model to others as a Sovereign, as a wife, and as a mother.
Gentlemen, I deplored Her Majesty's loss more than any one of you present here, because, in accordance with the first and chief of my five ambitions of which I told you the other day, I went Home and had the high privilege of being presented to our beloved mother at Windsor Castle.
Lately, the Public at Madras held a meeting at the Town Hall and resolved to perpetuate her memory in a fitting manner which would hereafter be decided by the Committee specially formed for it. Therefore it is my wish that we should all come forward and subscribe to the National Memorial to show our loyalty, devotion, admiration, and love to our most revered Sovereign. But I do not like to see our historical town being left without any memorial of such a benign Sovereign. Gentlemen, do not think that I would also ask you to subscribe for it. I shall provide it for
