f my future
life.

"It is my intention to ally myself in marriage with the Prince Albert
of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Deeply impressed with the solemnity of the
engagement which I am about to contract, I have not come to this
decision without mature consideration, nor without feeling a strong
assurance that, with the blessing of Almighty God, it will at once
secure my domestic felicity, and serve the interests of my country.

"I have thought fit to make this resolution known to you, at the
earliest period, in order that you may be fully apprised of a matter
so highly important to me and to my Kingdom, and which, I persuade
myself, will be most acceptable to all my loving subjects."

Upon this announcement, all the Privy Councillors present made it their
humble request that Her Majesty's most gracious declaration to them might
be made public; which Her Majesty was pleased to order accordingly.

The Queen suffered severely from lunatics. In June a man got into the
gardens of Buckingham Palace, and, when arrested, declared he had come
there for the sole purpose of killing Her Majesty, and was duly committed
to Tothill Bridewell. Within a day or two of his release, in the middle
of October, he went to Windsor and broke three or four panes of glass in
the Castle. He was afterwards apprehended, but what became of him, I do
not know; in all probability he was sent to a lunatic asylum.

In the paper which gives the account of the above, I read, "James Bryan,
the Queen's Scotch suitor, was in Windsor the whole of yesterday (Sunday,
13 Oct.). In the morning, he was waiting, for a considerable period, at
the door of St. George's Chapel, leading to the Cloisters, to have a view
of the Queen, as Her Majesty and the two Princes of Saxe-Coburg, and the
Duchess of Kent left the Chapel. In the afternoon, he walked on the
Terrace, and conducted himself in his usual manner, very respectfully
bowing to the Queen, as Her Majesty passed him on the New Terrace."--By
the above, he must have been well known.

On 29 Nov., a respectably-dressed man got over the high iron gates
leading to the Castle, a place at which there were no sentries, and
walked across the Park, to the grand entrance to the Castle. Upon seeing
the porter in attendance at the lodge, he said: "I demand entrance into
the Castle as King of England"; to which the porter replied: "Very well,
your Majesty, but be pleased to wait