The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-22 00:00:00

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earnest, amiable, religious, generous, and charitable with the knowledge of character which a man must ac-
woman—will excite throughout the whole community quire, and which a husband will not fail to act upon,
of honest Englishmen, before many hours have elapsed. must purify the private and social circle' of the Court."
Shame! shame! Is it because Queen Adelaide has The implication here involved must bear its own corn-
lost a worthy husband, and has not the psis ilege of sur- mentary, for as it is impossible to denounce it in terms
rounding herself with a set of despised profligates for commensurate with its infamy, we shall leave it
Ministers, that these vile bullies flatter themselves she to its fate, amidst the execration of all who revolt
is left without protectors? Is it because she will not against slander, to whatever party applied, and who
herd with the dissolute and licentious that she must be will not fail to experience the utmost abhorrence against
persecuted for associating with the good ? Is it because those who, to promote a most accursed scheme of policy,
Radical Corporations, when she approaches their several hesitate not to malign in the most unmeasured phrase
neighbourhoods, hang back from paying her the oh- the Sovereign against whom even Tory ingenuity can
servance in most instances shown to persons of her discover no tangible grounds of accusation, save—to
exalted rank, that she is to be abused for not de- them the inexcusable one—that of refusing to be
governed by their anti-national and tyrannical councils.
manding their attentions ? Is it because the most g
irreproachable and distinguished families in England Notwithstanding several indications of a doubtful elm-
press for the honour of receiving within their walls a ratter, we cannot imagine the Queen Dowager so an-
lady who can enjoy and appreciate the unstained purity mindful of her own position and of the absurdity of en.
of their domestic circles, that she is to be vilified for deavouring to compete, at the head of a faction, as a
making " a parade" of her Tory predilections, as if she rival with the Queen, endeared to the nation by so
could pay no social visits but with factious views? Her many associations. However, in pursuing its lucubra.
" refusal to visit the Duke of Devonshire" is construed Lions just alluded to, the Standard remarks—" Surely
into a crime! Does this vulgar blockhead know any it is an ill compliment to the reigning Queen to presume
thing about the matter ? May not Queen Adelaide's that the existence of a virtuous and amiable Queen
other and prior engagements have left her without a Dowager is of necessity either injurious or offensive to
possibility of visiting Chatsworth f May not sufficient her. At all events, it is somewhat unreasonable to ex-
and satisfactory reasons have been assigned by her Ma- pect that Queen Adelaide will die (to immure or banish
jesty for foregoing the pleasure she had promised herself herself would do no good, as her experience at sea and in
under the roof of a Nobleman whom, if we are not mis- Lisbon has shown to her Majesty) in order to accommo-
informed, Queen Adelaide respects and likes? That date her Royal niece—still less reasonable is it to ox-
her Majesty had any ?olitical feeling of such a pect that the Queen Dowager will depart from those
relinquish her virtuous habits, far dearer to one like her than life."
nature as
visit, would induce :;, Pr to
ptterly groundless. The atrocious purpose of these remarks forms a most
we believe to
makes " a apposite corollary to those which precede them. A
But it seems that the Queen Dov,Z4C
parade" of her popularity, for the annO.,-_''ace 7?f,
husband is desirable, chiefly, as here implied, in order
that is from pure spite to, the less popular Queen
' ,to purify the private and social circle of the Court ;"
toria ! This is the suggestion of an actual fiend, not a ,to
it would be altogether unreasonable to expect
partisan of the reigning Sovereign. Where can Queen that ,(2ueen Adelaide will die—still less reasonable
Adelaide's popularity lie hid ? Must she become a is it to exrtst that the Queen Dowager will depart
prisoner in her own house, lest her niece, or rather—for from those virtuoL's habits far dearer to one like her
that is the real truth—lest the Queen's Ministers be than life—in order to a.:commodate her Royal niece.'
jealous of the irrepressible outburst of public favour Such is the language of the Slmidard, and, had we not
whenever and wherever Queen Adelaide appears ? read it more than once, we could not have believed
Does Queen Adelaide hire mobs to fling up their that any journal was so utterly lost to all sense of
hats and hurra for her ? Does she solicit accla- decency as to make such assassin-like imutations
mations ? When yeomanry escort her, while their against the character of any woman, still less agsinit
Whig Colonel absents himself, is that a parade of that of a young, amiable, and virtuous Queen. Bat
Toryism in this maligned and insulted Princess ? the Standard must pander to the slanderous pruriency
The fact—and a fact disgraceful to the Govern- of the parsons, so pleasingly titilated by the effusions
ment—is, that it moves their gall to see a lady whom of Bradshaw, Gregg, Roby, &c., and this only can
they hate, receive spontaneous proofs of affection account for such gross and diabolical imputations.
