The History of England From the Year 1830, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The History of England From the Year 1830, Vol. 1 For reasons that are assigned at the beginning of my History I have commenced it with an account of the great reform struggle of 1831 and 1832, and I have embodied in the present volume my History of that contest, but greatly abridged, in some parts altogether re-written, in all carefully revised and corrected, and with a few additions. There is, however, one passage of that work which I have left entirely untouched - that, namely, which narrates the interview of Lords Grey and Brougham with William IV. on the morning of the 22d of April 1831, and which gave rise to a protracted controversy. I have made a slight correction in the observations with which the anecdote was prefaced, hut the story of the interview itself is told word for word as it was given in the first edition of my History of the Reform Bill of 1832, I felt that after the generous and honourable alacrity with which Lord Brougham came forward to rescue me from the embarrassing position in which the present Lord Grey's flat denial of my narrative had placed me, and to make himself distinctly responsible for the correctness of my narrative, I should be laying myself open to a charge of being wanting in the grateful respect I owe to the memory of that great man, if I were now to withdraw the passage from any desire to shorten this part of my work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.