Star.
London, England, 1820-09-16 00:00:00

tHE QurEm.

The Mites sayi, .that the authors Cif the jnoceed-
;ng against the QUEEN ought to be impeached for
the following reasons t
"'That the Ministers have poured out, upon the hitherto Un-
stained imaginations of the virgin daughters of this moral and
refined community, a mass of licentious, profligate, and depraved
descriptions of vice, in its most abandoned forms:

" That they have inflicted this irreparable evil upon their
country without taking due steps to ascertain beforehand that
the facts which they listened to would be satisfactorily proved ;
and thus that the circulation of horrible indeeincy would Le
palliated by the detection of enormous guilt, and by its subser.
vieocy to the ends of public justice.

"That no Mischief of • such dreadful magnitude was ever
before compassed against the welfare of any people by those who
were intruited with the care of Chriitian morals."

We agree perfectly with our contemporary as to
the appalling magnitude of the evil which has been
done to the morals of the country by the prosecutiOn
against her MAJESTY; and we feel well assured that,
whether by Iniptachment or not, vengeance will
sooner or later reach its guilty authors. It is our
firm conviction that the worst man who ever dis-
graced, yet only talked and acted on the earth, could
not, in the course of the longest life, accumulate sins
to answer for, equal in their aggregate to the sin
of causing a single licentious or immoral sentence
to be committed to the Press.

Ail other offences and disorders, which an indivi-
dual has the will or the means to_ perpetrate, are
comparatively venial ; they have a limitation with
the life of man ; their influence is confined to the in-
dividual's own contaminated circle. But this sin
takes a range that no human mind can foresee,
or calculate, or grasp, even in idea. It may tra-
verse the whole globe, debasing and corrupting the
ingenuous minds of youth, disseminating the most
vicious principles, blighting all that is fair and comely
in human life ; it may corrupt generations yet un-
born, and be doing increasing mischief in society
till time shall be no more. It is an act of such moral
turpitude as a life spent in charity and good deeds
cannot expiate ; for it is a mortal stab at the virtuous
propensities of man, which is repeated with every
transcript and copy in circulation. It is a crime
which no recantation can cure, which no penitence
can recal, which volumes of a contrary evidence
will never mitigate.
If such be the guilt of simply causing such a pesti-
lence to be shed over the earth, how much must that
guilt be enhanced when it has been done with deli-
beration ; when the publication has been, not merely
caused, but in a manner compelled ?
We will not ask the authors of such a crime,
" What evil have they done ?" The more awful in-
quiry ought to be instituted, " What evil have they
not done ?" Human nature shrinks within itself at
the idea of the awful responsibility which such a
question supposes.

Two persons arrived yesterday morning at eight
o'clock, with dispatches for the QuFix; they left
Milan on the 7th September. They report, that not-
withstanding all the professions of impartiality which
have been made, and every recognition of Mr. HENRY
as her MAJESTY'S agent, passports were refused to
witnesses summoned on her behalf. In consequence
of this, a messenger was dispatched to Vienna, who
took a letter to Lord STEWART on the subject, and
returned on Monday se'nnight with an answer, en-
closing Lord CASTLEREAGH'S letter to Lord STEW-
ART, which it appeared his Lordship had laid before
Prince METTERNICH, who replied that the Austrian
Government required a letter from her MAJESTY or
from Mr. BROUGHAM, for each witness—a thing of
course impossible, unless her MAJESTY or her At-
torney-General were present there. On Wednesday
se'nnight Mr. HENRY applied to get a passport for a
Venetian witness. He was told that he must be serft
to Venice to get his passport, and it was not until
after remonstrating strongly against such abominable
shuffling, and a declaration that Mr. HENRY would
advise her MAJESTY not to proceed any further in
her defence under such circumstances, that he ob-
tained the passport.
It is affirmed, but it cannot possibly be true, that
ge Colonel BROWN sends couriers daily to Como,
who pay witnesses for the QUEEN to stay away, if
they fail in inducing them, by bribes, to depose against
her MAJEsrv.”—We have said, that this cannot be
true. We say so, because it is so diabolically wicked,
that no human agent could possibly engage in such
a work. What! a 'relation of Lord CASTLEREAGU
employed in such a business as this?—lmpossiblel
It is also rumoured, but this, it is to be also hoped,
will prove false, that measures have been resorted to,
calculated to prevent any of the Austrian Officer's
from appearing as witnesses for her MAJESTY.' Or-
ders, it is said, have been issued, commanding them
not to appear in their uniforms in England. Until
this restriction is removed, and until the Austrian
Government order them to go to England, and more-
over convince them that they will not suffer any loss
by it, not one person will leave Lombardy.
There is a Society at Milan called the Orfei, of
which Colonel Bauw N. was anxious to become a mem-
ber, and was accordingly proposed for admission in
a sitting of the Society on the 20th of January last,
but was rejected by a majority of 31, the ayes being
9, noes 40.
Chevalier VASSALI, Equerry to her Majesty the
Queen of ENGLAND, arrived at Milan on the 29th of
July. Mr. HENRY, one of the Advocates of her MA-
JESTY, is also therefor the purpose of collecting evi-
dence on behalf of the Quese.—(Paris Paper).
Her MAJESTY will receive no more Addresses un-
til Monday seanight. Alderman WOOD joins his fa-
mily at Ramsgate. The five Addresses which her
MAJESTY will on that day receive at Brandenburgh
House, are as follow :—Farringdon Without, at one
o'clock; Cripplegate Within, and Spitalfields, at half-
past one; and PaddingtOn, at two.

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