Year.

428

820. Great surprise and indignation and suspi-
cions and murmurings excited amongst
the people, by her having consented to
go on any terms....
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

..

Par.

· • •

She rejects the answer proposed to her by
Brougham

··

Her answer.
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
The salutary and complete effect of this
letter
She makes the assertion which he was so

...

430

ib.

431

432

ib.

ib.

ib.

433

ib.

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

he gave the queen

435

Year.

the

437

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 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 ib. brought upon him The SECOND READING of the bill of

440

.....

....

pains and penalties.
The proceedings against the queen
opened by the attorney-general Gif-
ford

Par.

436

ib.

438

ib.

441

66 Peep at the Peers" published
"Letter of the Queen to the King" pub-

ib.

....

lished..
Prodigious circulation and prodigious ef-

ib.

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

442

Brought back by water in an armed vessel,
and landed near the Parliament House,

Year. 1820.

in a sort of fortress, from which they
were conducted into the House of
Lords by a subterraneous passage
... 443
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

Par.

...

ib.

444

ib.

ib.

ib.

lawyers

The Lords, after long debating, finally re-
ject the bill....

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

ib.

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

the people 446 The queen instantly begins to fall...... 447 The Whig aristocracy get about her.... 448 She takes back her old chamberlains, CRAVEN and GELL..

ib.

445

449

ib.

ib.

ib.

Par.

Year.

1820. Public official notification from Craven

and Gell, forbidding, in fact, the people
to approach her person any more.... 450
The people cease to talk, or to think, about

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

...

The queen, as a just reward of her in-
gratitude, 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-

456

tion of her husband

456

....

...

454

455

491

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 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

461

..

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..

489

ib.

491

The king's visit to Scotland

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

all seemed flourishing

462

Y

189

18

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..

...

1825. The bubble bursted in November.

Par.

462

ib.

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 Eng-

land

Prices fall instantly...

Prodigious ruin following this measure..
The feebleness and embarrassment of the
government arising from this cause..
Dungeons and gags cannot cause wheat to
be sold at 10s, a bushel in gold currency ib.

467

...

ib.

ib.

463

ib.

464

ib.

ib.

ib.

ib.

465

ib.

ib.