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Already symptoms of this kind appear wherever I 

 go. Your journey is loudly disapproved of; and 

 your adversaries reckon very confidently on your 

 being speedily the object of much popular outcry. 

 Think, I beseech you, Madam, of the situation of your 

 Eoyal Highness should any new attempts be made, 

 after time shall have been given, to stir up these feel- 

 ings and turn the public voice against you. I will 

 go no further. I declare I do not see how a proposi- 

 tion hostile to your Koyal Highnesses marriage could 

 be resisted if you continued living abroad ; for let it 

 be remembered that, legally speaking, the succession 

 will be endangered by such a residence ; and they 

 who now take good care not to prevent such a risk, 

 will be very glad to avail themselves of its existence 

 hereafter. Never let your Eoyal Highness forget that 

 in England spies and false witnesses can do nothing ; 

 abroad, everything may be apprehended from them. 

 Perhaps, Madam, I take a stronger view of this sub- 

 ject at the present moment from the circumstance of 

 your Eoyal Highnesses enemies being so active and so 

 sanguine all of a sudden. You alone can frustrate 

 their exertions and their expectations; and there is 

 but one way of doing so by making your stay short. 

 Above all, Madam, do not flatter yourself that it will 

 be time enough to return when you see steps taken 

 against you. The blow will come without any warn- 

 ing, as soon as the public feeling is prepared for it : 

 and when I speak of its involving your Eoyal High- 

 ness and the Princess Charlotte in destruction, I mean 

 to say that it will deprive your Eoyal Highness of 

 every kind of support, and make your daughter's suc- 

 cession more than doubtful. I entreat your excuse, 



