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ip waived in favour of a higher delit ^ acyj- ^ - the want that knows itself , frnd speaks out of that knowledge , has a right to speak face to face with possession ; and if possession cannot so meet it , it either knows itself
but ill , or is itself under the restrictions of a want which ought not to exist . How beautiful and how good WQiild it have been for the whole community , if the Queen , instead of seeing that pretence
and burlesque of the bag-wig converted into no complimentary bar between herself and her subjects , could have received the deputation of the Working Classes , and given them some such answer as
follows : — . . "I receive your address with the same good feelings with ^ fWch J believe you to have meant it- I am very young , but pld enough to be deeply sensibly of the blessings of education , and to know that
with-# u £ tfyeni the burden which Providence has been pleased to lay wo , n me in the government of . this kingdom would be as uncountable , as I hope to pr ^ ye it i ? ot unbearable , nor ^ ithaut . go ^ to u $ ail . And I Jipve ^ tjie , gratest pleasure , in ipforjmjjig yQu , ( tjjj 3 t my advisers
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ground To fee siu ^ she is . so already ; but how and - * wh f ? Only upon trust , aAd fi > r goodnatured manners } ' atrd with views of interest ; , and from the natural propensity df the human mind to admire whatsoever
is , or seems , above it , ahd to sympathise with the show of happiness . But in the case which we have supposed , the woman would be loved out of real , right hearty love and
gratitude , " and no mistake ?! " "We would not swear tl ^ dt the ribs and lives of the wKofe , tii ^ ss bf her loving subjects would not be beautifully unsafe in cVowdjing to look at lier .
"Oh , but it would be dangerous / ' says old conventional
policy . " See- what g 9 , pdnatured and trusting sovereigns have got by their popularity before , and by meeting : / the
wishes of their subjects . \ I ^ ook ( quoth Sir Robert cPeel ) at Louis the Sixteenth ^ and ; at worshipped Marie Anfcoinette . r
v Oh , ' reply we , > " bwt ¦•• it would not . be dan # ero , U / S , . &nd Louis and poor Marie Anitoir nette have nothing 'to do with the matter . The , J >< e * ich Queen reeeived only ^ icwrt worship , Thei poor . ; mia ^ f , ® f
the French nation ( whdtfi \^; e used to lau ^ Ji at for ? : their , slav very and soup-niaigve ) \ kn ^\ w nothing of Jie ^ ^ but-voheiju-exv
ponses . ii And a ^ nt ^ tJuoiU ^ te was a , g < j > odTi > atured , . tiiqu ^ Ii perhaps ! nQt ,, { very « . s go ^ d-itewir p ^ red jfttift , ^» d ) Was , ; aj « vi © tin (^ ) i { k 0 ? rich ; and p < Mpv , ( td cifcum ^ ^ temi oes : bujfc it W&s xhis iniiiit cerity , not his good-nature , that
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, v •; . ; ¦ ¦ ¦ .- \ f 4 . TAe Queen and the Working Classes . 30 &
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 1, 1837, page 309, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1837/page/13/
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