The least the Queen has a right to require of her Minister is:—
1. That he will distinctly state what he proposes in a given case, in order that the Queen may know as distinctly to what she has to give her royal sanction.
2. Having given once her sanction to a measure, the Minister who, in the execution of such measure alters or modifies it arbitrarily, commits an act of dishonesty towards the Crown, which the Queen has an undoubted constitutional right to visit with the dismissal of that Minister.
Stockmar.
Footnote 6: Compare this with the Memorandum ultimately drawn up on the 12th of August.
Queen Victoria to the Marquis of Lansdowne.
Buckingham Palace, 16th March 1850.
The Queen wishes to remark to Lord Lansdowne, that his answer to Lord Stanley in the House of Lords last night might possibly lead to the misapprehension that Lord Palmerston's delay in sending the despatch to Mr Wyse had been caused by the time it took to get the Queen's approval of it. She must protest against such an inference being drawn, as being contrary to the fact, Lord Palmerston indeed having sent out in the first instance a different despatch from that which she had approved.
The King of the Belgians to Queen Victoria.
THE QUEEN'S ULTIMATUM