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to require, in order to enable you to Judge how far in your present Situation you felt it to be your Duty to recommend to His Majesty to honor me with the intimation of His pleasure in which any proceeding must be founded, & finally in proceeding to explain these Ideas, I certainly apprized you in the strongest manner of my intention to include in any Plan of arrangement which I might submit to His Majesty former colleagues of mine, in case they consented, to whose opinion in the measures of Government, your Letter immediately refers. You will perceive therefore from this explanation that it does not in the smallest degree tend to vary the ground on which the objections of yourself & your colleagues to the Ideas I entertain appear from your Letter to be formed. Indeed no consideration wold have induced me to trouble you with it if I thought it calculated to produce such an effect, much less if it could lead to the possibility of reviving between us a discussion with respect to the object which was in view, which I consider as now finally & absolutely closed. My only motive has been the desire of endeavouring to prevent any possible misunderstanding with respect to what has passed in case it should ever become necessary hereafter to refer to any part of the transaction

I am

My Dear Sir

yours sincerely

Signd /W. Pitt /

Right Hon.ble Henry Addington