The Sun.
London, England, 1820-11-21 00:00:00

diate residence of the King himself. The effect of such an '
attempt it is unnecessary for as even distantly to describe;
but the motive Iy.wii!cit so atrocious au expedient was dic-
tated catiuot be gatliciently execrated by every loyal, peace-
able, and well-disposed subject of the State. But the folly of
these wretches is equal to their wickedness. They have the
aft witery to say that " the same authority which can tike
upon itself to say to the Queen of England, Madam, you
are no longer worthy to occupy a Palace,' may say to. the
Dukes of Northumberland and Rutland, Your Graces are no
longer worthy to to-habit Beivoir or Alnwick castles!' Was
there ever any thing soontrageous to reason :is this ? Would
it not; on the contrary, be meeting the question immediately
and fairly to say—" The same authority which can take,
upon itself to say to the Queen of England, Madam, you
are no longer worthy to occupy a Palace,' may say to the
Duchesses of Northumberland and Rutland, (it they were
like the Queen,) your Graces are no longer worthy to in-
habit. Beivoit or Alnwiek Castles." • Here the cases, being
similar, the course of proceeding would be so likewise; but
his head must be oddly constructed who can discover that a
husband, who has a right to sayto his wite—yon shall not uceu-
py.titisnr that particular mansion belonging to me has an equal
right to say to an independent person, altogether unconnect• •
ed with hint—you shail.not live in your own house. Yet such
is the intolerable nonsense which the unhappy Queen's
scribes so 'shamelessly put forth for argument in her behalf.
The Rural Palaces belong to the Sovereign, and in him alone
is vested the power of appropriating them. When the Queen
is foolishly called an inheritor of Palaces by descent,' the
absurdity merely prosokes er smile. Of what Palace in Eng-
land is she the " hereditary " owner ? There are certainly
certain prerogatives which-a (lace') Consort acquires by tier
marriage which distinguish her front other married women,
arid confer upon her in some measure the rights of a Jena
sole; but the inhabiting of PalaCes 'is not among those pre-
rogatives. To call for positive statutes svith respect to this
matter, is worthy the scribe who 'but a few days ago asserted
that a majority of twelve was necessary to convict her Ma-
jesty. There is no specific, statute; because, voluminous as
our laws are, our ancestors have not legislated .upon non-
sense. ,In those things, wherein a Queen Consort does pos-
sess peculiar privileges, the privileges are defined; but where
the law is silent, -she•is to he held, according to Blackstone,
" upon the same footing with other subjects, being, to all in-
tents and purposes,. the King's
.subject, and not his equal "--
As a 'matter of right, therefore, the can sustain ou " de-
mand".for a Palace; and 'as a matter of grace, and favour,
the idea'is perfectly ridicolous..: Her letter to the King,—
bee answers to addresses--her whole conduct since she has,
returned to this counta v,—to say nothing of time recorded opi-.
nion-of the•Houire of Peers with. respect to het conduct out
of the country—are all of limn circumstances, eminently cal-
culated togive weight to such a becoming demand !
The thinking part of the PabliC will now have leisure-to
remember what has been well brought forward by the Author
Aline Boleyn and Caroline of Brunswick timpared"-,
the extravagant expenditure of. the Princess, and the on- '
precealented liberality of the Prince Regent. It appeared
(in the debates which took place-souse years ago) " that
in -thy,course,of five years. her Royal Highness had in-
curred debts to the aniountof eighty thousand pounds ; that •
thirty-one thousand pounds of that solo had been liquidated tty
a grant from the Droitsof the Admiralty; and the Prince Re-
gent, notwithstanding his:own oppressive and almost over-
whelming- ineumbrances, had generously taken upon himself
the payment attic. remaining 49,0001.; a sacrifice,,which„ as
Lord Castlereagh justly observed,. no other husband. in the
larid, had he been brought I.relore Parliament, would have
been called on to make ! So much for the. economy of the.
Princess of Wales;—so -much • for the vindictive treatment
which she. experienced from the Prince Regent
.her inssband,"
Our opinion, we need hardly state, is, that the Queen should
be compared, not with Anne Boleyn, but with Catherine of,
Russia. Many of our Readers will beef the sane opibion_
reading the following extracts, taken almost at random from
her history:—
" It was during those early days that the Prineesi d'Asche-
kof, entering the apartment of the' Empress with a liberty
rather too familiar, perceived, with astonishment, Orlofoa a
long chair, with his leg uneovered, and the Empress' herself
dressing a contusion which he had received on that leg,"
" It was not long before Orltsf engaged general attention.
That tender familiarity which is the consequence of an attach-
ment of long standing-, was observed to exist between the
Empress and this man, who was till that time unknown.' The
astonishment of the Court' was extreme. The grandees, many
of whom believed that they had acquired rights over the heart
of their Sovereign, had no conception that, notwithstanding
his very obscurity, this rival could have escaped then), and
Ihey perceived, with the most vh,lent indignation, that they
bad been labouring merely to exalt hitn."—[lbid.)
