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The Letters of Queen Victoria Novel Chapters
List of most recent chapters published for the The Letters of Queen Victoria novel. A total of 363 chapters have been translated and the release date of the last chapter is Apr 02, 2024
Latest Release: Chapter 1 : The Letters of Queen Victoria.Volume 1.1837-1843.by Queen Victoria.PREFACE
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The Letters of Queen Victoria.Volume 1.1837-1843.by Queen Victoria.PREFACE
Entrusted by His Majesty the King with the duty of making a selection from Queen Victoria's correspondence, we think it well to describe briefly the nature of the doc.u.ments
- 1 The Letters of Queen Victoria.Volume 1.1837-1843.by Queen Victoria.PREFACE Entrusted by His Majesty the King with the duty of making a selection from Queen Victoria's correspondence, we think it well to describe briefly the nature of the doc.u.ments
- 2 The d.u.c.h.ess therefore brought the matter under the consideration of those whom, from their eminent piety, great learning, and high station, she considered best calculated to afford her valuable advice upon so important a subject. She stated to the Bis
- 3 [Pageheading: THE KING OF THE BELGIANS]In 1831, when Louis Philippe, under pressure from Lord Palmerston, declined the throne of Belgium for his son the Duc de Nemours, Prince Leopold received and accepted an offer of the Crown. A Dutch invasion followed,
- 4 MY DEAR LITTLE HEART,--I hope you are well and don't forget Aunt Adelaide, who loves you so fondly.Loulou and Wilhelm[1] desire their love to you, and Uncle William also.G.o.d bless and preserve you is the constant prayer of your most truly affection
- 5 G.o.d bless you, my dear Victoria, is always the prayer of your most truly affectionate Aunt, ADELAIDE._The King of the Belgians to the Princess Victoria._ BRUSSELS, _22nd May 1832._ MY DEAREST LOVE,--Let me offer you my _sincerest_ and _best_ wishes on t
- 6 TUNBRIDGE WELLS, _14th September 1834._ MY DEAREST UNCLE,--Allow me to write you a few words, to express how thankful I am for the very kind letter you wrote me. It made me, though, very sad to think that all our hopes of seeing you, which we cherished so
- 7 Believe me always, my dearest Uncle, your very affectionate and most grateful Niece, VICTORIA._The Princess Victoria to the King of the Belgians._ KENSINGTON PALACE, _2nd February 1835._ MY DEAREST UNCLE,--I know not how to thank you sufficiently for the
- 8 [Pageheading: THE PRINCES ERNEST AND ALBERT]_The Princess Hohenlohe to the Princess Victoria._ STUTTGART, _16th April 1836._ ... You will like our two Coburg cousins also, I think; they are more manly than I think the two others are, after the description
- 9 [Footnote 5: Leading characters in _The Heiress of Bruges_, by Grattan.]_The Princess Victoria to the King of the Belgians._ _9th August 1836._ MY BELOVED UNCLE,-- ... I was sure you would be very much pleased with Ernest and Albert as soon as you knew th
- 10 [Pageheading: DEATH OF CHARLES X]_The King of the Belgians to the Princess Victoria._ LAEKEN, _18th November 1836._ ... Poor Charles X. is dead, it is said of the cholera. I regret him; few people were ever kinder to me than the good old man. He was blind
- 11 _The Princess Victoria to the King of the Belgians._ _16th January 1837._ MY DEAREST UNCLE,-- ... We saw Van de Weyer[1] on Tuesday, and his conversation was most interesting. He praises our dear Ferdinand most exceedingly, but as for the poor Queen, what
- 12 All the convictions and inclinations of the Government are with their Conservative opponents. Half their actions and all their speeches are with the Radicals." (_Croker Papers_, ii.306.)]_The Princess Victoria to the King of the Belgians._ CLAREMONT,
- 13 [Footnote 29: The Princess was to attain her legal majority on 24th May.][Footnote 30: George Davys, the Princess Victoria's instructor, Dean of Chester, and afterwards Bishop of Peterborough.][Footnote 31: Thomas Vowler Short, Rector of St George�
- 14 LAEKEN, _25th May 1837._ MY DEAREST CHILD,--You have had some battles and difficulties of which I am completely in the dark. The thing I am most curious to learn is what the King proposed to you concerning your establishment....I shall reserve my opinion
