ABSTRACT

Such were the strains with which voices and instuments joined to greet my ears as I took my seat on the Ambassadors bench in the house of peers on [the] occasion of the FIRST opening of the PARLIAMENT OF ANGRIA. I will not detail to my readers in cold inanimate prose the stir and splendour of this eventful day He very probably knows already that. All the City of Adrianopolis rose in a wild ferment of excitement and that the spirit which reigned through it was instantanously dispersed through the whole kingdom, that the Angrian Ministry by a vast display of Armed Rejiments processions Banners and music and. huge crowds of applauding subjects had given such a character of dazzling magnificence to this important, day. as all who saw it will long remember and remember with astonishment The King—Adrian the First headed the House of Peers in grand cavalry procession and the Ministers the House of Commons to the great general Hall of Parliament where with the Monarchs opening speech the first session was to commence