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and much hissing and yelling at others. The pressure 

 of the crowd was also great, and would have been 

 most troublesome to the peers when they left their 

 carriages and entered the House, but for an arrange- 

 ment that was made after the inconvenience experienced 

 the first day. A great barrier was erected across the 

 street at the entrance of Old Palace Yard, and this 

 broke the force of the crowd, so that the other barrier 

 round the entrance of the House was quite sufficient 

 protection. There never was the least collision between 

 the mob and either the troops or the police. But all 

 our accounts were that the soldiers showed plain signs 

 of being with the multitude in their cheers and yells. 



Independent of our support from the people, and 

 even upon the supposition of the case appearing 

 against us, I had a sure resource a course which 

 could not have failed, even if the bill had actually 

 passed the Lords. The threat which I held out in 

 opening the defence was supposed to mean recrimina- 

 tion; and no doubt it included that. We had abundant 

 evidence of the most unexceptionable kind, which 

 would have proved a strong case against the King ; 

 indeed, an unquestionable one of that description.' 55 ' 



* The passage referred to is as follows: "My Lords, the Princess 

 Caroline of Brunswick arrived in this country in the year 1795, the 

 niece of our sovereign, the intended consort of his heir-apparent, and 

 herself not a very remote heir to the crown of these realms. But I now 

 go back to that period, only for the purpose of passing over all the in- 

 terval which elapsed between her arrival then and her departure in 1814. 

 I rejoice that, for the present at least, the most faithful discharge of my 

 duty permits me to draw this veil ; but I cannot do so without pausing 

 for an instant to guard myself against a misrepresentation to which I 

 know this cause may not unnaturally be exposed, and to assure your 

 Lordships most solemnly, that if I did not think that the cause of the 

 Queen, as attempted to be established by the evidence against her, not 

 only does not require recrimination at present not only imposes no 



