No Compensation to be awarded.

For these reasons I must decline to advise. Her Majesty to award any compensation to the memorialists, however deeply Her Majesty has been concerned to receive this intelligence of their misfortunes. I abstain from tendering that advice the more carefully because the great stress laid in this memorial on supposed precedents of similar grants reminds me of the hazard and possible inconvenience of now establishing a precedent of that kind, to which reference might under any corresponding circumstances be made hereafter.