The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-10-08 00:00:00

ANOTHER OF THE• QUEEN'S SUITORS.

SINGULAR LETTERS TO HER MAJESTY, THE DUCHESS OF
KENT, &C.
At the Kensington Petty Sessions, on Wednesday last, a
man, about 30 years of age, attired in a blue coat, with trou-
sers and waistcoat of broad tartan plaid, a sunburnt counte-
nance, and rich brickdust-coloured whiskers, applied for
advice to Mr. Pilkington, the sitting magistrate, under the
following circumstances :
He said his name was James Bryan, and that he was a
native of Crouchley, in Ayrshire. He had some time since
taken an empty room, at the house No. 8,- Sutton-street,
Kensington, which he had quitted in debt, to the amount of
13s 6d, about three weeks since, when he made out a list of
things which he left behind, at a valuation, to be taken by
the landlord. He had also left some things over and above
the valuation, which he had left in the care of the landlady
until he came back ; but he then found the first articles had
been sold at a certain price, and the others were detained to
make up the deficiency which had arisen. Among those
were some valuable papers of a secret nature, and some
prints of great value.
Inspector Smith, of the T division, producing a bundle of
manuscripts, which, he said, had been handed over to him
by Mrs. Stewart, the landlady of the house in which the ap-
plicant had resided, informed the worthy magistrate that the
secret papers Bryan spoke about were copies of letters which
he had addressed to her Majesty, the Duchess of Kent, Lord
Melbourne, &c., professing an intense affection for the Queen,
and advising her Majesty as to the government of the coun-
try, and the state of affairs in general.
Mr. Pilkington, having examined the papers, asked the
applicant if those were the important papers he had been
speaking of?
Bryan replied that they were ; they were private docu-
ments, and ought not to be made public.
Mr. Pilkington.—Some of them are, I see, addressed to
the Queen. Do you mean that letters, of which these are
copies, have been forwarded to her and the other parties
named ?
Bryan.—They have all been forwarded and received by the
parties. I have got the letters to the Queen's own hands. I
am known to many of them. I did not think my secret
papers would be made public. I could show you a great
deal if I was to go to the bottom of it. I am not touched
(pointing to his head), as you may suppose. I am perfectly
sane. Ido love the Queen, and always shall.
Mr. Pilkington.—You have been carrying on a very high
correspondence, and, as those documents are of great im-
portance in your estimation, you wish, I suppose, to regain
their possession.
Inspector Smith said he did not know how far he. should
be justified, from their peculiar nature, in returning the pa-
pers to Bryan. Ilc thought he must submit them to the no-
tice of the commissioners, and take their orders respecting
them.
Mr. Pilkington thought that would be the most proper
course, and inquired of Bryan if he had an inventory of the
things he had left at his lodgings ?
Bryan said no : he had been too " slack," having left the
inventory with the landlady, as well as the things.
Mrs. Stewart, the landlady, who was also in attendance
to prefer a charge against Bryan, said the things were not
worth the amount owing for rent ; they, with the exception of
some old clothes, only consisted of about a dozen of Court
Gazettes having portraits of her Majesty and prints of Wind-
sor Castle, &c., and the papers the inspector had produced.
On the previous day Bryan had come back and demanded
them, and, on being refused, had threatened her with vio-
lence.

