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Among the many others whose names were
omitted who attended with the • Oxford Univer-
sity Address, were—
Sir Christopher Robinson, D.C.L. of- Mag. Coll..; Rev. D 7.
Ellerton and Rev. Mr. Coblolif, of Mag. Coil ; Rev. Dr. Ben-
son, of Queen's Coll. ; Dr. Maton, M.D. of Queen's Co!l.;
Rev. Mr. Bowerbeck, Queen's Coll., Rev. B. P. Symmonds,
of Wedh. Coll.; Rev. Mr. Luton, of Wedh. Coll., &c. &v.

Doctors of Music heretofore used to attend the
Oxford and Cambridge Addresses to the Throne,
habited in their respective and appropriate cos-
tume. Of late they have not been seen to in
University processions.

Very recent intelligence from Copenhagen has
been received.. The tranquillity of that capital
had not been disturbed since the late attempt at
revolt ; no further arrests had occurred ; and,
from the tenor of the accounts, it would appear
that there was no immediate apprehension of fur-
ther disturbances. None of the conspirators, al-
though they had undergone very long examina-
tions, had been convicted.
The Ladies' first night at
.the Bath Harmonic
Society was on • Friday last. The Rev. Mr.
BOW EN, the founder, was in the Chair. The
glees were given in great style, and Mrs. SALMON,
who was present, obligingly favoured the company
with an Italian song, and joined with two of the
members in a duet, and glee. The amusement of
the evening concluded with " God save-the
King," in which all the Ladies and Gentlemen
in
.the room joined.
WILLIAM PONSON BY, Esq.—On Monday, at
Bishop's-court, died WILLIAM PONSON BY, gsq.
only son of the distinguished Statesman of that
name Among the many instances of untimely
death daily mentioned .in our obituary, there! is
-none, we are convinced, will be More sincerely
lamented than the one it is now become Oui pain-
ful duty to record. His health has been for
many months back in a very declining state, and
indeed some weeks-before hiS death; all rational
expectations of his final recovery had been aban-
doned. He died sitting in hiS chair.—(Moraing
Post.)
LIMERICK, Dac. 16.—(_lIdanchotv Accideiit.)
—This morning, about one o'clock, du rin!,. a vio-
lent storm from S.S.E., the large chimney Of Capt.
Hickman's house, ht Clare-street, was blown
down, which, falling upon the roof, broke in with a
dreadful crash.and carried down all the back rooms
to the ground floor. Capt. Hickman's family are in
England, and the house was occupied by a cook,
named Mary O'Connor, two children, one eight
and the other eighteen months old belonging
to Mr. Hickman's servant, and an old .woman,
named Mary. Kelly, their grandmother; The
cook was dug out of -the. ruins, most dreladfully
bruised, and there is but little hopes of 'her. re-
covery ; but the poor old woman, with the two
infants, were killed. The parents of the:child-
ren are with their master in England.

THE LONDON J O URNALS.

