The Sun.
London, England, 1820-12-21 00:00:00

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1820.

SIR HARCOURT LEES' ADDRESS.

AN ADDRESS to,,the KING'S FRIENDS, throughout the,
British Empire, on the Present Awful and Critical State of
GREAT BRITAIN, containing Jost and Necessary Stric-
tures on a Late SPEECH of HENRY BROUGHAM, Esq.
in the HOUSE of LORDS, in,ILLFENCE of the QUEEN.
liy Sir IlAncOuttT LEIN, BOrt.
" o7;l44(jl34,:ifoscirtelm atque facinorosoram (*cum
ft:V.om stipatorum, C,tervas habehat."
SAL. in CAT.

(Concluded from Yesterday's Paper.)
Gentlemen toore'deeply versed,-possibly,than Mr. Brougham
is in ancient and modern history, perfectly acquainted with
the constitution, castoms, and tnanti.ets of every country in
Europe, as far as some travel and geeat and extensive reading
will enable me to judge, I have no hesitation in assertibg,
that I have.ni et with no similar instance of gross levity, with
out its being accompanied with concomitant shades of
I foresaw .much equivocation in trivial matters, amongst
such a host of ignorant witnesses, and I prepared your minds
to expect such three weeks hack, for, if reel) Mr. Brougham
will admit of toy cross-exarniniitg'himself, or his coadjutor,
Denman, to the transactiims which have taken place in Eng-
land within twO years past, f will stake toy existence, 1 will
make them equivocate mote than once. and if 1 do not force
them, at toast a dozen times; to exclaim ,eon sal ricorrio, I
will tl a btliere that the entire corps of witnesses for the
Bill, (iaeltaktrg IlitiPoit,Gaii‘ains), are perjured, and that lie,
Denman, and the Whigs, are the most loyal men in I,,;.,e'vora,
not even excepting these two red hot allegiance advocates,
Henry hunt and William cobhett.
'•Sit much, Gentlemen, for the amorous and political trans-
actions that took place in every-part of the world within the
eventful Arai virtuous periods of 1814 and 1820; all. the cir--
custistances connected with an earlier date, the Atterney-Ge-
Gera' for the Queen, with that subtlety for which I have so
justly commended hint, has scrupulously atoided touching on,
with the exception Of two letters, one trout t he Prince of Wales,
written in 1796, I lie other by otrr late lamented Sovereign, in
1309,b0th addressed to the Princess of %Vales. In adopting this.
line of proceeding, he but discharged his dirty to his client,
and I cannot blame hint for the omission, for lie could find
nothing, no, not one solitary ray, to beam consolation Or ex-
tenuation on her character; the Report of the
sioners, signed and approved of by Lord Erskine, will
giie the lie to all his eloquence and all Iris special phad-
ing, in his attempt to establish the decency, and morality,
the respect to rank and station, even in England, of " this
sorrowing, persecuted woman,• driven froth her husband's
door,avith her child in her-arms."—The very letter from that
husband, which be has produced, will prove the best answer
to his appeal to the enflamed sensibility of a mob. That
letter, and by observations on it, will, be found in my late
Address to the Lord Mayor and Corporation of the City of
Dublin; they will, I hope, satisfainorily prove that my Royal
Master was any thing !nit a prosecutor.
•• With repect to the Letter written by our late pions and re-
vered Sovereign, although it establishes the purity of his af-
fectionate and mild nature, yet the Princess of Wales'is t
he
last reason in the world who should bare exhibited it ; a re-
verence for the memory of that august and afflicted Monarch,
if not common decency and delicacy, ought to have commit-
ted it to the flames.—The most 'superficial- inspection of its
style and manner, will. convince every than in England, ex-
cept, perhaps, Mr. Bronghana, that I am right, for not long
sifter our old and venerated Monarch wrote this Letter, the
Prince of Wales became Regent ; and, in that very year; tin-
soliciVid and unthanked, he paid out of his own, !Unita in-
come, 49,0001.. to relieve the pectinikey difficulties of his
oppressed wife , and consented to ber'receiving 39,0001. droits
of Admiralty, also from the King, rushing an aggregite
of
83,0001. which this afflicted woman contrived to sipiander,
over and ;shove a large annual incotne never in arrear a single
hour, , drawn from the pockets of the People of • England,
This is rather a novel mode of persecution, but such is the
fact, and I challenge contradiction. But although I refer
to that Letter of my late. Sovereign with awe and with an-
guish, yet justice to a royal and injured huslatud'induces me
Las the poilen.las been adutioislered,) to supply an, antidote
+4) r,the'Vet,lin Canna •be extracted at least the pairs will
be mitigated, and I trtrst, in time, will be entirelr
W heti I •mention the name of the late popular and lament-
ed Duke of Kent, I shall fix national attention and•command
public respect ;--hear then, ye friends of an insulted and ca-
lumniated Sovereign, the recorded and reported sentiments of
that upright and illustrious Prince, submitted to the Cott-
missioners, and authenticated a true copy, by 1. Beckett,
Whitehall, 99th of August, 180 ti. I give only an extract
from this molt interesting document as follows i- it relates to
a communication made to the Prince of Wales by his Royal
Highness, and details the substance of a conversation that
took place between him and Sir Sidney Smith—lct the ad-
dressing English females blush when they read it. " Alter
hearing- all 1 bad to say, he (Sir Sidney) observed that the
Princess (in relating to him, that Ire► prohibition to Lady
Douglas to repeat her visits ,at Blackheath had led to the ap-
plication for an audience of her ',loyal Highness,) had kept
from me the real cause, why he, as well as Sir John and
Lady Douglas, had made it, as it originated in a most-scanda-
lous anonymous Letter, (this letter contained the most shame-
fully indecent drawings,) of a nature calculated to set on Sir
Joint and him to cut each others throats, which, front the
hand=writing and style, they were ,fully convinced was the
production of the. Princess herself. I. naturally exist essed my
sentiments upon such conduct, on the part of the Princess, in
terms of the atrpngest animadversion ; but, nevertheless,
anxious to avoid the lliameful eclat which the publication of
such a fact to the world- most. produce, the effect-which its
consing.to the King's knowletigeavould probably have on Iris
health, from the delicate state of his nerves ; and all the mis-
understandings between his Nfajesty and the Prince, which I
foresaw would inevitably follow:—were this fact, (which
would give t he •Pritice so powerful a handle to express his feel-
ings upon the countenance shewa by the King to the Print-.
cess, et a time when 1 knew Ititu to be severely wounded by
his-Majesty's visits to Blackheath on' the one hand, and the
.reports- tie had received of the Princess's conduct on other,)
to be brought to light u—and again, " I should have felt sny-
'set f obliged to decline all interference int he business. anti to
have at the same time stated to her, (the Princess,) that it
.woulithe impossible for me to keep a master of such import-
ance, from the knowledge of the Prince."--(Signed, Kirwan )
• Now, Gentlemen, what can Brougham- assert in oppositions
to this only one tact out of many I conid give you of a sinsi•
far nature, to convince the. world of the truth and extreme
delicacy of this German and Royal prude, who reseurs not
having been cheered " by the sympathy of our venerable
.Hierarchy ;"' will this oratorical Harlequin at wive plead ion
ntiTicorite, as Isis leading witness, my Lady C. Lindsay, has
dune eien to amine improbable degree than Majocci, or will
he for once be eandid ?—Admit his ignorance, and refer me
to the Queen herself for vindication. Can 1 find it in arty in
her answers ? I wilt try ; " the future historian id the Ilorice
of Brunswick wall never have reason to conaptain that •I was
a degenerate Scion of that noble stock"—tu llexatn. " My
reason approves, and my piety reveres, that instinctive pro-
pensity which there is in the human heart to succour the op-
presse.d;-,-(alas, poor.Bergami)—to Norwich; "My habitual
disinterestedness, my conscious integrity"—th CatiterbOry.
" The-rights of the Nation will be a scattered wreck, and this
once free people, like tine meanest of slaves, must submit tin
the lasts of an inaolent dotainatioa"—to Wahefirid. When
toy rights are attacked, a fatal Mots is aiiiied at the rights of,
the people"—to' Kinnottl. "My adversaries have tern regatd
for the priacipi,es of the British Constitution, for the rights
it 'confers, or the liberties it guarantees:: they hive no part of
tree Constitution, except that which is in tiecay"—to Clef ken-
well. " Mind, cast in nature's_ mould, as the sons and
daughters of Seotia undoubtedly are, Must ever he as favour-
able to he Victitns and Martyrs of • power, as they are India-"-
nant at, and hostile to the assassin's blew, aimed under the
semblance, or rather the mockery of justice, through tile, at
the rights and liberties of every -British Subject"—to St. An-
drews. Shatll Still pr. ceed, Mr. Brougham, thou most dar-
ing and prestatriptuous of men, to enumerate addstional and
more aggravided instances of the (purity, the mildness, and
the charity of this deserted, defenceless, broken-hearted vie-
'tim of oppression and of crueltyrwhose•ellief object since site
arrived in England, appears to trace been, with the asSistance
of her hellish crew, to'hurl theblazing torch of insurrection and
civil war, into) every County. in Great Britain ; that having
glutted her eyes with the sight of burning cottages, arid
the mangled carcases of their inmates, driven to madness by
her arts, and by her timid modesty, she might then returns to
the out-stretelied arms of the Courier, and, whilst enjoying

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his prized society, laugh in the delirium of exultation and m7f
joy over the murdered remains of.ber betrayed husband's po-
pularity, whilst she deSpised and'ridlcilleit the base profligacy
and blind Credulity of his dernoralized, degraded, and addreils-
ifig subjects. • , •
-Gentlemen, after what I have told you 'so often, I need not
again repeat, that the Throne and Constitution of the Empire.
are not only threatened, but io danger, and if not veritio:Oiy
and firmly supported, beliere nee, both twill perish. Arm
yourselves and your .6111.11i1VS, and be ready at your post 4
when the builr of trial shalt arrive, to detend rand support,
with your best energies and lives, your insulted :Sovereign,
'ftlid the purest Cons;imptim that ever a nation was bfessed
with. Be prepared, T say, to defend ail that should•be dear
to Christians, arid to men, against Ahe maelminations of real
demons, time supporters, time advocates, and subscribers to in-
. tidelsand traitors.
I tell you, Gentlemen, that a caiispiracy appears to exist at
this moment in England, to overthrow the Government, and
roost probably to murder your King. I tell you so, not to
terrify, for the King's friends are too numerous, too brave.
end too loyal- (at least in this Country,) to be terrified, bet
to put you on your .guayd.—Nlay Govt in his infinite mercy
avert this peat evil Irian his people; but should it so please
Almighty Providetice to will it, that this great and once moral
and religious Nation should NI a vict rm to the abanconed
machinations of an infernal faction, let Irishmen stand un-
polluted by the crimes of degraded England, awl., in the sup-
port of a calumniated and noble Priflee, trample irto dust,
the vile reptiles who have almost stung their Sovereign to-
death. I have the honour to soliscribe

Gentlemen,
The steady Friend of my 'gine' and the
Constitution of the British Empite,
li ARCO URT LEES. •

EDINBURGH, DEC. 18.

