Autograph letter signed with initial : place not specified, to Thomas Tyrwhitt, [1761-1806].

Concerning a letter on which he cannot comment until he has read the Act in question; referring to a misunderstanding with the King in regard to "the two acts of this Session, without being in any measure acquainted with the nature and extent of that misunderstanding seem to be a Task like making Bricks without Straw in Egypt. I must either take the freedom of asking H.M. to mention the point in which He has been persuaded that I forgot my Duty; or I must enter into a [illegible] much too long for the occasion. The K. probably does not know that I opposed no part of the Bill, which related to His Royal Person; but only proposed amendments to make that more palatable, and comformable to the Law of England which exacts perfect respect to the Person and even to the Name of the King, attaching to Them the whole Dignity and Authority of Government. Abstracting those from the Royal Person was one of the Principal foundations on which the Rebellion of Charles the first grew to such a fatal Height; adding that "There is besides an awkwardness in the anxiety to apologise without even knowing that such an explanation is wished."