Their Lordships met this morning at a quarter past ten o'clock, in consequence of the DEATH of his MAJESTY, King William IV, which took place at Windsor, at twelve minutes past nine o'clock, on this day, their Lordships were immediately summoned in pursuance of the 7th and 8th, William III, c. 15. The Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Shaftesbury, the Marquess of Lansdowne, the Bishop of Salisbury, the Earl of Chichester, Viscount Strangford, and Lord Kenyon were present, and after prayers had been read by the Bishop of Salisbury, all took the oath of allegiance to her Majesty as Queen Victoria.
Viscount Melbourne said, that acting on the precedents established on similar melancholy occasions, he had now to propose that an Address of condolence be sent to her Majesty the Queen Dowager, on the melancholy occasion of the loss which her Majesty had sustained, and to assure her Majesty of the deep sympathy which the House entertained for the loss to her Majesty and the country. In submitting this motion he would not dwell on the esteem which her Majesty had won from all classes of the country, by her amiable conduct and the exemplary manner in which she discharged the duties of her high station. These were well known to their Lordships and the country; but let him add, that her Majesty's conduct was still—if it could be—more distinguished by the manner in which she discharged her duties to his Majesty in his illness, and the exemplary assiduity and patience with which she bore the fatigues which her unremitting attention to his Majesty had imposed on her.
Their Lordships adjourned till three o'clock, and at that period a great number of Peers took the oath of allegiance.
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