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Had any time believed the commu- 

 nication to have been actually made ; 

 but assuring me " that he should 

 be at all times ready to avow that 

 the concealment had originated 

 with himself (the duke of Port- 

 land); that he had enjoined it to 

 all those with whom he had com- 

 municated,— from motives which he 

 was at all times ready to justify ; 

 and that he was desirous of taking 

 whatever blame might have been, 

 or might at any time be, incurred 

 by it, upon himself." 



This, as I have said, was my first 

 knowledge of any restriction what- 

 ever upon your lordship's commu- 

 nication to lord Castlereagh. 



If I am asked why I believed 

 your lordship to have actually made 

 the communication, I answer, be- 

 cause it was natural that you should 

 make it; because the expectation 

 of your making it was the motive 

 which induced me to desire (and I 

 did desire) that the communication 

 should be made to your lordship ; 

 because the manner in which you 

 first received that communication 

 (as reported to me by the duke of 

 Portland) tended to confirm the be- 

 lief that your lordship was the fit 

 channel of communication to lord 

 Castlereagh ; — and because I knew 

 not of the existence of any impedi- 

 ment to your pursuing what ap- 

 peared to me (and does still appear 

 to me) the natural and obvious 

 course to be pursued upon such an 

 occasion. 



If it be objected, that I ought 

 not to have been contented with 

 presuming the disclosure to have 

 Deen made, but ought to have dili- 

 gently ascertained that it was so ; 

 — first, I answer — that no person 

 naturally sets about ascertaining 

 that of which he entertains no 



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doubt ; — and, secondly, I answer- 

 that the moment that my suspicion 

 of the fact was excited, I did set 

 about ascertaining the truth ; and 

 that upon ascertaining it, I did re- 

 monstrate In the strongest manner 

 against the concealment ; — and en- 

 forced that remonstrance by the 

 tender of my own resignation. 



It was on the 26th or 27th of 

 June (five ar six days after parlia- 

 ment rose) that I discovered my 

 suspicion to be founded. — On the 



27th I remonstrated On the 28th 



I tendered my resignation. — And 

 in the course of the same day, 

 your lordship (as I have already 

 stated) received an injunction to 

 make the communication as soon 

 as the expedition should have 

 sailed. 



The second of the two periods 

 to which your lordship's statement 

 refers, begins from the 12th of July, 

 the day of the tender of your lord- 

 ship's resignation. 



It does not appear, nor does your 

 lordship's statement aver, that at 

 any time during the second period, 

 the restriction which had been ori- 

 ginally imposed upon your lord- 

 ship was renewed; or that any 

 other existed, except that which 

 your lordship had imposed upon 

 yourself, and which was therefore 

 no longer binding upon your lord- 

 ship than while you might your- 

 self be willing that it should bind 

 you. 



Of the extent to which this self- 

 imposed restriction appears to have 

 gone, I had not any suspicion. I 

 knew indeed that your lordship had 

 stipulated to keep the time of the 

 disclosure to lord Castlereagh in 

 your own hands ; but subsequently 

 to my being made acquainted with 

 that stipulation, I had received the 



2 M assurances, 



