od that it was not he who broke off the arrangement upon
the idea of keeping the Lord Chancellor; that, on the contrary,
he desired it might be understood that he had expressed no
determination, nor would he express any, upon a particular part
of the proposed arrangement, till the whole was submitted to
him. Therefore, if they thought to obviate the difficulties
which they found in making it by laying the onus upon him, he
was not fairly dealt with.

This finished the detail. His observations upon it were nearly
what is implied in the last sentence: that he believed, when
they came to treat about the arrangement, they found infinite
difficulty in coming to any agreement, and had therefore
resolved to throw the burthen upon him; that, in the meantime,
he was using every endeavour to form a Government; that he hoped
your resignation was only to be considered as relative to the
event which you then thought likely to happen; that undoubtedly
_in some cases_ it would be impossible for you to stay there
with honour to yourself; that unless you met with full support
from hence, the Government in Ireland could not go on; but, in
the meantime, he desired I would write to you, to express his
wish that you would take no precipitate step till something was
finally settled.

This, I think, was the main jut of the conversation to this
point; though I have thrown it much more into form than it was
spoken--as it was interrupted by a great variety of digressions:
upon the coalition, in the reprobating of which I took care to
join with him most heartily; upon Fox, whom he loaded with every
expression of abhorrence; upon the Duke of Portland, against
whom he was little less violent; upon Lord North, to whose
conduct he imputed all the disasters of the country; upon
American Independence, which seems to have been a most bitter
pill indeed; upon associations and reforms, clubs,
gaming-houses, aristocratic cabals, &c., &c.; together with much
inquiry into the state of Ireland, and the characters and
conduct of people there; and a long detail about Lord Bellamont,
who he believed was crack-brained, and of whom he told two
curious stories of audiences which he had asked, and in which he
at last insisted that, unless the King would make him reparation
for the second disgrace he had suffered b