Mr Delane to Viscount Palmerston

THE ENGLISH PRESS

16 Serjeant's Inn, 28th October 1861.

My dear Lord,—I shall be very glad to give the Prussians a respite from that most cruel of all inflictions—good advice.

Indeed, I would not have intruded anything so unwelcome during the splendid solemnities of the Coronation had not the King uttered those surprising anachronisms upon Divine Right.

Pray observe, too, in extenuation of my offence that I sent a faithful chronicler to Königsberg, who has described all the splendours in a proper and reverent spirit, and done what man can do to render such ceremonies intelligible, and the recital of them not too wearisome to those who believe in Divine Right as little as your Lordship's very faithful Servant,

John T. Delane.

Footnote 50: Enclosed in the following letter.