The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-08-01 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

" NAVAL. DEPOT.—The Commissioners appointed
by tiovernment to fix upon a rnitable site fur a great
Naval Depot, have, it is understood, reported unani-
mously in favour of Ch;rieston, in Boston harbour.—
It is stated that the time fixed for launching the ship of
the line now building at the Navy-yard at this place,
is Wednesday, 23d August.

The great fabric of politics' quackery, oils-cslled
" the Holy Alliance," is already rent in various places
and tottering on its sandy foundation•. Hideous
chasms announce its approaching rain, anti expose the
secrets and vices of its construction. These, indeed,

did not es►:ape the 'penetration of the few uho
looked to things and not to 113111eS ; but the sense of
the many was so daveled by the glare of triumph, in
the midst of which the towering edifice had burst upon►
their ►•iew, that they forgot it was but " an exhalation
of the morning," to be dissolved and swept away by
the first rude breath that would agitate the political

atmosphere, and almost believed the tales which they

were told of its stability. Tl.is belief, or rather this
luslination to believe, fir we donut think it ever could
atnonnt to complete conviction, is now entirely re-

moved. The bloodless, and therefore truly Florian%
revolutions in Spain and Naples, have shown the fra-

gility of a system supported by Kings anti Emperors
alone, and the folly of the Neapolitan Court has revealed
the real objects for which that system had been estab-
lished. In its last stilt ggle to maintain expitin.y despot-
ism, and in an hour fatal to the Holy Alliance, it pub-

fished a secret note from the Russian tiovernottent to
the Spanish Minister resident at St. Petersburg's, in
which the greatest political quack of our age, the
Emperor Alexander, that pretended friend to the
liberties of mankind, expresses " his profoomil afflic-
tion" at the events which bare taken place in Spin.
and his hope and belief that " all Europe is about to
speak in one unanimous voice to the Spanish Um-em-
inent the language of truth," which means nothitir
else than that of d'etation. But lest this implied
threat should not be understood, the Dclirerer of Mr
Continent, as he caused himself to be called when he
summoned the nations to battle against Imperial
France, adds a still more explicit declaration, both
of what lie expects the Spanish King should do, and
of what, if his expectations be not realized, he may
think proper to undertake. "'I he measures by
which Spain shall rodearoor to destroy the impressiva
produced in Europe by the events of the mouth of
March, most deerminc Me nature of the relations
which his Imperial Majesty will preserve with the
Spanish Uovernment." What is this but a direct
command, (for whatever is accompanied with menace
on the part of the powerful assumes the tune and maaii
thority of command, to the King of Spain to deceive,
if not to butcher his people. The revolution was well
known at St. Petersburg t have been attended with
no excess of any kiwi, and to hare received the
solemn sanction of the KiNi:'s sacred oath. These
were the particulars communicated to the Russian
Court by the Spanish Minister, and yet ;he tun-
sciencious, the enlightened, the magnanimous Alex-
ander, could forget himself so far, as not only to advise,
but to direct a brother Sovereign to take measures
the very adoption of which must be a violation of His
OATH, whilst their nature could not fail to deluge his
realm with blood ! And for what purpose were those
measures to be taken ? "To endeavour to destroy the
impression produced in Europe by the events of the
month of March." What then was that impression ?
Was it one of disgust and horror ? It was one of
warm, unf. igned, and, with the exception of certain
monarchs, of universal admiration. Why then should
it he destroyed ? Because the nominal deliverer of
nations feared that nations would follow the noble
example of Spain, and Trolly deliver the selves.
Because with all his cant and promises at the hoer of,
linger, respecting constitutional rights and freedom,
the establishment of a free Constitution by the only
aitthority competent to give it being, action, and eta-
bility—Tna Patine—was a blow which he felt striae
tut the roots of his own Autocracy. Because tiw
system which he had created, and which the Hay
Alliance was intended to render eternal, was
one of Royal independence and national streitock..
'Secure of mutual support, the Kings of the earth
were to revel in freedom whilst their people toiled
In chains and groaned in misery. That such
was the real object of this sublime iodisation,
can no longer be denied. We hare it from Ole
lips of i:s founder: uttered, it is true, in dirk-
ness and privacy, but pruclaiuted on the house
tops by the garrulous timidity of his confident.
This object, we repeat with sincere exultation, is fur
ever defeated. Secrecy was its life, publicity has
proved itsdestruction. Constitutional freedom will now
take its natural course. It will leap from State to State,
till the earth is covered with its blessings, as the beams
of the morning rise from cloud to clued, till the
universal sky is one blase of pare and glorious

