England, and seems fully sensible of the attentions which many of the English families she has met felt it their duty to pay to her.

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Several naval and military officers, who were resident here, have quitted the town in order to avoid paying their respects to her Majesty.

"Alderman Wood remains here, and will accompany her Majesty to England. He is in excellent health, and has repeated interviews with her Majesty.

"It would seem that her Majesty cannot, however desirous, sail for England this week."

Calais, Friday night.

"The courier sent by her Majesty to Mr. Brougham, who passed through this town on Monday evening, returned last night, and immediately proceeded with despatches to her Majesty at St. Omer's.

"A telegraphic annunciation has been made to the military authorities here, intimating that no official attention is to be paid to her Majesty the Queen of England; and, as if influenced by the notification, the commandant, following the example of the mayor, whose conduct was noticed in a former letter, sent for an English gentleman known to possess a considerable acquaintance with his fellow-countrymen, to whom he stated, that if any public demonstration of respect were offered to her Majesty, in the slightest degree calculated to produce confusion in the town, he should

be under the necessity of interfering to prevent it, by means even extending to imprisonment.

"The commandant says, that her Majesty is travelling as the Countess of Oldi, and that in that character he will visit her himself. This is not the case. All her Majesty's couriers have their passports drawn up as messengers from "la Reine d'Angleterre," and her Majesty has invariably adopted that style and title herself. There is no pretence, therefore, for withholding from her the respect due to her rank.

"The messenger who took the letters to Lord Liverpool and Lord Melville has not as yet come back.

"Her Majesty is still at St. Omer's, but is expected to come forward to this town without delay. The Consul is still with us. The mails have been detained here since Tuesday; this goes by express."

"Calais, Sunday, 12 at night.

"Mr. Brougham and his brother, together with Lord Hutchinson, did not reach St. Omer's till Saturday evening. They were most graciously received by her Majesty. The latter announced that he had a proposition to submit to her Majesty from the King. Her Majesty declared, that it was her intention to abstain from taking into consideration any proposal, or giving any answer, till she arrived in England. She said she was ready to set out for the British

shores immediately, having already obtained passports for her Italian suite to return to Italy.

"Matters rested in this state till the ensuing day, and preparations were made for her Majesty's departure to Calais, in order to embark on board a packet, no yacht having been sent in compliance with her demand.

"On Sunday morning, however, Lord Hutchinson stated the object of his mission: it was to propose on the part of his Majesty that a pension should be granted to her Majesty of 50,000l. a-year, upon condition that she should renounce her title as Queen, refrain from using the name of the Royal Family of England, and never return to this country; and in the event of her not agreeing to those terms, she was told that the moment she set her foot in Great Britain, a message would be sent down to Parliament, and in all probability proceedings would be commenced against her.

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Her Majesty heard these proposals with indignation, quitted the room, and in a short time afterwards set off for Calais, accompanied by Lady Hamilton, Alderman Wood, and other individuals. She did not reach Calais till halfpast ten o'clock, and immediately drove to the

* N. B. This Pension was not intended to come from the Throne's private revenue. The country was thus to pay 50,0001. a-year, as if his Majesty's Ministers were entitled to make a magnificent compensation to an individual whose conduct they insinuated to have been such as to have rendered her unworthy of participating in the royal dignity. Certainly these Ministers are at once consistent, competent, and considerate!

pier, where she embarked on board the Prince Leopold packet, together with her suite. Her carriages were embarked on board the Lady Jane. They will both sail to-morrow morning at half-past six.

"Lord Liverpool not having answered her Majesty's letter, with respect to the preparation of a palace, her Majesty, will, for the present, take up her residence in the house of Alderman Wood, in South Audley-street, whose family will immediately quit the house for her Majesty's accommodation.

"Her Majesty's Chamberlains, the Count Bergami and the Count Vasali, requested their own dismissal. They acknowledged the pleasure which they had had in being her servants for six years; but having at last placed her in the protection of her friends, and her Majesty being about to take refuge in the arms of her people, they presumed, from among those people she would be enabled to find persons, not more worthy of their confidence then they had been, but, perhaps, less likely to excite prejudice, These gentlemen have returned to their own country.

"The letter written by her Majesty to Lord Liverpool, demanding a suitable residence, was as follows:

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Villeneuve le Roi, May 29, 1820.

Having been prevented by indisposition from arriving sooner in England, I take now the

earliest opportunity of communicating to the

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Earl of Liverpool my intention of arriving in London next Saturday, 3rd of June; and I desire that the Earl of Liverpool will give proper orders that one of the royal yachts should be in readiness at Calais to convey me to Dover; and likewise, that he would be pleased to signify to me his Majesty's intentions as to what residence is to be allotted to me, either for a temporary or a permanent habitation. I trust that his Majesty the King is perfectly recovered from his late severe indisposition.

(Signed) "CAROLINE QUEEN OF ENGLAND." "To the Right Hon. the Earl of Liverpool."

The letter to Lord Melville, the First Lord of the Admiralty, was written by Lady Anne Hamilton: it was as follows:

"Villeneuve le Roi, 29th May, 1820.

Lady Anne Hamilton is commanded by her Majesty the Queen of England, to signify to Lord Melville, that it is her Majesty's intention to return to England immediately; therefore she desires that Lord Melville will be so good as to give orders that one of the royal yachts should be in attendance at Calais next Saturday, 3rd June, to convey her Majesty and suite to England."

To this the answer subjoined was received by Lady Anne Hamilton at St. Omer's:

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