[VAILY EXTRACTS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS.I

j,Torning Chronicle.]
The Right Honourable tied te Canning has resigned the
voice i 4 President of the Board of Control, and it is ac,
10v/edited by the Ministerial Papers that he.retires " he-
yuse he could mot, with honour to himself, remain in Ad-
thinistratioo, atter theArii is'which the taneen's business has
t;ft,en, aril thr:. Patli,"orscnral y,discussions likely to ensue upon
e, tneir, 'tal'e the demonstration of a design
the tinblic have long suspected, that Ministers still mean
cer.i I tit,O- perscrotion of hey Majesty, after the :than-
tof their unconstitutional proceeding ; and althooi gh
tt,!e) are aware that their perseverance in this unmanly course
,
71, ;:,t that agitation which now distracts the country.
l'tr resteirath.M id Mr. Canning upon this ground is highly
.t,,,,0ur,:b1e to his feelings, and will entitle hint to the grafi-
tc.de of everrycne, oils heat t. Era a certain Evening Paper
s tusve spaced its insinuations, that the:Whigs would
i.n:k to the accession of Mr. Canning to the system which
t lecomme.rl fur the deliverance .of the Empire from its
calamities, as no inducement could .prevail on them
cootittrianee the violent acts which he and his Colleagues
have .recently _imposed un _ the - people. Mr. Canning may
ci,..tsovctionsly (hirer front the rest of the King's Ministers
tti.,_s delicate -point, and we, believe he differs slid with
,
LOra Castlereagh, at least on the plan of his external policy;
but we cannot forget, and ought nut to forget, the part be
took in the six despotic Statutes of the last Parliament. This
coantry can only be relieved from the distress which has been
brOnght upon, it, by a return to the policy or conciliation—
bv identifying the interests of the people with the glory of the
erown, and thereby restoring the reciprocal affection that
ought to subsist between them. This can only he dune by an
etiasetual reform of all i he abuses that have made our brirtbens
Loo heavy for endurance. In the meantime the resignation
Mr. Canning sounds an alaruni to the friends of the Con-
s;;tation. Tbe Bill of Pains and Penalties has failed (though
.rlitii'ters have pia the precedent upon record—a measure to
v.tlich his Royal Highness the .Duke of York, and every mem-
ber of the illustrious House of Brunswick, ought to give
their serious thoug,hts, since it implies that an obstacle may
maylie set up to a Prince's succession to the Throne fora min-
mevinor coo:milted while a subject) but 'the odious measure
ruay be renewed, or the ea; post f acts persecution may be fol-
lowed up in another way. If the nation is thus tribe kept in,a
ferment, and all public business is to yield tothis intemperate
was tare, it behoves the community at large. to bestir th,o-
selves, and to submit to his Majesty the just alarm for the
tranquillity of the United Kingdom which the obstinacy of
his Ministers excites in their breasts.

r 'Morning Post.]
The Right Hon. Gedrge Canning has at length resigned his
I'Vlinistetial situation of President of the Board of Control•-•
an event wnich,thongla we have long anticipated,we most sin-
cerely regret. Mr. Canning is a Gentleman of such vast and
carn,us acquirements, that it would be difficult, if not-impos-
..
lopoint. out ato, Man superior to him in official capa-
; antl deeply, of course, do we deplore the necessity of
t' e retirement of so'high and estiniahle a. character front the
c,ooeils of his Majesty. It' was impossible, however, not to
have foreseen the event ; for though closely and indissolubly
u7r;ted with his colleagues on all matters of Foreign and Do-
c.:estic.policy, the turn which the question respecting the
(d',een has taken, and the Parliamentary discussions likely to
cr;,oe upon that unpleasant subject, rendered it impossible
for biro to remain in AdmitriStration, either with honour to
hirr.rif tar ii,lv,antage to the Government. The A-Mar-les
ul fi?.ction and licentionSness will dotibtless be highly'
re:,uiced at this unavoidable' occurrence (for unavoid-
able it . early became from circumstances which it is
now. unnecessary to state ;) but if either the Revoln-
tii.diivs or the entertain any hope' that their falling-
fnitutis will be sustained by the accession of Mr. Canning
to tnedr cause, they will find' themselves grievously disap.
pnitited. Reared and educated it the virtuous and enlight-
ened sclitnil of Pitt, the night Hon. Gentleman loathes their
pirlities, detests their practices", is as alien as ever to all their
fykterns and all ibeir objects; and in the same proportion,
arid with the sane inteusly, 'that he abhOrs their pi inciples,
will Ire continue. attached to the principles•and the system of
his late eulleiqiires. There is hut 'uric point of difference be-
t VvCr then!—t point which bai no relation to the prime
grit ~iirle of the disgusting question, Ina merely to that of
pr,ticy; and which we hope and trust a very short time
will
efeeluelly renioie. In the mean tune, 31t. -Canning will re-
.pair to the Continent,. there to remain in tranquil retire-
ment with has' interesting family for sonic time; and not in
any public or official capacity whatever.. Mr, Peel
is tneru-
tiotret{ ~s his probable successor in the office of President of
the Board of Control.

