Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-07-17
From the London Times.
Interesting Correspondence
(WHICH EXPLAINS ITSELF.
HEB MAJESTY TIE QUEEN, TO MILITARY Editor
NASHVILLE PATRIOT.
BUCKINGHAM PALACE,

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Ny DEAREST FRIEND The thousand man
ifestations you have given me OF the noble
and disinterested friendship you cherish for
me and mine. emboldens me to address you
upon a subject which ELECTS the tenderest So
licitude of mothers heart, and am sure
You will pardon the liberty thus take. At
nv request, ALBERT called at your lodgings
yesterday, fully commissioned to convey to
you the wishes l shall venture here to write;
but unluckily for me, (though very luckily
for you no doubt), you had gone to breakfast
with the charming Dutchess of UNoHoo.
Apropos, There's a chance flor you-young,
beautiful; and rich-a1d widow As you
pfoVokingly droll Yankees say, ''go in and
win -
AS you are aware, my eldest son, the Prince
of Wales, is about TO visit Canada, my little
neck of timber in North America; and while
there, proposes to drop over into the United
States. And now, mon cher ami my object in
troubling you with this note is to enquire
whether it is true, as stated in the Times and
Court Journal, that you are about to embark
for your native land, and, if true, to beg
that you will keep an eye upon the boy while
he remains in your country, see that he gets
into no mischief, and conducts himself as
gentleman should. He is quite young yet,
aud may be guilty of youthful indiscretions
that 1 would he ashamed of. I seriously fear
he will contract while at Washington fond
ness for your national beverage, sold Ro-
bertson;" for LADY OUsLEY tells me that bis
Exec llency the President, and all the Other
officers of the Government, are passio2ately
fond of it, and drink it in preference to wa
ter. am told further that they have other
habits much more disreputable, and are
scarcely worthy Of the companionship of one
who has been taught to regard the decalogue
as sacred instrument. These things lend
an unhappy tinge to my spirits, and If 1t is
inconVenient for you, my dear General, to
go even one eye upon the boy, L think L
shan't permit him to 20 beyond my own do
minions. 1 naturally don't want his morals
made any worse than they are, and from the
revelations of the Covode Committee Qor
copy of which I am much obliged to you>,
and from " hat hear from other sources,
fear it would be almost impossible for him to
remain a week in Washington, in daily asso-
citation with the men in power there, without
coming away with somebody's spoons In his
carpet bag. The great American philosopher
and physician, DR.. BRowNLow, in recent
learned treatise on "The Deleterious Influence
of Washingtonian Atmosphere upon the Moral
Purity of the true Gentleman" observes that
''the most virtuous, upright and honorable in
dividual can scarcely enter the city without
feeling an irresistible desire to embark in
larceny" need not say that should feel ex
cessively mortified to hear that the Prince had
been detected in the act of picking some gen.
tieman's pocket, or crawling through a back
window into the Treasury, or anything OF
that character.
Please let me hear from you on this sub
ject in day or two. Drop in upon US, sans
ceremOnie, whenever you want for more at
tractive place to go to. and believe me
Your devoted Friend,
VICTORIA.
P. S.-The girls beg to be remembered to
you. And while 1 think of it: ADELAIDE is
just now engaged in farming out a silk quilt
that is, she is getting each of her gentle
man friends to make what is called a square,
out of silk which he furnishes himself, so that
the quilt does MT cost her anything, and she
desires you to compliment her with a square.
You will have the privilege of putting your
name on the centre piece as remuneration
for your trouble.
In your next letter TO Messrs. A. S. CAMP
& Co., please tell them that / get the Patriot
very irregularly. 1 think the fault is with
the New York Postofice-at least such is the
opinion of our Minister at Washington, whose
knowledge of the care and pains-taking ex-
ercised by the Publishers does not permit him
to doubt that the paper is mailed with the ut
most regularity. If every steamer does not
bring me bundle of Patriots, 1 feel as if l
had lost my grandmother, or as if ALBERT
had been drunk week. Please enquire into it.
VIC.
THE MILITARY EDITOR OF The PATRIOT TO THE
QUEEN.
'ANovER SQUARE, June 81.
My DEAR VICTORIA: Hin little haffair of
honor with my Lord 'ENRY 'ARcoURT VIM
CENT this morning, / 'ad the hill luck to re-
ceive couple of 'alfhounce balls through
my right 'and, which placed it 'ors du combat
for the time being, hand 'ence, 1 ham COM
PEELED to hemploy my boot-black has an
hamanueusis to hanswer your charming note
of yesterday. 1 ham not sure that he is suf-
fciently accomplished in the hart OF hepis-
tolary writing to do full justice to the posi-
ton to which ave called i'm; but should
he commit hany plumbers in Autobiography,
1 'ope you will hexcuse grub out hexcuse
and write pardon') both me hand i'm.
Make paragraph there+) for your sake,
and for the sake of my young friend, the
Prince of Whales. ham sorry to say Gang
it, don't blot your paper') that the ham
nouncement of my departure from Hiugland,
which you ave seen in the Times hand Court
Journal, is premature. proprose to remain
here few weeks longer, hand then go 'ence
direct to Hitaly.
(Skip line hand make hanother para
graph.') 1 think if the Prince is properly
cautioned before he leaves 'ome, it will no
be very dangerous to permit i'm to visit
Washington (you blockhead, be carefully vile
in Canada. LADY HousLEr is right habout
the hextent to which hour national beverage
is hused in that city. cold hon now till
take drink') 1t is not safe, l hadn't. to
indulge too freely in that beverage; but if
the Prince will take the precaution to pro-
cure his supplies from hany of the 'olesale