Star. — London, England, 1820-08-14 00:00:00

?. ' •. ~. - t THICIWENING STAR. LONDON. MONDAY, - AUGUST 14, 1820. THE FUND& P tICE Of STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK 3 per Cent. Reduced 68 7 4 S per Cent. Cons. 68 1 4 3i.per Cent. 77 1 4 14-4 per Cent. 87 5 per Cent. 103 102 7 / B —Long Ann. 18 1-16 India Bonds 25s.—Exch. Bills, 4s. ss. pre. Omnium 3/s dis.—Cons. for Acct. 68:Ys 1 /s 1/4 The grntiv's Letter bad some erect on the Funds this morning; the apprehension entertained for the consequences attending fhe approaching Trial, has caused several to sell out, and the alarm ia the country appears to be more general than in London, as the Powers transmitted for the sale of Stock, during the last th:ze or four days, have been immense. Consols commenced this morning at 68j, but the Market looked very heavy, and they soon fell to 68a ; they recovered to 68*, at which price they remained at one o'clock. • We" lay.this day before our Readers a copy of the Quazses Letter to the KING. It is a paper in the nature of a protest against the course of proceeding ahich•has been adapted towards her MAJESTY; and at it did not necessarily call for more than a simple acknowledgment of its having been received, we are not surprised that this is all that it has produced from hiis •MAJESTY. The Letter, in fact, has been written not for his MAJESTY alone„.but for the world; not for the world of the present day alone, but for all posterity. It is the protest of a suffering QUEEN, against a proceeding which is by all admitted to be unprecedented, and is, by her MAJESTY. denounced as such a violation of all law and justice, that it can form an example to be followed in future only by the worst of despots. We say not for ourselves how truly the case is so, for we know not that saying so might be deemed; we only record, as we are entitled to do, the plead. ings of one of the parties in a judicial proceeding, which must form one of the most important events in the history of the age. As the Times of this morning says most truly, it is the protest of " an almost despairing victim." Her MAJESTY, we regret to say, thinks she can see in all that is doing against her, nothing but rowza in arms to destroy her ; she professes scarce a hope that the feeble means she can oppose to that power can protect her from its ven geance ; but, with that fortitude of indignation of which no power can deprive the innocent, her MA JESTY is resolved, that if she must fall, it shall not be silently nor ingloriously. For her motto under pro secution she has taken, and will abide by it, that of the noble House of Stafford, " lbtt frangas non fkc tos.".—" You may break, but you cannot bend me." The contents of this document cannot fail to make a deep impression on the public mind. It is more than simply impressive ; it is affecting. The lan guage throughout is highly impassioned ; bnt not more so than will be excused in a woman and aQuzzar giving vent to her feelings, under a sense of grievous and umr.crited injury. If we might hazard a con jecture, it has been no lawyer's work ; it is in too glowing and too unmeasured a strain to have ema nated from the head cf any dealer in dialectics. I has, notwithstanding, abundance of good sound law in it—that sort of law which requires no book-ex- ploring to discover, but which every honest and weltregulated mind must recognize, as it were, instinctively. When her Manor-4;04.0s against the House of Lords as a Tribunal which' is incapable, under any circumstances, of judging fairly of her case, on ace count of his MAJESTY'S peculiar influence over the consciences of its Members, we certainly cannot go along with her ; for we can never forget that in the House of Lords we see the highest legal Tribunal in the country. and in its Members as honourable and upright a body of Nobles as exists in the world. As little has her MAJESTY our assent when she proceeds to demand a Trial by a Jury chosen indiscriminately from among the people With these parts of her MA• .rairrv's Protest, and perhaps with a few others of immaterial import, we do not agree in opinion ;. but there is a multitude of things besides in her MA JESTY S reasoning against the mode of proceeding by Bill of Pains and Penalties, to which it seems to us a.. impossible to refuse an honest assent, as to deny that there is such a thing as injustice on earth. Her MAASTY says that the KING, who is prosecutor in the proceeding, has it in his power to add to or take away from the number of the Jury (looking upon the House of Lords as such) at any, time he may think proper—even on the point of a verdict being given, when