Th.e sviseaci-es of the Common Council (that is, the. factious
Tort of that once kespeLtable body) entered into some mu-
ittions yesteriloy upoo the subject of his Majesty's dignified
--reprehension of their late factious and mischievous Address
to the Throne. It is really disgusting to hear such an As-
semrdy saying (as thdy did in the insolent Address alluded
toOlgat they shor Id be guilty of ," dereliction of duty" to the
14 ins; and Country if they restrained their indignation,
.8.:c.;
and we must repeat, that• if what they uttered were judicious,
true, and useful, instead of being inept, fallacious, and mis-
chievous, there was no " duty" in the matter incuhtbent upon
them. Let those factious men look to the Charter of the Coi-
porittion, and they will find that they were not elected to any
interference in the gencral affairs of the lsingdotn. So far,
therefore, is such int er!erence from being a duty with them,
'that tt is not ecoo a right, except in the.senSe in which it. is
.enjoyed liy, every EngliShman, whether he be sitting in Com-
mon Council or it; a common tavern. , They are quacks when
017 pretend to he invested with any such duty. Their duties
are'ro conduct themselves peaceably as individnals, and to be
watchful over the police and privileges of their district, (a
very small part even of the eaStein division of London) as
• Common 'Coniteilmen.- Their predecessors, in times' when
•the Common Council of London included the wealthiest pot-
' t.ion of its traders, slid not pretend to any other duty, and were
of moderate as the present race are intemperate in the
:exercise of a right,shared with the rest of the conic:minty.—
(E•id.)

[Morning Herald.]
Mr. Canning has resigned. No doubtis entertained, that
The Queen's case is the
,point upon which he differed with his
• eiAleagues. It is generally understood that future proceed-
- .ings in this case, when Parliament shall have met, have been
determined on in the Cabinet. In consequence Mr. Catini;T
has retired. He goes nff immediately to the Continent. It is
said his successor Will he Mr. Peel, the late Chief Secretary
for Ireland.

• / [British Press.]
. s
Our statetneil of Mr. Can.ning's resignation is confirmed.
Mr. Prvi is mentioned as his'suceessor in the Presidency of
the Board of Control. A Treasury Journal of last evening
53P, the Bight Hon. Gentleman will in a few days set off for
the Continent, where he will reside for souse time, but in no
public or official capacity.

We are now in posseSsionof tolerably complete details re-
garding the revolution, slightly noticed in our last, which
has occurred in the affairs of the infant kingdom of Hayti.—
ChriStophe perished by' his own hand, and his death has added
at-lather to the list of mushroom and. ephemeral dynasties, of
which the last quarter of a century has seen the rise and ex-
tinction. Like many 'other absolute Sovereigns, who have
sought to reign by mere brute force alone, Christophe:s power
declined ~.when,. overtaken by bodily infirmity, he edold no '
longer:by his personal exertions; terrify his
s
laves into sub-
mission. While suffering under a paralytic edisorder, his
troops were cautiously. 'forming plans fur throwing off his
yolse, and on the 6th October thhse at Cape Henry revolted,
and in a body marched out of the town and took up a station
at the distance of a few . miles from it. Christophe's body
guards, who still retained a Show of fidelity towards him, were
thereupon ordered-to
.march against the rebels, and encou-
raged by the:distribution of, money amongst them, and per-
Ntission to plunder Cape- Henry. On the Bth some slight
-skirmishing between the two parties, hut it ended in
the tatter joitring thecause ofindependence ; on hearing which
Christophe, feeling; his desperate 'situation, shot himself
1111.11;0 the heart in his residence at Sans &mei. The next
step taken:by the insurgents was 'to seize his coffers, which
were well filled, and to imprison those of his minions who had
aided .him in his work of tyranny. The members of hii fa-
y were, at the same time, placed under arrest. About the
period ;it. which these events were occurring at Cape Henry,
the military at St'. Mare's bad risen up, and having killed the
Governor, sent proposals tn President Boyer, who immedi-
ately advanced with a large body of his troops from the south-
ere p'o'rtion of the island, and took possession of the town.
Vrhat thight be his ulterior" views and operations remains. to be
k flown ; appears probable. that the population of the
'northern part would resist rativ attempt t;; bring them udder
IBOyer's government, and would endeavour to form a separate
government, on similar principles, however under a leader of

their Own. A General Romaine, at the date of • latest ad-.
vices from Cape Henry, had abeatly been placed tt the head
of a Proviiionat Administration, and the Sciteute o a regular
Constitution was daily expected to appear. A ~ntsiderahle
improvement in -trade was anticipated to flow froni.the recent
change, and the greatest cordiality prevails 1 atnungst all
classes of the people.—(lbid.)

