The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1812-07-24


GLoucksTEH LopcE, May IL. 1912.
My DEAR NELLksLEY,
inciose the INMATE which have taken
IN Lord LiverpoUifs presence of the prupo-
sal " HIGH he was charged to convey to me.
Ever, my dear Wellesley,
Sincerely and afteCtionately, yours,
(SignedD GEORGE CANNING.
L. ,. shall return written answer to
Lord Liverpool Tomorrow.
QNCLOSuRE-No.1 ~
Minute OF Conversation between MIR. Can
rins and Lord Liverpool. dated 18th
May, 1912.
GLOUCESTER LODGE,
Sunday, May IL, 1912.
Lord Liverpool state Il to me that he wa.
commanded by his Royal Highuess ths
Prince Regent to make me the following
communication
That upon the melancholy event of Mr..
PercevaPs death his Royal Highness being
DESTROYS of continuing his Administration
upon its present basis, was DESTROYS also of
Strengthening it as much as possible. by as
sociating to it such persons in public life as
agreed most nearly and generally in the
principles upon which public affairs had
been Conducted
That with this view his Royal Highness
naturally looked to Lord Wellesley and to
me;
That he Uord Liverpool) was authorized
to express the disposition of all his col
leagues to act with Lord Wellesley and me.
under an arrangement which might be at
once Consistent with their own honour and
duty, and honorable and satisfactory to us
ma: with respect to Lord Castlereagh, il
was fair that it should be distinctly under
stood, that the situation in which he stands
ooth In this Government and in the House
OF Commons, was to be preserved to Inn
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ments. he Lord L.) would not have been
the bearer of any proposition to me, but
one winch was understood as comprising my
friends. In answer to a question put by me
Lord l.. stated that his colleagues were de-
sirous, that he should be appointed to the
| sihce OF First Lord of the Treasury, and
that this desire was known to the Prince
Regent. when II. r. H. commanded Lord
Liverpool to undertake this communication
Lord Liverpool added, that he was rea-
uy TO answer any other enquiry that might
wish to make or to clear up any thing
that ne might have imperfectly explained.
sand, that thought it better to receive his
communication just as he gave it to me
ana to defer making any remark, or giving
any answer whatever, until should have
communicated it to my friends Lord
Liverpool himself, undertaking to see Lord
Wellesley:
= "Nuiu oHil tiCTCiOIe, 2SR-W neither
was to consider the opinion and policy of the
Government as remaining altogether un-
changed upon the question relating to the
Laws affecting the Roman Catholics
Lord Liverpool answered, that his own
opinions upon this subject remained I'M
changed and that ks was not aware that
those OF his Colleagues had undergone any
change.
then wrote this Minute in Lord Liver
L., 4.
suggested such corrections as appeared to
him necessary for making it perfectly accu-
rate.
(Signed) GEORGE CANNING.
May II, 1912.
| No. III.
MINUTE of CONVERSATION between Lord
WELLESLEY and Lord LIVERPOOL. 18th
| May 1912.
| Apsley House, 18th May, 1912, IA past
3, p. m.--Lord Liverpool came to me i'm
Hediately after his visit to Mr.. Canning, &
remained with me for about half an hour.
soon after Lord Liverpool's departure, | re-
eeiyed the annexed paper from Mr.. Can
ninC.*
Lord Liverpool's conversation with me
was substantially the same as that which is
described to have passed with Mr.. Canning.
Any difference which appeared, arose ne
cessarlly from my questions and observati-
O'i', WCfC HldOG WITHOUT any Know
ledge OF what passed between Lord Liver
pool and Mr.. Canning. After receiving
Lord LiverpooPs verbal communication,
nearly In the terms stated by Mr.. Canning,
enqulred, Qs) what was to be the policy
OF the government with relation to the Ro-
man Catholics
10 this question Lord Liverpool returned
the same answer stated in Mr.. Canning's
paper to have been returned to a similar
question: 2dly, observed to Lord Liver
pool mat he was appi1sed of my opinion,
that our efforts in the Peninsula had been
conducted on an Inadequate and imperfect
scale, which could not be expected to &C
compl'st the ultimate objects of the war i'm
that quarter. That had for long time
considered an extension Of our system in the
PENINSULA to be indispensibly necessary, and
easily practicable; that / was aware Of the
lmpropriety Tin M present situation) of urg-
ing any detailed questions to Lord Liverpool
on thus point but, that | mentioned it now.
because 1T must form principal considera-
ton III my answer to the proposition Which
he had brought to me.
Lord Liverpool said, that he did not a
gree Ill my opinion respecting the scale of
the efforts which we had hitherto made i'm
the Peninsula, which he thought as great
as IL had been possible to make that there
never had been any limit TO our exertions IN
thatqaarter but what arose ont of the uues-
ton OF practcability THAT is, the means of
increasing and supplying DIR armiesO and