The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-07-06 00:00:00

THE STATESMA`•

was developed. Ue observed that he would rather beat
the weight of the accusations brought forward against
the personage then impeached, than sustain any part
of the odium which attached to the disgraceful man-
ner in which the letters and testimony had been pro-
cured, on which the charges were founded. We
doubt not there are persons who would express them-
selves in like manner, were the means by which the
' scandals on her MAJErres character have been col-
-1!-cted fully exposed, as they yet must and shall be,
aid gh the denouncers of mean and filthy intrigue
may not be among the Ministers of the present day.
Her M IJESTT is accused of having pursued a lung
coarse of licentious conduct. We shall not stop to
animadvert on the degree of approbation due to those
guardians of public morals and national tranquillity,
who, aware of such conduct in a person so closely con-
nected with the State, could so long overlook glaring
and dangerous improprieties, and at this late period
make such sweeping imputations. Boldly as this as-
sertion is made, we are convinced it will be shown to
be unfounded. Her Majesty has indeed resided i■ and
traversed licentious conntries, but she has ever felt a
stain ass wonitd. Cou►ts are never the most pure
abodes for virtue; but in the contamination of what
Court or haunt of vice has she shared ? Thanks to
the mode so religiomtly adopted to exclude her frogs
the scenes and circles where dissipation and folly
reign with the greatest extravagance, the Waxer of
Ex I:LAND was exiled to the most remote and unblemish-
ed haunts of nature, to the romantic shores of the Lake
Cosmo, where her time was spent in the company of
the most virtuous and select females, and in constant
acts of beneficence, as Lady Axes lissieurox, and all
who had the honour and pleasure of her MAJzsTy's
acquaintance, can testify. The only distinct and sub-
stantive charge that is selected from amidst the many
imputations so much dwelt upon, seems to relate to
&CREAMY, the foreigner, who lately acted as her
MAJESTY'S Chamberlain. If this is the best and
only ground the enemies of the Qt-axx can find
whereon to rest their proof of a mighty load of
guilt, her hisJcsvr may well exclaim, " despair
thy charm," for the investigation of that charge,
whilst it will place the virtue of the Illustrious Female
in the purest light, will cover her accusers with ridi-
cule and scorn. Pity and delicacy would prevent us
being explicit, but time will show how far the man,
whom the wise authors of these charges believe to
have been so highly favoured, is capable of giving
such offence. Surrounded as her MAJESTY Las been
by spies and traitors, she has stood lunch in want of
faithful attendants. BERGA3II, it seems, proved not
undeserving of confidence iu his station ; bon what
baa the Grand Sultan to fear front the inoteasive
geardian of the Hs rem ? e -

The grave and awful thoughts which the proceed-
lags of the House of Lords inspire, have been re-
lieved by a lively tale, connected with the subject,
which has found its way into general circsingion.
" If, in the present instance," said a writer in a Morn.
ing Parr yesterday, " this charge against her MA-
JtiTT of adultery with BIBROANI does rot produce
more laughter throughout all Europe than any thing
which has occurred since the beginning of the French
Revolution, when laughing went out of fashion ;
nay, we will even ge farther—if this saloons charge
produces ultimately any thing bet laughter itaistet
the fabricators and believers in the supposed in-
tercourse, we shall be content to 6 reciteei the
greatest dupes that the whole land contains."-..-
What can all this mean ? asked those who were
not in the secret. How can a charge of the most
serious nature be made to take such a divertinglarn?
What foundation is there fur the pleasantry in which
the journalist indulges ?
The grounds which are thus but hinted at eitiwing
In existence are referred to, vaguely, by au antagonist
Paper of this morning :--" We have no doubt *tit her
[MaJarree] Counsel will urge every thing that learn-
ing and ingenuity can suggest, In proof of her inno-
cence; but we are very certain that they will Mt in-
sult public decency by so shame:ess a defence as that
intimated by • certain journalist, who has injured
her M AJ eel T.II cause by undertaking to give it support.
He insinuates that the alleged adulterous let me
with lignoant will be sopisimit *amp, and
mere subject for Issighter ! Gracious Heaver!
an utter ignorance of the very nature of fitiml?'
cacy! The manifest insinuation of this writer is, tl4
only certain appearances of guilt were produced, bat
that the reality was prevented by some natural limp&
diluent." Another Paper of this morning alindute
though but in general terms, to the grounds which,
caused the writer we have last quoted to utter so many
seines exclamations and which had dispense) the *nil
to anticipate so much mittb. With respect So she
adulteress intercourse with the individual is question,
this Paper states, that " rumour says her Kumar, is
verified with an unanswerable dekcee."
When a circumstance is so generally knows es then
extracts testify, and when so much of it la displeasing ,
to tantalise curiosity and set conjecture on the rilt.l
it is diScult to sausage our commanicatiens reepnetint
it in such • mann* as to ministate the tone thanes*.
pedient oi the delicate °session, end yet to famish lb*
information which the public have a right to sirs&
If we attempt to gin out Itemises some lies et
grenade that have been already se mesh cam
terms of such obscurity, we knew

