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TILE QUEEN—ceNtinUff. frt.% AP tlydrage.
her Majesty's contemplutiony that the King would cause official
notification to be made of her Majesty's legal character as Queen
to the government of such state. That eonststcntly, however.
with the reasons already stated. it must lest with the Sovereign
of such state what reception should be given to her Majesty in
that character.
fl a KinA's Servants were particularly anxious to impress upon
the queen's Law Officers the public grounds upon which this
principle rested. The gol,cral rule of foreign courts is, to re-
ceive only those w!.O arc rec,ived at home. The King could not
with pro, erty require any poiwt of foreign governments the re-
fusal of which would not ati,:al his Majesty just ground of re-
sentment or rcmonsttanc. It would be neither tel the King's
dignity, nor for the Queen's comfort, that she should be made
the subject of such a qucstion.
To this it rasa replied ter the Queen ; that with respect to this
new proposition on the port of the King's Servants, it should be
taken into immediate consideration; but her Majesty's Law
Ulficers obsetved, tliat her Majesty was nut in the situation
referred to in the above reasoning, having been habitually
received at Court is this country for many years. and having
cuased to go there Ihl4. out of regard for the peculiar
Jain:ate situation iu which the unfortutiate differences in the Royal
placed the late Queen.
The latter ob;erration was met, on the part of the King's Ser-
v outs, by e re-assertion of his Majesty's undoubted authority on
'hi'. point. whether as King or us Prince Regent, in the exercise
tk: the !loyal authority. that the Court held uy her late Majesty
v, a, in fain the Court of the Prince Regent, then acting is the
yuld on the behalf of his late Majesty ; and that the present
Queen, then Princess of Wales, was excluded from such Ccurt.
(Signed as before.)

ritorocor. or THE FIFTH CONFERENCE.
Foreign-office, June 19. 18'20.
The Protocols of the preceding conferences were read and
agreed upon.
Her Majesty's Law Officers stated, that the proposition of yes-
serday had bean submitted to her Majesty, and that it had not
produced any alteration in her Niajesty's senthnents. In order
to avoid any misintemetation of the expression used in men-
tioning their belief that her Majesty might overcome her reluc-
tance to go abroad, viz.. *• under all the circumstances of her
position, they stated, that they meant thereby the unhappy
domestic differences which created the difficulty of her Majc-ty
bJiding a Court, and the understood sense of Parliament, that
her Majesty's residence in this country might be attended with
pt.biie inconvenience.
They also protested generally in her Majesty's name against
being understood to propose or to desire any terms inconsistent
with the honour and dignity of the King, or any which her own
vindication did not seem to lender absolutely necessary.

MEMORANDUM.
The second and tnird points, as enumerated for discussion in
the Protocol of the first conference, were not brought into de.
bberation, in consequence of no sati,fitetery understanding having
taken place upon the points brought forward by her Majesty's
Law Officers.
The five Protocols were then respectively signed.

ON THE ARMY ESTIMATE&
WE have been precluded, by the prcsa of other
important matter, from offering any observations
upon the debate on the Army Estimates, which
took place in the House of Commons last week.—

It is, however, a subject of too great consequence to •
be passed over in silence. The increase of a stand-
ing army must at all times he viewed with dread
and alarm by every free nation; but the time at
which Ministers have thought fit to increase the mili-
tary force of this country 15,000 men, and the
reasons which they have given for such an increase,
are such fearful symptoms of approaching despotism,
that we should ill discharge our duty if we were to
pass them over. in silence. Viewed merely as a
alatter of expence, what are we to say to men who,
while they acknowledge a deficiency of at least 24
millions in the means of defraying the present ex-
pellees of the country, which deficiency is to be made
Lp by adding 12 millions to the debt, and taking 12
millions from the sinking fund, can add to our
buttliclis the expence of maintaining 15,000 addi-
tional soldiers? Is there a man breathing, possessed
(.f a grain of common sense, who does not see that
inevitable ruin must be the result of perseverance in
rich a stem ? Standing armies, and sedition ..11.1F,
retraltits on spcaking and on printing, arc
dreat:c.l;ly powerful thlugs, but their power is not
of that people to pay taxes. The
intercst of the deb.,, the sinecures, pensions, grants,
4:1.1 tine e:ipences of a thundering standing army,
may coaliiiiie to be made up by taxes, by loan; by
Exci.equer bills, ty robbing the :Milting fund, by
every specks of contrivance, to Cie latest possible
ream: et ; but the time, ?mat come, when the whole
" Lasekss fabric" of paper, amidst the war of pro-
jects, interests, anti pas:iions, will go to pieces like a
ship on the rock; 'lie increase of the standing
array has a direct and inevitable tendency to hasten
Lois time.

Bid viewed a 3 a matter of ne.:essity—aye, and a
necesjsy occasioned by the di:,conterit of the people;
for on this ground Lord Palmerston defended this
augmentation of our milititry force, we are compelled
to ask—is this flu end anti object. of a war of twenty
p.ar? After a peace of six years, at the milking of

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which we were told to sing and rejoice that Europe
was emancipated, and England rtwaided, is it
necessary to add to our standing army 15,000 men
to keep down discontent? And are we further to
be told that a House of Commons, in which only
fifty men could be ibund to vote against such an in-
crease, is an honest and fair representation of the
people? If such an army be indeed necessary to
the maintenance of tranquillity in this country, its
government must be bail. Circumstances have
lately arisen, which we apprehend will give our
Ministers some uneasy sensations while advocating
the increase of the army. Not long since a gang of
smugglers, in open day, attacked the prison at Do-
ver, and released some of their comrades. Now
Dover is a place well filled with soldiers, 'and to
" effect a breach in the prison walls" must have
been a work of some time. We dare not commit to
paper the inference which we draw from this fact,
which, after being once mentidned, was most care-
fully hushed up by all the London Papers. We
hinted, as far as we dared, 17st week at the mutiny
among the troops in the metropolis. On this sub-
ject, not one London Paper ventured to speak the
whole truth, but from the vehement assertions of the
London Courier, that "no political feeling was dis-
played by the mutineers," every body suspected that
the contrary was the fact, That a spirit of discon-
tent and mutiny did exist to such an extent in one
of the regiments of Guards, as to occasion its imme-
diate removal to a distant part of the kingdom, is,
however, certain. These facts, one would suppose,
are amply sufficient to inspire some doubt and hesi-
tation as to the policy of relying solely upon military
aid for the support of the present system. Again
and again we have protested against the madness of
resting for security upon the bayonet. Does Cor-
ruption suppose that the sons and the brothers of
the journeymen and labourers have none of the
feelings of nature left within them? She is deceived
if she does. In vain does she endeavour "to place
them out of the pale of the constitution." We know
this is the intent. We need only to look at the
barracks, the fortresses, the military academics, the
everlasting shifting of regiments from place to place,
the outlandish dresses—every thing spews that the
intention is to efface from the mind of the soldier all
citizenship, all the ties of blood and the claims of
friendship. The only security that Corruption looks
to is the army. As want and misery increase, their
remedy is—increase the army. The bayonet is the
ready and effectual answer to all prayers and peti-
tions. Let them beware. The bayonet is wielded
by the sons and brothers of the labouring classes:
those journeymen and those labourers, whose
fathers, sons, and brothers have fought the battles of
their country by sea and land, and out of whose toil
come more than four-fifths of those taxes which feed
the innumerable swarms of placemen, pensioners,
granters, fenders, spies, and informers. Let Cor.
ruption reflect upon this fact.