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to ir ifotteeiajr just reqtfest * But the Queen repeated again and again thcj words she had used , without ever receding . And it is probable that this conversation had never been consented to , but that her Majesty had been
carefully provided with those words , as a shield to defend her against every reason I could offer . I protested to her Majesty , that I had no design , in giving her this trouble , to solicit the return of
her favour , but that my sole view was to clear myself ; which was too just a . design to be wholly disapp 6 inted by her Majesty . Upon this the Queen offered to
fo out of the room , I following er , and begging leave to clear myself ; and the Queen repeating over and over again , you desired no answer , and shall have none .
When she came to the door , I fell Into great disorder ; streams of tears flow'd down against my will , and prevented my speaking for some time . At length I recovered myself , and appealed to the Queen , in the vehemence
of my concern , whether I mi g ht not still have been happy in her Majesty ' s favour , if I could have contradicted * or dissembled my r ^ al opinipn of men , or things ? whether I had ever , during our loiijg friendship , told her one lie , oi * play'd the hypocrite once ?
whether I had offended in anytMng , unless in a very zealous pressing upon her , th & t which I thought necessary for her service and ; security ? t then said I was informed W k very reasonable ' ¦ - & n 4 credible person about the , ' ^ O / urt ' ,, thjit things were laid i fcb' my qK ^ rge , of which 1 ' was i wrHptly In ^ toable ; that thfe petv i * 0 % i £$ w [ tlf # t such stories were piptuirfly 1 toli ( to he * Majesty
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to incense h & v and bad fbe $ & of me to come and vindicate myself ; that the same person had thought me of late guilty of some omissions towards laer Majesty , being entirely igndrani how uneasy to her my frequent attendance must be , after what
had happened between us * I explained some things which I had heard her Majesty had taken amiss of me , and then , with a fresh flood of tears , and a ton cern sufficient to move comjias * sion * even where all love was
absent , I begged to know what other particulars she had heard of me , that I might not be denied all power of justifying myself . But still the only return was , you desired no answer , and you shall have none . I then begged to know if her Majesty would tell me some other time ?
—You desired no answer , and you shall have none . I then appealed to her ' Majesty again , if she did not herself know that I had often despised interest in comparison of serving her faithfully and doing right ? And whether she did not know me
to be of a temper uneatable of disowning anything which I knew to be true 1- ^~ You desired no answer , and you shall have none . This usage was so severe , and these words , so often Repeated , were so shocking ( being
an utter denial of common justice to one who had been a most faithful servant , and now asked nothing more ) that I could ; iioft cotiquer m'jrself , hut said the ntid & t ihi / evier
disrespectful tig X " spoke ity [ the Queen in my life , a'Wd yet , what such 4 n' ' peda ^ dii arid ' 6 uch bireiria ^ taiticei hiighlt well ^ cuse ^^ lf not pti ^ . ' MA thai Wkr th & i' / « £ WvfiMtt
Is6 Retrospective Review,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 1, 1837, page 426, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_01121837/page/58/
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