elect our purpose better than in the words of a Cor-
respondent, who related to us a dream he had had
on this very subject about ten days ago. Hear-
ing, as he stated, fur several days before, no-
thing hut about tireen Bags, Queax, and Berman
Baron, he one night dreamed that he had a peep into
certain documents relating to the affair in agitation,
and among them discovered evidence that this psis-
sem Baron was one of that description of persons who
are occasionally imported from Italy to sing the tenor
notes in some of our Theatres. It has for some time
been asserted with confidence that the industrious
agents who were sent from this country on the eariota
suissiox to Milan were, with all their craft and vigilance,
deceived by false colours held out to them, and became
the dupes of a raw des Araerre. Apprized at length,
though too late of their mistake, they now, it is alleged,
pretend that the person in question must have subunit- 1
ted to undergo a most important change, for the par-
pogo of contradicting their elaborate discoveries. ,
Credal Jade•ns ! Low as they might be disposed to
submit for the sake of their attachment to their em-
ployers, or for the sake of reward, we question whe-
ther even they would expose themselves to the degra-
dation and the danger which the statement they assert
implies.

In order that our Readers should be made acquainted
with the sentiments of our cotemporaries this morning,
on the proceedings of the House of Lords last night,
we present them with the fullowieg extracts. The
Time., after stating the objects of the Bill for dis-
solving the marriage of the KING and Quir.ax, kc.
obsetves—

"The law of divorce separates, upon substantial
proof, a pure man from an impure woman ; but it does
not allow, nor ever has allowed, nor ever can allow, of
the separation of two impure people at the option of
either. We do not impute to his Majesty an impure
life, either during his cohabitation with the Queen or
since she quitted him; but we do aver, that a Bill of
Divorce, founded upon the simple misconduct of one
party,—the conduct of the other not being allowed to
be examined or inquired into,—is a violation of the law
of Hod, as it it modified and applied to the sacred mar-
riago-rite. Be the Queen's conduct what it may, his
Majesty must show an unimpeachable title to relief,
or mast allow that title to be scrutinised before re-
lief can be afforfled him; or otherwise there is an end
at once of all the sacred solemnity of the issrriage-
contract : fur ill examples do not mount from the
humble to the great, but descend from people in ele-
vated stations to the crowd. A Bill of Pains and
Penalties is one thing, even suppose such a Bill had
imprisoned the Queen for kis, or bad banished her from
the kingdom ; but a divorce—a dissolution of the nup-
tial hoed, is a measure of a totally different nature—
it does not punish guilt—it sets loose from a disastrous
obligation. bet it be recollected that the man, as well
as the woman, engages on his knee.,, before the; altar of
tiod, that, " forsaking all others, be will beep
only to his wife so keg as they both shell live." itit
do net say that the King has sot ibis;
vier that the Waimea of is a
alai unalienable condition of the o
dap ; and that it is irdplosse to &sok. die
without allowing of what is WWI
natio,. hut which is redly on y • coetrevertitg ef the
plaintiff's claim to relief.
" And DOW with respeet to the grime imputed to the
Queen. It we were lielbet; doubted whether Illieletsre ireeld
prove the charge of adultery against her, her ere these
doubts strengiliemed by thi most lieges, pm:she of this
Hill, wherein we Sod Ii hopeleg em elimee inabilirsty,
sad pieced by the aids of her oeseethee with that
she instituted as Order of mmo tied or ether Mdse.
If we recollect aright, iestiteied the " Order of Houser"
In Italy •, and certain Individuals established the " Order
of Arced'," exteedleg throughout Europe. But we .s-
-treet ettentioa generally is the preamble of this most
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astonishing IWI. These an Oa
aerates sealant She Queen :—'That,
poverty; thetas became came*
hied to Ms itardly; that Iltaispearn pe
den apes hie at bee solletetlee (thee
,Iforopo to o_lo.o the wee admitted)
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"gessoese, per se, have mot the tire.__
ihoty to then, wall sot have bees introduced.
a Asses' the war/ seeselles of tote singular preeeedieg
MAIr veveiyikett some. The proof of doe adultery
*Wee ni es together. Thy are to sometime
Nis eel: is Area follow'a
ell *he Se eliodsdee et idelstiy. iltelnesait ftilnileesiir
remarkable sr s if the divorce were passed
fret, e= tet, sad the wire proved afterwards. Hut the
• r lith. MP's set aside on a tedsaleality, her
is. liouelbeik sot to knew the witnesses who are ire
lOW beet se Set It is wet to impossible that dee
41sposee Shelf evidase, obey the iefinny of thole ehe-
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