ladycashasatiger:

thelawisthelawnotjustice:

decadent-empress:

“Public Opinion!” William Heath, 1820. 

The King has lost, and not even the combined efforts to Liverpool, Castlereagh, Sidmouth and Eldon can seem to make the King popular. 

….is there a reason why the green bag is labelled with “Green Bag”? Does it have meaning, or did they just run out of labels?

The Green Bag was a legitimate thing. There were actually two of them and they contained all the evidence dirt Ministers had been compiling on Princess Caroline (her companions and habits, ‘testimony’ against her character, purloined letters, &c.) since the first time the Prince Regent floated the idea of divorcing her many years earlier. It was a very dramatic and pivotal moment when Lord Castlereagh brought the Green Bags and placed them on the baize tables of the House of Lords to begin proceedings against her during her ‘Trial’ in 1820. Consequently, they featured heavily in popular imagination – and indeed popular prints and literature – of the time as a symbol of the Government’s malice and ill-will towards her.