Zachary Macaulay was inclined in her favour by sentiments alike of friendship, and of the most pardonable resentment.
Brougham, her illustrious advocate, had for ten years been the main hope and stay of the movement against Slavery and the Slave Trade; while the John Bull, whose special mission it was to write her down, honoured the Abolitionist party with its declared animosity.

However full its columns might be of libels upon the honour of the wives and daughters of Whig statesmen, it could always find room for calumnies against Mr.Macaulay which in ingenuity of fabrication, and in cruelty of intention, were conspicuous even among the contents of the most discreditable publication that ever issued from the London press.

When Queen Caroline landed from the Continent in June 1820 the young Trinity undergraduate greeted her Majesty with a complimentary ode, which certainly little resembled those effusions that, in the old courtly days, an University was accustomed to lay at the feet of its Sovereign.

The piece has no literary value, and is curious only as reflecting the passion of the hour.

The first and last stanzas run as follows:-- Let mirth on every visage shine And glow in every soul.
Bring forth, bring forth, the oldest wine, And crown the largest bowl.
Bear to her home, while banners fly From each resounding steeple, And rockets sparkle in the sky, The Daughter of the People.
E'en here, for one triumphant day, Let want and woe be dumb, And bonfires blaze, and schoolboys play.
Thank Heaven, our Queen is come.
* * * * Though tyrant hatred still denies Each right that fits thy station, To thee a people's love supplies A nobler coronation; A coronation all unknown To Europe's royal vermin; For England's heart shall be thy throne, And purity thine ermine; Thy Proclamation our applause, Applause denied to some; Thy crown our love; thy shield our laws.
Thank Heaven, our Queen is come! Early in November, warned by growing excitement outside the House of Lords, and by dwindling majorities within, Lord Liverpool announced that the King's Ministers had come to the determination not to proceed further with the Bill of Pains and Penalties.