The Sun.
London, England, 1820-09-20 00:00:00

FRO VINdAL JOURNALS.

[F or: The Leeds Independent, Sept. 14.]
Our last publication contained a brief account
of a Meeting held on the preceding Monday at
Bean lug, to " consider of the propriety of pre-
senting addresses from the male and female in-
habitants of Leeds to her most gracious Majesty
Queen Caroline." The leaders on this notable
occasion, as well as the generality of those pre-
sent, were of the same respectable stamp as
usually attended the meetings for Radical Re-
form ; and her Majesty will, no doubt, have rea-
son to ft>el herself highly honoured, when she is
informed of the characters of her addressers—
when she is told that those who refer her for
consolation to the promises of the Deity are Free-
thinkers!--that some of those who extol her in-
nocence and purity introduced and conducted the
Meeting with a. delicate specirnen.of " menda-
city ;"—and that The respectability of the Meet-
ing was established by their choice of a Radical
wool-sorter to fill the chair, who congratulated his
surrounding admirers on that essential qualifica-
tion .which we have just mentioned.
Are not all these circumstances highly calcu-
lated to confirm the opinion, which is not uncom-
mon, of the innocence of the Queen, when indi-
viduals so peculiarly qualified by their situations
in life, by their habits of thinking, by the depth
of their acquaintance with the forms of law, and
the nature of
.evidence, compared with the in-
ferior knowledge of the great Law Authorities
and of Parliament,—when such individuals, we
say, declare her innocence, is it possible to doubt
it ? especially when, instead of waiting the result
of the trial, they resolutely pronounce it before-
hand—who, we ask, under such circumstances,
shall presume to entertain an idea to the con-
ttary ?----But we have alluded to "a delicate speci-
men of mendacity" with which the Meeting was
preceded and conducted. It was announced in
the hand-bills that the Meeting was held with the
consentof the Mayor ; which consent, however,
he refused. Further, they were told by their
Chairman that the whole Meeting was influenced
by " that species of loyalty which consisted in
obedience to the laws, and which for years had
been inculcated upon them with so much
.effect in
The LeodslliereurN ;7-0h mirahile dictu
but why was not this highly important declara7

tion hailed with repeated cheers and appiauses
For o'nr parts we can account for this singular
omission in no other way•than this ; either that
the respectable auditors were struck dumb with
admiration, on hearings° unexpectedly of loyalty
and obedience to the laws being inculcated from
such a quarter ; or that many of them must have
thought that the speaker, to use a high-sounding
phrase of The .Mercur3g, Was " guilty of the
grossest mendacity," or, in other words more
familiar to their understanding, that he had told
a***—.

The authors of the proceedings against the
Queen were stigmatized with a profusion of epi-
thets—a►►d their " conduct as diabolical, which
collected hosts of unprincipled spies and infor-
mers to calumniate a virtuous woman ;" but her
advocates always wilfully keep out of sight, the
important fact that, until the charges brought
against her Majesty were inveStigateds the claims
advanced by her to the full possession of her
rights and privileges as Queen could not be
granted. Yet it must be allowed her partizans
act consistently in keeping this fact out of view,
for they must or ought to know hat their sophis-
try- would not hold- together without doing so.
In conformity with this crafty policy, is another
confident assertion of theirs which consists in
i►'nputing the mischief (arising from the publica-
tion of the evidence, as tending to contaminate
the public morals) to the prosecutors of the
Queen ; when it is notorious that she decidedly
and pertinaciously refused to yield to the House
of Commons, which deprecated the disclosures
consequent on that refusal !

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