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THICIWENING STAR.

LONDON.

MONDAY, -AUGUST 14, 1820.
THE FUND&
P tICE Of STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK
3 per Cent. Reduced 6874
S per Cent. Cons. 6814
3i.per Cent. 7714 14-4 per Cent. 87
5 per Cent. 103 1027/B—Long Ann. 18 1-16
India Bonds 25s.—Exch. Bills, 4s. ss. pre.
Omnium 3/s dis.—Cons. for Acct. 68:Ys 1/s 1/4

The grntiv's Letter bad some erect on the Funds this morning;
the apprehension entertained for the consequences attending fhe
approaching Trial, has caused several to sell out, and the alarm
ia the country appears to be more general than in London, as
the Powers transmitted for the sale of Stock, during the last
th:ze or four days, have been immense. Consols commenced
this morning at 68j, but the Market looked very heavy, and
they soon fell to 68a ; they recovered to 68*, at which price
they remained at one o'clock.

• We" lay.this day before our Readers a copy of the
Quazses Letter to the KING. It is a paper in the
nature of a protest against the course of proceeding
ahich•has been adapted towards her MAJESTY; and
at it did not necessarily call for more than a simple
acknowledgment of its having been received, we are
not surprised that this is all that it has produced from
hiis •MAJESTY. The Letter, in fact, has been written
not for his MAJESTY alone„.but for the world; not
for the world of the present day alone, but for all
posterity. It is the protest of a suffering QUEEN,
against a proceeding which is by all admitted to be
unprecedented, and is, by her MAJESTY. denounced
as such a violation of all law and justice, that it can
form an example to be followed in future only by
the worst of despots.

We say not for ourselves how truly the case is so,
for we know not that saying so might be deemed;
we only record, as we are entitled to do, the plead.
ings of one of the parties in a judicial proceeding,
which must form one of the most important events
in the history of the age. As the Times of this
morning says most truly, it is the protest of " an
almost despairing victim." Her MAJESTY, we regret
to say, thinks she can see in all that is doing against
her, nothing but rowza in arms to destroy her ; she
professes scarce a hope that the feeble means she can
oppose to that power can protect her from its ven-
geance ; but, with that fortitude of indignation of
which no power can deprive the innocent, her MA-
JESTY is resolved, that if she must fall, it shall not
be silently nor ingloriously. For her motto under pro-
secution she has taken, and will abide by it, that of
the noble House of Stafford, " lbtt frangas non fkc-
tos.".—" You may break, but you cannot bend me."
The contents of this document cannot fail to make

a deep impression on the public mind. It is more
than simply impressive ; it is affecting. The lan-
guage throughout is highly impassioned ; bnt not
more so than will be excused in a woman and aQuzzar
giving vent to her feelings, under a sense of grievous
and umr.crited injury. If we might hazard a con-
jecture, it has been no lawyer's work ; it is in too
glowing and too unmeasured a strain to have ema-
nated from the head cf any dealer in dialectics. I
has, notwithstanding, abundance of good sound law
in it—that sort of law which requires no book-ex-