Bryan.—Nae, uae, woman, ye no tell the truth. The brigs
wad hae done for the bairns, and the papers are worth gold.
The worthy magistrate said he could not interfere between
them. The applicant had not brought any inventory of what
he had left at his lodgings, and, being in arrear for rent, he
(Mr. Pilkington) could make no order in the case.
Bryan then left the effice, casting a sad, " long, lingering
look behind" at his papers, which were detained by the in-
spector.
The letters, of which the papers are copies, are most ex-
traordinary productions. The writing is in a very fair hand,
with some slight exceptions, and the language throughout
breathes love and adoration towards her Majesty. The fol-
lowing are some extracts :
The first bears no date, but is addresed to the Queen.
" Dear Victoria,—l rot to you under cuver to your'Royal
Mother, expressing the sentiments of my hart towards you,
but as yet I recd. no answer.. You might have sent me some
of answer, but, perhaps, you might think it wd. greatly dis-
hohour you to write a fue lines and sent them in answer to a
subject, although he loved you ever so well, but, as it would
have been kept secret on my part, it might not have dis-
honoured thee in the least, and it would have gratified my
desire, let the words have been ever so fue. I know we are
strangers to each other, except to appearance. We have
never spoken to each other except with the Eye—but the Eye
can speak strong language of love to them that understand
it. They eyes are said to be the windows of the Soul, and
as our Eyes nearly resemble each other, I consider our souls
to be nearly connected. Althou our station in this life is far
distant, yet Almighty God is able to unite us that we may
enjoy the sweet connection of kindred souls, and celebrate his
praises for ever and ever. I might have given ray name in
full for any harm that I have done or intend to do to any
one; but lest I may be unsuccessful in my attempt to gain
thy hart and hand in true love, I wish to keep it secret to see
if I can find whether you love me or not, for I do not wish to
trouble any one that cannot love me. I believe that the want
of royalty and a great earthly name on my part is the great
business between us. I consider that you have the right to
marry whom you please, that no one has any right to inter-
fere with you in that most important matter which belongeth
to your personal happiness, if persons be of good principals
and chest (chaste) behaviour. Yet advise from self may have
some effect upon your youthful mind ; but never mind, my
dear, what worldly people say. Strive to please Almighty •
seek His direction and protection in every important matter,
and if He be with us who can be against us? lam a lover of
temperance, chastity, candour, peace, and good order,
freedom and justice to all mankind, reward according to
merit, and, above all things, may it be your constant
desire to teach the ignorant, warn the thoughtless and
ungodly-minded. May we strive to encourage every one in
our power to serve the Lord with all their harts, for this is
right. Concerning the ceremonies said to be performed at
the coronation, I cannot pass over them without saying a fue
words on that subject. It is said to be a holy solemnity—a
blessing from Almighty God. It is also important, and go-
ing the rounds of sum of the public journals. It is allowed
to be a most superstitious mummery or blasphemous ab-
surdity—a disgrace to the nation, an insult to common sense.
It is allowed that, according to ancient custom, your Majesty
must allow all the pears (peers), and bishops, old and young,
clean and unclean, married or unmarried, to kiss your left
cheek one after another in a private place, said to be between
400 and 500 in number, and to be unlaced and anointed with
holy oil in the presence of the multitude. I hope your Ma-
jesty will never allow this to be done. Surely a chest (chaste)
and prudent, tender-hearted female, would skrink from the
ordeal of such dtsgusting. disgraceful, and sinful scan. Allow
not this sin to be committed, Almighty God to be provoked
to wrath and anger against you, and your Royal person to be
disgraced in the ears of your loyal and right-minded subjects.
Almighty God has given you power, and why will you not
use it in a right way ? Is there to be a fair in the park for to
days, a balloon to go up, all the theatres to be thrown open
free to the publick, free of expense ? Do you call this a holy
solemnity, and a blessing from Almighty God ?"
The letter, which is very long, concludes by enjoining her
Majesty to establish schools for instructing the poor, when
the Lord will bless her, and cause her reign to be glorious,
and her name and the glories of her reign to be spoken of,
and to be imitated to the end of the world. Then the name
of her followers shall be written in the Lamb's Book of
Life, and she shall shine as the stars in the firmament for
ever and ever, The letter concludes as follows :—" Your
humble, J. B. ;" and is addressed " To Queen Victoria.-
Direct the answer toJ. 8., to be left in Blackburn's Pos
office, No. 32, St. George's-place, Knightsbridge."

