The National Register.
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THE NATIONAL REGISTER

Halt —The work upon the Old Palace-yard
front of IVestinnmer I lad, increases datiy,and the public
may ;Orin expect to see it it the original appearance.
Tile men nook mitt the old plans, which hate beim
lotion deposited in one of I lie CloVerhihent. olives. The
South TOWN' is C.a. i1,;,,,,ced. Th..• gothic anutilar aria
p.'o,loce a hoe a rellitecita .1 eileet. Tile anitr-rial
heariliA. of Edward the C• nt'. ssor, ii. 1- ouster
minister, with the arms of Riatiard the Sveollll, will
re-appear In a perfect slate, wlere the mutilated heraldry
of those Kings was so lately t isib;e. Kt .thing can pre-
sent a stemeler memorial of the devouring appetite of
time than this ancient uoiltlintc. The unite figurer., the
remains of which are now seen on the left of the portal
stem to say, the Mat-unity and art of Mall have but short
duration. We have, however, seen a black Egyptian
moor, which, accordiing to tradition, has remained
rsn-
iojured more than 20111) vears. We anode to a figure in
Isis now in the British The figures placed in
the niches of 11•esturitister H tII are cut 00000 Oil lure-stole.
Many of our re .dirt may remember the runt of any
Hall when the aspect was less pacific. After the Resin-
Tattoo the beads of Cromwell, Bradshaw, and another,
Were placed nil pikes mani the utp, and they rem: dried
there about Piny years am. The head or crow.ell was
then removed in the following ways—The her of a
drainaiic performer, now justly celebrated for talent,
lived sett alit with one of the people called round heads,
whose occultation was that of a market gardener. It
was his custom to pass from the ferry, in Old Palace
1; to Liu, ,t ul wit- re tie rt.til gardellg. Itetornitig
to Westniioster, he Mond one of the heads
which stool oil the nip of the hall, lying on the Fround.
A t iolent gale of wind had broken the p;ltc stall which
upheld it, and the pike remained affixed to the head.—
The gardener well knew the situation in which Crom-
well's head stood limo.. the hall, and looking up lie 101hhi
it was gone. lie had Lieu
no doubt that v.ie head vf
the protector slat in his possession, and liar lug in coin-
moto with all the labium heads much regard and vene-
ration for Cromwell, he cirried it home to his house,
and kept it with pions care *l the day of his death.—
The mother of the performer before alluded to, who had
been 4l respected by her muter, received at his
death all the household property, and among other
thittzs the head of Cromwsll, She very soon after mar-
ried, and the head got lido the possession of her her
bind, wino was a player. In hi* way to country theatres,
he occasinitiy exitibited the head, and olitataed monev.
Oo one occasion bring reduced to great poverty with his
family, in his Itall.tiogs, near Clare-market, a friend
oliertal to procure hilts a purchaser for the head. A Mr.
Cuxe 11:.hig applied to, advanced twenty guineas isplui
it, tiacine. first riven eu the minima of the late 111 r. %Vest,
the painter, and other respectable Luthorities, that it Was
the head of Oliver. Independent of the circumstances
atten..iiig the ti• Ming it, a black lock of hair, which
distinginslied Cromwell, was then hi be tiaced. Tl:c
(Mae( hecnu,ing inure prosperous SUM! lithe after, re-
deem :Al the bead, and it was finally taken to America
by a purchaser of curiosities. What became of the
other heads tit.: writer has not beers able to learn.

