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      dresses and petitions of the j ^ soptei ^ -We remain ^ your lordf sMp ' s obedient servants , < o = r *< The ^ Members of , the ^ obkin ^ Men ' s-Association ,

      . .: jt , „ ,,-, » . j ; , ( Sjgned ) ¦ , ;« ¦¦ ¦ * < ; Wm . Xoyett , Secretary . " iF © v th ! e Right Hon . Lord John Russell , Secretary of State for the Home Depart-... merit , "

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      .. « Whitehall , Sept . 22 , 1837 . << -Sib * -- I am directed by Lord J $ lin & , u $ sell to inform you that Ije . has not failed to lay before ¦ tl jieJ ^ ueen the addres s of certain

      of } tjfye . Working Men ' s Association of London / which you transmitted to his lordship for presentation . —I am , Sir , your obedient servant ,

      ¦ ' - > ¦ ¦ ' > ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ' " F . Maule . " Mr ftii . Lovett , 6 Upper J J } brth place , Gray ' s Inn road . "

      -Not a word was said of , any refnsirk on the part of her Majesty . Dignity was in the way . JDiffiotilty Was in the way . It wa& not * under the

      circumfctariees ; to be expected . And imbodyv be it observed , is , rin $# f the circumstances , to blatne .. The circumstances themselves are the things to be retfftedied and set right . The truth-is not to be concealed : —

      the Queen of twenty-six millydiis of British subjects < ictnnot tfffbM to give an am we ? to twenty * $ v& * ' ' millions' of » t / ttm . IJord n'Elurham i ^ ayfe that her Majesty 4 > stJOTirs to be the mvj&rkiigw of a faction , or' the ml&ti '< ofiia ^ section afrked » etn ^ * mJti- > The < ph | asea < a ^ e' fiti ^ ; mBn ^ 8 cdrn ? 'li&fii a ^^ viery ^ m \ i

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      sound , but not a very meaning one . But what is the fkc % if she cannot speak to those Whbfo she rules •? And ( waiting &p insidious word" faction ^) what are Whigs and Tories—^ rhat the Lords and Lower

      Housewhat the whole nobility , gentry , and trading interest , but " sections" of her Majesty ' $ empire , compared with the Masses—the labourers , the Many ^—the producers of the wealth of those contending and ruling FeW ? We would have this truth

      calmly met and acknowledged in time , and met by that which at once admits all the value of the claim , and would neutralise all the danger of it , —Education . And £ >* reat is the nitv . tion . And great is the ity

      p , that the noble desire for education on the part of the toiling many had not been anticipated , and the Queen enabled to afford an answer to them

      by telling them as much . What a " divinity" would that have been to " hedge" a throne with , instead of a ekevaux de frise of swords and bag-wigs ! And how sorryi and low , in the face of the hi ^ h interests of millions of hiimah

      hearts , sounds the Wretched court exaction of ' the necessity of a particular forni of drb ' ss ! Far are We frbiii - wishing t 6 taunt individuals Uitli that : extb t

      action , or to ^ reMid m e them responsible - for ' it . s It arose but of the v ^ ryih ^ tlnctis of selfVdefertce , % pim ^ re l ^ ii ifi e pun of pbwetaWd authority , but of the ediVcritiibii-Wi ^ lps ti& > giv ^ pmetl « Bh tH ^ r <* me ofcctfsibns vt ^ h ' e'h ' ^ litSt / 1 iis&f

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      308 The Queen and the Working Classes .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 1, 1837, page 308, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1837/page/12/