If we carry it, we may go on.
This is a plain statement of the case, and this course will at least give your Majesty time to consider what is to be done.
[Footnote 20: By 63 to 58 Lord Roden carried a motion for a Select Committee to enquire into the state of Ireland; the Ministry replied by obtaining a vote of the House of Commons in their favour by 318 to 296.] _Viscount Melbourne to Queen Victoria._ BROCKET HALL,[21] _1st April 1839._ Lord Melbourne presents his humble duty to your Majesty, and has just received your Majesty's letters, for which he returns many and warm thanks.

Nothing could be more prosperous than his journey down, although it rained hard the greater part of the way.

Lord Melbourne slept well, and has walked out this morning, although it was still showery.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the first exposure to the air of the country, and Lord Melbourne feels the influence of it.
Lord Melbourne returns the letters of the King of the Belgians.

He accounts very naturally for the conduct of the poor Duchess,[22] but she should have recollected the extreme disadvantage and discredit which attaches to a change of religion.