| Collection | Victorian Papers, Main Series |
| Description | Queen Victoria feels bound to allow the [Wellington] statue to go on the Arch on Constitutional Hill, however bad the appearance. She says that if the constitutional fiction is applied to this case, that the Queen acts by the advice of her responsible Ministers, one Government advised assent and another advises the withdrawal of this assent. The latter position has been taken in Lord Morpeth's former letter to the Committee and in the Commons' debate, so it must therefore be adhered to, and whatever is decided must be the act of the Government. It would therefore be better to retain the word "Government" at the end of Lord Morpeth's proposed letter, and hence Prince Albert should not go up to London to give an opinion on its appearace when the statue is up. |