G At.e M sTts Humphrey Davy,
lately read a 111015 1115111:1:111,4 paper, at the Royal Society,
' On the Magnetising Intim-awe whiell
Various new and en shuts experiments On this subjeci
were detailed, which clearly establish the fact, that the
Galvanic final, directed ite a proper maimer, is capaule of
communicating magnetic properties o liars of steel. II
steel bars or roils be exposed us Galvanic cinreat pieced
in the direction of the magnetic axis. im effrct follows;
hut if they he placed parallel with the magnetic equator,
they Leconte magnetic—the end placed to the west be-
coining the north pole of the new magnet, and that to-
wants the east bee qi the south pole. And so great
i 9 the galvanic influence in Kadin-Mg this effect, that it
eXCIIi 41 power at a distance of POMP inches (even ten ur
'write), so 111;11 if she- sts'el bar be sed in a circle
round the. Cl`llfie of tit,. gab aMc cur, em, hot always kept
p.tr.idel to the magnetic equator, it breouismi magnetic.--
Isliese experiments were mad^ iti the laboratory of the
Royal Institution, and also at the Loudon bisttiuttim.—
•Diey will be understood from the following description :
Witfll 311 VlNCllieal ur a voltanc battery us cwisiderable
vaunt), is charged, the coinpensating or discharging
wt:e 14comes uptaitetic 111,011 the aumplvtimi 01 the
charge, • Corditt.m needles, err small bars of steel, placed
transversely nit the wire, or tinder 11, Of 011 11S sides,
licculoe perutahei.l magnet. 011 the discharge. Ifelectric
tlnid he very plentiful, contact with the wire is out
retentite,
A few days sinue, us a vessel was steering fur the
Downs, nearly opposite St. Nlargaret's flay, while
two gentlemen on board were amusing themselves
with their guns as u pic•ce of board floating oil the
water, they saw a bird coining towards them (which
afterwards Proved to be a currier pigeon), upparently
from the French coast; when it came near enough to
obacrve so thany sttilors standing on the beach, it
made a sudden titek, us if intended to take ate.4l4r
course; when it came hear the ship, one of t;le gen-
denten shot at and killed it the boat was scut and
the poor bi•fl brought on hoard, when on examining
it, to the utter astonishment of all present. was
discovered between the feathers, chiefly on the neck,
six French gold rings,
of the most grand and ingc-
nions workmanship.
Thursday evening. about five o'clock, a fire brae
out in the extensive fingar.house of ale. 11h0d0.4 iu
Hooper-square, Whitcchapel. oti.ginated in the
second floor, in sonic tow which blazed for sonic
'into, but fortnnately several 1;116/111:1 60501 11/15VC1.1,
which being plentifully supplied with water, soon
put out tile tiro, and prevented it front doing any
material damage.
Thu. Duchess of Clarence stud the italic Primes*
ere going on extremely well.

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The worknum of Mr. Stevens, Surveyor of LIT
St. Edmund's whilst raising gravel in the hil', n er
the Priory, have discovered ut a small depth from
the surface of the earth, the skeletons of tweir.y.
flinr human bodies, of rather gigantic size, but in
every respect perfect. Numerous persons have b:en
to view them, and it is supposed they are a part of
the bodies slain in the bloody battle fought on that
spot during the reign of Henry 11. and wheu the
diffintences existed between that Monarch and his
son, when to aid the latter the Earl of Leicester
was marching through Farnham, from Framlingham
with an immense army of Flemings (particularly
artificers and weavers), but were attacked by the
King's troops. who dispersed them in an instant,
and put ten thousand of them to the sword, and
took their Commander prisoner. This engagement
took place in the year 1174, upwards of 600 years
since, and the teeth in these skeletons were found
extremely white and perfect.
On Tuesday last, a meeting for the purpose of
addressing the Queen was held at Warwick, in
consequence of a requisition signed by above a hun-
dred of the most respectable inhabitants of the town.
Dr. Parr, the Rev. Wm. Field, the Rev. Male,
Aldermen Edwards and Collins, Messrs. Greathead,
Jones, Russel, and Goodman, moved and
seconded the various resolutions, which were pro-
pounded in speeches of great ability and spirit. It
had been ;titende.d at first to disturb this meeting by
a party of mockloyalists, with a reverend gentleman
at their head; but an inspection of the enemy's
fume convinc,d them of the futility of any attempt,
and they contented themselves, like the snug loy-
alists of London, by retiring to a corni?r, where they
huddled up an address to his Majesty in favour of
those enlightened ministers who have shown such
adsairahte skill in conciliating parties, and in
maintaining tranquillity and content throughout the
empire.
