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abroad , and they will transmit your name to posterity as the first to break through the trammels of courtly prejudice to render them justice .
u Signed by the Committee : — " John Danson , clerk ; Henry Vincent , compositor ; Henry Mitchell , turner ; Robert Hartwell , compositor ; Richard Cameron , brace-maker ; James Lawrence , painter ; Arthur Dyson , compositor ; WilliamPreece ,
carpenter ; William Cummmg , silversmith ; James Jenkinson , engraver ; Thomas Ireland , warehouseman ; William Pearce , brass-worker ; Henry Hetherington , printer , Treasurer ; William Lovett , cabinet-maker , Secretary , 6 Upper North place ,
Gray ' s inn road . " The proposal on the part of the Working Men ' s Association to carry this address to the Queen , produced the following correspondence : —•
u Working Men s Association , 6 Upper North place , Gray's inn road , Sept . 1 , 1837 . " My Lord , — The Working Men ' s Association of London having prepared an address to her Majesty , they are desirous
of having it presented to her personally by a deputation of six persons , whom they have selected for that purpose . They have therefore requested me to ascertain from your lordship when it will please her Majesty that they shall wait on her with the
address . — I remain , your most obedient servant , " Wm . Lovett , Secretary . " To the Right Hon . Lord John Russeil , Secretary of State for the Home Department . "
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" Whitehall , Sept . 6 , 1837 . " Sir , —I am directed by Lord John Russell to inform you , in reply to your letter of the 1 st instant , that the address of the Working Men ' s Association
cannot be presented till her Majesty holds a levee , when the deputation must attend in Court dress . No time for a levee is yet fixed ; but it will be publicly announced in the Gazette . —I am , Sir , your obedient servant , "F . Maule , " Mr Wm . Lovett , 6 Upper North place , Gray's inn road . ''
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" Working Men ' s Association , 6 Upper North place , Gray ' s inn road , Sept . 13 , 1837 . " My Lord , —According to your answer of the 6 th instant , we find that we are precluded by those forms which Gothic ignorance has imposed , and custom
has sanctified , from personally presenting our address ; for with every respect to those forms which make personal cleanliness and respectful behaviour necessary qualifications to approach her Majesty , we have neither the means nor the inclination to kn
dulge in such absurdities as dress-swords , coats , and wigs . We beg , therefore , to request that your lordship , in your official capacity , will , at the earliest opportunity , present our
address to her Majesty , in hopes she may chance to read the sentiments of a portion of her working-class populatiwij whom the necessity of appearing in Court dress excludes from her
presence . u We hope , my lord , the day is not distant when some better means will be devised for letting the sovereign hear of the ad-
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The Quern and the Working Classes . 307
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 1, 1837, page 307, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1837/page/11/
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