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On Friday gext, tine of the grandest reviews which
hal been witnessed in the environs of London fur some
link, will take place on Hounslow Heath, by his Ma+
)astir. The following regiments are to asap:able and
tq be reviewed altogether. be whole of the first and
'Aramd regiments of Life Hoards, the 10th Hussars,
the 14th regiment of Light Cavalry, the Hopi, IMO,
and the 16th and 19th Lancers—the wholi forming
when regiments complete. The groused is to he locpt.
It it wild, by the City Light Honk, aid Surrey Teir•
marary.

THE ROCHDALR VICAR ; De, FISH, FLESH. a
FOWL.•

The Amb Cook at Lambeth fur dishes has sent,
To pirate us at Rochdale: how kind !
The drat *as plain WPM', with n sauce of content;
The second was venison iltno.
The next that hosent was a very fine Daus ;
A dainty mice fowl in its way:
On tho clerical Chairman no coinsnents l'il make,

For a brute it the beq.julge of HAY.
We have had a fill feast, of run, ?Lam end rows;
But. alas ! they have all panted away :
The parish of Rochdale now grumble and growl,
For no one caa relish OLD HAY.
• " Wray," „ Hind," " Drake," and " thy," are the
names of Use four saecesAiva Vicars of Rochdale.

TRE ICING'S COURT.
Yesterday his Majesty held a Court, at his Palace
in Pall-Mail, at which the Rey. Dr. Haile, the Bishop
of Bristol, attended, and did homage before the King,
upon his being appointed to the Bishopric of that see.
The Bishop of Exeter attended as Clerk of the Closet.
'1 he Earl of Roden ha•! an audience of his Majesty,
and delivered his key of °thee which he held when
Vice Chamberlain.

His Majesty also gave audience% to Lord Edward
Someriet and Mr. V. Fitzrerald.

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Tile QUEE.N.

On *Sunday evening her Majesty took an airing
through the Regent's Park, Paddington, kcc. in her
new town equipage, bearing the Itoyal Arms, with the
letters C. It. aurtuounted by the crown on the quarter-
pannel.. The !e: cant', tun, appeared (for the first
time since her Maje•ty's return to England) in the
Royal Livery. She was accompanied by Lady Anne
Hamilton anti Mr. Austin, and returned to Portman-
street about seven o'clock.

• Her Majesty's residence i• still gurroundesl every
evening with a great concourse of people; and her,
appearance is invariably hailed with acclamation.
lie•terilay, at two o'clock_ the Peputation froth the
Borough ut lichester, accompanied by Dr. Ltothington
and Mr. Alderman Wood, waited upon her Majesty with

an A.l4"fess.
Hirt Majesty returre.l the following most gracious an-
swer:—
I return my grateful thanks to the inhabitants of
the Borough of Ilchester and its vicinity, for an Address
in which so much affection is manifestcil fur my person,
ao muilizral for my rights, and so much sympathy for

