The National Register.
London, England, 1820-11-05 00:00:00

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AHE QUEEN'S TRIAL.
• We await pith an anxiety which no leaguep
can describe, the issue of the present proceedings ii
the Lords, It will point out to the public the do.
gree of confidence it would be prudent on sbuh
part to place hereafter on the deliberations of Ant
Musa: The Queen's innocence is fully estelibbedi
end nine-tenths of the pubite; Wettest; all the atst:
tue and independence of the country, lieu perfectly

satisfied with the defence she has made. They
soareover consider her as a grossly injured woman,
possessing qualities of mind and heart, which enti-
tled her to expect a life of happiness instead of suffer-
ing; and whose peace of mind has been sacrificed at
the shrine of private caprice, or on the altar of po.

litical treachery.
The idea of her long and unmerited wrongs, added
to the deep conviction of her innocence have not only
excited in her behalf an unparalleled share of sym-
pathy, but have made her cause that of the nation
at large. If the Bill were unfortunately to pass, it
would leave an indelible impression on th 6 public
mind, that innocence has no security in the
present practice of the Const&tution, if it happen
to give umbrage to the Crown. It would also
be regarded as a deliberate insult to the great
body of the people, -as a defiance -flung arthem, and
a sort of manifesto, preparatory to the hostilities

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Will the answered, of the oeuntry, with the vast
stake they have in is, isairy-of them descended from
the great men who manta the glorious scheme of
English liberty, and eqnstleently counting public
spirit amongst their hereditary honours—will they,
we say, suffer so detestable a Bill to pew their
House, and this Atom that they hare sot inherited
a 14041 virtue v *Air:7 of their .mnestoiro P
Will they at the Sig tamed their fad• with
that of Ministry, wise &we undertaken to manage
this odious prosecution, in-opposition to their better
judgment, and who have *l.ngered the monarchy
to gratify the Monarch. Will they also be guilty
of the base crime to make *twelves a party to the
ruin of an illustrious females against whom every
proof of guilt has failed,
.04 .whose indiscretions,
if any, are to be ' neglect of her hus-
band., and to the truths* , former friends.—
If they will evince &ire.** of all divine and
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human obligations, theyel * eot ezpress any sur-
prise should their depeadiedifilisplay the same inde-
pendence. The safety order State is evidently in
their hands at this moseattiend woe so them, when
they Link from the petnidnilitetkot of Noblemen and
hereditary legislators, to * areeching posture of
courtiers; Should they' At:grade the Queen,
what security would the+ Aare for their own
honours? Are they held hi a better title? and
would a profligate Meitner feel more remorse in
tearing off a coronet "7
jerowu? •
The forgiving -ben suggested
by a sincere wish to - ' astehlisised farm of
pv:Sd
Government; which, "Tiding the many and
gross abuses that have Won uced into it of late
years, we do not wish to r ern urned and which
thirirt
we are willing, even at of our lives, to up-
hold, es long as it respects:sties la As by which our
persons and preperty ere' ..0 But the first and
most sacred duty of a ruilleenie to see that his own
rights, and those of his fhliiiinabjects, are protected
from violence. His atteehteint to the Government
is founded upon that principal. and no other; and
to love it, after it has bewltsinvicted of an attempt
to violate those securities, hnpos.sible; and, to
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obey it, becomes a question ezpediency, and not
'of morals. However, lei Plash any individual,
contrary to law and establiebliti practice, is a crime
against the whole body et the people ; and every
one is bound to resist it, as *tech as if the violence
were committed on himsolt 'swot constitutes the
essence of political liberty. bot the utter irnpowibi-
lity on the part of the Gemenment to iatlict the
slightest punishment on the meanest individual
without the sanction of lent If it could but once,
at its own discretion, meal*, -however bligLtly,
in his person or property, it would by degrees at
lust make death or confiscation the penalty of hav-
ing provoktd its dibpltasurm
illegally in any instance, it Js Iti fact despotic; and
the law, when the Crown 1 the prosecuting party,
is a shield for oppression, and the name and forms of
liberty serve as a covet to plusier the people. The
more elevated the rank of the person, thus sacri-
ficed to the violence of power. the more reason the
ratt)lic have to be alarmed j and it must strihe the
i:uliect capacity, that if the /Queen could be tie-
gr:tle.l on such evidence as has been produced at the
bar of this Hoiise of Lords, there will be an and to
61)y:o.11 coutroul over the. Csown, and cur vaunt,d
Constitot:on would be a deu,l letter, or rill::Cr a
1.111,..!1CC.
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1:o 1,.,0i11c cnillt subunit to such an outraft,
and repase quietly, altos OM violent struggWt,
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under the deadly shade of tyranny. It is probable
that the prosecutors of the Queen think they would,
but in that case they have none of the old English
spirit left; and this country, so famed for arms and
policy, would soon become the sink of Europe, as
infamous for its vices and poverty, as it was ON.
Slowly distingaiahel for its public virtue and national
wealth. Bet the authors of this detestable Bill,
probably, undee.rate the energies of the natiotr; and
if they do, woe to them, should they persevere..
However, they would have to blame themselves for
all the consequences, and let them reflect, that as
they have wantonly cast the first flaming torch
into the bosom of the country, they would be alone
answerable, should a general couflagrtion ensue.
It is still in their power to prevent it ; and are they
so infatuated as to hesitate; or have they the wild
presumption to think, that having • once set full
to the inflummtble materials with which this
country abounds, they could extinguish it ut plea..
sure. The people are not so very thriving in their
circumstances, and so contented, with the mode of
administering the national all:lira, that they may be
irritated, and again soothei at the will of their
rulers. On the contrary they feel sore, almost
desperate, in consequence of the general and rapid
*say of trade, as well as from a strong and growing
11111 i viction that the loss they have sustained in their
private afrtirs, proceeds entirely from the mismanage-
ment of the public affairs. Would it be wise or safe
to play with such feelings ? And would it not be et
unexampled instance of political levity, or rather
brutality to invade the most sacred rights of the
people,after having incredibly straitened their means
of subsistence and pinioned their industry ? The de..
padation of the Queen, upon such proofs, or rather
want dell proof, as have marked her trial, would to
as daring en assumption of illegal power as was ever
attempted in this country, and would leave the
people only the alternative of submitting to an un.
qualified tyranny, or following the example of their
brave ancestors.

