Buckingham Palace, 24th June 1843.
The Queen follows Lord Stanley's recommendation to confer the G.C.B. on Sir Charles Napier with great pleasure, from her high opinion of his late achievements, and she thinks it might be advisable that some of the officers who most contributed to the victories of Meeanee and Hyderabad46 should receive lower grades of the Bath. The Queen is much impressed with the propriety of a medal being given to the troops who fought under Sir Charles Napier, as the armies under Nott, Pollock, and Sale received such distinctions for actions hardly equal to those in Scinde.
Footnote 46: See ante, p. [481].
Sir James Graham to Queen Victoria.
Whitehall, 24th June 1843.
Sir James Graham, with humble duty, begs to lay before your Majesty the report received from Carmarthen this morning. The Earl of Cawdor went to Carmarthen this morning.47
Every effort will be made to trace this lawless outbreak to its source, and to bring the principal offenders to justice.
Sir James Graham encloses two Police Reports, which have been received this morning from Dublin. They would seem to indicate some foreign interference, and some hope of foreign assistance mingled with this domestic strife. Several Frenchmen have lately made their appearance in different parts of Ireland.
The above is humbly submitted by your Majesty's dutiful Subject and Servant,
J. R. G. Graham.