“The more I consider the account of the carte blanche expressly signified to the Council by the King, and his expressed will, that no party or political feelings should be permitted to have the slightest influence in the proceedings of the society, the more I am concerned at the incorrectness (to say the least of it) of such a representation. The only carte blanche which the King gave was to me, and it certainly expressed no such direction. If the King should see this account, he must think I have abused his confidence. In the two letters under the sign manual, which are the only public expressions of his will, there are not the slightest intimations respecting party or politics. I am really anxious on my own account, as well as the Society’s, that this misconstruction of the King’s authority should be set right, which I hope the letter of ‘Chartophylax’ will do
