The National Register. — London, England, 1814-06-05 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. - innocence there, and yet they never were received at Court ; but if th.. je, nu ara6le Gentleman pride opan the opntion of the King Ili :he path of the Princess's condaet, a :illorleci to in the Report of the Council, he might fiad !Unita If No investigation most mistaken; but tl C 111 1 1 re was the more irritation was produced. He did not wish to withdraw from itstainattolita, but the question the House was called upon to inteife e in aas a ques tion o• etsqu ate. Will ti•e flame call upon i:egtot to resciad his Res-it:thin ? This oii‘do a• well be called upon to iutt•rl a on account of tae separation. Tie, pre:.eot case is ene tat- mare Court eti quette, aris:: ..: from eitonastatices distiuct from guilt. No gt:i!t is charged ; far what the liono•irnble (ienth man 'aid 1, V'le ; It ll were su site woui uot t,e ;ter witted to see her danahter. 'the Parliament eammt Kith proyriety intetkre ; he CA, upon the House to stop it in the begin.tin 4 —he does 119 t COlll hut it is so. The main queAinn c. ii th e noose interfer e w'th ,, in the greatest . Let to a:I LIIC par tie, •:,,everned. lie cm:chided by opposing the motion Mr. WHITBREAD —Ti.'; tiptCCII the Right Hon. Gentlentim in &leiter of the advice he has given. has been lika the advice itselt --special minute w.iyeitee—asstuniog a r.glit -a tight to exeltale, and acting as it he ',ttte rviu' lOUS the party ad% ised HE: no such tight. Sir, I V! .ietant that a great indignity, a harsh oisoaice, a cruel alai umnerittal instils:mu:aft has been Inflicted on an i•ainceitt person, tan a subject 11! . the Cr sw!l—w-fro was by that grown pro tected a:. lona a; it had moral ate; atetaidlife and energy to pretcel !terse At one time the .Pi,,ht !lon. Genii& nian shrunk front the con test—he divested himself 01 ail I osponathility —he was wham. d of hi' own act and deed —oi toe advi:p reign :Id Cron n , le ft by hint•to trample olio., 46,1 r ltbiect • to gri,tify its own tioadvised and moronfronted vitutiative iesentnolits. Yet at the cmd of hi* areela lie lets uc kuow ;oat the siov..reian Power did not act fur itself. That tin re were advise name them, could airy them np if The !loose st• on al call npi. ti him so to do Let them tome forth! Ile has treateu tt.i• a. being (tidy au cia./usiou front .11) s for, bat a pasitt% C x elusion, the ad% isers dared nu'. warrant—that v....is It rota editia too maul. It tiers attiont to IPC 1111'.00!I 4 01'n, r',o - of that Monarch, w ho, v<hru the King had I :it! r ties, bad conuo ,ekil her to rec. lye the Pitney- , ot 1% .14‘ •t! her Court, as the st Athol of her entire innoocnee- of her c.,in;.lett. ac• quittal. This reei-ption coots unit till the hint's itali-pusitien; and then the itettent was advised to employ the Qui ea, his mother, its hani,li tl:c Ptincess of Wait.. front Coml. Could the; advi et! have been risked had. the Kissg mentally exiatedi—Olt, No ! Ili snotild have thought that Cientietoau awl his colleagues %vould have beta eager in their advice to conciliate and to calm : to proclaim the innocence they had su oltett declaiell--bait the •c is the case. The flight lion. Gentitoao, as he koovis the King cannot contradict him. has ventored to throw out au insinuation, as if, in the assertion made of the complt te approbation, the alit eii.aeate attachment of the King, was nut well grounded. The cannot speak—and lie quotes the King, to wound through his side the Prins vest; of Wale's. TiliS isuf a piece with the whole of their p:creeett lugs. I will not repeat what a Noble Lord, who, be it etnemlua ad, is nut a party to this advice, said on a fainter di bite on this subje u r nor the testim o ny giveui by tali, of the Prnice--'s claim innocence. maintain the King thought her so, and the Prineesa is ru Caavincvd Ile proved he thought ho by his kinduess and cordial recuption. NVlteti the King etas well no nom w mild have dared to deny it Right Gentle:nan durst net have done it ; butt it lie ques tions the right of the Pt inco.i a Wales to appear where the hiog placed her, it is to be hoped that she will, notwithstanding the moderation she has evinced, accept the advice, to appear at Court, and then let us see who will advise that admittance be refused to her. As to stirring the question---I ask who has stirred it it the person who vinsleates her own innocence from unjust and foul avulsions ?—Who follows tha example set her by the Prima! He gent himself, in publishing to the iiorlti that affected honour and eharietcr; or is it those ult . () directed this cruel oetrage, this un provoked indignity, that has occasioned this affunt? —Has she coin elained tit it tier near relati•als have been prevented from visiting her—that it has been intimate I to all, that to visit her was to ex clude than front the Court ?-- a -tu all the injuries she UP patiently horoe, site has submitted in silence'. Where does the burden test of agitating tbe question ?