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dual talents and services,

!the country, in which Mr. ,
it high efficient station. But ..
Ring was under no engagement
preclude his aceiAance of
offered to him ; that, on the
would certainly make the .
prd to my perfect freedom.
that he had pursued this
being,concinced, that under
I would not accept Office?'
made to Mr. Canning; ,a 1 Liver.
pool, that he was correct in this ,Sew :sf my semi,
ments towards Mr. Calming i repeating, however.
that Mr. Canning and I were perfectly free td Let as
each might think fit, and that our agreentecit in RIVE
great public principles, soottld not agect 9uenjofts of
Imere official arrangement.
bthly, I expressed my wish to receive this cream*
nication in writing ; to answerit in4riting, and*.
to submit my senuments upon the whole transactioa
in an audience of the Prince itegent.-
i Lnrd Liverpool informed me, that Mr. Can_n 4
would transmit to me a copy of the Mtaute of Lo
Liverpool's conversation taken in his presence, and
Lord Liverpool desired me Co consider that Nag
as the written communication which I wished tole.
ceive. I agreed to Lord LiverpoorspropoFele di
point. I then informed Lord Liverpool. that I wow
return my answer in writing to that Paper. Whore,"
might be the tenor of my answer, with regard to the
great public considerations, on which It num be
founded, rexpressed my hope, that Lord Liverpool
would be enured of my sincere personal respect and
esteem. I now transmit this Minute tom leer.
pool, requesting him to insert any ecnrection which
he may think requisite. (Signed) we.Lescer.
May is, 181 e.
Correeted by Lord Liverpool, and retuned co har.
(Signed) ws.t.usta.
• No. W.
NoTt from Mr. eurunio to Lord Wit., t Lrr. soduhis
Letter to Mr. CA/IMO.° frOOII.O24LITILIOO2I, midge%
Lord CAI ttttt ACII.

