jesty’s. ministers, for that direct 
purpose; especially when the ho. 
nour of my character and my fu- 
ture fame in life were so deeply in- 
volved in the consideration. For, 
I must here emphatically again re- 
peat, ‘‘ idle, inactive rank was never 
in my view; and.that military rank, 
with its consequent command, was 
_ NEVER oud of it.” 
~ Feeling how useless, as well as 
ungracious, controversy is, upon 
every occasion, and knowing how 
fatally.it operates on human friend- 
ship, I must entreat that our cor- 
- respondence on this subject shall 
' cease here; for nothing could be 
_ more distressing to me, than to pro- 
Jong a topic, on which, it is now 
_ clear to me, my dtar brother, that 
_ youand I can never agree, Ke. | 
(Signed) G,.P. 
His Royal. Highness the 
_ Duke of York. 
$ 
Copy of a Leiter from the Right Hon. 
Henry Addington, dated Richmond 
Park, Oct. 23, 1803. 
Sinai bu 
In consequence of some intelli- 
~ gence which has reached me, I am 
impelled, by a sense of duty to your 
royal highness, and to the public, 
_to express an earnest and: anxious 
hope, that you may be induced to 
postpone your return to Brighton 
~ until I shall have had an oppor- 
_ tunity of making further inquiries, 
and of stating the result of them to 
your royal highness. 
I have the honour to be, with 
_the utmost deference and respect,’ 
4 ; Sir, 
_ Your royal highness’s faithful _ 
And most humble servant, 
7: Henry Addington, 
The Prince of Wales. 
P 
: APPENDIX to the CHRONICLE. 
STS 
Answer. 
Carlton House, OG. 24, 
Sir, 
By your grounding your letter 
to me upon intelligence which has 
just reached you, | apprehend that 
you allude to information which 
leads you to expect some immediate 
attempt from the enemy. My wish 
to accommodate myself to any thing 
which you represent as material to 
the public service, would, of course, 
make me desirous to comply with 
your request ;, but if there be rea- 
son to imagine that invasion will 
take place direcily, I am bound, by 
the. king’s precise order, and by 
that honest zeal which is not allow- 
ed any fitter sphere for its. aétion, 
to hasten instantly to my regiment. 
{f 1 learn that my construétion of 
the word intelligence be right, I 
must deem it necessary to repair to 
Brighton immediately, &c. &c. 
(Signed) G. P. 
Right Hon. Henry Addington. z 
Correspondence between the Right 
Hon. the Lord Chancellor of Tree 
land and the Earl of Fingalt. 
(No. 1.) 
From the Right Hon. the Lord Chan- 
cellor of Lreland, to the Right Hon. 
the Earl of Fingall. 
Ely Place, Dublin, 
My lord,” Aug, 18, 1803. 
According to your lordship’s re- 
quest, I have signed, with great plea- 
Sure, a warrant for your lordship’s 
appointment to be a justice of the 
peace for the county of Meath. 
At this moment, my lord, it is 
peculiarly important that every per. 
son entrusted specially with the 
preser- 
