[The Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume 1 (of 3), 1837-1843) by Queen Victoria]@TWC D-Link bookThe Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume 1 (of 3), 1837-1843) CHAPTER VII 8/67
He is very grateful for your Majesty's enquiries, and feels very well this morning.... Lord Minto[8] told Lord Melbourne last night to acquaint your Majesty that Lord Amelius Beauclerck,[9] your Majesty's first Naval Aide-de-Camp, intended to ask an Audience to-day of your Majesty, and that the object of it was to request that he and the other Aides-de-Camp might wear sashes.
This was always refused by the late King as being absurd and ridiculous--as it is, particularly considering Lord Amelius's figure--and your Majesty had perhaps better say that you can make no change. Lord Melbourne will be at St James's twenty minutes before ten. [Footnote 6: Philip Henry, fourth Earl.] [Footnote 7: Before 1834 a great source of public abuse was the out-door relief given to able-bodied paupers, either in kind or money.
The Act of that year was based on the principle that no one must perish through the want of the bare necessities of life.
Poor Law Commissioners were established, England was divided into Districts, and the Districts into Unions.
Out-door relief was to be given, on the order of two justices, to poor persons wholly unable, from age or infirmity, to work.
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