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Omer. I therefore immediately forwarded it by a 

 courier, enclosing it in the following letter : 



" ST OMER, half -past 5 o'clock, June 4, 1820. 



" Mr Brougham presents his humble duty to your 

 Majesty, and encloses the letter which he received 

 from Lord Hutchinson the moment after your Majesty 

 left St Omer. Mr Brougham once more implores your 

 Majesty to refrain from rushing into certain trouble, 

 and possible danger ; or at least to delay taking this 

 step until Lord Hutchinson shall have received fresh 

 instructions. If your Majesty will authorise Mr 

 Brougham to make a proposition like the one con- 

 tained in the other letter, all may yet be well. 



" But your Majesty will put an end to every kind 

 of accommodation by landing in England." 



This letter and the following were written after the 

 Queen's abrupt departure, and were sent off to her by 

 a courier to Calais : 



"ST OMER, June 4, 18206 o'clock. 



"MADAM, I entreat your Majesty once more to 

 reflect calmly and patiently upon the step about to 

 be taken, and to permit me to repeat my deliberate 

 opinion. I do not advise your Majesty to entertain 

 the proposition that has been made. But if another 

 proposition were made instead of it, I should earnestly 

 urge your Majesty to accept it namely, that the annuity 

 should be granted without any renunciation of rank 

 or title or rights, and with a pledge on the part of the 

 Government that your Majesty should be acknowledged 

 and received abroad by all the diplomatic agents of the 

 country according to your rank and station, but that 



