[Trafalgar Square Riots, London, 1848.] Manuscript resolution of the Committee of the Public Order Memorial, the Marquis of Lansdowne in the Chair, regarding the abandonment of the scheme.

2pp., 4to. Bifolium. Written out in manuscript on lithographed letterhead headed 'Public Order Memorial'. Reads: 'Resolved | That after mature Consideration of the Circumstances which have occurred since the objects of the Committee were first promulgated, it is expedient that no further steps be taken in furtherance of the objects proposed, and that the Contributions already received of which Her Majesty and Members of the Royal Family have subscribed One Thousand Pounds be returned to the subscribers, the expenses incurred having been discharged by the Committee'. The aims of the Public Order Memorial were, according to one opponent ('E. S.' in The Times, 28 April 1848), 'to express our "deep gratitude to Almighty God" for the preservation of the realm from Anarchy'. Both John Stuart Mill and Thomas Carlyle mocked the scheme, which involved the building of a new London hospital. An advertisement in The Times, 18 May 1848, announced the abandonment of the 'proposed Public Order Memorial [...] chiefly on the ground of the impolicy of erecting another hospital for the service of the poor of London, while many of those already in existence are limited in their usefulness from want of means'.