[The Public Ledger.]
It is now ascertained, positively, that Mr. Canning retires
from the Presidency, of the Boma of Controtil, and will, in a
few days, set off for the. Continent, where he will reside for a
short time, hot in no public capacity. He, however, continues
attached, to the pi inciples and the system of his Colleagues.
It is said there is hot one point of difference between them.
Mr. Peel is mentioned as Mr. Canning's :luccesott. 'll\e one
point. of ilitfetence may easily he inferred, front the following
observation; in a Ministerial Evening Paper, with regard to
Mr. Canning:—" We 'confess that we do not see haw he could
remain in Administration, after the turn which the Queen's
business has taken; and the Parliamentary discussions likely
to ensue al-on it, with honour to himself or with advantage
to his Colleagues." It is now understood that souse new attempt
is to he made to derogate from the dignity-of her Majesty,
and to abridge her rights as Queen Consort. Mr. Peel, with
whose introduction into office ,\linisters were threatened last
spring, when they expressed their reluctance to bring forward
the 13111 of Pains .and Penalties, come'. in now to " screw
their coinage to the sticking place." What the new measure
which is in embryo is, we have not yet heard; bit if it he nn-
accompanied With a renewal of the investigation into her Ma-
jesty's conduct, it tonst.be one, in its principle,. still Illelre il-
legal. unconstitutional, and Ahorrent from the feelings of
the community at large than that which, in acknowledged de-
ference to those feelings, has been abandoned. With the
known sentiments of Mr. Canning respecting her Majesty,
it is not to he supposed that be could hare remained in Office,
under such circumstances, with ;core " honour to himself, or
l• advantage to his Colleagues," titan during the late inquiry.

[The Times.]
A Ministerial Paper of last night annonnces; as frnin
thority, that Mr. Canning has actually resigned. To the par;
tisaus. of the. pi e.ent Ministry this circumstance must be a
subject of nnleigtied affliction and alarm. Never having pro-
fessed much 'attachment to the Right Hort. Gentleman, but:
having on more than one 'occasion spoken of him in terms of
free and not unprovoked reprehension, we are entitled to
the greater credit for sincerity when we state, that his conduct
on the question relating to her Majesty was an honourable
exception to that of his mere associates, and has fairly wen us
to,respect hint. Interested, therefore, as we think all Mutest
nit'n must .have been, for the full vindication of .l r
_. Canning's
motives in this the most popular act of his life, from
every -shade pf doubt or suspicion, we iejoice beyond
measure that , he has maintained his consistency and
proved -his integrity by resigning. How, -indeed, would
it have been possible fur the Right. Honourable Gentle-
man to, stand up in the House of Commons, and defend from
rept oach, dismissal, or impeacisment,• the Qireen's accusers,
with whom in that capacity he disclaimed all connexion—
pronouncing her whom they persecuted AS. a nuisance to so-
ciety to be its " grace, and ornament, and honouy?" How
could Mr. Canning have identiied himself with colleagues
who still felt offer to be tenable, whtln the base conditon, on
the performance of which they had staked it, and which his
more manly sentiments had reputbated, was found tube unten-
able? Alnice all things, could he have co•operated with the
present cabinet in continuing, as they do every loan- of-their
lives, to persecute her whom he had refused to prosecute—
nay, to perst•cute her in the teeth of a baffletrand abandoned
prosecution? For his own sake, therefore. if there were no
other reason; we should rejoice that Mr. Canning has left
his tutwottliy, colleagues to their fate. • But there is a
further consideration, and 01 much more eNtensiec bearing,
which induces ti to hail this event. with pleasure—and that is,
the moral certainty we feel of Mr. Canning's retirement frOm
the Cabinet being, in fact, the prelude to its total and speedy
dissolution. It is notst hat in the I louse of Conmions lie was
by far their ablest, indeed their only powerful speaker, hut
that we are sure the clear-siptteit part of the nation will join
us in regarding the Cabinet of which he was a member as
an edifice leo frail and rutted to endure the operation of
ltrealiing away from it even a single plank: It is yeported
that Mr. Peri is 10 supply the vacancy. •Perhaps in the
wildness cf indiscreet ambition. be may " screw up his
" courage to the sticking place ;" but he nerve his
arm to the Queen's destruction ?"(still coolly meditotl,
though it has hitherto miscarried) ; fur that is
,the task to
be required of him. Or will he lower the pretensions which
he pit forth so formally, but two short years ago, and
act in the House of Commons under Lord Castlercagh F Whom
he then, with sober gravity, described
.as a person to whom
be '• would never be subordinate?" It was donhtless pru-
dent. of this young politician to conceal his. sentiments, and
his face to boot, while the cruel persecution was Carrying on
against her Majesty; for we believe it is a fact,that he was
neither seen.. nor heard of in London until the moment when •
the Bill was lost. But should Mr. Peel mount the post of
danger to which he is apparently designated, prudence and
taciturnity will avail
.'hint naught. He must speak without
reserve : he must discharge his Ministerial
,ditty—slander
and insult and rep.robate the Queen ;—sharing brief power,
and lung disgrace, with her open, and his own secret, enemies.

