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TUESDAY, 'AUGUST,I3, 1820.

EAST INDIA HOUSE, August 2, 1820.

91HE COURT OF DIRECTORS of the
UNITED COMPANY of MERCHANTS of ENG-
LAND TRADING to the' EAST INDIES, do hereby give
Notice,
That a GENERAL COURT of the said COMPANY will
be held at their House in Leadenhall-street, on WEDNES-
DAY, the 16th INSTANT, from Nine o'Clock in the Morn-
ing until Six in the Evening, for the ELECTION of a
DIRECTOR of this COMPANY in the room of Sir David
Scott, Bart. who hath disqualified.
JOSEPH DART, Secretary.

LONDON -JOURNALS.

[DAILY EXTRACTS.]

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS.

[Morning Post.]

The Letter to the King to which the evil-ad-
visers of the Queen haVe induced her Majesty to
give the sanction of her signature, we this day
with great reluctance present to our Readers. A
more intemperate, uncandid, libellous, and in-
flammatory production, has perhaps never issued
even from the seditious or rebellious press of this
Country. In vain do we look for any thing'
like moderation or conciliation in this extraordi-
nary document, which is calculated only to infu-
Hate the baser passions, without recourse being
had in any single instance to the persuasive power
of truth, fortified by the necessary qualities of
temperance and coolness. We hadintleed, hoped
and trusted, after the numberless professions she
had made, that her Majesty had more-of the true
spirit of that religioli (from one of the rituals of
which she has so vociferously complained of .the
omission of her name), than to harbour,, desires
Of .revenge, or a determination that if
,she must
fall, she will not fall silently or ingloriously ; and
that, unless 'compelled by actual,force, she will
not submit to any sentence pronounced by the
Court against whose authority she is so Weakly
made to protest. On the inflammatory and mis-
chievous tendency of this language it is unneces-
sary for us to say . any thing ;—it sufficiently
veak.*its own meaning ; but we 'have the high
satisfaction to, know . that any hopes formed
by the' base men, to whose counsels the unfor-
tunate Queen has been led to submit, will
be completely disappointed by the result ; and
that no threat, however ferocious, no stratagem.,!.
however artful or infamous, will serve :to arrest,
the course of Justice, or prevent the proud,
triumph of the Law of the Land. Nothing can
possibly be more disingenuous, or discreditable
to the head as well as. to the heart, of the writer
of the libellous productifin in question, than the
outrageous assertion that the house .of Lords is
incapable, under any circurnstanceS of judgi;:ig
fairly of her Majesty's case, on account of the
King's pretended, influence over the consciences
of its. Members. The whole of the passage upon
this' subject is founded alike in falsehood and in
mischief. Her Majesty, as well as the plotters
of Revolution, well knows that England is not
the country, nor British Noblemen and Gentle-
men the persons, where and by whom the meanest
individual can be unjustly condemned. She and
they. must also know that the Tribunal before
which she is to appear is not only the most noble,
honourable, and learned in the universe, but that
in its investigation and decision it will be assisted
by all the Judges of the Land ; whilst her Ma-
jesty is allowed
.the most unlimited latitude of
defence, with unbounded 'pecuniary means of
procuring witnesses from any part of the Conti-
nent to repel the charges against her. Under
these considerations we are filled with sorrow at
finding her Majesty opposing herself to'the law-
firl authority of the State by an avowal of :her
determination to resist its judgment, and appeal
to an inflamed and, infuriated mob.

[Morning Chronicle.]

We trust that this day will not pass over with-
out a question being put to his Majesty's Minis-
ters, in the House of Lords, as to their interfe-
rence with the despotic Courts of the Continent,
against the efforts of the people who are strug-
gling fora representative government. Rumours
of a policy fatal to the peace and credit of this
country are abroad; and it is material, that at a
moment of such internal disturbance, the public
mind should not be alarmed by accounts of sub-
sidies, and of interference with continental dis-
putes, that would to a moral certainty plunge us
into the gulph of bankruptcy.
We this day insert the Letter of the Queen to
the King. It will be seen that it is not a letter
of conciliation, nor_ one to which her Majesty
could expect a satisfactory answer.
It` s a Ma-

nifesto evidently meant for the public eye ; and
upon the tenor of which every reader will form a
judginent in conformity with his previous opinion
of the case. 'We have uniformly abstained from
all observations that might add to, the disturbed
state of public feeling, for at no time was the
nation in so agitated a temper, apd dreadful is
the responsibility of Ministers iho brought the
evil upon us. We fear 0:1t the publication of
this letter will make all attempts at stopping the
proceedings hopeless.—(/bid.)

[British Press.]

