TO HIS CATHOLIC MAJESTY 
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CHARLES IV. 
KING OF SPAIN, AND THE INDIES. 
May it please your Majesty, 
We are taught, that even to the supreme King of Kings, 
the most acceptable offering is a grateful heart : Permit 
me then to approach Your Majesty, with my most hum- 
ble acknowledgments, for the high honour which Your 
Majesty has graciously condescended to bestow on me by 
the hands of His Excellency the Marquis del Gampo, who, 
so happily for the peace and harmony of the two King- 
doms, fills the important station of Your Majesty's Am- 
bassador at this Court. 
No words of mine can adequately express the deep sense 
zuhich I shall ever retain of Your Majesty’s goodness in 
