Copy of a letter : "Bulstrode", to Spencer Perceval, 1809 Sept. 3.

Concerning Canning's desire to replace Lord Castlereagh; saying he did not expect to implement orders he had received from the King with respect to Lord Castlereagh and Lord Wellesley except that he had a letter from Canning "'stating that the Pressure in point of time is become so much more urgent and the probability of saving the Government by any change, if longer deferred, so doubtful, that he should think himself wanting to His Majesty, to the Country, and to me as well as to himself if he were not on that day (viz: yesterday) to remind me that the Period was arrived, according to H.M.'s gracious Promise, communicated to him by me, that Lord Wellesley was to be called to the office of Secretary of State for the War Department.' What may be the apprehensions or Expectations which have led Canning to take this step I will not attempt to conjecture but no Consideration will induce me to proceed further in this most unfortunate transaction until I shall receive the King's further Commands, which I shall not ask for till I pay my Duty to His Majesty in person on next Wednesday. I deemed it however incumbent upon me to give you the earliest possible notice of this Importunity;" adding, in a postscript, that he has also sent a letter similar to this to the Chancellor [Lord Eldon] and to Lord Camden, whom Lord Bathurst is also writing.