S70 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1812. 



That his Royal Highness left 

 the selection of the name? to Lords 

 Grey and Grenville without any 

 exception or personal exclusion. 



That in completing the new ar- 

 rangement, the Prince Regent has 

 granted to Lord Wellesley entire 

 liberty to propose for his Royal 

 Highness's approbation, the names 

 of any persons now occupying 

 stations in his Royal Highness's 

 councils, or of any other persons. 



That if the proposition made to 

 Lords Grey and Grenville, should 

 be accepted as the outline of an 

 arrangement, all other matters 

 would be discussed with the most 

 anxious solicitude to promote har- 

 mony and general accommodation. 

 Wellksley. 



No. 18. 

 Lord Grey to Lord Wellesley, 



dated 2nd June, on the subject 



of No. 17. 



Camelford House, 

 jMwe2wd, 1812. 



My Lord, — I lost no time in 

 sending for Lord Grenville, and 

 have communicated to him, since 

 his arrival, the proposal made to 

 ine yesterday by your lordship. 



We have felt the necessity of a 

 further communication with our 

 friends, and this, I fear, will make 

 it impossible for us to send our 

 final answer to the minute which 

 I had the honour of receiving from 

 your lordship yesterday evening, 

 till a late hour to-right, or early 

 to-morrow morning. 



To obviate, however, as far as I 

 can, any inconvenience which 

 might arise from this delay, I 

 think it right to state to your lord- 

 ship, that the feeling which I 

 yesterday expressed to you, as to 

 the nature of the proposal which 



you were authorised by the Prince 

 Regent to make to Lord Grenville 

 and me, has been confirmed by 

 subsequent reflection, as well as 

 bj' the opinion of Lord Grenville, 

 and, indeed, of every person with 

 whom I have hitherto had an op- 

 portunity of consulting. 



I have the honour to be, with 

 the highest regard, my lord, your 

 lordship's very faithful, humble 

 servant. Grey. 



No. 19. 



Letters from Lords Grey and Gren- 

 ville to Lord Wellesley. 



Camelford House, 

 Junes, 1812. 



My Lord, — We have considered 

 with the most serious attention the 

 minute which we have had the 

 honour to receive from your lord- 

 ship ; and we have communicated 

 it to such of our friends as we have 

 had the opportunity of consulting. 



On the occasion of a proposal 

 made to us under the authority of 

 his royal highness the Prince Re- 

 gent, we wish to renew, in the most 

 solemn manner, the declaration of 

 our unfeigned desire to have fa- 

 cilitated, 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 im- 

 minent and unparalleled dangers 

 of the country. No sense of the 

 public distress and difficulty — no 

 personal feelings of whatever de- 

 scription, would have prevented 

 us under such circumstances, from 

 accepting, with dutiful submission, 

 any situations in which we could 

 have hoped to serve his royal 

 highness usefully and honourably: 

 but it appears to us, on the most 

 dispassionate reflection, that the 



proposal 



