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inquiry upon established and known principles. But
it would not suit the Cabinet to be accusers, or
come in that shape before Ohs public, or Parliament;
it would have split the Administration it was feared,
and a principal debater and bilker, Mr. Canning,
"so help him Gad I would not be an accuser,"
(perhaps the conviction of , advice, by which, in
opposition to all her true be bad persuaded
her ever to leave the counts,' his recollection
as the cause of all this. ) Mr. Canning
would resign sooner than be ice accuser ; and the
Cabinet was in danger of* break up, a circuitous
way, therefore, was to be
It:xi, and the straight
honest road was to be unt
What must be the result of a Green Bag Corn- ,
mittee? One of these—either, 1, Neffteport but a
sort of ignoramus, or no true UR ; that is, a Report
recommending no measure, smil containing no re-
flection; or, 2. A Report ressaustending a further
measure, but conveying censure for indiscretion, or
accusation ofcrime not cognisable by law ; or, 3. A '
Report not only conveying this @lnsure or accusa-
tion, but recommending same particular proceeding
to remedy the defect of law; Or, lastly, referring
the ease as high treason to the ordinary tribunal of
the country where a Queen may be tried.
Now, first "if no Report be made," still a
hubbub will Live been made, sad it will be neces-
sary for the Queen .to publish a statement of her
conduct, which must neemseeily be aspersed by the
imputation of .so formal a p •tag as a Perlis-
mentary Cominittee, or Minis mould be obliged
to lay before Parliament these grounds which
proved insufficient to promote' a elmige, and yet
which had caused so much sensation ; and all the
evils "derogatory to the dignity of the Crown, and
injurious to •the beet interests of the cauntry,"
a 1 frogs public dismissals, most ensue, and,
we my, aught in justice to the Queen foment,'
[coat what it might.
Secondly, if a Report, " recounnertaig no further
measure, but conveying censure ibr indiscretion, or
accusation of crimes nut cognisable by law," should
follow, then you would have an extra-Jadidal pro-
fceeding, not against actions, but against chanicter,
without affording the accused-a means of vindicating
herelf, which would be manifestly - unjust, and
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t establish a precedent Most dangerous.
Thirdly, if it should be a Report not orb convey-
ing Ibis censure or accusation, but recommending
some particular proceeding to remedy the'llefect of
law, then weak! the Queen of Etr,,,land either be tried ,
by an ex pose facto lisw, or punished without trial by
bill of divorce, or otherwise without any previously
',statutable offence -upon which to found the punish.
ment, which would be manifestly unjust.
Fourthly, if the Mid should, lastly, be referred
1 to the ordinary tribunel where a Queen is. to be
tried, then you would not bave a bill of indictment
found simple by a Cabinet, but the Queen would he '
sent to trial with the prejudice arising from a Re-
pott of a ComMittee of both Houses against her.,
which could not but operate somewhat ou eheminds I
of the Lords who would be )ter judges' while the pee.
pie at large would be more disgusted than ever with
those who could find a Bill in such It way vgaiust a
woman, not only without examining viva once evi-
dome, and being cement with mere paper charges,
but found by Couusitteeet nominated at the insures,
and ni least patty through the influence of those 1
Ministers who, without one visible public object
except the keeping of their own places, have hvnufht
forward a discussant whicit, by their owe adMissien,
must lie derogatory foal the dignity of tl.e Crown,
and injurious-to the setioa,
It web indeed, be Istjurious to the Crown, and
the nation tee, if Mieieters have only grounds such
as these which Adwardst Castle% Oliver, and the
baron Omitted& can allbrd i and, we treat, may ulti-
mately justify that alann, which they have felt
evidently all along for thetnrolves.
Spies, hired agitators, and picklocks, sre not con-
genial to the temper of the British mules and an'
indignation which, when they themselves alone were
concerned, might bo smothered, might burst out in
behalf of a stranger, a woman, and their Queen ;
and they might have to sower with their lives
1 ter having abused the ounfidenoe of their Sovereign,
machinated against their Qeeee, and afForded an
uxamplo of public oppression meriting the severest
punishment.
But it may be Woad; what 'motives could llipi,.
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