Star.
London, England, 1828-06-03 00:00:00

(No. 3.)

Doenl-nreei, Slay 1428, half-past six, p.m.
Me nests Duna-- ' "'nig ,indentood from Lord Dudley and
Lord Palmerston, tint you had laid my letter of lase night before
the Kkng, under a different impression from• that which it was in-
tended to convey, I feel it due, both to you and to myself to say,
tharmy object in writing that letter was, not to express any inten-
tionv of my own, but to relieve you from any delicacy which you
might fkel towards me, if you should think that the interests oftis
Waigsty's service would be. prejudiced by my remaining in ofSce,
after giving a vote, in respect to which, from the turn which the
latter part of the debate hadtaken, a sense of personal honour left
me ho alternative.
• Believe me,my dear Duke, yours very sincerely,
(Signed) . W. iIIeISKISSON.
To this letter he received the following reply from the
Noble Doke:

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(No. 4.)
London. May 20, MS.
My .vea Hessueow—l hate reteived yoto letter of this eveniafh
I ortitainly did not understand your lever of two o'clock dill
mooning, as offiting any option; nor do !understand the one of this
evening as leaving me any, ex, epting that of submitting myself and
his Majesty's Government to the necessity of soliciting you to
remain in your office, or of incurring the loss of your valuable as•
.istance to his Alajesty's service. However sensible I may be of
this loss. I am convinced that in these times any loss is better than
that of character, which is the foundation of public confidence.
In this view of the case, I have put out of it altogether every
consideration of the discredit resulting from the scene of last night ;
of the extent of which you could nut but have been sensible when
you thought proper, as a remedy for It, to send me the offer of
" placing your office in -ether hands."
Ever, my dear Huskisson,
Yours most sincerely,
(Signed) WELLINGTON.
The Right Hon. W. Huskislon.
He most deny the imputation contained in this litter,
that he wished the Noble Duke to continue him in office
at the loss of public character. Had he entertained an
opinion contrary to his colleagues, and said to them,
that if they would rot give up their opinions to his he
would resign, then compliance, he would admit, might
be loss of character. But the offence nt which he had
been guilty seemed, at the utmost, to require no more
than to tell him that he haJ done wrong, if, after his
explanation should be heard, that could be thought to
be the case. Instead of which it was treated as if he had
laid a trap for hi, colleagues. He replied to this letter
of the Noble Duke in the letter he should now read to
the House :
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(No. 5.)
Colonial Offioe, May 21, 1828.
MY bean Duscr—ln j.tstice to myself, I cannot-acquiesce for a
moment in the construction which your letter of last night puts
upon my conduct.
You cannot refuse to me the right of knowing the motives of my
own actions, and I solemnly declare that, in both my letters, I was
actuated Uy one and the same feeling. It was simply this—that it
was not for tee, but for yeu, as the head of the Government, to decide
bow far my vote made it expedient to remove me from his Ma.
jesty's service. I felt that I bad no alternative, consistently with
personal honour (in a difficulty not of my own seeking or creating),
but to give that vote; that the question in itself was one of minor
importance; that the disunion was more in appearance than in
reality; but I also felt that, possibly, you might take a different
view of it, and that, in case you should, I ought (as I had done on a
similar OCCASitHI with Lord Liverpool) to relieve you front any
difficulty arising out of personal consideration towards me, in de-
ciding upon a step to which you might find it your public duty to
resort on the occasion.
It was under this impression alone that I wrote to you imme-
diately upon my return from the House of Commons.
If you bad not misconceived that impression, as well as the pur-
port of my second letter, I am persuaded that you could not sup-
pose me guilty of the arrogance of expecting " that you and his
Majesry's Government should submit yourselves to the necessity of
soliciting me to remain in my office," or do me the injustice of
believing that I could be capable of placing you in the alternative
of choosing between the continuance of my services (such as they
are) and the loss to your administration of one particle of character
which, I agree with you. is the foundation of public confidence.
If, understandidg my communication as I intended it to be un-
derstood, you had, in any way, intimated to me, either that the
occurrence, however unfortunate, was not one of sufficient moment
to render it necessary for you, on public grounds, to act in the
manner in which I had assunitd that you possibly might think it
necessary, or that you were under that necessity, in either case
there would have been an end of the matter. In the first supposi•
lion, I shoyld have felt that I had done what, in honour and fair•
nese towards you, I was bound to do; but it never could have es.'
tried my imagination that I had claimed, or received any sacrifice
whatever from you, or any Member of his Majesty's Government.
On the other hand, nothing can be further from my intention
than to express an opinion that the occasion was not eine in which
you might fairly consider it your duty to advise his Majesty to
withdraw from me the seals of office, on the ground of this vote. 1
do nor. therefore, complain ; but I cannot allow that my removal
shall be placed on any otter ground—l cannot allow that it was my
own act: still less can I admit, that when I had no otherinteution
than to relieve the question on which you had to decide from any
personal embarrassment, this step en my part should be ascribed to
feelings the very reverse of those by which alone I was actilated,
either towards you or his Majesty's Government.
Believe me to be, my dear Duke,
Yours' very sincerely,
(Sinned) W. DUSK ISSON.
He soon after received the following letter from the
Duke of Wellington:

