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the Excentive Council in question. Pist

was right to Consult

inv

Council

M

every

point at ipue is manifest. A Governa

is famished

canichen by Her Majesty with a small group of confidential advisers to apist tim

with thin counsel in all matters of public busines. Of ver there is a case in which a Governo is sure

copecially bound to

consult his advicers, and to put himself,

ne it

were

into the hands of the Secentive

Council, it is under circumstances ench

The I have described, when

muk seems

beut

The

ww

fficer of high forcing disputes and

personal questions uson the Governor in the

- conduct of public business

17

When Mr. Childers Brewves the

: Council

muintes Ex.

19 May 1800

C

way in which the Major General peaks of bis colleagues at the Executive Counsit,

the apertion that he is the only

me

that is

independent, and his reference to one member as "a Schoolinncter". I hope the Secretary

A

Ff State for

War will note the earnest desire

of those gentlemen to conciliate the Major General. The last paragraph in the

follows:-

Minutes of Council is as

"As regards the General's rival dinner party and his Keeping the Band, the Connell

a very grave

tronaly of opinion that a Military scanial will wrive if it is not stoped, and theretne it is veerbed that

H. acting Glonial becutary drew up an application to the apictant Silitary Lecuten

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