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Letter to the King, January 9, 1787

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

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Lord Carmarthen begs leave with all humility to submit to your Majesty, whether it might not be proper (in consequence of the very material information received from Holland) to express to the Prince and Princess of Orange the sense your Majesty entertains of the very dignifyed and becoming conduct their Royal and Serene Highnesses have manifested upon the subject of the terms of accommodation proposed to them as worthy their acceptance, not only by the Court of Versailles but even by that of Berlin, The King of Prussia appears to be as little disposed to support, as in truth able to advise, any future measures which the Princess his sister might find it advantageous to pursue in conformity with Her Royal Highness' noble and truly becoming sentiments, on indeed consistently present critical situation not only of Her own Family but of the Eepublic itself, and eventually (as far as appearances may justify the opinion) of every part of Europe.

Lord Carmarthen thinks it his indispensible Duty to submit to your Majesty his most serious and confirmed opinion that your Majesty's service necessarily calls for some decisive measure with respect to Holland with the smallest delay circumstances may admit of, for the determining of which, however, it may be expedient to wait for the Dispatches which Sir James Harris proposes sending to your Majesty by Mr. Bouverie.

Type
Political Memorandums
Information
Camden New Series , Volume 35: The Political Memoranda of Francis Fifth Duke of Leeds , January 1884 , pp. 117 - 118
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1884

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page 118 note 1 A letter from Lord Carmarthen to the King, the proper date of which is evidently January 7, 1787, as appears from a letter of Lord Carmarthen in the Malmesbury Correspondence (vol. ii. p. 267), dated January 8, 1787. He says: “The person whom you do not venture to answer for is not of the Cabinet. We are at present sine pvlvere, and, from what I can judge from a letter I received to-day from Windsor, are likely to remain equally sine palma. I own I am equally hurt and (if I might say it) angry at the answer I received from thence to my letter of yesterday.” The disgraceful conduct of this country with regard to America is quoted, the supposed idea of being the Drawcansir of Euxcype properly reprobated; a future hope by means of some years peace, held out as likely to restore the country to its former situation, suggested; and the event (not barely the attempt) of acting and indeed realising that part regarded as destrnetive at present. So much for the sublime! It is interesting to see that up to this time the King was with Pitt in favour of peace.