(No. 6.)'
London, May gl, 1848.
MY IMAR HUMISSON—In consequence of your last letter, I feel
to be necessary to recal to your recollection the circumstances
under which I received y,,ur letter of Tuesday morning.
It is addressed to me at two o'clock in the morning, immediately
after a debate and division in the House of Consmons. It informs
me that you lose no time in affording me an opportunity of placing
your office in other hands, as the only mears in your power of pre
ventlit an injury to rite King's service, which you describe. It
concludes by " regretting the necessity of troubling me with this
communication." •
Could I consider this in any other light than as a formal tender of
the resignation of your office, or that I had any alternative but
either to solicit you to r-tioitin in office contrary. tolvor loose of
duty, or to submit y..ur letter to the King?
If si,,u had called me the next morning after you! vote, and
had explained to me in conversation what hid passed ih the House
of Commons, the character of the communication would have been
quite different ; and I might have felt myself at liberty to disown
the whole subject with t.lll, and freely to give an opinion upon any
point connected with it. But I must still think that if I had not
considered a letter, couched in the terms in which that letter is
couched, and received under the circunistantei under which I re.
ceived it, as a tender of resignation, and had nct laid it before the
King, I should have exposed the King's Government and myself
to very painful misconstructions. My answer to your letter will"
i have informed you that it surpriwil me much, and that it gave Me
peat concern. I must consider, therefore, the resignation of your
other as your own act, and not as mine.
Ever yours moat sincerely,
(Signed) WELLINGTON.
The Right Hon. W. Huskisson.
When he received this letter, he considered the question
of his remaining in office at an end; but he had one
great object on his mind, for which he felt it his duty
to ask an audience of the King. That he did on the
Tuesday. On the Friday he communicated to the Noble
Duke through a Noble Friend, that nothing could be
further from his intention than to complain of the
manner in which he had been removed from his ()Ace;
but when he considered that in his letter which had
been taken to the King, and which he could not
'doubt had been represented to his Majesty as a resig-
nation. of his office, there was not one expression of
gratitude for the' many favours he hisd received ;
not one expression of regret at withdrawing from
his Majesty's service ; he did think he was bound to
endeavour to procure an audience for the purpose of
expressing his feelings towards his Majesty. The Noble
Duke said to the Noble Friend who made this column-
nication for him, that he did not consider the matter at
an end--drat he (Mr.-}luskissonj was a man of sense—
(A laugh)—He thought, he was bound to state the No-
ble Duke's observation correctly—that he was a man of
Hulse, and must know what was necessary to be done to
settle the matter. On receiving this comntunitation
through Isis Noble Friend, he stated to that Noble
Friend that he was most anxious that there should be
no misunderstanding ; but he could ant guess what it
was expected he should do; whether it was expected
that he should play a game of political blindman's buff,
that the dress circles by which his Grace was sut rounded
might laugh at his tumbles. On Sunday mo!ning, his
Noble Friend called on him, and told hint it was not
tended that he should have an audience of his Majesty..
His Noble Friend had also another communication to
make from the Duke of Wellington, .which, however,
he did not make, probably thinking it .savoated.too
much• of military command- that eonitnenicotiort: was,
that at two o'clock that day the, time wooickosigre for
hit availing himself of the reeource stilllek open to bind.
His Noble Friend did not communicate this message
probably not thinking it in accordance with the ctrl

