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their lordships to call for this dis- 

 closure. The Earl of Limerick 

 declared a contrary opinion. 



Lord Grenville, in agreeing as 

 to the impropriety of a present 

 disclosure, hoped he might be per- 

 mitted to stale that in the little 

 share which his noble friend (Lord 

 Grey) and himself had in the 

 transaction, they had nothing to 

 disiiuise or conceal, or that they 

 should not be anxious to have laid 

 before the public whenever the 

 proper time should arrive. He 

 would not have risen on the pre- 

 sent occasion, had it not been for 

 the allusion of the noble marquis 

 to dreadful personal animosities as 

 an obstacle to the arrangement. 

 He could assure their lordships, 

 for his noble friend and himself, 

 that they were actuated by no 

 personal feeling whatever, but 

 solely by considerations of public 

 principle and public interests. 



The Earl of Liverpool, in like 

 maimer, disclaimed lor himself and 

 those who acted with him the per- 

 sonal animosities alluded to. 



The Earl of Moira said that it 

 had been his office in the course 

 of this negotiation to be the hum- 

 ble instrument of conciliation, and 

 deeply lamented that differences 

 and estrangements had rendered 

 his endeavours ineffectual. He 

 then alluded to " points of form," 

 which had stood in the way of 

 conciliation; but said, he was sa- 

 tisfied that it was all misapprelien- 

 sion, and trusted that before the 

 house met again, some arrange- 

 ment would be made satisfactory 

 to the country. 



Earl Grey could not but think 

 that the noble Earl who spoke last 

 had overstepped the line observed 

 by other lords on this occasion. 



He felt anxious to remove any mis- 

 apprehensions to which his expres- 

 sion of " points of form" might 

 give rise, assuring their lordships 

 that his noble friend and he were 

 not actuated by any considerations 

 of " points of form," but by that 

 of principles, which if not funda- 

 mental to the con>titution, were at 

 least essential to the existence of 

 a government with a view to the 

 welfare of the country. He like- 

 wise disclaimed for himself any of 

 that feeling of personal animosity 

 to which the Marquis W. had 

 alluded. 



The house then adjourned. 



In the House of Commons, on 

 June 3rd, Mr. Canning made a 

 similar communication of the Mar- 

 quis Wellesley's having resigned 

 the authority conferred upon him 

 by the Prince Regent. Mr. Mar- ' 

 tin of Galway rose to put a ques- 

 tion on the subject to Mr. Ponson- 

 by, but being called to order, and 

 finding that the sense of the 

 house was against him, he de- 

 sisted. 



When the House of Lords met 

 again on June 5th, the Earl of 

 31oira rose to discharge a duty 

 which hedoubted not that the noble 

 Marquis (Wellesley) would have 

 performed if he had been present 

 in his place. This was to correct 

 a most mischievous application 

 that had been made of his ex- 

 pression relative to " personal ani- 

 mosity," as if it had referred to 

 the feelings of the Prince Regent. 

 He had distinctly to state that no- 

 thing of that quality of animosity 

 existed ; and that, as on the one 

 hand, the illustrious personage did 

 never suggest one individual as a 

 fit member, or make the reserva- 

 tion of a single seat to be filled 



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