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MAY 12, 1832
THE REFORM BILL
As soon as the division of Monday evening was declared, the result was transmitted to the King, who was at Windsor. On Tuesday, a Cabinet Council was held; when it was unani- mously agreed, that unless the Ministry, were allowed by his Majesty to create as many Peers as would give them a majority in the Upper House, they must resign. Earl GREY and Lord BROUGHAM, the two highest functionaries of the Cabinet, laid before his Majesty, the same day, the result of the Cabinet's deliberations. The nature of the interview between the King and the two Ministers is not very likely to be known to the public: The Chronicle says, the King shed tears; lamenting that he was com- pelled to sacrifice his Ministers to his wife, his sisters, and his children.
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