BARON STOCKMAR.
From the portrait by John Partridge at Buckingham Palace
To face p. 240, Vol. II.
Queen Victoria to Viscount Palmerston.
Buckingham Palace, 25th March 1850.
The Queen approves these drafts, but thinks that in the part alluding to M. Pacifico, should be added a direction to Mr Wyse to satisfy himself of the truth of M. Pacifico's statements of losses before he grounds his demands upon them.10 The draft merely allows a sub-division of the claims, but takes their validity for granted.
Footnote 10: Don Pacifico claimed £31,500—£4,900 being for effects destroyed, and £26,600 in respect of certain claims against the Portuguese Government, the vouchers for which he stated had been destroyed by the mob which pillaged his house. His valuation of the various items was of the most extravagant description.
Queen Victoria to the King of the Belgians.
SPEECH BY PRINCE ALBERT
Windsor Castle, 26th March 1850.