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London, England, 1820-10-10 00:00:00

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1820.

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TEE QUEEN.

le Well, how does the trial come on now ?"-1
" Worse and worse."—Not, however, for the QUEEN,
but for the dolts who could be so stupid as to ima-
gine that it was possible, in the nature of things,
that such evidence as they had crammed into a
green bag, from the mouth of a Non Ricordo, a
Count Milani, a Countess Colombier, a German cham-
bermaid, a fellow. with a gimblet eye, who could see
through a solid wall, and such reptiles, could possi•
bly be true. They hare exposed themselves to the
laugh and contempt of mankind, by the weakness
of intellect which could induce them,. even for a
moment, to risk their own characters on such testi-
mony, without using the precaution to examine a
single English individual in the suite of her_ Mat•
METE, to learn whether there could be any truth in
the testimony of such pitiful, unprincipled, suborned
witnesses.

It is impossible to find terms sufficiently expres-
sive of the contempt due to those who urged on this
prosecution--or persecution—or by whatever other
name the present proceedings may be denominated—
without even the shadow of a prop to support them
in the dangerous attempt. Dangerous in every
view ! Dangerous to themselves—but that is mere
moonshine. Who cares about their safety ? when the
dangers to which they exposed the KING, the Con-
stitution, the Country, by their proceedings, is duly
considered ? Was there ever such madness, such in-
sanity, manifested ? Is this language harsh ? Is it too
severe? No: to men in the dilemma into which they
have plunged themselves, it is the quintessence of
kindness ; for insanity may skreen them from being
punished for that which would bring other men to an
untimely end. There has been a conspiracy, a foul,
infamous, hellish conspiracy, against our most gra-
dons, gallant, and virtuous QUEEN. This fact is
now doubted by none, and it is surely kinder to
consider those who have been most active in the
proceedings at home, as only dupes to it, than as ac-
tual parties. But is it not lamentable to think that,
in the whole Administration there should be but one
pair of eyes, and that the possessor of that single
pair, Mr. CANNING, should, at so critical a moment,
have been permitted to leave his coadjutors to stumble
upon the dark mountains ? No wonder that they
have fallen—no wonder that they have sunk into a
cess-pool, which may yet suffocate them, if one or
two Ossvrerht stepping-stones do not furnish them
with the means of escape.
In honest sincerity we are willir.g to believe, with
Lord Ltveavom,, that " if there has been a conspi-
racy against the QUEEN, it was not hatched by the
Government at home," whatever number of time-
serving wretches may have hailed its evil omens with
gratulation: of joy—for there are such fiends; but
we take his Lordship's proposition without any "IF
_;"
fur we hold it demonstrated to the common sense of
mankind, by the evidence brought forward on be-
half of her MAJESTY, that there has actually been a
most wicked conspiracy against'the wife of our So-
vereign : in other words, that AN ACT OF HIGH
TREASON (if Englishmen have been parties to it)
has been perpetrated ; for to conspire against the
character of the wife of the Prince of WALES, or of
the QUEEN of these Realms, is treason by statutes
But though, as blind agents, our Ministers might
have been instrumental in inflicting a deadly wound
on the kingdont had the plot succeeded, we are;