The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-09-28 00:00:00

,TESMAN.

ADDRESS FROM A QUERN TO A ICING.

PION AN ANUAINO PUBLICATION NOW MUM FRoN TAM
MINIM, INTITLID TIC " 'unix', SMART OPIIIND, OR
coaRRSPONOINCII RITRAORDINARY, lIIILAMITR TO TOR
DUMB OF RIR MAJBATT."

" I must proclaims my Innoceace—
" Bat oh!
" I cannot utter what my bosom feels."
" A little while
" Was I a wife—a mother mot so long—
What am I now ?"

Now that I tread with fearless step once more,
In spite of calumny, the Brish shore,
In spite of cruel foes, who sought to doom,
To lingering exile and a tainted tomb,
The wife you vowed to lute—who should have been
The partner of your throne—Britannia's Quaape ;
Ti you the father of a vanished joy,
The husband still of one whom griefs annoy,
In widowed state—to you the dearest friend
That Hessen could give—these mrrowing lines I sand,
Wet with a wife's. a hapless mother's tears,
And penn'd where peace no more the scene endears,
Though deep in solitude, 'midst shades of grief,
From conscious innocence I seek relief;
,The shades, forsaken by the courtly throng,
lesonsd indignant merman at my wrong.
To you at length I write—to you I turn,
Wiiile in my breast contending feelings burn ;
While memory harrows up a train of years,
Msrk'd by keen anguish and curruding tears -

To you at last my wrongs, my griefs dkclose,
And claim protection from increasing woes.
twist thou forget! 0! well my heart can L4l,
When tor thy love I bade a long farewell
To the gay bowers of jowl', in beauty's prime,
Where Brunswick's virtue brealli'd asoul sublime,
That pstriot soul which sighed for glory's essay,
And taught me scorn of all but honour's laws.
Canst thou forget, when Love pretested his claim,
How warm I met thee in election's name,
When holiest bands, where suppliant hearts adore,
Joined hands whom kindred Iles had bound before;
AM ! could I think, while thus at Hymen's shrine
I join my band, my heart, and fate with thine,
That rude injustice should my peace annoy,
And dark dishonour every bliss destroy ?
When thus I gave my heart, devoid of care,
To England's glory and to Britain's heir,
To him resigned, with Love's confiding tears,
The bloom of youth, the peace of fitters years,
Could Fancy think, or could the soul believe,
That thus my fond and bounding heart should grieve ?
That !mourned blander, mounting to the Crown,
should dare to tread its brightest jewel down?
Or that a mother, from her palace driven,
Should clasp her houseles., babe in sight of Heaven,
Thrust forth to bear the world's ungenerous scorn,
And, though a Princess, droop in grief forlorn !

MEETING EXTRAORDINARY OF MEN
OF STRAIT'

a Allmon,: and CW5ll'l2l-I Meeting of the
fretoseuters of Serjratit's Inu Passage, Chancery Lane,
held at the Dicing Cellar, Dyott Street, St. Oilea's,
Sept. 25, 1t320, to take into consideration the pro-
ptiety of remonstrating against the employment of
Italian, Swiss, and ()moan wittiesm-s to swear against
the Queen, it was unanimously resolved
I. That the hiring foreign witnesses to swear
against the Quern, while there are so many natives
out of work, well known to be inured to the practice
of swearing for their living, is a must unfair, unpa-
triotic and invidiuss preference ; inconsistent with the
proper jealousy that regulates our intercourse with
other nations, in opposition to the wholesome lobos-
'vitality of the Alien Act, and a direct violation of the
rights and privileges of Englishmen. A fine, fruit
this of the Holy Alliance!
2. That the reasons for employing these outland-
ish interlopers are frivolous and vexatious. If pre-
ferred from the hope of being suture obsequious on ac-
count of poverty, we would, notwithstanding all the
boasted wealth in the country, challenge any nation
in Europe to produce such a list of paupes S as England
can exhibit ; if chosen because Swiss and Dolmans
have been accustomed to be hired as mercenaries, we
would only beg leave to suggest, that it is proverbial
its England, that every man has his price ; if selected
because Italians have, as Catholics, little feeling of the
sanction of an oath, we would affirm, without fear of
contradiction, that there is no country in the world
where men are led to swallow oaths with more facility
than in the Custom Houses and other establishments
of this Protestant kingdom, and no Church which pro-
duces more thorough-church-men, disposed to conform
their consciences to the prudent and complacent sug-
gestions of expediency. Such, indeed, is the prevalence
iu this country of certain intlitences, too obvious to re-
wire being pointed out, that we are constantly is
dread of being compelled, by the intrusions even of
our fellow-countrymen, to abandon the profession to
which we had devoted our souls.
3. That we cannot but express our astonishment,
that in the getting up of the Orrin Bag charges, the
managers, who had acquired sort ample experience in
the numerous conspiracies that had been contrived sad
detected of late, should have been insensible of the
excellence of native talent. If the blunders of sr
Oliver or a Castles had made ahem distrustful of their
English spies and witnesses, the extraordinary amens
of their Edevards's and Dic.ne,'s was abundantly suf-
ficient to redeem our national character.
4. That if in any point we feel disposed to make
allowance in the resent case for' the admission of fo-
reign evidence, it is in favour of the female witnesses.l
Upon a review of the evidence which these foreign
females adduced, we doubt if any English mom"
would have had the face to give it.
S. That the exhibitions of the foreign men at the,
Bar of the House of Lords has, sun the other bee&
been so very contemptible, as to make as 'tremble tar
the character of professional swearers in our Courts of
Law, in time to come. Hitherto, it is well haws.
the members of our profession hare contrived to Maw
fain such credit, that we severally could be
as security for thousands of pound.. though few
at the hair were in possession of a &hilliest.
6. That lit witnesses swearing to eircenestishoa.
which hoptobilility on their fare, is taint,*

