FOURTH LETTER
ON THE
PROPOSALS FOR PEACE WITH THE REGICIDE DIRECTORY OF FRANCE.
ADDRESSED TO
THE EARL FITZWILLIAM.
1795-7.
PRELIMINARY CORRESPONDENCE.
Letter from the Right Honorable the Lord Auckland to the Lord Bishop of Rochester.
EDEN FARM, KENT, July 18th, 1812.
My dear Lord,—Mr. Burke's fourth letter to Lord Fitzwilliam is personally interesting to me: I have perused it with a respectful attention.
When I communicated to Mr. Burke, in 1795, the printed work which he arraigns and discusses, I was aware that he would differ from me.
Some light is thrown on the transaction by my note which gave rise to it, and by his answer, which exhibits the admirable powers of his great and good mind, deeply suffering at the time under a domestic calamity.