The National Register.
London, England, 1820-12-31 00:00:00

TnE NATIONAL nEcisTrrt

to the other." Though I cannot bring myself to subscribe
to the opinions of those who construe this passage as a
license to her Royal Highness to adopt any line of conflact
she might please, it might have authorized an expectation
that she would he permittoil to travel, fir to remain in a
limd abode, free flue anv particular otisei ration or Nur-
tTillance. But it is now matter of evidence, that, by some
hitherto nukiiown interference, her every motion. was
watched by sat, s and iefurnicrs. And the inhume oh this
species of vet loin we know too well. We know that they
estimate their own importance, and calculate their pro•
gable profits, in ratio of the al eocicitisoiess of the tAles
which they commitaicate. Hence they exaggerate tri ding
errors into crimes; they lids:aloe:4Na innocent actions as
guilt; and even forge direct falsehoods, which they are
ready to support by perjury. What was likely to he the
tale of a female trim was dogged by blouillionuds oh 1111 s
description, and whose huspilalily was basely abused by
a villain of rank, for the porpcse of purloining her papers:
%What is likely to be the late of any mistress of a family,
near Viose dwelling an agency subsists, for the purpose
of availing itself of the ill-hinumw and malice of fiscarileil
and discontented servants, to pick tip anecdotes of her lire
nad conveisetion ? Whosoever is inclined to pay hand-
soilioly for an evil report will nut long he iu want of a
vender. fienee we need not be bdrpii,rd at the scanda-
l:in: stories respecting Tier Majesty, which were conveyed
by the medium of it ptisitive travellers from the coutinent,
and which wiae aveainniated Mill digested by the Mama.
euminission. lime documents which had bets, In 0-
cured by that "par nubile leatrum," Brown amid ihmiiuCJl It,
it was not, however, thought wildcat to act torso;
the litetime of our late reveled Sovereign. liven hi the
awtid wreck of his faculties. Inc was the efficient, though
protector Of his dauhter-M-I:4w. Bull as
sour as he was laid in the grave—nay, I a:a..;lo.•keil to say.
' it, before his remains were deposited iii the mouth—active
operations were commeilei it against oar Queen. Witlient
a trial, without a heat Mg. sae was vii totally degraded front
her exalted rank, by her name being stilick out of the
Liturgy- a psoeeetiing the kgality of which is extremity
questionatile, and it:kit:ll 1)06011i the dermional
services of England and Ili land with the soggestious of
political differences and animosities. liamsed by this
nsult, the Queea deli:runnel to repair to raiglaiiil to claim
and asset t her rights. At St. affitec' she was met by Loud
Hutchinson, with a threat in our hand and a bribe iii the
other. By that pick of chit ,dry site was informed that it
she proceeded to England she would he met by an im-
peachment; but that if she she would consent to stay
abroad, she should lie indulged with an income of AanUat.
a-year. tientlemen, if the ministers had any real faith in
the contents of their green bag, what was the meaning of
this latter pi oposal ? Why, its meaning was plainly this
—"Cu, play the wanton itt Italy—disgrace the nation in
your person, iii Europe, Asia, Africa, and A lIICI ied, if yea
please; and you shall receive from the lend-citified pro-
perly of the people of England 30,0 ant. per anicona
purified that you will nut disturb us in the possession of
our plares." Butt her ,dajesty despised the threat, and
spurned the bribe: she hurried to England " in breath-
less haste:" and 'lever shall we forget the mode of her
reception here—the sensation which thrilled through the
whole century at the news of her lifinthig, and the shunts
of
.iuy w WWII greeted her arrival at the capital. But way
did the populace of England thus instantaiieously take
part as itti the Queen ? They knew nothing of her emiduct
when abroad; they could not foresee what evidence would
be broaglit against her. What they had heard reported
mince' ruing her was eotirely to her discredit. Why Bien
did they so zealously adopt her canse ? Because they saw
that SAC WAS weak, dilti that her foes were pmver. id.
Beellnsc they counted her enemies as their ei.eim.-s.
Because they wlio hailed the tallerl, with (OW Cri'",stially•
hail not only tried to the very teeth, but hhclltJ, the
commonalty of Engh:fiel. Because they recollected lila',
for a long series of years, she had been the ~"I'-lect of
unmet fled perseelliioll: amid because, treat the tact of her
having been once assailed by unpunished pesjety, they
drew the natural conclusion, that by pet jury she %mild be
assailed again. Gentlemen, no stainer was the Queen
landed than the in:Misters were all in a bustle. Lot
Liverpool hi particular was as busy as a certain personage
is said to be in a high wind. He hail immediately as
many occupations as Sereth in the Beaux 811114;4CW, "hop
Id display lug the versatility of hia Is tents, says to Archer,
" O n Sionlaysl draws warrants, and on almidays thaws
beer." So on arse day Lord Liverpool was employed in
drawing the indictment against the Queen a on another in
settling the brief of tile Attorney Gruel al; on a third iii
canvassing the depositions of the witnesses; awl tit a
fourth, perrhatice, in trying hew Car their oral testimony
was likely to agree with the written 'kid:nations—a pro-
cess which, in certain cases (not hi Lord Liverpool's), I
believe the attornies deiminimite fluilliag. And, after all
this pains-takiiig, Ins Lordship fin ti erniore un Jet wok the
weighty task of sitting to try the came 45 a jams.. Here,
Gentlemen, is one of the main hinges of the Qneert's case.
\rho were her accusers? The ministers. Who were the
jurors that sate to ivy her? The ministers, their relations
and (Heads; and, what was more alarining still, their
political dependants. But Lord Liverpool solemoly pro-
tested, on, behalf of himself and his compeers, that they
would wash flout their minas all antecedent prejailices,
and proceed to hear the evidence, pin awl coo. with the
most unimpeachable fait st and infaai Ualiac. Presuaia•
limits Man ! I)nes lie imagine that lie e m ,met the cam-
plea wheels which conipme the fina mai Irmo y of the
human mind, and conquer, iii a cause fu winch His all of
reputation and of political existence is at stAc, that self=
partiality which is a fixed law of If', in
rites fame to tile known laws of human stature, any man
would be thus impeaelied as a ;mice in a matter of one
hundred pounds, what most we think of the jiifiges who
sate to try the Queen, with power, patronage, place, and
triumph aw alba g them mid pulitical ruin.
disgt ace, and imolai, ation awaiting them oil an acquittal?
Belpre such a tribunal, however, the Queen appeared to
answer—alter a ',team-Aim' of aide 11101 V, I think, than a
line 4es W.:s(l hail been concocting tOr arms,
:mil iisptlung the partit Mars of which she was, hut
Htalvelluus adherence to legal (mint., kept entirely in the
flat k. [The Rev. lientleman then took an able review of
the progress oldie ti sal, and of the conduct of the Peers.]
fielitlellts I), I • MI , 'OM re and enthusiastic admirer of the
B, tub Cl,ll3ilitliti'la..• I find it described by the hest legit
aam,ritie.; Awl it.,,1i;,;1) I cannot agree with the erlcbra-
ted 31r. Reeve s in his iipiniuu dist the mon:itchy of Bri-
tain may subsist without the Houses of Lords and Com.
lUdllb, 1 regard the regal authority as au integral and
iudisp. usable rortion or our Coostiialiaa. I alias, it is
my ditty to levk up to the Sovereigo with res creme ; and

