APPENDIX. LETTERS AND EXTRACTS OF LETTERS FROM KING GEORGE THE THIRD TO MR. PITT. [There are no drafts among Mr. Pitt's MSS. of his letters to the King dated April 21 and May 6, nor yet of his letter to the Lord Chancellor for His Majesty's perusal dated May 2, 1804. Copies of these important papers are, however, happily preserved, and have been most kindly communicated to me by William Dacres Adams, Esq., who was then Private Secretary to Mr. Pitt. S.] Mr. Pitt to the King.1 Endorsement on the Copy. (Transmitted through the Lord Chancellor on Sunday, 22nd April, and delivered by him to the King on Friday, 27th.) SIR, York Place, April 21, 1804. It is with great reluctance that I presume to trespass on your Majesty's attention; but, as the view 1 The reader will not fail to ob- | from the first person to the third, serve in these letters, as established according as Mr. Pitt was, or was form required, the change of address | not, in the King's service. I entertain of public affairs will shortly render it my indispensable duty in Parliament to declare more fully and explicitly than I have done hitherto my opinions on the conduct of your Majesty's present Ministers, I cannot help feeling a most anxious wish previously to lay those opinions before your Majesty. Your Majesty will do me the justice to recollect that, on retiring from your Majesty's service, it was my first wish to be enabled to give every degree of support and assistance in my power to those to whom your Majesty confided the administration of your affairs. I continued to give this support and assistance with the utmost zeal and cordiality as long as it was possible for me to do so consistently with my sincere and honest opinions on the state of public affairs; and even long after I saw considerable reason for highly disapproving many important parts of the conduct of Government, I still abstained from joining in any system of Parliamentary opposition. During the whole period since the commencement of the present war, although I have throughout seen but too much reason to lament the want of any vigorous and well-considered system on the part of Ministers adapted to the new and critical state of affairs, my great object has been, instead of seeking opportunities for censure, to contribute as far as I could, by the humble efforts of an individual, to supply what I have considered as important omissions, and to recommend more adequate measures for the defence of the country. The experience of now nearly twelve months, and the observation of all the different measures which have been suggested or adopted by Government, and of the mode in which they have been executed, have at length impressed me with a full conviction that while the administration remains in its present shape, and particularly under the direction of |