The Sun.
London, England, 1821-07-18 00:00:00

THE QUEEN.

HER MAJESTY'S, PROTEST AGAINST THE DECI-
SION OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL.
CAROLINE R.

TO TLIE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
'TUE P.ROTEST AND REMONSTRANCE OF CAROLINE,
QUEEN OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.
Yoe; Majesty having been pleased to refer to
your Privy Council the Queen's Memorial, claim-
' lug as of right to celebrate the ceremony of her
Coronation on the 19th day of July, being the
.2 'day appointed for the celehratioa of your Ma-
jesty 's Royal Coronation, and Iserd Viscount
Sidsnooth, one of your Majesty's principal Secre-
taries, of States, having communicated to the
'Queen the judgrusent pronouncing against her Ma-
jesty's Claim ; in order to preserve her just
rights, and those of her successors, and to pre-
:vent the said Minute being in after times referred
to as deriving validity-from her Majesty's sup-
oesed acqaiescence in the determination therein
, •
'•zesspressed, the Queen feels it her bounden duty
• 4o enter her most deliberate and solemn Protest
against the said determination ; and to affirm
and maintain, that by the laws, usages, and cus-
toms of this realm, from time immemorial, the I
Queen Consort ought of right to be crowned at
the same time with the King's Majesty.
In support of this claim of right, her Majesty's
Law Officers have proved before .the said Coun-
cil, from the most ancient and authentic records,
that Queens Consort of this realm have, from time
immemorial, participated in the ceremony of the
• Coronation with their Royalllusbande. The few
exceptions that occur demonstrate, from the pe-
culiar circumstances in which they originated,
that the right itself was never questioned, though
the exercise of it was from necessity suspended,
or from motives of policy declined.
•
Her Majesty has been taught to believe that
• . the most valuable laws of this country depend
upon, and derive their authority from, custom;
that your Majesty's Royal prerogatives stand
upon the same basis : the authority of ancient
usage cannot therefore be rejected without shale.
ing that foundation upon which the most import-
- . ant rights and institutions of the country depend.
• Your Majesty's Council, however, without con-
troverting any of the facts or reasons upon which
the claim made on the part of her Majesty has
been supported, have expressed a judgment
in opposition to the existence of such right.
• But the Queen can place no confidence in
that judgment, when she recollects that the
principal individuals by whom it has been
. -pronounced were formerly her successful de-
. fenders; that their opinions have waved with
-=their interest, and that they have since become
. .
' 'the most active and powerful of her persecutors;
still less can she confide in it, when her Majesty
calls to mind that the leading Members of that
-•
Council, when in the service of your Majesty's
Royal Father, reported in the most solemn form,
that documents reflecting upon her Majesty were
;tatiafactorily disproved as to the most important
•
'parts, and that the remainder was undeserving of
credit.. Under this declared conviction, they
'strcmgly -recommended to your Majesty's Royal
Father to bestow his favour upon the Queen,
then Princess of Wales, though in opposition to
your Majesty's-declared wishes. But when your
Majesty-had assumed the kingly power, these
same advisers, in another minute of Council, re-
canted their former judgment, and referred to
and adopted these very same documents as a
justification of one of yoUr Majesty's harshest
measures towards the Queen—the separation of
her Majesty from her affectionate and only child.
The Queen, like your Majesty, descended
•
froin a long race of Kings, was the daughter.of a
Sovereign house, connected by the ties of blood.
with the mostillustrious Families in Europe, and
her not unequal seillianCe with your Majesty was
formed in full confidence that the faith of the
Fling and the people was equally pledged to
secure to her all those honours and rights which
had been enjoyed by her Royal predecessors.
In that alliance her-Majesty believed' that she
exchanged the protection of her family for that
cf a Royal Husband and of a free and noble
minded nation. From your Majesty the Queen
has experienced only they bitter disappointment
of every hope she had indulged. In the attach-
nent of the people she has found that powerful
and decided protection which has ever been her
steady support and her unfailing
,censolation.
Submission from 11. subject to iejuries of a:private
nature may be matter of- expedience--from
r.
wife it may be matter of necessity—but it never
can be the duty of a Queen to acquiesce in the.
infrizesement•of those rights which being to her-
constitutional character.
. The Queen does therefore • repeat her most
solemn and deliberate protest against the (Icel.-
con .01 the said Cotricit,can 0 •

the sequel of that course of persecution under
v,hich her Majesty has so long and so severely
suffered, and which decision, if it is to furnish a
precedent for future times, can have no other
effect than to fortify oppression with the forms of
law, and to give to injustice the sanction of
authority. The protection of the subject, from
the highest to the lowest, is not only the true,
but the only legitimate object of all power; and
no act of power can be legitimate which is not
founded on those principles of eternal justice,
ithout which law is but the mask of tyranny,
and power the instrument of despotism.
Queen's House, July 17.

Her MAJESTY having been referred by the
Duke of NORFOLK, the Hereditary Earl Marshal
of England, to the Acting Earl Marshal, Lord
How Ann or EFFINGBAM, has written to the lat-
ter Nobleman to know what attendants he in-
tends to provide for her at the Abbey, in order
that she may direct corresponding arrangements
in her suite. The following is the letter which
was sent by her MAJESTY'S command to the
Duke of Noarol,K

" MY LORD—Her Majesty hAs commanded me to say, as it
is her intention-to be in Westminster Abbey on the 19th inst.,
during the ceremony of the Coronation of the King, your Grace
is required to appoint persons to receive her Majesty at the door
of the Abbey, to conduct her to her scat. The hour her Ma-
jesty has named to be there is half past eight o'clock.

" I have the honour to be,
" Brandenburgh House, July 15.
" To his Grace the Duke of NORFOLK."
The following is the Answer :
" 9, Alansfield-street, July 16, 18Z_
" Mr LORD—The Duke of Norfolk having transmitted to
me, as appointed to do the duties of the office of Earl Marshal
of England, at the ceremony of the'approaching Coronation,your
Lordship's Letter to his Grace of the 15th instant, I thought
it incumbent on me to lay the same before Viscount Sidmouth,
the Secretary of State for the Home Department, and I have
just learnt from his Lordship, in reply, that having received a
Letter dated the 1 lth instant, from the Queen, in which her
Majesty was pleased to inform him of her intention to be pre-
sent at the ceremony of the 19th, the day fixed for his Majesty's
Coronation, and to demand that a suitable place should be ap-
pointed for her Majesty, he was commanded by the King to
acquaint her Majesty, that it was not his Majesty's pleasure to
comply with the application contained in her Majesty's letter.
I have accordingly to request that your Lordship will make my
humble representation to her Majesty of the impossibility-, un-
der these circumstances, of my haring the honour of obeying
her Majesty's commands.
" I have the honour to be, nay Lord,
" Your Lordship's most humble servant,
" HOWARD OF EFFINGHANI,
"Acting as Earl Marshal of England.
" The Lord Viscount HOOD, &c."

HOOD,

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