The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-05-08 00:00:00

THE PRINCESS DE BEIRA.

'Our contemporaries having an incorrect version of the attempt
made last Fr►day to arrest the Princess de Beira, at her resi-
dence in Mansfield-street, we have deemed it our duty to in-
quire into the real nature of the circumstances, and find that
they are, as nearly as possible, to the following effect :
A Spaniard went, or was sent, from Portugal to Bayonne. to
print three pamphlets on the succession, and in defence of the
law of Philip V., for the expense of which a sum was confided
to a special agent, who misapplied the funds. The commission
to perform this service appears to have been given by the late
Queen, the spouse of Don Carlos V., fur the benefit of those
rights for which the Spanish Carlists were contending; and her
Majesty, we understand, before her death caused £lOO to be
paid to the disappointed author, notwithstanding the accounts
of the Bayonne print2r were never furnished. Since the
Queen's death the author, who from his subsequent pamphlets
does not seem to have been very consistent in his politics, has
attempted to fix the debt upon her Royal llighness the Princess
de Beira, sister of the deceased, whose earnest care has always
been to befriend the Spanish Carlists in this country; and,
every other expedient having failed, the pamphleteer endea-
voured to force her royal highness to an acknowledgment of a
debt for which she is under no liability, by sending two sheriffs'
officers into her residence, without any previous notice, or in-
quiry by the attorney employed, demanding a sum exceeding
£l5OO, more than equal to the expense of a dozen pamphlets.
An English gentleman being in the princess's house at the
moment, and hearing the circumstances of the case, stopped the
sheriff's officer before he ascended the staircase, and offered
ample security. l'he affair must now go to a British jury, when
all its enormity will appear; and, if we mistake not, it will turn
out to be, not an attempt to claim a just debt, but one of the
vilest plots to insult a princess in a foreign land, for a political
purpose, that ever was heard of. We very much apprehend
that a privileged foreigner of some distinction is implicated in
it.—Morning Post.

THE MEETING OF THE RUSSELLS.

Scene, Lord John Russell's study.—Time, midnight.
Enter ghost of the Duke of Bedford.
LORD J. rt.
Agents and ministers of ambition, aid me!
What spirit dread, at this deep hour of night,
Thus frights the solemn stillness of this world ?
Why hath the grave its marble womb unsealed,
Ara air or matter reconjoined a form,
That time had done with, and the earth forgot ?

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Hold, impious, hold ! nor dare offended heaven,
By heaping double falsehood on thy soul ;
What, though thy mind no fond remembrance holds,
Of past impressions, like th' inconstant wave,
Yet bath not Time in his historic leaf;
Left unrecorded martyred Bedford's name ?
Degenerate lord! unworthy of thy line !
How shall Britannia, in an are to come,
Blush, as she turns the page thou so bath soiled;
How will she sigh and wondering weep to know
A Russell struck a death-blow at her peace!
Yet oh! beware ! and ere it be too late,
Retrace thy footsteps, and wash well thine hands,
Let not Rebellion's touch or breath infect
A race till now made noble by their deeds.
League not with those who Would thy country crush,
Scoff at her nobles, and lay waste their lands;
Let Havoc slip amid deluded crowds,
Feed on the spoil and fatten on their blood!
I charge thee, Russell, quit th' accursed crew,
Reject the poison, and despise the bribe.
But above all, as thou dost hope for peace,
Touch not God's throne on earth—his holy church.—
If armed but once, in thought, to do her
Thy fall is certain, and thy ruin sure.
Oh! think of Satan, God's chief angel once,
How great, how bright, how glorious, and good !
But sipping poison from Ambition's cup,
He aimed at heaven, and in daring fell!
Deep as his sin was great! to rise no more!—
And e'en as sure as Satan fell, shalt thou,
If but a wish to harm that holy pile
Shall darken once the window of thy soul!
Farewell! Night in her sable mantle glides to rest,
And Morn o'er misty mountains wakes to smile !
Ghost vanishes.

LORD J. R.
Have mercy, Heaven ! if thou can'st forgive
A wretch so mean and despicably base.
How have I bartered every hope of peace,
A patriotic glory for dishonour's shame!
How stooped to raise a counterfeited gem;
How lost the substance, grasping at the shade.
The subtle poison that O'Connell gave
Works thro' each pore and fibre of my frame;
The very earth I tread on dreads to bear
The patricidal impress of my foot.—
I loath myself—and shuddering sigh to know
A thorn is planted where a rose might blow !—G. W. B.

IMPROMPTU
On the Birth of the Hon. Lloyd Kenyon's Son. and Heir.

BY THOMAS CAMBRIA. JONES.

Sweetly peal the merry bells!
Gwyneth's hills, and Gwyneth's dells,
Now resound with heartfelt pleasure—
Harp and voice, in joyous measure;
Greet the presence of a son
T. the house of Gredington.

Little stranger on the earth,
Bright and blessed is thy birth!
Springing from a noble line,
Good, betov'd, and fam'd as thine,
What fond hopes and ecstasy •
Warm our hearts in greeting thee!,
Live—thy father''s joy to prove;
Live—to bless thy mother's love;
Live—promote thy country's fame—
Extend her glory—that thy name
May give to latest time a ray,
Tu recognize thy natal day !

In Lexington, Kentucky, has been established a college for
ladies. It is to confer degrees,—M.Y.L., mistress of polite
literature; KM., mistress of music; 51.1., mistress of iustruc-
tion.—Good !—Montreal Herald.

MARY QUEEN OF ScoTLAND.7-William Leigh, Esq., of
Bardon, near Taunton, last week exhibited to several friends at
the New London Inn, Exeter, a discovery he has lately made,
and which cannot fail very deeply to interest the lovers of
English history. It consists of copies of most of the legal do-
cuments used in the indictment of Mary Queen of Scots, and
also of six letters, in the handwriting of Lord Treasurer Bur-
leigh, addressed to Sir Christopher Hatton. These papers
throw additional light on the passage of Queen Elizabeth's reign
which so chiefly concerns her character for sincerity and hu-
manity. Upon the motives of Queen Elizabeth and her real
participation in. the trial and execution of Mary Queen of
Scots, there has always been a division amongst historians.
Some maintain that Mary did really join or originate a plor for
takinc, away Elizabeth's life, that the crown of England might
descend upon herself; but the greater part of writers think
that the accusation was but a pretence for putting Mary out of
the way, her real crime being that she was a Boman catholic,
and her succession to the throne might have brought back this
country to that faith, and, as far us Elizabeth was concerned,
it was no unimportant addition, that Mary far exceeded her in
personal attractions. The papers now discovered give further
confirmation to this latter view. It appears from them that
Elizabeth herself carefully perused and criticised the indictment
upon which poor Mary was condemned; and that„she gave di-
rections before the trial took place for the form and matter of
the sentence that was to be passed. The letters confirm also
the accounts usually believed of the arbitrary sway which'Eliza-
beth exercised over her ministers. The great Burleig,h was
alwayi ready with some compliment or some blind,profession of
attachment when he mentioned her name even to a third person.
Ile allows himself to be almost witty on the subject of behead-
ing Queen Mary, although he seems to.have prevented Eliza-,
beth's purpose of putting her to amore painful death; and from
nothing that appears can it be fairly inferred that Burleigh was
not really convinced of Mary's having attempted against his
mistress's life. It is Mr. Leigh's intention shortly to publish
these documents.— WesteTri Times. •