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‘SiRST ANSWER jrom LORD GRENVILEE. 
* Boconzor, Sept. 25, 1609. 
‘€¢ Sir-——-I have the honour to areminice 
fertens of the 234 inst. and, understand- 
Ing it as an official signification of his Majes- 
¥y’s pleasure for my "attendance in town, I 
shall lese no time e repairing thither, ia 
Bumble obedience to his Majesty’s commands. 
. © T must beg leave to cefer, until my ar- 
rival, all observations on the other matters to 
pies your letter relates. 
~ &* GRENVILLE.” 
SECOND ANSWER jrom? LORD GRENVILLE. 
* September 29, 1809. 
«¢ Sir--Having last night arrived here, in 
humble obedience to his Majesty’s. commands, 
E think it now my duty to. lose no time in 
expressing to you the necessity, under which 
Efeei myself, of declining the communica- _ 
tion proposed in your letter 5. being satisfied 
that it could not, under the circumstances 
there mentioned, be productive of any pubiic 
advantage. 
<< | trust, I need not say, that this epinion 
ts neither rounded in any sentiment of personal 
hostility, nor in a desire of unnecessarily pre- 
longing poiitical differences. To compose, 
not to inflame, the divisions of the empire has 
e@iways been my anxious wish, and ‘is now, 
more than ever, the duty of every loyal sub- 
fect ; but my accession to the existing Admi- 
nistration could, I am confident, in no respect 
contribute to this object; nor could it, IT 
think, be considefed in any other light, than 
as a dereliction of public principle. 
*<-'This answer, which I must have given 
to any such proposal, if made while the 
Government was yet entire, cannot be vagied 
by the retreat of seme of its members. 
‘© My objections are not personal—they 
apply to the principle of the Government 
gtself, and to the circumstances which attend- 
ed its appointment. 
¢¢_1 have now, therefore, orly to request, 
that | you willdo me the honeur o: submitting, 
in the most respectful terms, these _my WSs 
ble opinions to his Majesty, accompanied by 
the dutiful and sincere assurance of my earnest 
aesire at all times fo testify, by all such means 
as.aie in my power, my unvaried zeal for his 
Baajesty’s service. {GRENVILLE t 3 
LETTER fro MR. PERCEVAL i0 LORD 
GRENVILLE. 
&< My Lord—I Jost no time in communi- 
eating to Lord Liverpool yeu Lordship’s letter 
of this day. 
+ Tt is, with great concern, t that we have 
learnt from it, that sous Lordship feels yours 
self under the necessity of declining the com- 
munication which I have had the honour to 
propese. 
‘* In proposing to your Lordship and, Lord 
Grey, wader his Majesty’s authority, te com- 
“‘municate with Lord Liverpool and myself, 
not for the accession.of your Lerdshis to the 
present Administration, but for the purpose 
@f ‘Grminz a combined and extended Adminis- 
-tratien, no ideg cxisied in our minds of the 
State of Public Affairs ta October. 
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necessity of any dereliction of public principle 
on either side. Your Lordship may rest as- 
sured, that, in communicating to his Malesty 
the necessity, under which you feel yourself, of 
declining the communication which I had the 
honour to propose to your Lordship, 1 will de. 
every justice to the respectful terms, and the 
dutiful and sincere assurance of your Lordsbip’s 
unvaried zeal for his Majesty’s service, with 
which the'expression of that necessity was - 
accompanied. 
“* I cannot conclude, withost expressihg 
the satisfaction of Lord Liverpool and myself 
at your Lordship’s assurance, that the failure 
of this proposal is not to be ascribed to any 
Sentiment of personal hostility. 
“ Sp. PERCEVAL.” 
The King haying completed the Sortys 
ninth year of his reign, the entry ino his 
fiftieth year was thought a suitable oc 
casion for rousing the dormant Loyalty 
of the Country. Accordingly various 
public rejoicings took place on the 25th 
of October, exactly as though his Ma- 
jesty had already completed a reign of 
half a century. The taste of the publié 
led to a subscription for the relief of the 
Poor, and the discharge of Debtors fron 
Prison ; but Government having ordered 
all its public Offices to be illuminated, a 
pretty general illumination was a conse- 
quence, through the metropolis, and 
in some towns. Splendid. and consi- 
derable rejoicings, took place in every 
part of Great Britain and Ireland. — 
A Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving 
was also ordered in the following terms: 
4< © God, in whose hands ate the issues of 
life and death, and to whom alene it be- 
Jongeth to Gabecibute mercies, as well in 
lengthening, as in shortening the days of} 
men, we yield thee praise and thanksgiving, 
for the protection thou hast vouchsafed to our” 
gracious Sovereign, during a long andardu- 
ous reign. Continue, we pray thee, thy 
watchfulness over him: Shield him fromthe . 
open attacks of his enemies, and from hidden 
dangers ; from the arrow that flieth by day, 
and from the pestilence that walleth in darke 
ness : 
good: Strengthen all his measures: and when 
it shall seem fit to nee unerring wiscom, 
perfect the ends of ‘both the restoration of, 
peace and security to “his people, of concord 
and independence to contending and bleeding _ 
Hations. These bleesings and mercies, we 
implore for our Sovereign, ourselves, our al~ 
lies, and our enemies, through the merits 
and mediation of Jesus Christ, our Lord and 
Saviour.—Amen.”’ 
-Another domestic event, which, in-its 
origin, scarcely deserved record, except — 
as an Incident of the day, has absort 
the public “attention during the ‘past ~ 
mouth, as much as all the political events | 
of these see tunes. We aude 
Enlighten his councils for the public 
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