e evident
reluctance he showed to agree to the resolutions first proposed;
his telling me that he had thought of a paragraph in the King's
Speech to do instead of them; his then showing me a paragraph
relating merely to commercial advantages, and his telling me we
were not ripe for the word rights; when you compare all this
with his evident dislike to this bill, and with the expression
stated above about external legislation, it is not very
difficult to collect that he means to do nothing till we have
peace, and when we have, he means, to use his own expression, to
make the stand upon that point.

Possibly I may agree with him, that it might have been well for
the general interest of the empire if that ground had originally
been explained, decisively taken and maintained. But I am sure I
know too well the situation of that country and of this, to
think that it can now be held out without the most fatal
consequences to both; and I think I know your feelings too well
to imagine that you will suffer yourself to be made an
instrument of deceiving any man or body of men whatever, still
less a whole country, especially in contradiction to the
language which you have invariably held, at least as far as I
can recollect (ever since you accepted of your situation), both
to people in Ireland and to Government here, that the repeal was
a complete renunciation.

It is a singular pleasure to me to observe how exactly our ideas
have hitherto corresponded since I left you; so that while you
have been taking your measures in Ireland, I have been
recommending the same to you from hence. If they should continue
to do so in this instance, the line of conduct which I apprehend
would be proper for us to adopt on our different posts is this.
I am to see the Chancellor to-morrow, and immediately upon
leaving him mean to write to Lord Shelburne, pressing him again
most eagerly to allow me an opportunity of stating to him _at
length_ what I have in commission to say to him from you. If he
should comply, I will then go into the whole state of Ireland;
will mention to him the credit which ought to be given to
representations proceeding from you, in preference to those of
interested individuals; will enlarge upon the necessity of
decision; and will press that a Cabinet may be held in
perform