Has your Majesty read the last volume of Madame D'Arblay's (Miss Burney) Diary, which contains the account of her service in the family of George III.?43 It is a curious [work], gives a curious account of the intérieur, and shows the King and Queen and the Princesses in a very amiable light.
Footnote 40: Lord John Russell had strenuously opposed the Income Tax Bill, but had been defeated by large majorities.
Footnote 41: Frances was tried on 17th June, and convicted. The death sentence was commuted to one of transportation for life.
Footnote 42: Used in the classical sense of "exposed to"; cf. "obnoxia fato."
Footnote 43: The first five volumes were published this year, Madame D'Arblay having died in 1840, at the age of eighty-seven. Croker somewhat rancorously attacked them in the Quarterly, to which Macaulay replied in the Edinburgh.
The Earl of Aberdeen to Queen Victoria.
A PRESENT FROM MUSCAT
Foreign Office, 28th June 1842.
Lord Aberdeen, with his humble duty, begs to enclose for your Majesty's information a list of the presents brought by the Envoy of the Imam of Muscat for your Majesty.
Lord Aberdeen will attend to-morrow with the Envoy, at the hour your Majesty has been pleased to command; and he will suggest that the presents should be sent previously to the Palace, in order to be laid before your Majesty.