Later in the year the Queen, assisted by Palmella, Terceira, and Saldanha, made a counter-move, believing that the people of Lisbon would support her, and proposed to dismiss her Ministers; she had, however, been misled as to the popular aid forthcoming, and had to give up the struggle, Sa da Bandeira becoming Prime Minister.

The Queen, virtually a captive, had to accede to the revolutionary requirements.] [Footnote 16: Dietz was a former Governor of Prince Ferdinand, who accompanied him to Portugal on his marriage with Donna Maria, and took a considerable part in political affairs.] [Footnote 17: A former Minister of the Interior was killed by the National Guards, who threatened to march on Belem, where the Queen was; she had to apply to the British Marines for protection.] [Footnote 18: In the course of the debate (3rd August 1831) on Lord Althorp's proposition to add L10,000 a year to the Duchess of Kent's income, Sir M.W.Ridley suggested changing the Princess's name to Elizabeth, as being "more accordant to the feelings of the people," saying that he had heard the subject "frequently and seriously argued." Hunt, the Radical, who opposed the grant, saw no objection to the change, and Lord Althorp thought the matter of no particular consequence.
The Princess's own feelings, and those of her mother, do not seem to have been considered.

See _Hansard_, 3rd series, vol.
v.

591, 654 _et seq._] [Footnote 19: Probably that on the Irish Church Question at the General (formerly "Catholic") Association, Dublin.] _The Princess Victoria to the King of the Belgians._ CLAREMONT, _5th December 1836._ MY DEAREST UNCLE,--...

I have begun since a few days Lord Clive's Life, by Sir John Malcolm,[20] which is very interesting, as it gives much insight into the affairs of India, over parts of which, I fear, it would be well to throw a _veil_.