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| | Autograph Letter Signed ("Robert Peel") to Prince [Charles Maurice] Talleyrand in Paris, written ten days after being ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | Together with the printed pamphlet to which Peel refers, his Address to the Electors of the Borough of Tamworth, 12 pages 8vo, and a draft, in French, of Talleyrand's graceful reply, in the hand of a secretary. |
 | | Peel, the leader of the Tories in the Commons, was on holiday in Italy when William IV exercised his Royal prerogative by requesting the resignation of the Whig Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne, whom he disliked, even though the Whigs were in a majority. |
 | | The Tamworth manifesto, addressed to his own constituents but published and distributed to national newspapers, is regarded as having laid down the principles upon which the modern Conservative party is based. |
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