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London, England, 1820-11-18 00:00:00

LONDON JOURNALS.

{DAILY. EXTRACTS FRONt THE MORNING PAPERS

Ploriziog Post.]
• Parliament will certainly be prorogued on
Thursday next, the 23d instant, to Tuesday, the
23d. of January, then to meet for the dispatch of
business and the expected communication will
not be made till the commencement of next Ses-
sou. , Public, in .the mean time, will have
leisure to give cool dispassionate consideration
to the 'disgusting subject, of which so mischievous
and infamous alt use has been made by the-ene-
. mics of our Constitution in Church and State.—
Truly rejoiced are we to find .that the people in
most parts of the country lrav,e, already returned
to their wonted good sense, and the temporarily
deserted paths of moral rectitude., Meetings are
about-- to be every where held, for ithe'purpose
of voting: AddresSes to his Majesty, expressive of
the imPgnation of his loYal subjects al the. atro-
..
elens attempts that have lately been-made to sub-
.,
left all order, and produce universal anarchy,
devastation, and bloodshed, in this once happy,
most Moral, and envied land-; as well as to :tes-
fify thi,it.rpec4, veneration, .and gratitude, for
the benefits Which this country and all _Europe
have derived from the wise, vigorous, and enlight-
ened nolic'Y of his-Majesty's Government'. Evettin
-the:City:of London, where seditious Radicalism
tots solong,-clared to raiie its hideous heady the good,
ii-ense and loyal feeling of the people is rapidly
returning, as will, be seen by the gratifying fea-
tures of the meeting of the inhabitants of Crip-
phlate Within yesterday., notwithstanding the
balefill influence of that incomparable wiseacre
Alderman Wood, who presided on the occasion.
Besides the loyal and moral manifestation which in
generaldistinguished that meeting, it was particu-
larly stated by Mr. Phelps, that he knew the voice
of the people to be not in favour of the Queen,
anti thatthelVlerchants, Bankers, &c. were about
to come forwaed 'to state their view of the ques-
tion. This is what we • have lOng so eagerly
looked for; and it is with heartfelt satisfaction,
•we now congratulate the Country on the ap-
proaching realization, of our most anxious wishes
in this respect. -A 11 the other mercantile and re-
ly ectable classes of the community will not fail
speedily to
:follow so laudable an example ;
and, by a firm undaunted expression of their
loyalty, effectually subdue immorality and sedi-.
tion, and silence the clamour of Faction through-
out the land. Nothing can moreclearly prove the
base uses to which the advocates of Vice and Trea-
son wish to turn the late necessary proceedings,
than the gross misrepresentions which they con-
tinue daily to put forth upon that subject. Go-
vernment, it is obvious, made the investigation a
judicial, and not a-party question7-a fact which
is sufficiently- demonstrable from the circumstance
of two Lords of the Bed
:Chamber, and many
other Peers Most closely connected with Minis-
ters, having voted against the Bill; while the
Opposition (with the creditable and gratifying
exception of Lords Grenville, Lauderdale, and
Den,oughmore,) acted throughout on the basest
principle of faction, displaying themselves, as a
Noble Lord justly'644.:.lrred, an unprincipled pha-
lanx, having ht vie%i, only their own interested
and dishonourable -objects.

[British Pl'e•.!s]
What peculiar circumstances are there in the
case of the present Queen ivhich should give to
her Court (if to her Palace and limited establish-
rnent such a name can.be given) a greater degree
of danger than belonged. to the Court of either
Prince of Wales ? What weight or strength can
her countenance and protection give to any party
in' the State? 'Who that•hopes to preserve or re-
gain favour, where favour will be valuable,, will
pay court to a neglected Queen ?' It is only in the
way of promoting a legitimate Opposition in
Parliament that her personal influence can be
contpmplated as likely to beoperative, for should
folly prompt her to, any step beyond this, her
power wilt be limited to her pecuniary means,
which are inferior to many other subjects in
.the
realm, while the laws, must be as efficient in re,
straining and punishing her, as • if she were
among the lowest classes of society. But it is'
really idle to enter upon such topics : we have
merely touched upon them to spew how futile
are the objections which can be raised to the
Queetesholding a Court in this country.

[New Times.]

