Star.
London, England, 1820-08-14 00:00:00

DEPARTURES.

Lady ?latency, to liarevrood Lodge.
General Fitzroy, to Wanking.
Mr. John Gent, M.P. for Christ Church, Hampshire.
Mr. and alts. T. Carter, on a tour.
Mr. Francis Barton, on a tour.
Colonel Thomas and Lady
(Ft &eal, as a essr.
Sir John Aubrey, But. for Home.
Lord and Lady Henniker I tow.
Sir Henry Eagle field, Bait. flit White IWO," Bettshko.
Mr. Thomas Myers, on a tour.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Stanhope, on a tutu.
Mr. W. Spenser Stanhope, for Yorkshire.
Mr. John Vernon, for Buekhurst-hill, Berkshire.
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Lientral Sir IL Browaria, one tour.

THE QUEEN'S LETTER TO THE KING.
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Stn—After the unparalleled and unprovoked per-
secution which, during
,st series of years, has been
carried on against me, under the name and authority
of your Majesty—and which persecution, instead of
being riolli§ad by time, thnohas rendered only more
and more4aligenat and unrelenting—it isoot with-
opt a great sulfite of private feeling that' I 'now;.
ben in the way of remonstrance, bring nays& to ad-
dress this letter to your Majesty. But, bearing in
mind that Royalty rests on the basis of public good ;
that to thisfpuansount consideration all others ought
to submit ; and-aware of the consequencetthat may
result from the present unconstitutional, illegal. and
hitherto unheard-of proceedings ;—with a mind thus
impressed, I cannot refrain from laying my grievous
wrongi once more before your Majesty, in the hope
that the justice which your Majesty may, by evil-
minded Counsellors, be still disposed to refuse to the
claims of a dutiful, faithful, and injured.wife, you
may be induced to yield to considerations connected
with the honour and dignity of your Crown, the sta-
bility of your Throne, the tranquillity of your domi-
nions, the happiness and safety of your just and loyal
people, whose generous hearts revolt at oppression
and -cruelty, and especially when perpetrated by a
perversion and a mockery of the laws. ~,
A sense of what is due to my character and sex
*lids me to refer minutely to the real causes of our
domestic separation, or to the numerous unmerited
insults offered me previously to that- period; but,
leaving to your Majesty to reconcile with the mar-
riage-vow the act of driving, by stub Means, a wife
from beneath your roof, with an infant in her arms,
your Majesty will permit me to remind you, that that
stet was entirely your own ; that the separatios. Pis
far from being sought for by me, was a lenience pro-
nounced upon roe, without any Cause asiigned, Germ
than that of your own inclinations, which, as your
Majesty was pleased to allege, were not under your
controul.
Not to have felt, with regard to- Miself, chagrisi
at this decision of your Majesty, would. have argued
great insensibility to the obligations of decorum;
.ifot to have dropped a tear in the face of that be-
loved child, whose future sorrows were then but too
easy to foresee, would have marked me as unwolthy
of the name of mother ; but, to have submitted
to it without repining would have indicated a con-
sciousness of demerit, or a wain of those feelings
which belong to affronted and insulted female honour.
The ." tranquil and comfortable society" tendered
to. me by jour, Majesty, formed, in my mind, but a
poor compensation for the grief occasioned by con-
sidering the wound given to public morals in the
fatal example produced by the indulgence of your
Majesty's inclinations; more especially when I con-
templated the disappointment of the nation, who
had so munificently provided for our union, who had
fondly cherished such pleasing hopes of happiness
arising from that union, and who had hailed it with
such affectionate and rapturous joy.
But, alas! even tranquillity and comfort were too
much for me to enjoy. Prom the very threshold of
your Majesty's mansion the mother of your child was
porsued by spies, conspirators, and traitors, em.
played, encouraged, and rewarded to lay snares for
the feet, and to'plot against the reputation and life,
'of her whom your Majesty had so recently and so
solemnly vowed to honour, to love, and to cherish.
.In withdrawing from the embraces of my parents,
In giving my hapd to the son of George the Third
and the Heir Apparent to the British Throne, no-
thing less than a voice from HEAVEN would have
I made me fear injustice or wrong of any kind. What,
awn, was my astonithnient at finding thin treasons
against me had been carried on and matured, per-
juries against me had been methodized .and em-
bodied, a secret tribunal had been held, a trial o#
My actions had taken place, and a decision had been
made upon those actions, without my having been,
infiknted ofthe nature of the charge, or ache names
of the witnesses? and what words can express the
'feelings excited by the feet, that this proceeding was'
founded en f reqoest made, and on evidence fur-
'wished, by order of the father of my child, and my
natural as well as legal guardian and protector ?
Notwithstanding, however, the unprecedented con-
duct of that Tribunal—conduct which has since un-

dergone, even in Parliament, severe and unanswered
animadversions, and which has been also censured in
minutes of the Privy Council—notwithstanding the
secrecy of the proceedings of this Tribunal—notwith-
standing the strong temptation to the giving of false
evidence against me before it—notwithstanding that
there was no opportunity afforded me of rebutting that
evidence—notwithstanding all these-circumstances, so
decidedly favourable to my enemies—even this Secret
Tribunal acquitted me of all crime, and thereby pro-
nounced my principal accusers to have been gui r!
of the grossest perjury. But it was now (after the'
trial was over) discovered, that the nature of the Tri-
bunal was such as to rtnder false swearing before it
.not legally oinked, And thus, at the suggestion and

request of your Majesty, bad bees created , to take
'cognizance of and try my conduct, a Tribunal com-
petent to administer oaths, coevetentio *maim
witnesses on oath, competent to try; competent to
acquit or condemn, and competent, arresver, to
screen those Ids) had sworn falsely agaluit me, from
suffering the; pains and penalties whids the law awards
to stilful and corrupt perjury. Great as my indigos-

