Prince Albert,
Apart from mere considerations of good taste and propriety, and thus publishing in a series of sweeping denunciations by Her Majesty's Minister against every averment and evidence adduced in facer of the story, I greatly doubt the beneficial result of the unusual step taken by Your Excellency's arguing in the local Press.
I know that your particular side of a case cannot, by reiterating individual details in disregard of all the proofs given where proof was possible, dispose ex cathedra of the story, which is more likely to be true than false, and which at all events is at this moment completely unrefuted.
I have no doubt that, whatever regret might be felt by many at having to withhold credit from claims who had peculiar British consideration, and who were entitled to credit as much as to disbelief, still all would admit that you were acting strictly within the limits of the discretion confided to you.
When, however, you proceed not merely to expound the general...
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becomesPrince Albert,
Apart from mere considerations of good taste and propriety, and thus publishing in a series of sweeping denunciations by Her Majesty's Minister against every averment and evidence adduced in face of the story, I greatly doubt the beneficial result of the unusual step taken by Your Excellency's arguing in the local Press.
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