The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-09-29 00:00:00

THE ST ATF.S.MAN,

THE QUEEN.

TO THE ElliToH OF THE sTATESMAN.

LE:TFR XX 11.

a-- " At 'ghat ease •
1111111 t corrupt minds proettm k nit% es ns entriip!
sa-tar against son !" HENRI, g tat.
it.t%e tun a runic', that will Sirear—

r9h. murder. and cunt/nit
'rite oldest sins the newest kind of w w.
He happy. he will trouble )set pi more ;
Fligland shall doable gild his treble guilt.-

Ste,— The great national drama, miscalled the trial
off the Queen, is now coming towards a conclusion;
anal, as the fearfttl period approaches, no man of or-
dinary discernment, or ordinary humanity, can view'
bet with feelings of aporehensi 111 l , what way be
it. elrects. both in respect to our external relations
and our internal peace.
From some recent debates and official proceedings in
the eity of London, I perceive that there are, iu that guar-
t--r. as well as' in other places. some fools who believe,
and some knaves who affect to believe, that the inno-
cruet or gui'.t of her Majesty must depend upon the
sentence of the (louse of Lords. The people, the whole
mass of the people, who are finite as good. and, in this
case at feast, as impartial judges of innocence and
milt as the body of the Lords. have already pro.
r.r.aced her innocent, judging from the evidence of
her persecutors only. By what species of necromancy,
tic.n. will a sentence of the House of Lords be able to
• ,oniert into enilt that which WAS preVit.tilly 1)10-
110%11111'd to be innoc.nt by the rest oldie nation, upon
the testimony of the witnesses of the very enemies of
the accused. Stich ideas may indeed suit the meridian
of Lord Castlereagh's intellects, or those of Dr. Phil-
lionfore. Theo. sapient Statesmen, upon the late meet-
in; of the House of Commons, declared that to acquit
t:o- Queen upon the evidence of her ereviersonly, seas
quite es-pain, and of course unfair ! " Wait," say
Cies* Senators of absolute wisdom and gravity, " until
we hear the Counsel and the evidence in favour of her
Majesty: for, who knows but they way prove the
Queen guilty of thoee practices which her enemies
have failed to substantiate:" This is the prcAse
amount of their observations. The only reliance of
these nise-acres, it seems, now is, that the innocence
of the accused, which has been su euutpletely estab-
lished, to the satisfaction of the whole country and of
0:1 Europe, by the very evidence of her persecutors.
no::: he .ti proved by her OWN Cosfasel, and her own
These absurdities can pass for logic only
at Whitehall or thesTreasnry.
Is it any wander that, on those parts of the coati-
writ of &trope which are out absolutely subservient
to the base folitics of the British Ministry, the finger
of scorn should be pointed at Englishmen, as they pass
along, for their supposed acquiescence in the persecu-
tion of the Queen ? How scandalous ! What barba-
rians! (Vvelle Sesaidele! timelier Belrbares! ) are
the salutations with which the ears of Englishmen
are greeted by their foreign neighhturs. Of the situ-
ation of the Eueli-lt traveller abroad, the Duke of
'Wellington may fo,na to himself a tuicet.ltly correct
notion. " Behalf'," says the impartial fore' goer, ig-
norant of the attachment of the body of the people to
hr:3lajcity. " with what fla2lti.•tts indignities these
relapsed barbarians treat their Ifer.oir Queen Such,
I:1 respect to the renewed series of conspiracies and
persecutions against her Majesty, the Queen of the
United Kindom of time Britain and Ireland, are the
sehtiments of every man in the world who is not an
Er.glish Buranghatonger. or has no alliliation with
t .at race of beings: and foreigners, unacquainted with
ths system by which these vermin and their vices
varish, whilst the people and moral! decay, are una-
he accurately to distinguish between those persons.
w'.o could lend themselves to such nefarious transac-
tl•ins and the great body of the British nation, or at
least of such of them as travel uhroell. Alas! they
little know how completely the King, the Queen, and.
the people have hitherto been held in bondage by these
upstart and trafficking knaves. Even foreigners,
Lo.e.-evrr. 'it!l soon learn, frivol the fate which shortly
awaits .their destructive usurpation, how wide is the
difference between these locusts and the sound part
of the nation.
It hewn, to myself to be acquainted with many
Vreigners; but 1 have never known a natty of any
other country speak of the proceedings against her Ma.
jeoy hut with the utmost horror, as, their injustice
scandabois and abominable to a degree, which
nothing but their too palliable existence could render at
aii credible. For my own part, I should be sorry, whilst
these u..farious proceedings are pending, to be obliged
to trivCl in any (foreign civilized country, out of the
jurisdiction of the Holy Alliance, where an account of
born is read; fur, whilst the injuries of her Ma-
j,•..4 remain unrcdressed, and the authors of her
uapereodented persecutions remain. unpunished, it
cannot be otherwise than disgraceful to be known'
to belong to a nation, in which such cruelties to-
wards a woman, and that woman a Quern, are suf-
fered to he pot even in a course of perpetration. I
should set sou', 1w suspected of being Oliver, the Spy,
ur a Manchester yeoman. as of nut being ready to pro-
. Sect her Majest.., at whatever risk, from the lawless
aid unprincipled machination,' of her enemies. This
is the universal seutiment of those persons who
do nut belong to the scum or dregs of this generous
natiOn, front one estrensity of the empire to the other.
The same feeling. as I have said, and I shall shortly
lir,' al" instance r.f It, also► prITSSICS all eivilised fo-
• reigaers. Wo know, indeed, that the Oligarchy, and
the Breen 'leg Administration, from habit, become
*Body callous both to the ceisitres of their country-
men. and the contempt of strangers; and that nothing
hut the dread of losing their places, pensions, or
lives. eau have any effect tit turning them from their
evil courses. It Is not until ?coast opinion has at-
' rained that intenseness, whirl ihreatens them with
• WOO imminent calamity, that they can be impelled
.• "ea to an appearance of justice.. This degree of his
• tenseness, 1 verily believe, does, in suspect to.the pest
serution of her Majesty. now exist; and will compel
our inisruleri for once to abstain from wrong. Or to
put their pieif tets,lf hot their:personal safety, to
animist hazare.• *•
An officer of rank in the British army‘ a MI in-
dependent awn, :dining, pat long ago, in a 'large

