"Most sincerely do I congratulate you; and be assured that the fullest justice is done to the great abilities you have displayed through the whole of the transactions which you have so successfully and wonderfully managed. Your superiority and authority are now fixed."

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SuicidesMembers of the Parliament of the United KingdomMembers of the Parliament of Great BritainPresbyteriansGovernment ministers of the United Kingdom
Original Language: English

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Edward Cooke to Castlereagh (9 April 1814), quoted in Correspondence, Despatches, and Other Papers, of Viscount Castlereagh, Second Marquess of Londonderry. Third Series. Military and Diplomatic. Vol. IX., ed. William Vane, Marquess of Londonderry (1852), p. 454