a majority of one may decide her fate! Is it right that any plaintiff should have such a power as that? Her MAJESTY says, moreover, or rather hints,, for on this .point she is more significant than explicit, that in the House of Commons, should the Bill ewer come there (the KING) the prosecutor's power is as great as over the House of Lords, since, to say no thing of Ministerial influence (of which, candidly speaking, we think nothing, in such a case as this, deserves to be said), his MAJarry has it in his -er, should he see the case going against him, favOur of her MAJESTY, to turn the Mem- 1 11 4 '• second Jury about their business, before a 4 • 4 sist been given, and that simply by the Witv x o -tative of proroguing Parliament 614 19 4 C -ight again, that any plaintiff .41.41 • i s > -Anosat-v. eso - 401%11" • . should have such, a power as dtat ? -ller says, in substance, what is t=oll wont. that siuPpos . both Houses to have give* ikeir 'detisioms against her, these decisions are nothing without the cpntrrn ing decision of the third and supreme power in the State; and that the individual invested u* this third power, is the prosecutor himself to gain alithat.Nrisand is hoped for by inetitntiltit these proceedings?, Is it, of all things, .right drat any plaintiff should have such a power as that"- the power of judging in his own cause? When such vice's as these appear in the course offroceeding adopted—vices so-fundamental and so irremediable— it is almost superfluous to dwell on minor excep tions. The reftrtal of a list of witnesses—.the refusal of any specification of the times when, and the places where, the alleged crime was committed—the im possibility of making any witness who may swear falsely against her responsible for his perjury to of fended justice—the character of the witnesses, and the modes and means taken to procure them—all these, though each circumstances of the greatest. weight, are as nothing when compared with those objections, which spew the party prosecuting to - be so insepara bly mixed up with the parties who are to judge...on the'case. • 1 6 The Times, which has been the first to give her MAJESTY'S Protest to the world, is the only one of our contemporaries whose opinion upon it we have as yet before us; it is an opinion coinciding with our own, and we doubt not, that with all the independent part of the Press, there will be but one opinion Oa. the subject. We subjoin from the Times as much id is matter of observation : " This composition is not more ithpressiet at the present boat than it will be memorable to future times. It is clear and snug —it is indignant and pathetic : there is no evil passion whisk k does not shame—there is no generous, er manly, or moral kora& which it does not rouse with animated and unadorned eloquent,. The illustrious Writer speaks home to every heart Walla she describes her unexampled wrongs ; while the reel chug width she offers against the intended aggravation of them deserves be deeply pondered by every thinking mind in the community. The' language throughout is of that nature which nothing but a sense of injured honour and ruined happiness could sug gest; it is the appeal of a lofty, bat wounded spirit, mingled with the alternate reproaches and supplications of en ales* despairing victim. " We are far froni saying that the liCaso is actuated by vindictive passion; but we do assert, that his Ministers are either wicked'or unwise, in having misdirected his M.maTT's zeal for the public prosperity, and having persuaded him (con trary, we doubt not, to his own wish) that it would be better . to divorce and destroy his wife, than to hear her complaints, and to relieve her sufferings." The IPHIGENIA frigate, Captain HYDE PARKER, is ordered to sea under sealed orders. 'The occasion was deemed io pressing, that orders were given to send her books (for the payment of the accounts) to London yesterday by express, and to be returned by the sale beaters. . _ Saturday, the Right Hon. STRATFORD CANDID% Ambassador to the States, and suite, arrived at Portsmouth from London, and in the evening em barked cm board and sailed in the SPARTAN frigate, Captain Vass, C.B. for Annapolis. The SPARTAN returns to England immediately, to be paid off, her three years of service being nearly expired. Yesterday Divine Service was performed at the ging': Palace in Pall-Mall, by the Rev. F. W. Bloat BERG and the Rev. Dr. STANTER CLARK& Saturday the Duke of Yoaz went to Oatlands, and returned to town in the evening. Yesterday their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of GLOUCESTER, Princesses AUGUSTA acrd SOPHIA, and