APPENDIX to the CHRONICLE. 519 



sing sight of those considerations of 

 duty and propriety, by which the 

 use of such an indulgence must ne- 

 cessarily be regulated and confined. 



It is stated in lord Castlereagh's 

 letter " That I had demanded and 

 procured from the duke of Port- 

 land, before the rising of parlia- 

 ment, a promise for lord Castle- 

 reagh's removal from the war de- 

 partment; that, by this promise, 

 lord Castlereagh's situation, as a 

 minister of the crown, was made 

 dependent upon my pleasure ; and 

 that this promise I afterwards 

 thoughtmyself entitled to enforce;" 



" That, after, and notwithstand- 

 ing this virtual supersession of lord 

 Castlereagh in his office, I allowed 

 him to originate and conduct the 

 expedition to the Seheldt;" 



" And that, during this whole pe- 

 riod, I knew that the agitation, and 

 the decision of the question, for his 

 removal, were concealed from him ; 

 and was party to this concealment." 



Lord Castlereagh indeed admits. 



That he " has no right as a pub- 

 lic man, to resent my demanding 

 upon public grounds, his removal 

 from his office, or even from the 

 administration, as a condition of my 

 continuing a member of the govern- 

 ment." 



But he contends, that a proposi- 

 tion, " justifiable in itself,'' ought 

 not to have been " executed in an 

 unjustifiable manner;" and he 

 makes me responsible for the man- 

 ner in which the *• head of the ad- 

 ministration," and some members 

 of the government, '* supposed to be 

 his (lord Castlereagh's) friends," 

 executed the proposition which he 

 attributes to me. 



He is ready to acknowledge, in- 

 deed, •' that 1 pressed for a disclo- 

 sure, at the same time that I press- 



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edfor a decision ; and that the dis- 

 closure was resisted by the duke of 

 Portland and his (lord Castle- 

 reagh's) supposed friends." 



But, in this circumstance, lord 

 Castlereagh professes not to seeany 

 justification of what he conceives to 

 have been my conduct towards him ; 

 because by acquiescing in the ad- 

 vice or intreaties of his" supposed 

 friends," I admitted, "an authority" 

 on their part, " which I must have 

 known them not to possess ;" be- 

 cause, by "pressing for disclosure," 

 I showed my own sense of the " un- 

 fairness" of concealment ; and be- 

 cause, with that sense, I "ought" (as 

 he conceives me not to have done) 

 " to have availed myself of the 

 same alternative, namely, my own 

 resignation, to enforce disclosure, 

 which I did to enforce decision.'' 



Without ofl'ering a single word in 

 the way of argument, I shall by a 

 distinct detail of facts in order of 

 their date, substantiate my contra- 

 diction of these charges. 



I shall only premise, 



1st, That I had (as is admittedby 

 lord Castlereagh) an unquestion- 

 able right to require, on public 

 grounds, a change in the war de- 

 partment, tendering at the same 

 time the alternative of my own re- 

 signation. 



2dly (What no man at all ac- 

 quainted with the course of public 

 business will dispute) That the re- 

 gular, effectual, and straight-for- 

 ward course for bringing that alter- 

 native to issue, was to state it di- 

 rectly to the " head of the admi- 

 nistration," the king's chief minister 

 to be laid by that minister before 

 the king. 



I proceed to the detail of facts. 



In the beginning of April (the 

 2d) I addressed a letter to the duke 



of 