An exciseman was taken into custody on Satur-
day, fisr stealing three pounds and a half-weight if
candles from a tailow-ehandler's in Mary-le-bone,
where he att.'znded in performance of his duty.
Private letters from Dublin, received in town,
state, that a very desperate action took place in the
beginning; of last week on the western coast of Ire-
land, between his Majesty's smuggling preventive
brio., stationed off Sligo, and a smuggling vessel.
Th'e latter opposed a desperate resistance, and was
assisted by the people on the coast, but the brig
succeeded in effecting her capture, and made good
the seizure. In this rencontre, we regret to say,
the brig had several of her crew wounded. There
were several killed and wounded on the part of her
opponents. This system, which has been adopted
within these few years for the prevention of smug.
gling, has proved very efficient. The vessels are
under the orders of the treasury; they carry up-
wards of 10 guns, are well manned and appointed,
and commanded by u licutent of the royal navy.—
The excise cutters employed in this service, were
seldom able to encounter the ainuaers with suc-
cess, the latter being generally of larger size and
superior strength in men and guns. These smug-
gling; preventive vessels are stationed at given tits.
tances round the coast of 'rebind and Scotland.

FEMALE COURAGE.Two young ladies were left
by their father and mother in care of a country
house, a few miles Irons Abingdon, together with
two maid servants, and a • foot-boy. They were
roused in the night by boys telling them the huuso
was an fire: they instantly rose, called the maids,
and gut buckets. T'•• fire being inacceasibla to the
water, one of the Steers tell to work with a pick-
axe to batter down the wall of the drawing-room to
put it out ; the other threw a pelisse over her night
clothes, went into the stable, saddled a cart-horse,
took the foot-boy behind her, and provided with a
laige dinner-hell, rode otrini,ing and screaming for
assistance at the public-house, parsonage, &c. till sin)
roused all the neighbours, who carne with buckets.
&et and extinguisited the fire, which had been pre-
vented from extemiing through the exertions
of her sister. The drawing-room furniture only
was destroyed, aml the premises were insured.—
The Insurance Mice were flti pleased with the
astonishing csmduct of these young ladies, that
t'iey replaced every thing is the handsomest manner,
even to the pelisse. They are (Litt:ate accomplisned
girls of eighteen and twenty.
Requisitions are signing for a Common Council,
for a meeting of the Livery of
.London, and 'else of
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toe ',purity of Nliddlesex, to.coosider the propriety
of petitioning l'arlhanent fur the restoration of her
Majesty's name to the Litera, and lin the resti..
tuttou of all her other rights and die,inties,
.We have
no doubt that this example will in- speePily•foilowed
bi every county, city, town, and palish in the United
kingdom ; for we believe that all , -:tics concur in
thinking tb't hair Majesty's nine ought never to
havo bean omitted in the. Liturgy.
'file tur. John Humphreys, it oar of *Gre,at Duo-
114m, 41 Ins late audit, very liberally (kilts:tett LS pet
cent. en his Titiv,s, in coutequee" of the deurcssi.d
state at Ail tioturs.

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PERSECUTIONS OP THE QUEEN.

The iidlowing touching recital of the continued
aeries of persecutions, to which her Majesty bus
been subjected—formed part of a speech delivered
by the Rev. Mr. Slieplietd, at the recent anniversary
Of the Concentric Soak,ty at Liverpool.
Gentlemen. ir there es was a pi.' ',rented female, that
female is the (raven of Elielatel. tier w voiles are of 1111
early date. They commenced almost from the very
meat of her first landing on these shores. It is one of the
evils necessarily attached to the conaition of loyalty,
that in that exalted rank the matrimonial union is rarely
effected upon those principle's of inninal aft ection by
which it is rendered a blessing to the subordinate ranks of
the community, With respect to his present Majasty, it
is a matter of public notoriety, that he entered into the
state of matrimony with Caroline of Brunswick, not be-
cause lie was sniitten with her personal attractions, or
because he held in esteem her character and accomplish-
ments, not because this Marl iage was stipulated by Mr.
