All language subtitles for Number 10 - episode 4The Iron Duke (Wellington) - starring Bernard Archard & Gabrielle Drake (1983) (1) (1)

The Duke of Wellington.

Here comes his group of men of the world.

Here comes Kopenhagen, the biggest horse in the world.

Hold!

I have the tenement to give you.

I have the tenement to give you.

I have the tenement to give you.

I have the tenement to give you.

I have the tenement to give you.

I have the tenement to give you.

I have the tenement to give you.

My dear Arthur!

Cook, Cumposch, transport and supplies.

My dear Arthur, transport and supplies.

May not even arm me.

I'd like to pick the French.

I've got to go to the last man, but I've got to find him.

No, I've got to find him.

I've got to find him.

Come inside.

Turn him.

Turn him.

Right then. Look lively.

We want this lot in a four-dark.

Duke of Wellington don't stand there, but it's not.

Now we'll be all right.

Now the Duke's in charge.

You're at Paliboos to Kings.

Oh, Paliboos much to the likes of me.

To go to run things from his palace in Piggedily was, but it's being done up.

Two hundred thousand pounds.

It's costing.

It's trying to stay in.

Well, it's his money, isn't it? And he'll get value.

Sent in a platoon of all engineers to make sure the builders don't wheeze him.

So you've got one of these pukes to see him side by him?

That was Harriet Arthur, not on our husband.

Good family friend.

Oh, yeah. Yes.

I'm the less of the disrespect if you doubt my money.

The point is the Duke's never bungled the job in his life.

He'll seek the Catholics. That's for sure.

It's known as you don't seek all of us at the same time.

Well, listen to the cheering.

No care for cheering, Charles.

It's an expression of opinion from the mob.

Once you let the mob show approval, you open the doors to their showing disapproval at another time.

Frowned on it in the army.

Still don't like it now.

Harriet.

Charles.

It's good of you both to be here to ease me in.

Would you know my wife?

Dear Kitty, shrinks from responsibility like a Frenchman from the bay in it.

Ah, they're careful with that now.

What on earth is that?

No camp bay.

Better never since I went soldiering.

It's so narrow.

How'd you manage to turn over?

When it's time to turn over, it's time to turn out.

Hey!

Hey, Pete.

Hey!

You didn't apply for a fair old rarer, sir. Say that for him.

That's a mouth squeak compared with some with ed.

After he smashed the French of the Miro, the whole army Spanish is well cheating for a solid hour.

Go down the line.

Spid out over two miles. You'd be with a chugal with ed time.

Never left his side.

Always on the figure with you was.

Not like your army general sitting on his back side a mile beyond the blood and guts.

I've seen him in it by six shots I have.

Always bounced off his sword heel toward his saddle.

Had to or she shot from under him at Teles Medirus?

Cool.

Charmed life. He's got the devil in him.

Oh, come on, get on with it.

How is it with you, Arthur?

If people think I like this station, they must take him.

The nation has already over-rewarded me and Duke Grim and Untold Fortun.

My line is to come out of the army.

But it's the king's wish.

I have served him wherever he wants me.

Now here I am stuck with four damn Democrats in my cabinet.

Certainly, Palmerston's not to be trusted.

Very little to choose. Huskies and Dudley and Grant.

I wouldn't put them in against the Platoon of Drummer Boys.

Robert Peel's the only man at metal I've got.

Damn van had the guts to say he wouldn't come in unless I resigned as Commander-in-Chief.

Too much power for one man, he said.

I sometimes think Arthur that you listen too much to Mr. Peel.

Democracy's on its way all over Europe.

Which is why the king has put me in.

I had audience of him in his bedroom at Windsor.

George IV of England sitting up in a greasy nightcap.

Arthur, he said, the government is defunct.

I want you to take over and stop the wild men.

Does he still believe he led the great charge of Severemaker?

Yes, disguised as General Bucco.

But he's no fool in his lucid hours.

He knows it was democracy that led to the terror in France.

That led to Bonaparte.

That led to the second ruin of Europe.

