This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XII. 18 31. AGITATION RECOMMENCED--MOB ATTACKS ON THE DUKE OF-WELLING-TON AND SIB ROBERT-WILSON--THE GENERAL ELECTION--THE DUKE"S OPINION OF THE DISSOLUTION--OPENING OF PARLIAMENT--PBOCEEDINGS IN BOTH HOUSES--SEDITIOUS PUBLICATIONS--EXTRACTS FROM "THE POOR MAN"S GUARDIAN," "THE REPUBLI-CAN," "THE PROMPTER" MR. HUNT"S PARLIAMENTARY LABOURS "CITIZEN HUME" AND HIS CHARGE AGAINST THE ARISTOCRACY DEBATES ON THE REFORM BILL PROVISION FOR QUEEN ADELAIDE--PRINCE LEOPOLD OF SAXE-COBURG SELECTED TO BE KING OF THE BELGIANS--HE SURRENDERS HIS ENGLISH TENSION. CHAPTER XII. The defeat was thus acknowledged, notwithstanding the assistance the Government had accepted from the Radicals, and the menaces and abuses that had been thrown out against the leaders of the Opposition; the popular clamour that had been got up in favour of the measure--the ostentatious use that had been made of the King"s name as favouring it, and the unmanly attacks that had been made upon the Queen for being supposed to be adverse to its passing into a law. The Eadical leaders in Parliament had done infinite mischief to the character of their Ministerial colleagues among people of sense and respectability, by their unparliamentary conduct and gross abuse of each other and of the public time. The threats that had been so freely lavished against the Duke of Wellington and his friends, had excited the latter to a more strenuous resistance. One of the mob orators having proved that the people did not care for the Government measure, and would not be satisfied without much more hazardous changes, exposed even to the Whigs the real character of mob co-operation, and the abuse of the King"s name was not more popular at Court than the abuse of the Queen; for it was generally understood by those who...