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

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mine knowes itkether am gilty or not of the crime
that is laid to my charge, that is. the nannies. of Mr.
Parker and his house-keeper, or any other part of that
clime-that is raid to Sty t'llarge. or env otliereritne that
is laid to me, as WO has ni soul in charge this day tip
try my ;milt, there•ls.the truth and 1 hope no one wiN
east it up to toy wile or chiller, for the do stek deans
it. I sine this to be the truth.
44 JAMES NESBITT.

MEETING OF MEGII4NI('S TO 41.111)RESS
THE QUEEN. O. •
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The following placard was very grain* posted
throughout the city on Friday and Saturday last :
A General meeting of the thinking. notking, and indus-
trious mechanics of London. end its environs. will be held
on Monday next, the Slat instant, at the Jacob's Well. Bar-
bican, to take into consideration the propriety of an Address
to the Queen, and to express their opinion- on the conduct of
her simmers by such Resolutions a: will then be submitted
to the Meeting.
Mr. J. ft A•T in the Chair.
The chair will be taken at four o'clock -

THIC QUEEN.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE STATE.iII
LE XVI X.

" Brave, brave, by Heavens—abe deserves a (`roes,'
" All fist bad been tistended towards her 111ajevr ire
honour, candour. fretful, and be nerolenee."—Mr.
Ntso's Brims, June 7, two;
.• We are governed by a set of drivellers, whose rovlJ-1
takes away all dignity from distress, and makes eves c 2.
!amity ridieulous."—Slr A. STSZLE.

Stn,—Since our Minister for fireign affairs has hes,
initiated in the mysteries of Continental Diplqout.,
he has been permitted to take such a lead in the ca.
hinet, as has enabled him, with that felicity or taste
and of judgment for which he is so eminently di..
tingtashed, to convert us (borrowing alittle of his own
phraseolozy) into a nation of foreigners. We are
Africans, Asiatics, Mussulinen, or Hindoos, any thin;
but Englishmen, born in England. Our maim,
and rep:lntim:3 are nothing but inatatioas
similies of those of the antiquated goreraimots of
Europe, which hare, within this half amore, feu
hits disuse, or been destroyed. But sorb afei ale
WO become, that, rather than'not imitate foreign tam-
nen, we must imitate linonaparte himself, in such of
his measnres as Ministers are capalile of efnujirelieno.
ing, i, e. in such as have led most directly to his
ruin. Whenlittonaparte, enervated by power, crean:,,
in comparison to himself, a child ; when, fane;ini itte
he of mighty importance to the welfare of Frame,
(her "destinies as he was wont to speak) that he
should be succeeded in the government by au heir oLa
might possibly be of his own loins, and under that
pression, determined to divorce the Knipress,Josephim,
to whom he owed his first rise in life; from that mo-
ment he sealed his unhappy doom. This was the
first considerable step of that series of tergiversations,
and compromises, by which that great man (fur in
comparison with the petty tyrants by whom he was
surrounded, and by whom he is now incarcerated, we
may freely allow him to be great) forfeited that aced
power, which placed and would have retained bier is
the eminent station which he had acquired, lead br
which he occasioned that popular resaetioa thruagboat
Europe, which terminated in his overthrow; as crest
to which our " virtual" rulers, excepting in their own
con. sit, contributed no more than the fly ttpon the
axle tree to the dust raised by the chariot wheel:.
But the act was hie, own ; be had no responsible ad-
risers; and every oblesseollecti how mach, and bow
justly it was reprobated, era newton with the world in
general, by those persons and their patisaus, who are
the responsible advisers of the preieat gravidity
lagainst the Queen of (ireat Britain. As theta:Mile
had an eye to it, Ministers ought openly to hicluit
this ease of Beoesparts in their list of precedents;
for a bad precedent from Prance will heallowed to be '
quite as good as a had precedent from England; and
although that Amiga unman% and tire tWutatkeew
now in progress, beat' no similitude, in any enagelat,
excepting perhaps in the frivolity or semniity sI
their aware', it deserves, on that very acemust, India
order that Ministers might not be " a usaftest to
themselves," to be naturalised. The tliveretstifose-
pkine, then, was not a measure of sir respdpsible.
risers. It was effected with her owa consent.
had the sanction and approbstion of the head of the
Catholic Church. A handsome income was bestowed
on her, and she was pennitteil to retain the title
Empress. No clandestine, or other measures, in-
jurious to her honour or reputation, were tasseled to
She was not persecuted for 45 years ; her actions ,
were not regularly watched by epics; traitors, Its
formers, and picklocks, were sot introdeeed into her
family; a tribunal of Lords, Commons, and Chancery
Barristers were not sent to bunt her footsteps in a
foreign land : the usual means of conveyance from
one country to another were not refilled to her;
a residence befitting her rank was not denied; she
was not left dostititte of all regular mesas of subsist-
ence; she was net stript •at once by the fiat df a
ministerial junta, of all her rights and dignities ; she
was not first reduced to the necessity of throwing
herself upou the
abused for exciting'pe;oppleulaforr protee
eiarsosraonoi
gibeaulmd tws.bee.
after being twice acquitted, subjected to i turd teal,
for the same alleged offences, by t!ibuisk
unauthorised, more secret, and mart. 1041411•1414
She'was not, in the course of such a tie.
by illegal, unconstitutional, ad vosatielepoomsdi
logs, each surpassing its &fedoras°, *I.
violence, and iniquity. Measures ch
such atrocity, were neves resorted to by
of his
they were not surpassed. if equalled. is
alir
of the
-sdetesesses in thw most feroeious
mulattos.