Note 140 — Chapter VI
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In one of his speeches upon the war with Spain, he said, “We were entering upon a war that would be stained with the blood of Kings, and washed with the tears of Queens!” It was in ridicule of this rant, that Sir Charles Williams, in an unfinished poem, called the “Pandemonium,” where he introduced orations in the style of the chief speakers of the Opposition, concluded Lord Granville’s with the following line, at the close of a prophetic view of the ravages of the war,
“And Visiers’ heads came rolling down Constantinople’s streets.”