I am one ef the old school, who think it wholesome and
conducive to the public good that the throne should be
retarded by the people at large with a kind tormysterions
lin,se points I trust von agree with me in sen-
timent. Waal then must we 'lntik of those rash men who
rudely tear away the veil suspended before the throne,
and reveal to the public eye what cannot be beheld with.
out pain It is not the habit of the people of Eogland to
criticise with severity the errors, or even the vices, of
persons of exalted rank. They would be disposed to
look upon the failings of a Sovereign with the emotions
with which the failings of a father are regarded by a
dutiful son. It is a wise policy in these kingdoms to keep
the pert/Mal proceetliogs and prejudices of tho Monarch
at much as possible tint of sight. But how can Ibis be
effected, if miolisters grout:tripoli these prejudices great
and important transactions of stale. In the ease before
ois, the imbue at iaroe had nothing to du, anal had little
iodination to ins ermeldle, with the. loofas wmate dittiwenees
which have taken place between the King and Ins wife.
nut the moinctot the ministers called ;loon our represent•
taiives for a bill of degradation and divorce against the
Queen, those ditterencrs, with their caucus and circum-
stances, became a legitimate subject of puuiie discussion :
for it any toot!, after the King's message was fold on the
aldc of the House of Commons, had said to the people of
England, "This is a matter which, at it concerns the
King, you most terbear to canvass," the people tit Eng-
land would have treated him with contempt, anal would
hare said—" If doe King applies :o our i-presentatives to
rid him of his wife, and calls orion us to ploy the expenses
of the process, we become parties in the canse, and 110
ponce on earth shall prevent n. from exantiniitg into its
',attire and beatings. 'This has, in fact, bean ilie lan-
gotsge and the conduct of the people of England. I
!meat the resale of their investigations; but, for the
evil which has arisen from the late inquiry, his Majesty's
ministers, mei they alone, are severely responsib.e : I say
that for these evils they are severely responsible, because
they in;glit have obviated them by :in ordinary degree of
spirit and decision.

FROM LAST AuGlirs GAZETTR.
........

This Gazette notifies thearpointtnent of A. Hay, of Fording-
bridge. Hants, arc' G. Harper, of Wuiteltureli, Salop, Gents. to
be Alastcra Extraordinary in the fliith Court of Chancety.

BANKRUPTCIES ENLARGED.

T. Usherwood, Tunbridge, Kent, farmer, from D.:c. 30 to
Jan. 13.
11. Jackson, Great Present Street, Goodman's Fields, tncr.
chant, from Jan. 6 to Jan. 13.
BANKRUPTS.

Rollinson, Great -------- Stdfalk, miller. Solicitor,
Mr. Wayman, limy St. Edmund's.
T. Knight, Chipping Sudbury, Gloucestershire, wine and
spirit dealer. Sol. Mr.-Burthot, Temple.
E. and S. Mitch:Al, Norwich, wine merchants. Sul. Mr.
Holutway, Tooke'. Court, Chancay Lane.
W. Wylie, Southampton Row, Bloomsbury, merchant. Sol.
Mr. Patten, lfarton Gamlen.
Reed. Mill :itre.:t, .lainondsey, corn dealer. Sols. Messrs.
Sudlow and Co. Monument Yard.
J. 11. Keditell, Ilalsal I leath. Warwicic, sword cutler. Sots.
Messrs. Swain and (2n. Old Jewry.
E. Mayer and .1. Keeling, Shelton, Staffird, factors. Sol. Mr.
Etuttii4, Lincoln's Inn.
I. stibbs, Cully hall, Gloucestershire, yeoman. Sob. Messrs.
Adlington and Gregory., Bedford Row.
G. Farrar, Comnicici..l Sale Rooms, Mincing Lane. merchant.
Sole. Messrs. Niad and Cotterill, IlitNniortel Street.
T. Barehead, New Mahon, Yorkshire, corn laaor. Sol. Mr.
Wilson, GrevilleStext, II tton Garden.
W. Marshall, Ilegent Street, statuary. Sol. Mr. Addis, P..rlt
Street, Westminster.
.1. Dellis, Clic.ter, grocer. Sols. Messrs. Milne and Parry,
Temple.
4. .1. Boyn,Crutchedlliars, merchant. So!. Mr. Le Blanc, New
Bridge Street.
DIVIDENDS.
Jun. In, J., G., and It. Alorgan, Belle Sauvage Yard, Lud-
gate Hill, wholesale stationers—'2s, K. Boot, Artillery Place.
Finsbury Square, merchant-2u, Ir. Reid, Vrineca Street, Spital
Fields, silk manufacturer-20, W. Kent, High Holborn.
stationer-20, C. Poynor, I/one:L.4er, York, linen draper-27. J.
Wtaxlbum, Westu.orland, ti.ul.c rntrehant-20,
.1. 11. Koe, Poplar, Roman cement nianui.icturer-2u, C.Graves.
Holborn, linen draper-20, V. Cooper, New Bond Street,
millincr-9, J. Balliner, City Chambers, Ilis:dipstite Strict,
merchant-23, N.J. Fellowcs, Foundling Terrace. Gray's Inn
Road, painter and plaziN.-20, %Vliittnarc, \Valliant Green,
Middlesex, hrewer—ks, W. Ch.rke. Sheffield, builder.
CEIITIFICAI'ES to lie grained Jail. 20.
T. Muria, Hereford, grocer—J. Liverpool, inn-
keeper—G. Booth, junior, Coleshill, Warwickshire, dealer—W.
Small:, jun. Lower Elst Smithfield, butcher—M. I.meli, \line
Friars, carman—T. Palin, Hanky. SuM:irdsliire, butcher—W.
Meakin, Leckshall, Stalliml, grocer—J. Gordon, Thanet Place,
Strand. merchant—E. Tollervey, We.tbuunse, Sussex, miller...
J. Wright, Hart street, Bloomsbury, upholAttrer.

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THE NATIONAL REGISTER

LOM3OII.
SUNDAY, DIiCENII3ER 31.

