Star.
London, England, 1812-05-23 00:00:00

ere of my departure for India, I stated to the late
Mr. Pitt my solicitude, that he should diiect his at-
trntino to the settlement of Ireland; And I expressed-
to bins my cpnyiction, that Ireland could neither be
'nippily settled, nor firmly united; to Great Britaitt,
without a.coucurrent settlement of the clams of his
majesty's Roman Catholic subjects. Ihe opinions
*inch I declared to Mr. Pitt, a, that time, respect-
ing the substance of those claims. were precisely
similar to those which I have stated in the use of
Lords during the present Session of PArliarnent.--It
is not riecess'ary to enter upon any review of the
transactions which passed during my absence in In.
slia, with relation to Ireland, or to the claims of the
- Catholics.

Roman
I arrived from India in the month of January,
1806 ; and after a short interview with Mr. Pitt, r,
assisted in performing the last sad' office of follows,
log his remains to the grave. •
-Yon ate aware, that ii ng before that period of
', fare, the " high comideratictu*. to which you refer,.
' bad- been fixed in full force s that no attempt to•
Change those sentiments could have been made with
. soy prospect of. success ; and that the result, even if i
*successful proceeding in Parliament, would have .
.- tended only to produce the most dreadful extremity I
• 61 confusion. • • •
You must remember, that J have always lament.
iid (as serionnational calamities, menacing the Con-
stitution of the Monarchy) the reference, which has
necessarily been made to the existence of those per-
lonsl sentiments, and the causes which have occa-
sioned that necessity. With the warmest sentiments
6f personal veneration, attachment, and grati6ude,
my opinion has always been, that the duty if loyalty
sad affection towards a British Sovereign does nor
consist in submissive obedience, even to the honest
prejudices or errors of the royal mind, but rather,
a. respectful endeavours to remove those preju-
dices and errors, by free advice in Council, and
by temperate remonstrances in Parliament. But
the time for such endeavours had passed ; and I sub-
mitted reluctantly, not to my sense of the genuine
duty of a faithful Counsellor towards his Sovereign,
but to the painful,.and, by me, irreversible necessity
of the case. 1
This is a subject of the utmost, of the most peri-
lous delicacy :—your letter has opened it :—l' will
rum ie no farther than to assure you, that when,
en the 31st of January, I declared, in the House of
'Ards, my sentiments respectin; the Roman Catho-
lic Claims, the necessity which had occasioned my
glace appeared to me td have entirely ceased.
. The second point of your Explanatiory Letter re-
fit to the management of the war in the Peninsula.
.:—Your suggestions are necessarily indistinct, with
regard to the additional means (which have occurred
mace 'my resignation), of extending our • military
*ts in that quarter : I think I can collect even
,ft your hints, that although those means are er-
a, the probability of their existence might
been foreseen, as the natural result of instruc-
t,
which were in progress of execution previous()
*s my resignation. But my objection to the system
/
. lianned in the Peninsula, at the time of my resigna•
was appiied to the whole frame and fabric of
ear 'armament arrangements, both in Portugal and
Spam, %%hien, in my judgment, must be corrects'
and eateni.ed, not only with a view to the advania-
eninaile Of such meal* as we a..au pos.waa im, the,
Pula, but even of such adventitious and and extra-
penes means as events in other quarters may place
at our vis, oval.
Belirve me, ray dear Lord, always your's, r, 'it
inCereiy,
(Signed)
WZI•LIALT.
C
lilt karl of Liverpool, &
.

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THE EVENING STAR.

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SATURDAY, MAY 23.
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Our Readers will perceive from the remarks which
Ire Presumed tb offer yesterday on the progress that
had been made in forming a New Administration
end on. the principle adopted as the basis of their
onion, that we were persuaded no Ministry, so form-
ed, could continue, with effect, to direct the affairs of
the Empire in the present crisis. We hardly expected,
bourn% that we should so soon announce the disso-
lution of the New Administration.
To repeat all the rumours that hare been circni!'
h‘ led since our last: Would be a •fruidess task : si
Ice it to say, that the new Ministers yesterday fair.
really tendered their resignation to the PRINCE Ra-
wl.; and that last night, while the House was sit;
t!ng, Lord CASTLEREAGH, in a personal communiaa•
ion to the
_leaders of Opposition> stated that they
were all in fact out ; and that they only continued .to'
bold the seals till a new Administration should be
formed ; and therefore deprecated any further dis-
iassion.
We have it not yet in our power to' announce, with
.
certainty, the particulars of the new arrangement,
fed ve should be sorry to hasard any idle conjec-
itare on a sul jest so momentous. We can only state'
velth certainty tl at Marquis WELLLaZY, by cow
mind of die Puit.CE REGENT, waited on his
Ilightiest last night, and that be received t
ti=
owes cummands to form a new Administration new
biting es sanch talent and influence-as possible.--
h is, believed, however, that, no overture is to be
r4ade either to Lord GRENVILLE or Earl Guy ; that
rilbably overtures will be made to Earl Mom, Lord
HOLIANG, ,and the Marquis LarronowNs—tbat no
thanie Ikat,-t... -s___ • _, - _1 L.

