WY994/11

Copy of Answer to letter from Mr. Abbot [WY994/10]

27 Dec 1801

From: 1801 To: 1801

Knew that all appointments went through the Lord Lieutenant but sometimes English ministers influenced such appointments and he suspected that Mr. Addington has interfered that time. To quote his words, “a few days after I read a letter of yours to Mr. Alexander, of the same date, in which you congratulate him on his brothers appointmernt to the see of Kilmore. Could anything be devised to blind me more effectively as to the arrangement which has since taken place.” Therefore he had disbelieved rumours of Doctor Beresfords promotion until too late. He then received two letters, one from a friend said that Mr Beresford had repeatedly said that the business was done and that Mr. Addington had given Kilmore to his son. The other was from an English Prelate who said that William “was universally blamed for not endeavouring to avert such a calamity from the Church, by writing to His Majesty.” As he thought that the appointment was settled he did not want to make the King uneasy about it so he wrote a letter to Mr. Addington who he considered was “the author of the arrangement.”

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Addington,
Alexander,
Beresford

general correspondence, Lord Lieutenants, Kilmore, clergy, Bishop