CollectionVictorian Papers, Main Series
ReferenceVIC/MAIN/A/13/75
Record TypeCorrespondence
TitleLetter from Sir Robert Peel to Queen Victoria
Date14 February 1843
WriterPeel, Robert, Sir, 2nd Baronet
AddresseeVictoria, Queen
DescriptionGovernment proposal to vote £260,000 to remunerate innocent victims of holders of Exchequer bills through Beaumont Smith's forgeries. Agreed. (Smith transported.) Debate resumed. Russell censured every act of Lord Ellenborough [Governor-General of India], and declared him to blame not merely for the removal of the Gates of the Temple of Somnauth , but for the whole tenor of his civil administration. Debate [on the state of the country] resumed. Howick proposed that the House should go into Committee to consider distress in the country - tantamount to a Committee on the state of the nation.
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