The Queen's Letter to his Majesty the Xing,
to which 'we alluded yesterday, with a general
description- of its contents, will be found this
day in another part of our Paper. This letter
expresses in very strong language her Majesty's
sense of the indignities arid sufferings which she
has been compelled to 'endure almost from -the
hour of marriage, and enumerates her various
grievances from the moment when, as her Ma-
jesty alleges,•she was "driven from beneath hei.
husband's roof with an infant in her arms," to
the present time, when she is sought to be di-
vorced from his throne and exiled from the
kingdom. It is in 4nany parts a powerful appeal
to the sensibilities and kindest feelings of our
nature, especially 'in those :where, as a mother,
she complains of the cruelty that deprived her of
the society of her child, and mourns over the
untimely grave of the only individual. to v..hom on
earth she had looked for syMpithy and protec-
tion. A letter written under the hapless circum-
stances in which her .Majesty is .now placed.,
ought not to be examined with too severe .a scru-
tiny, for it is impossible, having regard to her
Majesty's illustrious birth and high rank, to
imagine a woman more destitute and forlorn, more
friendless, yet more persecuted, than is the. Queen
of England at this moment; and if the inten-
sity of her mental agony, reflecting upon what
she has been and what site now, is—contrast-
inkethe hOpes which' smiled upon her at her
,en-
trance into life, with the glOomy prospect that
now unhappily Unfolds itself, her Majesty should
express' herself in a manner not nicely suited
to the tempered coldness of those who can
view her sufferings 'with indifference, is she not
entitled to some consideration for the causes that
have excited and imbittered- her feelings ? Her
Majesty writes under-the fixed impression that
she has been the constant object of an unrelenting
persecution that she has been treated with a seve-
rity not justified by her own conduct, but wantonly
arising from "the inclinations" of others, wha un-
fortunately had-not their inclinations under their.
olift controul ; that she has been " pursued byspies,
conspirators, and traitors, employed, encouraged,
and-rewarded, to lay.. snares for her feet and to
plot against her reputation. and life ;" and that
she is now exposed, to an anomalous mode of ju-
dicial procedure,- not consistent with the ordinary
rules of . English jurisprudence, for the purpose,
not of affording her a fair opportunity of repell-
ing the charges urged against her, but of striking,
with more certainty the Nictim of persecution.-:--
How far her Majesty may be justified by the
facts. within her own knowledge fin entertaining
this impression we cannot' imagine, but that her
feelingsare such is too evident to be doubted,
and a generous mind will, 'Under these circum-
stances, readily excuse a more than ordinary
warmth of expression: .

[ New Tines.]

It is with the most painful feelings that we
have to notice the Letter to which the Queen's
name has been affixed, and which was yesterday
published, as it were officially, in the Journal
devoted to the worst purposes of her Majesty's
worst adherents. Persons of all parties have done
us the justice to admit, that whenever we have
had occasion to .speak of her Majesty's per-
sonal conduct, we have most studiously pre-
served the respect due to her exalted station,
and the candour which prohibits all prejudi-
cation of her guilt or innocence. But we 'can-
not remain silent when other persons employ her,
as a tool of Treason. -We cannot see the
torch prepared to set fire to the four corners of
the Metropolis, and not cry aloud to every man of
Property, of respectability, of integrity, to take
'warning. We are compelled, for the information
of our Readers, to lay before them the Letter in
question. Her Majesty, we doubt not, has been
prevailed on to sanction it by her rime, bat it
would be folly to suppose.for amothent that she
did or could write it. It neithey is her style,.
nor can it contain her sentiment's.; for they are
the sentiments of a deadly enemy to the House
of .BrunsWick and to the English Constitution.
'Who the writer is can only be, matter of conjec-
ture. The name of Cob'bett has been mentioned ;
'and certainly the composition betrays all the ma-
lignity of that writer again sit the established
laws and institutions of th e Kingdom. Per-
haps a more classical pen raay have here and
there polished off the vulgw;ity of the author of
the Twopenny Rigister ; bu.t, upon the whole, we !
know no person, so likely r,§ he, to have give t.:, nt
least the sketch of this wrist detestable Le"cter.—
It is addressed ostensi-nly to the F:mg, but
really to the Mob. It $ true object
is to rouse
the Mob' to action ; as, they have, recently been
acting, at 'Palermo, arid as Th.'istlewood meant
them, to have acted in London. Lek us never
forget the declaration of that Traitor—that
he hoped to see the Shops di ' London
shut up, and those A ristocrats, the Shop-
keepers; well plundereei.. This s the hope

[PRrci SEVENPENC E.

,of•.the .writer of the -letter. 'F his is the
effect which Ins labours are calculated.' to
produce, the middle classes of people persist
in ; linding thimselves to the real nature of the
impending danger. The Queen is either inno-
cent or guilty. If she be innocent, it is utter-
ly impossible that her innocence can base a
better protection than that which will be af-
forded it by two successive investigations by
the two Ifouses,of the British Parliament. But
the writer of the' letter makes her act as a guilty
persdn, reviling and defying the Sovereign, and
the Legislature, but offering not one syllable of
argument to remove the suspicions which noto-
rious circumstances have attached to her con-
duct. We say, therefore, that the object of the
writer cannot have been to justify the Queen in
the slightest degree. It must have been to ex-
cite thornob of London to resistance against the
Laws and.the Legislature.

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