Her own words were: "that I should press it with Lord Melbourne as the wish she had most at heart at this moment." Ever yours most sincerely, STOCKMAR.
[Pageheading: KING LEOPOLD ON FRENCH AFFAIRS] _The King of the Belgians to the Prince Albert._ [_Translated._] LAEKEN, _26th November 1840._ ...

As to politics, I do not wish to say much to-day.

Palmerston, _rex_ and autocrat, is, for a Minister finding himself in such fortunate circumstances, far _too irritable and violent_.

One does not understand the use of showing so much hatred and anger.

What he says about the _appeal to the personal feeling of the Queen, on the part of the King of the French_, is childlike and malicious, for it has _never_ existed.
The King was for many years the great friend of the Duke of Kent, after whose death he remained a friend of Victoria.