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[[underline]] Copy [[/underline]] Of my Letter to His Royal Highness The Duke of York In answer to the foregoing letter from Him to me-- Sir/ Permit Me with all due respect and gratitude to thank your Royal Highness for your condescension & kindness so flatteringly marked towards me by your very gracious communication from Windsor Castle, dated April 28th 1819 & which I received the 30th Instant-- I will own to you Sir, as I well know the innate goodness of your heart, that the very kind expressions, you have been thus pleased to convey to me, and which in your goodness your Royal Highness has introduced with so much alleviating warmth by connecting them with His Majesty's name, have been a welcome balm to the mind of an Old & Faithful