Letter from Colonel Charles Beaumont Phipps to Prince Albert

Letter from Colonel Charles Beaumont Phipps to Prince Albert reporting on his interview with George Arbuthnot on the state of HM's finances and reasons for excess expenditure, plus his recognition of HM's care and economy. Suggestions for meeting deficiency and the question of principle involved in HM's defraying expenses of State visits of foreign sovereigns. Plus the desirability of an interview with Lord Palmerston to prepare him for possibility of future provision for extra expenses.