Memoirs of the Court of George IV. 1820-1830 (Vol 1): From the Original Family DocumentsBuckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of
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Memoirs of the Court of George IV. 1820-1830 (Vol 1): From the Original Family Documents
Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of
Great Britain -- History -- George IV, 1820-1830
Lord Bathurst is here, and from his language, and that of the Duke
of B----, I should say the Government is confoundedly frightened;
the latter certainly implied the necessity of strengthening it, and
lamented once or twice the want of energy, and the whole line which
had been adopted. He leaves this for town to-morrow.
Ever, &c.,
W. H. F.
MR. W. H. FREMANTLE TO THE MARQUIS OF BUCKINGHAM.
Six o'clock.
You have no idea of the state of the town: it is all confusion. The
King and his Ministers are at issue on the question, as it is said,
of the Queen; and the latter have sent in their resignation, unless
the propositions they make are complied with. Lord Castlereagh was
deputed yesterday to notify this decision to him, and he had a
conference of _four_ hours. The King, however, was not to be
persuaded, and was again to have a decision of the Cabinet to-day.
It is at this moment sitting at Carlton House. These are, as I am
well informed, _facts_. The supposed cause is the Queen. The
Council had prepared a Form of Prayer which the King positively
refused to sign or sanction. The Funds fell to-day. As to the King
forming a Government, after the resignation of all his present
servants, with the avowed object of persecuting the Queen, it would
be impossible; it would be making her the popular object, and
throwing the country in a flame. However, be assured that the
general belief is that the Government will be broken up. You may
judge of this when I tell you that my authorities are Lord
Conyngham, Lord Howden, and others in the interior of Carlton
House. I hear you are at Dropmore, and send this to you. Be assured
that the King on this subject is no less _than mad_ He has said
he would rather die, or lose his crown, than submit to any
compromise of any sort with the Queen.
Adieu. You shall hear to-morrow.
Ever truly yours,
W. H. F.
In the months of October and November it became evident that the frenzy
outside the Houses of Parliament was exerting an influence within its
walls. Notwithstanding Lord Grenville's manly declaration in his place
in the House of Lords, on the 6th of November, that the proceedings
before that assembly had furnished a mass of evidence that, in nine
hundred and ninety-nine cases out of a thousand, would have ensured a
conviction, several influential members of the Whig party as boldly
declared that nothing of the slightest importance had been brought
forward against the Queen.
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