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Memoirs. Publ. by lord Mahon and E. Cardwell
Memoirs Publ by lord Mahon and E Cardwell Author:Robert Peel Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: the almost simultaneous relinquishment of it by Lord Wellesley. They will show the friendly relation in which we had stood to each other during our former off... more »icial connection in the administration of Lord Liverpool. Mr. Peel to Lord Wellesley. (Private.) " Whitehall, Jan. 29, 1828. " My Dear Lord, " It was not until this day that I have been enabled to take possession of the office to which His Majesty has been pleased to re-appoint me. " I cannot transmit to you the accompanying formal notification of my appointment without expressing my sincere regret that, in pursuance of arrangements made in the interval of my retirement from office, the relation in which I stood to your Excellency for many years, and in which I again stand at the present moment, is so soon to be terminated. "The confidential intercourse which grew out of that relation has left upon my mind a deep impression, which I characterize by too cold a phrase when I term it an impression of sincere respect and esteem. " I am suffering from indisposition upon which I had no right to calculate—the hooping-cough; but it shall not deprive me of the satisfaction of calling upon you at any time that may be convenient to your Excellency, provided you have no fear of infection—of which I chapter{Section 4apprehend there is no risk whatever to those who have once been affected by the cough. " I have, andc., " Robert Peel." Lord Wellesley to Mr. Peel. (Private.) " Hyde Park, Jan. 30, 1828. " My Dear Sir, " It was a painful addition to my regret, on the occasion of your retirement from office, that no opportunity was afforded to me of expressing my sense of the uninterrupted and honourable confidence and assistance which I experienced from you for so many years in the arduous duties of the...« less