Letter from Queen Charlotte to the Prince Regent

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or the several Inferior Situations) must be a considerable Encrease in their respective Salaries; thus producing a farther Diminution of the Means from which any Provision can be made for those who are dismissed. The Queen is unwilling to extend their Paper to unreasonable length, and therefore omits many Observations and Arguments by which She might enforce the Remarks which She has already made upon the Inadequacy of the proposed Provision, but She cannot would stating Her Confident Belief that the narrow Principle upon which it is proposed to form an Establishment for the King and His Family, and the inevitable Distress which must result from it to the Old Servants of a Beloved Sovereign who, though secluded under the Pressure of the Greatest Calamity which can befal Man, is still in Existence, cannot be consistent with the feelings which generally pervade the Country towards that Sovereign and His Family. -- Her Majesty is indeed persuaded that their Country would consider itself disgraced if it were recorded in its History that less Liberality had been shown by it in the Provision made for its own Sovereign, under Misfortune, and towards the Support of His Attendants and Servants, less Regard for His Dignity and that of His Family than had been so frequently manifested in its Consideration of the necessities of other Sovereigns and Princes