The National Register.
London, England, 1820-04-02 00:00:00

7'HE QUEEN.

Letters have been received in town from her
Majesty the Queen of England, dated Rome, the
16th ultimo. Her Majesty complains of not having
received any messenger from Government, announc-
ing the demise of our late lamented Sovereign. Her
Majesty states, that the Hanoverian Minister and
British Consul, and all persons connected with the
British Government, treat her with great indignity;
they continue to call her Princess Caroline of Bruns-
wick. Her Majesty also expresses dissatisfaction at
the conduct of the Roman Government; she had
always a guard allowed her as Princess of Wales,
but that has been refused her since she became
Queen, because the British Government has not
acknowledged her under that title. Her Majesty
expresses a great wish to have Buckingham-house
for her palace; she desires that the servants of the
late Duke of Kent, or those in the service of his
Royal Highness the Prince Leopoll, may be em-
ployed for her in preference to any others; and her
Majesty also desires, in the event of the refusal of
Government to find her n palace, that a house may
be taken for her near Dover. Her Majesty was to
leave Rome on Monday, to proceed fram thence to
Pesaro, and from Pesaro to England, without delay.
Her Iklajesty may be expected to arrive in a mouth
or five weeks. _

Copy of a letter from the Secretary of State's
office in Rome, to the Queen of England's Cham.
" February the '2lth, Iti2o.
" The Cardinal Secretary of State receivtal yesterday evening
the request, to cause a guard to be placed at the door of the men-
tioned palace, and likewise was made known to him that a
categorical answer was expected upon this subject.
•6 The observations which the above said Cardinal made yes-
terday morning, verbally, when you, by orders you had received,
called at hi, apartments, not having permitted hint to answer
directly to the royal personage who did him the honour to write
to him, is under the necessity of requesting you to lay before the
same tile following:—
•• H H Ili. oliness's government cannot grant the guard to 117
Lady the Countess (Mi. No guard is give to private persons
and when evert royal Princea travel incognito, under a ',rival,
name, they do hot receive this disincoon. There is actually at
Rome an instance of this. The Papal Government did not fail
in paying this honour to the Princess of Wales, during her stay
in this capital on a former oceaston. The royal person, however,
who has now come to Rome, is not announced as the Princess of
Wales, but as the Queen of England, and for this the guard is
requested.
" But as no communication has been made to his Holiness's
Government, by the Government of his Majesty the King of
England and Ilanover, upon the change that has taken place,
nor upon the rank of the said Royal Person, the Papal Govern-
ment doe, not know that the Queen of England is in Rome, and
in consequence cannot giant a guard to the same.
" Whenever the Government of his Illness may receive from
that of los Maje..ty the King of England and Hanover the usual
notification upon the change that has taken place with the Royal
F•m on in question, he will consider it an imperious duty to pay
to the Queen of England ill the honours due to her.
(:ugned) "C. CARDINAL CONSALVI."

In an article on the recent alarms, the Edinburtylt
llevlew has an article containing useful information
respecting the plots, and ably examining the evi-
dence adduced at the several periods, and it observes,
" It' we shall ever live to see the country cured of
its truly mortifying, we may say, humiliating, pro-
pensity to be the easy dupes of such panics, as often
us any tottering Government finds its account in
raising them, this salutary change can only be
wrought by soberly reflecting on the past, recalling
to mind the stories told, and examining these at a
season when the panic having subsided, re-,son may
be allowed to operate, and demonstrate their false.
hood; or, at least, by showing that the event has
disproved them. Nothing can be further from our
intention than to deny that a general discontent has
for some years prevailed through the country ; that
it has been on the increase of late; that it especially
nfeets populous districts, like those w here manufac-
torers are spread ; that it is ready to be turned by
factious and unprincipled demagogues to dangerous
purposes; that when distress prevails, it is always
most to be dreaded; and that to secure the peace of
the State against its effects demands the vigilant
care of the Executive Government. Whatever be
the more remote origin of this spirit, we conceive
the load of taxation under which the community
labours, to be the chief proximate cause of its in-
creased diffusion, to which we may add, the gene-
rally prevailing distrust of the Government. That
the old law of the land was amply sufficient to cope
with the disaffected, bad it been administered by
steady hands, and accompanied with the spirit of
conciliation, we held to be equally manifest; and if
the York trials of 1812—those of Derby—that of
Cashman, &c. did not establish the sufficiency of the
OLD wiry to meet conspirators, rebels, and libellers,
will not the recent events at Leicester and at York
carry conviction home to the minds of all, even to
Ultra Lolialists?—Wbere, therefore, was the neces-
isity for the nut, laws, and can they, will they con-
ciliate discontent?"

Letteri from Dole state, that a horrible crime,
attended with peculiar circumstances, has been com-
mitted at the village of Ougney. A woman, who
was travelling with a considerable sum of money
about her, stopped at an inn, and asked to remain
there fir the night. The mistress of the inn and
her two sons immediately formed a plot to rob and
murder her, and fixed upon the middle of the night
to execute their crime. Their guest in the mean-
time became suspicious, either on accotmt of the sum
of money which she had, or by being struck with the
badness of the physiognomy of her hosts, and could
not conceal her apprehensions. In order to encou-
rage her, the mistress of the house promised to sleep
with her, telling her at the same time, that she
would sleep inside. Midnight arrived, the two
sons entered the room without a light, crept up
softly to the bed-side, ascertained with their hands
the position of the two women, and plunged a couple
of da,ggers into the breast of the nearest of them.—
The woman who was inside shrieked out, and the
brothers started back with horror, perceiving that
they had murdered their mother. It happened that
she had fallen asleep, during which, the traveller,
at the first noise she heard, sprung from the place
she had occupied to the inside of the bed. The cub.
prits arc in the hands of justice.