- 15 _16th June 1837._ MY BELOVED UNCLE,--... I cannot say how happy I am that the _entree publique_ into Paris succeeded so well, and that the dear King was so well received; I trust he will now at last be rewarded for all the troubles and anxiety he has had
- 16 _Tuesday, 20th June 1837._ I was awoke at 6 o'clock by Mamma, who told me that the Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Conyngham were here, and wished to see me. I got out of bed and went into my sitting-room (only in my dressing-gown) and _alone_, and
- 17 [Pageheading: DELIBERATION ADVISED]_The King of the Belgians to Queen Victoria._ LAEKEN, _27th June 1837._ MY DEAR CHILD,--... Now I must touch on another subject which is of vital importance for you and your comfort, viz. the habits of business which you
- 18 MY DEAREST NIECE,--I must, before I leave this dear Castle, once more express to you the grateful sense I entertain for the kind treatment I have experienced from you since it has pleased our heavenly Father to put you in possession of it. You have contri
- 19 MY DEAREST CHILD,--... I hear that the Levee went off very well, and I have no doubt that the Drawing-Room did the same. Your _spirit_ in all these new and trying proceedings makes me _happy beyond expression_.Believe me, with _courage_ and _honesty_, you
- 20 Lord John Russell had some time ago the honour of stating to your Majesty that the return of Mr Fox Maule for Perths.h.i.+re, and of Mr Hume for Middles.e.x, were hardly to be expected. In this as in many other instances the superior organisation of the T
- 21 His fear of being drawn into a real intervention has been the cause of his having been so anxious not to have a French Legion in Spain. He may be right or wrong on this subject--I do not decide this, as I was of a different opinion last year; but his fear
- 22 _Queen Victoria to Viscount Melbourne._ WINDSOR CASTLE, _28th December 1837._ The Queen received Lord Melbourne's communication yesterday evening, and is glad to see that the Speaker consents to remain a little while longer, though, as Lord Melbourne
- 23 _Viscount Melbourne to Queen Victoria._ _1st January 1838._ ... Lord Melbourne feels most deeply the extreme kindness of your Majesty's expressions. Whatever may happen in the course of events, it will always be to Lord Melbourne a source of the most
- 24 STANHOPE STREET, _25th February 1838._ Viscount Palmerston presents his humble duty to your Majesty, and with reference to your Majesty's question upon the subjects to which Lord William Russell's recent despatch relates, he has the honour to st
- 25 [Pageheading: PRINCE ALBERT'S EDUCATION]_The King of the Belgians to Queen Victoria._ _13th April 1838._ ... Concerning the education of our friend Albert, it has been the best plan you could have fixed upon, to name Stockmar your commissary-general;
- 26 Lady Louisa Jenkinson.[Footnote 15: John, sixteenth Earl of Shrewsbury (1791-1852).]_Viscount Melbourne to Queen Victoria._ _17th May 1838._ Lord Melbourne presents his humble duty to your Majesty, and thinks that your Majesty had better direct Lord Conyn
- 27 You may be a.s.sured, my beloved Uncle, that both Lord Melbourne and Lord Palmerston are most anxious at all times for the prosperity and welfare of Belgium, and are consequently most desirous of seeing this difficult question brought to a conclusion whic
- 28 [Pageheading: PAGES OF HONOUR]I said to Lord Melbourne when I first sat down that I felt a little tired on my feet; "You must be very tired," he said. Spoke of the weight of the Robes, etc., etc., the Coronets; and he turned round to me with the
- 29 _Viscount Melbourne to Queen Victoria._ _10th August 1838._ Lord Melbourne presents his humble duty to your Majesty, and begs to inform you that the Cabinet have determined to advise your Majesty to disallow Lord Durham's ordinance, and to announce t
- 30 MY DEAREST UNCLE,--I was certain you _would_ take interest in and feel for poor Lord John; he is, I hear, still dreadfully shaken, and quite unequal to do any business at present. His chief consolation is in attending to the children.I felt much for you,
- 31 _3rd December 1838._ Lord Melbourne presents his humble duty to your Majesty, and begs to acquaint that as soon as he arrived at half-past two, Sir George Grey[40] ran in to acquaint him that the whole insurrection in Canada was put down and suppressed.[4
- 32 Lord Melbourne presents his humble duty to your Majesty, and cannot express how deeply concerned he is to find himself restrained from obeying your Majesty's commands, and repairing without delay to Brighton. Both his duty and his inclination would p
