Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1809-11-29

sintrnded as might have healed the divisions
lof Tie, empire, and that from no one would
have been expected derelietlo1 Ct public
principle.
t;Sreat stress las been laid on VIVA: Mr..
PeReyal seated in his last letter, . that he
dedgnot propose an accession to the present,
| but the formation Of new ministry" And
in effect great stress ought to be laid on this
statement, for on this the whole question
turns. Il certainly never was in the con-
temptation Of his majesys present minis
sers to destroy their own political existence;
to abandon their sovereign who had not
Withdrawn his confidence from them; and
then to accept as boon one or more seats
in the cabinet as might happen to suit the
views of his majesty's new advisers. They
would have met those who are their oPPo-
nents upon equal terms. They would not
have bargainrd for places with them; but
to prove the liberality and fairness of their
offer, they would have willingly consented
that the first and leading situation in the ca
binet should have been occupied by lord
Grenville or lord Grey, and thus be taken
from themselves. Had this been the result
of explanation, it could not surely have
been said that there was an intention unfair
ly to bias the royal mind.
Lord Grey, who is in Northumber-
land, is at too great distance to take pre-
sent share in these discussions. If he in
deed were OWN London, he might with
perfec. consistency object to an existing
minister continuing one of the administra-
ton" for with one sweep he openly declares
that his junction with the present ministers
would be impossible. But lord Grenville,
on the contrary, though With lard Grey he
thinks and acts in berjectunison, could not
object to any one individual in the present
cabinet, for more than once in his letter to
Mr.. Perceval he begs that his disavowal of
personal objection may be distinctly under
stood, and therefore to him for such pur-
pose as the one stated, there could be no
want CT exclusive communication with his
sovereign.
Alcommunicalion that could have been
desirable would have been readily granted
to both the noble lords. They have been
called upon by his majesty, as his counsel,
lors, to give their advice, and it would not
therefore be decorous of them to assert,
that in what relates to measures, either past,
present, or perspective, they would not
have had ample means Of delivering their
full opinions. Let it be proved that exclu-
sion from direct previous communication
with their sovereign, was the intended ba-
sis of the treaty, and then we may confess
that the whole tenor of this part of their
argum>utis deserving of attention.
The A20,n;ns' Chronicle of to-day con-
tains I'D article in reply to the observations
we published yesterday, which article We
deem 1t necessary to notice, more for what
it omits, than what it contains, more for
what it conceals than what it confcsses.--
It's whole attention is directed to the dis.
cussion of one point; that the patty calling
upon lord Granville called from the seats of
office. Undoubtedly they did, and how
could they call otherwise, unless they had
committed the indecorum of giving in their
designations, and thus leaving the monarch
without minister But the main point is
this, and we request the public to bear it
the ministers because he had +" objections
to the principles OF their government, and
to the circumstances which attended its for
nations "a he could not therefore C obey
the call without the derilecsion Ct public
principle"
6 BY this declaration his lordship does
declare, that he cannot take Office with any
who have shought it proper that his majes-
ty's conscience should not be forced upon a
point upon which he has given such repeat
ed proofs that his opinion was settled upon
principles which even those who may think
them unwise and unfounded, cannot fail to
respect. His lordship will not take Office
without the Catholic question i. conceded