A Hundred Years Ago [The Spectator, February 1st, 1840.] NATURALISATION
OF PRINCE ALBERT
IN the House of Lords, on Monday, Lord Chancellor Cot- tenham moved the second reading of a Bill, introduced on the previous Friday, to naturalise Prince Albert of Saxe- Coburg and Gotha.
The Duke of Wellington refused to sanction the measure without further consideration. It was not merely, as the title stated, a Bill to naturalise Prince Albert, but to give him precedence next to the Queen. This he had accidentally discovered ; and he desired that Lord Lyndhurst should have an opportunity of examining and discussing the Bill.
After some remarks from Lord Melbourne, who strongly objected to the postponement, and Lord Brougham, who described some extraordinary consequences of the measure, the second reading was put off to Friday.
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