the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, paid visits to his Royal Highness the Duke of YORK, at York House. Yesterday being the Duchess of CLARENCE'S Birth day, their Royalighnesses the Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE went to Busby to dinner, and returned to town in the evening. Saturday her Royal Highness the Princess AUGUSTA dined with the Duchess of GLOUCESTER, and after dinner their Royal Highnesses honoured Lady COS MORSE with a visit. Yesterday the Princess Aymara dined with the . Duchess of KENT, at hzr apartments in Kensington Palace. The disease of which the Duchess of YORE dsrwd was dropsy and a spasmodic affection of the cheat; The Duke of CAMBRIDGE sets out on his multi to the Continent to-morrow. Saturday, at five o'clock in the evening, a detail.' ment of the Foot Guards marched into thoParliatient House; at the same hour the Police-tender, generally stationed between Blackfriars and Westspiniter bridges, was unmoored, and removed up to k sta tion assigned her in front of Palace-yard. She will be occupied by the Thames Police, who are to be called into activity, in union with the rest of the Police of the Metropolis, during the proceedings against the QuzER. Three gun-boats will, it is re ported, be placed near her, as a guard to keep off all boats from approaching Cotton-garden without special permission. Sentinels were placed yesterday on the exterior of the Parliament House at three different points: at the door of the passage from Palace-yard to the Court of Common Pleas, at the door under the piazza leading to the stairs communicating with the long stone passage to the Houses of Lords and Commons, and a little more to the westward, at the entrance of Parliament-stairs, or passage to the river, on the side of Cotton-garden, the head-quarters of the foreign witnesses. DEPARTURES. Lady ?latency, to liarevrood Lodge. General Fitzroy, to Wanking. Mr. John Gent, M.P. for Christ Church, Hampshire. Mr. and alts. T. Carter, on a tour. Mr. Francis Barton, on a tour. Colonel Thomas and Lady ( Ft &eal, as a essr. Sir John Aubrey, But. for Home. Lord and Lady Henniker I tow. Sir Henry Eagle field , Bait. flit White IWO," Bettshko. Mr. Thomas Myers, on a tour. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Stanhope, on a tutu. Mr. W. Spenser Stanhope, for Yorkshire. Mr. John Vernon, for Buekhurst-hill, Berkshire. • Lientral Sir IL Browaria, on e tour. THE QUEEN'S LETTER TO THE KING. . - Stn—After the unparalleled and unprovoked per secution which, during ,st series of years, has been carried on against me, under the name and authority of your Majesty—and which persecution, instead of being riolli§ad by time, thnohas rendered only more and more4aligenat and unrelenting—it isoot with opt a great sulfite of private feeling that' I 'now;. ben in the way of remonstrance, bring nays& to ad dress this letter to your Majesty. But, bearing in mind that Royalty rests on the basis of public good ; that to thisfpuansount consideration all others ought to submit ; and - aware of the consequencetthat may result from the present unconstitutional, illegal. and hitherto unheard-of proceedings ;—with a mind thus impressed, I cannot refrain from laying my grievous wrongi once more before your Majesty, in the hope that the justice which your Majesty may, by evil minded Counsellors, be still disposed to refuse to the claims of a dutiful, faithful, and injured.wife, you may be induced to yield to considerations connected with the honour and dignity of your Crown, the sta bility of your Throne, the tranquillity of your domi nions, the happiness and safety of your just and loyal people, whose generous hearts revolt at oppression and -cruelty, and especially when perpetrated by a perversion and a mockery of the laws. ~, A sense of what is due to my character and sex *lids me to refer minutely to the real causes of our domestic separation, or to the numerous unmerited insults offered me previously to that- period; but, leaving to your Majesty to reconcile with the mar riage-vow the act of driving, by stub Means, a wife from beneath your roof, with an infant in her arms, your Majesty will permit me to remind you, that that stet was entirely your own ; that the separatios. Pis far from being sought for by me, was a lenience pro nounced upon roe, without any Cause asiigned, Germ than that of your own inclinations, which, as your Majesty was pleased to allege, were not under your controul. Not to have felt, with regard to- Miself, chagrisi at this decision of your Majesty, would. have argued great insensibility to the obligations of decorum; .ifot to have dropped a