, but that it must be
defensive. He would oppose no right measures, but he cannot suffer
the course of policy which has been condemned in him to be adopted by
others without observation upon the inconsistency and injustice....

Lord Melbourne concludes with again wishing your Majesty health and
happiness, and much enjoyment of the country.

[Footnote 159: King Frederick William IV., who was to be a
sponsor.]

[Pageheading: PRINCE OF WALES]

_Sir James Graham to Queen Victoria._

WHITEHALL, _6th December 1841._

Sir James Graham, with humble duty, begs to enclose for the Signature
of your Majesty the Letters Patent creating His Royal Highness,
the Prince of the United Kingdom, Prince of Wales and Earl of
Chester.[160]

Understanding that it is your Majesty's pleasure to have this Creation
inserted in the _Gazette_ of to-morrow night, Sir James Graham has
given directions, which will ensure the publication, though the
Letters Patent themselves may not be completed. The Warrant already
signed by your Majesty is a sufficient authority.

The above is humbly submitted by your Majesty's dutiful Subject and
Servant,

J. R. G. GRAHAM.

[Footnote 160: His present Majesty had been referred to in
letters of the previous month as the Duke of Cornwall. "Know
ye," ran the present Letters Patent, "that we have made ...
our most dear son, the Prince of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland (Duke of Saxony, Duke of Cornwall ...)
Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester ... and him our said most
dear son, ... as has been accustomed, we do ennoble and invest
with the said Principality and Earldom, by girding him with
a sword, by putting a coronet on his head, and a gold ring on
his finger, and also by delivering a gold rod into his hand,
that he may preside there, and may direct and defend those
parts...."]

_Queen Victoria to the King of the Belgians._

WINDSOR CASTLE, _7th December 1841._

MY DEAREST UNCLE,--We arrived here _sains et saufs_ with our awfully
large Nursery Establishment yesterday morning. It was a nasty warm
and very rainy day, but to-day is very bright, clear and dry, and we
walked out early and felt like prisoners freed from some dungeon. Many
thanks for your kind letter of the 2nd, by which I grieve to see
that you are not quite well. But let me repeat again, you _must_ not
despond so; you must not be so out of spirits. I have