We implore the authors of the Bill not to try the
hazardous experiment ofcompelling so high-spirited
a people to chums between the duty they owe to
themselves, as freemen, and their habitual respect
for their governors. If they carry it in the teeth of
public opinion, they will fix a deep stain upon the
national character; unnerve what was before vi.
goroua, and male those cowardly and croschiegb
who row di play the qualities of a noble indepen.
dente. Only a fiend would derive gratification
from such a change, and the loverty that would
follow in the train of despotis:u would be the
penalty imposed upon the epprtssots and the
oppresstd. But to this state of degradation the
country can never be made to submit; and the at.
ttmpt would call forth the national energies,so pow.
erful and irresistiLle,lhat the lightning of beir.en
would not be more quick in its action, nor the fall of
a greet 'avalanche more destructive in its progress.
Those two extremes may be avoided by throwing
out the Bill ; and will the aristocracy of the -
try, whose unnalest distinction it once -
consislercil the guardians of the Censtii
the ctmservaturs of public liberty, lend t:
the horrible design of orisrtssing innocent.,
the highest ronk, rad consigvirg them:
their fellow-suyccts to a tuili:ess
tyranny; or, will they the
u civil war.

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Smpertai Varitainent.
HOUSE. OF LORDS.
MONDAY. OCT. TO.
Their Lordships assembled this mormug at the usual hour,
10 o'clock, prayers having been read, and the House counted
at a quarter plea ten, Counsel were culled in.
Lord BA LC A ItRAS, preens's.% to tlietouasel resuming his
address, felt it his duty to call their Liirdshipa' atieetion 111
Ina neat ied 'minatory and dangerous paragraph V. hich 'Ap-
peared in a Imo simper report of Dr. Lo411;80on • sore.
and related to the cut respundence alluded to in Ludy Char-
lotte Lindsay's esamisuninn' and to the masons assigned for
her Ladyship's quitting her Royal Highness's service. Tne
Noble Lord broke f • the galiery, and in a tone almost
wholly Mandible Lehr. tae bar. We uhdcrstood him, Mow-
ever, to state, that he had the whole iif the original cm-
respondeme now in his hand, and, on his honour, he declared
there was not 14 single seistenre ill the whole correspondence
relating to this unhappy case. The Noble Earl also entered
into a vindication of the conduct sod character of Colonel
Lindsay, also, he said, was a gentlemau of the strictest ba-
nner and integrity.
Lord LAUDERDALE was convinced no individual In
the House thought less highly of Colonel or Lady Lindsay
iw coesequence of what had been stated by the Learned
Counsel.
Dr. LUsIIINGTON assured their Lordship, in what he
said lellalave to the correspondence in qftestion, in his
address to their Lordships, lie intended no /elections on
Colonel Lindsey, but hail acted in the discharge of his
duly. He had great pleasure in stating to their Lordchips,
that lie had since seen Lady Lindsay. and hilly satisfied
her Ladyship'e mind on the subji el.
The Lord CHANCELLOR said, he had heard no ob-
servation* from the Learned Council, in his address on
this subject, which his duty to their Lordships and his
client did not call en hint to make. He trusted the
circumstance to which their Lordship's atteutiuu had
mow beets called by the Noble Eurl, would render the
public cautious how they gave credit to the remarks of
the paper in question, as to what passed before their
Lordships.
Lord BALCAILRAa expressed himself satisfied with
this explanation, and the ouiject dropped.
The StiLiciToot GENERAL, at a quarter before 11, re.
named his address to their Lordships, and took • review
at great length of the evidence given in support of the Bill
—during his speech he was continuaily interrupted by Mr.
Denman, who called upon him to read the different emits of
the evidence, instead of asserting as proved a hat had not
.been stated by the a itisesses,each as they were. The
General having concluded,
Mr. liROOGIIAII row begged to be heard in support of
the plotluction of me letters of Baron Oilipteda, as evidence
