I am glad I extracted some spark of politics from your dear Majesty, very _kindly_ and _nicely_ expressed.

I know that your generous little heart would not have wished at any time but what was good for a country in which you were _much beloved_.

But the fact is, that certainly your Government have taken the lead in maintaining a condition which time had rendered difficult to comply with.

Physicians will tell you that often an operation, which might have been performed at one time, could not, without great danger for the patient, be undertaken some years later.

We have not been listened to, and arrangements _are forced_ on us, in themselves full of seeds of danger, when by consulting the _real interests_ of Holland and Belgium, both countries might have been placed on a footing of _sincere peace_ and good neighbourhood.