th your Grace's letter of the 26th instant, and
must return my best thanks for the expressions of regard with
which you have noted my appointment of Mr. Coppinger, and of Mr.
Doyle, to the situations which they now hold, at your Grace's
recommendation, to which I have truly given the earliest
attention in my power.

It is really a misfortune to me to find that our political ideas
have so materially differed. I perfectly agree with your Grace
in wishing not to defend nor arraign, and shall therefore waive
the subject, as far as it regards the change in His Majesty's
councils.

But I cannot help complaining in private, as I have uniformly in
public, that I have been singularly unfortunate in the treatment
which I have met with. I resigned on the 12th of March, and that
resignation was notorious to every one conversant in public
business, and the intention communicated to your Grace on the
2nd of March. Notwithstanding this, I understand that no person
was recommended for this situation in the formation of the new
Ministry; nor from the date of their acceptance did I receive
any notification of the King's acceptance of my office, nor any
apology for the delay, nor any request to remain till the new
appointment or arrival of my successor, nor any communication
upon the very extensive business of this kingdom, for which I
have declined any responsibility; but, on the contrary, I have
been, under these circumstances, detained in a situation without
responsibility, which was actually objected as a charge against
Mr. Pitt, while I have been labouring to disengage myself; and,
ultimately, I have received Lord Northington's appointment,
dated on the 24th (two days after it had been communicated by
every one connected with Government to their friends), without
one line of the King's approbation of my conduct, in
circumstances and moments very critical, unless I am to
interpret Lord North's opinion on that subject, as the official
notification of His Majesty's satisfaction.

These circumstances, my Lord, have much galled me, because they
are personal; and because they are not necessarily connected
with the change of Government, and have laid me under the
necessity of resenting it by expressions very decisive, in my
despatch of the 24th; and your Grace will easily believe that