1822 April 11

Rid Yourselves

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Lett. 17. Relinquishm t entire

As to the emancipated children after parting with whom the royal

fathers found himself so well at ease,- could he but have prevailed on the necessary

instruments to work on, but of Kings (for by whom could this appellation ever be

refused to the husband of the trustfullest of Queens?) but of Kings would have

drained England of the last man and the last farthing, rather than have unsubdued and

unpunished any such acknowledged benefactors. All this is human, and of cours, more

particularly, regal, nature: pride forbids the confession of miscarriage: love of

power forbids the parting with any the least scrap of the fascinating appendage, how

troublesome so ever, so long as any the faintest hopes of keeping it can be kept: