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No. 1,281.—V0L. XIII.]

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ON THE ISSUE OP THE QUEEN% TRIAL.
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WHIN we first sawed the lists in favour of hex
Majesty, we did it with the perfect conviction that
on the issue of her trill would depend whether we
were to remain, or cease to be, a free people. The

nion, is absolutely necessary to every scheme of
liberty in a highly cultivated state of society. This
shews how careful statesmen ought to be in pre-
serving the regal dignity from the slightest degra-•
dation. Much as we love liberty, we could not
easily reconcile ourselves to the rude familiarity eel'
modern mullein manners. Royalty takes off the
sough edge of cresikes, and renders it more_durage,
by its tendency- to check its lussuiance. We thaw
fore deplore the injury it has ree:eived from the •
accursed Bill of Pains and Penalties; and, to rectify
this misfortune, we confide more io the gcod 811.140
of the public, than in the seal of its intemperate
supporters.

more we reflected on the subject. the more we felt
penuatied that our Brat impression was cotTect ; and
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meting am alter, that if the Bill hat? passed, the
station could never have been induced, but by down-
right violence, to submit. to its enactments. 'Un-
utterable calamities must have arisen out of the
unfliet, that would hare been thus raised between
die government and a very large majority of tLe
nation. There is every reason to suppose that it
would have been a deadly one, and that one party
would have fallen, mortally wouaded,in the struggle.
The people would have not yielded, and the govern-
ment could not, for, after carrying so odious a
measure, it must have supported it by a succes-
sion of violent acts, one exceeding the other in its
unconstitutional and coercive character. The Bill was
founded on that sort of policy, which admits of no
compromise with the party attacked, and leaves only
the alternative of complete triumph or total defeat.
It is, therefore, difficult to say whether the govern-
ment or the people have most reason to congratulate
themselves on its rejection. The former could not
call that an advantage, which would deprive it for
war of the auachnbaat and csaddrass of titeanblia;.
and when it would have to secure its parliamentary
triumph by the entire destruction of the reme;ning
rights and liberties of the country. It is well known
how insecure any system of rule is, though fenced
round by all the mighty and terrific means, at the
disposal of a tyranny, if once the people regard it
with implacable distrust and aversion. We therefore
advise ministers to bear their defeat with fortitude,
and to consider it even a fortunate circumstance that
they have got, u they have done, out of so perilous
a dilemma.
But as the result of success on their part would
have been the curtailment of the people's rights; the
penalty of having miscarried will be the reduction of
their own influence, and perhaps their dismissal. In
politics, as in war, the party who engages in a
desperate enterprise, and fails, usually loses all the
ground it had previously gained : the general, who
collects all his resources, in order to fight a pitched
battle, and is defeated, is generally driven back to
the position be occupied at the commencement of
hostilities. A government, also, which has been
waging war for a long time with its free-born sub-
jects, is always forced back to the ground it held
at the beginning of the struggle, as soon as it is
beaten upon a question of great,and decisive mo-
amt. It is surprising, therefore, how ministers
could entertain and persevere in a measure that was
sure to call forth every energy of the nation, and to
make the cause of the Queen that of every one, who
would not see Might triumph over Right, and the
crown set aside at pleasure all the safeguards of con-
stitutional liberty. This was fair of the greatest
blunders ever committed by the servants of the
crown in this country; fur, in the first place, they
tyre off at once the veil with which they had pre-
viously endeavoured to conceal their encroachments
upon the constitution; and, in the next, tiny risked
the fruits of forty years' successful areas on 0111. at-
tack. It is now about forty you. since Mr. Dunning

801)'1 I! AMERICA.
The following is an extract of a letter from the
son of Mr. O'Connell, who .ucconipanied Cient.ral
D'Evereux to South America. We believ- it isthe
most authentic account that has reached Europe
from this quarter.

