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so many of the immediate friends 

 of lord Castlereagh upon the con- 

 dition that it should be reconciled 

 to lord Castlereagh's feelings, and 

 when theyand your lordship among 

 the first had devised and concerted 

 with the king's first minister the 

 mode of carrying that object mto 

 execution, I cannot help thinking 

 that I should have been much, and 

 justly blamed, if 1 had insisted 

 upon taking the communication to 

 lord Castlereagh out of yourhancB 

 into my own. 



I now come to your lordship's 

 statement. That statement is as 

 follows — 



" As it may be inferred, from 

 a statement which has appeared 

 in the public papers, that lord 

 Camden withheld from lord Cas- 

 tlereagh a communication which he 

 had been desired to make to him, 

 it is necessary that it should be un- 

 derstood, that however Mr. Can- 

 ning might have conceived the 

 communication alluded to, to have 

 been made to lord Camden, it was 

 never stated to lord Camden, that 

 the communication was made at the 

 desire of Mr. Canning ; and, so far 

 from lord Camden having been 

 authorized to make the communi- 

 cation to lord Castlereagh, he 

 was absolutely restricted from so 

 doing. 



" As it may also be inferred that 

 lord Camden was expected to pre- 

 pare lord Castlereagh's mind for 

 any proposed change, it is necessary 

 that it should be understood, that 

 lord Camden never engaged to 

 communicate to lord Castlereagh 

 any circumstances respecting it, 

 before the termination of the ex- 

 pedition. 



Morning Chronicle, Oct. 19th. 



This statement appears to me to 

 have been much misunderstood. It 

 has been construed, as if your lord- 

 ship had meant to aver that what 

 you were restricted from doing ani 

 what you had not engaged to doy 

 were one and the same thing ;— 

 whereas your lordship's statement, 

 in point of fact, contains two dis- 

 tinct propositions, and refers to two 

 separate periods of time. 



The period during which your 

 lordship states yourself to have 

 been " absolutely restricted" from 

 making a communication to lord 

 Castlereagh, extends from the 28th 

 of April on which day the first 

 communication was made by the 

 duke of Portland to your lordship, 

 to the time at which the proposed 

 arrangement, for the new distribu- 

 tion of the business of the war de- 

 partment was superseded by your 

 lordships tender of your resigna- 

 tion. 



The period during which your 

 lordship states yourself " not to 

 have engaged " to make a commu- 

 nication to lord Castlereagh, ex- 

 tends from the time of the tender 

 of yourlordship's resignation, to the 

 termination of the expedition to 

 the Scheldt. 



It ought, however, to be observ- 

 ed, that during the first of these 

 two periods, — from the 2Sth of 

 April to the 12th of July,— the na- 

 ture of the communication to be 

 made to lord Castlereagh, and the 

 nature of the restriction imposed 

 upon your lordship, were entirely 

 changed. 



Pi-evioiisly to the 8ih of June — 

 the communication which your lord- 

 ship would have had to make to 

 lord Castlereagh, was simply that 

 I had represented the expediency 

 of a change either in his department 



or 



