Everybody feels deeply for you, and the devotion and zeal in your service is redoubled by the interest your trying position has evoked.

May our Heavenly Father support and guide you always as hitherto, is my constant prayer! I hope that the selection of your Government is to your own satisfaction, and though the change must have been trying to you, I trust that you will have perfect confidence in the able men who form your Council.

Our beloved late King's anxious wishes to see Wellington and Peel again at the head of the Administration is now fulfilled.

His blessing rests upon you.
Excuse my having touched upon this subject, but I could not keep silent whilst the heart is so full of earnest good wishes for your and the country's prosperity.
I hope that an article of the newspapers, of the indisposition of your darling child, is not true, and that she is quite well.

God bless and protect her!...
I am much amused with reading your Life by Miss Strickland,[92] which, though full of errors, is earnest on the whole, and very interesting to _me_.