Pitt, as a condition for the payment of his daily accumu-
lating debts. When his intended bride landed in I.:De-
land, win was appointed as one of her ladies of horn-me
to wait upon her person? Why Indy the Comitess of
Jersey! To her was committed the task of initiating her
Royal Highness iu English MIMICS 3, and of instnictilig
her how to router herself pleasing and acceptable to her
husband I What happiness voila he expected from a
Simi i cage commenced under such auspices / It was scull
whispered that her Royal ilialiness was suffering under
much domestic vexation and uneasiness. And the sad
truth was in a little Mile brought fully in:o the view of the
public. Her Royal Highness unburdened her mind in
detailing her grievances in a letter to her usether.—
This letter she dorsi not send to ill 1111SYl irk by the com-
mon post, nor by the medium' of her lather's Envoy. She
committed it to the care of a Rev. Divine, win basely and
foolishly betrayed her confidence, by delivering it to the
late Queen. Alter this trawaction it may readily be
believed that she could have no peace or tiatiquillity at
home; and, very soon after she had given bitch to the
late lamented Princess Charlotte, his Alajesty dismissed
her from his palace. And what were the grounds of that
dismissal ? Fortunately for her Majesty, the grounds of
that dismissal are recorded in a letter from her illustrious
spouse. In that letter, does he charge her with unchastity,
with levity of conduct, with any vice, or will: any fully?
" Nil aorata.° Her illustrious spouse was pleased to dis-
miss her whom lie had lately sworn to diet isli, ripen Me
plea that "our inclinations are not in our pow er--a pit a
of which it has been joslly observed in au address to tier
Majesty from the town of Chorley, that " it' it be available
to a Prince of Wales, it is equally available to every eti-
tninal who suffers the judgment of the law." Being then
banished from the palace of her husband, our Queen—
then Princess of Wales—withdrew into nimbi' tisive retire-
ment. Dedicating herself to maternal duties—and how
well she discharged those duties is evinced by the fond
and constant attachment of her daughteraa-she was hardly
ever heard of, except oil occasion of her attendance al
Court. But, alter the lapse of many the most scam
dalons reports %vele whispered to the disadvantage of tier
character ; and during the Whig administration au inquiry
was imaitnted item her conduct—au inquiry by a flagrant
misnomer called the" Delicate Investigation." Whatever
may have been the delicacy of that inquiry, it was eel tautly
not deficient in siticitiess and seventy. Ni> drfcreuce
was paid (I do affirm that it ought to have been paid) to
her rank and station. Her servants were sttbmitted to
interrogatories, without a moment's warning lias Mg been
given to tier. Every point of her conduct was inioutely
scrutinized. Witnesses were heard against bier, without
her being apprized of the tetiour of their testimony at the
time of their examination, so as to he enabled to rebut it.
And what was the result of this celebrated impesii ?
Why, her judges, without putting her ou her di liner,
acquitted her of the mom turpitude which bad ioet o inc
pilled to her, arid recommended the prosecivion for per-
jury of the principal of her calumniators. To tl!eir
award, indeed, was annexed a recommendation to his late
Majesty to advise her to be more circumspect i a her can-
duct. Bat this recommendation was made witliont her
Royal Highness having been heard in rapt:illation or de-
fence, and on evidence which she ultimately moved to be
so unworthy of credit, that, on her remonstratiag aeaMst
this procedure, our late moniirch, who, in his private
character, was well deserving of those endearing epi-
thets, "(food old King!" at length proclaimed his
cooviction of her inoncence by publicly receiving her
at his court. During this fiery ordeal, our Queen
derived the most essential boleti' from the countenance
and aid of Mr. Perceval, of Lord Eldon, lord Liverpool,
and Mr. Canning. These cralty politicians woo anal
themselves into her secrets : they became acquainted
with all the particulars oilier history : they %%etc informed
of all the grounds of complaint which she had, or fancied
that she had, against her Iniehaud. And these they con-
trived to turn to vast profit to themselves. They put
them carefully up into a greet' bag: and when, at the
commencement of the Regency, thy were apprehensive
of being turned out of office, Mr. Perceval Mailed on this
Regent with this green bag under his crime:al said—" Sire,
if you displace us, this green bag shall be elicited, and the
whole nation shall know how yuu have treated your wife."
