The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-12-05
Lord Liverpool your lordship,s letter Of this

learnt from it, that your lordship feels your.
self under the necessity of declining the com
Imunication which have had the honor to
propose.
In proposing to your lordship and lord
Grey, under his majesty's authority, TO com
municate with Lord Liverpool and myself.
not for the accession Of your lordship to the
present administration, but for the purpose
of forming combined aad extended admi-
ustration, no idea existed in our minds of
the necessity of any dcreliction of public
principle on either side.
"Your Lordship may rest assured. that in
commune ating to his majesty the necessity
under which you feel yourself of declining
the communication which l had the honor to
propose to your Lordship, I will do every
justice to the respectful terms, and the du
tiful and sincere assurance of your Lortship's
UNMARRIED zeal for his nnajesty's service, with
which the expression of that necessity was
accompanied.
~ cannot conclude without expressing
the satisfaction of Lord Liverpool and my
self, at Your Lordship's assurance, that the
failure of this proposal is not to be ascribcd
to any sentiment of personal hostility.
(signed) "sr. PERCEvAL.
&" Lord GrenyiUe."
To this last paper it is understood, that no
reply was judged necessary.
1t had not, like the former, the character
ct an authoriz cd communication. 1t profes-
sed to be written before his majesty's plea
sure had been received and it contained,
therefore, nothing more than the individual
remarks of the Earl Of Liverpool and Mr.
Perceyal.
The distinction between an accession to
the present ministry, and an extension Of il,
is purely verbal. Had the services of any
statesman been deemed useful in forming
new government, no doubt such persons,
whoever they might be, would have been no.
nored with the kings personal commands to
that effect. This is the invariab!e practice
ON such occasions, dictated by reason and
common sense. To require them te treat
for forming part OF the kings government
before they are admitted to his presence,
and to submit to their sovereign their own
views OF men and measures, through the
mouths of the ministers, whose conduct they
have rsprobated, would be to deny to them
all means OF doing justice, either to them
solves or to the public.-Such condition has
never yet been imposed upon any public men
in any of the changes of this eventful reign,
nor indeed in any other period of our histo-
ry. 1t was reserved to the singular circum-
stances of the present moment, to exhibit
Charles w. his censort, and the Prince of
the Peace. are still at Marseiiles. The es-
adjustment of the ex king and queen was
considerably reduced and the payments for
maintainingit SO irregular and precarious,
that they were reduced to the necessity of
selling part Of their jewels to provide for
their subsistence.
BoNApARrE's NOTIFICATIONS
following account of NapoIeon's late illness,
IS copied from a respectable Sunday paper:
" A gentleman, who left Paris, so short a
time ago as Saturday, the 5eth ult. confirms
the rumours which have reached us from
various quarters, of the indisposition of Boz
naparte. His malady was violent fever.
accompanied with delirium, brought on by
an imprudent exposure of his person to the
air while in a strong perspiration. 1t oc.
Cured towards the latter end of August. He
had been occupied during the whole of the
forenoon OF a very hot day in reviewing
corps OF the army, and directing some ma.
n9uvres, and had just returned to Schoen.
6runn, when an ambassador extraordinary,
WITH letter from the Emperor of Russia,
arrived Without resting himself, or seek.
ing corporeal refreshment from change of
clothes, he desired the ambassador to be in
troduced, and having read the letter, he
Withdrew with him into the garden of the
palace, where he remained for more than
two hours in conversation the whole of
which time, according to the reports at Pa
ris, his head was uncovered. In the course
OF the night, he felt himself indisposed, and
before the close of the following evening
he was considered, by the physicians in at
tendance. to be IN so dangerous state, that
expresses were sent off to Paris for further
medical assistance. The strength of his con
stitution, however, triumphed over the dis
ease, and before the end of the month he
was declared ConvalesceBt. The army. for
obvious reasons, was kept ignorant of his
ihdisposition. The hasty departure of the
medical men, first excited any suspicion on
that head at Paris, where, we understand.
SO far as an opinion could be formed from
words and "shows of grief" the people in
general we're much afflicted by the inte,li-
gence. Whether this was the prevailin,-
sentiment in other parts of France, our in
fornant had not an opportunity of Judging"
CorreSflondence Of Lord Cast[ereaph and
Mr.. Canning.
we have received the following letters
which we lay before the public, as sent us -
10 the Editor of Bells Weekly Messenger.
SIR,
ne letters which passed between lord
Castlereagh and MIR. Canning, having been
privately circulated by their respective
friends, have at last, after much pains,
obtained copy Of them, which enclose for
insertion in your useful paper. You may
depend upon their authenticity.
Your constant reader,
Brompton, Oct. 6. BY.
80. JameS'S Square, 10th SEPT. 1909.