—Upoif those who have plan. teal and advised this foul indignity and injustice. The }light }lmmutable Gentleman h a s (rioted precedent from history most erroneously : has taiked of ()oven Anne having been foe bidtien the Court by Queen Mary—tile tart is not so: King William, no tied at some step taken about the seal( went of her revenue, forbad the Countess of Marlborough (who was supposed to be her advicet) to come to Court. Theo• vita hue tro imputation on character----no 359 charge of erime—eto inseetatien of thrive refuted Suitt: but the Princess Anne, resettling her favorite being fnett t.l, 'n the Court, declieed appearing there herself ti o. Next as to the cases of George I. and 11.. in both eases the weaz id sp a e i t s • o ifi t e v . lia L t f a i d a v r i rli s ek o e f has lett an account of the latter ease, the the Crown thee did, and what teas the ()posher of each. He suit himse.t, while advking coeciliatory measures, all this may is brought before Parliament ; but now the Ministers will tell n ot hi ng . Leta! Hardwieke says, Pariament may call for these papers ; tact the Right Hon. Geetlemau says, that Parliament shalt not hear rate word—you shall hear nothing from us. George the Second direct:at the publication of all the papers that lied passel between' his sou and hinisell, and circulated them among the ForeLn Ministers, that all the world might know the grounds on which he had acted. So (Lth.rent t:om the winianiy Ministers of the preseht (14, who devise schemes to attoek thousand ways, and Contijye ten th o u. sand obstacles to her defence. But the Right Hoe. Gentleineta talks of this as being only an exclusion front a COMHIOII aMenilAy. Is it then nothing that her nephews—tied her future son in law, tht ince of Orange, who has so announced Ilium If to her—her near relation, tit King of Prussia—the Emperoruf Russia—the itemot tae Blucher ; the companion of her father in arms—as it nothing that they should remark the absence of the Princess of Wales, and to he told it is for reasons undefined, nod of millets the Regent alone continee- the judge? Sir, under :he circumstances of her battalion, soeli infliction is worse than loss of life--it is loss et reputatien. Blasting to her character. lathi to her tame. But this thing we Near to day—nu man now dares to say she is guilty. All the. chinos, says the Ilan. Geittlemicn were istibly upset.—lt is ..ur Chit, to extc tel our v levy tOstite w h o's object— to' bark at it in all points b f view to miiich it roaches. I ash would the King have cote:caned that i'ye mar f iage of the Princes , . Charlotte of Wales should have taken pl ;re ici private—to love oven smuggled ins corner? - That clod whieit is to bring a thousaad blessings upon this country, to be etlehrated in a clatter? Shall we consent thee that it'should be so perhamed No, the Parliament wilt, and all the Nation will. tali that thus nen tine shwa be public, atid that the Prii•cess of %Vides 4,1.41 l be • t hes —the s t a t e b ecom i ng her rank axial statiou.— ;:s to ;r1 t Vela which sooner or later must liappee.....j moan tr c dean•t of lite Crov.at- is the nieces. , et' flak:, to be crowned? She mist lie eroweed. Who doubts it? Oi le hears it whispered abroad, a cotomillon is nut necessary. 1. believe it is. Will the Right lieu. GellthlloBllsay it is nut? He dares hot say so, crowned she must he, itnltsts there be sonic dark base plot at win 'a, some Hack act yet to do, unless the Parlianient cmisciit humid er to be made a patty to sonic newt ions transaction. lilt is their int4:110011 to try the (intermit of divorce; let the speak out it' such their meaning be. These proceedings materiaiiy effect the succession of the Crown. Where is the limit to the inquiries after forme' transactions, these searchers atter trial and acquittal? Yet; toter all the seem!), what have they friend? Nothing, but what the Right Honourable Gentleman terms an irresistible refit tally') of all accissation. Where are these accusation& to atop ? They may impeach the' legitimacy of the Heiress of the Croats, now to be ')ailed to the Prince of Orange. Now it is time for this House to interfere. Let better counsel be given to the Regent, anti undo what has passed : people do this every day ; it is the tri tette paid by fiery passions to conviction and returnieg reason. Sir It. Wa!pole pride.] himself iii the•reconciliation he of retechbetweee George the Fit st and the then Prince of Wales ;.that was conci liating Minister did tLis; happy would it be if oar Ministers would follow his. example. One would have thought, if ever 'there was a period when it was an object to represent the Royal. Family as milted, this was now .fieat t eriod. The people maintain that Fa mily mat only fhr state and strew, but-for their examples of moral and domestic virtues; what. the King. so unifointly shewed, and what have endeared hitre to his people more Wars any other stances of hi 3 reign. Let it Dot then be said, that the Emperor of Russia finds no person whom the law does nut protect, wire is ex posed to outrage and insult ; and that person -is iiite wife of the Prince Regent ; that for one subject of the Crowo tittle is uo dse.s. Now, Sir, it' the Right Honourable °cuticulae has net a doubt of the Princess of Waves having a right to appcar at Coo: the use of which she has consented at present to wave. I have oely to add, that it' she tiads no protection in this House, the last refuge of the destitute and oppressed, it is to be hoped she will he fel vi-ei to as'ert her sight, and, however reluceently, to dare the advisers et the Regent directly to execute their intenflous• Mr. S. IVortlt v, Mr. Ponsonbe, err. Elliott, and Mr. V fc!l compelled to vote against the Motion, though tiny did approve of the exeinsoni of the Princess Irons the drawing 3ar. Tierney wisho t,he suirject not 41 be preaeed now, iu th ' 4 - Vvenc, nut all ; room. le hope • alk .11'NE .5.