Well, I mean to stop that sort of thing happening here.

And by God I will.

I have no doubt Arthur that you will prove yourself as great in civilism military matters.

But you are not to take too much upon yourself.

Yes, Harriet.

Now, as soon as you're settled in,

let me have your social engagement book

and I will tell you where you may and may not go.

Yes, my tyrant.

I know why you put up with it Arthur.

I think she's my wife and I would.

I mean, he will.

Brings to the Netherlands high-customer

and he can do good well in it.

Prime Minister.

He puts up with it because he must.

Isn't that so slave?

As you say, O'Therana.

There's something you may have to put up with also.

Oh.

My demonic nephew.

William Longwell's there.

His vendetta against me is coming to a head.

He's trying to get possession of his children again.

He'll use anything.

He may use you.

Us to paint a lured picture.

Well, I think you destroy himself.

But he's an absurdity.

Oh, don't fear for us Arthur.

Hey, you look to yourself.

I've published my ad. He's always in the stock.

You'll save vile things.

Bad water from a bad source is its own condemnation.

God, no, I don't want to lose you, too.

You are my family.

More than my own.

How is Kitty?

Much as usual, won't come up to town.

Sit in the country getting her accounts in a muddle.

When she does come up, she turns into a mouse.

She's so short-sighted.

She can't see anyone, so she won't meet anyone.

Oh, she adores you.

I don't care to be adored.

I love her, but I can't live with her.

Nor she with me.

Damn it, the woman's frightened of me.

Mr. Huskiesel, I'll help no truck with Catholic emancipation.

The king blocked me on the clear understanding.

It was to form no part of my policy.

It was also the understanding of the Tory party in the House of Lords.

Which is why you were invited here this morning, Lord Windschildsay.

So that you may be reassured by Mr. Peel here and by myself.

There will be no renaging in the matter.

Catholics will consider you to be prejudice.

Not so.

I have nothing against Catholicism.

To those of my troops as a Catholic, I gave open permission to attend

masses often as they wished.

Result? There was no grumbling.

Nobody bothered to go.

No matter what English Catholics may feel,

the Irish will no longer tolerate Catholics being disbarred from sitting in parliament.

Now you're aware that the Catholic associations are active again?

Trouble makers with a respectable name.

Now we have formulated certain views on how to deal with them.

You're not advocating force.

Not at all. We shall draw their sting by acknowledging them.

What? Have no fear, Windschildsay.

I shall never allow them to do what I do not wish.

Change will come, or grace whether you wish it or not.

Huskiesel, you are talking to an Anglo-Iarishman

who knows of what he speaks.

Nobody is denying that.

But the associations are now laid by Daniel O'Connor, a formidable man.

I know I speak for my colleagues, Palmerston, Dudley and Grant, when I say

that you are standing in the path of history.

Ireland has been connected with great Britain solely by the presence of the Protestants.

They are the English Gatosel.

Aborish the distinction between Protestant and Catholic.

And all will be Irishmen alike.

I'll show you a man whose most anxious wish is to see his country independent of great Britain.

That is the most disgraceful analysis I have ever heard.

And the most realistic?

Yeah, yeah.

To give the damned papers an inch, and you'll have a revolution.

Very well. Let us come near a home to not inch out.

The opposition are pressing for a division tonight on the redistribution of the East-Wretford seats.

They are determined to extend the vote more to the common man.

And we are in sympathy.

And I am not.

The common man is best off in the hands of his bettors.

There wasn't a man in my army who wasn't the most villainous candle in his village.

Yet forged by me, they conquered Europe.

You are not in the army now, your grace.

No man ever spoke a true word.

In the army, you say to one, go and he goes.

In the cabinet, they argue.

So, there you are.

That's it, sir.

Thank you, Uncle.

And so I have to debate for Swede, even reassure idiots on my own side like Winchell's seat.

But everyone knows Lord Winchell's head is full of pepper.

No idea, Lady Jersey. That is an affliction shared by most politicians.

I was at St George's last week.

He was giving away one of his cousins in marriage.

