370 DEFENCE OF QUEEN CAROLINE. [1820. 



My answer to her was, that I saw no chance what- 

 ever, now that Canning was out of the question. 



The following notes carry on my narrative, and also 

 explain the feelings on the part of the Queen, and the 

 conciliatory views by which she was influenced : * 



" The Queen commands Mr Brougham to inform 

 Lord Liverpool that she has received his letter, and 

 that the memorandum of April 15th, 1820, which the 

 proposition made through Lord Hutchinson had ap- 

 peared to supersede, has also been now submitted to 

 her Majesty for the first time. 



" Her Majesty does not consider the terms there 

 specified as at all according with the condition upon 

 which she informed Lord Liverpool yesterday that she 

 would entertain a proposal namely, that it should be 

 consistent with her dignity and honour. 



" At the same time she is willing to acquit those 

 who made this proposal of intending anything offen- 

 sive to her Majesty, and Lord Liverpool's letter indi- 

 cates a disposition to receive any suggestions which 

 she may offer. 



" Her Majesty retains the same desire which she 

 commanded Mr Brougham yesterday to express, of 

 submitting her own wishes to the authority of Par- 

 liament, now so decisively interposed. Still acting 

 upon the same principles, she now commands Mr 

 Brougham to add, that she fee]s it necessary, before 

 making any further proposal, to have it understood 

 that the recognition of her rank and privileges as 



* See in connection with what follows, the papers termed " Commu- 

 nications on the part of the Queen with his Majesty's Government," 

 presented to Parliament by Lord Castlereagh on 19th June 1820. Han- 

 sard, 1147. 