- An additional motive Ibr pctitionin the Ni,lg to
dismiss his Ministers has arisen within a few days.
Mr. Canning has resigned—the cause or his resig-
nation is admitted by the ministerial pqers to be
the determination of the Cabinet to pursue other
means fOr the degradation of the Queen, and Mr.
Canning's resolution to save himself front the inde-
lible disgrace of bearing a part its suds proceedings.
The country is now on the brink of an abyss—to
advance a single step may open to it the most ap-
palling chasm : the phreaszy produced Isy the recent
measures, in opposition to the declared opinion and
wishes of the people,may become maduus if pushed
a little further, and in their political insanity the
people may attempt a revolution. At a moment like
this, every man is bound to rally round the Consti-
tution : our readers well know what we nwan—they
is:ill nut suspect us of joining the cry of those who
unite the Constitution with the Cabinet. We con-
sider that the present men have done all that could
be done by men, possessed of their abilities, to de-
Croy what we venerate. We know that they have
brought the, country to a state cf distress, calamity,
and dissatisfaction, the efli:ets of which can only be
averted by an entire change. We, therefore, feel
that every ism, who has ssa atom of interest, is
bound to exert it—every one is called upon by his
attachment to his king unit his country, to contri-
bute to th..ir removal.—. Addresses for this purpose
to the king arc in general progress; but this
is insutlieient. Petitions, firm, init respectful, to
both Houses or Parliament must be presented on
their meeting;—this is the oily vrty to do, consti-
tutionally, what every trae'Englishman must wiNh,
and the sooner it be done the better.

The Queen is to be degraded in Hanover! What
they may call degradation will be easily achieved

there under the influence of the illustrious Vice-Roy
—and what honest man Will esteem her Majesty an
iota less for a measure which, under the tyrannic
law of Germany, must be passed by a venal legisla-
ture when it is once introduced by a despotic
Government. Thank God'! England has not yet a
despotic Government, and, if its people will exert
themselves, it never will—if they do not, and that
immediately, the alternative between despotism and
revolution will be forced upon them, and we our-
selves, if left to our choice, should pause. IVc hope
our countrymen will yet avoid so lamentable a
d ilenuna.

Four days' Paris papers, which had been in arrear,
have arrived. The Mositenr asserts, that the King
of the Two Sicilies sailed from Naples on the 13th
ult, under the British and French flag, to meet the
Allied Power's at Laybach. The CouAtilt:lime!, the
Cezrt,e vie France. and other minor Journals state
the same Cue, and that his Neapolitan Majesty had
landed at Leghorn. They add also, that the Duke
of Campo Cilium had been impeached by the Pedi-
ment, and succeeded by the Duke de Gallo. Other
accounts assert, that the impeachment includes all
the Neapolitan Ministers, and. that a new Ministry
had been appointed. The Constauouel mentions
that two Proclamations were issued by King 12er-
dinand previous to his departure, but silent as to
their contents. These are rather portentous slims
fur the Neap(Akan Patriots. We arc furnished with
no clue whereby we can judge of those proceedings.
We hope there is nothing " rotten in the State of
Naples," and that corruption and treachery arc not
at work. The King of Naples is in his seventieth
year, and he declined, in the first. instance. the
conference to which he was invited by the Allied
Powers, but it is now said the request was repeated,
and he was urgetl by the French and Englisa Mi-
nisters to comply. The latter statement we consider
rather doubtful, but if it be the fact, it is incum-
bent upon them to take particular care of his inte-
rests, us his Majesty was never remarkable for poli-
tical sagacity, muteness of intellect, or Courtly in_
trigue. The dictation of any foreign Posser or
Powers in the domestic government of a nation is a
most flagrant act of injustice, that deserves the
general reprobation of mankind. Three of the
Allied Confederates have already decided, it is said,
against the Revolution in Naples, and if Ferdinand
is determined to support it, it is likely that he will
be able to convert them in favour of the Liberties
and Independence of his country 11 Is it not then a
suspicious circumstance that he should be invited to
a conference which he as hated to avoid, while the
Emperor of Austria has an immense force menacing
Naples, and ready, we arc wit!, to act. There is!
to be another Congress next year, and probably an-
nually until the Holy Allies begin to quarrel among
themselves. If these meetings are intended to awe,
or to have an imposing effect upon the people of
surrounding nations, their frequency will contravene
their object. Two of the Paris Journals devoted to
the Ultras state, on the authority of a private letter,
that evidences of conspiracy relating to the late Re-
volutions
of the Isle of Leon, Netles, and Oporto,
have been discovered. They however refrain from
their usual misrepresentations and filselloods of
Spain being in a disturbed state, and on the eve of
anarchy and confusion. The proceedings in the
French Chamber of Deputies are merely of local in
terest. They have been rather stormy, arising out
of the discussions on the dilferent Members proving
their qualifications. The admission of Count Ker-
gorlay and M. 11. de Thury, returned fur the De-
partment of the Oise, was opposed on the coustitn-
Lionel ground of a military force having been most
idcgally introduced at the time of the election ; and
also on the ground of the Returning Olicer having
been guilty of gross and wilful partiality in regu
luting the voters enti►led to poll on that occasion.—
M. Geardin, alto brought forward the charge, was
compelled to desist by the disapprebistion expressed
and the two Deputies were declared by the Presidetit