Ildnrere eCONTIMATHIN betortes Marc* WI LL t ILLY and
' • Lordl.tvaattoos, 17th May; 181 e.
Apsky-House, May 37, 11112, 4 past 6, p ia.
Lord Liverpool came to me immediately atter his
visit to Mr. Canning, and• remained with me for
about half an hour. Soon after Lord Liverpool's
departure, I received the annexed paper from *Mr.
Canning*. .
Lord Liverpool's conversation with ere was sub.
stantially the same as that which is described to have
passed with Mr. Canning, Any difference which ap-
peared, arose necessarily from my questions and ob-
servations, which were made witrout knowledge of
what passed between Lgrd Liverpool and Mr. Can.
•
niez. Atttr receiving Lord Liverpool's verbal corn-
- (COPT)
muaicatipn, nearly in the terms stated by Mr. Cap- " atiereester-Ludir 45anday nigtir, kit? 17, Mt.
ning, I inquired, ! MY DEAR WELLTsI.FX-11 have 'test receivedhan
W 1 Ist, Wl' t was to be the policy of the Government Lord I..iverpool a letter, of. which the enclosed is a
' with relation to the Roman Catholics ? - • ' copy. I transmit it to you to be lidded, accordiaits
To this question Lord Liverpool returned the same his desire, to the copy of the Minute of his ~.„4..1
answer stated in Mr. Canning's paper, to have been cornmimication of this morning.
returned to a similar question. ! Ever affectionatelryones, Si* II!
2dly, I observed to Lord Liverpool, that he was
(::OPY.r-In No. Ill)
apprised of my opinion, that our effot is in the Penin. .
' teed Ltvaitroos to Mr. CANNSMIL
stela had been conducted on an inadequate and ire= (Private) '
perfect scale, which could pot be expected to accent. - ! Mr DIA& CUMIN°, Me heese.Msvl7,lBllt
plish the ultniate objects of the war in that quarter. I I think, upon reflection, if jitdne to Lord Cod%
'That I had for a lung time considered an extension reagh to state, in writing. what I mentionedteez
of our sj stem in the Peninsula to be indispensably verbally, that from •mouves of delicacy, heib
necessary, and easily practicable :" that I was aware himself from the Cabinet, on the oeigions qa 'Sidi
of the impropriety (in my present situation) of urging the subject in your.Memortuidum was determined.
any detailed qtn-s:ions to Lord Liverpool en this I did not, however, make the communicetim m
point; but, that I mentioned it now, because it must you, without having reason to know that he
form a principal consideration in my answer to the be no obstacle in the way of an arrangement,
proposition %%bid' he had brought to me. • •on the principles stated in the Metno;andum.
Lord Liverpool cll.:, that he did not agree in my' I will beg of you to communicate this lemma,
opinion respecting the scale of the efforts which we persons to whom you. may' communicate the Slow
had hitherto made in the Peninsula, which he thought randum. (Signed) I.IIII2IKAL
as great as it had been possible to make ; that there le** alike Hoe. Gertrsi ClutoloS. .
never had been any limit to our exertions in that 1 MN Cation to Lord Ltirasreet.
quarter, but what arose out of the question of prac.: Mr etas Laval/vet. ' oleseeesselistfee.bissiknic
ticability (that is, the means of increasing and sup-; 1 have communicated tq stub of my friends's- ii
plying our armies), •and that-he had never heard any , had an immediate opportunity of consulting, tbetlit
specific plan, by which those means might have-been' nute, taken in your preseum, of the propos:too Audi
carried further, though the subject had been often you conveyed to me yesterday. •
most anxiously considered in my presence : that cir- ; In a case In which I felt that my decision eit=
cumstances had occurred since my resignation, which might be liable to misapprehension, I was
did not then exist, and into the particulars of which rather to collect the opinions of person whose jot
it would not be proper for him to cuter at this time, meet I esteem, than to act on the impulse of ary erg
which might enable Government to extend, to a cer- ; first feelings. . .
tain degree, the military operations in the Peniosula, I The result of their opinions is, that, by mpoili
and the system of himself and his colleagues Would ' into the Administration upon the testi; A R
be, as he contended they alway had been, to make I me, I should incur such a loss of per sad poi
the greatest efforts in the cause of the Peninsula, character as would disappoint the object 'lda bil
which the resources of the country rendered possible. I Royal Highness the Prince Regent has at boort ; ail
Sdly, 1 inquired whether all the general constitu. must render my accession to his Goyernmeqt a ear
ent parts if the present Cabinet were to remain ? He ; source of weakness rather than an addition of arms*
informed me that they were in general to remain.— I To become* part of your Adminimratiqn with*,
He believed it was known to me that some of the !previous knowledge of your unaltered opitnom 45 0
Members of thp Cabinet had been long desirous of : the policy of resisting all consideration of'ds mad
retiring, and would be ready the, efore now to afford ,: the lastri affecting his Majesty's Roman Catholics'''.
facilities to any new :a. angement.. I jests, would, it is felt, be to lend myself to the dr. ,
• 'ln answer to a question put by me respecting Loyd' featieg of my own declared opinions on that mess
Sidm.odi and his friends, he said they were to re.; important question :—opinions 'which are as tit 33
twain. those of any man from being favourable to PotiP6
4th . ly, I stated to Lord Liverpool, that I made no 1 tate and unqualified concession ; but which rep '