[New Times.]
-We have, for some time past, anticipated with sentiments
of painful convielion, the retirement of Mr. Canning from
Office. The event: has 'now taken place; and it will be
viewed by.every enlightened friend of his country, though
with little surprise, yet certainly with extreme regret.—
The delicate situation, in which the Right Honourable Gen-
tleman seas placed,. and the high sense of honour by which
he was actuated, rendered it difficult, if not impossible for
him long to conciliate his sense of duty to his King, as a Mi-
nister, with those ties by which he was hound to the Queen
as bet former confidential Adviser. Other Members of
the present,. Administration had been, many years ago,
consulted by kr Majesty professionally, or had been attached
to her interests by the slighter connections of mere acquain-
tance ; but be had been honoured (at a time when to be num-
bered among the-Queen's Councillors was an honour) with
her Majesty's peculiar confidence; and lament able as has
been the• change in her subsequent conduct, Mr. Canning
seems to have considered that he could not take part even in
a jast and lawful prosecution against her, without violence to
his feelines as a man and a gentleman. He has therefore hi-en
under the 'necessity of withdrawing front an association
with. Colleagues whom lie esteemed, and by whom his splen-
did talents, his amenity, his statesmanlike views, and his
habits of business, were held in high and deser red admiration.
His secession from the Cabinet is a great public loss ; and
yet we strauld'be sorry to witatss a time when British States-
men shonid be guided by a less refined and scrupulous sense
of honour, than that which he has displayed upon the pre-
sent occasion. It has been surmised by •a vulgar writer in
the most vulgar of all our Journals, that because Mr. Can
ning had iu the warmth and fervour of his noble ebullience
' lavished. on the Queen expressions which some perhaps
may think far beyond her Majesty's deserts, even in her
' tutdegraded and uniiolluted days, therefore it was to be in-
ferred that he had in view: the base, 30851r,-and sontemptible
project of ratting to the Radical standard, and enrolling
himself among Oa miserable banditti that surround the
standard' of Brandenbrirg House. They had the egregious
stupidity to believe that he would be the Falstaff of a raggil
regiment of Scblavinis, Humes, Moores, Woods, and Vassaris !
Little did they kiiow ot the elevated sentiments, and clear po-
litical views of that illustrious orator, who, by one single
speech at Liverpool,scatt eyed all the miserable sophistries of
the Reformers, as the light chaff is scattered before the whirl- '
wind. No doubt a much higher station would be at Mr.
' canning's command rf he thought fit to accept it. He might
be the Leader of a Consti,vtional Opposition, and " AU the
Talents" would he- hut too happy and too proud in serving
under hint. To this project, however, there are two iosoper•
able objections; first, that in the present state of the House
of Commons no such party is to be found. The few remaint•
ing specimens of the old Foxite Whigs are lost in a motley
crowd, whose principles are almost as various as their faces ;
there is no such thing as order or degree amongst them; and
Mr. Tierney himself is listened to with little more reverence
than Cam Hohbouse, or Grey Bennet, Secondly, and which
is still more material, Mr. Canning has what few of these
Gentlemen possess, a steady and consistent system of politi-
cal principles, and those principles are utterly inconsistent
with the revolutionary tendencies which for the last thirty
years have been the disgrace and ruin of the modern Whigs.

