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May I now, further, most respectfully request, that you will do me the honour of laying this my letter before the Scientific and also the Expediency Committee: as I feel assured, that if brought under their notice by your courtesy, its arguments will receive the earnest consideration they deserve.
And if they, or either of them, wish to call me before them, in respect of what I have here adduced; or in respect of certain sacred prophecies concerning the future, which, if rightly understood by received opinion, prove, that the carrying out of this proposed Channel Tunnel Scheme would be nothing short of suicidal insanity; I will most promptly obey their summons. But, if otherwise, I most earnestly pray, that they will oppose by their joint opinions the passing of the two Bills in respect of it now before Parliament.
May I also most respectfully request, that, with the permission of Her Most Excellent Majesty, you will do me the distinguished honour of laying my letter before Her Majesty the Queen; and, further, that you will also do me the honour of laying it before their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, and Field Marshal the Duke of Cambridge, the Commander in Chief.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your obedient and humble servant
THOMAS BERNEY
Ash, in the Diocese of Norwich.
To
The Right Hon. Wm. Ewart Gladstone M.P.
First Lord of the Treasury,
The Official Residence,
Downing Street, London.
