Whitehall, January 2, 1862. THE To the QUEEN'S Most Excellent Majesty. WE, your Majesty's dutiful Subjects, the VicePresidents and Members of Council of the Royal Horticultural Society, humbly approach your Majesty in your deep affliction, trusting that our profound respect for the memory of His Royal Highness, our late lamented President, and our loyal devotion to your Majesty, may entitle us to offer our tribute of condolence and sympathy. While, in common with our fellow-subjects, we grieve the loss of His Royal Highness to the nation, and as the Consort of your Majesty, and while with others we respected and admired his character, the kindly courtesy which marked his intercourse with the Royal Horticultural Society had generated amongst us feelings of personal 1862. B attachment, which are now followed by deep and heartfelt sorrow for his loss. In our late President we have to mourn one who, when the Society which we represent was on the point of extinction, raised, revived, and guided it through difficulties, which he alone would have enabled it to surmount; and it is with the deepest gratitude that we acknowledge our obligation to His late Royal Highness for assistance given at a period when he must have been convinced that laborious personal exertion on his part could alone restore this Society to prosperity. Although the present condition of the Society is such, that the Gardens at South Kensington constitute a worthy monument of the genius and skill of our late President, we cannot but perceive that our work is not yet finished; that, while great difficulties have been overcome, much remains to be accomplished, and that we have to lament the loss of our President at a moment when his directing mind and fostering care are doubly necessary. We humbly assure your Majesty, that it will be our unceasing endeavour to complete the various unfinished designs of our late lamented President, and that we feel that, by executing them with fidelity, we shall best testify the profound respect we entertain for his memory. Whilst we bow submissively to the Divine will, we earnestly pray that He who has smitten may also heal, and that your Majesty may experience in this hour of bitter trial the fulness of those consolations which the Comforter alone can give. By order of the Council. Sealed with the Seal of the Royal Horticultural Society, this 31st day of December, 1861, in the presence of Andr. Murray, Assistant-Secretary. And the following on the same subject: from The Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the borough of Maldon. The Parishioners of Romford. The Noblemen, Gentlemen, and other Inhabitants of the county of Oxford. The Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the borough of Rye. The Congregation of Sheffield-road Chapel, Barnsley. The Barnsley Local Board of Health. The Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the borough of New Windsor. The Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the borough of Yeovil. The Officers and Members of the Chillington Working Men's Association. The Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the city and borough of Bath. The Corporation of the Poor of the city of Bristol. The Presbytery of Garioch. The Lindsay Lodge of Freemasons, No. 1014, Louth, Lincolnshire. The Provost, Magistrates, and Town Council of the royal burgh of Dingwall. The Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the borough of Leominster. The Chamber of Commerce of Edinburgh. The Provost, Magistrates, and Town Council of the royal burgh of Inverbervie. The Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the city and borough of Wells. The Inhabitants of the city of Wells. The Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the borough of Southampton. The Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the city of Bristol. The Minister and Deacons of Bridge-street Chapel, Walsall. The Ministers and Elders of the Presbytery of Linlithgow. The Warden and Society of the Royal Town Manor and Lordship of Sutton Coldfield. The Incorporated Society of Solicitors before the Supreme Courts of Scotland. The Magistrates and Council of the burgh of Girvan. The Inhabitants of Ilfracombe. The Town Commissioners of West Hartlepool. Meeting of Members of the Dramatic and The Committee and Governors of the Royal Free Hospital. The Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the city of Ripon. The Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of Kingston-upon-Hull. The Ministers and Elders of the Presbytery of Edinburgh. The President and Society of Advocates in Aberdeen. The Inhabitants of Leamington. The Board of Trustees of the Manchester Royal Infirmary. The Inhabitants of Newport, Isle of Wight. The Commissioners for Improving the Port ar Harbour of Waterford. |