Such has been the peculiar mildness of the
season for some time past in this neighbourhood,
that primroses and violets in many places may be
seen ready to burst into flower. At Laira Green,
near this town, there are peas in blossom, and
beans which have blossoined, and produced pods,
now ripe for gathering. Another garden in this
town has'piiiks opening into flewer.--(Pigmoth
Telegraph.)

FOR TILE SUN.

TO THE QUEEN'S. FRIENDS.
'MY FELt.ow CouNraYsigisl.—l am well convinced, that yo.
so warmly stand up in behalf of the Queen, only because
you sincetely believe her to be an innocent and persecuted
woman; for tdo nut think that Englishmen will ever defend
a cause that they are not persuaded is right. You hare in
fact been told again and again,that a foul Conspiracy has long
been at work to blast her character; and she is painted to
you as " pure as unsunned snow; " and you are now, there-
fore, exalting at her escape from the Bill of Degradation, as
a triumph of virtuous innocence over the malice of persecu-
tion. I have no pleasure in saying hard things-of her with-
out, necessity ; but the
.cause of virtue and the peace of the
country loudly demand that the truth stoat-1 not be disguis-
ed. Let use then ask you a few plain quesnons ; anti judge
for yourselves. Can you believe a woman to be pure and in-
nocent, who has slept privately in the same chamber with. her
footman for five weeks together ? Yet this the Queen's own
Counsel have been obliged to admit, that she did. With her
attendant Bergami on her voyage from ,iiitta; for it was
proved by one of her own witnesses. They have laboured, it
is true, to gloss over this flagrant breach of female modesty,
pretending that he slept by her for her prOtection. But
can you be satisfied with this pretence; when none of her wit-
nesses could say, that any such protection was necessary, or
that a guard outside of her tent would not have beets equally
effectual. If your wife had made a five week's excursion with
a man servant, and taken him every nightintO her bedscham•
her, would you be simple enough to be imposed upon by such
a pretence ? Again, let me ask you, what would you think,
if site had been seen on another occasion stealing from that
servant's bed-chamber-to her own, in her bight dress, with a
inflow snider her arm ? Yet this also is virtually/admitted in
the case of the. Queen—l say admitted; for what may be
easily disproved, if false, must reasonably be considered as an
'admitted fact, if not disproved. If, as a juryman, you beard
a witness swear, that he had seen the prisoner at the bar steal
a sack of corn, and at the sante time declare that one of the
prisoner's own friends saw the saute thiug ; and that friend,
though at hand. should nut be brought forward to deny it,
would you not feel yourself constrained to give a verdict of
guilty? Now the Queen is alledged on oath to have gone in
the state just described from Bergaini's chamber to the
Counts s, Oldi's ; why then wasuot this Countess Oldi,who was
ready at hand, hi ought forward to contradict the allegation
Truth never can dread cross-examination; the more it is
starched and probed to the bottom, the more it confirms and
clears itself. Can you then disbelieve that the fact was even
so ? And if so, can you believe the Queen pure and Mao-
cent ? But further, many instances of improper familiarity
(affording but too clear a continent on the vulture of the in-
terconrse subsisting between Ole Queen and Bergami) were
sworn to by witnesses of the most respectable appearance and
unimpeached veracity. Why was not their testimony contra-
dicted ? CA) you suppose that it would have gitne uncontras
dieted, if it had been false?
To be brief, the admitted or uncotstradicted state of the
case stands simply thus: about six years ago the Queen hued
Bergami as a menial servant ; in the course of a few months
she advanced him to the place of her chamberlain, admitted
him to her table, made him her constant companion anti con-
fidant, purchased for him an estate and titles, and loaded him
with honours and favours; and having disengaged herself of
her English suite, took his Sister to be her maid of honour,
though she could hold .no iutercourse with her by words,
front their mtitnal ignorance of each oath's language, and at
length almost tilled her household with his relations, with the
striking exception of his wife. Still you will perhaps say,
that all thiS slid not necessarily imply criminality. But un-
happily this is not all. She made him her constant compan-
UM, not only by day but by night 'also. For several weeks
together she slept in the same tent with him, and wherever
she travelled had his bed-chamber so near to her own, as to
attrait, of.easy communication ; nay, could not even re-
frain, upon some occasions, froth shoving her attachment
