[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "]
Sra,—You clearly mistake the feeling of the provinces on this subject. The Queen has lost the respect of Englishmen because she notoriously neglects her duty, and applied the enormous sums. she and her late husband received and receives from the country to the increasing an already enormously hoarded wealth, instead of doing her duty and contributing largely to national charities as becomes a Queen. There is, in fact, nothing queenly in her acts.
The provinces rather like the Princess Louise's marriage than otherwise, but think the moneys hoarded by the Queen should dower her own children in future, and regret the outcry did not commence on the marriage of Princess Christian.—I am, Sir, &c.,
A BENIGHTED YORICSHIREMAN.
[We print this ill-tempered letter to show that the angry feeling it displays extends beyond London.—ED. Spectator.]
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