" Kensington.
" Dearly beloved Lady Victoria,—l am very sorry that my
letter appear to have such a strang impression on your mind
as to cause thee to withdraw thy countenance in the house of
God. Was it at the advice of thy principal adviser, so that
thy loving James may not see thy fair deceiving-like face, or
it is because my being present anoys thee ? Ido not wish to
annoy thee. 1 thought ye loved me, therefore I loved thee
the more ; but I believe Melburn, observing our apparent re-
gard for each other, I doubt not has done all in his power to
poison thy mind against me, no doubt he has some of his
own ends in view, and not thy true happiness. Perhaps he
is well paid, or promised great favour, if he can succeed in
gaining thy affections over to suit certain ones. I hope he
has not so much power under his controul, that thou dare
not even look in any direction contrary to his will. No, I
hope thou art more prudent, and possessed of more magestick
mind than to be entirely ruled by any of thy servants. Good
advice should not be despised from any one. Hast thou not
received the credentials from all the Kings of the earth, and
entertained and honoured all that came to deliver them ? Has
any one come to thee to offer the credentials of the King of
Heaven—a King that hath power over every other King—
who-created this world? [This letter then quotes largely
from the book of Proverbs, and finishes as follows : A
broken spirit is to God, a pleasing scan, and a contrite liar
Lord, thou wilt not despise.'
" Your humble lover,
" To her Majesty Queen Victoria."

" J. B.

A third letter is dated " Windsor," and commences with—
" Dearly beloved Lady Victoria,—l am sorry to hear that
you are unwell, yet I hope it is nothing serious. You are
well aware what feseshion (physician) to apply to for a safe
and speedy cure ;"
and ends with the following couplet :

" May all true lovers, brave and fair, enjoy celestial graces;
May no old pampered party men prevent their seeing each other's
faces."

A fourth letter announces his arrival at Windsor in per-
fect health ; and a sixth epistle, in which he apologises for
having caused the Queen so much trouble, and tells her
Majesty that her not having thought his letters worthy of
notice or answer, is ascribable to her disdainful pride, and
that " the fair" in his native land that had had an opportu-
nity a being acquainted with him, and were at all near his
own complexion, had offered to him their love " with smiles
and signs of love," yet but five of them had been answered
by him,—" you (the Queen) having been my chief concern
for years past."
There was a letter addressed to the Duchess of Kent, dated
" Kensington, Dec., 1838.
" Kind and affectionate mother,—May I be sorry that I
have so pashionally loved your daughter, since neither you
or her think it worth your while to let me know whether or
not you have received anything from my hand, for which
cause I walk in darkness, concerning that important matter
of so much importance to many. I came voluntary to this
country for no other purpose than to obtain a place in your
fair daughter's hart, having seen print impressions of her
fine open features. I thought her fine large eye spoke love
to me, even in print. Unadvised by any man, unassisted by
any man, I left my native home, trusting in the Lord for my
direction and protection, and 1 have found him worthy to be
trusted. I have been as fortunate as I could expect. Dear
lamb, she appears to love me, or I would not appear so often
in Windsor, but for her sake and for the sake of the glorious
cause of my dear Lord and Master." [He then goes on to
say that although he is poor, he has been taken at Windsor
by the soldiers for a prince, and the people in the streets
have said, " What a fine-looking young man, as lovely as
the rising sun for the Queen's husband, he is so like her,"
and some foreigners said so on passing him, " chabbering in
their own language."]
The last letter has been sent to Lord Melbourne, and is
very lengthy. It stated his first visit to see the Queen when
princess, in 1835 ; then his next visit, in 1837, when he fol-
lowed her Majesty along the road, under the triumphal
arches of evergreen and_" flours," on her first visit to Wind-

sor ; how the Queen looked at him when in the-Chapel
Royal, and also while riding in the Great Park with her
uncle, the King of the Belgians ; and, after a number of
observations on the state of the country, and a wish that

at least £105,000 should be set aside for the building of
schoolhouses and maintaining teachers, concludes, after
wishing that the people of Britain may know what is neces-
sary for their soul's salvation, with the following couplet :

" The soul's redemtion presheous is and it can never be
That still we shall for ever live and no corruption see."

Celeste, the celebrated dancer and pantomimist, is said,
by the New York Morning Herald, to have closed her
theatrical life in the Bowery Theatre, where she began it,
and to have quitted the stage with a fortune of 150,000 dol-
lars. She returns to Europe in the British Queen.
The Duke of Sussex and Lady Cecilia Underwood left
town on Thursday by the railroad for Derby. We bear that
this intended tour is-Ist, Chatsworth; 2d, Sandbech (the
seat of the Earl of Scarborough) ; 3d, Colonel Wildman's ;
4th, Holkham ; and sth, Kimmel Park.