y 4t Turin. happened to sit next to one of the
GlZlZlClMiaisters at table. During aiinner, some Eng-
lishJouruals arrived, anal one of thou was tirst po-
litely handell to the s•rangers. It happened to be
that notorious ministerial organ of demoralisation,
The Currier the rollmop of which were, es usual,
filleJ with matter, as false as it was filthy. apinst her
Majesty. The honest :soldier, not dreaming that so
many incredible lies could be deliberately, knowingly,
and systematically issued, by a person oho nas so
much of a scholar as to he able to write, (he had not
heard of the service of plate emblazoned with the
Royal Arms, which had been bestowed upon a
certain person) expressed Isis rutwern that the Queen
of Eut.flatul should have so degraded herself In
the eyes of the people of Italy, and of foreign
governments. The Ministers, smiling, observed,that
they knew n athiog in that eonattry of her Majesty's
conduct. that was not only correct. hut meritorious;
that all the calumnies, whirls tilled the world. against
her were first transtuitte.l in rubric from head-
quarters in London to their agettts abroad, to-ships gal,
duly attemented, by those cusissaties, to their em-
ployers at home ; by them eousennuicatrd, after revi-
sion and amendment to their liters: y organs in the,
British capital : and by these reexported in their
journals for the editieatien of all the Courts of
Europe. This was known to the whole world, except-
ing to the people of Great Britain. It nas even noto-
rious that persons were stationed at tat erns and collee-
houses, frequented by strangers, in several of the great
towns of Italy, whose sole ocrupation was to vilify
and defame her Royal Highness to all travellers, but
more especially to the English.
The base calumnies, the trams' ndent lies, the utter
imposs;hilities, thus hatched and ptopagated, are now
before the world, in all their native deformity; anal
it is in vain that the Beam of Lords have attempted,
by the inurkery of a formal eaemivation of men,
palpably of the most vulgar, ignorant. and mercenary
description, to give the appearance of solemnity or of
justice to the proceedings, %tisk!' they have so rashly
and any. arrantably instituted.

ARISTIDIFS.

