'1. That it was impossible for him to serve with the Duke of Newcastle. '2. That he thought enquiries into the past measures absolutely necessary, that he thought it his duty to take a considerable share in them, and could not lay himself under any obligation to depart from that. 'To this I said that the King was not against a fair and impartial enquiry. '3. That he thought his duty to support a Militia Bill, and particularly that of the last session. 'I told him that the King and his ministers were not against _a_ Militia Bill. '4. That the affair of the Hanoverian soldier[351] he thought of great importance; that what had been done ought to be examined, and, he thought, censured. '5. That if he came into His Majesty's service, he thought it necessary, in order to serve him, and to support his affairs, to have such powers as belonged to his station, to be in the first concert and concoction of measures, and to be at liberty to propose to His Majesty himself anything that occurred to him for his service, originally, and without going through any other minister.' Pitt, who was evidently disappointed, acknowledged the accuracy of Hardwicke's recital, and desired to know if the message from the King was _an answer to the whole_. Hardwicke replied that it was the King's answer in the King's own words,[352] and that he could not take on himself to explain it; but that he understood it as _an answer to everything that had been conveyed by Mr. Pitt to the King_. To this Pitt rejoined with thanks for the King's condescension that he would say to Hardwicke, '_as from one private gentleman to another_,' that he would not come into the service, in the present circumstances of affairs, upon any other terms for the whole world. 'I then,' continues the Chancellor, 'said that undoubtedly He must judge for himself; But I would also say to Him, _as from Lord Hardwicke only to Mr. Pitt_-- 'That, as He professed great Duty to the King & Zeal for his Service, & I dared to say had it; That as He had expressed an Inclination to come into his Majesty's service, in order _really_ to assist in the support of his Government; 'That as He was a Man of Abilities & knowledge of the World; That, as Men of Sense, who wish the End, must naturally wish the means; why would He at the same time make _the thing_ impracticable? 'To This He answered that he would say to me _in the same private manner_ That he was surprized that it should be thought possible for Him to come into an Employment to serve with the D. of Newcastle, under whose Administration the things he had so much blamed had happened, & against which the Sense of the Nation so strongly appeared; & I think he added,--which Administration could not possibly have lasted, if he had accepted. 'In answer to That I said some general things in the same sense with what I had mentioned on that head on Tuesday last. 'He then rose up & we parted with great personal Civility on both sides.'