The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-01-23 00:00:00

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sespeedeg the Character of Ow rises Speech.
with which, es the know of a few hours will ere us
certainty in the 'deceit' conjecture, we think it now
unnecessary• to trouble ou► residers. At the same
time the existence of such rumours snay be token
as en evidence to mark the extreme anajety ruler-
lained by the public to know upon whit topics the
Speech will turn, with what spirit it will treat

them, turd especially Imes she Minis►ers ;n prey
paring it, will contri►e to avoid with dexterity the
mention of some matters which we beer long seen
are uppermost in the 'albite mind—whieli we have
reason to know will rosistitete • imminent feature
in the Amendment, but which most of all subjrcts
be the loom uarausical to mini►terial vars. lit pars
!kolas we instance the very ungracious and harsh
manner in which the too Houses were dismissed
at the close of the last Session, and the neceovity
of enforcing economy and retrenchment in every
department of the State, to obviate the dangers that
must arise front finances finking yearly into deeper
and deeper entimrrassments.
We have indeed been assured that the Minister,
of the Crown, fully appreciating the ►trength of
public opi&uta, and conscious that it 'breathes a
spirit hostile to their system of policy, and espe-
cially to the lite proceedings ugsinst the QUEEN,
have resolved to tick' to the storm which they
cannot encounter, and to disclaim for the future
any further measures against leer 113AJes1T. The
Speech front the Throne will, it is 'Armed, be
couched in pacific langunge—and will, it is said,
even recommend the immediate coutideration of •
permanent presets for her M AJISTY. This suppoii-
tion receives *lute degree of confii-mation from the
circumstance of the QultEN's having commenced the
formation ofhir house hold, by nominating the Duke
of ROXBURGH, and Lord and Lady Hoots, to till
high offices within it. Should this statement prove
correct, the Ministers will only act in a manner similar
to their conduct on many former ()celeriac's, when,
osier.like, they bend before storms that would
shatter the nobler trees of the forest. It was this
elastic principle that saved them on the question of
the reduction of taxes by the abolition of the pro-
petty tax ; for when they were heateu ou that
point, instead of maintaining the consistency of their
own declarotimis, they not only quietly ucquiesced
in the decitiou of the House of Commons, but
they further undertook to repeal at the same
time the war malt duty, and withdrew the mi-
litary and naval estimate' for the purpose of
effecting some retrenchments. In the same twins
tier they bent before their opponents, and recog-
nised the error of oil their former opinions, by
acquiescing in time measure now in course of action
for restoring the metallic currency of the country.
There circumstances we merely notice as a few ex-
amides out of many of the convenient facility with
which the present Ministers can accommodate their
actions and principles to the course of event., they
have pursued it as • principle to regulate their ge-
neral conduct, and whatever the mutations may be
to which it necessarily leads them, it is not a para-
dox to say that this is perhaps the only instance in
which they can be said to acknowledge any princi-
ple whatever.
Should they en the present occasion so far ac-
knowledge the force of public opinion as to propose
terms of peace to the QUEEN, they will remove
front the public mind one pregnant source of angry
conflict. But they will not thereby deprive Par-
liament of the right to investigate all the former
proceedings against the Queen, their motives, and
the means of conducting them. This extensive
subject will of necessity require the instant atten-
tion of the House of Commons, where, be it retnem-
bered, the subject remains as yet comparatively
untouched. The order of proceedings in the House
of Commons will be the reverse of that in the
House of Lords : fur us in the Lords the Ministers
were the accusers, so in the Commons they will
stand at the bar to explain and justify their own
conduct. This subject will, even this night, form
the principal part of the discussions in both Houses.
From it alone has proceeded all the agitation that
the country has suffered, as to it must also be
referred the cruel charges of disaffection and sedi-
tion, which the fliaisters have endeavoured to
mike the. watch-words of their party, in the hope of
maintaioing or filling their ranks.

The Times of yesterday contains the following
letter, which it says was sent to a Iriend of the
Editor in the City, erroneously supposed to be one
of the hole-and-corner gentry,—