say sufferitsgs. •
My late beloved daughter will knew her mother's
injuries, and her noble nature iirole them her on n.
0% er her tit:timely end, if I wept .1•: 3 parent, the whole
nation mourned like 'to individ it. •*I hr grief n 3•4 1,)1e
and the same in All. Every mall felt as if he toad lust a
trim I—and that friend his solace in the passing liar, and
Ma hope in the time that was to come.
hen I call to mind the form of his late Majesty,
oppressed with afflictions and betiding n ith age, 1 ought
not, perhaps, to lament over that event which put an
end to his sufferings, and made hint change his earthly
Crown for a Crown morel:remanent. lint my gratitude
Will not suffer rue to forget that his Majesty was my
prftectur is nahrep,ity; and my heart, still sorrowing,
teats me that that protector is no inure.
.ses4slstreld, wren areersling to the confession of by
accusers, hate been guilty of no sin if I had never revi-
sited this country; that was Mr great transgression, and
that has been rendered more inexpiable by this circum-
stance—that I no sooner came, than the affections or the
people all circled round their Queen.
" If to puasess the affections of the people be a proof
of guilt,' how can I ever show that
:I ant innocent ".•
Could I prevent, or was I to try to prevent, the stream
of popular sympathy from running forcibly in favour of
Majesty insnlted, and of integrity reviled? If the na-
tion could have contemplated the many wrongs which I
have experienced, and the greater wrongs with which I
an. threatened, with severe indifference, or tvith sluggish
apathy, it would not have been composed of own and
Wtriarti; it would have been constituted of beings with-
out sensibility or intelligence. lint the British people
are made of better material.. No nation has more right
reason, or more good feeling : and this is a truth of
which I can never be unriateseions as long as one particle
of life is streaming in ray veins."
After the Deputation withdrew, her Majesty went to
North-street, binsliiiry-square, to view the School, called
the loyal Institution, for WOO boy. and 300 girls, of
which the Dnke and Duchess of ''Kent were patrons.
Her 3lajesty exprersed the moat lively satisfaction at the
order and regularity which pervaded the establishment,
and the interesting appearance of the children, for whom
she left a liberal donation.
Sunday, two of her Majesty's witnesses arrived from
Milan, one of whom performed the journey in the short
period of six days. We are assured, upon the most
undoubted authority, that her Majesty experiences great
difficulty in bringing to this country the witnesses ne-
eessary 'fur her defence. The Governor of Milan states,
that he cannot give passports to any witnesses except
those who may have belonged to her Majesty's house-
hold, without previously sending to Vienna fui autho-
rity. This the Defence of the Queen of England is
ramie to depend upon the will and pkesnrr of the Em-
peror of Andric
The greatest enthusiasm prevails at Hammersmith in
brae or bee Majesty. Ti..- town is to he illuminated
when her Majesty takes possession of Brairdenburgh
House, which we understand will be to-slay. Several
of her 3lajesty's domestics have been there suite days.
These people, though they did accompany her Majesty
to the Continent, were retained in her service and
paid during the whole time of her absence from this
The Hoard of Works began yesterday to wake ar-
rangements fur the alterations in the interior of the
Hones of Lords for the accousniudation of the Peers.
Mr. Hoene, Architect to this Bo rd, together with
some Lords of the Committee, and Sir 'l'. Tyrwhitt,
were in attendance. All the Peers' benches have been
removed into the King's robing room ; the Woolsack,
have been covered, and the splendid new Throne is
blug enclosed preparatory to the workmen beginning
to raise a gallery nu each side of the House, for the
extra-accommodation of their Lordships. These two
galleries will be high enough to enable Peers to pass
to their seats underneath thou. The Lords' seats in
the body of the House will be restored to their former
stations, and is Bogie previous order; but some exten-
sion of them at the upper end of the House, on each
side of the Throne la omitemplatod. The partition'
at the lower end of the'House, called the liar, is to
remain as it it ; bat portions of it will be separated
'from the spool allotted to " strangers," nisei:memo-
,date ties Coosa, Agents. Solicitors, Witnesses, he.
according to oho plans pureed is the investigation of ,
she- *OW" hors.. The assosersoikttios• so be
abided wtbe Queen is nut dietsksitioodr upon.

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