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abusing it by the very feet of that investiture . It identifies the interests of those who would otherwise be divided into the few and the many * What community was ever so divided without the parties believing that their in * terests were often distinct and sometimes opposed ? We rejoice that the French Peerage , With its formidable functions and its idle trappings , fe passing away . May Ub only epitaph be , For O , and for O , the hobby horse is forgot .
At home , we have had a Coronation * , but very much curtailed both in its ceremonies and its cost , and so far made a more rational affair . Lords Londonderry and Stfangford fought a hard battle for more mummery , but it would toot do . Earl Grey had too much good sense to give way to the wisdom of our ancestors . He rightly judged that fifty thousand pounds was quite as far as the Steward of the Nation ought to go , in the purchase of
such a commodity , under present circumstances . We laid out a million and more , not long since , and little good came of it . To be fcure , there was one very important difference . The Coronation of Williani the Fourth was supplied gratuitously with what could not be purchased for his predecessor . The people contributed the real enjoyment and the real grandeur t > f the scene . It was a popular festival * It was not a sight , but a
celebration . There was that unity between what is constituted , and what is spontaneous , which fe so tfare in these days > and which must be rare until all institutions conform themselves to the knowledge and feeling of mankind . Our Sovereign has done that for himself , by his personal character and manners , which all governments should do by the spirit of their proceedings ; he has identified himself with the people . Nations can never be
well ruled , nor their progress facilitated , by a system of mutual checking and balancing . It is harmony of aim that gives power for good . By the present state of feeling , the King and the people are both the more powers fial in relation to each other ; and it is for their mutual advantage . They Supplied the pomp of the Coronation * They covered him with popularity fcs witfo a garment . It is tic her than all his robes . They twined it for hi * 6 as a Wreath . ** It becomes the throned monarch better than his
ehDwn . After all the retrenchment of formality , a great deal too much was left wtrich < can only be described as superfluous , obsolete , childish , and absurd . Orowns and coronets have their meaning , and are graceful personal ornaments ; but the doves , and balls , and rings , and blunt swords , and sharp swords , and all the rest of the emblematical regalia , are past endurance
They a * e worse than the 'little books of demi-hieroglyphical sentences wtokh the child scorns after five years of age * The anointing of the Queen , eftpe-> cm \ fy 9 M te more recommended by its antiquity than its delicacy . " The recognition -of the Sovereign by the people savours strongly of the ridiculous . What would be done with an obstinate non-recognizer ? And why should the semblance of a popular choice be kept up < in a case where , more than in any other , the reality is held in abhorrence ? Perhaps it is to balance
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1831, page 706, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2602/page/54/
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