w. There was a considerable riot on Friday night, in
which Oudinot was rode over, and several people badly wounded; one
only killed. The troops have shown the greatest steadiness, and
evince rather an anxiety than an unwillingness to act. The Jacobins
are, I am told, as much depressed by this as the Ultras are elated.
Madame de Flahaut is here, acting the French Lady J----; and to you
I need say no more.

I am in a great fright about the Queen. What could make the
Government employ Lord H----, who seems to have committed himself
and employers most lamentably? She will, I fear, have a tremendous
party of many well-disposed, good, moral men, as well as of all
those who hate the King and the Government. If you have leisure, I
should be very grateful for a word or two on this.

Ever affectionately yours,

J. W. STANHOPE.

The negotiation between the King's Ministers and the Queen's legal
advisers was not rendered fruitless by any fault of the former.
Wilberforce acknowledges that "The concessions made by the King's
servants, as Mr. Brougham afterwards declared in the House of Commons,
were various and great. The name and rights of a Queen were granted to
her Majesty without reserve--any recognition of which had formerly been
carefully avoided. A Royal yacht, a frigate, &c., were offered. It was
agreed that her name and rank should be notified at the Court either of
Rome or Milan, the capitals of the countries in which she had expressed
her intention to reside; and that an address should be presented to the
Queen, no less than another to the King, to thank her Majesty for
having acceded to the wish of the House of Commons."[23]

[23] "Life," vol. v. p. 56.

Wilberforce was very earnest, sending his son with a letter to the
King, in which he entreated him to restore the Queen's name to the
Liturgy,[24] and venturing to prophesy something very like a civil war
should this concession be refused. On this point, however, his Majesty
was intractable, and the negotiator met with anything but cordial
co-operation from his own party, of whom he says: "Opposition seem all
disposed to take up the Queen's cause on party principles. Alas!"[25]
Subsequently he implies where he met with obstacles; "Tierney, &c.,
ill-natured, yet Castlereagh gave way."

[24] The Queen perpetrated one of her characteristic jests when
this question was being furiously debated: