The Sun. — London, England, 1820-06-26 00:00:00

WEEKLY RETROSPECT. To understand the business of the past week frilly, will require a three month's Retrospect, com tnencing with the Gazette relative to the Liturgy, and her Majesty's Remonstrance, which was an swered by the Note of the 15th of April, entrust ed to a learned Law Adviser to transmit, or, as he says, to be delivered pessonally to the Queen.--- That Note, -if sent by courier or by post, might hi.oe reached her Majesty, even at Pesaro, by the latter end of the month ; of course, what ever the Roy3l Wanderer did after the first wetk in May, must have been considered by the King and his Ministers as dune after the receipt of the Note, for that is a material point, and done in consequence of resolutions arising out of or et - inflected with it ; unless they also understood that the delivery of such a Note was to depend on the Late ettiviser•s convenience. Now this may have been a capital joke to oetwit Minister( ; and a laugh in the sleeve, as it is vulgarly teemed, way have been delightful to (hose who were iu the secret, especially whilst putting on silk gowns wilt the Note snug ie their pockets, (fur the,ur prise expressed by Ministers fully justifies • this.) But, as a great Lsw Adviser once said in a certain place, " Ministers are no Conjurors ;" and Con jerors they must have been to believe it possible that sech a Note, not wi'hatanding such learners assertions, should have been silently ret ained for two months, especially slier the Public Prints were ringing with accounts of a Royal tour from Pesaro to Lyons, from Lyons to Paris,.And from Paris to St. Omer's, Bet there may also have been a laugh even at an Illustrious, Female, tra- Yelling after an unanswered Remonstrance, while the Answer to it was. written ; and which, had she reetized it, might have p-rerented her journey entirely ! If, indeed, site had received the Note by courier or post, and acted upon it, she would, have declined the exercise of certain legs! rights ; for instance, she would not, perhaps, have ap pointed LAW Officers, nor created her two puny Barons, Lord Thistlewood and Lord Undetwoc.d, nor done many other strange things ; but. then the Country would have been quiet, and the Op position would not haze had an opportunity of of- faring their services,iu the first instance,in a certain quarter upon the rumour of Cabinet dissensions, and of a loss of Royal confidence, nor of standing forward in the second instance, as the defenders of / one, of whom it was said by a Leader, that f 4 if ball the stories he had beard about her M 4. jesty were true, she was unworthy to sit upon the British Throne." We should also have lost several curione sped nuns of special pleading and Lord Castlereagh 11/41u1C! hive lost more than ove cpportunity of display►ng a degree of political sagacity, and of gentlemanly coolness and presence of mind, that way have been equalled but. never surpassed, even though deriving an adventitious Charm from the contrast in other folk's conduct. But she came to St. Outer's, and there she met her Law adviser, and there she left him, but still the Note remained in the Dead Letter Office, and even atter her arrival, and until after a negocia tion was on the tapis ! It is unnecessary to recapitulate all that hap pened bet ween this and the extraordinary demand which took place respecting the Liturgy. Had that been granted, the nest demand, no doubt, would have been for a Coronation ; and to re ceive Half a Crown as Queen, would of course en able her to pay 61. Bd. as a Client—but of,this enough—as for Mutiny Bills, the eillargenient of the rule for Westminster's Glory, Etc.—we must permit them to pass down the stream of Time, unnoticed, retelling our neuters to the lead►ng Article, for the facts respecting the Commons' 'Address. SIM' NEWS. DEAL, JUNE 25.—derived, and sailed for the River, yesterday, the Cornwallis, Short, from the Cape of Good Hope. Sailed the whole of the out ward-bottnd. Poßrsstourn, JUNE. 25.—Sailed yesterday the Egfrid, Brown, for the Isle of France and Bengal. Sailed to•day his Majesty's skips Ilatlequib and Grecian on a cruise. FALMOVTii, JUNE 23.—Arriv,ed off this port tbe JaMes Sibbdid, Forbes, from London for Calcutta: On Thursday and Friday the Ist battalion 3d regimen( of Foor Guards, under the command of Licut.-Colonel W. Cotton, marched into Ports mouth gatrison for duty, from Inc metropolis. On Frit:av the Ist battalion of the Coldstream regiment of Guards at rived from Portsmouth at Windsor, to take the duty of the first battalion of the first regiment of Guards, whi 4 :h were ordered front Windsor when symptoms of insubordination were shewn by the first battalion of the tititd Guards. The detachment front the royal regiment. of Horse Guards that marched from Wind*or on the same occasioir, returned to the barracks at Windsor on Saturday morning. LONDON JOtiItNALS. FROM T 1.117. MORNING PAPIRS OF THIS DAY. [Morning Chronicle.] THE QUEEN. Our readers will see, without surprise, the answer of her Majesty to the Resolutions of the House of Commons, as pre sented to her on Saturday last. It followed, from the tenor of the negotiation, that she would abide by the declaration of being the sole arbitress of her own honour. What step the King's Ministers will take in their eresent dilemma, we shall not attempt to anticipate. Certain it is, that after the words of the Resolution, supported by 391 Members, in which Ministers were themselves incliaied, they cannot, in consistency, think of opening their bag of accusations: Rumour says, indeed, that the rustier is now to be pro secuted in the House of Lords by Bill. —ls it meant that a Pill is to be intioduced without opening the Bag? If so, it cannot be a Bill of Pains and Penalties, for that must be sup ported by evidence—but it may be a Bill fur a Diviiree upon Stateexpediency, and without zrounding it en any allegation miscohduct, but merely on the pretext of the Illustrious Per sonages having been so long separated by mutual consent. — The some delicacy that we have sea to observed, induces us still to abstain from all other comment on this course of pro ceeding, except that it is expressly contrary to the unaninion4 sense of the Cabinet, delivered to his Majesty on his Acces sion to the Throne, and for which they had nearly lost their places.—We l's leave, however, to say, that if, contrary to our expectations and o ur h o pes, the hag should b e o pen e d,and the`e‘iiirse of crimination he ',critter!, we shall be cveful that _details injurious to decorum shall staio the columos of this Paper. No parent shall have reason to dread the arproach of The Oloriting C'l,•oniile to the lireakfust table; fur it is not our practice, for the sake of selling a few athiltioual sheets, to cater for the appetite of the iornoral, or to catch ;it a little transient popularity by falling in with every :tn of passion that blows. [! ritish -Press.] The only point now for consideratiun is what course can, under the present cirennistances of the case, be pursued by Ministers. Lord Liverpool pledged himself in the House of Lords on Wednesday evening, that if no (adjustment were trade before Monday (this day) he should feel it his duty to prevent any further postponement of the investiption by the Secret Cammittee. But the Noble Earl was not possibly then aware that his colleagues us the House of Commons would, in their " humble Address" to the Queen, declare puhFcl and solemnly in the face of Parliament, the country, and the world, that the inquiry into her Majesty's couduat, which they had previously rceomasended to Parliament, would he " derogatory from the dignity of the Crown,_ and injurious to the hest interests of the Empire." By this Address the House of Commons has, if any regard be had to its own consistency, bound itself to " proceed no further in this business," and the Ministers of the Crown who are Members of that House have solemnly concurred in this decisions. In the mean time Earl Cifey has ; s iren notice of a mution on this subject, which stands for discussion this even icg in the House of Lords, when probably it will be his Lord ship's object to induce the House of Lords to acquiesce in this view of the subject with the House of Commens, , and record an equally decisive condemnation of those Ministers who could have given advice to their Sovereign so " derogatory from hi, dignity, and so injurious to the interests of the Empire." [Morning Poa.] It is our zalnful uty thi; day to announce the melancholy fart of het Majesty having refused to comply with the wishes of the greatest majority ot the House of C . oninrolas that has ever 011 any cccr6init ilistinguislitil its procredings.—lf our reflections upon this subject assume rather the shape of desultory remark than of consecutive ar4ument, it is he- cause the occasion presents too miny points to he systemati cally discussed at once ; and because we shall now, it seems irrevocably, have but too many opportunities of treating them at length separately. The Queen's rather ambigu ous answer to the Deputation f: - cat the House of Com mons, it is understood, throws her and her case upon the justice of the country. Since it most be so, " God send her a good deliverance." But !oohing at this question with the eye of sober reason—not as the partia any side, hut as the Los. r of Britain, there are core,idcrations of far dearer price than even a Queen's guilt or inooceece, force upon our minds. We know not why the affairs of tlrs