's Brewery and at the British
Museum--Breakfast at Rogers'--The Cholera--Quarantine--Meeting
of Peers--New Parliament meets--Opened by the King--'Hernani'
at Bridgewater House--The Second Reform Bill--The King's
Coronation--Cobbett's Trial--Prince Leopold accepts the Crown
of Belgium--Peel and the Tories--A Rabble Opposition--A Council
for the Coronation.
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CHAPTER XV.

Preparations for the Coronation--Long Wellesley committed by the
Chancellor for Contempt--Alderman Thompson and his
Constituents--Prince Leopold goes to Belgium--Royal Tombs and
Remains--The Lieutenancy of the Tower--The Cholera--The Belgian
Fortresses--Secret Negotiations of Canning with the Whigs--
Transactions before the Close of the Liverpool Administration--
Duke of Wellington and Peel--The Dutch invade Belgium--Defeat
of the Belgian Army--The French enter Belgium--Lord Grey's
Composure--Audience at Windsor--Danger of Reform--Ellen Tree--
The French in Belgium--Goodwood--The Duke of Richmond--The
Reform Bill in Difficulties--Duke of Wellington calls on Lord
Grey--The King declines to be kissed by the Bishops--
Talleyrand's Conversation--State of Europe and France--
Coronation Squabbles--The King divides the old Great Seal
between Brougham and Lyndhurst--Relations of the Duchess of
Kent to George IV. and William IV.--The Coronation--Irritation
of the King--The Cholera--A Dinner at St. James's--State of the
Reform Bill--Sir Augustus d'Este--Madame Junot--State of
France--Poland.
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CHAPTER XVI.

Whig and Tory Meetings on Reform--Resolution to carry the Bill--
Holland--Radical Jones--Reform Bill thrown out by the Lords--
Dorsetshire Election--Division among the Tories--Bishop
Phillpotts--Prospects of Reform--Its Dangers--Riots at
Bristol--The Cholera at Sunderland--An Attempt at a Compromise
on Reform--Lord Wharncliffe negotiates with the Ministers--
Negotiation with Mr. Barnes--Proclamation against the Unions--
Barbarism of Sunderland--Disappointment of Lord Wharncliffe--
Bristol and Lyons--Commercial Negotiations with France--Poulett
Thomson--Lord Wharncliffe's Proposal to Lord Grey--Disapproved
by the Duke of Wellington--Moderation of Lord John Russell--The
Appeal of Drax _v._ Grosvenor-