The officers have been rewarded too....

I am plaguing you already with tiresome politics, but you will in that find a proof of my [confidence] love,[79] because I must share with you everything that rejoices me, everything that vexes or grieves me, and I am certain you will take your part in it....
To-day I saw Lord William Russell--you know him, don't you?
I forgot to tell you that you will have a _great Officer of State_ at the head of your Household, who is called the _Groom of the Stole_; it is a position in the Court for prestige only, without any business; he will be a _Peer_....
[Footnote 77: Mr T.Phillips, the Mayor of Newport, Monmouthshire, had behaved with great coolness and courage during the riot on 4th November.

He read the Riot Act among showers of bullets before ordering the troops to fire.] [Footnote 78: Frost, Williams, and others, afterwards convicted at Monmouth.] [Footnote 79: The Queen had begun the word "confidence" but struck it out and substituted "love."] (_Continued 10th December_) .-- I am very impatient at your bust not having yet arrived; the Duchess of Sutherland wrote to me she had seen it in Rome, and it was so beautiful!...
Who has made the little copy which you sent me, and who the original?
Feodore writes to me so much about you....
We expect Queen Adelaide to-day, who will stay here until the day after to-morrow.

Melbourne has asked me to enquire of you whether you know Lord Grosvenor?
He is the eldest son of the Marquis of Westminster, and does not belong to any party; he is not in Parliament.

He is very pleasant, speaks German very well, and has been a good deal on the Continent.