to him, more openly by indecorous ,familiariiies; All this,
I repeat, is confirmed or uncontradicted even by her own
witnesses.
Can any one, then, of a pure and unprejudiced mind
think her innocent, or worthy to preside at the .head of
the female society of this 'country? But here you will
perhaps ask in your turn, was she not virtually acquitted
by the Molise of Lords, when the Bill of Pains and Penal-
ties was withdrawn ! -171116 C., have been led to
consider, as the 'triumph of her innocence. But let not
your good sense be thus imposed upon by misrepresenta-
tion. The Bill was not withdrawn because any donbt was
entertained of her guilt ; but because some thought it an
unconstitutional way of punishing her, others did not like to
go the full length of, the punishment proposed, and others
again thought it right to yield to the opposition made
to it out of doors. So far in fact was the House front acquit-
ting her. that they almost unanimously gave a verdict of
guilty when they passed the Preamble of the Bill, without a
division: for this preamble contained the charge against het,
and in passing it they expressly tonftrmed that charge. But
you may judge of what even the Whigs think of her, by the
gross and barefaced declaration, which came ont of the mouth
of one of them last summer—" We all know her to be a --
hut we must have a revolution." This hardy and disgusting
avowal speaks volumes. It sufficiently spews, that they care
no more for the Queen than they believe in her innocence ;
and that they defend her cause merely for the sinister pur-
pose of bringing obloquy on the present Ministry, and there-
by raising themselves to power. This is the whole secret of
their movements. You have head much of a pretended
conspiracy against the Queen ; but here you have -a real
conspiracy. But, my fellow countryinen, there is a still darker
and more malignant conspiracy at work, against which you
have much more reason to stand on your guard, because it
puts on the most plausible and deceitful aspect, assuming the
masts of purity and disinterestedness, and affecting to make
war on both Whigs and Tories, as being alike corrupt, alike
enemies of the people. " A Radical," say they, (you all
know) " means one, who wishes to eradicate or destroy cor-
ruption, root and branch." But beware how you take their
word fur this rest assured, amidst all this cant, plunder,
universal plunder, is the true object they are aiming at. This
is the ultimate object, the secret motive of all their affected
and clamorous real in the cause of the Queen—a cause which
they know full well how to take advantage of, as giving them
a hold of your unsuspecting. generosity and sympathy.- This
is the true secret of the abusive and threatening letter writ-
ten to the King, under the cloak of the Queen's'name—of the
whole apparatus of inflammatory addresses, and equally in-
flammatory answers—of all the expensive and ostentatious
processions, even of that impious one to St. Paul's, arid of all
the forced illuminations and rejoicings throughout the coun-
try. This is the true spring of all the virulent abuse, which
you have heard thrown nut against his Majesty's Govern-
ment, and of the still more virulent abuse, which they are
now beginning to vent against the 'Whigs; for they see that
the Whigs are endeavouring to turn to their own account all
the ferment which they (the Radicals) have excited at so much
cost and exertion, and they are filled with rage and spleen at
being disappointed of their prey, when they. flattered them-
selVes it was almost within their grasp. Can you really be-
'neve that the Radicals care for the Queen ; or that if they
will not brook the government of a Mat, • they will submit to
that of a woman ?
One word more of caution, and I have done. Englishmen'
enjoy the privilege of a fire press in a degree possessed by rot
other nation under heaven ; and it is a noble and invaluable
privilege but always keep in mind that it imposes an ardu-
ous and-indispensable duty on all Englishmen of weighing
well the tendency of all that is addressed to them through the
press. It is an engine that may be converted to the worst as
well as the best of purposes; and nothing is easier than to
give the fairest appearance to the foulest cause. The sacred
name of Liberty was the rallying word to Anarchy at the
commencement of the French Revolution; and the Goddess
of Reason was the Idol set up by the votaries of vice and pro-
fligacy. The same arts of seduction have ever since been at
work; and now the rallying word is Reform, and the Idol set
up is the Queen. Look well Ito 'youtselVes. Be on your guard
against all false pretences. Beware lest with honest inten-
titu-
tions you stand up as advocates for adultery and pros
titan ; and unconsciously lend a helping band to treason and
rebellion.
Sluchton.