Mr. Wattestar POLE, though s suceessei will be ap. I
pointed to the Duke of RICHMOND—that the new
.
arrangement will proceed upon the principle that
none of the present Ministers are to be included in it.
Our high opinion of the talents of Marquis Witt.-
LEstre is well known to the Readers of the Svan.—
They will not, therefore, be snrprised that we should
hail, not merely his Lordship's return to office, but
his elevation to the first place in our Government
Councils, as portentive of much benefit to the Nation.
Nor can we avoid adding, that we sincerely hope that
no false delicacy will prevent Lords GORY and G RIIN•
; %ILIA from accepting any situation of responsibility
Iwhich it may be deemed advisable they should occupy
fi.r the ben, fit of the State.

We go still further :—The Ministers who have just
retired from office have avowed, that they hold the
maintenance of private opinions, on particular mea-
sures, as no way inconsistent with the retention of
places in Administration. This. was the whole jet
and soul of the propositions they made, by the com-
mand of the Nock RILGENT to Marquis WELLIISLIM
and Mr. CANNING. It would be highly indecorous,
to suppose•that their offers were made, not merely
with a hope, but in a firm conviction that they would
be rejected.

Their persuasion mast have been, that 'the State-
men, to whom they applied; might, with perfect con-
sistency, notwithstanding their known and avowed
opinions on Religious Liberty, hold places along with
those who differed widely from them on that impor-
tant topic. We therefore infer that these individuals
would feel themselves justified in lending their influ-
pnce and talents, in any way that may benefit the
public, to colleagues differing from ,them on that
particular point—and, consequently. that in the for-
mation of 'new Administration the Marquis might
avail himself of the leading talents and influence
embraced by Lord LIVARPOOL'S Administration.—
To deny that they had among them men possessing
abilities that might prove useful to any Government,
would be unjust : and surely we need not remind the
public that even Mr. PITT maintained, on one great
point, opinions contrary to those of his colleagues—
we mean on the Slave Trade, yet they continued to
act together, and with concord too, on every other
question. Is it not also notorious that on another
great question, which has often been belizt; the
House, we mean that of Parliamentary Reform,
Messrs. Fox and WINDHAM held ,directly opposite
opinions while they concurred on every other topic ?

New York andiPhiladelphia Papers to the 29th
ultimo, with private letters to the same date, arrived
this morning.
The elections seem to go on favourably to the Fe.,
deralists. In 481 towns in Massachusrets, they had
a majority of 2,260 where the Democrats last year
had a majority of 4,74 Z
Tie Mercantile Advertiser of 18th April mentions
the receipt of letters from Mrr BARLOW, in which he
says, 44 there is no hope of a commercial or any other
adv..ntag-eoui 'arrangement with France."
The same Paper says-44 The Embargo, No. 2,
prohibits the exportation of specie."
A. private letter of the 20th April says—" An Em.!
bargo has been laid on all specie, both by land and
water. No bill has yet passed respecting the admis-
.
sion-of goods."

, We stated yesterday, that a formal notification of
the reprBsi of the Berlin and Milan Decrees had been.
made to our Government, and we this day lay before
our readers the extraordinary document by which
the French Emperor has thought fit to make his de-
'termination public. It is dated on the 28th of April,
1811, that is to say, two months after the Ameri-
cans had enforced their Non-Intercourse Law against
us exclusively. Although there is an evident juggle
in this affair, we cannot we how the British Govern-
ment can refuse to rescind the Orders in Council, to
whiCh they stand most solemnly pledged. The
French will, no doubt, continue to burn, sink, and
riestroy American vessels as often as they meet with
them, notwithstanding the relocation of the Berlin
and Milan Decrees ; and the Americans must seek
redress in the best way they can :
FRENCH DECREE.
4( Palace of St. Cloud, April 28th, 1811.
"14A/OLTON, Emperor of the French, King of Italy, Protector
of the Confederation of the Rhine, Mediator of the Swedish
'Confederacy.
" On the report of our Minister for Foreign Affairs.
" Being informed of the law of the 2d of March, 1811, by
which the Congress of the United States has decreed the exemp-
tion of the provision's of the Act at Non-intercourse, which in-
terdicts the entry into Amerk-akports, of the ships and the suer-
' gliandize of Great Britain, her colonies and dependencies :
" Considering that the said law is an act of resistance to the
arbitrary preteasions advanced by the British Orders in Comte h
andla formal refusal to sanction a system, hostile to the inde-
pendence of Neutral Power, and of thitir flags;
a' We bate decreed, and do decree as follows t
" The Deerees of Berlin and Milan are definitively (from the
first of November last) considered as no longer in force, as far as
mem &anima vessels.-,-(Signed, ac.r
''Thursday !he Earl of Liesnroot gave a grand
dinner to a large party of Ministerial Gentlemen.
Thursday Earl Firawatime arrived at his house
'in Groaveoor-espose, from his seat in Yorkshire.
Thursday. Earl Toms arrived ot his bonne in
Lower Grosvaiur-street. from Stowe, in Bucking-
hamshire.

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