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That your Majesty may long continue to sway the sceptre of your, ancestors over a loyal 

 and happy people, is the earnest prayer of, 



May it please your Majesty, 



Your Majesty's most dutiful subjects and servants, 



The President and Fellows of the Eoyal 

 Society of Edinburgh. 



Signed in name and by appointment of the Society, 



Thomas Makdougal Brisbane, P. 

 John Robison, Sec. 



TO THE QUEEN-DOWAGER. 



Mat it please tour Majestt, 



We, the President and Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, beg leave to be 

 permitted to approach your Majesty with the loyal expression of our sincere and deep-felt 

 sorrow at the demise of our late most Gracious Sovereign. Under the severe pressure of an 

 event so calamitous, it must be soothing to the best feelings of your Majesty's heart, that the 

 reign of your Majesty's beloved and lamented Consort, alas too short ! had gained for him the 

 imperishable glory of having well approved himself one of the best of Kings, — the beneficent 

 and venerated Father and Protector of his people. 



In retiring from the more biu-thensome cares and duties of Royalty, your Majesty will 

 carry with you, and be blessed in the consciousness of having well earned, the gratitude and 

 loyal affection of a great and enlightened nation ; and whilst, in these sentiments, we cordially 

 join in the universal consent of all the faithful subjects of his late Majesty, we cannot omit to 

 commemorate our sense of the peculiar obligations under which this Society (established for 

 the promotion of Letters and useful Science), has been laid by his late Majesty's princely 

 munificence ; and by means of which we may hope the more effectually to advance the im- 

 portant objects of ovir social institution. 



That your Majesty may be speedily restored to serenity and peace of mind, and may 

 continue to reap the inestimable fruits of a life well spent in the faithful discharge of all the 

 high duties which it has been your Majesty's lot to sustain, is the earnest prayer of. 



May it please your Majesty, 



Your Majesty's most loyal and devoted servants, 



The President and Fellows of the Royal 

 Society op Edinburgh. 



Signed in name and by appointment of the Society, 



Thomas Makdougal Brisbane, P. 

 John Robison, Sec. 

 Edinburgh, 14<A July 1839. 



Memorandum. — On application having been made by the Secretary at the Home Ofiice, 

 it was ascertained that the Address to the Queen could be presented by a Deputation onli/ at 



