“One more day will finish the concern in the Lords,
and that this should have been accomplished as it has
1832-33.]
THE REFORM BILL PASSED.
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against a great majority of peers, and
without making a single new one, must always remain one of the greatest
miracles in English history. The conqueror of Waterloo had great luck on that
day; so he had when Marmont made a false
move at Salamanca; but at last comes his own false move, which has destroyed
himself and his Tory high-flying association for ever, which has passed the
Reform Bill without opposition. That has saved the country from confusion, and
perhaps the monarch and monarchy from destruction.”
Auguste Frédéric Louis Viesse de Marmont, duc de Raguse (1774-1852)
He succeeded Masséna in Spain only to be defeated by Wellington at the Battle of
Salamanca; having gone over the Allies in the Battle of Paris he became a nobleman upon the
Bourbon restoration.
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Author: Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838
Title:The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the
late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903).
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Series: Lord Byron and his Times: http://lordbyron.org
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