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dutiful subject, as well as servant, 
as a loyal and 
to 
Your 
Majesty's 
gracious 
commands ; 
and 
I 
humbly beg Your Majesty to be assured that 
G5 
I am, 
GI 
With profound duty, 
I6 
Your Majesty's grateful 
BENJAMIN WEsT." 
To 
answer ; 
Mxj. West received no 
this _1etter 
but on the return of 
Court 
the 
to Windsor, 
he 
Went 
to 
the 
Castle, 
and 
obtained 
3 
private 
audience of the 
King on the subject, 
by which 
it 
aPP6ared 
that 
His 
MajeStY 
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not 
at 
all 
acquainted 
with 
the 
commuhication 
of 
which 
Mr. Wyatt was 
the 
nor had he received 
bearer, 
Mr. West's 
letter. 
However, 
the result of the 
interview was, 
King said, 
that the 
" Go on with 
your Work, 
West : 
go on with the pictures, 
and 
I will take care of you." 
This was the last interview that Mr. West was 
permitted to enjoy with his early, 
constant, 
and 
to him truly royal patron ; 
but he continued 
to 
execute the pictures, 
and in the usual quarterly 
payments received the thousand pounds per mm.