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Queen Victoria

"How could any government be so cruel to the women and the babies
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The news reached Queen Victoria whose unhappiness with her Liberal Government may well have prompted her feelings against the proceedings and she demanded that their hard labour must be rescinded and the women given a free and complete pardon.  

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