Cobbett and Queen Caroline

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Hazlitt remembered the Queen Caroline affair as a unique moment in political and cultural history: It was the only question I ever knew that excited a thoroughly popular feeling. It struck its roots into the heart of the nation; it took possession of every house or cottage in the kingdom; man, woman, and child took part in it, as if it had been their own concern. Business was laid aside for it: people forgot their pleasures, even their meals were neglected, nothing was thought of but the fate of the Queen’s trial. The arrival of the Times Newspaper was looked upon as an event in every village, the Mails hardly travelled fast enough; and he who had the latest intelligence in his pocket was considered as the happiest of mortals. It kept the town in a ferment for several weeks: it agitated the country to the remotest corner. It spread like wildfire over the kingdom; the public mind was electrical. So it should be on other occasions; it was only so on this.1

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Grande, J. (2014). Cobbett and Queen Caroline. In Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture (pp. 114–147). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137380081_6

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