I swear I heard him murmuring under his breath.

Right, right.

Oh, the man is a plotch of contradictions.

He is a genius at war, and he loves children.

Or surrounded by nephews, nieces, godchews.

He is a splendid violinist.

What?

But in 24, Arthur wanted to marry Kitty and was told violinist has no prospect.

So, bird to his violin and went for a surgery.

I do find him so adorable.

Hmm, there's something about the man.

You know the moment, Harriet and I met him at the Embassy in Paris, we both fell in love with him.

Love, Charles.

Now, Lady, and someone said that there is a middle state between love and friendship,

which is more delightful than either, but more difficult to remain in.

Now, I think that describes our case.

You must be a patriotic dictator, Arthur.

You must mount your thoroughbred, Copen Hagen, and ride roughshod over anyone that opposes you.

Oh, Lady Jersey, Copen Hagen is used only to training on Frenchmen.

Englishmen come harder.

Then, Copen Hagen must be shard more heavily, or Englishmen made softer.

I would never wish Englishmen to be softer, even if they finally drive me into the ground.

Oh, what's this? A surprise attack?

What do you want to know?

What do you want to know?

You, Boschlerney, have it to then.

Oh, my God!

You shall Crawford, I'm an egg.

Come on, you must eat in the eye.

Oh, shard, you must find it.

Oh, shard, you must find it.

Take them out of your hands.

There we go.

Hagen.

Oh, my God!

Oh, my God!

Hagen, I can't help it.

Hey!

Be careful, Hagen.

Careful, Hagen.

Don't waste your emily, Shard.

Oh, you should thank me.

Hagen.

She's fired.

Yes, fellows.

Mr. Huskison, your grace, most urgent.

Show him through.

Fatal's over, children.

Back to your minutes.

Oh, please, help me.

Oh, please, help me.

Stop it.

Stop it.

Forgive me, all grace.

The house is just divided on the electoral reform issue,

and I have to tell you that I did vote with the opposition.

Did you, a matter of conscience,

a promise given months before you took office?

What was it?

So, I thought it only proper to offer you my resignation.

I accept it.

A big apartment.

I accept your resignation.

You don't seem to understand.

It's purely a matter of form of good manners.

I understand perfectly.

A gentleman does not offer his resignation unless he means it.

You have resigned.

I accept your resignation.

Very well.

It was a misjudgment on my part, a mistake.

No.

There is no mistake.

But can be no mistake.

And the shall be no mistake.

You realize that if I do go, I take Palmerston Dudley and Grant with me.

Then I shall have to soldier on without you.

Good night, Huskison.

Goodbye.

Where are you at?

I'm at the door.

Where?

I've got rid of those damn democrats, all four of them are broke.

They exposed the flank to me and they rolled them up.

Thank goodness for that.

Now perhaps you can get on with giving the country what it needs,

gentlemen for the little sinew.

Well, Husker's on an offer to his resident.

Please, your grace.

Your nephew, Mr. William Long,

well as Lee, is down to stairs.

He's offering violence.

I'm sure I'm into the study.

Very good, your grace.

You think you should?

Ah, definitely should.

The man's a madman and probably drunk.

Well, that's my nephew.

To be careful, Arthur.

I've come here to kill you.

I've had a hundred thousand men at a time trying to do that.

None with a motive that speaks so loud as mine.

You have deprived me of my children.

You deprived yourself of them.

You abandoned them and your wife in Italy without a penny

and ran off with another man's wife.

You seemed an algorithmic about it.

I've known and cherished your wife since she was a child.

You broke her heart.

It was her dying wish that you should never get your hands

on her children again.

I know where they are.

And then I'd be here.

Oh, with my wife's sisters, those two old maids in Hampshire.

Have a curse, Arthur.

By order of the court, I am their legal guardian.

And my duty is to protect them.

And who will protect you?

Will's me.

For 30 years, I've faced the most practiced killers in the world.

Do you really think you're going to fright me

with your stick pin?

Trust that point an inch further.

And the gallows rope is already around your neck.

I know what you're about.

Mistake me not.