Personage, high as she is, should be reckoned paramount to the weal of millions ; ne klarw not why public peace and order, why domestic tran quillity and comfort, why private. feeling and general safety, should all be sacri:iced on the unholy altar o f a di spu t e Which every human being stigmatises as at least diglisting, if not horrid—offensive, if not pestilential. It bas been de clared that party is the matinees of many 4r the advan tage of a few ; —in this instance, however, it seerus to have changed its character, for it is the madness of the multitude fitr the benefit of none. Under heavy imputations, the second series which have unhappily been attached to bar conduct, her Majesty has resolved to bring her condition to a crisis; and ra ther thal live shunned and despised, to make a last effort for fame,with the alternative before tier, of having that made cer tain which wassurmise, and that proven which - vas suspecte.l. After all, this is not so desperate a plunge as has been contend ed; nor is it a proof -of innocent-!. The Queen's state was as de plorably ignotninious,that reality could little aggravate its na ture. She was received no where, visited by no person of re spectability, a wanderer without honoured reception, and the centre of degraded association. How much -Worse could she be, eveu were the worst established against her ? [Morning Herald.] In the House on Saturday evening, Ministers were pressed b'ard to tell what course they proposed to recommend to the House this evening. Lord Castlereagh; however, was im movably silent, because any disclosure then would not only cause premature discussion, but would violate the under standin; upon the subject in the House on Friday. Another reason may be suggested for the Noble Lord's silence, with a great probability of truth—that he' really did not know at that moment what course his colleagues and himself should adopt. It is certain, however, that Ministers were prepared for the Queen's .Answer.—Mr. Wilberforce was apprised of her sentiments before he submitted his Resolutions. The meeting of Cabinet Councils has been frequent. On Saturday the Council sat at Lord Liverpool's from half-past nine to half past eleven o'clock. Yesterday there were two meetings— the one vt Lord Liverpool's, again, which continued sitting two hoots and a half, and a second at 24r. Ai bothnot's, as we understood, which lasted two hours. Some inconeruous reports were afloat, yesterday. Ooe was of a change of Ad.- ministration. But how is this credible' Can the Opposition effea sri adjUstinent where the Nlinisiers hart' ? )r will they Undertake to I rosecute an inquiry with more com plaisance, or more Parliamentary support than the Ministers. Yet have these rumours had an effect upon the money-mar ket;the spirit of which has been somewhat damped pending this unhappy business. Another rumour of yesterday was, that of a division in the Cabinet.itself,.not a iittleembarrai ing. But we leave all these to their own credibility and the judgment of the reader. The debate of this evening will materially tend to the denouement of this deplorable business. [New Times.] The Nation will learn with pairs, that the Queen has re jected the ►mediation of Parliament. She confesses that the Resolutions, which were carried by so immense a majority of the House of Commons, were couched in language not merely respectful to herself, but even affectionate; and yet The positively and unequivocally rejects the advice which they contain' The House earnestly begged to be spared the painful necessity of certain public dlscussious, but her Ma jesty will not spare the House nor the Country that pain.— She assumes the character of " an accused Queen," though the House has hitherto prevented, and still wishes to prevent any accusation whatever from being brought against her. This is certainly not the treatment which the House was entitled to expect front the sentiments ex pressed in her Majesty's first Message. She then said, "she relied with full confidence upon the integrity of the House of Commons." riot, however, was a Message sug gested, in all probability, by her Majesty's legal Advisers; this is dictated, she says, " by her f clings and her con science, and by them alone." We may conclude, that the present is the second' hazardous step which she has taken without, if nut contrary to the suggestims of her chief Parlia mentary and Profess:opal advocate, first in corning abruptly to England, and secondly, in setting at nought the opiniunsoi39l Members of Parliament. It is for the Htmourabie and Learned Gentleniaa, whose counsels arc thus disregarded, to . consider how long he will continue to obtrude them on a Personage, who (as The Morning CAronicle lately observed) seems much better