Government through the kind offices of the Prussian Ambassador in London, Count Von Bernstorff, and were favoured with a reply graciously stating that Your Excellency was authorized to accede to our request, unless there were stringent contrary reasons to the contrary. The matter being thus placed in Your Excellency's hands, we beg to approach Your Excellency with the respectful but pressing request, that, in consideration of the benevolent object contemplated by our association, Your Excellency would be pleased graciously to fulfil our request.
The Lord Bishop of Victoria, who takes a lively interest in our work, will, we fondly trust, be ready to recommend our labour of love, should Your Excellency think proper to consult His Lordship on the matter.
Commending Your Excellency to the grace of...