[The Times.] -
We understand that no answer tins been returned. to the
Letter sent on Saturday,. by her Majesty's command, to the
Ministers of the King. Acquitting his•glajeSty of :sir blame,
as of course we are bound to do in this transaction, it is too
plain that his Ainisters- are treating the Queen and the
country in a manner which --neither ought to bear. • But
tit sr with such men, is a secondary subject of disquietude.
They may feel that they have proVoked contempt and dis7rist
throughout the nation; hut they still retain their oeces,,
and a degree of Court favour, of which, ail things consi-
dered, they alone are worthy- As for the Pailiament, it
appeals they have grace enough left to mectt he House of
Commons with reluctance. Yet sure we are 'they have hi-
therto but little reason for quarrelling with that useful body;
but it is the lot of must mien, whose consciences' upbraid
them, to distrust their most faithful friends. Du they fancy
that two months will work a favourtiblechange in Vise • senti-
ments of the people. towards them ? Then why not even now
leave the current of public feeling undisturbed ? Why, Ly
fresh violences every hour, provoke the angry element, and
hinder it fiom subsiding•? -
We have been informed, from 'a quarter which leaves no
room to dn(ibt- the, authenticity of a statement otherwise
hardly credible, that the answer which the Bishop of Landaff
returned to the QUeen's connunnication, made by the
K. Craven, was carefully worded so as to exclude 'all those
expressions of courtesy which the ordinary forms of civilized
hie prescribe in the correspondence between gentlemen. Who
and what• Bishop Van Mildert may have originally been, it is
unnecessary to corjecture, and might possibly be fruitless at
this late period to inquire. But rudeness of the nature de-
scribed to-us it is difficult to suppose conid be the effect of
habit merely, since men who are raised ter high station in the
Church, without any claims either from birth or merit, trans-
gress, for the most part, ou the side of indiscriminate servility,
instead of failing in the observance of decenl respect to their
superiors, especially such as are superior to them itt the former
of those two.qualifications.—(Fid.)

[Now 'times.]
The Times labours with diabolical malignity to stir up the
populace tem new excesses, in the name of the. Queen—as if it
were not sufficient that riots had disgraced the Metropolis,
the cities of Oxford, Catnbt idge, Bath, Canterbury, Glasgow,
Paisley, Stamford, Grantham, &c. &c.; and as if that • most
.seditious and infamous Print delighted to prove that it could,
on any pretence, or no pretence at all, inflame the passions
of the mob, and throw time while kingdom into a ferment.—
The topic which it now chooses to descant upon, with an
audacity daily more and inure insolent, is the demand of
a Palace for the Queen. "It appears to ns," says this In-
cendiary, " that her Majesty has now nothing left but to
take possession of one of the Palaces." If this were mere
gross ignorance of the law of the land, it would be in some
degree excusable; for on that subject the Editor of The
Times has, of late, shewn such egregious stupidity, that we
must make sonic allowance for his 'natural. deficiency of
intellect; hut he is still more malevolent than he is dull,
and there is no doubt but that he does seriously wish
and desire that the Queen would go in person and make
a riot at the gates of one of the Royal Palaces. Are
there no limits to .the insults which this writer is to
be allowed to heap on his Sovereign ? He knows, every body
knows, that the King's Palaces ate the King's ; that the
Queen is the King's subject ; that the actual separation ut
the King and Queen which has existed for years, has been re-
cognised by Act of Parliament; in short, he knows that the
Queen has no more right to take possession of a Royal Palace,
without the King's express authorisation, than she would
have to usurp any of-the Sovereign functions of her Royal
Consort, Legislative or Executive. There is no pretence
'of necessity fur this new attempt to excite disturbance. The
Queen is well accommodated at Brandenburg); House. She
can at least await Mete, without inconvenience, the deter-
mination of Parliament on her future lot. It is not to be
thought for a moment that she can ever again be looked upon,
or treated, as she might have been, if the Green Bag had
never been opened. The contents, which, by her infatuated
answer to the Commons, she was the cause of making public,
remain for ever recorded against her on the Journals of the
House of Lords. Her name is for ever coupled with that of
the low vagabond menial, whom she raised to wealth and to
nobility, and with whom sire slept for five weeks under the
same tent! This is conduct, which, consistently with its duty
to the nation, Parliament cannot and will not. pass over.
For the present, however, it will be prudent on all sides
(assuredly it will be so on the part of the Q ueen), to sti Irer angry
feelings to subiide. ,!threats-of severity on the.one side, or
of turbulence on the other, would be better avoided ; the time
will come When her Majesty's pretensions may he urged with
wore decency, and considered with more indulgence.