The following Address to his Majesty now
lies in the Council Chamber, and is already sign-
ed with the names of a very numerous and inos.t,
respectable body of Inhabitants : •
ADDRESS TO, THE KING.
We, your Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, inhabitants
of the Citii-of lidintanrgh, beg leave humbly to approach your .
Majesty's throne, to express, our attachment to your royal
person, our veneration for the ('onshtution,'and our confi-
dence in the wisdom of your Majesty's councils—a confidence .
founded on the experience of many years, during which • Bri-
tain obtained the most distinguished successes, by which
her history has ever been dignified ; having twice seen her
arms and those oilier allies penetrate to tire capita') of France,
dethroning an usurper, whose name had become the terror of
the world, arid restoring peace to Europe. We beg to express
similar confidence in the internal Administration of your
Majesty's Government, by which, only a few months ago, an
extensive and organized insurrection was discomfited and pur.
down, almost without bloodshed, 11 bile the limited extent .of
the punishment which necessarily followed, exhibited a
,re-
markable example of your Majesty's lenity towards these mis-
guided persons.
We farther beg to express our humble and dutiful opinion
that your Majesty's present Ministers cannot be. advao-
tageously replaced by those who aspire 40 succeed themrai
we do nollwow of any.other set of risen, who, either 'from
their tried or untried pretensions to power, are so o
sustain the dignity of the British name, the honour of your,
Majesty's throne, or the welfare and happiness of the iteu.oe.
We perceive with much regret that the political partyto
winch we- have allAded, have shown themselves but too will-
ire:, for the sake of swelling their numbers, to .receive intcy
their ranks a numerous class of demagogues :rod hdr.,fol-
lowers—the same who lately attempted,' by force of arms, an
open overthrow of the Constitution, and a change, not only
of Government, but of property ; and who, of late, have found
a singular erode of making knov.a.their inveterate enmity to
your Majesty's person and to lioth estates of Parliament,,by
addresses which, though utterly absurd, arc not the lest iedit-
tious arid treasonable. . .
We *are tar from imputing to thispolitical..partv, a paai.-
-tivrytion iiiv-the• frantic and guilty SeheiiilA. of "tliolie'' ant;
happy persons whose aim seems to be to disjciitit the whole.
fabric of society, by sowing discord between the various
classes of which it consists ; but as they *have shown tbiA
• they are not reloctant to avail themselves of the appear',
ake of strength, presented by the numbers of these 'de--
magognes, so notch greater than their own, we may be
permitted to (I, oh!, whether if admitted to ydur Majesty's.
Councils, they would possess the power- of reducing ro rea-
son such formidable Allies, who even already, arid
while
they trace in so tar a common interest to pursue, express
a hatred and contempt for the party composing the oppo-
sition in Parliament equal to that which they possess to--
wards the King, the Leligirin, the. laws, and tinnstituitioit
of the country. And in the event that such men. Isere to ob-
tain any decided ascendency, it "would be no consolatiita
to us and other suaerers, it their earliest victims were ttrose.
whin, in the blindness ot their ambition, ,had,_ called. in euch
dangerous auxiliaries.
We beg finally to add, that sensible of the- bless-ing; ire
enjoy under your Majest)'s paternal government„ we ~Trte,
determined to defend the throne- and. constitution of . the
country with our lives amt,fortunes, alike against foreign
and domestic enemies.
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ON OMENS, WI PH HIS TORICAL EXAMPLES.
A most singular. chain of uncommon circumstances
preceded the assassivatinntuf that excellent Mnuarch Henry IV.
of France, in the morning -of the day
,which he was mur-
dered by -Rataillac (viz.. Friday,May 14, 16101. His Majenty
was exceedingly.penslre. In the hope of cthaposing his spi-
rits, he threw linnself on his bed, but Was-linable to rest
Thi Ice he rose, and thrice he fell un his knees in prayer. Spun
after repairing ttothe Presence Chamber, his attendants en-
deavotirell to divert the melancholy which preyed so cai,uly
on his mind. 13eing naturally amiable and cheerful, he triad
to fall into the well,ruairt pleaiant4 of his Nobles, acts at-
tempted to smile, but concluded thus We have laughed
enough for Finlay, there will be weeping on Sunday." •
• His Queen (Mary MediCis)• bad been crowned hut the day
be‘fore his murder. • Out La BroSse, a physician, is, by 20117 C.
reported to have said to • the Dube de v'endinue, in the evi.n.
ing of that day," if the King survives a mischief which t
tens him at pr. sent, he will live these 30 years." The' puke
entreated the King to grant this physician an aitdience,
prated what the old gentleman hail been saying. • His Ma-
jesty, with unusual asperity' and hastiness, replied, "'he is
an old fool for telling you such things, and vim are a young
fool 'alum believe to proper to apprise the reader,
that Ilayle, has endeavoured to shake the credit of this wbele
story about La Brosse and the Duke de Vendome. See -his
3,1 Volume under the article of Henry IV.l—The Duke's „re-
.joi.ader was him, respectful ands...ll.lWe :—" Sire, One ought
not to believe such things, bat one may fear them." The 391,11 e
day, as the icing•stopped to speak with somebody present, the
Q:ueen stoppiog at the same time, he said to her, as by a
spirit of involuntarY prophecy, ""passez, passez, Madame is
Kegeate," i. e. "'go on, go on, Maclaine the Regent." • •
A few niF,ihts before- the catastrophe, the Queen .d.rOzned
that all the jewels in her Crown were changed into pearls,
'end that she was told that pearls were significative of tears.
Alat her' night she started and cried 'rut in tier sleep, and
walsid the Kiug, who a4kittg her what was, the matter, she
ahswe!", " I have had a !rightful dream ;•- but I know that
dreams are mere
_illusions." " I was • iiltiays of the
opinion,".-replied' Henry, " However, tell me what ymn'e
dream was." "I dreamed, continued she, " that sotti-tvas
stabbed with a knife under the short ribs " " Thank God,
ecioined the King, " it was best a drelim."
On the morning-of the tidal day, his Maje'ty was unnsea.l4
lv gluagrined ; and be said more than once to those abiiet.hint,
" something or tither lvanifs. vrly heavy on my heart:" Beft.,-re
he went to his coact), he to,k leave of the Queen no•fr:Wee
than sluice times ; and en stepping into his earriage,lie'hail
not passed through many streets, ere Itav:ellae gave.btrithat
fatal stab whicivdeptiVed France of one of the, must genetus
anti huinane -Sorel Opts the ever had. - • T
When. Charles I. of England opened the war by erect-
ing his- standard oti Nottingham Castle, it was soon blown
down hy high wind, and the weather. continued b0152tr...
MIS, that the standard could net be refixed fofsereral tiqs•
Sorge years after, while the same caluithious 'Prioce;wict, tak-
ing his trial before what wa. called the High Couit
the silver head tell oil truth his cane, nor did the hiLl ST-its
f,wner IrOasitt wan,' days lunger up.oh his shoulders. -