“Enclosed is a note for you from * * * [Taafe]. His reasons are all very true, I dare say; and it might, and it may be of personal inconvenience to us. But that does not appear to me to be a reason to allow a being to be burnt, without trying to save him,—to save him by any means; but remonstrance is of course out of the question, but I do not see how a temperate remonstrance can hurt any one. Lord Guildford is the man, if he would undertake it. He knows the Grand Duke personally, and might perhaps prevail on him to interfere. But as he goes to-morrow, you must be quick, or it will be useless. Make any use of my name you please.
