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the growing knowledge of the age , the interpretation must and will . Let those who assume the infallibility and the perpetuity , answer for the equivocation which is their natural consequence . We protest against both , and would rather have the King unsworniand the Gospel unshackled * .
A coronation , like a Scotch novel , seems occasionally to have two . heroes —the ostensible hero , with whom it is our duty to sympathize , who embodies all that is excellent , but who is somewhat passive withal ; and an active hero , the abundance of whose energies makes up fb $ the inferiority of his position . At the coronation of George the Fourth , this part was enacted by Lord Castlereagh . It was his triumph . He trod the platform in the procession more like the deity of the day than even the King himself . He glanced
over the glittering scene like the presiding spirit of legitimacy . A very different man was , next to Royalty , the most conspicuous personage in the present coronation . It was the genius of democracy , personified in Lord Brougham—of active , aspiring , triumphant democracy . That his day of triumph has followed so rapidly , upon that of Lord Castlereagh , is symptomatic of the way the world is going . Well has this man-of miraculous labours deserved the greetings with the record of which we shall dismiss
our notice of the coronation : " Several of the Peers were saluted with clapping of hands , as they approached to do iiomage to his Majesty . Among these , the Duke of Wellington was loudly clapped ; Lord Plunkett , very generally ; and Lord Lyndhurst partially . Lord Chancellor Brougham , who is the youngest Baron , was the last that saluted his Majesty * His Lordship , during" the homage ceremony , remained standing at the King ' s left hand , and formed in that position the most remarkable figure in the splendid group . He stood drawn up to his full height ; and his coronet , which was placed on the top of his
immense dress wig , added not inconsiderably to his stature , enhanced as it was by the elevation of the platform . There was an evident watching for the moment when he should take off his coronet . When he did so , there was a loud and general clapping : this did not suffice for the enthusiasm of his admirers , but was followed by three distinct rounds of cheering *—an honour which was paid to none else during the whole ceremony , the King and Queen only excepted . "
On the very morning of all this peaceful pageantry the Russians entered Warsaw . Poland is again prostrate , bound and bleeding at the foot of the Autocrat of the Barbarian North . * The struggle had been protracted so long , the feelings of enlightened men in all countries were so decided , and the interests of France and England ^ were so obvious , that we had unawares allowed the first impression of despondency to wear out , and had begun to hope . Mysterious hints of negociations had also been thrown out from time to time , strengthening the expectation which has been so bitterly
dis-* But resisting yet . The proclamation > of Hoziski shews that all is not over , and gives civilized Europe space for repentance .
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Politics of the Month . 7 Q 9
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1831, page 709, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2602/page/57/
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