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your Majesty the deep sorrow with which we have received the sad intelligence
of the great loss which your Majesty has sustained in the death of
His Imperial Majesty Frederick William, German Emperor, King of Prussia.
Allied as he was to your Majesty by ties of tenderest affection, the career
of His Imperial Majesty could not fail to excite the respectful sympathy of
your Majesty's loving subjects, more especially as between the peoples of
the two nations there exist feelings of kinship cemented by many years of
alliance and unbroken peace. But His Imperial Majesty so adorned, by his
high qualities and manly virtues, the exalted station to which he was called
as to command the admiration of all who observed his life.
A beloved commander, ever solicitous of the necessities of his army, a brave
leader, a generous adversary, he bore victory nobly and modestly, as in his
later days he endured suffering heroically. Your Majesty has ever been
pleased to permit your people to share in the domestic concerns of your
Royal House, and now that a cloud of sorrow again overshadows your
Majesty, we venture humbly to tender to your Majesty our sympathy and
condolence, with an assurance of our fervent prayer to Almighty God for the
happiness of your Majesty and every member of the Royal Family.
Given under the Common
Seal of the Vestry this fifth
day of July, in the year of
our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and eighty
eight.
(Signed)
HARRY WILKINS,
Vestry Clerk.
TO HER IMPERIAL MAJESTY VICTORIA, GERMAN EMPRESS,
QUEEN OF PRUSSIA, PRINCESS ROYAL OF GREAT
BRITAIN AND IRELAND.
The humble Address of Condolence and Sympathy of the Vestrymen of,the
Parish of St. James, Westminster, in Vestry assembled.
May it please your Majesty,—
We, the Vestrymen of the Parish of St. James, Westminster, in
Vestry assembled, humbly ask permission to approach your Imperial