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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 80a

— No. 4. — — The Earl of Onslow to Lord Knutsford. — (Received 20th March 1891.)

— No. 4. —

The Earl of Onslow to Lord Knutsford.

(Received 20th March 1891.)

My Lord,

Wellington,

With reference to my Despatch of this date,* and to my Despatch of 24th January, I think your Lordship should be informed that, at the time (16th December) when I gave an undertaking to Sir Harry Atkinson to accept his advice to call six, instead of eleven, gentlemen to the Legislative Council, though I was aware that the Premier's health would not permit him to continue in office, and his resignation was a necessity, he handed me a card of the new Parliament, which he said the Government had carefully considered, and according to which he claimed for his party 35 supporters against 32 of his opponents, while six votes (some of which he hoped to secure) were doubtful.

Had these prognostications (the reliability of which I had no means of testing) been realised, he would doubtless, upon his resignation, have advised me to send for one of his colleagues or prominent supporters, and the continuity of the Government need not have been broken.

I have, &c. (signed)

Onslow.

The Right Honourable The Lord Knutsford, G.C.M.G., &c. &c. &c.

* No. 3.

No. 2.