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your Majesty should not go to England. The reason 

 why I should give this advice is, that I can see no real 

 good to your Majesty in such an expedition, if your 

 Majesty can obtain without going all that it is pos- 

 sible to wish. I give this advice, most sincerely con- 

 vinced that it is calculated to save your Majesty an 

 infinite deal of pain and anxiety, and also because I 

 am sure it is for the interest of the country. 



"Suffer me, Madam, to add that there are some 

 persons whose advice is of a different cast, and 

 who will be found very feeble allies in the hour of 

 difficulty. 



" I know not that I have a right to proceed further, 

 but a strong sense of duty impels me. 



"If your Majesty shall determine to go to England 

 before any new offer can be made, I earnestly implore 

 your Majesty to proceed in the most private and even 

 secret manner possible. It may be very well for a 

 candidate at an election to be drawn into towns by 

 the populace and they will mean nothing but good 

 in showing this attention to your Majesty but a 

 Queen of England may well dispense with such marks 

 of popular favour; and my duty to your Majesty 

 binds me to say very plainly that I shall consider 

 every such exhibition as both hurtful to your Majesty's 

 real dignity, and full of danger in its probable conse- 

 quences. 



"I know your Majesty's goodness and good sense 

 too well not to be convinced that you will pardon me 

 for thus once more urging what I had before in con- 

 versation stated. And I have the honour to be your 

 Majesty's devoted and faithful servant, 



"H. BROUGHAM." 



