Year.

1820. Great surprise and indignation and suspicions and murmurings excited amongst the people, by her having consented to

Cobbett's private letter to her on the sub-
ject, depicting the certain ruin to her
which must arise from consenting to go,

on any terms

The House of Commons now address her
with a view of getting her out of the
country.
Cobbett's private letter to her, advising
her to reject the advice tendered to her
by the House; the answer which he
advised her to give to that address
The deputation of the Commons wait on
her with the address

She rejects the answer proposed to her by
Brougham

Her answer....

Par.

Cobbett's private letter to her, expressing
the sorrow of the people that she had
not positively asserted, that she would
not quit the country, and beseeching
her to make such assertion, in a public
manner, as soon as possible

428

ib.

430

431

432

ib.

ib.

ib.

Cobbett's motives for acting this part.... 434
Nature and tendency of the advice which

ib.

he gave the queen

....

435

Year.

1820. The queen having come to this resolution,
the prosecution of her was resolved on,
and the Bill of Pains and Penalties
brought into the House of Lords
The bill of pains and penalties itself
All England thrown into a ferment by the

promulgation of this bill....

The Bill read a first time on the 6. of

July, and the trial (or second reading)
put off to 17. August
The bold proceedings of the press and the
people during the interval, and the
state of complete seclusion in which
the king thought it prudent to live.
The outcries against him: the odium
brought upon him

The SECOND READING of the bill of

pains and penalties

The proceedings against the queen
opened by the attorney-general Gif-

"Peep at the Peers" published

“Letter of the Queen to the King" pub

lished...

Par.

436

ib.

437

438

ib.

440

ib.

441

......

ib.

ib.

Prodigious circulation and prodigious ef

fect of these publications
The witnesses against the queen (26 in
number), Swiss, Germans, and Italians,
hunted out of England by the people,
and shipped off to Holland by the go-

vernment

Brought back by water in an armed vessel,

and landed near the Parliament House,

442

Year. 1820.

in a sort of fortress, from which they
were conducted into the House of
Lords by a subterraneous passage ....
London surrounded by troops and cannon,
the streets barricaded, soldiers and po-
licemen stationed everywhere
The attorney-general's opening speech
Cobbett's answer to that speech

Effect of these on the minds of the people
Total discredit thrown on the witnesses..
Excellent conduct of the press and of the
people....

Miserable defence of the queen by her

Voted her guilty three times, and, from
fear of the people, flinched at last ..
Demonstrations of triumph on the part of
the people

The queen instantly begins to fall

Par.

443

ib.

444

ib.

ib.

ib.

ib.

ib.

445

ib.

446

...... 447

The Whig aristocracy get about her.... 448
She takes back her old chamberlains,

CRAVEN and GELL.

She affronts the people by cold and repul-
sive answers to their addresses
She lays restrictions on their approaches

to her....

Cobbett, seeing that the project was re

vived for getting her out of the country,
writes a private letter to Lady Ann
Hamilton. The letter

449

ib.

ib.

ib.

Year.
1820. Public official notification from Craven
and Gell, forbidding, in fact, the people

to approach her person any more ....
The people cease to talk, or to think, about

her....

Par.

450

454

1821. The king's coronation in July.......... 455 His visit to Ireland.....

The queen, as a just reward of her ingratitude, being totally abandoned by the people, is thrusted back from the door of Westminster Abbey by the hands of a common prize-fighter Her death, twenty days after the corona

tion of her husband

489

456

456

Her funeral procession: fights between the soldiers and the people over her coffin: two men killed in these fights. 460 The king's visit to Hanover

1822. Agricultural distress: wheat fallen to

4s. 6d. the bushel

491

461

The tables of the Houses of Parliament loaded with petitions from farmers and landlords, complaining of this distress 462 The parliament, to raise prices, passed a law, in July, to authorize the issuing of one-pound notes for eleven years, which was a repeal of the most important of the provisions of Peel's Bill.

The king's visit to Scotland

1823. Prices began to rise at a rapid rate, and

all seemed flourishing

ib.

491

462

Year.

1824. Prices still rose, money-gambling seized

on the nation..

1824. Loans to all the world were made....
People talked of nothing but loans and
funds and stock ...

Joint-stock companies were formed for the
most ridiculous objects

The chancellor of the exchequer, Robin-
son, boasted (February) of the pros-
perity of the country, which he as-
cribed to the measures of the parliament,
and reviled those who wished any re-
form in that parliament..

...

Par.

462 ib.

it.

ib.

1825. The bubble bursted in November. The

gold had nearly disappeared long be-
fore...

Mr. Jones, of Bristol, petitioned the par

liament against a banker who refused
to pay in gold..

People ran for gold universally

In December there was a general alarm.. This crisis took the name of the PANIC. About a hundred country banks broke The Bank of England narrowly escaped. 1826. Law to suppress one-pound notes in England

ib.

463

ib.

464

ib.

ib.

ib.

ib.

465

ib.

ib.

government arising from this cause..

467

Dungeons and gags cannot cause wheat to

Prices fall instantly.

Prodigious ruin following this measure..
The feebleness and embarrassment of the

be sold at 10s. a bushel in gold currency ib.