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Cumberland was Coming over, and it was reported that the Dutchess would accompany Him, I wrote to You to repeat what I had previously stated verbally. You declined stating the whole when I spoke to You at Ascot Races, which if You had done would have relieved both You & Me from Embarrassment and not placed Me under the Necessity of making a direct Communication to the Duke of Cumberland.

Had all that had passed upon this Occasion, had My firm Determination, so unequivically Conveyed to You, been Communicated to the Parties Concerned, had they not, to the last, been encouraged to hope that I should be prevailed upon to yield a Point from which, Considering the acknowledged Principle which guided My Conduct, I Could not recede, without disgracing Myself, the Embarrassments which have arisen