The Life and Administration of Robert Banks, Vol. 3 of 3: Second Earl of Liverpool, K. G., Late First Lord of the Treasury (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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It will, however, be more convenient to relate the other events of the year before we approach that painful subject. And the delay will not be long because, from the moment that her Majesty arrived in England, and thus compelled the Ministry to instant and action, her case so completely absorbed the attention of the Government, the Parliament, and the whole nation, that there was no room for any other question. The Parliament was dissolved within a few days of its reassembling; but even that brief session was suficient to show how strong was the deter mination of the Opposition to make the differences between the royal pair a stalkinghorse for future attacks on the Ministry: one member, who had been returned to Parlia ment for the first time the year before, and who subse quently attained considerable notoriety, Mr. Joseph Hume, the representative of Aberdeen. Making a formal complaint that the Queen's name had not been inserted in the Liturgy, and also that no distinct provision had been made for her support. Though he well knew that the King himself was in a precisely similar position, and that the consideration of the Civil List had been postponed, as propriety manifestly dictated, till the meeting of the new Parliament.

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