Authentic Correspondence and Documents, Explaining the Proceedings of the Marquess Wellesley, and of the Earl of Moira, in the Recent Negotiations for the Formation of an AdministrationRichard Phillips, 1812 - 87 páginas |
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1st of June 3d June 5th June Admi adverted answer Apsley House arrangement Camelford House Canning's Minute circumstances claims Communication to Lord conciliatory adjustment concur considered Country dated 23d DEAR LORD Earl of Liverpool executing His Royal executive government expressed formation Grey and Grenville Grey and Lord Grey to Lord highest regard honour of receiving House of Lords humble servant June 3d lesley Letter to Lord Lord Erskine Lord Grenville Lord Grey Lord Grey's Reply Lord Liverpool Lord Melville Lord Moira's Letter Lord Wel Lord Wellesley Lord Wellesley's Minute Lord Wellesley's Reply Lordship and Lord Lordship's letter Lordship's very faithful ment Moira to Lords nistration obedient object parties Portman Square Prince Regent Prince Regent's authority proposal proposition prosecution Reply to Lord requesting to know respect Roman Catholics Royal Highness Royal Highness's approbation Royal Highness's commands scale of adequate signed by Lord tion Wellesley to Lord wish yesterday
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Página 73 - My Lord, — I have had the honour of receiving your lordship's letter of this day's date.
Página 31 - Regent, we wish to renew, in the most solemn manner, the declaration of our unfeigned desire to have facilitated, as far as was in our power, the means of giving effect to the late vote of the House of Commons, and of averting the imminent and unparalleled dangers of the country. No sense of the public distress and difficulty...
Página 32 - On those two points our explanation shall be as distinct as it is in our power to make it. " On the first, indeed, our opinion is too well known, and has been too recently expressed, to need repetition. " We have derived a very high gratification from Lord Wellesley's powerful exertions in support of the claims of the Roman Catholics; as well as from the manner in which...
Página 81 - Roman Catholic subjects, and the differences now unhappily subsisting with America ; and that Lord Moira had received this commission without any restriction or limitation whatever being laid by the Prince, on their considering any points which they judged useful for his service...
Página 82 - To this Lord Grey and Lord Grenville replied, they also acted on public grounds alone, and with no other feeling whatever than that which arose from the necessity of giving to a new government that character of efficiency and stability, and those marks of the constitutional support of the crown, which were required to enable it to act usefully for the public service...
Página 54 - That his Royal Highness had signified his pleasure, that Lord . Wellesley should conduct the formation of the administration in all its branches, and should be first commissioner of the treasury; and that Lord Moira, Lord Erskine, and Mr. Canning, should be members of the cabinet. That it was probable, that a cabinet formed on an enlarged basis, must be extended to the number of twelve or thirteen members: that the Prince Regent wished Lords Grey and Grenville, on the part of their friends...
Página 82 - That the Prince had laid no restriction upon him in that respect, and had never pointed, in the most distant manner, at the protection of those officers from removal; that it would be impossible for him (Lord Moira), however, to concur in making the exercise of this power positive and indispensable, in the formation of the administration, because he should deem it on public grounds peculiarly objectionable.
Página 43 - ... being in full possession of each other's sentiments upon the subject of them. " The two minutes were written by them as containing the substance of their respective communications; that of Mr. Canning in Lord Liverpool's presence; that of Lord Wellesley immediately after his return from Lord Grey. " There does not appear to Lord Wellesley and Mr. Canning to be any substantial variance in the first proposition. " The word ' early,' in Mr. Canning's minute, might be exchanged for the word
Página 20 - PART n. government the state of the laws affecting the Roman catholics, with a sincere and earnest desire to bring that important question to a final and satisfactory settlement. 2dly. The prosecution of the war in the peninsula, with the best means of the country.
Página 45 - But they concur in entertaining a confident belief, that the great purpose of securing the peace of the empire may be answered, not by giving a triumph to any one party, but by reconciling all. In the substance of the second proposition, there is no variance as to any practical and prospective purpose, though undoubtedly there is, and it is natural there should be, some as to the past, arising from the difference of Mr. Canning's and Lord Wellesley's respective situations. When Mr. Canning says,...