416,:

" Head-quarters, Barranquilla,
Monday, Aug. 13,11.120.
My dear Father—Mr. Burke, a most particular friend
of the General's, having hail me that ire '41:1 11', ~fc au op-
portunity of sending letters to-mote' J.: :1310.'3, 1 CM-
brace the opportnisily to send ylls ;: item ;isn't: am
account of our voyage and ataiv,al 11. it . After a li•w •
weeks tedious passage from Jamaica, we aucblr,.J in the
Bay of Saveuella, and ,tone but the G. a t t% ai ado.; ed
to land, accoMpanied by two Aides-de-Cam,. ; you hum-
ble servant was one of those, but tile Gearrita nut heir;
able to procure horses enough I.r us, I was left bt.stind.
" As soon as the General taw Adult's+ Brio. , he soli-
cited permission for all of us to lead, winelt the Admiral
granted, and sent down a large belle .; fur its 10
come up from SaveneHa to Barraip.illa, 22 miles distant
—Aili.nengo came down, but the cal* never liteationed a
word lit the message; they loaded her from several ves-
sels with different articles, went up the river, and we
never knew she was for as 11.11 ii side we. gone. Tot pas-
sage tip the river always occupies front 2 to SO hours fur
barge boats, in consequence of he enrage' of the current
running down ; as soon as the General saw we were taut
cuter, another large boat was de patched, and after lying
at Saveatella for near a week, we edits.' 11,, bele slier 2-1

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booms passage. On our arrivall:ere, ,i.e..itticers and sol-
diers were billeted on the inhabit:sm rind supplied with
v excellent 'iola of beef, 31h. each—of hreml. a good bat;
and rice, candles, &c. 1 being on the General's Stall stop
at the same house with him. 'rite Admiral behaves very
well 'o the General, and indeed we as e trey.ted here
with the greatest respect.
" It seems that Moinillo has refined to give np the Corp-
tumid of the army to the General ; iu C01134.41111.11CC of
which 'he General bay despatched Hall and Bennett to
the President, to lay the matter before him. Toe General
reopen greatly my not hying op here in time, •ohe he
would have sent sue to the President iitstead of Bennett.
Bolivar is al present within ten days journey of this.
" I rode yesterday, with Mr. But ke, to Suledad, about
seven miles off, whetc 40.1 Creoles are stationed. I was
prereired to Admiral Brion and rah Madan) ---, a so-
;terminated old Ditches*. Yon will be sore. hied to hear,
and no doubt rejoiced,' -
as servant, who came
My dear father, I"l wt

" The messenger w!
mist finish abruptly,
nell, &c. are all
in a few days."
The same gentleman
maica, under date Jul•
of Carthagena had
six officers and four
took with him abou►
Creoles, which, added to 150 on board ti„t's fleet.
and 300 at Angostura, will constitute a force of
600 Irish and 100 Creoles; that the army wider
the President's special command is P 4,000 strong,
which is intended for an attack on in con-
junction with the divisions of Geiser..;
Urdaneta.

Extract of a letter from List l• iorid3
date:—" We are at length derivilig tl'
‘‘e atiticited from the change of
which the Cortes has given a! Giito
gen, who is most retpected by the peopl
ed as a portion of the river, opposite
St. Mary's, where preparatimis ace,mal
sidcrable business. This .new port -is
St. Joseph. One French Ififf fi•om I I,..vrL
arrived, And whets arc expected daily. The
and port charges arc quite atm we ar.. !Lupo%
for a brisk trade, in winen the merchants of the
United :..i:ates are expected to participate very
largely.

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out with Palmer, of the Li Heel 4.-64
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!hu goes wills this is , se
ly. Mr. trAllulleii, reim.
I ova. We air to ait'porn.t. Alartho
eman writes fratia Kinston, Ja-
July 17, stacflig that the Viceroy
1 iirriveethere, accompanied by
• friars(that General LYE,..treux
out 160 Irish troops and 100
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