—The enclosed draft realizes, I hope, the intention of your rough note.

It is long, but could not well be shorter, to be, as it ought to be, explanatory of its object.

Of course it would only be moved in case Mr. Gladstone's were rejected; and this perhaps ought to be expressed in the notice.

I have felt uncomfortable at working without a fuller knowledge of your object.

But, at the worst, this Resolution would surely be very agreeable to the colonies; and either it or Mr. Gladstone's would lay a good foundation for opposition in the Lords, if indeed the Lords should care a straw about the subject, which I think improbable;