He is much pleased with the good Queen, and she is delighted with him, and M.de Neumann says that they are already quite happy together.

This is really a great blessing, but I fear that all the _exterior_ affairs are not in quite _so_ good a state.

I hope, however, that the good people will not make any more difficulties about Fernando's being Commander-in-Chief, as I hear from all accounts it is necessary he should be so....
Uncle Ernest and my cousins will probably come here in the beginning of next month, I hear, and will visit you on their return.
You ask me about Sully's Memoirs, and if I have finished them.

I have not finished them, but am reading them with great interest, and find there is a great deal in them which applies to the present times, and a great deal of good advice and reasoning in them.

As you say, very truly, it is extremely necessary for me to follow the "events of the day," and to do so impartially.