ter rier...(4km'.) He thin WON td the. bake of We
lington the following Wavy.%
(No: • •
Downing street, 25th May, 1828.
Mr ores Dtme—On Tuesday last I wrote to the King to solicit
an audience. His Majesty has not yet been pleased to grant me
this honour.
In the expectation (not unnatural for me to entertain in the
situation which I hold) of being afforded an opportunity of waiting
upon his Majesty, I have deferred acknowledging your letter of
the 21st. which, passing by altogether all that is stated in mine of
the sante date. you conclude in the following words—" I must,
therefore, consider the resignation of your office as your own act
and not as mine."
I will not revert to the full explanation which I have alreadf
given you on this subject. No: denying that thy first letter might
be capable of the construction which you put upon it, I would
.ask you whether it would be usual, after a. construction has been
from the first moment explicitly disavowed, to persist that it is tile
right one? It being, however, the construction to which you
adhere, I must assume, as you laid the letter before his Majetty,
that you advised his Majesty Upon it. and that his Majesty is, there-
fore, under the same misapprehension as yourself of what I meant;
the more especially, as I have no means of knowing whether any',
subsequent letters have been laid before his Majesty:
It was for the ptirpese of setting right any erroneous impression
on the Royal mind that I sought to be admitted as soon as possible
into his Mejesty's.preeence.
I was then, as I am still, most anxious to assure his Majesty,
that nothing could have been further front my intention, than that
the letter in question should have beets at all submitted to hie
Majesty—to make known to his Majesty the circumstances andl
feelings under which it had been written—to point out to him that
I had taken the precaution (usual between Ministers in matters of
a delicate and confidential nature, when it is wished to keep the
subject, as much as possible, confined to the respective parties) of
marking the letter 0 private and confidential th it I utiderstooa
that this letter so marked.specially to gbard its object, had been,'
without previous communication of any sort with me, in respect to
the transaction referred to, but not explained in the letter itself,
laid before his Majesty, as conveying :o the lout of the Throne ray
positive resignation.
I should further have had to state to his Majesty the great pain
and concern which I felt at finding that a paver should have been'
submitted to his Majesty, and de'crihed to him as convoying my
resignation of the &al+, in a ferns eis unusual, and with a reAttic-
tion su unbecoming towards my Sovereign, as is i iiii died in the
words " private and confidential ;" that in a necessity no jEtiliftil
(had I felt such a necessity) ait that of asking his al:•;,-ry's pormis-
-.ion to withdraw from his service, my first anxiety would have been
to lay my reasons, in a respectful, but direct communicanon trom
myself, at his Majesty's feet; but that, most certainly, in whatever
mode conveyed the uppermost feeling of my heart would have been
to have accompanied if with those expressions of dutiful attach-
ment and respectful gratitude which I owe to his Majesty tor the
many and uniform proofs of confidence and kindrnos with which
he has been graciously pleased to honour me since I have held the
Seals of the Colonial Department.

If I had been afforded an opportuulty of thus relieving myself
from the painful position in which I stand towards his Majesty. I
should then have entreated of his Majesty's goodness and sett.e of
justice to permit a letter, so improper for me to have written (it it
could have been in my contemplation that it would have been Lid
before his Majesty as an act of resignation) to be withdtawn.—
Neither should I have concealed from his iMsjesty Jny r. gret, con.
sidering the trouble which has unfortunately occurred, both to his
Majesty and his Government, that I had not taken a different
mode of doing what for the reasons fully stated in my letter of the
21st, I found myself hound in honour to do; so as to have pre.
vented, perhaps, the misconception arising out of my letter, written
immediately after the debate.
I have now stated to you frankly, and without reserve, the sub-
stance of all that I was anxious to submit to the King. I have
done so in the full confidence that you will do me the favour to
lay this statement before his Majesty ; and that I may be allowed
to implore of his Majesty that he will do me the justice to believe
that, of.all who have a right to prefer a claim to be admitted to
his Royal presence, I am the last who, in a matter relating to my-
self, would press that claim in a manner unpleasant to his Majesty s
wishes or inclinations. I bow to them with respectful deference.
still. retaining, however, a confidence, founded on the et-encode of
my intentions, that in being removed from his Majesty's service, I
may be allowed the consolation of knowing that I have not been
debarred from the privilege of my office in consequence of my
having incurred his 'Majesty's personal displeasure.
Believe me, my dear Duke.
Yours very sincerely,
W. H USK TSSON.

His Grace the Duke of Wellington, K. G. &c. &c. &c.
This letter was carried to Apsley House at five o'clock
on Stinday.'.,At half-past seven o'clock the same day,
he received, the following letter from the Duke of
Wellington

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