Tuesday Novr. 11th.

This day the Parliament met for the first Time; the Prince of Wales1 took his seat in the House of Peers, as duke of Cornwall, the King also made his most gracious speech from the Throne: All the Peers were in their Robes which are scarlet and white; the Kings, and the Prince of Wales’s were of purple velvet.

1. George Augustus Frederick (1762–1830), Prince Regent, 1811–1820, and afterward King George IV.

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Source Project: Adams Papers
Title: Tuesday Novr. 11th.
Author: Adams, John Quincy
Date: 11 November 1783

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Cite as: “Tuesday Novr. 11th.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-01-02-0005-0012-0010. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Diary of John Quincy Adams, vol. 1, November 1779 – March 1786, ed. Robert J. Taylor and Marc Friedlaender. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981, pp. 202–203.]