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injudicious, and proceeds ,upon the belief atilt the
judges are drvbid of common sense. An oath can
never give weight to evidence that is of itself incredi-
ble ; and a witness who swears without effect, must
be d—d A he deserves.

7. That the idea of making a tale get credit be-
cause it appears incoherent and ill-contrited, is not
likely to find entrance into the head of any native of
the United Kingdom born on this side of St. (Jewett's
Channel. There is a wonderful difference between a
simple truth, and an extravagant and foolish story.
S. '1 hat the evidence adduced by these foreign wit-
nesses has endeavoured to insinuate a great deal too
much, and actually proved a great deal too little. Cu-
tler the circumstances they have described, it is utterly
inconceivable, according to all English experience of
the curiosity of men and women, that the persons who
bore witness as to what they pretended they had seen,
could hare ever been satisfied, till they had *miler
demonstration of every thing they had suspected.
9. That after this vile mismanagement, which is
enough to make such practitioners as are concerned for
the credit of the profession, or for the consistency of
Courts of Law, execrate these Italian, Swiss, and tier-
man swearers, the information we have from time to time
received of the entertainments furnished to their foreign
intruders, while we are starving in the I.,ng vacation,
is a grievance which the stomachs of all English wit-
nesse-, can testify, is exceedingly hard to digest. To
have been drilling them abroad as well as here, and
cooping them and fattening them at an unlimited ex-
pellee in the ecronation kitchen, and to have made such
a isles, of their evidence at last, shews how shamefully
the finest opportunities and materials may be spoiled.
I;ini sends meat, and the d---1 sends Cooks

10. That having been time itnmen► wially acknow-
ledged capable of jestij~•iwg in behalf of others, we
trust we shall nut be denied the opportunity of
oar:elves ; and that therefore, under a deep
sense of the various mortification' we have experi-
enced in the progress of the pending cause, the
following Petition and Remonstrance be presented to
the Managers of the Green-Bag matters:
•10 THE 110NIJOR/4111.11 AND RIGHT HONOURAILL
MA-
NAUCRS OF TIIC •FFAIRS OF COTTON lilitDEN ♦NY
llt VICINITY.
The Prrivtort and REMONSTRANCCof the Frequee-
:ers of Sergeant's lon Passage, erroneously termed
Jsw BAIL, and vulgarly Max OF STOW.,
Must humbly Sheweth,
Tl►at tour Petitioners, from a long habit of swearing-
conceiving themselves competent judges of its effects in
Courts of Law, beg leave to state that the recent swear-
ing of the foreign witnesses at the Bar of the Monte of'
Lords, appears to us calculated to bring the practice of
swearing into general disrepute. It might be deemed
inconsistent in us to point out how expi (bent it is. for
the sake of property, moral►ty, and order, that the sacred
nature of an oath should be respected by the people at
large ; but it will not be denied as to complain that, if
swearing comes to be made light of, 161.1 oar " OVA-
, pation's gone." •
That from the various new provisions of the Revenue
Law., and from those of other Molder unnecessary to
mention, the use of swearing has, in this country, become
so familiar, so dexterous, and so easily and cheaply se-
spliced, that there is no pretext for the insportationolary
. sweamire &me *lsmail. In ismoserernee istssere super-
abundance of native practitioners, our emoluments were
merely such as we could swear by; and in the midst
of our severest privations, we have found these foreign
rivals introduced, and remunerated with exorbitant
wages, at our expe►►ee, if we may be allowed to say so,
or at least at the cost of the nation.
That taking. these premises into consideration, with
the various gr►evances we have suffered, we humbly hope
your honours will grant to us sorb relief. ►►s to your
honours may seem meet, and your Petitioners, as in duty
bound, shall ever SWEAR.

GUILDHALL.