I hesitate not to say that conduct like this is only to be
paralleled by that of the villains who meets you at dusk iu
SC. James's Park, and tells you that, it yuu will not give
Min 201., he will accuse you of au abominable crime. it
is strange that such a matiouvre should have succeeded;
but we know, to our cost, that succeed it did. Mr. Pei-
emit and his friends were firmly seated in office. They
then soon forgot the counsel they had &haled with the
Princess of Wales, Bel cruelly cotinived at, or basely
joined in, a series of indignities towards her, vshieh, whilst
nosy were nut sufficically atrocious to alarm the public
mind, were well calculated to wear down her spirits with
mortification and disgust. When tier u,ni l was in this
slate of 01 pl eSS,IOI.I she was appi6itrlict! liv Mr. Calming.
of whom it way be :aid, as Lad Digby sail of the Earl of
Stettin d, Baal the " tualiguiiy of his practices are hugely
captivated by those rare :toddies of his, whereof God
loon giveu him the use, but the Devil Me application."
Like Snail whispering In the ear of Eve, he gave het most
psi u.ic:ous counsel. He advised her to fix her reeitieure
abi,atl. In an evil hour, trial in spite of the ploplietic
:lugs./Air. itruigglialit, she acted upon Mr. Caimina'e
e, 411.1 ip11:1..1 the blurts of !Sandhi. In the letter to
stir hail ri vaned Iron her litihbatid, it
bla teal unit Istlilltr putt:. " await: tie held ausweratda

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to the other." Thnudh I catinot bring myself to subscribe
to the opinions of these who construe this passage as
license to her Royal Highness to adopt any line of cosidart
she 111101 please, it might have atithoriSed all t'sitevtali"
that she would be permitted to travel, or to remain in a
used abode. free nom atm particular observation or our.
1T411./14CC. But it is now matter of evidence, that, by souse
{dine' to unknown interferenee, her every tuotioti was
watched by spit 3 and informers. Awl the nature of this
species of vet rein we know ton well. We know that lilies
estimate their own importance, and calculate their pro-
ble pruners, in the ratio of the atiocionsness of the tales
%%Inch they co 1111 l tunicate. lletire they exaggerate tritlieg
errot s into crimes; they 'Marvin esein innottent aetioes as
grim ; and even forge di, ect lakehoods. wine!' they ate
really to support by peritiry. Wlntt was likely to be the
tote of a ft male who was dogged by bloodhounds of this
desciiption, and whose hospitality was basely abused by
a villain of rank, for the purpcse of purluining her papers?
