Star.
London, England, 1820-11-15 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

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Ever since the hue and cry was revived against
the QUEEN, when it was known that she had deter-
mined to come to England, we have been used to
witness such aberrations of intellect, on the part of
ber enemies, that nothing they do or say can excite
much surprise. To be consistent in anything but
fully, would, in them, be an inconsistency of which
they do not appear capable. It is impossible to dis-
cnver the reasoning that led to an offer offsAy thou-
powids a year to her MAJESTY, on condition
'fiat she should stay abroad. It would be possible,
bat for their subsequent conduct, to conceive that
tais offer was made from a conviction, in the mind of
the ninisters, that her MAJESTY was really the guilty
%%man which they wished to find her; for they may be
supposed to have reasoned thus:—"' No guilty\per-
SIMS will, with their eyes open, thrust themselves into
a situation which may lead them to exposure and
piuishmetg. If we let the QUEEN know, by a bold
hvimal of our intentions, that we have obtained
proofs of her milt, and are determined to prosecute
her, it she shall dare to come to England ; and at the
same time shall hold out to her such a douceur, on
ovulation of her staying away, as may enable her to

live is splendoiti abroad, with het...paramour EON'
the vile wretches II there can be no doubt that we
'shall succeed in oar object." It is possible they may
have reasoned thos : and this shell that it is possible
they had become the dupes of their own Machiavelian
policy. Spies had been employed by one or mote
persons, wholt is hoped, for the sake of justice, may
yet be dragged to light, to discover evil doings on the
part of the.Ques:v. .These spies, to shew that they
well deserved the pay which they were receiving
Ewhether out of the Secret Service Money or not it
may be difficult to discofer3, took care to furnish
information agreeable to the chaste and delectable
palate of their employers, who at length, to render
surety doubly sure, got the Milan Commissio.t ap-
pointed, whose " pious labours" confirmed their de-
lusion. We may say of them, like the rustic speak-
ing Rf the sick man—" having got the mollygrunts
in their belly, they sent for an apothecary, but, in-
stead of mending, they got worse: a physician was
therefore called in, and then—it was all over with
them." After taking► such pains to deceive them-
selves, it is not surprizing that they should, as some
fools speculated, expect to find the QUEEN "ready to
jump at their proposal ;" for no conclusion could be
more reasonable—had their premises been true.—
But how came it that, on seeing " the boldness of in-
nocence" manifested by her MAJESTY, in coming to
London to face her accusers, these men, who persuade
themselves that they monopolize all the wisdom of
England, were never once led to look at the reason.
ing which induced them to meet the QUEEN at St.
Omer's, with a threat of punishment in the one hand,
and offering, with the other, a bribe of fifty thousand
pounds a-year to stay away ? Had they done this,
would they not instantly have inferred the QUEEN'S
innocence.? national men could not have come to
any other conclusion, it' their previous hope, of her
.MasEsrY's acceptance of the absolution and bribe,
rested on a conviction of her guilt; for rational
men would have known, that nothing short of pure
innocence could resist such a temptation to commit
and continue in sin—and that too with the approval
of such pious men as the LORD CHANCELLOR of
England, Lord LrvEnpoor., Lord CASTLEREAGH,
and Mr. VANstTrAar! They had measured the
might of the threat, and the magnitude of the offered
bribe, by their own standard of moral compliance.
They had made both sufficiently great to insure the
acquiescence of any guilty individual, especially
when coupled with the knowledge which the QUEEN
had, that the bottomless purse of John Bull was at
their command, to enable them to execute their
threat in proper stile; their insult, as it ought to be,
had been thrown back in their face ; and yet, con-
sistent in folly,lnstead of making proper inquiries
into the conduct and character of their informants—
their Commissioners—their Agents and Spies, to see
whether they had not imposed on them (since no
guilty person, accordirig to their own estimate, could
have refused their offer), they still persevered in.
persecuting the QUEEN.

We have been taking the most merciful view pos-,_
sible of the conduct of the QUEEN'S persecutors. We
say, it is the quintessence of kindness to ascribe it to
madness and insanity ; for, though every man, in
his proper mind, saw, by the fortitude with which
the QUEEN faced her enemies (when they, too, offered
her a golden bridge by which to retreat from the
conflict), that the charges preparing against her
could be founded only on suborned and perjured
evidence, we must not believe that Ministers saw it ;
for this would be to impute to them the character of
the worst of villains.

But what shall we say of men who, when rem.
dered ashamed of the evidence brought in support
of the Bill, could yet argue in this way :—" The
Monarchy must be supported,"—meaning thereby,
that the QUEEN should be sacrificed by passing the
Bill of Pains and Penalties? Mercy on us! Sup-
port the Throne by conniving at injustice! Who
but the most stupid, or the most wicked of men,
could ever imagine such a thing? "It is an ahomi•
nation for Kings to commit wickedness : for the
throne is established by righteousness."—Solomon.
Whenever and wherever a throne seeks to be sup-
ported by a perversion of justice, it has been sup-
ported too long already: but the throne of the Bri-
tish Empire requires no such support : it has only to
enforce the just administration of the laws, to be
upheld in all its wonted splendour and popularity ;
and whoever would recommend a contrary course
are, in reality, its worst enemies.