TO THE EDITOII Nl' STATES.II.43%
Corpenter's Anus. Wieersess. Sept. W. IbdO.
Situ—lto the let of March last, a breach took.
place nailer the wall at the entrance of the basin of
the New-Docks here, and immense sews have been
slate sespendesl in order to repair the damage. Last
night, the wind being N.W. with but a stualerate
breeze, another beach was nearly at the same
place, (although there is a slam of grooved &mai,
tosisieil piles right in front.) which retailers nugatory
every thing that had heen dune. lu looking at the
great national, and wissislerfully evpensive unslertakingt!
the wet docks at this place, it is highly incumbent on
those elowerned to chew that these blows are not in
consequence of any keg ..el or treat of jP.I:(»Aeal, but
casualties which hounan still and foresight email not
have prevent.d. The es..aratiett. by the blow of IM
Ist of March, having left a complete volume lie-1
tween the piles, I haze had opportstuities of taking ••
deliberate view of the piles nailer the wall, wear Silty
fret deep, by passing between them, and ass of opinion
that the ithwie and sole cense of breach is, the piles
nut being strove the depth they ought. Many of
thesis, in fact, whirls aught to be in the ground, are
to be seen with the iron :•Itoes us, several feet oat
of g ttttt nil ; and what with rlaiatt one day aid wag-
-101: unuther. the work, if there hr not some altera-
tion in the s' 'Millet of it, is likely to last till dooms-
day.—lt is proper to ultsrrve that the %%bole of the
work is done by contract.
If you will have the goodness to admit these mod-
ments of a plain ne•chanie of Sheerness, in your Inde-
pendent and patriotic Paper, von will oblige myself and
the coilitant readers sit Tux STAvesmas here. and ea-
courage oc to write, in a few days, more fully on the
subject of ;big letter. I am, with sentiments of sineere
respect, Tour's, S:c. J.IM.
N.
. _

[e:1034 TUC JAMAICA PA 1.1:11%./
The fallowing is an extract of the Order of the
Day ismeil by :
Officers and Soldiers:—You have seen the happy ors'
compli•hinent of the expectations I held out to von at
the beginning of the rata' aign, and von hiker been
witness to the progress whirl' has been made by ,
the arms of the Itepnblic in so short a time. The
prop's.. of the province of Cartlia glom came forward in
a glorious winner, and as liv an electric moventent to
assist o. in the expulsion of the oppressors who were
ty raotsi•i fig trrer their propery, their persons, and their
Oilieers and Soldiers! Every thing. invites you to
gather .he laurels which vietory and the complete li-
berty of them• provins•es held out to von. Such a path
of glory ?sever bef ,re presented itself to the Soldiers.
Preserve the good conduit, cut Is sia stri a nil valonr, which
has 10.therto digtingnished ati:l-throerurDbut If
Carthaom s and Santa Inrtha n ill restore yon 'in
peace to y.sor 11 44444 es, to enjoy the everlasting hedeac-
lions whh.ls the people Irestiiiv on their deliverers. •
•
Head-imariers. Estanistilo...bil PM.
'I he port letter received yesterday from Falmouth,
states, on the information of a geittleman who came
as prienger in the Prince Firnest packet from Lis-
bon, and which lett on the I Fith instant, that the Con-
stitutional army, from Oporto and the northern pro-
vince., Was expected to eater the eapital on the fol-
lowing day, and that no rrsistance was anticipated.
The Aurora. Hatch, has arrived in Torbay. She
sailed from Oporto, at three o'clock in the morn-
ing of the I4et lost., at which time the Mita
had quitted Oporto teljoin the army then merest
against Lisbott, They previously published a Proclo-
sustion entwes.ire of gratitude Sir the good order pre-
served from the time they bad governed, and recoil*.
mending. a itetttiontance Otthe like conduct, and oho- i
dience to the orders of the Junta (three members) left
at Oporto. The Constitatlemal troops consisted of
near 30,000 own. Al quiet sit-Oporto when the
Aurora sailed, and business rising on usual.
By a Proelamationisseed by tiese'Den, Liewtessot-
lievurttor of tlibraltor, received yesterday Mlle iited
place, it would redoWthat the-contagious digest... Midst
has a' long *Meted Spain broil! toosehting loafer*
ful ravages. In conaespience.persollis comsfug Ns tit
infected district are not admitted into the prelim*
until after the rrforniance of a certain quarantine.