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My Dearest Brother - Deeply impressed as we all are with the Kindness and Affection of which You have given Us so many proofs upon every occasion and more recently upon a Subject which has been the Cause of so much Distress and discomfort to Us, and which We have reason to know has produced your Proposal to the Queen that She should meet you in London with a view to an explanation of Her present and future Intentions with respect to the Line which She means to adopt towards Us; We feel that we should not be doing Our Duty towards You or Ourselves, nor indeed be acting with Candour towards the Queen if We did not endeavour to put You in possession of Our Sentiments in order that you may be able to appreciate their Correctness, and also to convey them to the Queen who has precluded Herself from the Knowledge of Them by forbidding Our addressing Her Personally or in writing any further on this Subject Without entering into the Detail of what has passed, with which You are in fact fully acquainted. We must here solemnly declare, that in every part of Our Proceeding it has ^ [[addition]] been [[/addition]] furthest from Our thoughts, as it ever will be from Our Inclination to be wanting in Respect, Duty or Affection to the Queen, and We appeal to You my Dearest Brother, to every Branch of the Family to All those who have witnessed Our Conduct during a long Series of years, whether it has at any Period been such as to admit even a Suspicion that We have ever felt disposed to lose Sight of what We owe to Her. On the other hand We most freely own that We have neither Health or Spirits to
