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tabe done ; and this we shall proceed to state with a candour befitting honest Reformers . But first let us look back a moment to what the newspapers tell us of the Queen ' s aspect and behaviour in the House of
Lords ; for these apparently superficial matters are significant of the internal spirit . The Morning Chronicle , describing her Majesty ' s appearance in the House ( which must have been very striking , particularly at the period when
she remained courteously standing for some time , in return for the rising of the Peers , smiling , and pleasantly looking about her , with the ribbon of the Garter across her bosom , and the diadem on her head ) says that she seemed much amused
with the scuffling entrance of the Commons , and noticed it by her manner to those about her . The Morning Post , we
understand , speaks of having observed a tear in her eye at another time , and of a compression of the lips , manifesting some emotion kept under .
Another paper says that the Queen had been " strongly advised * ' not to dissolve the Parliament in person , for fear of the excitement it might cause ; but that being very
" firm " in going through with anything she determines on , she persisted . We know not the authority of this paper for its information , which we find in a cpuntry journal ; but the p revailing impression is , that her Majesty has great sensibility ; and though we ourselves
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discerned nothing but self-possession in her manner as she passed us on her return from the House , nor a greater flush of the face than was consistent
with it , it is evident from all that has yet been seen of her , since the moment when she melted into that affecting and self-pitying flood of tears at her Proclamation ( for self-pity is at the bottom of all such
emotions of self-reference ) that the general conclusion on this point is correct , and that we have a Sovereign who is very sensitive , and liable to feelings which she can little conceal ; a temperament very charming , if it
run on the wise and generous side , and very happy for the possessor , if it succeed in diffusing happiness ; but perilous to all parties , if emotion is in * dulged from inability to deny itself its mere will and pleasure .
Hard is the lot of sovereigns , as well as those whom they may injure by such temperaments , when we consider how they must be rendered liable
to more than ordinary spoiling by the mere fact of their being sovereigns , or of growing up under the probability of becoming such . But again our hopes take refuge in the recollection of the more than
ordinary advantages which her Majesty , to assist her against these chances , has enjoyed , or is understood to have enjoyed , in the instruction and society of an excellent mother ; and ferventl y do we pray and hope , that nothing- may occur during
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The Queen . 83
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 1, 1837, page 83, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1834/page/11/
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