ur reading.

Pray, dearest Uncle, say everything most kind to my beloved and
dearest Aunt, and thank her in my name for her kind letter, which I
shall answer on Friday. I am happy she and the dear little man are
well.

Believe me, always, your most devoted and affectionately attached
Niece,

VICTORIA.

[Footnote 15: Prince Ferdinand was appointed
Commander-in-Chief of the Portuguese army on the advice of
the Duc de Terceira, then Prime Minister. The appointment was
highly unpopular; riots broke out, the army mutinied, and rose
against the authorities, with the result that the Queen of
Portugal was compelled to accept the Radical Constitution of
1820, in the place of Dom Pedro's constitutional Charter
of 1826. Later in the year the Queen, assisted by Palmella,
Terceira, and Saldanha, made a counter-move, believing that
the people of Lisbon would support her, and proposed to
dismiss her Ministers; she had, however, been misled as to the
popular aid forthcoming, and had to give up the struggle, Sa
da Bandeira becoming Prime Minister. The Queen, virtually a
captive, had to accede to the revolutionary requirements.]

[Footnote 16: Dietz was a former Governor of Prince Ferdinand,
who accompanied him to Portugal on his marriage with Donna
Maria, and took a considerable part in political affairs.]

[Footnote 17: A former Minister of the Interior was killed by
the National Guards, who threatened to march on Belem, where
the Queen was; she had to apply to the British Marines for
protection.]

[Footnote 18: In the course of the debate (3rd August 1831)
on Lord Althorp's proposition to add L10,000 a year to the
Duchess of Kent's income, Sir M. W. Ridley suggested changing
the Princess's name to Elizabeth, as being "more accordant
to the feelings of the people," saying that he had heard the
subject "frequently and seriously argued." Hunt, the Radical,
who opposed the grant, saw no objection to the change, and
Lord Althorp thought the matter of no particular consequence.
The Princess's own feelings, and those of her mother, do not
seem to have been considered. See _Hansard_, 3rd series, vol.
v. 591, 654 _et seq._]

[Footnote 19: Probably that on the Irish Church Question at
the General (formerly "Catholic") Association, Dublin.]

_The Princess Victoria to the King of the Belgians.