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unfavourable for a day, as on Maj ocelli's examination 

 in chief. The Guards, in their undress trousers and 

 foraging-caps, came at night to where they supposed 

 the Queen was, or her family and friends, and they 

 said, " Never mind ; it may be going badly, but, better 

 or worse, we are all with you." I was exceedingly 

 alarmed at such things, and peremptorily desired that 

 not only no encouragement should be given to these 

 men, but that no communication whatever should be 

 had with any soldiers. I was quite certain that it 

 only required a single instance of such language being 

 used in the presence of any one connected with our 

 case, not only to destroy it at once in both Houses of 

 Parliament, but in a week's time with all rational and 

 reflecting persons, and in less than a month with the 

 rest of the community, whom the respectable and 

 reflecting class never fails to influence sooner or later. 

 The Duke of Gloucester, to whom I mentioned the 

 state of feeling in the army (expressing my sense of 

 the escape we had made by the Duke of Kent not 

 being at the head of a party now against the King, 

 as he had a few years back been against the Duke of 

 York), said, he totally disbelieved it. Next day I saw 

 him again and asked him how it had happened that 

 his own regiment of Guards had been ordered out of 

 London in consequence of the language they held. He 

 denied it. But again I saw him, and proved to him 

 that the regiment had mutinied at Kingston on its 

 march to a more distant quarter. Nothing was to be 

 remarked in the conduct of the men who, with the 

 police, had the management of the streets as regarded 

 the mob. Daily, no doubt, there were loud demonstra- 

 tions as different peers passed, great cheering of some, 



