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The Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume 1 (of 3), 1837-1843)

CHAPTER XI
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If it is discreetly managed, it will calm down or blow over or sink into disputes of little significance.

All Lord Melbourne fears is lest the Bishops should be induced to act hastily and should get into the wrong.

The Puseyites have the most learning, or rather, have considered the points more recently and more accurately than their opponents.
Lord Melbourne hopes that the Spanish affair will be settled.
Lord Melbourne cannot doubt that the French are wrong.

Even if the precedents are in their favour, the Spanish Court has a right to settle its own etiquette and its own mode of transacting business, and to change them if it thinks proper.[4] Lord Melbourne was at Broadlands when the Article to which your Majesty alludes appeared in the _Morning Chronicle_, and he talked it over with Palmerston.

He does not think that Palmerston wrote it, because there were in it errors, and those errors to Palmerston's disadvantage; but it was written by Easthope under the impression that it conveyed Palmerston's notions and opinions.


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