You mean to plunge your hands into my elder son's trust fund?

You attribute your own motives to me, sir.

You're a scoundrel on a black arse.

Look, yes, Arthur.

I never did an adjunct.

Sorry, even had your wife not asked me,

I would have done all my part to remove the children

from your influence.

A father has his right.

And some men have no right to be fathers.

I shall appeal to the court.

And I warn you, I shall use every weapon

that malice can devise to bring you down.

I'm prepared for that.

And now I'll tell you my plan.

I will adopt your children and bring them up as my own.

You know?

As my own, my children.

That never will happen, sir.

Do you hear me?

No.

No.

The Duke wouldn't like it.

He could kick me.

No, he's crazy.

That ain't very easy.

Given your known character, this very little you

couldn't do about it.

And now, if you're quite finished, I have other guests.

Show Mr. Longwell as the hour to a new furnace.

Very good, you've missed.

What's that for?

Just on the way to the tables, you guys.

You never know who's about these days.

Good morning, gentlemen.

Good morning, minister.

That's your ideal more punctual than my previous cabinet.

Now I present Mr. Charles Abathnot,

who's the head of the Docteur of Lancaster.

General Sir George Murray, my colonial secretary.

How do you do?

He was with me throughout the peninsula campaign.

Sir Henry Harding.

How do you know?

My liaison officer, Waterloo, he's the secretary at war.

The home secretary, of course, you know.

All right.

Good morning.

Good morning.

And feel martial.

How do you know that?

I resigned as commander in chief when I took on this job.

But the Jews do I call you then?

Prime minister?

Arthur would do well enough.

See here, Arthur, we think you're making a mistake.

They're going to call us the regimental cabinet of some such.

George and I know nothing about politics.

You can't run a government like the army.

Why not?

The other day, I asked the treasurer to make some change

in one of their accounting systems.

Impossible they said, can't be done.

And I'll put in six pay co-assadils to do it for you, I say.

The thing was done within 24 hours.

Now gentlemen, the reason for your presence here today

is to bring you up to date.

First, Catholic emancipation.

But death's bill recommending it is before the commons at the moment.

I expect it to be defeated.

On that subject, Mr. Prime Minister.

Mr. Peel?

I do not share your optimism.

I think the bill will scrape home.

Do you?

And I'll have it thrown out in the law.

Even so, to use your own military terminology,

I believe you've made a tactical error

in appointing Lord Fitzgerald to the cabinet.

What?

According to the rules, now that he is appointed to the cabinet,

he must put himself up for re-election.

I know that.

He sits for the Irish constituency of Claire, does he not?

You know he does.

Daniel O'Connell has decided to stand against him.

What?

O'Connell is a Catholic.

He's not allowed to stand.

Oh, but he is.

He's come alive to the fact that, though he's not permitted

as a Catholic to sit in Parliament,

there's nothing to stop him standing for election to it.

Seems a pointless exercise.

What's a tall search, Hort?

If O'Connell wins...

He won't.

Fitzgerald is the best-liked man in the country.

If he wins against all the odds, it will have great effect upon the minds of men.

And the minds of men are more potent than cannon.

Don't I know you?

Yes, your grace.

Corporal Manks.

I was with you with the sea poise in India, sir.

And you must be a downroad, Manks.

There's fear trouble.

Thank you, your grace.

Corp and Hagan, our son.

If you was to fall sick, I'd damned if I wouldn't carry him himself.

I'd rather die than die.

I'd rather die than die.

If you were to fall sick, I'd damned if I wouldn't carry him himself.

Welcome.

Now my time fell off.

What do you for when you grow up?

The Army or the Navy?

There's a red for the Army,

blue for the Navy.

Which is it to be?

The time of girls, Mr. Duke.

Oh, dear.

When you were not in both.

Give them to your best both.

Thank you, Mr. Duke.

Ah, how did it?

Ah, so what is this?

A long history about a toad.

That's Jack's boy.

He had to go away, and leave his pet toad behind.

I promised I'd go after it, send him regular reports.

You take him too much.