tear in the face of that be loved child, whose future sorrows were then but too easy to foresee, would have marked me as unwolthy of the name of mother ; but, to have submitted to it without repining would have indicated a con sciousness of demerit, or a wain of those feelings which belong to affronted and insulted female honour. The ." tranquil and comfortable society" tendered to . me by jour , Majesty, formed, in my mind, but a poor compensation for the grief occasioned by con sidering the wound given to public morals in the fatal example produced by the indulgence of your Majesty's inclinations; more especially when I con templated the disappointment of the nation, who had so munificently provided for our union, who had fondly cherished such pleasing hopes of happiness arising from that union, and who had hailed it with such affectionate and rapturous joy. But, alas! even tranquillity and comfort were too much for me to enjoy. Prom the very threshold of your Majesty's mansion the mother of your child was porsued by spies, conspirators, and traitors, em. played, encouraged, and rewarded to lay snares for the feet, and to'plot against the reputation and life, 'of her whom your Majesty had so recently and so solemnly vowed to honour, to love, and to cherish. .In withdrawing from the embraces of my parents, In giving my hapd to the son of George the Third and the Heir Apparent to the British Throne, no thing less than a voice from HEAVEN would have I made me fear injustice or wrong of any kind. What, awn, was my astonithnient at finding thin treasons against me had been carried on and matured, per juries against me had been methodized .and em bodied, a secret tribunal had been held, a trial o# My actions had taken place, and a decision had been made upon those actions, without my having been, infiknted ofthe nature of the charge, or ache names of the witnesses? and what words can express the 'feelings excited by the feet, that this proceeding was' founded en f reqoest made, and on evidence fur 'wished, by order of the father of my child, and my natural as well as legal guardian and protector ? Notwithstanding, however, the unprecedented con duct of that Tribunal—conduct which has since un- dergone, even in Parliament, severe and unanswered animadversions, and which has been also censured in minutes of the Privy Council—notwithstanding the secrecy of the proceedings of this Tribunal—notwith standing the strong temptation to the giving of false evidence against me before it—notwithstanding that there was no opportunity afforded me of rebutting that evidence—notwithstanding all these - circumstances, so decidedly favourable to my enemies—even this Secret Tribunal acquitted me of all crime, and thereby pro nounced my principal accusers to have been gui r! of the grossest perjury. But it was now (after the' trial was over) discovered, that the nature of the Tri bunal was such as to rtnder false swearing before it .not legally oinked, And thus, at the suggestion and request of your Majesty, bad bees created , to take 'cognizance of and try my conduct, a Tribunal com petent to administer oaths, coevetentio *maim witnesses on oath, competent to try; competent to acquit or condemn, and competent, arresver, to screen those Ids) had sworn falsely agaluit me, from suffering the; pains and penalties whids the law awards to stilful and corrupt perjury. Great as my indigos- :-, ~..~ tion naturally must have been at.this shameful evasi on of law and justice, that indignation was lost in pity for him who could lower his princely plumes to the dust by giving his countenance and favour to the most conspicuous of thosi abandoned and noto• rious perjurers. Still there was one whose upright mind nothing could warp, in whose breast injustice never found a place, whose hand was always ready to raise the un fortunate, and to rescue the oppressed. While that . 'good and gracious Father and Sovereign remained _filth/ exercise °ibis Royal functims,.his unoffending aughter-in-law had nothing to fear. As long as the protecting hand of your late ever-beloved and ever-lamented father was held over me, I was sate. But the melancholy event which deprived the nation of the active exertions of its virtuous King, bereft me of friend and protector, and of all hope of future tranquillity and safety. To calumniate your inn°. tent wife was now the shortest way to, Royal favour ; and to betray her was to lay the sure foundation of boundless riches and titles of honour. Before claims like these, talent, virtue, long services, your own personal friendships, your Royal engagements, pro mises, and pledges, written as well