qualified to give advice than to r,:ceitn, it. If Ministers, it is arguedy think that the dissussioos which must arise will be '' derogatory from the dignity of the Crown and injurious to the best interests of the Empire," why bring on stleh discussions at ail; why open the Pandora's hex which is to spread such plagues over the land ? The answer is very plain—because it would be mere derogatory from the dignity of the Crown, and more injurious to the best interests of the Empire, not to bring on the discussions, when mediation has been absolutely rejected on the other side. If both parties submit to mediation neither is considered as" shrinlring from inquiry;" the one does not admit, and the other does not retract ; but where one repels mediation, ttte other is forced to press forward inquiry, or to remain stigmatised with the mipntation of intended oppression and injustice. [The Tinrcs.] If we were before obliged to announce to the Nation that the affair of the King and Queen was increasing in interest, in what terms shall we now express its vast rmo ment, when the Address of the House of Commons has been presented to her Majesty, prayino• her for the sake of peace to remit a little of her just pretensions—to relax some what in the strict prosecution of her right ? And that player has been, we will not eat refused, but decFned; for surely a refusal was never before couched in loognage so respect fol. so delicate, so modest, and withal so firm. Such a de nial wears all the grace of concession, and will, we have (111 doubt, have a powerful effect in conciliating those who might have thought a different reply possible. It would be super fluous to Make many extracts here from a document, the whole of which will be folind elsewhere in the Journal. We would recommend, therefore, the whole 'to the attentive perusal. of. the public; but we cannot deny ourselves the pleasure of quoting one passage, as at once containing and justifying the motive for the refusal :—" It would ill be " come use to question the power of Parliament, or the " mode in which it may at any time be exercised ; but, " however strongly I may feel the necessity of submitting " to its authority, the question, whether I will nialie myself " a party to any measure proposed, must be decided by my " own• feelings and conscience, and by them alone." How jest—how trne—how proper: her Majesty may abide with patience and submission by the award of Parliament; but in the regulation of her own conduct she can only be guided by her own conscience. Providence has not given to her, as to others, an inward monitor, and at the same enjoined her to neglect its dictates, and net according to the mo tives and principles of other people. For our own parts we never doubted what her Majesty's answer most be; for how could she remit any thing on the swgestion cf any body while the request was accompanied by a me nace most injurious to. her honour—While the (.teen Bag, which it was said would overwhelm her with shame, was still suffered to retain its position ; and her enemies still east tneit eyes and pointed their fingers to it, as a weapon of offence, as an instrument for extorting concession ?. The first step should certainly have been the removal of the Bag from the table'of the House; for, while it was suffered to be there, who can tell that it would have been used only on une,cceasi?n ? Her Majesty could have conceded nothing witlvout ss.tirirctjug herL self Co the odious impotation of ao:ng wider terror; and suppose she had it: the first instanceraiinwed of the erasure of her name from the Liturgy, the Green Bag would have still remained on the table of the Honse, - after the coneession. The next demand might have been to give nN the title of Queen, under the same implied threat of opening the Green Bag.— Her Majesty the Queen of England might have been in the same situation as those timid-people who sraTT theraelves to be robbed of their last shilling from the dreid ssf some horrible accusation with which an impostor threatens them.- 7 But how different and how magnanimous has been the Conduct of her Majesty ! To the coosciousness ur innocence she has united the courage to defend it; arid tier sagacity informed her, that the easiest refusal was tire first. Couttrs OF LAW.—This rnornitu the CHIEF JUSTICE Of the King's Bench held ittinr.s at the Guildhall of the City of stilvstiniustdr, the Cntirt of Exchequer being occupied by the regular hn-i -tress of the Court. There Alas, however, but,orie cause tried; the Chief Baron being obliged to at tend the House of Lords et an early hour. IVIIDDLESRX SaskioNs.