The Sun.
London, England, 1820-06-26 00:00:00

WEEKLY RETROSPECT.

To understand the business of the past week
frilly, will require a three month's Retrospect, com-
tnencing with the Gazette relative to the Liturgy,
and her Majesty's Remonstrance, which was an-
swered by the Note of the 15th of April, entrust-
ed to a learned Law Adviser to transmit, or, as he
says, to be delivered pessonally to the Queen.---
That Note, -if sent by courier or by post, might
hi.oe reached her Majesty, even at Pesaro, by
the latter end of the month ; of course, what-
ever the Roy3l Wanderer did after the first wetk
in May, must have been considered by the King
and his Ministers as dune after the receipt of the
Note, for that is a material point, and done in
consequence of resolutions arising out of or
et-inflected with it ; unless they also understood
that the delivery of such a Note was to depend on
the Late ettiviser•s convenience. Now this may
have been a capital joke to oetwit Minister( ; and
a laugh in the sleeve, as it is vulgarly teemed,
way have been delightful to (hose who were iu
the secret, especially whilst putting on silk gowns
wilt the Note snug ie their pockets, (fur the,ur-
prise expressed by Ministers fully justifies • this.)
But, as a great Lsw Adviser once said in a certain
place, " Ministers are no Conjurors ;" and Con-
jerors they must have been to believe it possible
that sech a Note, not wi'hatanding such learners
assertions, should have been silently retained for
two months, especially slier the Public Prints
were ringing with accounts of a Royal tour from
Pesaro to Lyons, from Lyons to Paris,.And from
Paris to St. Omer's, Bet there may also have
been a laugh even at an Illustrious, Female, tra-
Yelling after an unanswered Remonstrance, while
the Answer to it was. written ; and which, had
she reetized it, might have p-rerented her journey
entirely ! If, indeed, site had received the Note
by courier or post, and acted upon it, she would,
have declined the exercise of certain legs! rights ;
for instance, she would not, perhaps, have ap-
pointed LAW Officers, nor created her two puny
Barons, Lord Thistlewood and Lord Undetwoc.d,
nor done many other strange things ; but. then
the Country would have been quiet, and the Op-
position would not haze had an opportunity of of-
faring their services,iu the first instance,in a certain
quarter upon the rumour of Cabinet dissensions,
and of a loss of Royal confidence, nor of standing
forward in the second instance, as the defenders
of/ one, of whom it was said by a Leader, that
f4if ball the stories he had beard about her M 4.
jesty were true, she was unworthy to sit upon the
British Throne."

We should also have lost several curione sped-
nuns of special pleading and Lord Castlereagh
11/41u1C! hive lost more than ove cpportunity of
display►ng a degree of political sagacity, and of
gentlemanly coolness and presence of mind, that
way have been equalled but. never surpassed, even
though deriving an adventitious Charm from the
contrast in other folk's conduct.

But she came to St. Outer's, and there she met
her Law adviser, and there she left him, but still
the Note remained in the Dead Letter Office, and
even atter her arrival, and until after a negocia-
tion was on the tapis !

It is unnecessary to recapitulate all that hap-
pened bet ween this and the extraordinary demand
which took place respecting the Liturgy. Had
that been granted, the nest demand, no doubt,
would have been for a Coronation ; and to re-
ceive Half a Crown as Queen, would of course en-
able her to pay 61. Bd. as a Client—but of,this
enough—as for Mutiny Bills, the eillargenient of
the rule for Westminster's Glory, Etc.—we must
permit them to pass down the stream of Time,
unnoticed, retelling our neuters to the lead►ng
Article, for the facts respecting the Commons'
'Address.