Oh.

You look tired. Where have you been?

Visiting a godchild.

She's at a day school in Kensington.

Her parents are not so wealthy,

and in consequence her classmates are being high-nose with her.

I took a bunch of flowers, delivered them personally.

Let them be grand with her now.

My dear, Don Quixett.

You must spare yourself.

You should clear the house of all these people,

the comings and goings, the children...

Couldn't do that, Harriet, my dear.

I love to have the house full.

I've never the best part of my life in the Army,

and the mess my bright sparks around me.

I couldn't exist in a stillness.

Nevertheless, I think you should cancel your Suarez

next week with Lady P. Lady, Airman, Lady T.

It's all too much.

May I be permitted to be seen somewhere abroad in May of Fair?

I shall consider it.

Excuse me, Your Grace. Mr. Robert Peel is here.

I have shown him into the cabinet room.

Oh, thank you, fellas.

Return from Ireland so soon.

I trust he's brought good news.

Can there be any doubt?

Well?

I never would have believed it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes.

The whole countryside rallied to O'Connell.

Flags and banners were marched through the street.

Thousands slept in the open overnight,

not to miss his speeches, yet no man lifted a hand in violence.

He forbade it.

The result?

Came the time to vote, and the Catholic priests led their flocks

to the polling booths.

Their discipline would have done your army credit.

Perfect order prevailed.

Fire was frozen by that exhibition of sober and desperate enthusiasm.

The result, man, the vote.

O'Connell won by an avalanche.

Fitzgerald has lost his seat, and O'Connell threatens to come

thundering on the doors of Westminster to demand admittance.

The tide that our bus not mentioned earlier in the year,

I fear it's become a flood.

You really think so?

I believe that if we do not emancipate the Catholics,

we could be plunged into civil war.

I had but that's emancipation bill defeated in the Lord's while you were away.

No, no, no, I was conciliatory.

I said if the matter could be left for a little while,

without hesitation, something might, at some time, be arranged for the Catholics.

I'm not a bigot.

Civil war.

You're really think so.

I never was more sure of anything.

You can't believe it.

You start tying, you start off conference.

I've known the boat's you as otter.

You can't leave now. It's my turn to ride you.

Hold your horses, Caledine. I've got forgotten.

I'm sorry to keep you waiting gentlemen.

The lady is insisting on their favorite game, coaching. Sit down, sit down.

You ought to keep this quiet for now, but I thought I should let you know as soon as I could.

I'm letting the Catholics in.

But I've made the most rigorous inquire since peer report, and I'm satisfied he's right.

The refuse would mean civil war. I'll not have that.

But you win it hands down.

I wouldn't fight such a war. It's too horrible to contemplate.

The people will call you the greatest turncouge in Caledine, the history of the kingdom.

Then I shall have to bear it. For there, sake.

We'll see you in one minute, Charles.

It wouldn't be quicker to dictate.

Now let's look it up.

Lord, we shall see to see you, your grace. His horse is in the lather.

I'm better get it done with.

Show him, infallors.

Come back later.

Lord, the pout is in an uproar. They've always believed you were the great Protestant.

Their reaction is immodest.

I should have been down to this lie about it. You and Peel have evidently been working on it for months.

Getting around the king. Tickling him like a trite until you landed him on your side.

His majesty has a right to first knowledge of his prime minister's thought.

Dennis are the partifians betrayed and I've taken it upon myself to tell you, sir.

You came in.

You came in as the iron champion of the English Protestant Constitution.

Now you intend to swamp us in Roman fripperys and Wafak 8.

I believe you'd be in the pain of the Pope. Get a grip, man, or I'll have you bowled into the street.

Or did you have me do a fight about all that can't be won?

I'm not a man.

Or did you have me do a fight about all that can't be won?

Bring down the government. Let in the opposition, in which case the Catholics will be admitted anyway.

This way we steal the opposition's clothes. Stay in power.

Am I God willing to you've come a long way down from the man who hacked his way across Europe through hell and damnation?

You know nothing about me, sir. I won my battles by knowing when to retreat.

