The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-25 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION.

that also was loaded full of men. We then came to a I
house—l think, called the Welsh Oak. There were a
great number of men there previous to our coming up. I
should think i
there were upwards of 5,000 in our party. A
great number of them were armed, and some of them
had lights in lanterns, and others had candles. I did
not get out of the tram till I got to the Welsh Oak.
I have been at Risca. The house I call the Welsh
Oak was this side of Risca. It was about three or four
o'clock in the morning when I arrived there. We had
been out on the road during the whole of the night. It
was daylight when we left there. The prisoner kept
the gang all the way. I did not see him in the house,
I saw a chaise standing at the corner of the tram-road.
The men were were placed two and two, and came along
the tram-road. I saw the prisoner then put an extra
ball into his pistol. The ball was too large, and he cut
it with a knife. As he put it into the pistol he said,
"'There it is for them, however." It was an &d-fashioned
pistol ; the barrel about nine inches long. The man
who gave him the ball had a mandril on his back, and a
hero in his pocket. I heard the horn blown several
times. We came through Sir Charles Morgan's park. I
dhi not see them stop there ; but some men said they would
not go any further ; they were forced to go on.
There was the prisoner, a man with a plaid cloak, and
the man with the horn behind them all. I came with
them to the top of Stow-hill ; the prisoner was then be-
hind with a gang, leading their. on. I saw him nearly
opposite the church. I was with him. At this time I
saw a man carried up with blood on his ancle ; the men
were retreating, and said to the prisoner, " Why have
yon brought us here to be slaughtered ?" He said,
"Go on, go on, don't be cowards." I then made my
escape es soon as pot.sible, and did not see the prisoner
afta.rwards. I had not heard any firing at that time.
The prisoner was then asked whether there were any
yaostions that he wished to put to the witness.
The prisoner said, " No, I will reserve that for
.an-
other day, by which time I think be will correct nine-
; tenths of what he has said."
'rile prisoner was then remanded till Monday next,
aild thJ Court adjourned till that day.
_ --mm••••••=1MMIWO~N

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
i
! (From the Tiniez.)
Is it, can it he, the wish of the Ministers who stir-
! round the Sovereign, to alarm the subjects of their
' Royal Mistress at the moment, of all others, when the
feelings of loyalty and of love ought to flow the most
1 ' freely ! Can it be their object, in announcing an event
which involves the hope of a long and honoured inheri-
i tence for the throne, to cast misgivings across the peo-
i plc's joy, and cloud the prospect of the Protestant sue-
: cession ! Are they still so deeply in arrear to the demon
' of Popery, that, not content with attempting to sacrifice
before it the clergy, the nobility, and the most revered
institutions of the realm, they must now curry favour
with their monster ally, by endeavouring to sell, or to
) blur, the popularity of the Crown ? Is the Queen to be
' thus betrayed :?Her people are too loyal and too dis-
-„
7 cerning to let the mischief light upon ber. Be it on the
1 heads of those in whose selfish policy it has been engen-
-1 dered. On Saturday the Privy Council, according to pre-
I eedeat, assembled for the purpose of receiving the So-
j vereign's gracious communication of her intended mar-
riage. According to precedent, the summons was a
general one, end it might have been expected that
some regard to the same precedent would also have
been preserved in the Royal declaration. There was
! no conflict of authorities to distract the Minister
who framed it ; for the only case in point since the
1 settlement of the crown upon the reigning family is
&hot of George 111. The marriages of Anne, of the
tiro, second, and fourth Georges, and of his late
Majesty, were all contracted before those Sovereigns
respectively attained the Crown. George the Third
lalone took a consort after his accession. On the Bth
of July, 1761, that Monarch, " being present in
' council, was pleased to make the following declara-
-1 tion :—Having nothing so much at heart as to pro-
cure the welfare and happiness of my people, and to
reader the the same stable and permanent to poste-
rity, I have, ever since my accession to the Throne,
turned my thoughts towards the choice of a Prin-
cess for a consort ; and I now, with great satis-
faction, acquaint you, that after the fullest information
sad mature deliberation, I am come to a resolution to
demand in marriage the Princess Charlotte of .Mecklen-
! burgh Streiitz—a Princess distinguished by ever emi-
nent virtue and amiable endowment, whose illustrious
‘ 'iris has constantly shown the firmest zeal for the Pro-
testant religion, and a particular attachment to my
• family. I have judged proper to communicate to you
these .my intentions, in order that you may be fully ap-
prised of a matter so highly important to me and to my
kingdom, and which, I persuade myself, will be most
acceptable to all my loving subjects." For the most
pars, with the alterations necessary to suit the circum-
stances, the precedent of King George 111. has bees
followed in the declaration of Queen Victoria ; but in
tills declaration her Majesty's Ministers have omitted
•• one passage, and that is the passage which carries the
ple arge for the Protestant religion. Do we infer from this
omisr:on that our Sovereign is unfriendly, or even indiffer-
ent to the religion of her family and people. We allow no
suspicion of such a nature to have a moment's place in our
i minds. Do IN e conclude, that the Prince to whom she is
about to unite herself is regardless of the Protestant
faith ? All testimonies concur to establish a contrary
persuasion. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert are as
little open to any' suspicion of anti-Protestant bias even
as Bier Majesty's grandfather himself. Yet it was
tlieught expedient on his marriage to gratify the feel-
ings of the nation by an assurance that the intended
consort was attached to the Protestant religion, and
this, although there then existed no applicable prece-
I dent. The subject, therefore, might then have been
omitted, without leading to any sort of observation.
