Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . Ihoiu: liittUr ifc LucKcrtil. LORD , SFXOXD MARQUESS OP LONDOXDEREY,BY SIR T. LAWRENCE, {Siitional Portrait Gallery.) ministers at a Cabinet dinner anctseize the Bank of England andthe Tower. Its leader was Tliistlewodd, who had been at theback of the S]ia Fields affair, and it met in Cato Street (nowJohn Street), Edgware Road. As usual the Home Office waswarned by an informer, and the r
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . Ihoiu: liittUr ifc LucKcrtil. LORD , SFXOXD MARQUESS OP LONDOXDEREY,BY SIR T. LAWRENCE, {Siitional Portrait Gallery.) ministers at a Cabinet dinner anctseize the Bank of England andthe Tower. Its leader was Tliistlewodd, who had been at theback of the S]ia Fields affair, and it met in Cato Street (nowJohn Street), Edgware Road. As usual the Home Office waswarned by an informer, and the ringleaders were duly hanged. The return of Queen Caroline, from whom the king hadbeen separated since 1814, brought fresh discredit on the royal. — 5 The MinistryStrengtliened. Canningand theHolyAlliance, 6 PEACE, RETRENCHMENT, AND REFORM. [1815 house. Coming back from aljroad to assert her rights, shewas met b} a Bill, introihiced by Lord Liverpool, under pressurefrom George IV., for the dissolution of her marriage. Theevidence produced before the House of Lords certainly con-victed her of astounding diisregard for propriety; but it had noeftect whatever on the London mob, which persisted in regardingher as a deeply wronged heroine. The majorities for the Billdwindled, and it was dropped after its third reading in the afterwards, however, her hold (in public sympathy beganto relax ; a foolish attempt to force her wa} into WestminsterAbbey on the occasion of the kings coronation completed thepopular disillusionment, and in August she died. The crowdrioted round her coffin as it was being conveyed throughLondon, llie king went on his way to Ireland, where, to thedisgust of the Whigs, he was received with boisterous
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