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prove ; and for this purpose the motto of the most influential part of them , and that of Lord Durham , are the same ;—Triennial Parliaments , Household Suffage , and the Vote by Ballot . Tlrat of the Monthly Repository , we confess , is stronger , but well content to wait for the
present , and always zealous to stipulate for the tranquillity and
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We had the pleasure the other day of seeing the Queen return from dissolving the Parliament . Bells rang , and cannon thundered , and the crowd pressed together with cries of " Hats ofl , " and " She ' s coming , " and
first ( as well as we could discern , who were not in a front row ) appeared horse-soldiers clearing the way ; then a gilt coach , very stately , containing lords of the household , and a grave little page behind a great hat and feathers ; then another
with ladies ; and then ( all moving slowly , and with abundance of beautiful black and creamcoloured horses , whom we rather fancied than saw ) the great cq $ v \\ of coaches , out-Lord-Mayoring the Lord Mayor ( we donofcwishtp say it irreverently )
and presenting to the delighted eyes of her subjects , the young and handsome Queen , gorgeously attired , and crowned with a diadem of gold and diamonds . Most courteously , and with a face of good-humoured pleasure , she kept bow-
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good of all . What only we claim , without further delay , is Unbounded Education for the People . No country can be thoroughly civilized till all are educated , and till all have an
interest , as well as a task in it . The whole community should therefore be raised in the scale . How glorious , then , for the throne to continue at the top of it !
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ing to the exclamations of " God bless the Queen , "" God save your Majesty /' uttered in tones more fervent
than loud ; and so the huge coach went heavily on , putting " hats off" as it proceeded , and shining in the distance , amidst a sea of heads and gazing windows , with the gilt crown on the top of its great gilt self .
It was the first time we had seen the Princess , since she was a child , walking prettily , hand-in-hand , in Kensington Gardens , with a young lady of her own age ( like any "
private" child with another , as Mr Pepys would have phrased it ) and followed by a most majestic footman , in scarlet and gold , with calves in his white stockings as big and radiant as a couple of chaise-lamps .
Instead of a child , somewhat formal in countenance , we now saw before us a fine-grown young woman ( woman is a higher word than lady ) , of the order of figures called buxom , but not
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80 The Queen .
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THE QUEEN .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 1, 1837, page 80, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1834/page/8/
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