—Thismorning ;he busi ness of these Sessions commenced beinr.! UR , iSCIN CON9T, Esq. and a full Bench of Magisttates. After the Grand end Petty Juries had been Sw Q rn, ;be Court proceeded to dispose of the cases in the Traverse Paper, consisting of assaults, -&c. none of wLich, flowerer, were of atry poWic inten:st: T,l-1 EATit t C EGis 1 , , R. Pr...rfnrin 4;f/tit/lily . THEATRE KOYA!,; Tiwe), „ A Itizzio, Mr. Brahaok ; Mart Queeil of Mrs. After which, Givvaimi io - London. TnEicrak:ll.oyAT,, Ci)vENT-Gmtpa:.—lieuri Quatre Mr. Macready; 0'1)onnel, Mr. John 111 , 4 Saint Leon, Miss Stephens ; Clatilde de ISirun,, ton ; Miss-M. After '4 We° Day; to which was added, Too late for Dinner. ERRATUAT.--111 the AdvertiAetuent, on Saturday, I ' 6 A the Alf Airs of the late Jori GIFFORD, Esq. read Lodges" &c. PRICE OF STOCKM 'ruts DAY AT ONE 0 CI.t.CK. • 1 1 3 per Cent, Red. j Exch. Bills, 2d.... • 15 ' 3i per Cent. -761 I Ditto Small ....... • ••*,,i 4 per Cents titih tiG Ditto Commercial 5 , 1 ' 5 per Cent. Scrip. .„ ()anthill) •' • • Bank - Long Ann. 17 13.161.1 is Cons. for Account .69l • •, India Bends .... 15s. 10s. pt. I MAILS. Dublin,c7. Wa l erforti, 1 France, t F 1 31 4 ,1 Dug—l Waterford, i Holland, Guttenburg,ll, 1 I'L s " I I-Nati-oil-oi. WATEIt AT Lc):, , ,i)oN ball)GE To-moitit Morning, '2 ininutts,aftur 3.—=Evening, 21 minutes 3: THE SUN. aIObE:NI QUIS DICERC FALSLINI At3DEAr ? LONDON, 16IONDint, JUNE 26, 1820. ~.~ We received ysterday the 1'36, l'epers of lr day last. .'Those of -frithy, •whi.:ti were (1 06 rooming, have not arrived. Theehatnber of vete to naget on - the foriu.:r div receite report of -the Cotntni!tee on the Lieeliot4 The Chi“nbee or Depoties •were. again °cell on Weduesday with the trisettsion cat the 13 114 which was further 3dir),tirtlekl TliurfZty•- The KING tr,3tiSac:ed huSitieSS 011 Wed ( le9' with the 1)::ke deßtcneunu. I«ines not eri i that his - MAJESTY ever leavt's P4lnce, or vi quits his oparttnents, though the jouffia',6 d °l announce Ilia) to b indisposed. . , at OUD:':;o7, Duke de Reggip, i 9 eci to return to Park al.out be of A 4 The Duke DECAZES arrived et- ?ark to) 141 nesday ()u idq, it is starttl KING. WOUid delivei to him his cred t mfiels, Saturday the Oahe was to Ett OUT for Loti( 10 It is said io the dr ! ateracti dg Paris, vo tios Nantes .I:.ttt-tyal of the ;3t h, that on the vree edj evening an %%le, quiet in the latter of workmen nre statc(l t ° emploved on the 'fortifications of Vurthin, is to become an it place Nu tLe sic` The marriage nt•the Cra!)4l Duke CoNsT.II4, teak place on the `24th o!t. rt Warssw ; 1) 1.5 IT. '' sort io take ti)e tide cat Priocct3 t ie liatuc.V which is tier faini;y It Pl4s lately tilefi' ioned, that the Emret' i ' RUSSIA had ad . dreSSed a Derktrkoion tU t he ll ' rent Courts Of Eut ope reqiecting t r e 4, events in Spain. 1),t1 article front St flch110;11);) the 2(1 instant, states, that this Declaralia% / P been hroaght to that Court by Cvtain sati sP li fi who immediately set out on the like nits s i' vf y Copenhagen. It is added, that other C(P' l. ,y with a similar toms teat beets sent 1() )0 11 1 lin, Paris, and Vienna. r. , Zot a single lout , ever, is given as to the contents of this Pr lf e The accou.nts from Hanover in these For r peat with. more confidence a report 'recently mentioned, that our SOVEREIGS °i fd to proceed thither before the end of the Y e4n the plirpose of being etowned King of 1 - 1 , ° ° ) '0 11 It is added, 'that the Pal4ce of iltrranbil"'itt , ' been tepidly fitted op for his 17(1A JESTy IC S FIVE PER CENTS. - Wetine4day • 7G f. s 5 DnFZIZEED STOCK Cf the 22d Maro11, EXCHANGE ON LONDQN. One Mon!h hree Months 1 3Qtt New York Papers to the Ist June, 30 d. to the 2(1 June, arrived this morning :--' {Front the Nea.,.;i:ial:l ) .;:pc; - if,' vf; , g- 7 c . By 'the Colilf111111k:tion of our Booc o ' o f, t - poudent, dispatches f the .Gove oll4- e f Spain may be hourly expected by a MO O" board the British packet ( - From the Boston Papernjthe. iv' jiaz e " ). , 4 1" , F RoM LIM tie Sovati,„at rive`' ltri port y( -- atetday, !titers from Valparaiso to py t C 4 E tver.e rec . ei e . lunysuppw.,ed that SA MAVTIN Will sofin be at 6 , inibig o, 10 . c l' the expedition against Peru will soon be.r° :here is, however, so much said, B oa 6fr :4 11 done, about this expedition, that v.e what to think of it. • d r FROM BO IS NOS AY R ES. —Til f: bri tr. fi rerSt i ll 6 d arrived here ; reports, th a t t he NO / I ,e lr .i yre.! Gov'ernment wes fully organized u riu- , ad 1 1 Supreme Direction of CAREER°, 81111 IP -i hii , of e AETIGAS Lad established • peace on the 01(-1. of the river. , 0 ° so ,r,„ Am7.,,c,t,_cu,,AcoA, I" ri 2 c .9' erench sc!oolter . :l:Tmlin, c lots tr° lll J‘ .o ll `l (ha, pit; into this port yesterday, bra g` °c‘ 0 •01 )° , that Si. Margin s;;11 rerpaios ill the D oss e t 1 7° r, 1 , tl d that they have atade bra d • •C . a