Copy of a letter : "Gloucester Lodge"[London], to [Spencer] Perceval, 1809 Sept. 10.

Concerning "two important misapprehensions of yours which I am most earnestly desirous of setting right" related to the resignations of Lord Castlereagh and the Duke of Portland; enclosing a copy of a letter he sent to the Duke of Portland at Easter showing "that my representation was on the general State of the Government; and that my only demand was for permission to retire myself. Whatever particular questions of arrangement followed afterwards, arose not from demands of mine, but from suggestions, or proposals, to me. Secondly - you appear to think me not indeed so blameable, as others may be in your estimation, for the concealment from Castlereagh of his intended removal, but at least a passive unremonstrating accomplice in that concealment. The enclosed Copy of a Letter of mine to the Duke of Portland on this Subject, and the Duke's answer, will, I flatter myself, entirely clear me in your mind from even that degree of imputation;" giving him permission to keep the letters and to share them with others as he may wish.