the wrongs inflicted on the name of William Losely. Your old friend
Alban Morley supplying me with the notes he had made in the matter of
your trial, I arranged the evidence they furnished. The Secretary for
the Home Department is one of my most intimate political friends--a man
of humanity--of sense. I placed that evidence before him. I, George,
and Mr. Hartopp, saw him after he had perused it--"

"My--son--Lizzy's son!"

"His secret will be kept. The question was not who committed the act for
which you suffered, but whether you were clearly, incontestably, innocent
of the act, and, in pleading guilty, did but sublimely bear the penalty
of another. There will be no new trial--there are none who would
prosecute. I bring back to you the Queen's free pardon under the Great
Seal. I should explain to you that this form of the royal grace is so
rarely given that it needed all the strength and affecting circumstance
of your peculiar case to justify the Home Secretary in listening, not
only to the interest I could bring to bear in your favour, but to his own
humane inclinations. The pardon under the Great Seal differs from an
ordinary pardon. It purges the blood from the taint of felony--it remits
all the civil disabilities which the mere expiry of a penal sentence does
not remove. In short, as applicable to your case, it becomes virtually a
complete and formal attestation of your innocence. Alban Morley will
take care to apprise those of your old friends who may yet survive, of
that revocation of unjust obloquy, which this royal deed implies--Alban
Morley, who would turn his back on the highest noble in Britain if but
guilty of some jockey trick on the turf! Live henceforth openly, and in
broad daylight if you please; and trust to us three--the Soldier, the
Lawyer, the Churchman--to give to this paper that value which your
Sovereign's advisers intend it to receive."