I never tried to hold an indefensible position in my life.

Any damn fool can stand and be cut to pieces.

I hear the king dines with you tonight.

At least your information is more reliable than your opinion.

You're perhaps his nile.

His brother. That staunch Protestant that you could come with is with him now.

He cleanses his mind of your papish sophistries.

Impossible. Germany is under five feet of snow.

He set off ten days ago because of it.

And that is what your apagans denied.

I give you good days, sir.

We shall have trouble with the kings tonight.

Cumberland?

Yes.

That's what I was waiting to tell you.

There's something else, too.

What? No, no. It can wait. You have enough.

Come down. What is it?

Oh, it is pity in the extreme, but it has its effect on the thinking of the public.

This is a worth the sheet.

The frolicsome companion, but it deals in scandal.

In it, as I've elected peace by your nephew, Long Wellesley,

he says among other things that the long sisters,

to whom you gave charge of his children, have taken into service

to prostitutes as gabness as well.

One of the sisters is committing nences with their own uncle.

And the sisters themselves have a libidious relationship with each other.

I'm surprised he left out the sheep and the goats.

Well, fellas, you'll be a French novelist.

Arthur, there is more.

I spoke too soon.

Now, he further states that...

Now, the Harriet is your mistress.

And has been for many years.

It's a peel against my guardianship

of his children who come as forward soon.

As I feared, you'll say anything.

Use anyone to discredit me.

Charles, we mustn't let him spoil what you and Harriet and I have come to mean to each other.

No, I'm sorry. There's no question about that.

It's the effect on the minds of the public.

They're forgotten by the next issue.

When we shall learn the archbishop of York is a woman.

The word is already on the streets about Catholic emancipation.

They are saying, you'll let rich Irish Catholics into Parliament

but you won't give poor English Protestants the vote.

Arthur, you're not popular.

Popularity is for pugilists and jockeys.

I had three super-beautifuls, especially for the gay people.

Who is I was with Arthur Salamanca, you know?

Majesty, how exciting and dangerous.

Yes, was I who led the great cavalry charge.

It's not widely known since I was disguised as general Bucco at the time.

That's so out of that.

I've often heard your Majesty say so.

But you can't terrify the rebels you used to do the French.

Arthur, let's for terrifying them, Your Majesty.

I have no desire for it.

If they be law-breakers and scoundrels, I believe Mr. Peel and I have the answer.

Tell me.

Peel!

At the suggestion of his grace, Your Majesty, we are forming a force

somewhat like the military but not the military to police the country for the benefit of honest citizens.

Your Majesty will have full details in due course.

It's precisely what is needed.

This very weak eye was accosted by a cutper at the corner of Palmao.

You my coachman saved me.

I have seen your coachman.

I'm sure you've awarded him appropriately.

A formidable idea, Peel.

Anything we need, keep those damn Catholics quiet, Arthur.

I hardly see the necessity, Your Majesty.

Now that we are to emancipate them, we were wrong.

But that bow, my brother clearly demonstrated to me,

would be against my oath as a Protestant King.

I believed I had satisfied Your Majesty on that score.

My brother pointed out to me my duty.

It's worn by my coronation oath to uphold the Protestant faith.

The allowing Catholics to sit in Parliament would hardly undermine it.

Great hoax by little acorns grown.

Isn't that so?

You have given your word.

I was misled.

Is Your Majesty suggesting that I misled you?

No, not saying that.

I consulted many people.

I was of that number.

I have upheld the Protestant ascendancy more than any man in Parliament.

Yet my advice is the same as the Prime Minister.

I am not bound by any man's advice.

We are in danger of boring the ladies.

Fellows, more silver for His Majesty.

You are very kind.

Lord Prime Minister.

Turn your back on the Catholics now.

After accepting them, as you did in your speech from the throne,

you declare war on Ireland and not a proportion of England.

Do not expect me to fight it for you.

Arthur, you are my prop, my mainstay.

You cannot desert me now.

I've spent more of my life in war and killing the most men.

