36'i ANNUAL REGISTER, 1S12. 



to writing, and tiow submits it to 

 Lord Grey and Lord Grenville. 



Wellesley. 



No. 5. 

 Lord Moira's Letter to Lord Wel- 

 lesley, dated May 23rd, relative 

 to No. 4. 



St. Jameses Place, 

 Mai/ 23rd, ISU. 



My lord, — I have the honour to 

 acknowledge the receipt of a copy 

 of the minutes of the conversation 

 •which your lordship held with 

 Lords Grey and Grenville ; and I 

 feel much indebted for the com- 

 munication accompanying them. 



The proposed consideration of 

 the Catholic claims, and the adop- 

 tion of a system of support to 

 the Spaniards, such as may be really 

 capable of producing a decisive 

 result, are the two points of po- 

 licy which I have long thought 

 the most urgent for the benefit of 

 the country. The question rela- 

 tive to the Orders in Council may 

 be deemed as in effect settled by 

 the evidence adduced before the 

 two Houses : and the active cor- 

 rection of internal abuses must be 

 confidently assumed as the object 

 of such a ministry as is likely to 

 be formed through your instru- 

 mentality. A plan of govern- 

 ment, therefore, on the basis pro- 

 posed by your lordship, would 

 have my most cordial wishes. 

 Allow me to say, that this is 

 not to convey any implication of 

 engagement to accept office. This 

 is not mentioned from the re- 

 motest regard to the possible dis- 

 tribution of situations ; nor does 

 it involve objections to any indivi- 

 dual, as there is nothing I should 

 so much deprecate in the present 



state of public affairs, as a spirit of 

 exclusion. Indeed, the candour 

 and delicacy manifested by your 

 lordship in these communications, 

 area perfect pledge that the details 

 of arrangements could not but be 

 entirely satisfactory. 



I have the honour, my lord, 

 to be with high esteem, your lord- 

 ship's very obedient and humble 

 servant, Moira. 



No. 6. 



Lord Lansdowne's Letter to Lord 

 Wellesley, dated May '23rd, re- 

 lative to No. 4. 



Berkeley-square, Saturday 

 night. May 23rd. 



My lord. — I am exceedingly 

 sorry not to have been at home 

 when your lordship did me the 

 honour of calling at my house this 

 morning, and am much obliged by 

 the trouble you have taken in 

 sending for my consideration, a 

 copy of the minute of the commu- 

 nication made by your lordship to 

 Lord Grey and Lord Grenville. 



As Lord Grey and Lord Gren- 

 ville thought proper to acquaint 

 me confidentially with that com- 

 munication, as well as the mi- 

 nute of the answer they proposed 

 to i-eturn to it; and as I generally 

 concur in the sentiments they 

 have there stated, I shall take 

 the liberty of referring your lord- 

 ship to that paper, and shall only 

 add there is no part of it in which 

 I more cordially coincide with 

 them, than in the expression of 

 the gratification they have derived 

 from your powerful exertions in 

 support of the claims of the Roman 

 catholics, and from the manner 

 in which that subject is adverted 

 to in your minute. 



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