- 33 [Footnote 6: The celebrated physician: he attended George IV.and William IV., as well as Queen Victoria.][Footnote 7: Son-in-law of Lord Grey, as was also Lord Durham.]_Queen Victoria to the King of the Belgians._ BUCKINGHAM PALACE, _11th January 1839._
- 34 _Viscount Melbourne to Queen Victoria._ _10th February 1839._ Lord Melbourne presents his humble duty to your Majesty, and is very sorry that his communication has occasioned your Majesty so much alarm and uneasiness. Lord Melbourne hopes that there is no
- 35 _Viscount Melbourne to Queen Victoria._ BROCKET HALL,[21] _1st April 1839._ Lord Melbourne presents his humble duty to your Majesty, and has just received your Majesty's letters, for which he returns many and warm thanks. Nothing could be more prospe
- 36 _Queen Victoria to the King of the Belgians._ BUCKINGHAM PALACE, _30th April 1839._ MY DEAR UNCLE,--I have to thank you for your last letter, which I received on Sunday. Though you seem not to dislike my political sparks, I think it is better not to incre
- 37 [Footnote 32: _Sic_: an obvious mistake for "black was black."][Footnote 33: Lady de Grey had written to Peel on 7th May:--"The Queen has always expressed herself much impressed with Lord Melbourne's open manner, and his truth. The lat
- 38 and he said he would return in two or three hours with the result, which I said I should await.[35][Footnote 35: It was a curious circ.u.mstance, much commented on at the time, that in the _Globe_ of 9th May, a Ministerial evening paper, which would proba
- 39 _Queen Victoria to Viscount Melbourne._ BUCKINGHAM PALACE, _10th May 1839._ The Queen wrote the letter before she went to bed, and sent it at nine this morning; she has received no answer, and concludes she will receive none, as Sir Robert told the Queen
- 40 The MARQUIS OF NORMANBY.The EARL OF MINTO.The CHANCELLOR OF THE DUCHY OF LANCASTER.The LORD JOHN RUSSELL.The VISCOUNT PALMERSTON. The VISCOUNT HOWICK.The VISCOUNT MORPETH.Sir JOHN HOBHOUSE, Bart.The CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER.Mr. POULETT THOMSON.Her Maje
- 41 Everything fair and just I a.s.sented to, even to having Lord Lyndhurst as Chancellor, and Sir H. Hardinge and Lord Ellenborough in the Cabinet; I insisted upon the Duke in the Foreign Office, instead of Lord Aberdeen.... All this I granted, as also to gi
- 42 MY DEAR UNCLE,--I have no letter from you, but hope to get one soon....I shall send this letter by a courier, as I am anxious to put several questions to you, and to mention some feelings of mine upon the subject of my cousins' visit, which I am desi
- 43 [Pageheading: KING LOUIS PHILIPPE]_The King of the Belgians to Queen Victoria._ LAEKEN, _9th August 1839._ ... I am sorry that you are less pleased with the old Duke, but party spirit is in England an incurable disease. These last two years he had rendere
- 44 The Speech is safely arrived, has been read over twice, and shall not be forgotten to-morrow; the Queen wishes they would not use such thin and slippery paper--for it is difficult to hold with nervous, and, as Lord Melbourne knows, _shaking_ hands. The Qu
- 45 Ever, my dearest Uncle, your devoted Niece, VICTORIA R.[Footnote 59: Ulick John, first Marquis of Clanricarde (1802-1874), Amba.s.sador at St Petersburg, afterwards Lord Privy Seal.][Footnote 60: Certain rights and privileges of the Basques.][Pageheading:
- 46 Poor Ernest has been suffering since Wednesday last with the jaundice, which is very distressing and troublesome, though not alarming.... I love him dearly too, and look upon him quite as a brother.What you say about Lord Melbourne has given me great plea
- 47 ... It is desired here that the matter should be declared at Coburg as soon as possible, and immediately after that I shall send you the Order.[66]_Your rank will be settled just before you come over, as also your_ _rank in the Army._ Everything will be v
- 48 _27th November 1839._ Lord Melbourne presents his humble duty to your Majesty....A little civility would be well bestowed upon Lord and Lady Tankerville, and might not be without its effect, but if your Majesty does not like it, it cannot be helped.The ot