When people thought I was celebrating my triumphs, I was weeping.

Yes, weeping over casualty lists.

I tell you this.

If I could avoid by any means whatever, even one month of war for this country,

I'd sacrifice my life in order to do it.

What am I to do?

You tell me one thing, my brother tells me another.

Do nothing now.

It's late.

Go back to Windsor.

Mr. Peel and I will attend on your tomorrow,

where you put all the rights there.

Very well.

But I don't know how.

I fear the king is proving more difficult than Arthur Antisabeddi.

They say he left here a dorm.

Yes, I know.

I know.

I know.

I fear the king is proving more difficult than Arthur Antisabeddi.

They say he left here a dorm.

Pops, man!

Yes, sir!

Come on in, man.

Oh, God, he looks as if you didn't him on the way back from Windsor.

Yes, sir.

Oh, God, he looks as if you didn't him on the way back from Windsor.

I have resigned.

So is Peel, so will the whole cabinet.

Resigned, affent, a retreat to victory.

But how could that be?

The king was impossible.

He used his customary tactic of talking him term in the blare

about anything except the subject in hand.

I employed my usual tactic, letting him talk himself to a standstill.

Then I brought up the subject he could no longer avoid.

And?

Peel was magnificent.

I think I was tolerably persuasive.

The king turned us down.

We resigned and left.

But can you be so sure that the king won't accept your resignation?

Dear Harriet, he cannot do without us.

Who else can he turn to?

The opposition wigs?

He believes that be preparing a republican revolution within the month.

That is not true.

It's what the king believes that matters.

And for once, I'm unable to read his mind.

I must believe that he will surrender.

And if you're wrong?

And God help the country.

My special courier from his majesty, your grace.

My dear friend, as I found the country would be left without an administration,

I have decided to yield my opinion to you.

I am not a man.

I have decided to yield my opinion to you.

I have decided to yield my opinion to you.

I have decided to yield my opinion to you.

I have decided to yield my opinion to you.

Which is considered by the cabinet to be for the immediate interests of the country.

Let them proceed as proposed with their measure.

My dear, Arthur.

No script. God knows what pain it costs me to write these words.

George Rex.

You were right.

Another successful strategy.

Thank you, both.

And there's only one thing as sad as a battle lust.

And that's a battle one.

Nip, miss Arthur.

The measure already has a majority in the House of Commons.

All I have to do is to bring the Lords to heel.

And gain the approval of the people.

How much of the Pope's gold in your pocket?

Pay for his lucky to trade out!

Thank you, thank you!

Oh, you!

Oh, you!

This sound just like the House of Lords.

How is it, Charles?

When I became Prime Minister, I was the most popular man in England.

18 months later, I'm the most hated.

It's quite simple.

Your four Catholic emancipation and against voting reform.

How was it in the Lord?

Principally, Winshildsay, rowing as usual,

as though he was addressing a crow in a storm on Hampstead Heath.

Apparently, I'm the Antichrist.

He threatened something about pillorying me before the wider tribunal.

Whatever that may mean.

There's a new joke going the round that my policy is my Lords.

Tenton, write about face quick march.

Thank goodness the campaign of lies against your effects only the simple minded.

Unfortunately, they seem to be the majority of it, so becoming a damn nuisance.

More than that. It may affect the outcome of the bill.

You'll never hear a lot of words he doesn't help.

He's just published a supposed list of your lady-lubs.

Now they, too, Charles, tell me that.

Bishop Saul's bread. He's been active with his pen.

If he has Catholic emancipation, we'll undermine the established church.

He's a big idiot, very great weight.

Bagger the Bishop of Saul's bread.

My intention to carry my bill.

Arthur, have you seen the standard?

I make it a rule never to read newspapers.

You'll want to read this one.

There's a letter in it from Winchell, see, in which he publicly accuses you of lying in your speech, upholding the teaching of the Protestant faith at King's College.

He says that it is a blind behind which the noble Duke might more effectively carry on his insidious designs for the infringement of our liberties.

And the introduction of popery into every department of the state.

That's up to it. This must stop.

