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placed, combine to make this arrangement peculiarly 

 gratifying to me. 



" The writ will be moved on the first day of the 

 session, and perhaps it may be necessary to give you 

 the trouble of a journey to Camelford. 



" In the mean time I must beg of you not to men- 

 tion the circumstance to any but your own confiden- 

 tial friends, as from the particular state of the borough 

 of Camelford some inconvenience might arise from 

 the name of the candidate being prematurely known. 

 Believe me to be, with very sincere regard, yours, 



" BEDFORD." 



On the 2d of March 1810, Whitbread brought for- 

 ward the motion of which he had given notice, of 

 a vote of censure on the Government, but especially 

 upon Lord Chatham, who had been commander-in- 

 chief of the expedition to the Scheldt, for having, 

 without any communication with his colleagues in the 

 Cabinet, or any intimation to his brother officer, Sir 

 Eichard Strachan, who commanded the naval force, 

 laid before the king a narrative of that expedition, 

 carrying it as far back as January 1810. 



Lord Chatham had requested the king to keep this 

 communication a secret; and in pursuance of this 

 request the narrative remained in the king's posses- 

 sion, secret and concealed from the ministers. 



This proceeding of Lord Chatham was properly 

 characterised by Whitbread as a most unconstitutional 

 abuse of the privilege of access to his sovereign ; and 