- 49 [Pageheading: THE PROTESTANT QUESTION]_Queen Victoria to the King of the Belgians._ WINDSOR CASTLE, _9th December 1839._ MY DEAR UNCLE,--... I was quite miserable at not hearing from Albert for _ten_ days; such a long silence is quite insupportable for an
- 50 _The 22nd._--I have but little time to write. The d.u.c.h.ess of Sutherland is here, who admires you much, and is very sympathetic...._The 23rd._--Your letter of the 15th just received. I will now answer at once. _It is, as you rightly suppose, my greates
- 51 [Pageheading: OPENING OF PARLIAMENT]_Queen Victoria to the Prince Albert._ BUCKINGHAM PALACE, _12th January 1840._ This letter will be handed you by Torrington personally. I recommend you not to leave late, so as to make the journey without hurry. I did n
- 52 _The King of the Belgians to Queen Victoria._ BRUSSELS, _1st February 1840._ MY DEAREST VICTORIA,--I hope you will be pleased with me, as I send a messenger on purpose to inform you of Albert's arrival. He will write himself this night, though rather
- 53 G.o.d be praised that the dear _menage_ is so happy! I can only say may it be so for ever and ever. I always thought that with your warm and feeling heart and susceptibility for strong and lasting affection, you would prefer this _genre_ of happiness, if
- 54 [Footnote 15: The murder of Lord William Russell by his valet, Courvoisier, in Norfolk Street, Park Lane.][Footnote 16: This was the original theory.][Pageheading: MURDER OF LORD WILLIAM RUSSELL]_Viscount Melbourne to Queen Victoria._ _6th May 1840._ Lor
- 55 _The King of the French to Queen Victoria._ _11 Juin 1840._ MADAME MA S[OE]UR,--C'est avec une profonde indignation que je viens d'apprendre l'horrible attentat qui a menace les precieux jours de votre Majeste. Je rends grace du fond de mon
- 56 This first Convention brought about the battle of Navarino and the second campaign of the Russians, which ended with, in fact, the demise of the poor old Porte, the _Treaty of Adrianople_.[30] Your Majesty was then afflicted with the age of ten, in itself
- 57 [Pageheading: PALMERSTON AND FRANCE][Pageheading: VIEWS OF LOUIS PHILIPPE]_The King of the Belgians to Queen Victoria._ WIESBADEN, _2nd October 1840._ ... There is an idea that Mehemet Ali suffers from what one calls _un charbon_, a sort of dangerous ulce
- 58 SOUTH STREET, _10th October 1840._ Lord Melbourne presents his humble duty to your Majesty. ... All the question at the Cabinet to-day as to whether we should write a communication to France was fortunately put an end to by Guizot desiring to see Palmerst
- 59 _Queen Victoria to the King of the Belgians._ _13th October 1840._ MY DEAREST UNCLE,-- ... I have three kind letters of yours unanswered before me, of the 1st, 2nd, and 6th, for which many thanks. My time is very short indeed to-day, but Albert has, I kno
- 60 Mamma comes back sooner than the 31st. She is in great distress at poor Polly's death. You will regret him. Ever your devoted Niece, VICTORIA R.Pray _do_ try and get the King's Speech to be _pacific_, else Parliament must meet here in November,
- 61 [Pageheading: KING LEOPOLD ON FRENCH AFFAIRS]_The King of the Belgians to the Prince Albert._ [_Translated._]LAEKEN, _26th November 1840._ ... As to politics, I do not wish to say much to-day. Palmerston, _rex_ and autocrat, is, for a Minister finding him
- 62 These letters dealt chiefly with social and personal matters, and although full of interest from the light which they throw on Lord Melbourne's relations with the Queen, they show him to have behaved with scrupulous honour and delicacy, and to have t
- 63 CARLTON TERRACE, _1st February 1841._ Viscount Palmerston presents his humble duty to your Majesty, and in submitting this letter from Earl Granville, which coupled with the despatches from Sir Robert Stopford virtually show that the Turkish Question is b
- 64 [Footnote 9: They were both cousins of Lord Minto, the First Lord of the Admiralty.][Footnote 10: Commodore Bremer very speedily reduced some of the forts, but his further operations were stopped.][Footnote 11: Daughter of King Leopold, who married in 185
- 65 Lord Melbourne presents his humble duty to your Majesty. We decided at the Cabinet on Friday that we could not sanction the agreement which Captain Elliot has probably by this time concluded with the Government of China, but that it would be necessary to
- 66 The Prince says the Queen always sees what is right at a glance, but if her feelings run contrary she avoids the Prince's arguments, which she feels sure agree with her own, and seeks arguments to support her wishes against her convictions from other