What is likely to be the fate of any mistress of a faintly,
near whose dwelling an agency subsists, for the purpose
of availing itself of the illdiumuur and malice of discarded
and discontented servants, to pick tip anecdotes of her life
and conversation? Whosoever is inclined to pay hattil-
scrawly for an evil report will not long tie ill wain of a
vender. thence we need not be surmised at the scanda-
luts respecting her Majesty. which were collSey ell
by the medium of inquisitive a aveliers from the ceniiiient,
and which were accumulated and digested by the fainoes
Milan commission. l'he documents which had been pro-
cured by that "pareutrik frairum," 'drown and VH1114(6.1111,
it was not, however, thought prudent to act upon dining
the lifetime of our late reveled Sovereign. Ergo in the
awfill wreck of his i'.lcultitts, he was the r 'Brion, though
mironscions, pi elector of his danginer-iii-law. But us
50011 as lie was laid in the grave—nay, I nut shocked to say
it, before his seta:Sills were riviinsited in the tomb—actise
operations were COl 1111 l nicer) against oar Queen. WllllOlll
a trial, a Biota a heat Mg, site Was virtually degraded fa inn
her exalted rank, by her name being struck out of the
Liturgy—a riocre(ittig the legality of whice is extremely
questionable, and which (aims and poisons the devotional
services of England and Ireland will the suggestions of
politieal differences and animosities. Housed by this
Inuit, the Witeeti determined to repair to England to claim
and assert her rights. At St. Oiner's she was met by Lord
Hutchinson, with a threat in one 1141111 and a bribe in the
other. By that Mite of eltivally she was i 111.011113.11 that it
she proceeded to England site would be met by an im-
peachment ; but that if she she would consclit to stay
:throat), she should be indulged With an income of;t0,0001.
a-year. Gentlemen, if the ministers had any real faith in
the coctents of their green hag, what' was the 111Pallin 01
this hotel proposal / Why, its meaning was plainly tins
—" Go, play the %anent iit 1141 y—disgrace the nation in
your person, in Ein opt., Asia:, Alstriter, aid Amer lea, tf you
please; and yen shall receive tram the hal d-earned pro-
perty of lie pen& of Lugland 50,0001. per autumn,
os tried that cost will ant nista; b us in the possession of
our places " Bot her Majesty despised the threat, and
spin-tied the bribe; she heir, ied to Eitglasid "im breath-
less 11:13h•:" and never shall we ftaget the mode of her
reeeptitni b to—the sraisenou which tin tiled through the
whole coutory al the lies 3 01 her and the shone.
of joy which greeted her an trel at the camtal. Bat why
did the impel:tee of Etieiatirl 11111 s iitsiatifinvonsly take
pint with the fateren ? knew cothiil.glt het conduct
w lieu abroad ; they could not foresee whet es 'deuce would
be brom,iii molt's% her. 11 lint they 11111 mend reported
concerning her was entirely her dm:tient. WO their
did they sit sealously adept net cause' Because they saw
that she was weak, and that her foes were powentil.
Becanse they counted her enemies as lilt in enemies.
lieennse they a hot harged the Quiet's. Wall 10111 c lily,
had not only taxed to the very teeth, but libelled, the
commovalty of England. Becaust• they recitLectre: that,
for a lung series of ytais, she haul beeti rue idiji et et
unmerited persecution : and because, front the fact of her
having been mice assailed by unpunished perjury, they
drew the natni CO M:1113100, 111i11 by perjury she would be
assailed again. Geinlemen, 110 sooner Was the Queen
landed than the ministers were all in a bustle. Lord
Liverpool ill rat Ocular was as busy as a certain personage
is said to he in a high wind. He had imorediatelY as
theey occupaiimis as Scrub in the Beaux Stratagem, who,
hi displaying the versatility of his talents, says to tkrcher,
"Ou smitilay s 1 draws warrants, and on Mondays I draws
beer." Si, on one day Lord Liverpool was employed in
dray. in; the indictment against the Queen ; on another in
settling the brief of the Attorney General; on a died in
canvassing ilie depositions of the aitnonies; and 011 a
fourth, perchance, in trying how far their oral teeihnony
was likely to agree with the written derbit anions—a pro-
eess which, in cert ale cases (not in Lord Liverpool's), I
believe the enemies denu ttt i t late drilling. And, after all
this pains-takitig, his Lordship fur therittore snide, took the
weighty task of sitting to try the cause as a jurer. Here,
Gentlemen, is one of the main hinges of the Queest's case.
