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Queen must form the basis of any arrangement which 

 can be made. 



"The moment that basis is established, her Majesty 

 will be ready to suggest a method by which she conceives 

 all existing differences may be satisfactorily adjusted. 



"June 10, 1820." 



FEOM THE EARL OF LIVERPOOL. 



" Lord Liverpool has had the honour of receiving 

 the Queen's communication, and cannot refrain from 

 expressing the extreme surprise of the King's servants 

 that the memorandum of April the 1 5th, the only pro- 

 position to her Majesty which was ever authorised 

 by his Majesty, should not have been submitted to 

 her Majesty until yesterday. 



" That memorandum contains so full a communica- 

 tion of the intentions and views of the King's Govern- 

 ment with respect to the Queen, as to have entitled his 

 Majesty's servants to an equally frank, full, and candid 

 explanation on the part of her Majesty's advisers. 



"The memorandum of the 15th of April, while it 

 proposed that her Majesty should abstain from the 

 exercise of the rights and privileges of Queen, with 

 certain exceptions, did not call upon her Majesty to 

 renounce any of them. 



" Whatever appertains to her Majesty by law as 

 Queen, must continue to appertain to her so long as it 

 is not abrogated by law. 



" The King's servants, in expressing their readiness 

 to receive the suggestion for a satisfactory adjustment 

 which her Majesty's advisers promise, think it right, 

 in order to save time, distinctly to state, that any pro- 

 position which they could feel it to be consistent with 



