Richenda Buxton to Charles Buxton, about family meetings in Devonshire Street the previous day, 23 May 1837
She writes of:
- the adjourned debate
- the good speech made by Andrew Johnston
- the subsequent attacks from all sides and the way in which he could affect the balance of the House in either direction because the Whigs and Tories were so evenly balanced that whatever his small band of supporters did would count
- a possible complication of there being two divisions, in the first of which he would have to vote against the government when it might be defeated and the second Motion, his own, thus forestalled
- the fact that, if the government were not defeated, the Tories might, in the second division, refuse to support him
- the possibility that the King might die and, Princess Victoria coming of age the following day, a dissolution would then be inevitable
- her belief that, as so often before, their difficulties could vanish overnight.
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- Creation: 23 May 1837
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4 pages
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MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 444 Vol. 15, pp. 296-299
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