nome a continuarne anche inappresso la protezione; ed esibendoci pronti a poterle corrispondere per si segnalati favori in qualunque incontro di suoi desideri, di vero cuore me le offero, e resto. Di V. S. Illma Servitore, S. Cardinale BORGIA Pro-Prefetto. Sigre Cavre Hippisley, Londra. [A true copy. J. C. HIPPISLEY.] The Cardinal of York to Sir J. C. Hippisley. (Received 12th September.) Frascati, July 6, 1800. My dear Sir John-I received your most obliging and cordial letter of the 18th of April, and remark with comfort the very kind interest you take in my present personal situation, which, I am sorry to be obliged to confess to you with freedom, is more distressful actually than it was several months ago, for, whilst I was, as one may say, with truth, a downright tagabond, I could, in certain cases, restrain myself, in compensation of the incredible cost that attended certain journeys, rendered indispensable and grievous in the present state of things. I arrived here, with a very sore heart, the 25th of last month, and, alas! I was obliged to be minutely informed of the total devastation of all my residences both at Rome and Frascati; and the necessary and indispensable reparations to render possible a decent and sure lodging have amounted to a considerable sum, and it is but too certain that I have not at present the least hopes to be able to recover any thing that may put me in a situation to deliver me from positive indigence. Imagine the sense of gratitude that is renewed in my heart, reflecting what it would have been, if I had been deprived of the liberality that I am to receive in the present month of 1 Monsignor Brancadoro, late Nuncio at Brussels, now Secretary of the Congregation of Propaganda. (Note of Sir J. C. Hippisley.) VOL. III. CC July for the second period; and it is not improper to remark that the incredible devastations that those enemies of humanity have committed in a degree, that it affects any good heart, when obliged to contemplate such excessive misery, without being able to relieve the distressed in a manner suitable to their wants. You will easily conceive, with your extreme goodness of heart, that it would be very necessary for the quiet of my mind to procure that the subventions I have hitherto received in January and July may be settled in such a manner that, at a call, I may draw freely on some banker at those two terms. I am obliged to confess to you that the putting in doubt a continuation of what my past dismal situation required for my relief, seems an injurious diffidence towards a generous benefactor. But, as I write to you with great freedom, and that you are too well apprised of my sentiments, you will be able to justify my intentions, and that they have no other scope but in reality to quiet my mind with some kind of arrangement that may serve me as a rule with regard to what I can depend upon in the present circumstances, whereas, my arrival and settlement anew in this country oblige me by force to a more expensive treatment. Lord Camden to Lord Castlereagh. Wildernesse, September 26, 1800. Dear Castlereagh-I am unwilling to make any proposition which shall take you away from the painful scene you are now attending, but if you think you can leave it with comfort to yourself or to them, we shall be delighted to see you, and if you come down on Sunday, you will meet Lord Chatham and Lord Euston, and probably Mr. Pitt, and I will carry you back in time for the Cabinet on Tuesday. Mr. Pitt will probably take an opportunity before you go to speak to you on the subject of your office of Keeper of the Signet. He feels that he can talk to you upon its relinquishment in no other manner than by making your present office as permanent as his Administration. The view that he has upon the office of Keeper of the Signet is to provide for Pelham. I apprize you of this probable conversation, that you may prepare yourself accordingly, leaving to your own consideration and reflexion the part you will take in it. I apprized Mr. Pitt of the necessity of writing such a letter to Lord Cornwallis as should persuade him of the real wish of the English Government that he should remain in Ireland, and he told me he would speak to the Duke of Portland, who, he doubted not, would write to him in such manner as would be most likely to induce him to stay there with comfort to himself. Most affectionately yours, Private. Lord Castlereagh to Lord Camden. CAMDEN. London, September 27, 1800. My dear Lord-I should very much wish to accept your invitation, but, under all the circumstances of this family, I am induced to remain in town. My brother is very low to-day. If Mr. Pitt speaks to me on the subject of my office of Keeper of the Signet, I can have no hesitation in placing it at his disposal, and shall be peculiarly happy if it can prove any accommodation to him in providing for a person for whom we are all so much interested. You know my feeling has always been that I only retained that office from a consideration that my situation of Chief Secretary was altogether personal to the Lord-Lieutenant for the time being. Under any other view of the question, I should have long since pressed that the Privy Seal should be made auxiliary to the arrangements of Government; as I feel that pluralities do not become a young politician, and am perfectly satisfied with the income of my other office, though hitherto the expences of the situation have disposed both of that and what I derive from Lord Londonderry. In the event of Mr. Pelham succeeding to the Privy Seal, I should wish the appointment of Secretary of State for Ireland, which he has retained, to be connected with the office of Chief Secretary, as it was when he filled my situation. I am very glad you mentioned to Mr. Pitt the expediency of putting Lord Cornwallis's feelings quite at ease. It was my intention to take the liberty of expressing myself to him without reserve on this subject before my return; as I am sure he will feel the importance to all parties (if Lord Cornwallis is to remain) of cordiality pervading that branch of his Administra tion. If pleasanter prospects should enable me to leave town, you know how much pleasure I shall have in joining your party. Ever, my dear Lord, &c., CASTLEREAGH. The Rev. Dr. Bankhead to Lord Viscount Castlereagh. Lurgan, October 8, 1800. My Lord-We, the Ministers and Elders of the General Synod of Ulster, regularly convened for the purpose of taking into consideration the Report of our Commissioners who were appointed to communicate with your Lordship relative to the intention of Government of making a further provision for the Ministers of this body, cheerfully embrace this opportunity of conveying to your Lordship our sincere and warm acknowledgments for your Lordship's persevering attention to our interests. At the same time, we beg leave to assure your Lordship that it is the anxious desire of this body, clearly ascertained in a meeting unusually full, and particularly distinguished by the number and respectability of Elders, that whatever addition the wisdom and liberality of Government shall be pleased to make to the present bounty, may be conferred on terms similar to those on which former grants have been enjoyed. And from your Lordship's knowledge of the principles of Presbyterians, we rely with firmest confidence that your Lordship will use your most active exertions in promoting our wishes. We appoint our Moderator and George Birch, Esq. to present this letter, and confer with your Lordship on the subject. Signed in our name, and by our appointment, JOHN BANKHEAD, Moderator. Answer of Lord Castlereagh. Sir I have received the letter which you were desired to communicate to me written by the Synod of Ulster, wherein they state that it is the anxious wish, &c., &c., &c. I request the Synod may be assured of my full confidence in the principles of the Presbyterians, and of my cordial disposition to forward their wishes as far as I shall be consistently enabled. But, as I know that it is the great object of his Majesty's Ministers to draw the connexion of the Presbyterian body to the constitution as close as circumstances will permit, I should hope the Synod will not think themselves called upon to persevere in the sentiments they have adopted, but that they will cheerfully give their concurrence to such regulations as the wisdom of Government and the Legislature shall adopt for augmenting the maintenance of their clergy, and at the same time securing their loyalty to the Government, and increasing their connexion with the constitution. The Rev. John Sherrard to Lord Castlereagh. Lamb's Island, October 13, 1800. My Lord-I must accuse myself of unpardonable neglect, did I not embrace the earliest opportunity of expressing the grateful sense I have of your Lordship's kind intentions respecting the Protestant Dissenting Ministers of Ulster, and the pleasure I feel from the consideration of the happy effects such a wise measure, as well as friendly office may, and, I trust, will certainly produce. |