I shall probably soon be requested, therefore, to show the Telegraph to the king.
"All these are most encouraging prospects; there is, indeed, nothing that has arisen to throw any insurmountable obstacle in the way of its adoption with complete success; and for all this I ought to feel gratitude, and I wish to acknowledge it before Him to whom gratitude is due.

Is it right or is it wrong, in view of all this, to feel despondency?
"In spite of all I do feel sad.

I am no longer young; I have children, but they are orphans, and orphans they are likely to be.

I have a country, but _no home_.

It is this _no home_ that perpetually haunts me.
I feel as if it were duty, duty most urgent, for me to settle in a family state at all hazards on account of these children.