of this statement, Mr. Beresford addressed the following
letter to his Lordship:

MR. BERESFORD TO THE EARL FITZWILLIAM.

No. 11, Beaumont Street, June 22nd, 1795.
MY LORD,

Your Lordship must have seen two letters to the Earl of Carlisle,
which have been published in your name, and in general circulation.
I have for a long time hoped, that they would be disavowed or
explained by your Lordship; I was unwilling to suppose that such a
publication had ever been sanctioned by you; I could not bring
myself to believe, that your Lordship, possessing the feelings of a
man, and the honour of a gentleman, could avail yourself of the
power and the trust which had been committed to you by His Majesty,
wantonly to traduce a private character, by insinuations expressed
in terms so vague and unqualified, as to make it impossible
publicly to refute them. From the rank which you hold in society, I
must presume, if you thought it your duty to impeach my conduct as
a servant of the Crown, you would have adopted the fair and manly
course of advancing direct and specific charges against me, which
must have led to my conviction, if they had been founded. Direct
and specific charges I could fairly have met and refuted; but
crooked and undefined insinuations against private character,
through the pretext of official discussion, your Lordship must
allow are the weapons of a libeller.

The publication in question, states that you recommended my removal
from office, "because I was a person under universal heavy
suspicions, subject to the opprobrium and unpopularity attendant on
maladministration and much imputed malversation." The aspersions
contained in this paragraph, are so utterly ungrounded, so
unprovoked, unmanly, illiberal, and false, that I could not believe
your Lordship could have meant to apply them to a gentleman, by
birth your equal, and I will tell you, of reputation as unsullied
as your own at any period of your life; there is no charge, however
monstrous, of which the idea is not here conveyed; and yet there is
none to which the paragraph points directly, so as to afford an
opportunity for vindication.

Your Lordship will, I trust, feel the justness of the warmth with
which I express myself on those aspersions of my character; and
that when I g