as verbal, melted into air. Your Cabinet was founded on this basis. You took to your councils amen, oftvhose persons, as well as whose principles, you had invariably expressed the strongest dislike. The interest of the nation, and even your own feelings, in all other respects, were sacrificed to the gratification of your desire to aggra vate my sufferings, and ensure my humiliation.. Ica took to your councils and your bosom men whom you hated, whose abandonment of, and whose rea diness to sacrifice me were their urn merits, and whose powec has been. exercised in a manner, and has been attended with consequences, worthy of its origin. From this unprincipled and unnatural union have sprung the manifold evils which this nation has now to: endure, and which present a mass of misery and ofdegiiidation, iceompanied with acts of tyranny and cruelty, rather flan twit seen which inflicted on his iedustriettcfaidiful, and Wee people, your Royal Father wooldhave perished at tinbead of that people. When to illiimniate, revile,' and betray me, be. came the sure path to honour and riches, it would have been strange indeed_if calumniators, revilers, and traitors, had not abounded. Your Court became mach less a scene of polished manners and refined intercourse than of low intrigue and scurrility,- Spies, Bacchanalian tale-hearers, and foul conspi rators, swarmed in those places which had before been the resort of sobriety, virtue, and honour. To enumerate all the various privations and mortifi cation: which I had to endure—all * insults that were wantonly heaped open me, from the:day of your elevation to,the Regency to that of my depar ture for the Continent.-would be to describe every species of personal offence that can be offered to, and every pain short of bodily violence that can be in flicted on, any human being. Bereft of_parent, bro ther, and father-in-law, and my husband for my deadliest foe ; seeing those who have promised me support, bought by rewards to he , amongst my ene mies ; restreined from avowing my foes in the face of the world, out of regard for the character of the father of my child, and from a desire to. prevent her happiness from being disturbed ; shunned from motives of selfishness by those who were my natural associates; living in obscurity while I ought to have been the centre of allothat was splendid ; thas hum bled, I had one consolation left—the love of my dear and only child. To permit me to enjoy this was too great an indul gence. To see my daughter ; to fold her in my arms ; to mingle my tears with her's ; to receive her cheering caresses, and to hear from her lips assurances of never-ceasing love ;—thus to be comforted, consoled, upheld, and blessed, was . too much to be allowed me. Eveyr on the slave mart the cries “Oh my mother, mf mother! fib ! my child, my child r tu r e pre vented a separation of the victims of avarice. Bat your advisers, more ;Amman than the slave-dealers, remorselessly tore the mother from the child. • Thus bereft of the society of my child, or reduced to the necessity of imbittering her life by struggles to preserve that society, I resolved on a temporary ab sence, in the hope that time might restore me to her in happier days. Those days, alas! were never to come. To mothers—and those mothers who have been suddenly bereft of the best and most affectionate and only daughters—it belongs to estimate my suf ferings and my wrongs. Such mothers will judge of my affliction upon hearing of the death of my child, and upon my calling to recollection the last look, the last words, and all the affecting circumstances of cur separtition. Such mothers will see the depth of my sorrows. Every being with a heart of humanity in its bosom, will drop a tear of sympathy with me.— And will not the world, then, learn with indignation, that this event, calculated to soften the hardest heart, was the signal for new conspiracies, and indefatiga-. efforts for the destruction of this afflicted mother? 'fferne Majesty had torn my child from me; you had deprived me of the power of being at hand to succour her; you had taken from me the possibility of bear ing of her last p'myersfor her mother ; you saw me bereft, forlorn, andbroken-hearted ; and this was the you chose for redoubling your persecutions. Let the world posy itsiodgmetit on the constituting of a Commission, in a foreign country. consisting of regal:icon, spies, and infotnsers, to discover, collect, and arrange matters of accusation against your wife. c ~~ ~L • • S 4 sa •A- 'A l'ai z ; re: • . . .c. - 1 a I .. I . .• i i ,3 : nig" 7 . 4 - .4 47 -. 41 • r 7.11 I ig •ta • ail • ar! - 40 If I a 4 I l %