But now, so far from having inserted it in the absence
) of precedents, the Minister has expunged it in viola-
lion of them. Far from having gone out of his way
`t to introduce so important a pledge, he has actually left
[ea beaten track to get rid of it. And whereas, in the
e ,:q, of 1761, the Sovereign was a male, and therefore
,i we're se; to be swayed on the momentous question of
i r„lizra,a by the female partner of his throne, the case of
1 1839 is that of a Sovereign whose sex does not preclude
! the proleaility that conjugal influence may have consi-
derable weiir;ht in a matter of such importance. It may
1 be, and we have no doubt it is, the perfect truth, that
the influence of the Prince now selected is not likely to
I,r exerted in any direction unfavourable to the Pro-
t t„, ..pct faith ; but was it not then due to him, as well
1 as ti,,, people, to let that truth be stated ? For several
wce ,
i ti,,'
se, •t the few followers who are still left to
, •‘•
( rho mr„rata,-
have been endeavouring to asperse the
of th„-. r betters, by arguing from the speeches of to} ally ty
seine extravage nt and wine-warmed individuals, that
there exists are 'ong the Conservatives an ultra-Pro-
tustant wish to sea' the present heir presumptive in ac-
tual possession o. the Crown. Against so false and
i abominable an insl;esretion it is needless, nay, it would
be unworthy to enter e'en a defence. But if those who
save fabricated or encon.-aged this wicked charge do
really believe that area, comeeicreble part of her Ma-
, jests's subjects are labouring Linde.- the groundless ap-
at a m, lineut when po-
orchension that the Sovereign,
b,, t its claws,. is
,‘ery pushes out not only its feelers,
how
4 en l or even lukewarm in the Protestant .behalf,
ss-or —ts' how imperative a reason was it, why
Minis-
stn we,
„hou d eagerly seize this apt and authentic ,eeeeien
to u.„
°that mistaken class of the public by a frank
•d recognition of the faith which is, and
and well-tines
be, the bond of union, allegiance, esnd
1: which is still t:'
affection betwee n the Sovereign and the line of her
'' ;,aped-for issue '. 'We say with earnestness, that after
the imputations ca ‘t, however untruly, upon the Queen e
' faithful subjects of a coolness to her Crown and person,
1I „, 'Sting from misref. !reeentation of her feelings towarde
I the Church, it beck ime on the occasion of this new
r bounden duty of Ministers, even
I epoch in her reign, the
if go precedent had e qreadY existed for assuring the
m,; ' put precedent on purpose. They
is rsel, to make a
ode—they use. it to all other
find a pree,edent ready re
intents ; but. in the one /,'Dint for which itr
rwas
emotst
.'
figra
ti.sine
ofretile c
valuable, through which
o
rank ion the people's
Protestantism, a -Royal cor"-
, religious charter, sight have beennr naturally,lneed apphro;
to( —I in, that
y, and unosteltatiously '
one, single, only point, they prL.4, ,me to shove thea
it was hardly to
P aside. Perhaps in theen
be wondered at ; for who can expect"
I
should shrink from a violation of that those men
•‘-e.cedent whose
1 whole career has been a violation' of P 'nciple ?—that
pr. `action whose
I they should respect the forms of the Consti. '
five are bent And
on the destruction of its essene I" ?• 1„ for fir yflung that purpose is it that they have tte IS new
'
slig 1- upon the Protestant Church
and people Not
ta please their mistress ; her Majesty,
w. ell as-
se red, has no feelings in common witle we are
those who woe '''''
rel.!uke even tacitly that faith, the legacy of her father,
and the best ilt heritance of her children. As little case ' '
tthe e'rote,etant Prince who aspires to her hand be in-
disparaging the Church whereof he is him- '
I terested in
self a sincere member. \Vhom, then, has this sacrifice '
' been made to 1 ,ropitiate ? The Irish Papists and their
Council—the Priests, through
nominees in tie' Privy
I „h„„aaales O'Connell juggles, and the incendiaries
for whom Normanby carries cloak, mask, and match—
or of two, in the House of Corn-
; the majority of tee e
I mons, the avowed 1 t3sailan ts of the Constitution wit of
'.e he Church, but th,? masters and sole preservers of a
disgraced, a treachecous, and a dependent Ministry.
(From the Morning Chronicle.)
' On Saturday her Majesty communicated to the Privy
Council that it was her intention to ally herself in mar-
riage
with Prince Albert, of Saxe Cotsourg and Gotha.