the conviction that it is the duty of the adviseesai
the Crown, with a view to the peace, tranquillity, 1
strength of the empire, to take that whole yes*
into their early and serious consideration k and ear-
neatly to endeavour to bring it to 4 final and stti ste!!
wry settlement. .
With this result c.f the opinions of thous 111b101‘
have consulted my own entirely concurs; lit.
being the ground of my decision, it jwas*
.. ':
cessary to advert toasty espies ofit;krtor i
After the expressions, however, with whiFb Tuf
were. charged on the part of ail your zlka)cutte I
preolj
should not be warranted in omitting to dolour!
no objection of a personal sort should have . •
me front uniting with any, or all of them, in the
lic service, it 1 could have done so with honour; anl
it, in any judgment, a Cabinet, so constituted is au
its, pasts, could have of prded to the countryt under
its present great and various diirscnltinti Sh ?degOtell
efficient Administration.
I cairn(); deny myself the satisfaction of 040
that the manner of tour commenieatioo with of ,
has entirely corresponded with the habits and no*
meats of a friendslOp of aq many Tenn I a
which pur general concurrence Oa flint g;ilTriag.
.cal principles has sningthened, and whs4 ea NOM
sional didereneesl;ive in go degree impaired. ~...'
On the public grounds which I have stated; I luou
entreat you to Lay at the feet of the Prince R.
'together with the warmest eitEeri‘,' ciaancrofi
411 attaches,* to his Royal •nightsregt
acknowledgment for the favourable nott,_!,* -.,.
his Royal kisilineishas.beeo grisionqrammt°'
to te
tet;ain• of met saT koroblo blif Pa r: c, i
excused from accepting office on tee , . "t
sacrifice stpulilic 6214*i/411We rendernnr
for the striae of his gaging[ Highness's 010=,.. siii
I pressen)* et the kard. WWI, bung); te—:.....Th"7iir '
awl** of the Psince Reges; Jo! soP4r--4?
explaining ***Purfol P *IP, .Y•WM ~
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in4uiry respecting the proposed distribution and allo-
cation of offices ; because that circumstance would
not constitutettre basis of my-decision upon the pro-
position which he had brought me.
Lord Liverpool observed, that the distribution of
offices was a matter open to future adjustment, to be
regulated for the ho.tour of all parties.
450:1y, When Lord Liverpool informed me that
" the leadiog" in the II use of Commons was to be
preserved to Lord Castlereagh; I remarked, that is
any situation which I might ever hold in any Admi-.
nistration, I should feel great obligation to any Metb-
bet. of the Government who would undertake -that
charge which was called " the leading," in the HOUSE
of Parliament in wl.kh I sat, although I was fully
aware of the great importance which that charge rev
cessarily conveyed to the person who exercised it, and
of the great influence which it must give to him is'
the general administration and patronage of the Go.
eernment.
6tbly, I desired to know, whether all those persons
now designated by the name .of the " Opposition,"
were to be excluded from the proposed scheme 4
Admjnixtration ?
LorcrLiverpool answered, that no principle of e1t..1
elusion was intended; but that he was not authorizes!'
to make any proposal ;q any *sons of the descrip.
Lion which I had mentioned.
7thly, Cainsidevin,l the course, which Lord Liver.
pool had observed, in Making this communication, I
asked him, wheiher he applied to me by command of
the Prince Regent, as a part of Mr. Canniog's 'nice?
remistded Lord i;iverticrol of the constant and one
abated exertions which I hack made to open every
avenue foi/the return of Mr. 'Canning to the public
service, remarking at the same Ome, char I ee'ver had
itteinoted to press that point, beyond the lapnour and
?celings of. Mr. percevaPs Administration. meted,
•
.ika't I could' not considef kny Adminisuitifin.tti. he
zonstitutO 00fotidat4 of justice towardsmdi;4e
Ylie Mr. ;No

