenville on the subject.
" That his Royal Highness entertained no wish to ex-
clude from the proposed Administration any person, or
descr►pt►on of persons, who could unite in the principles
on which the Administration was to he founded.

" That the two positions stated in Lord Wellesley's
.Ifinutc of May 23, and subsequently explained in the
letters which had passed between Lord Wellet:ley and Lord
Grey, of the dates of the 27th, 2Sth, and 29th of May,
1812, were intended by his Royal Highness to constitute
the foundation of his Administration."

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