The attendance of members of the Council was greater
I than, considering the season, we were led to antis:Tate.
iOf the future husband of our Queen, report speak:;e
terrv°ere•hisa He is a few months younger than i
Ma'
......y, having been born on the 26th of August, 1819, ,
w. tide the Queen, was born on the 34th May, 1819.
It i-• understood-that Prince Albert and her Majesty
Ihave • long felt towards each other a strong attachment ;
1 and, teom an union under such circumstances, her Ma-
r
J;
es ty,s loyal subjects indulge the hope that in the strong
~,suran ce which
.she feels, that " with the blessing of !
:Lthnight.) y God, it will at once secure her domestic fe-
sese...-- 777' 1

licity, and serve the interests of her countu," she will 1
not be disappointed. Prince Albert is not %ply a Pro-
testant, but descended in a right line from tittle eldest
branch of the House of Saxony which protected Lu-
ther, and enabled the Reformation to take root. In '
the war to which the Reformation led, the great ances-
tor of the Prince was unsuccessful and stripped of
his possessions ; but the people of Germany have al-
ways a grateful attachment to the illustrious house
which, at the critical period when the Reformation was
strugglinc, for existence, afforded to its founders a se-
cure asylum and an effective patronage. In Germany,
where religious bigotry prevails less than in England,
even Catholic writers allow that the Protestant Re-
formation was a blessing to Europe, and that Luther
reformed the Church of Rome itself while he founded
another ; and both Catholics and Protestants revere
the memory of the great Elector of Saxony, the ances-
tor of the house of Saxe Cobourg and Gotha.
Throughout the whole of Saturday there was the
greatest excitement in town. On the countenances of
the people satisfaction at the announced marriage of
her Majesty was expressed in a manner not to be mis-
taken. On the breaking up of the Council Ministers
were loudly cheered on their way from the Palace. A
few of the rabble, however, evidently hired for the oc-
casion, attempted to hoot several of the Ministers.
The Sun says, " We observed among the crowd a cer-
tain Noble Marquis, who has lately ratted from the
Whigs, and a Baronet of some celebrity in East Indian
affairs, who were signalling the populace as to what
parties they should cheer or groan." This is a paltry
way of evincing hostility.
(From the Aforning Advertiser.)

The proceedings of the Privy Council on Saturday
last, as well as the gracious declaration by her Majesty
that it was her determination to ally herself by marriage
with a Prince of the House of Saxe Cobourg, will be
found elsewhere at full length, as well as a variety of
particulars pertaining to the same subject—a subject of
no inconsiderable interest, not only to all loyally-dis-
posed persons in these realms, but intimately connected
with the future welfare and prosperity of dominions
upon which the sun never sets. For our own part, we
could have wished, for many reasons, that her Majesty's
choice of a husband had fallen elsewhere—upon a Prince
of the House of Orange, for example, who, instead of
requiring a settlement at the hands of her subjects,
would have brought not only personal, but the sources
of public wealth with him to our country ; but there
are many reasons why we should not find fault
with the choice which has been made. Prince
Albert is not only a Protestant Prince, and des-
cended from a Protestant family, illustrious in the
annals of Europe for the liberality of its principles,
and the protection which it has at all times
afforded to the advocates of free discussion and general
improvement ; but if general report be well founded,
he is a Prince of excellent education, of sound princi-
ples, of good conduct. and of amiable manners ; and
far be it from us, in consequence, who are attached to
the Throne, and desire it to be the seat of happiness
and domestic comfort, to attempt to canvas for a
moment the propriety of her Majesty's choice. So
far as the public is concerned, the Prince is not only
unobjectionable, but oss many accounts desirable ; and
hound and tied up as her Majesty's ha❑ds are in all
State affairs, by constitutional principles, it is little
enough that she should enjoy the unrestricted privilege
of selecting for the future partner of her joys and
sorrows him to whom her affections are most inclined.
We have said that the intended alliance, which we
have reason to believe will be brought to maturity in
the course of next spring, is in many respects de-
sirable ; and we have, in proof of our position, simply
to allude to the recent proceedings of the Cumber-
land faction in parading a Royal lady throughout the
country as the patroness of their principles, in order to
convince every one both of the necessity of her Majesty
declaring her choice at the earliest possible period, and
of its propriety. The Prince is not only a young man
of nearly the same age as the Queen, and endowed with
all those qualities which are calculated to keep as well
as to win the affections of her Majesty ; but he is more
—he is not shackled by party feelings—he brings no
prejudices with him hostile to the constitutional regime
of the country ; and farther, his first friendships, so far
as official connection is concerned, must be with men
who are the known friends of freedom and human im-
provement. It is true that the Prince has no constitu-
tional right of interference with the course of public
affairs in this country ; but the husband of a Queen
must always possess a certain influence over the feelings
and inclinations of his wife, and it cannot in conse-
quence, fail to be matter of rejoicing that he upon whom
her Majesty has fixed her affections is much more likely
to influence them for the good titan for the bad govern-
ment of the country. Long life to both of them, we
say ; and may their days bo as happy as we trust they
will be numerous.