5lS POLITICAL CORRESPONDENCE. [1811. 



TO EARL GTIEY. 



" Thursday, six o'clock, Jan. 3, 1811. 



" DEAR LORD GREY, I am just come from the 

 House of Commons. Perceval stated that Lord 

 Grenville had refused to issue the money required 

 (under the last Appropriation Act) by warrant of the 

 Treasury ; that the Crown lawyers had given their 

 opinions that, taking the practice and the act together, 

 the warrant was illegal ; but that money being wanted, 

 and the Clerk of the Privy Seal (Larpent) refusing to 

 join Lord Westmorland in the risk of being hanged, 

 Perceval found it necessary to do it by warrant, which 

 being disobeyed by Lord Grenville, lie was forced to 

 apply to Parliament ; so moved for the warrant and 

 correspondence (including the opinions), and is, at 

 Tierncy's desire, to make Larpent write a note for the 

 sake of bringing his refusal before the House. The 

 papers will be printed to-night, and the question is to 

 be discussed to-morrow. Fine fruits of their delays, 

 and still more of the glorious precedent of 1788, 

 which seems, in every view, full of absurdity. 



" In the Lords the same proceedings nearly took 

 place. 



" The king is supposed worse, and all the under- 

 lings in office seem very desponding. 



" I trust Lady Grey continues well : and am, in 

 great haste, &c., II. B. 



" Romilly almost destroyed Canning last night- 

 nothing was ever better done ; and but for an un- 



