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and painful disappointment, I was informed that your Majesty had so strongly expressed your disapprobation of the offer made by His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, and accepted by my Brother, as to induce His Royal Highness to inform my Brother, that he could not, on that account, suffice his gracious intentions towards him.

My affection for my Brother must be totally extinguished, & the disgrace and mortification of Royal displeasure must, to my sensation, have strangely lost their edge, if the best feelings which I possess were not strongly affected upon such an occurrence._ The principles of loyalty, duty, & attachment to every Branch of the Royal Family, in which I have been educated, and which it has even been my study & pride to cultivate and impose; lead me most forcibly to think that underline such a stigma /underline must not discredit the name of one so nearly connected