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clear and so strong that I had not the least hesitation 

 in advising it. She again and again begged me to 

 consider her situation, and to think whether, looking 

 to that, it was absolutely necessary she should return. 

 The day now began to dawn, and I took her to the 

 window. The election of Cochrane (after his expul- 

 sion owing to the sentence of the court, which both 

 insured his re-election and abolished the Pillory) was 

 to take place that day. I said, " Look there, Madam : 

 in a few hours all the streets and the park, now empty, 

 will be crowded with tens of thousands. I have only 

 to take you to that window, and show you to the 

 multitude, and tell them your grievances, and they will 

 all rise in your behalf." " And why should they not V 9 

 I think she said, or some such words. "The com- 

 motion," I answered, " will be excessive; Carlton House 

 will be attacked perhaps pulled down ; the soldiers 

 will be ordered out ; blood will be shed ; and if your 

 Koyal Highness were to live a hundred years, it never 

 would be forgotten that your running away from your 

 father's house was the cause of the mischief : and you 

 may depend upon it, such is the English people's 

 horror of bloodshed, you never would get over it." She 

 at once felt the truth of my assertion, and consented 

 to see her uncle Frederic (the Duke of York) below 

 stairs, and return with him. But she required one of 

 the royal carriages should be sent for, which came with 

 her governess, and they with the Duke of York went 

 home about five o'clock.* Before she went, however, 

 she desired me to make a minute of her declaration 



* See a reference to this scene in ' Contributions to the Edinburgh 

 Keview,' by Henry Lord Brougham, vol. i. p. 470, article " George IV. 

 and Queen Caroline." Edinburgh Keview, October 1838. 



