The National Register.
London, England, 1820-07-02 00:00:00

ters have to do unfairly by the Queen, and if the y
were disposed to persecute the Queen, why did net
they boldly at once become public accusers them-
selves? The answer is plain—lt might be advisable,
for the sake of keeping their places, to humour ant
not to cheek the irritated feelings of their royal
master; and above all, a large part of them having,
been the defenders and advisers of the Queen, whit'
the last King lived (for the hue King kept them in
their places for acting that part far which the pre-
sent King would necessarily dismiss them), they felt
it would be too barefaced a proceeding to stand for-
ward as the eager accusers of her, whose peculiar
friends and servants they had been, and the exposers
of that sort ofevidence upon which they had declared
her to be traduced before—and yet, under• existing
circumstances, it might be inconvenient to those
gentlemen to have the presence of the Queen in
England, so that first they compound what they
contend at least to be virtual high treason, and then
because she ventures to set her toot in England, they'
first try to frighten her with a Green Bag, and then
to cajole her into terms which she has justly declared
to be inconsistent with her honour. Having pre- •
her by excluding her from her place in the
tdttrier:y, they want her to consent to an acknow-
ledgment of the wisdom and justice of their own
nnwise'and unjust roceeding, and then to take her-
self off, by her own influent, to the Continent, to
afford more materials for Green Bugs, with 50,0001.
a year out of the pockets of an exhausted people, to
maintain her in that state which they declared to be
so sinful ; to banish herself voluntarily, that she
might save Ministers from such a rallying point, as
they termed it for Opposition, and to obviate that
which to these fellows might prove a great embar-
rassment.
Had %anion proyeeed, is the ant instance, an
, Open public twoceeding, they would hate acted fairly
by die Queen, and saved themselves from di race; or,
had they suppress,. the whole matter, which, under:
all circumstances, would have been far the best, by
resolutely telling the King that it was for his own
dignity and the public good that they should leave
his service rather that( proceed at all in the affair; .
they would then, if dismissed from office as Minis-
ters, have retained unimpaired their character as
upri4'at men and as gentlemen, which, most '
.aertainly, they cannot now retain. But they have
flat collected (as it appears too probable) charges
'from doubtful sources, with secrecy and marvellous
diligence; they have stigmatized without trial their '
i• Queen as guilty, by striking her out of the Liturgy
before they had afforded tho means of proving
herself innocent ; they have heaped every insult of
neglect upon her, by withholding every comfort and
wiped due to her rank—foreign Courts, and even
the ungrateful Bourbons, in return for the hospitality
`shewn therm by the Duke of Brunswick, the Queen's
' father, and the British nation, have treated her, out
.of respect for the British ministry, with insoleuce
stud cruel eeglect. Ministers, Engliennen, and
pawing fur Christians, have then offered a bribe to
-her whom they have Maul ted,if she would spare them
%Shoptalk of her presence , than threatened her with
lbreen Bags, then cajoled her again, then threatteed
her again—and what has been the conduct of the
Rueen? she has despised briber; she has scorned
threats; she ha.s, from the dictatesof hoe own mind
and the conviction of the justice of her cause, and, we
Lust presume, of her innocence, totally thrown her-
self upon the Actions of the British people ; and ate
tended by an honest Englishman, to whom mankind,
for his services, are everlastingly indebted, in the
'courageous energy of bee soul she appears amid the
blessings and acclamations of Englishmen, with the
fortitude and spirit of t& Heroine, and with the fairest .
CrMption at least of unsullied honour. 161 she
tlitted,she had been lest. What security is there.
,that had she paused a moment at St. Omers, she
might not have been detained in Frence; or, that
she would not have been brought a prisoner for
trial to England,—her hesitation construed into -
sense of guilt—so far from having acted rashly, •
.e., the Queen has taken the only line that could lead *.• 1..
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