It is now-certain that Parliament will be pro-
rogued on the 23d instant till Tuesday the 23d
January, then. to meet for dispatch of buSiness.
If we were to consult' merely our own private
feelings, we should, say this was a subject for
regret ; our clear °opinion •being that no time-
ought to be lost in marking" the sense'of.Parlia-
ment on the admitted conduct of the Queen. We
are, however, aware that the Pabik.,,: icweary'of
diScussions, wldch have prodnced so much heat
and so little• satisfaction. In. this point of view,
perhaps, the_' prorogation is advisable. Puling
the • interval 'of Parliamentary prorogation the
Queen's radical friends will nb doubt'be extreme-
ly noisy and turbulent ; it is to. be hoped
that this will unveil to. the honest part of the
community ;the true cfraCter of those measures
which have been repreSented as necessary to the
defeni:e of .Persecuted innocence.,--Reflection
will place many oiher'important facts in a clear
light, which haVe hitherto heen purpoSely ob-
scuri;d and misrepresented. It be observed,
that while the Whigs, with 'a few honourable ex-
ceptions, made . the. guilt or 'innocence of the
Queen apurty•qustion, the Government made
it a purely judicial one. No stronger proof of
this Tan be given, than that two Lords of the
Bedch.airiber voted against the

. ,
.A4nong•other radical improvements of the law
of England, we are now to'd that the. Judges
arc not to fine persons for gross contempts of the
Court, committed in the faCe of the Court, and
during thiC administration of justice.' The'argu-
inent, indeed, has not yet been taken'tp on very

wide grounds ; it seems to be tacitly admitted
that some persons may be fined for such offences;
but it is contended that there is a particular class
of individuals who ought to be exempted from
this salutary coercion, to wit, the _meritorious
venders of seditious and blasphethous libels.—
Now it happens .that .we think these are the very
persons against whom the restraints of the lAv
ought to' be' most strictly enforced. It is said
there are precedents 'for
.sparing them. Hone
was spared, and Carlile was spared !' In the first
place we must observe, that this mode of rea-
soning is at once the most ungracious pos-
sible, and the most adverse, •to a mild
and huthane administration of the law. If
every instance of lenity to_ be set up 'as
a perpetual barrier against all. future strictness,
no Judge can allow himself to be Lenient on any
occasion whatever, but the full penalty of the
law must be unsparingly exacted for every
offence. But in the next place what are these
precedents ? If cited, as such, we must say they
will be far " more honoured in the breach than
in the observance."—The daring insolence of
IlOne was directed to, bring into utter contempt
that excellent-administration of justice which is,
one of the proudest boasts of our Island—
the horrible impiety of Carlile was meant to
trample under loot that sacred religion which
is' the most precious consolation of mankind.
if ever miscreants 'deserved the utmost severity
of punishment for offences of such a laature.
those two men deserved to have ben held
up as exaMpleS tO' deter future cri'Ml-nliP hitt
the peculiar circumstances of their regp'ectivk....
trials might possibly have led the populace, to at-
tribute such punishment to an improper motive ;
and therefore probably it was that the eminent
and venerable Judges, win') presided on those
memorable occasions, did not employ the poWer
with which they were invested by the law, to re-
strain impiety and sedition hi the mouth of a de-
fendant by the
.merited infliction of a heavy pe-
cuniary fine. The laws, however, must not al-'
ways sleep. We daily see more and more fatal
consequences arising from a relaxation of, those
powers with which the wisdom of our ancestors
invested the great constitutional authorities. It
is .high time 'that offenders should be taught 'that
they are not to .add insult to injury, but that
when brought to answer before a public tribunal
for their violations of the law, they are to con,
duct themselves at least with decency and revo-
rence.—(lbid.).

[The Tones.]
The QeEEN", it will be recollected, applied for
a residence to Ministers—a Royal residence, of
course; she is a Royal Personage, and' she want-
ed none other—the houses and hearts of all the
people of England being alike open to her recep-
tion. After a thousand shufflings and delays,
this, in £4abstanuz, is the answer at last received
to a request so proper, so just, so legal, so mo-
destly urged :
Lord Liverpool states, _ _ _

" That he has received his Majesty's com-
mands to inform the Queen, that it is not, possi-
ble for his ?viajesty, under all the circumstances,
to assign any of the Royal Palaces for the Queen's
'residence; Lord Liverptnyl has bee.q- further
commanded to inrorin the Queen, that, 45ii-Pnr-
!lament shall meet ,for the despatch of business,
the allowance which has hitherto been enjoyed
by the Queen will be continued to her, and that
it will then be for Parliament tc,determine the
amount 'of the future provision to be granted to
her Majesty."
In an annexed paper Lord Liverpool adds,
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" That he thinks it material to observe, that
this anSWer mast not be understood a 4 withdraw-
ing the facilities which had been previous)y olf9r-
ed for procuring a residence in London-for the
Queen."