What are you going to do?

I need to call it up.

The Duke?

Come.

I can and I must. If I let this pass, I lose my honour. And all my influence in the country.

During the whole of your time in the army, you expressly for bad.

Dueling amongst your honour.

I'll be the one to do it.

I'll be the one to do it.

This is wrong.

Harding, I expect you to do it in my second.

Pray to deliver this personally. Then ask my doctor, Hume, to attend you tomorrow morning, about his ideals.

Bring him with him a case of pistols.

Who shall I say the duelist?

Simply persons of rank and consequence.

That is all.

Oh, that's a good point.

consequence. That is all.

I don't know, but I know the Duke and there's Miss Chief in his eye.

You realize that if you kill him, it will be the end of you.

I've always had it take a good general to know when to retreat.

He needs to know something else. When to make a stand.

I must come. These libels must stop.

People pay no regard. They have their effect. My character is under fire.

And if he dies? I seem to miss him.

Arthur, the God's sake, don't do that.

Well, the greatest general in the world is known and the worst shot in England.

Aim to miss him and you'll nail him through the heart.

Oh, you exaggerate.

What happened on your last fessant shoot at Lord Granville's?

You backed a gamekeeper, a beater, a village woman hanging out her washing,

and put nine pellets in Lord Granville's cheek.

Got a couple of fessant, though.

Besides, the bird shot never heard anyone.

It won't be bird shot. It will be a dueling pistol.

Come. We shall be late. Trot up.

There's Dr. Hume.

Your grace.

Good morning, Hume.

I dare say you didn't expect to see me.

Indeed, I did, your grace, and...

And be I say...

No, you may not. Got the pistols?

Certainly, your grace.

Where are the duses, is he?

Have please back down.

The fella may be a fool, but he's a gentleman.

What come?

Oh, he's a gentleman.

What come?

Harding?

Sit down.

Sit down, farmer.

I'm terribly sorry, Harding.

I coached him to put me by mistake.

That's the least of it.

I blame you for letting things reach this extremity.

Your windshield's his friend.

This madder could still be resolved even at this late hour we're here to apologize.

I have pleaded with him all the way from Mayfair. He will not.

Well, let us make ready.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

My lord, if you would allow me...

There's no need for you.

This is a desperate bad business here in to here, Windylce.

It might be less worrying if I could be sure of having a properly charged pistol...

...better have the doctor to do it.

I should be well enough in a minute.

Prime Minister? I'm blind.

Now that Harding looks sharp, step out the ground. I don't have time to waste.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

My lord, if you would care to position yourself here.

Damn it, don't stick him up so near the ditch. If I hit him he'll tumble in.

Perhaps here, my lord.

I would remind you gentlemen...

...that what you're about to do is against the law, against God's ordinance...

...and contrary to common sense.

Do you wish to reconsider?

Then gentlemen, I shall ask if you are ready.

Then give them a hand.

Then give them a hand.

Then gentlemen, I shall ask if you are ready.

Then give the word fire without any further signal or preparation.

Gentlemen, are you ready?

Fire!

Fire!

Fire!

Fire!

Fire!

Fire!

Having stood your fire, your grace, I feel free now to apologize for my letter...

...in which I now feel to have been ill-judged.

Regrets is accusations.

This won't do. This is no apology. Regrets is no apology.

Apologize as far?

Very well.

Good day, my lord. I'm interested to see you. Good day, my lord, farmers.

My nephew, Wells Lear, has lost his appeal.

My new children are enjoying the spring of Strathfield's safe with Kitty.

The emancipation bill is passed with thumping modalities in both lords and commons.

And for once I haven't got a damn cold in April.

There's no other man in England could have brought it off, are they?

When I think of the slaughterhouse the country could have been.

It was the duel that did it. Once a politician puts his life where his policy is,

it has the most powerful effect on public opinion.

I hear that his majesty is telling everyone that he wishes he'd fought the duel himself.

My dear Harriet, it's only a matter of time before he believes he did.

You're the most popular man in England to get, Arthur.

This week Charles.

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