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Title: Lord Grey of the Reform Bill, being the life of Charles, second Earl Grey
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Trevelyan, George Macaulay, 1876-1962
Subjects: Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845 Great Britain. Parliament
Publisher: London : Longmans, Green
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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on ofhis colleagues. It was now a question of hours. TheCabinet met in Downing Street at noon, and decidedto ask for * full and indisputable security for thepassage of the Bill. Grey and Brougham took theCabinet minute across to the King at St. Jamess Palace.He was in great distress, and most unwilling to comply.The afternoon wore on, and the capital and the countryhung on the issue of that prolonged interview. Atlength William gave way, and wrote the famous words : His Majesty authorises Earl Grey, if any obstacle shouldV arise during the further progress of the Bill, to submit to hima creation of Peers to such extent as shall be necessary to enablehim to carry the Bill. The battle was won. The country instantly sankto rest with a sigh of profound relief. When the Kingpressed for a forcible dissolution of the Political Unions,Grey refused with unusual emphasis, adding with truththat they would dissolve of themselves if nothing foolishwas done. He had learnt, during the last months of
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.\. I iioi ), KcssKi.r. I Il IT, IIoHHOusK, Stanley, Gkaham.(in toj) l)oots,> In front of the throne are the Commissioners with Lord Brougham presiding as Chancellor.The Duke of Sussex is the stout figure by the curtain on the right. The benches ofthe Tory Peers are vacant. Tlie Commons are at the bar. he Reform KiU receiving the Royal y\ss(;nt in the House of Lords. Fron the engraving by Win. Walker and S. W. Reynolds, after the painting by Samuel W. Reynolds. THE REFORM BILL BECOMES LAW 349 the struggle, how much the country owed to theseUnions, of which he had at first been distrustfuLOn May 19 he sent for Attwood, thanked him for hisservices, and asked if anything could be done for himby way of showing the gratitude of the Ministers. Itequally well became Grey to offer and Attwood to refuse.^^&/ The Tory lords, privately informed by Taylor ofwhat the King had promised to do if they held outany longer, abandoned their opposition in Committee.On June 4 the Third Reading of th

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