from the people, which, to speak frankly, are dis• Even the Courier, which might be excused for some
played with less eagerness towards a younger lady, excess of ardour as a renegade, in an article ably de-
equally, we are sure, in her own person, deserving of all fending the Queen Dowager from the charges of which
reverence and honour, but whose popularity has, it is we cannot believe her guilty, and denouncing the ut-
notorious, suffered from her having so pertinaciously terers of the inculpatory allegations, thus justly reproves
leaned upon their odious councils, and clung to their its less scrupulous colleagues ;—" Surely it is time that
disreputable society. The offence of Queen Adelaide the voice of universal reprobation should brand these
is the being popular, which she could never be without assassin-like assaults upon the honour and character of
deserving it : that she makes a parade of that ,which the the highest personages of the realm, who possess those
people of England take a pride in demonstrating, those sacred claims of sex, besides high station, which should
who charge her with it know to be untrue. Th whole entitle them not to party forbearance alone, but to the
system of tirades against the Queen Dowager affords protection and devoted affection f es? Ltry loyal subject,
but another proof that the Ministry, being on their last of whatever political colour." With less reserve, how-
legs, are desperate, reckless, and confounded. ever, our Contemporary attributes the " insidious at-
(From the Morning Chronicle.) tempt" to " Ministerial authors ;" and while eulogising
We again tell the Standard that it is with reluctance the Queen Dowager, seizes with avidity an opportunity
we allude in any manner to the Queen Dowager. We of repressing any extravagant adulation towards the
can assure our Contemporary, that so far from wishing to actual occupant of the Throne. It is needless to cavil
with the Courierpoint ;b br
auntd wt
he
ecordially
nr
wound the feelings of that illustrious lady, we have always
eite-
rate its appeal to as.
felt an anxious solicitude to observe towards her the re-
spect to which, as the widow of our late Sovereign, she is ea- " attempts with universal r,:':-:obation."
titled. If w.e had been desirous of animadverting on the (From the Morning
conduct of the Queen Dowager, occasions have not been The Ministerial print whose vitu
noticed yesterday, seeks
wanting, more especially during her absence from Eng. Queen Dowager we pissstion of the
land ; but we felt for her bereavement, and we made its malevolence on the groundground that her Majesty,
allowance for the influence of indisposition on the at Lisbon, dd in sundry conver speakG Great
temper, and imposed on ourselves the restraint which ingly of her Majesty's niece, the Queen of
troe
we have till now observed. We had other motives, tain. This is merely a trumped-up story,
too, for the exercise of forbearance. We saw that the less odious theand
Tories attacks on one whose d incredible.
between anxious to sow the seeds of dissension amiable character
makes the story utterly
between the Queen Dowager and her Majesty,by fwretched shift bolster up malig-
iscreetmake
a - It is a
fecting on all public occasions the most extravagant en- nity. Let us hear what evidence the Ministerial print
thusiasm for the former, whilst towards the latter they has to support its statements about the conversation of
manifested at times indifference but oftenertdisrespect. the_ Queen Dowager at ....Ir.hisbonu.bii,,Her Majesty's con-
We saw that it was the aim of,the Torifersomothceonpnazst
jduudeoti,n sooffairt,ashathsebeßenritisevor has any means of
the Queen Dowager with their objects what the conduct of a
they took in proclaiming that their honours were lad of the hi hest rank and most exemplary feeling
not gratuitous, as they were deeply indebted ougyht to be. hest
British people will, therefore, treat
to her zeal in their behalf, We were un- this impudent tale about conversations at Lisbon with
willing, therefore, to further the objects of the Tories, the contempt which malicious falsehood deserves.
by assuming, so long as room was left for doubt, that (From the [horning Herald.)
the Queen Dowager was more than passive in the hos- If the Bedchamber Ministers think they will
tilities which were waged through her against her strengthen their position, or improve their prospects, by
Royal mistress. But when we saw that Queen Ade- giving instructions to their retainers of the Press to vilify
laide seemed anxious to deprive us of the power of put- and persecute the Royal Widow of William IV., they
ting a favourable construction on her conduct, by giv- only add another to the many great mistakes which they
ing countenance to the Tory assertions, and suffering have already made. The exhibition of such petty spite,
herself to be paraded through the country as the parti- of such unmanly malice, will sink them lower than ever
san of a faction, allowing her visits and her audiences (though that_ is w thyde lowestifficult de)inep a lowerpublic e
dstiemepation.
to be governed exclusively by politics, we felt ourselves,
however reluctantly, bound to remain silent no longer. Still threatens."
Into the private partialities of the Queen Dowager we The malignant and vindictive attacks just now di-
should never have thought of entering. Whether she rected against Queen Dowager Adelaide by the Morning
refused to accept the invitation of the Duke of Devon- organ of the Ministry, are quite worthy of a Court that
shire, or gave a preference to the mansion of some poisoned the mind of our young and inexperienced
other nobleman, was a matter which we should no more Sovereign against one of the most amiable of her sex,
have thought of canvassing than the arrangements and persecuted the virtuous Lady Flora Hastings to
for the management of her own establishment, death. Do the same kind " friends of the Queen"
But the Queen Dowager has done more than in- suppose they will remove the weight of public odium
dulge in private partialities. She has hoisted the flag of which has justly fallen upon them by traducing an il-
Toryism, cper.ed Iler doors to deputationt, troin Orange-
pie to her sex of all
lustrion.; lade, who is an ernaarient to that rank in
men and Tories, and closed them to deputations from which she moves, and a noble exam
Reformers. She has gone out of her way to avoid I the virtues that grace the female character, and com.