for her Majesty. The effect of them he said, would be to
charge Ompteda, distinctly and unequivocalli, with having
been one of the most active sigents iu the prusecutiou—aud
one of the least acrupuldstts as to the means to which he had
recourse to further its objects; they could she* that he had
etualoyed a person to seduce her Majesty's servanta—that he
had mentioned the names of some pistons he wished particu-
larly to gain over,such as Hies °Minus, Olives, &c.—that he
144 made the person he thus employed it promise of a thou-
sand dollars, if he succeeded is the attempt. After the
'productiou °float letters, it would doubtless sot be said,
that the Baron Ouopieda was • person of whom b 0 mach
bad been heard, and mu little proved.
The streoexar-Gansit•L.—" My Lords, this Is most
Irregular."
The LORD CHANCELLOR.--1' Mr. Attorney-general,
have you any thing to say why these letters ought nut to be
.seceived in evidence."
The ATTOlthalf-GENZIt•L." Yes, my Lords, if Mr.
Brugge= has done."
Mr. Bactucant said he would like to hear what was the
bajection of his Learned Friend.
The Arcot n se-Gen coat said, that this was like many
other extraordinary applications which had come front the
*plumate side of the bar during these procettedings. He
taught make me of the same exclamation with which Mr.
Roustabout bad greeted an application made by hint (the
Attorney-General, to their Lordships, and say, " mow, my
Lords, t ask if you are sitting as a Court of Justice t"
11dr. Brougham could have uo other object in tendering these
letters, than to have the opportunity of making such a apees b
as might cause un the wands of their Luriiships, stud still
more so on the minds of the public out of doers, an impres-
sion nut to be produced by the real facts uf thecae. Their
Lordships had already decided, that the verbal declarutione
of a party could not be received us eviden. e of Ilse acts of
that party, and learn were nothing more than such dectis-
venues iu apothem shape. Beside., their Lordships hod yet
to learn to a hum those letters were 11001 Med.
Mr. BROUGHAM shall scud them, it you please; I
am ,ate I have no objection.—(A laugh.)
The ATToRN6V•66NERAL 'JAW he eras not to be caught
by the dLietettly 10 Ins Learned Fileml. It aas i' mania-
to a tin= the letters were :Mao cried, nor what they contamed,
under nu circumstances cuaid they be received as legal eel.
deuce.
Mr. BROVGUAK disclaimed all ;ideation of taking any
amble sodveintiorte. His Learued Friend drat complained of
teodering the letters, a.,d then, I hat be had not hear desiough
of them. Ile load every desire to telieve his Learned
Friend's curio •ity on this phial. The first letter *as dart'
the 2dth of February, Isl 9, and the ksuud• tile 6th of
March, 1819. The peis-a ai a hum they acre addressed
Was time Director of toe Police at Ft solo, as agent of the
home Department of tile Roman lievertiowni. In tender-
ing these letters, he (Mr. Brougham) Iwd uuly performed
what he coeceired to be a • juke duty, tshieli he owed both
to their Lordship rind to his dhoti haus dealt ; but at the
same time, be was far front feeling pressed by any great
aecessity to do bO. For though it would be vain for him to
attempt to rival the ingebuii;, and thoquence displayed by
bls Learned Friends °lithe other side of time bar, yet, in as
4',r as respected argument, in as far as respected current re-
ferestee—(tries of " 0' der, order l" from their Lordships)
be nOO Out alarmed.

The ATTUANKY-GIINERAL said, he most object to the
Coarse %Inca bir Learned Friend was taking. He was re-
joining to the reply of hi, Learned Friend the Solicitor and
himself, and nut arguing the question us to the production
*rave letters.
Mr. 11.ROUGUAM...—" My Lords, I am entitled, I conceive,
• to skew the niaterialny of these letter to our defence."
The ATTOII7.ICY-CiiillEit•L.—" I bobtuit that my Learned
Frk•ad ts only !WHICH,' to argue the admissibility."
Mr. Bni,uprisst.—" And haw can I better do that than
by chewing their materiality. The Learned Gentleman
proceeded tit watt but not without very frequent I