3/2 DEFENCE OF QUEEN CAROLINE. [1820. 



their duty to recommend to his Majesty, must have 

 for its basis her Majesty's residence abroad. 

 HOUSE, June 11, 1820." 



"The Queen commands Mr Brougham to acknow- 

 ledge having received Lord Liverpool's note of last 

 night, and to inform his Lordship that her Majesty 

 takes it for granted that the memorandum of April 

 15 tli was not submitted to her Majesty before Satur- 

 day, only because her legal advisers had no opportu- 

 nity of seeing her until Lord Hutchinson was on the 

 spot prepared to treat with her Majesty. 



" Her Majesty commands Mr Brougham to state that 

 as the basis of her recognition as Queen is admitted by 

 the King's Government, and as his Majesty's servants 

 express their readiness to receive any suggestion for a 

 satisfactory adjustment, her Majesty, still acting upon 

 the same principles which have always guided her con- 

 duct, will now point out a method by which it appears 

 to her that the subject in contemplation may be at- 

 tained. 



" Her Majesty's dignity and honour being secured, 

 she regards all other matters as of comparatively little 

 importance ; and is willing to leave everything to the 

 decision of any person or persons of high station and 

 character whom both parties may concur in naming, 

 and who shall have authority to prescribe the particu- 

 lars as to residence, patronage, and income subject, 

 of course, to the approbation of Parliament. 



"June 12, 1820." 



" The Queen commands Mr Brougham to add that, 

 as her only wish is to vindicate herself, whatever ar- 