Who were her accusers? The ministers. Who were the
jurors that sate to toy her? The ministers, their relations
and friends; and. what Was more alarming Mill, their
political dependants. Butt Loud Liverpool solemnly mo-
lested. on behalf of himself and his conipeere, that they
would wash nom their minds all witeceilent prejndices,
and proceed to hear the et:it:ester., pro and con. with the
most unimpeachable tallness and impartiality. Presuitip-
teens men Does lie imagine thet he ern reset the (4)11e
plea wheels is Melt compose the fine anitritinery or the
lonitait mind, and vOillilitos, ill a cause in which his nll of
repetal ion and of political estrtence is at :daft., that self-
pat twiny which is a fixed law of human moue? If, in
reference to the known laws of human nature, ally mum
would be thus impeached as a judge its a matter of one
hundred pounds, what must we think of the judger who
sate to try the Queen, with power, len ttttt age, place, and
trinutpli awaiticg them on ; 111111 political ruin,
disgrace, and nem liticatioti dwelling them on an acquittal?
Before such a Intranet, hawever, the Queen appeared to
answer—alter a preparation of little suture, I think, than a
nalhtth— to charges which held o'4-11 concoctiug fur yr 4114,
and reser( Cog the parte tears of vehicle she Was, by a
innrvellons atilteteoce to legal forms, kept entirely in the
dark. [The Rev. Gentleman then took nit able review of
the progress of the ti tat, and of the conduct of the Peers.)
Grunt-wee, I ant a sine ,-re re and enthusiastic admirer of the
lii.tish Cuti•diintion, as I find it described by the best It gal
*mien likes ; and 11101401 I cannot agree with the celebra-
ted Air. stereo; in Ills opinion that the mourn chy of 80,
, laill may subsist within', the Houses of Lipids and Cam-
mons, 1 regard the regal authordy its au integral 4101
intlispeeniatite portion of our Constitution. I knew it is
my duty to lank up to the Stiveitign with leVerence ; and

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I am one of the old school, whit think it wholesome and
conducive to the public gond that the throne should be
regarded by the people at lure with a kind of mysterious
awl'. 011110•50 points I trust von ogre.. with me in scn-
tiutent. What then aura[
ne think of those rash men who
rudely tear away the veil suspended e the tluone,
mid reveal to the public e: e what cannot be beheld
out pain? It is not the habit of the people of mll ..g.atit. to
el;iieibC With severity the errors, or even the vices, of
persous of exalted rack. They would be disposed to
look upon the failings of a Sovereign with the emotions
with which the failings of a rather are regarded by a
ihniild son. Ii is a WiSe policy in these kingdoms to kema
the personal proceedings and pi ejudiees of ilia Atonal-eh
as taucit PS possible out of slot. But how can this be
effected, if minis,ers garland upon these prejtidiees great
and important transactions of state. In the case brfurc
us, the politic at large had nothing to do, and had little
inclination to intermeddle, with the uniu,rnt:iatedilfcrutces
which have taken place between the King anti Its wife.
But the moment the ministers called mum oar tepees( 1-
' tatives for a bill of degradation and divorce against the
Queen, those differences, with their causes autl circum-
stances, became a legitimate subject of public discussion :
for if any one, after the King's message was laid on the
table of 1.1.0" House of Commons, had said to the people of
England, " Tots is a matter a cielt, as it concerns the
King, you most forbeer to CAW/Abs." the people of Eau-
had would have treated hint with contempt, autl would
have said—s• If the King appiies to our represeittatiyfs to
ti i hint or his %%lie, and 1' ida arm us to pry the expense
of the process, we beware parties in the cause, and no
;tower on eat ilt shall prevent us from examining into its
nature and beatings." Tiii• has, in fact, beet' the lan-
guage and the cooduct of the people of England. I
lament the result of their investigatiotts i lint, for the
evil which tias at tsell front the late imptiry, his Alajesty's
miaisiets, and they alone, are severely responsible: I say
that for these evils they me severely tespittisible, because
they might have obviated them lay tin ordinary degree of
spirit and decision.

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