Norfolk Gazette And Publick Ledger

FROM IRELAND.

Cork, November 6.

THE REGENT.—It is said, and a certain degree of confidence is attached to the report, that his royal highness the regent means, as soon as the restrictions are removed by which he has been so indelicately and so unconstitutionally bound, to take Lords Grey, Holland, Lauderdale and Lansdowne into his councils—to retain Lord Wellesley as First Lord of the Treasury, and to make Mr. Tierney his Chancellor of the Exchequer. Lord Erskine it is said, is to be Lord Chancellor: Mr. Sheridan is again to have the Duchy of Lancaster, vice Mr. Perceval, and to be made Navy Paymaster as before. The Admiralty is to be retained by Mr. Yorke, who is a favorite of the royal family and it is rumoured that Lord Hardwicke is once more to assume the Lord Lieutenancy of this country.

In this arrangement the Grenvilles are totally excluded. The Prince will not forgive lord Grenville for having lent his aid to the present ministry in having voted to proceed by bill instead of by address: It is in the recollection of the public that the immediate friends and connections of his lordship turned the scale in favor of administration in the House of Lords on this important question. It is true he voted against the Restrictions, as well as against their continuance for twelve months, but by giving his sanction to the principle, by bill, he virtually aided the plans of the minister. As to the Irish part of the administration in the proposed plan, we own we can give it little credit; we rather think, high as is the personal character of lord Hardwicke, his royal highness would choose some more immediate representation of whig and popular principles. As to Mr. Cooke being made secretary, the arrangement is totally incredible. The reader, however, may rely on it, that the Grenvilles will be excluded.