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has no Intention of objecting, presuming that the actual [[unclear]] circumstances require that the King's Establishment should be placed upon the proposal Reduced Scale. - She wholly approves of the Choice of Lord Winchelsea to preside over the King's Establishment, as Groom of the State, and of that of Lord John [[unclear]] to be His Deputy. - His Majesty considers this Selection to be already made, as well as that of the Master of the Rates and the Privy Purse to which She cannot object, and She highly approves of the Continued Attendance of His Majesty's Actual Equerries. The Selection however of the Gentlemen and of the Grooms of the Bed Chamber, whose number is to be respectively limited to four, is made to test with the Queen, and Her Majesty does not deny that She has felt much embarrassed in the Adoption of the Principle upon which the Selection is made. She has not indeed hesitated in preferring to retain Individuals who actually hold those Situations to the Nomination of others who [[unclear]] not the same Claims, but She has felt the Difficulty which attends a Selection from which two thirds of the number must unavoidably be excluded. -- If Her Majesty had named the four Eldest in each Rank, Her Choice would have fallen upon those who are either unable to attend, or who have attended very little [[catchword]] at [[/catchword]]