It is not needful to bestow many 'Nvords upon
such a production as the above ; it is the last,
the direst, of insults ! Whose are the palaces of
England ? The King cannot assign to the Wife
of twenty-live years' insult and persecution a
palace of her ancestors and his ! Why can he
not ? Then let the heath', we say, be her resi-
dence; she is a Queen still. We should tept it
again, were we in her place, as she did in Pales-
tine and on the deck of the potacre ; and let her
adversaries draw fresh matter of slander, from
such a position.
But the next clause in 'this most,astonishing
letter is more insolent and disgusting still. " Till
" Parliament meets for the despatch of business,
" the Allowance (Qu. parochial) which has
" hitherto been enjoyed by her Majesty will be
cc continued to her." 'Why does Mot the Queen's
allowance, as it is here called, come from the same
source as the King's ? Are they not fed by the
same hand ? Have theY not the same right ?
Nay, is she' not the only one of the lioyatl stock
who has been .graciously pleased, in consequence
of the public distress, to relinquish more than
a quarter of her income ? And here she gloid—
how insultingly we need not say—that She will
be allowed to enjoy the residue till Parliament
meets. Kind, condescending, benevolent, hu-
mane ! But her Majesty never asked for the
continuance Of her allo;sance.

[Tfie Ledger.]

An answer, the learn, has beets obtained from
Lord Liverpool to her-Majesty's application for
a residence becoming her dignity, The Noble
Lord ig merely understood to say, that" he has not
yet received the King's commands on'the subject
of a dwelling for her Majesty, but that he will
communicate them to Mr. Craven the moment it
is in his power to do so." Lord Liverpool pleads
his absence from town as an excuse for his delay
in answering her Majesty's letter. What"paltry
shuffling this is ? His Lordship, in the Upper
House, and Lord Castlereagh, in the 'other, it
-will be recollected, displayed uncommon anxiety
to persuade Parliament and the Public, that in no
part of the proceedings respecting the Queen, had
.his Majesty any personal feeling;. and now, when
the State has abandoned the prosecution against
her, the want Of commands from his Majesty is
'to be pleaded as an excuse for not assigning to

her Majesty a residence suited to her station! Is
not-the obvious tendency of such au answer on
the part of Ministers to belie their public decla-
rations, to shift responsibility from their own
shoulders, and. to impress the Public with the
icka, tin:lit-the delay in providing-her Majesty with-
ini4pro)4e,ke mansion alone chargAble to
the NsonaZ teeNgs 4. 412 e Nowc ? Would
not have been more'consiitent with trutl9,and wont
it not have displayed a greater tenderness for the
character of their Royal Master, to have replied,
that they lied not thought fit to submit any ad-
vice to his Majesty on the subject of his Consort's
demands, "until the arrival of Mr. Canning,
through whose mediation they,expectel to be
able to induce her Majesty wholly to withdraw
from this Country; or, if she remains, to persuade
her to lire in such retirement and obscurity as
to attract as little as possible of the public. at-
tention ?--Mr. Canning, it is said, has arrived in
town, and according to the report of yesterday,
in the political circles, the proposition to which he
is to endeavour to procure his Majesty's as-
sent, if she refuses to cluit the country, is,
that she 'shall reside at Harapton-court, and
accept an income 'of twenty-five thousand puunds
a year ! We cannot, however, bring ourselves to
credit the latter part of this report. It surely is
not possible, that those who offered her Majesty
50,000/. a year-to live abroad, should have the
audacity to limit her revenue to half that amount
as a punishment for her" preferring to reside in
this country I

[Morning Herald.]
Yeqerday a Public Meeting of two Parishes
was held at the Freemasons' Tavern, to consider
the propriety of petitioning his Majesty for the
removal of his:present Ministers, and to congra-
tulate the Queen on the issue of the late inquiry.
How far Ministers have or have not lost the con-
fidence of the nation, cannot yet be fairly col-
lected—nor do we- think any impartial observer
can pronounce upon this point, until the manifes-
tation of the sense of Parliament, when it shall
hare met for the dispatch of public business.—
We by no means approve the tone and style of
these Resolutions. A Meeting to petition the
Sovereign to change his Counsellors, is one of the
most valuable and constitutionally legitimate ex-
ercises of the subjects right of petition. Reso-
lutions containing the grounds of, such an appli-
cation to the Throne, should be drawn up in the
language of good sense and temper. They should
turn upon the principles and measures, by which
an Administration might maintain the prosperity
and liberty of the State. They should give such
a sound-minded and unexaggerated exposition of
the faults of Ministers, as would not be disdained
by the historian, as a party record of the time.
The Chair was occupied by Lord John Russell.
The Whig interest, however, did not appear to
prevail at the Meeting, as the Speakers were, for
the most part, Reformers.

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