ploring to discover, but which every honest and
weltregulated mind must recognize, as it were,
instinctively.
When her Manor-4;04.0s against the House of
Lords as a Tribunal which' is incapable, under any
circumstances, of judging fairly of her case, on ace
count of his MAJESTY'S peculiar influence over the
consciences of its Members, we certainly cannot go
along with her ; for we can never forget that in the
House of Lords we see the highest legal Tribunal in
the country. and in its Members as honourable and
upright a body of Nobles as exists in the world. As
little has her MAJESTY our assent when she proceeds
to demand a Trial by a Jury chosen indiscriminately
from among the people With these parts of her MA•
.rairrv's Protest, and perhaps with a few others of
immaterial import, we do not agree in opinion ;. but
there is a multitude of things besides in her MA-
JESTY S reasoning against the mode of proceeding by
Bill of Pains and Penalties, to which it seems to us
a.. impossible to refuse an honest assent, as to deny
that there is such a thing as injustice on earth. Her
MAASTY says that the KING, who is prosecutor in
the proceeding, has it in his power to add to or take
away from the number of the Jury (looking upon
the House of Lords as such) at any, time he may
think proper—even on the point of a verdict being
given, when a majority of one may decide her fate!
Is it right that any plaintiff should have such a
power as that?
Her MAJESTY says, moreover, or rather hints,, for
on this .point she is more significant than explicit,
that in the House of Commons, should the Bill ewer
come there (the KING) the prosecutor's power is as
great as over the House of Lords, since, to say no-
thing of Ministerial influence (of which, candidly
speaking, we think nothing, in such a case as this,
deserves to be said), his MAJarry has it in his
-er, should he see the case going against him,
favOur of her MAJESTY, to turn the Mem-1
114'• second Jury about their business, before
a 4
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Witv xo -tative of proroguing Parliament
614 194 C-ight again, that any plaintiff
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should have such, a power as dtat ? -ller
says, in substance, what is t=oll wont. that siuPpos.
both Houses to have give* ikeir 'detisioms against
her, these decisions are nothing without the cpntrrn-
ing decision of the third and supreme power in
the State; and that the individual invested u* this
third power, is the prosecutor himself
to gain alithat.Nrisand is hoped for by inetitntiltit
these proceedings?, Is it, of all things, .right drat
any plaintiff should have such a power as that"-
the power of judging in his own cause? When
such vice's as these appear in the course offroceeding
adopted—vices so-fundamental and so irremediable—
it is almost superfluous to dwell on minor excep-
tions. The reftrtal of a list of witnesses—.the refusal
of any specification of the times when, and the places
where, the alleged crime was committed—the im-
possibility of making any witness who may swear
falsely against her responsible for his perjury to of-
fended justice—the character of the witnesses, and the
modes and means taken to procure them—all these,
though each circumstances of the greatest. weight,
are as nothing when compared with those objections,
which spew the party prosecuting to-be so insepara-
bly mixed up with the parties who are to judge...on
the'case.
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The Times, which has been the first to give her
MAJESTY'S Protest to the world, is the only one of
our contemporaries whose opinion upon it we have
as yet before us; it is an opinion coinciding with our
own, and we doubt not, that with all the independent
part of the Press, there will be but one opinion Oa.
the subject. We subjoin from the Times as much id
is matter of observation :
" This composition is not more ithpressiet at the present boat
than it will be memorable to future times. It is clear and snug
—it is indignant and pathetic : there is no evil passion whisk k
does not shame—there is no generous, er manly, or moral kora&
which it does not rouse with animated and unadorned eloquent,.
The illustrious Writer speaks home to every heart Walla she
describes her unexampled wrongs ; while the reel chug width
she offers against the intended aggravation of them deserves
be deeply pondered by every thinking mind in the community.
The' language throughout is of that nature which nothing
but a sense of injured honour and ruined happiness could sug-
gest; it is the appeal of a lofty, bat wounded spirit, mingled
with the alternate reproaches and supplications of en ales*
despairing victim.
" We are far froni saying that the liCaso is actuated by
vindictive passion; but we do assert, that his Ministers are
either wicked'or unwise, in having misdirected his M.maTT's
zeal for the public prosperity, and having persuaded him (con-
trary, we doubt not, to his own wish) that it would be better.
to divorce and destroy his wife, than to hear her complaints, and
to relieve her sufferings."

The IPHIGENIA frigate, Captain HYDE PARKER,
is ordered to sea under sealed orders. 'The occasion
was deemed io pressing, that orders were given to
send her books (for the payment of the accounts) to
London yesterday by express, and to be returned by
the sale beaters. . _

Saturday, the Right Hon. STRATFORD CANDID%
Ambassador to the States, and suite, arrived
at Portsmouth from London, and in the evening em-
barked cm board and sailed in the SPARTAN frigate,
Captain Vass, C.B. for Annapolis. The SPARTAN
returns to England immediately, to be paid off, her
three years of service being nearly expired.
Yesterday Divine Service was performed at the
ging': Palace in Pall-Mall, by the Rev. F. W. Bloat
BERG and the Rev. Dr. STANTER CLARK&

Saturday the Duke of Yoaz went to Oatlands,
and returned to town in the evening.
Yesterday their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of
GLOUCESTER, Princesses AUGUSTA acrd SOPHIA, and
the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, paid visits to his Royal
Highness the Duke of YORK, at York House.
Yesterday being the Duchess of CLARENCE'S Birth-
day, their Royalighnesses the Duke and Duchess
of CLARENCE went to Busby to dinner, and returned
to town in the evening.
Saturday her Royal Highness the Princess AUGUSTA
dined with the Duchess of GLOUCESTER, and after
dinner their Royal Highnesses honoured Lady COS-
MORSE with a visit.
Yesterday the Princess Aymara dined with the.
Duchess of KENT, at hzr apartments in Kensington
Palace.
The disease of which the Duchess of YORE dsrwd
was dropsy and a spasmodic affection of the cheat;
The Duke of CAMBRIDGE sets out on his multi to
the Continent to-morrow.
Saturday, at five o'clock in the evening, a detail.'
ment of the Foot Guards marched into thoParliatient
House; at the same hour the Police-tender, generally
stationed between Blackfriars and Westspiniter
bridges, was unmoored, and removed up to k sta-
tion assigned her in front of Palace-yard. She will
be occupied by the Thames Police, who are to be
called into activity, in union with the rest of the
Police of the Metropolis, during the proceedings
against the QuzER. Three gun-boats will, it is re-
ported, be placed near her, as a guard to keep off
all boats from approaching Cotton-garden without
special permission.
Sentinels were placed yesterday on the exterior of
the Parliament House at three different points: at
the door of the passage from Palace-yard to the
Court of Common Pleas, at the door under the piazza
leading to the stairs communicating with the long
stone passage to the Houses of Lords and Commons,
and a little more to the westward, at the entrance of
Parliament-stairs, or passage to the river, on the side
of Cotton-garden, the head-quarters of the foreign
witnesses.