Another folly committed by some of the sapient
men who so long and so earnestly occupied them-
selves in endeavouring to fix crimes upon the QUEEN,
was their vain endeavour to stimulate each other into
a belief, that the Public were " wholly indifferent to
the issue." " The Public indifferent to the issue r
The man who could make such a statement must be
impervious to the most intense light—a mass of opa-
city—if he still continues of this belief. Indeed, when
he made it, he gave a display of wisdom, which we can
compare only to that of the man who, with a candle,
examined. his sun-dial to know the hour of the night,
and never failed to learn. that he had previously
guessed the time to a minute.

ltut are the ignorance, stupidity, or infatuation of
the KINGS Ministers to be held as a sufficient cover'
also fur the wicked men who misled them by their
machinations acid conspiraciesagainst her MAJZSTY ?
No: this must not be. The House of Cm:mons—

I the Representatives ei the People, if tee erre
iNformed—will surely attend to the voice of the
Pedple, and save the Conspiracy sifted to the bottom,
that the guilty may meet the just punishment of their
demerits. Shall the crime of Ticasok be committed,
'and due diligence not be employed to brii4 the ci i-
minals to justice ? Impossible ; when it is recollected
that those who conceal treasonable acts, or glue coun-
tenance or protection to the perpetrators, become, by
the Laws of England, accessaries to the crime. It is
no slight danger that the Kingdom has escaped, nor
will the Country fail, by proper Addresses, to remind
their Representatives of the high duties imposed upon
them by the result of the late attempt to destroy the
QUERN CONSORT Of ENGLAND.

We have yet one fact to notice, to-lay, but whether
it is to be accounted for on the score of mere igno-
rance, or consummate impudence, we shall leave
others to determine. The majority for the third
reading of the 831 of Pains and Penalties was nine.
Lord LIVERPOOL, in his" last speech and confession,"
on the demise of the Bill, took credit to himself for
not pressing it farther, in the present state of the
public feeling, with so small a majority. Now, the
fact is, and his Lordship could not be ignorant of it,
that, though the nominal majority was nine, the legnl
majority was three, against the Bill; for in criminal
cases tried by the Peers in the Court of Parliament,
the majority condemning must, by Statute, consist of
twelve at least (see Forster, 247, and Kel, ;56; and
Blackstone, vol. iv. chap. 27).

These are this words of BLACKSTONE The
" trials by the Peers of Great Britain differ little in
" the method and regulation of proceedings, ex-.
" cept, &c. &c. and except that the Peers need not
" all agree in their verdict; but the greater number,
" CONSISTING OF TWELVE AT TH2 LEAST, will con-
" elude and bind the minority."—So much for the
boasted moderation of the Quaztes enemies in giving
up the Bill. They did not give it up. The real legal
majority of the Lords strangled the Hydra.
Her MAJESTY, with that proper sense of dignity
which marks every part of her conduct, has com-
manded her Vice-Chamberlain to write to Lord
LIVERPOOL, to demand a Palace and Establishment
in every respect suitable to her rank, being. deter-
mined that her future residence shall be wholly in
this country ;—.a wise resolution ; for we have not
here, as in Italy, an open market, in which the ser-
vice of an assassin may be bought with money.
Should her MAJESTY ever again quit this.country,
we are certain that none of our Insurance Offices
would take a policy on her life at a lower premium
Aran 95 per cent. per annum; but white in England
they will do it at the common premium ; for, in
England, not a villain on the face of the earth will
dare to hurt a hair of her head.

REJOICINGS IN THE COUNTRY.

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w
ould give time for the peeple td prepare thek
houses for a splendid exhibition;
Ha.rifiAd, ‘Nlithyharn, die town of East Grinstead;
and many other place's round Tunbridge Wells, ma-
nifts:ed their joy ott Saturday, by the ringing of bells
and the illumination of their houses.
EN ETER, NovEmaait 14.—The welcome news re-
specting the vile measure which has ree:ntly bee
pending in the House of Lords against the Queem.
reached this city as early as six o'clock on Saturday
evening last. A simulzancous expression of joy
seemed to pervade the iniabitants ; the beds of St.
Sidwell's Church struck up a merry 'peal ; and' we
believe it to be not the want of an almeit universal
enthusiasm that those of the other Pari-li Churches
but partially followed the example. Firing of pistols,
discharging rockets, with other demonstrations of re•
joicing. filled the streets, and " The QUEEN for ever 1'
resounded from one extremity of the city to the other.
Ilastmensu ITH.—Her MAJrSTY, at about ten
o'clock on Monday night, when the town was in the
height of splendour, rode through Hammersmith, as
far as Teresa-terrace; her horses were led by several
Gentlemen of the town, who bore lighted flambeaux
in their hands, as did others who followed the card
riage. Her MAJESTY was received with every de-
monstration of respect fiom the inhabitants, who
cheered her as she passed along. Her MAsestrir was
headed by the same persons with flambeaux, who
accompanied her to Brandenbnrgh House, where she
alighted, highly gratified at the appearance of the
town, and tie manner in which the populit:e testified,
their respect. Fire-arms and fire-works were dis-
charged in and near the town, and the greatest joy
prevailed.