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Unhappy as it makes me to See Your Majesty plagued, as the reluctance I feel to add at any Time one moments Uneasiness to the Various unpleasant Affairs which constantly surround You. I feel myself Notwithstanding all the Delicacy I possess under the underline Necessity /underline to represent to You the truely Miserable Situation of my Brother the Duke, caused by the Death of Monsieur Schroeder with whose life the Irish Pension ceases. At the Time Baron de Dewitz came over He brought me the Account of the late Dukes Debts, Amounting to 500,000. German Crowns, & since all hte Public debts are Collected, they are considerably above. 600,000. Crowns. To this we must add a Debt of 60,000. of my Sisters, without any resource whatever to extricate the addition Country /addition out of this Distress but by Curtailing every Article, & living as retired as Possible. Every Body about Court with tolerable Fortunes are retired, & those who would take half the Salory remain. But there is in reality no Court, no more but one Table for