“. . . I confess I had no notion such a majority could have been found to give a direct negative to the allegation that the late proceedings had been ‘derogatory from the dignity of the Crown and injurious to the best wishes of the People.’ . . . The last half of Brougham’s speech was quite inimitable. He made the declaration he formerly told me he would, as to his perfect conviction of the Queen’s innocence, and he did it in a manner so solemn, and, if I may say so, so magnificent, that it was met with the loudest and almost universal cheers.”
