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Queen, and that lie would be actuated by a due regard 

 to these considerations as far as the professional rela- 

 tion in which he stood to the Queen would permit. 



"Lord Liverpool certainly regrets that Mr Brougham's 

 other engagements prevented him from meeting the 

 Queen at Geneva, but he will still hope that he will 

 arrive in time to avert the inconveniences which must 

 result from her Majesty's landing in this country. 



"Junel, 1820." 



But I had gone much further, both for the interests 

 of the country and of the Queen herself, by taking a 

 step in the House of Commons which bid fair to put a 

 stop to the proceedings against her. 



Immediately after the King had determined they 

 should be taken, and his servants had submitted, con- 

 trary both to their decided opinions and to their public 

 duty, I had announced that if they gave up the bill 

 at once, they were absolutely secure against the loss of 

 their places, because I could pledge the Opposition to 

 refuse taking the Government on their predecessors 

 being dismissed for giving up the bill. Even without 

 a formal authority from the party, I knew that I was 

 safe with them in making this declaration ; just as 

 I, nine years after, took upon me to make the same 

 declaration, upon intimation reaching me in the House 

 that, under the Duke of Cumberland's influence, the 

 King had suddenly resolved to resist Catholic Emanci- 

 pation. He met me, I know, in 1 8 2 9 and I have every 

 reason to believe also in 1820 with a very cunningly 

 devised movement, by telling the ministers that if they 

 were dismissed, or resigned, he would take in the Op- 

 position, and not require in the one case the bill to be 