ire
•

my conduct, on An ocea'sion on which I
ttnot/uindds of
hegoleeed to think that his Royal
Hita. hness
ab
couldcouldtor a moment consider me as wanting either in
' Royal Highness, or in zeal for the public rico to I, _is
Mee • and of assuring his Royal Highness that
se *
Infinability to assist in forwarding-his Royal High.
toss's purpose of procuringhe strength' tehis Admini-
stictioni • on the has been
plan w. suggested by
his Royal Highness's confidential servants, does not
•se from any disposition, on my part, to shrink
;Ism the encounter of those difficulties which press,
st this time, upon the country and upon the Crown.
am, &c. (Signed) GEORGE CANNING.
No. IV.
city of 'Letter front the haarquis•WsttasLer to the Earl of
Lresaroot transmitting Lord Vir.'s Reply to Lord LlTta-
titoe•
Apsky House, May 18,1812, half-put three, p.m.
Mr DEAR Loan—l enclose a paper, containing
lay reply to the communication which you were so
kind is to nuke to me yesterday. Although I find
myself compelled to decline the proposal which you
conveyed, I request you tnaecept my grateful thanks
for the amicable and satisfactory manner in which you
communicated with me ; • and to be assured, that I
shall always entertain the most sincere and cordial
sentiments of personal respect and esteem for you.
Believe me, my Dear Lord, most sincerely your's,
Eart of LiverpooL (Signed) wELLESLEY.
(In No. IV.) • i
Lora Wausau's reply to Lord Livursotit's Proposition. ,
Apsley House, May 18.
From the communication received through Lord
Liverpool, I understand, that his Royal Highness the
Prince Regent has been graciously pleased to sag-
reify nis deore of strengtheniag his Administration
voop its present basis,. by associating me with it, as
or those persons who agree most nearly and ge-i.
;orally in the. principles upon which public affairs
have been conducted.
From the same communication I also derive the
gratifying intelligence, that all Lord Liverpool's cel.
leagues have authorized him to express a dispositiou
to act with me, under an arrangement, consistent with
their own honour and duty, and honourable and sa-
tisfactory to me. •
I receive this notification of the Prince Regent's
commands with *vary sentiment ofduty and affection,
while it affords me matter of just satisfaction, that, to
the distinguished honour of such condescending notice
bun his Royal Highness, is added so high a testi.
mony of the confidence and esteem of all the respec-
table persons composing his present Administration.
With all humility towatds the exalted authority
from which this proposition proceeds, and with the
most sincere regard for those through whom it is
conveyed, I must, however, declare, that I should
have declined it at the first instant of its approach, if
motives of defeience and submissive attachment had
am imposed upon me the obligation of receiving it
with respectful consideration.
The proposition necessarily rests upon a supposition
that I entertain no such difference of public sentiment
with the present Administration as should preclude
me from acting with them, under an arrangement;
tompatible with our mutual and respective honour
and duty
But it appears from Lord Liverpool's candid and
explicirstatement, that upon the important question,
which regards the laws affecting the Roman Catho.:
les, Lord Liverpool's opiniouf remain unchanged ;
nor is he aware that the sentiments of his Colleagues,
en that subject, have undergone any change.
• I must therefore conclude, that the policy which
has been pursued respecting the Roman Catholics,
during the present Session of Parliament, is 'to be
continued without abatement; the general constituent
parts of the present Cabinet are to remain unchang-
ed ; the highest, and most efficient offices in the State,
therefore, are to be filled by persons, who still don.'
ceivc themselves to be bound by duty, honour, and
conscience, not only to resist any mitigation of the
present condNion of the Roman Catholics, but even
to preveht the consideration of the laivs which affect
that large portion of the poOlation of the empire. -
I cannot concur in the principle on .which the- pre--
sent kamioistration has conducted this important
branch of public affairs ; on this point I have recently
expressed the strongest difference of opinion with the.
present Administration:
The dei-laratioh of Lord, Liverpool precludes the.
hope of trig such change in the policy of the present
Administration towards the Roman Catholics as could
satisfy thy judgment. This difference is of the utmost
imPortance : without .ally other obstacle, therefore,
this alone compels me to decline the proposition
which Lard Liverpool has conveyed to me.
I entertain a confident expectation, that when the
Prince Regent shall have considered the nature of
this difficulty, he will extend his indulgence to my
*humble representation, and will relieve me.from the
pressure of commands, .which ; could not obey,
cithout sacrificing a public principle of the highest
obligation.
Tbese.obsetvations cornpOse a sufficient reply to
the conimunication received through Lord Liverpool.
But I deem it to he a duty towards the Prince Re-
gan to declare, that the consideratious which induced
a me, on the,i9th of February, to resign the station
*bids I had the honour to bold in his Royal fligh.
noses service, have actiaired' additional force suite
that time, and would constitute an insuperable,ob-
stacle to my acceptance of ank station in the present
Rdsoiaistration.
I originally expressed my desire to withdraw from
ait.Percevil's Administrations because my general
nion; for a long time past, on various important
lo!stions, had not sufficient weight in that Cabinet,
tn:unify me towards the public, or towards my own
character, in continuing in office.
My objections to remaining in that Cabinet, arose,
In a great degree, from the imperfect scale on which
the efforts in the Peninsula were conducted. It was
!iwaysstated to me, that it was impracticable to en-
woe that systems I' thought that it was perfectly
practicable to extend the plan in the Peninsula, and
that it was neither safe nor honest towards this coun-
"y or the Allies to continue the present inadequate
acheme.
From Lord Liverpool's statement upon thisit evident, that since my resignation, it bas been
/cum prac6cable to make some extension of the sys-
tem in die peninsula ; but it is still intimated, that
my views are more extensive than die resoufccs of the
country
-
can enable the Government to reduce .to
practice.
I, however, still entertain the same views
and opinions, without diminution or alteration ; and

