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ing been paid. She refused peremptorily to have them 

 paid, saying the Queen must pay her debts before she 

 pays her Attorney and Solicitor General. The sum 

 due was under 200, and she had been pressing 70 00 

 upon us ! This arrear, as well as all the other profes- 

 sional emoluments, but on the ordinary scale, were 

 paid by the Treasury after her death, among the ex- 

 penses of the cause. In consequence of the absurd 

 reports spread in the country that a room at Brougham 

 had been built by the Queen after the trial (there having 

 been not a room built, but only a battlement added to 

 a very ancient room), I may add, that I never received 

 any present whatever from her, except a magnificent 

 copy of Dante (the great Florentine edition), on which 

 Dr Parr wrote an inscription that has been the subject 

 of much criticism. 



I have mentioned the votes of plate in different 

 parts of the country. They were chiefly of things 

 which I should not have thought of buying, being, 

 with the exception of the Birmingham service, more 

 for show than use. From other places there were cups 

 of various kinds, and from Huddersfield a pair oJ 

 blankets which I handed over to my friend AVliitbread. 

 as a present to his daughter Elizabeth, just about to 

 be married to William Waldegrave. On the lleform 

 Bill passing in 1832, there was a penny subscription 

 for four silver -gilt cups to be presented to Grey, 

 Althorpc, John Russell, and myself. In those days 

 the practice said to have prevailed latterly, of dis- 

 tributing shares in railwav and other companies among 



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members of the two Houses, had not been discovered; 

 and as the shares bore a premium at the time 

 of distribution, a more objectionable practice cannot 