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tion naturally must have been at.this shameful evasi on
of law and justice, that indignation was lost in pity
for him who could lower his princely plumes to the
dust by giving his countenance and favour to the
most conspicuous of thosi abandoned and noto•
rious perjurers.
Still there was one whose upright mind nothing
could warp, in whose breast injustice never found a
place, whose hand was always ready to raise the un-
fortunate, and to rescue the oppressed. While that .
'good and gracious Father and Sovereign remained
_filth/ exercise °ibis Royal functims,.his unoffending
aughter-in-law had nothing to fear. As long as
the protecting hand of your late ever-beloved and
ever-lamented father was held over me, I was sate.
But the melancholy event which deprived the nation
of the active exertions of its virtuous King, bereft me-
of friend and protector, and of all hope of future
tranquillity and safety. To calumniate your inn°.
tent wife was now the shortest way to, Royal favour ;
and to betray her was to lay the sure foundation of
boundless riches and titles of honour. Before claims
like these, talent, virtue, long services, your own
personal friendships, your Royal engagements, pro-
mises, and pledges, written as well as verbal, melted
into air. Your Cabinet was founded on this basis.
You took to your councils amen, oftvhose persons, as
well as whose principles, you had invariably expressed
the strongest dislike. The interest of the nation, and
even your own feelings, in all other respects, were
sacrificed to the gratification of your desire to aggra-
vate my sufferings, and ensure my humiliation.. Ica
took to your councils and your bosom men whom
you hated, whose abandonment of, and whose rea-
diness to sacrifice me were their
urn
merits, and
whose powec has been. exercised in a manner, and
has been attended with consequences, worthy of its
origin. From this unprincipled and unnatural union
have sprung the manifold evils which this nation has
now to: endure, and which present a mass of misery
and ofdegiiidation, iceompanied with acts of tyranny
and cruelty, rather flan twit seen which inflicted on
his iedustriettcfaidiful, and Wee people, your Royal
Father wooldhave perished at tinbead of that people.
When to illiimniate, revile,' and betray me, be.
came the sure path to honour and riches, it would
have been strange indeed_if calumniators, revilers,
and traitors, had not abounded. Your Court became
mach less a scene of polished manners and refined
intercourse than of low intrigue and scurrility,-
Spies, Bacchanalian tale-hearers, and foul conspi-
rators, swarmed in those places which had before
been the resort of sobriety, virtue, and honour. To
enumerate all the various privations and mortifi-
cation: which I had to endure—all * insults that
were wantonly heaped open me, from the:day of
your elevation to,the Regency to that of my depar-
ture for the Continent.-would be to describe every
species of personal offence that can be offered to, and
every pain short of bodily violence that can be in-
flicted on, any human being. Bereft of_parent, bro-
ther, and father-in-law, and my husband for my
deadliest foe ; seeing those who have promised me
support, bought by rewards to he, amongst my ene-
mies ; restreined from avowing my foes in the face
of the world, out of regard for the character of the
father of my child, and from a desire to. prevent her
happiness from being disturbed ; shunned from
motives of selfishness by those who were my natural
associates; living in obscurity while I ought to have
been the centre of allothat was splendid ; thas hum-
bled, I had one consolation left—the love of my dear
and only child.
To permit me to enjoy this was too great an indul-
gence. To see my daughter ; to fold her in my arms ;
to mingle my tears with her's ; to receive her cheering
caresses, and to hear from her lips assurances of
never-ceasing love ;—thus to be comforted, consoled,
upheld, and blessed, was.too much to be allowed me.
Eveyr on the slave mart the cries “Oh my mother,
mf mother! fib ! my child, my child r ture pre-
vented a separation of the victims of avarice. Bat
your advisers, more ;Amman than the slave-dealers,
remorselessly tore the mother from the child.
• Thus bereft of the society of my child, or reduced
to the necessity of imbittering her life by struggles to
preserve that society, I resolved on a temporary ab-
sence, in the hope that time might restore me to her
in happier days. Those days, alas! were never to
come. To mothers—and those mothers who have
been suddenly bereft of the best and most affectionate
and only daughters—it belongs to estimate my suf-
ferings and my wrongs. Such mothers will judge of
my affliction upon hearing of the death of my child,
and upon my calling to recollection the last look, the
last words, and all the affecting circumstances of cur
separtition. Such mothers will see the depth of my
sorrows. Every being with a heart of humanity in
its bosom, will drop a tear of sympathy with me.—
And will not the world, then, learn with indignation,
that this event, calculated to soften the hardest heart,
was the signal for new conspiracies, and indefatiga-.
efforts for the destruction of this afflicted mother?
'fferne Majesty had torn my child from me; you had
deprived me of the power of being at hand to succour
her; you had taken from me the possibility of bear-
ing of her last p'myersfor her mother ; you saw me
bereft, forlorn, andbroken-hearted ; and this was the
you chose for redoubling your persecutions.

Let the world posy itsiodgmetit on the constituting
of a Commission, in a foreign country. consisting of
regal:icon, spies, and infotnsers, to discover, collect,
and arrange matters of accusation against your wife.

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