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Servant of your Royal Father, and of my most valued & afflicted King, the Oldest by far of any Servant of His Majesty on the late Windsor Establishment, the Groom of the Stole excepted-- I am anxious also by this opportunity to Express to your Royal Highness, how flattering & how welcome to my feelings has been that intimation of His Royal Highness the Prince Regents approbation of my proceedings in this instance, and which you have been pleased to convey to me with so much kindness On a privation so near my Heart I have been unable to suppress the impressions of severe disappointment, which begun from the first moment when my removal from The King's Family was made known to me and in which honorable situation His Majesty Himself had originally placed me in the year 1781, & in which with pride and gratitude I had been permitted to continue during a period of nearly 38 years-- I do not presume to complain-- and to the decisions of Parliament I have always been disposed to mark respect--
