1818 Oct. 28

Parl. Reform Bill

Reasons

'.2. Electors Who

Univ.

III. Females

12

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7

3. All these from ploughshares passed over [...?]

3. Behold her now a widow. The King is immortal. Thus much we know from Blackstone. A Queen Regnant is by [...?] of law a King. This we know from the same [...?] /sovereign/ authority: she is therefore immortal likewise. But though immortal she is so alas! alas! in no other than a legal sense. The partner of her bed, though master of this Lamp of immortality, he shares not in the attribute: Mortal he [...?] in every sense - in law therefore as well as in the opposite reason, he may be supposed to die. In a word he is dead. The royal wife becomes a no less royal widow. Meantime the demand for progeny - understand always for fear of [...?] the public demand for progeny remains still unsatisfied. The royal Rubicon having been passed once for all, the repugnancy to advertisement becomes /is now/ less inflexible. Comes over another flock of suitors, and another handkerchief and the like parabola is described by another handkerchief.

[marginal note:] his crown demises, but the fair wearer never dies.