SoO ANNUAL REGISTER, 1812. 



(Copy.) 

 Gloucester Lodge, Sfinday night. 



May 17, 1812. 

 My dear Wellesley, — I have just 

 received from Lord Liverpool a 

 letter, of which the inclosed is a 

 copy. I transmit it to you to be 

 added, according to his desire, to 

 the copy of the minute of his ver- 

 ba] communication of this morning. 

 Ever affectionately your's, 



G.C. 



Copy in No, 3. 



Lord Liverpool to Mr. Canning. 

 (Private) 

 Fife-house, May 17, 1812. 



My dear Canning, — I think, 

 upon reflection, it is due to Lord 

 Castlereagh to state, in writing, 

 what I mentioned to you, verbally, 

 that from motives of delicacy, he 

 absented himself from the cabinet, 

 on the occasions on which the 

 subject in your memorandum was 

 determined. 



I did not, however, make the 

 communication to you without 

 having reason to know that he 

 would be no obstacle in the way 

 of an arrangement, founded on 

 the principles in the memorandum, 



I will beg of j^ou to communi- 

 cate this letter to any persons to 

 whom you may communicate the 

 memorandum. 



(Signed) Liverpool, 



No. 4. 

 Copy of a Letter from Marquis 

 . Wellesley to the Earl of Liver- 

 pool, transmitting Lord W.'s Re- 

 ply to Lord Liverpool's Proposal. 



Apsley-house, May 18, 1812, 

 half-past three p.m. 

 My dear Lord, — I inclose a 

 paper, containing my reply to the 



Cammunication which you were bo 

 kind as to make to nie yesterday. 

 Although I find myself compelled 

 to decline the propot-al which you 

 conveyed, 1 request you to accept 

 my grateful thanks for the arnica-, 

 ble and satisfactory manner in 

 which you communicated with me; 

 and to be assured, that 1 shall 

 always entertain the most sincere 

 and cordial sentiments of personal 

 respect and esteem for you. 



Believe me, my dear lord, most 

 sincerely yoiir's, 



(Signed) Wellesley. 



In No. 4. 

 Lord Wellesley's Reply to Lord Li- 

 verpool's Proposition. 



Apsley-house, May 18. 



From the communicaiion receiv- 

 ed through Lord Liierpool, 1 un- 

 derstand, that his Royal Highness 

 the Prince Regent has been graci- 

 ously pleased to signify his desire 

 of strengthening his administra- 

 tion upon its present basis, by asso- 

 ciatiiig me with it, as one of those 

 persons, who agree most nearly and 

 generally in the principles upon 

 which public affairs have been con- 

 ducted. 



From the same communication 

 I also derive the gratifying intelli- 

 gence, that all Lord Liverpool's 

 colleagues have authorised him to 

 express a disposition to act with me* 

 under an arrangement, consistent 

 with their own honour and duty, 

 and honourable and satisfactory to 

 me. 



I receive this notification of the 

 Prince Regent's commands with 

 every sentiment of duty and affec- 

 tion, while it affords me matter of 

 just satisfaction, that, to the dis- 

 tinguished honour of such conde- 

 scending notice from his Royal 



Highness, 



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