VERUAS

STREET Ronanty.—Between eight and nine
o'clock on Tuesday evening, Mrs. Payne, an
elderly widow lady, residing in White Lion-
street, Islington, was stopped in the street a few
doors from her own house by two fellows, who
robbed her of her cloak and umbrella. On her
giving the alarm, Cadby and two other consta-
bles followed the villains, and apprehended a
man of notorious character whom they suspected
to. be one of the party, and took him to the
watch-house, but Mrs. Payne not being able to
identify him; he was iu consequence discharied.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, DEC. 20,

THE TIMBER IN BLENHEINI PARK.

THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL AT THE RELATIoN or THE MARQUES!
Ur RLANDroRD v. HIS GRACE THE DUKE or MARLBOROUGH.
. Mr. HEALD stated, that he had in the course of the morn-
ing made an application to his Honour the Vice-Chancellor.
on the part of tl*Noble relator, that a writ of sequestration
might issue against the Noble defendant, for cutting dawn
timber in Blenheim Park;contrary to the order for an injursc-
tion to restrain him from doing so, which was wade by his
Lordship, and at the same time he moved before his Honour
for an order to commit the wood-cutlets who hail cut down
the timber, to the custody of the Warden of the Fleet prison,
His motion was met by a petition on the behalf of the Noble
Duke, praying that it might be scut to the Master to inquirc
and report whether the Dube ought nut to be allowed morC
liberty as to the cutting down -of the timber in Blenheim Park,
titan was expressed in Isis Lordship's order granting the its'
junction. Ills Honour was of opinion that the application
ought to be made to his Lordship, as although he could girt
an order for carrying into effect any order made by his Lord,
ship, he could not alter his order, for which reason he stet
them to his Lordship.
The LORD CHANcELLoR—" His Honour is ri/;,lit ; the Act
of Parliament constituting Vice-Chancellor, does not give
him the power of alteriug an order of the Lord Chanvellors
or of the Master of the Rolls, but it authorises me to give
him the power when necessary."
• Mr. RAE, Counsel for the Noble Defendant, said the peti-
tion that was presented by his, client, only ashed that it might
he referred to the Master, to ascertain how far his Grace was
limited in cutting timber iu Blenheim Park.
Thu Loan CHANCELEon—" If the Petition is in the nature
of an appeal, I cannot authorise the 'Vice-Chancellor to heat
it ; and if Lato obliged to hear it, I cammt
.do so until after
the Lunatic petitions are disposed of."
Mr. ltAe said, he was not pressing his Lordship to hear it-.
Mr. H LAU.) said, he believed it was not the wish of hit
Learned Friend that it should be speedily heard; but be had
quite a different feeling, fur if the application of the Nub3o
Relator was not immediately heard, and the affidavit in sup-
-port of it were gone through, a stick would not be left its
BlenheiM Park its a few days. He did not see any thing isr
the proceedings that could come under the denomination of
an appeal.
The Loan CHANCELLOR—"Make my respectful compliment;
to the Vice-Chancellor, and inform him, if there is nothin4
winch stands its his way so as to prevent him from heariog
it except Isis being called on to alter my order, that I will givt
hint the necessary authority to hear it. The Defendant in
this ease ought to know whether an order of injunction
right or wriing,while it is in existence he is bound to obey
Referred hack to the Vice-Chancellor.
The first Seal before Term will be on the 15th January-