Abstract

On Fryday, March 4th , Burges called upon me in the evening, and mention'd a report, which he had heard from Nepean, that besides Dundas being appointed Secretary of State for India it was supposed to be in contemplation to make Lord Auckland Secretary of State for the Home Department: Ld Grenville to take that for Foreign Affairs; that Mr. Pitt, Lord Grenville, the D. of Montrose and Dundas were daily closetted together for hours at a time. Nothing had transpired respecting the mode in which the foreign department was to be vacated, whether I was to be dismissed, driven to resign, or any arrangement proposed to me.

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