d no objection to
the Duke of Saville[23] (Don Enrique), and that if it should be found
that Count Trapani was impossible, they would willingly support him.

With respect to the Infanta, they both declared in the most positive
and explicit manner, that _until the Queen was married and had
children_, they should consider the Infanta precisely as her sister,
and that any marriage with a French Prince would be entirely out of
the question. The King said he did not wish that his son should have
the prospect of being on the throne of Spain; but that if the Queen
had children, by whom the succession would be secured, he did not
engage to preclude himself from the possibility of profiting by the
great inheritance which the Infanta would bring his son. All this,
however, was uncertain, and would require time at all events to
accomplish; for I distinctly understood, that it was not only a
marriage and a child, but _children, that were necessary to secure the
succession_.

I thought this was as much as we could desire at present, and that the
policy of a marriage with a French Prince might safely be left to be
considered whenever the contingency contemplated should arrive. Many
things may happen, both in France and Spain, in the course of a few
years to affect this question in a manner not now apparent.

ABERDEEN.

[Footnote 22: Parliament was prorogued on the 9th of August,
and the Queen and Prince sailed in the evening for Antwerp
in the Royal yacht. Sir Theodore Martin gives a very full
description of the visit to Coburg. The Queen was especially
delighted with the Rosenau and Reinhardtsbrunn. On the morning
of the 8th of September the yacht, which had left the Scheldt
on the previous evening, arrived at Treport, and a second
visit was paid to the King and Queen of the French at the
Chateau d'Eu.]

[Footnote 23: Younger son of Don Francisco de Paula, and first
cousin to Queen Isabella, both through his father and his
mother.]

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_Sir Robert Peel to Queen Victoria._

OSBORNE, _15th September 1845._

Sir Robert Peel, with his humble duty to your Majesty, begs leave to
acquaint your Majesty that there remains the sum of L700 to be applied
in the current year to the grant of Civil List Pensions.

Sir Robert Peel humbly recommends to your Majesty that another sum
of L200 should be offered to Mr Tennyson, a poet of whose powers of