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deter, and her entrance into tide Comttry convect them an at
once into the subject of a BSI of Pains and Penalties?
" But, it is. said, even during the sitting Of the liecret Gom-'
mimeo, attempts have been mide, at *e inetime. of bilitfiteri,
to renew the negoelatiotn. We have bcn d shit *a
Gentleman
who let* filled a high judicial *Wish, imietaran whirm no
man stands higher in the estimation of the CillaproWC mean Sir
Wit.t.tme*Gawirr, twice intimated to her D[ ;on the part
of Lord Ltvansom, that •Ministers were anti ready to receive
proposals from her, and that her Illasarr, in answer to this in-
timation, stated she had no proposals to offer; and that, conscious
of her innocence, she awaited with confidence the result of the
proceedings which were about to be instituted against, her,

" What are we to think of this conduct ? First, her idsaury
is threatened with grave proceedings, the moment she sets her
foot in this country—which converts what would otherwise be
a matter'of indifference into a serious offence;—then proceed-
ing% are commenced; then the offence • again changes its nature,
and admits of ncgociation even in this country;—then it again
assumes ..a heinous character, and the Green Bag Committee ate
set to work—and then It again presents Itself to Ministera in a
mitigated light, and an offer of negoclation is reamed; and
lastly comes the Report of the Secret Committee. The vacilla-
tion of Ministers can only be equalled by the rashness and re-
cipitation with which they embarked In these proceedings.—
They seem to have thought that it was a light matter to held
out charges against the Quaint, which they could withdraw at
pleasure--a light matter tia threaten her with proceeding,which
. they might adopt or not as they thought St—and that it was an
equally light matter to ngitate the feelings of this great Nation
in their inmost depths. They begin, however, to perceive at
last, tits the enterprise looks a little serious—that grave charges
entail a greater responeibility—and that the eatstry is not to be
trifled with in a matter which concerns so nearly the 'Throne of
these realms. How they will extricate themselves from•their
diffieultim we kw* not. We shall be surprised, however, if
they extricate themselves with honour."

IRON THE TIKES.
▪ " The Nation will observe, that thip Report states only what
was before known, Viz. that the Preen Bags contained certain
allegations manse her Ma.senr, resting on certain evidence.—.
The Committee also, the country will be pleased to find and
ready to acknowledge, hag performed its duty most honourably,
and, no doubt, most scrupulously. What it could not tied in the
Green Bags k could not extract frost them; and of all the nu-
merous crimes with which her Muzzier bad been repeatedly
charged, it will be a general gratification to find that one only
of a specific nature remains—that of adultery; algid luckily with
on person only, who is also described, and can be no other than
Bennut. There perhaps never was before so sweeping an ac-
quittal of so many offences pronounced in any one's favour as this
little Report pronounces in favour of the Qtrne. Where are
the frauds—where are the forgeries, for example—with which
Ike was charged, and of which, no doubt, the Green Bags con-
tained some documents, such as they were? However, one
charge remains, and that in most circumstances of a serious na-
ture. But if, in the present instance, this charge of adultery with
Bemoans does not produce more laughter throughout all Europe
than any thing which has occurred since the beginning of the
French Revolution, when laughing went out of fashion; nay,
we will even go farther--if this solemn charge produces ulti-
mately anything but. laughter against the fabricators and be-
livers in- the supposed intercourse, we shall be content to be
reckoned the greatest dupes that the whole land contain. But
lef it be observed; that her Mansrr, who has hitherto semi
firmli and tranquilly, wondering what could be alleged ageism
her, has now nothing to do with all the filthy jests and oboe",
raillery which are forthcoming : these spring out of the iffeerd
inventions and nauseous calumnies of her encodes. Would they
had been spared ! Bat for the present we must trent die matter
gravely. Her Manser's criminal intercourse with fleannu
is said to rest • on the 'concurrent testimony of 'a great number
of persons in various situations of life,' &c.
" We entreat the Public, before it ebb** the charge deserving
of any attention, even in this stage, to cast back ha remem-
brance to a former period of her blooktreo life: she is now
charged with adultery ; she was then not only charged with
adultery, but with the fruits ol an adulterous connexion—a
child. Even that accusation vanished into air at the duet
moment of investigation ; and who, we ask, are the creatures
that support the plena alleged= ? Are they more reapeata►le
than Sir Jonah and Lady &notes, and the host of witnesses
who supported the monstrous fabrication of the pregnancy and
child birth eighteen years ago ? 'There Is therefore in the simple
imputation of this crime against one ao abused osier. MAJZIPTV
has hitherto been. and so-clear of offence as she has heretofore
probed herself under circumstances muck mare suspicious, not
the slightest ground for believing anything ill of her Matson,
even before she is put upon ►er defiant. When the period of
defence arrives it will not be necessary for us to soda the for-
bearance of the Public on her behalf.

" But when we say that only one chary has leaped oat of
the Greekßap, we do not mean to say that there are not other
imputttions. But adultery is a substantive crime : the others
hardly assume a fixed formsr definable nature. What correct
idea, for example, cm be formed of ' conduct -highly =be-
, coming her Iguerrv's situation and dignity as been r The
other insinuations teem yet more indelicate. But on what evi-
dence do they rest? Undoubtedly, en the same as the adultery;
and the real crime being disproved, it will hardly be attempted
to investigate the shadows of offence. Besides some cent is
approved in one place, which would not be borne in another
her MAszsry was never hissed out of a Theatre on account of
the indelicacy of her dress, as those have been who are yet
thought not unworthy to adorn a Court."

PROM THE BRITISH Pans.
0 The Public must reject, that as yet only one *side has been
heard ; that even the witnesses for the pranced= have given
their evidence, not aridly, but in writing; that they have not
boot cross-examined, nor their characters, with the degree of
credibility due to their statements, ascertained by an inquiry.'
The Ministers themselves declared, that as the Committee was
appointed solely to Menke whether any proceedings ought to be
instituted against the Qom, the Report ought not to be re-
ceived as implying any conviction of erLsitality, ,or emu of bu.
propriety. The public judgment ought therefore to condom in
its original state of suspense, and scrupulously observe the dis-
thud= which the principles of British law have wisely and hu-
manely drawn between accusation and conviction.
" It cannot, we think, fail to strike every unpreluditedmindle
that the Report of the Secret Committee is expressed in lan-
;use somewhat too strong and toe decided, when it is consi-
dered that the duty of the Coutinitke was strictly confined to a
statement of their opinion, ' whether any anti what proceedings
ought to be instituted spinet her. Majesty.' It wooed, dare,-
fore, have been sulk:lent for the Coe mitme to hive stated these
points shortly and distinctly, but then hero limn ht. it right to
notice the strength and variety of the evidence upon which they
fogad their judgment, which could have no other Aka than to
pcsjudice the pubic saint against_ the gloom The Repast,
however, is to be amaidersd m that et the Ministers of the
Crown, and to this alone can k be attributed, that in one instance
a speclic•alense should be charged mist her Blmairr; while

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