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underline Copy. /underline The Grove Jany. 23. _1813._

Madam.

It is with the utmost Defence and scruple, that I venture to approach Your Majesty in the character of a most anxious Petitioner: a Liberty which I am aware that I am presuming to take without having any pretension even for a moment to solicit Your Majesty's Attention; unless it can, in any degree, be decived from the nature of this Application, connected as it is with the high Account in which I should, myself, always hold any mark of Royal distinction on displeasure.

Allow me, Madam, with all possible respect, to say, that I had scarcely partaken of the satisfaction which His Royal Highness the Prince Regent's intended condescending goodness to my Brother, Mr. George Villiers, afforded me; when, to my great surprize catchword & painful /catchword