- 67 Peel said: "It is essential to my position with the Queen that Her Majesty should understand that I have the feelings of a gentleman, and where my duty does not interfere, I cannot act against her wishes.Her Majesty doubtless knows how pressed I am a
- 68 Albert will be a great comfort to you, and to hear it from yourself has given me the sincerest delight. His judgment is good, and he is mild and safe in his opinions; they deserve your serious attention; young as he is, I have really often been quite surp
- 69 "At twenty minutes to one came Lord Melbourne.... I returned him Lord John Russell's letter, and talked of it, and of John Russell's saying the division and Peel's speech made it absolutely necessary to decide _to-day_ whether to _resi
- 70 [Footnote 46: The closing words of the resolution were as follows: "... That Her Majesty's Ministers do not sufficiently possess the confidence of the House of Commons to enable them to carry through the House measures which they deem of essenti
- 71 We are, and so is _everybody here_, so charmed with Mme. Rachel;[50]she is perfect, _et puis_, such a nice modest girl; she is going to declaim at Windsor Castle on Monday evening.Now adieu in haste. Believe me, always, your very devoted Niece, VICTORIA R
- 72 My Coiffeur will be quite at Louise's disposal, and he can _coiffer_ in any way she likes, if her dresser tells him how she wishes it.[Pageheading: LORD BROUGHAM][Pageheading: LETTER FROM LORD BROUGHAM]_Lord Brougham to Queen Victoria._[58]GRAFTON ST
- 73 [Pageheading: A DREADED MOMENT]_Viscount Melbourne to Queen Victoria._ SOUTH STREET, _15th August 1841._ ... Lord Melbourne well knows the feeling which your Majesty describes. The expectation of an event which is dreaded and deprecated, and yet felt to b
- 74 _Viscount Melbourne to Queen Victoria._ SOUTH STREET, _27th August 1841._ Lord Melbourne presents his humble duty to your Majesty. Upon his arrival he found that there was no precedent of the House meeting again after an Address, without receiving an answ
- 75 WINDSOR CASTLE, _29th August 1841._ Lord Melbourne is to take his farewell audience of the Queen to-morrow, and Her Majesty has appointed Sir Robert Peel to come down here at three o'clock to-morrow.I went with Lord Melbourne from luncheon to his roo
- 76 [Pageheading: THE NEW CABINET]THE CABINET OF LORD MELBOURNE, _As it stood in September 1841._ _First Lord of the Treasury_ VISCOUNT MELBOURNE._Lord Chancellor_ LORD (afterwards Earl of) COTTENHAM. _Chancellor of the Exchequer_ Mr FRANCIS BARING (afterward
- 77 Lord Melbourne concludes with the most anxious wishes for your Majesty's happiness and with expressing a great admiration of the firmness, prudence, and good sense with which your Majesty has conducted yourself.Lord Melbourne begs to be remembered to
- 78 _Viscount Melbourne to Queen Victoria._ SOUTH STREET, _3rd September 1841._ Lord Melbourne earnestly hopes that your Majesty is well after this trying day.[86] Lord Melbourne has thought and felt for your Majesty all this morning. But now that the matter
- 79 [Footnote 89: See _ante_, p 156.(Ch. VIII, 7th May, 1839)][Pageheading: DIPLOMATIC APPOINTMENTS]_Queen Victoria to Sir Robert Peel._ _8th September 1841._ There is a subject which the Queen wishes to mention to Sir Robert Peel, as she is at present so lit
- 80 _Sir Robert Peel to Queen Victoria._ _9th September 1841._ ... Sir Robert Peel will have the honour of writing to your Majesty to-morrow on the subjects adverted to in the note which he has just received from your Majesty.He begs for the present to a.s.su
- 81 "We shall not fail to communicate to you at an early period our fixed decision upon this subject."It was not possible to bring this subject before your Majesty's confidential servants before the afternoon of Sat.u.r.day the 4th. The mail fo
- 82 Sir Robert Peel presents his humble duty to your Majesty, and begs to be permitted to submit for your Majesty's consideration a suggestion which has occurred to Sir Robert Peel, and which has reference to the communication which he recently addressed
- 83 INDIA BOARD, _2nd October 1841._ Lord Ellenborough, with his most humble duty to your Majesty, humbly acquaints your Majesty that your Majesty's Ministers, taking into consideration the smallness of the force with which the campaign in China was comm
