I don't understand the meaning of it; the only happiness poor Charlotte knew was during her short wedded existence, and there was but one voice on that subject, that we offered a bright prospect to the nation.

Since that period I have (though been abused, and vilified merely for drawing an income which was the consequence of a Treaty ratified by both Houses of Parliament, and that without one dissenting voice, a thing not very likely to happen again) done everything to see England prosperous and powerful.
I have spared her, in 1831, much trouble and expense, as _without my coming here very serious complications, war and all the expensive operations connected with it_, must have taken place.

I give the whole of my income, without the reservation of a farthing, to the country; I preserve unity on the Continent, have frequently prevented mischief at Paris, and to thank me for all that, I get the most scurrilous abuse, in which the good people from _constant practice so much excel_....
The conclusion of all this--and that by people whose very existence in political life may be but of a few years' standing--is scurrilous abuse of the Coburg family.

I should like to know what harm the Coburg family has done to England?
But enough of this.

Your principle is very good; one must not mind what newspapers say.