In this situation, my first object was to restore that
confidence in the equity of Government, which I judged
indispensable for the quieting the alarms of the servants of the
Crown. Every attention was paid which could conciliate the
feelings of those friends who felt themselves proscribed. At the
same time, care was taken not to alarm the very jealous feelings
of those to whom the Duke of Portland had trusted the
Administration. Your Majesty will recollect, that one of my
earliest objects was that of taking the efficient Government
from those from whom I expected no permanent assistance, at the
moment, when by fighting their ground of the adequacy of the
simple repeal, which, from the beginning, I stated as very
hazardous, they pledged themselves to the public to a doctrine
which was truly unpopular, and has completely ruined them in the
opinions of those from whom they derived their consequence.
Lastly, I have never lost sight of that first essential object,
the depressing the Volunteers by every caution; but with the
determined purpose of endeavouring to restore the sword and
executive power to the hands in which the Constitution has so
wisely placed them.

Great part of these general opinions appear in my official
correspondence: other parts of this system are palpable with the
smallest clue, and the whole militates decisively against the
opinions of the Duke of Portland and Mr. Fox, whom I
particularize, as they continue to keep up a constant
correspondence with the popular leaders in this kingdom. Your
Majesty will, therefore, judge how perfectly impracticable it is
for me to hope to conduct your Government upon the plan which I
have stated to be necessary to its existence, and which is in
the very teeth of those ideas which have been adopted by the
persons whom, from the exigency of public affairs, your Majesty
has probably been obliged to call to your counsels.

To these circumstances, Sire, suffer me to add my feelings of
indignation at the formation of that coalition to which your
Government has given way, formed at such a time, in such a
manner, having necessarily for its basis the foul abandonment of
every principle, public and private, and holding but one
principle in common--and that principle avowed--of forcing
themselves into employments at all ha