- 84 [Pageheading: DISCRETION URGED ON MELBOURNE][Pageheading: MELBOURNE'S INFLUENCE]On the next day Anson went to Melbourne and told him that his note to him had raised a great consultation, that the Prince felt much averse to giving any opinion in a cas
- 85 The Duke of Wellington's comments have reference to these observations of Sir Robert Peel. Your Majesty will nevertheless perceive that the Duke considers, upon the whole, "that Lord Ellenborough is better qualified than any man in England for t
- 86 _Queen Victoria to the Earl of Aberdeen._ _17th October 1841._ The Queen received Lord Aberdeen's letter yesterday evening, and quite approves of the draft to Mr Aston, and of Lord Aberdeen's having sent it off at once. Her earnest wish is that
- 87 _Queen Victoria to Sir Robert Peel._ _26th October 1841._ With respect to Serjeant Jackson, the Queen will not oppose his appointment, in consequence of the high character Sir Robert Peel gives him; but she cannot refrain from saying that she very much fe
- 88 _Viscount Melbourne to Queen Victoria._ SOUTH STREET, _4th November 1841._ Lord Melbourne presents his humble duty to your Majesty. He has this morning had the honour and pleasure of receiving your Majesty's letter of yesterday....Lord Melbourne send
- 89 [Pageheading: THE HEIR APPARENT]_Queen Victoria to the King of the Belgians._ BUCKINGHAM PALACE, _29th November 1841._ MY DEAREST UNCLE,--I have to thank you for four most kind letters, of the 4th, 6th, 19th and 26th; the last I received yesterday. I woul
- 90 [Pageheading: THE UNITED STATES]_The Earl of Aberdeen to Queen Victoria._ FOREIGN OFFICE, _24th December 1841._ Lord Aberdeen presents his most humble duty to your Majesty. He ventures to request your Majesty's attention for a moment to the character
- 91 _Viscount Melbourne to Queen Victoria._ BROADLANDS,[1] _5th January 1842._ Lord Melbourne presents his humble duty to your Majesty, and begs to return to your Majesty and to His Royal Highness his thanks for all the kindness shown him at Windsor. He was v
- 92 MY DEAR UNCLE,--Not to miss my day, I write a line to thank you for your kind letters of the 10th and 13th, but shall write fully by the messenger. Our Claremont trip was very enjoyable, only we missed p.u.s.s.y so much; another time we shall take her wit
- 93 [Footnote 12: Prince Augustus, afterwards married to the Princess Clementine, daughter of King Louis Philippe.][Pageheading: THE KING OF PRUSSIA][Pageheading: BETROTHAL OF PRINCE ERNEST]_The King of the Belgians to Queen Victoria._ LAEKEN, _4th February 1
- 94 SIR,--When I had the honour of last seeing your Royal Highness at Windsor Castle, I stated to your Royal Highness that it would give me great satisfaction to have the opportunity from time to time of apprising your Royal Highness of the legislative measur
- 95 _10th March 1842._ Lord Fitzgerald, with his most humble duty to your Majesty, begs leave most humbly and with deep sorrow to lay before your Majesty reports which he has only within this hour received.They are to be found in a despatch from the Governor
- 96 Lord Melbourne thinks that your Majesty's decision respecting the Governess[26] is right. It should be a lady of rank; but that she should be a woman of sense and discretion, and capable of fulfilling the duties of the office, is of more importance t
- 97 Lord Melbourne presents his humble duty to your Majesty, and acknowledges with many thanks your Majesty's letter of the 24th inst., which he received yesterday morning. Lord Melbourne learns with the greatest satisfaction that Lady Lyttelton has unde
- 98 BUCKINGHAM PALACE, _31st May 1842._ MY DEAREST UNCLE.--I wish to be the first to inform you of what happened yesterday evening, and to tell you that we are _saines et sauves_. On returning from the chapel on Sunday, Albert was observing how civil the peop
- 99 They are described in Sir Robert Sale's Report, as published in the _Bombay Gazette_, a copy of which is most humbly submitted to your Majesty.The despatches further bring the gratifying intelligence that General Pollock had forced the Khyber Pa.s.s,
- 100 _The Earl of Aberdeen to Queen Victoria._ FOREIGN OFFICE, _28th June 1842._ Lord Aberdeen, with his humble duty, begs to enclose for your Majesty's information a list of the presents brought by the Envoy of the Imam of Muscat for your Majesty.Lord Ab