§ NO. 1.—Communication from the Queen to the Earl of Liverpool.
§ The Queen commands Mr. Brougham to inform lord Liverpool, that she has directed her most serious attention to the declared sense of parliament, as to the propriety of some amicable adjustment of existing differences being attempted; and submitting to that high authority with the gratitude due to 1148 the protection she has always received from it, her majesty no longer waits for a communication from the ministers of the Crown, but commands Mr. Brougham to announce her own readiness to consider any arrangement that can be suggested consistent with her dignity and honour.
§ One o'clock, Friday, 9th June, 1820.
§ No. 2.—The Earl of Liverpool, in answer to the Communication from the Queen, on the same day.
§ Lord Liverpool has had the honour of receiving the queen's communication of this day; and begs leave to acquaint her majesty, that a memorandum delivered by lord Liverpool to Mr. Brougham on the 15th April last, contains the propositions, which lord Liverpool was commanded by the king to communicate through Mr. Brougham to her majesty.
§ Her majesty has not been advised to return any answer to those propositions; but lord Liverpool assures her majesty that the king's servants will still think it their duty, notwithstanding all that has passed, to receive for consideration any suggestions which her majesty or her advisers may have to offer upon those propositions.
§ Fife-house, 9th June, 1820.
§ No. 3.—Communication from the Queen to the Earl of Liverpool.
§ The Queen commands Mr. Brougham to inform lord Liverpool, that she has received his letter; and that the memorandum of April 15th, 1820, which the proposition made through lord Hutchinson had appeared to supersede, has also been now submitted to her majesty for the first time.
§ Her majesty does not consider the terms there specified as at all according with the condition upon which she informed lord Liverpool yesterday that she would entertain a proposal, namely, that it should be consistent with her dignity and honour. At the same time she is willing to acquit those who made this proposal, of intending any thing offensive to her majesty; and lord Liverpool's letter indicates a disposition to receive any suggestions which she may offer.
§ Her majesty retains the same desire which she commanded Mr. Brougham yesterday to express of submitting her own wishes to the authority of parliament, now so decisively interposed. Still acting upon the same principle, she now commands Mr. Brougham to add, that she feels it necessary, before making any further proposal, to have it understood, that the recognition of her rank and privileges as queen, must be the basis of any Arrangement which can be made. The moment that basis is established, her majesty will be ready to suggest a method by which she conceives all existing differences may be satisfactorily adjusted.
§ 10th June, 1820.
1149§ No. 4.—The Earl of Liverpool, in answer to the Communication from the Queen of the l0th June, 1820.
§ Lord Liverpool has had the honour of receiving the queen's communication, and cannot refrain from expressing the extreme surprise of the king's servants, that the memorandum of April 15th, the only proposition to her majesty, which ever was authorized by his majesty, should not have been submitted to her majesty until yesterday.
§ That memorandum contains so full a communication of the intentions and views of the king's government with respect to the queen, as to have entitled his majesty's servants to an equally frank, full, and candid explanation on the part of her majesty's advisers.
§ The memorandum of the 15th of April, while it proposed that her majesty should abstain from the exercise of the rights and privileges of queen with certain exceptions, did not call upon her majesty to renounce any of them.
§ Whatever appertains to her majesty by law, as queen, must continue to appertain to her so long as it is not abrogated by law.
§ The king's servants, in expressing their readiness to receive the suggestion for a satisfactory adjustment which her majesty's advisers promise, think it right, in order to save time, distinctly to state, that any proposition which they could feel it to be consistent with their duty to recommend to his majesty, must Have for its basis, her majesty's residence abroad.
§ 11th June, 1820.
§ No. 5.—Communications from the Queen to the Earl of Liverpool.
§ The Queen commands Mr. Brougham to acknowledge having received lord Liverpool's note of last night, and to inform his lordship,: that her majesty takes it for granted that the memorandum of April 15, was not submitted to her before Saturday, only because her legal advisers had no opportunity of seeing her majesty until lord Hutchinson was on the spot prepared to treat with her.
§ Her majesty commands Mr. Brougham to state, that as the basis of her recognition as queen is admitted by the king's government, and as his majesty's servants express then readiness to receive any suggestion for a satisfactory adjustment, her majesty, still acting upon the same principles which have always guided her conduct, will now point out a method, by which it appears to her that the object in contemplation may be attained.
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Her majesty's dignity and honour being secured, she regards all other matters as of comparatively little importance, and is willing to leave every thing to the decision of any person or persons of high station and character, whom both parties may concur in naming, and who shall have authority to prescribe the particulars as to residence, patronage and in-
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§ 12th June, 1820.
§ No. 6.—The Earl of Liverpool, in answer to the Communication from the Queen of the 12th of June, 1820.
§ Lord Liverpool has received the communication made by the queen's commands.
§ The king's servants feel it to be unnecessary to enter in to any discussion on the early parts of this communication, except to repeat that the memorandum delivered to Mr. Brougham of the 15th of April, contained the only proposition to the queen, which the king authorized to be made to her majesty.
§ The views and sentiments of the king's government as to her majesty's actual situation are sufficiently explained in lord Liverpool's note of the 11th instant.
§ Lord Liverpool will proceed therefore to the proposal made on the part of her majesty at the close of this communication—viz. "That she is willing to leave every thing to the decision of any person or persons of high station and character, whom both parties may concur in naming; and who shall have authority to prescribe the particulars as to residence, patronage and income, subject of course to the approbation of parliament.
§ The king's confidential servants cannot think it consistent with their constitutional responsibility to advise the king to submit to any arbitration, a matter so deeply connected with the honour and dignity of his crown, and with the most important public interests; but they are fully sensible of the advantages which may be derived from an unreserved personal discussion; and they are therefore prepared to advise his majesty to appoint two of his majesty's confidential servants, who, in concert with the like number of persons to be named by the queen, may frame an arrangement to be submitted to his majesty, for settling, upon the basis of lord Liverpool's note of the 11th instant, the necessary particulars of her majesty's future situation.
§ 13th June, 1820.
§ No. 7.—Note from the Earl of Liverpool to Mr. Brougham, accompanying his Answer to the Communication from the Queen of the 12th June, 1820.
§ Lord Liverpool presents his compliments to Mr. Brougham, and requests that he will inform the queen, that if the accompanying answer should not appear to require any reply, lord Liverpool is prepared to name the two persons, whom his majesty will appoint for the purpose referred to in this note.
§ 13th June 1820.
§ No 8.—Mr. Brougham to the Earl of Liverpool, stating that he has received the queen's commands to name two persons to meet the two who may be named on the part of his Majesty's government for settling an arrangement.
1151§ Mr. Brougham presents his compliments to lord Liverpool, and begs leave to inform him, that lie has received the queen's commands to name two persons, to meet the two whom his lordship may name on the part of his majesty's government, for the purpose of settling an arrangement.
§ Mr. Brougham hopes to he favoured with lord Liverpool's nomination this evening, in order that an early appointment for a meeting to-morrow may take place.
§ 14lh June, 1820.