t am convinced, that a considerable extension of the
stele of odr operatiouse lu the Peninsula, and also an
effectual coreection of many brandies of our systent
in that qbaster, are objects of indispensible necessity,
and of easy attainment.
With such a4ecided difreVence of opinions in rela-1
don to the conduct and management of the War, my
return ,into a .Cabinet composed as the present is,
would offer to me no better prospect than the renewal
of discussions, which have hitherto proved unavailing.
I learn from Lord Liverpool, that, he has received
no authority, in forming the intended Administration,
to make any proposal to any of those persons, now
designated by the name of es The Opposition."
My inquiry on this point originated in a sincere
conviction, (founded upon an attentive observation of
the general state of public opinion, and of the condi-
tion of the empire), that no Administration which
shall not comprise some of those persons can
.prove
advantageous to the Prince Regent, conciliatory to-
wards Ireland, and equal to the conduct of the war
, on a scale of sufficient extent. •
It has been stated erroneously, that the first act of
the Prince Regent upon his approach, to unrestricted
authority, was to establish Mr. Perceval's Adminis-
r tration ; but the fact is, that his Royal Highness's fiest
etc at that crisis was to dissolve Mr. Perceval's admi.
nistration ; and to endeavour to form a Cabinet upon
a more extended and liberal basis. This endeavour
was frustrated at that moment ; and the formation of
such a Cabinet was represented to his Royal High-
ness to be' impracticable. Ii has, however, since ap-
peared evident to me, from the discussions and deli-
berations which I have witnessed in Parliament, that
his Royal Highness's benevolent intentions on that
subject are now perfectly practicable ; and that their
accomplishment would tend to promote internal peace
and tranquillity, and. to invigorate the whole system '
of our external operations:.
Impressed with this sentiment, I should be untrue
to his Royal Highness's interests and honour, as well.
as to the prosperity of the empire, if I concurred in
any arrahgethent of an Administration which did not
include a fair and full consideration of this most im-
portant point.
After such a dispassionate consideration, my opi-
nion is, that a Cabinet might be formed on an inter-
mediary principle respecting the Roman Catholic
claims, equally exempt from the dangers of instant
unqualified concession, and from those of inconside-
rate peremptory exclusion ; the entire resources of
the empire might be applied to the great objects of
the war with general consent, upon a full understan-
ding of the real exigency of the present crisis ; and
concord and union at home might secure ultimate
. and permanent success abroad. WELLESLEY.

THE EVENING STAR.

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We believe we an now state with confidence that
the New Ministerial Arrangements are completed :
As we stated yesterday, Marquis WELLESLEY and Mr.
CANNING have most unequivocally refuted to hold
any office in an Administration of which Lord CAS-,
TLEREAGII forms a part : the correspondence given in
another part of our Paper does not indeed cay so ex_
pressly in= terms, but it is most strikingly implied.—
It is in the recollection of every one, that Mr. CAN.
NING has taken" many opportunities of expressing his
doubts as to Lord CASTLEREAGH'S competency to
perform thb functions of a Minister ; and yet Lord
Livanroat, asks Mr. CANNING to act under, and not
'with Lord CASTLEREAGH. With respect to the appli-
. 'cation to Lord WELLESLEY It does not appear to us
that Lord lavEmboot could have entertained any
reasonable expectations of that Nobleman's services
under him, whets he recollected that his formerresig-
nation was occasioned by his deCliniog to act under'
Mr. PERCENTAL, who was avowedly Lord LIYERPOWS
superior.

Mr. VANSITTART, as *ill appear from our report
of the Parliamentary proceedings, is the new Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer. Lord CASILEREACII takes
the lead (as Lord Livenroot, calls it) in the House
of Commons, and Mr. BRAGOi Barmen is to be
the new Secretary for the Home Department, in the
rooni, of Mr. RYDER, who retires,

Mr. Wonmex has given notice of a Motion for an
Address to the Polka REOaWr, praying his Royal
Highness to form a more respectableAdministnttim.
Mn WELLESLEY POLE has declined the Office of
War Minister, but holds his Irish appointment ; and
either Earl BATHURST or Lord PALMERSTON, It 'is
thought, will be Secretary for the War and Colonies,
ad interim►

Stesterclay the I.6an CHANCELLOR, the Earl Of
LIVERPOOL, and Lord CASTLEREAGH, had audiences
of the PRINCE REGENT) at Califon House.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Ccanzatt re•
turned to town yesterday from Bushy.

All the British naval officers in the ,Russian service,
as we stetted on a former occasion, Who had been ordered
I to Moscow, in 1807, had not only been recalled from
thence, but each was promoted to the rank which he
I would have held, provided he had continded to be em-
ployed since the above period. All the,ariears of pay
. are likewise, it is said, to be allowed from 1807.
In order to perform the laborious duties on the
River Thames, it has been found necessary to revive
the-protection to the individuals composing the Corps
of Fencibles, which had lately been cancelled.
'two French teachers, long established in Chester,
were taken up, on Tuesday, by special Messengers
from Government, and all their papers seined; on
I
what charge Ls not yet knows.

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