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ground, hastily dismiss it. Eather may you be impelled 

 to feel that the shortest and surest way to set the im- 

 portunate question at rest, is to submit it to that final 

 investigation which will satisfy the yearnings of sur- 

 viving relatives and friends, and, what is justly of higher 

 import to your Lordship, the credit and honour of the 

 country. 



I have the honour to be, &c., 



Jane Franklin. 



The Eight Hon. Viscount Palmerston, K.G. 



