The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-09-14 00:00:00

TO MY NEIGHBOUR.

" In proportion as guilt is more enormona, it onkt to bs
ascertained by stronger evldenee."—Jonaims.

Stu,—The advocates for the Will of Pains ar•l
Penalties against her Ilajenty. having dosed
case as to evidence in solpport of their allegationt, it
remains now for the British people, the wtettliYe
thonzh inv.ilmitary plaintiffs in this can‘e, to apn.e.
date the merits of the various actors in this jaciili.,l
drama, and endeavour to give it some deteraiiaite
appellation, intelligible to the historian who may hap
to record the cireuniftances in the annals of :Li
country.

This ha • been alternately denominated by tbe Noble
Personages who have discussed the subject, an Q4O,
matuns, e.straorslimary, and unt,soal ease, and the pre.
ceedings have been designated a prosertaium: but wile•
thee by reason of such proceedings having been co,
ducted without the aid of law, or light of reason, de
term perseeation or prosrriptioa would not have hem
t appropriate, a future generation may determine;
fur my own part, I am as much at a loss to give diem
a definition, as the Attorney-lieneral of the Atop
was to declare who were his clients. Not that I con-
sider his embarrassment very surprising, seeing that
the Ifou.se of Commons, the representative body of the
people, bad, by declining to receive proffered evi-
dence, given him no warrant or instructions t, pro-
secute; but it most strike every unprejudiced miad is
an uncommon case where neither the plaintiff kneas
his own witnesses, nor the attorney for the prosecativa
bis own employers.
The Right Honourable the first Lord of the
Treasury has informed us, that the object of the Bill
is to vphoid the hoitesar o/ the rower!, and public
juoire must bz• satisfied.

It will be necessary, therefore, ts consider how far
1 the honour of the State has bees so injured, as to
I call in this manner for public justice, and to examine
1 whether an atonement has nut already hen sufficireiy
t made, if any wrong has been done.
It requires no extraordinary degree of petspicail
to perceive, that the incident which constitutes the
I Queen's craimg sin, and which has so griered the
1 eac, k spirit of the hierarchy, and the exquisite me-
!
Witty of the aristocracy, is, that her Majesty, against
all rules of fashionaide etiquette, has thought Fru.
I per to become her own archetype in exercising acts
1 of kindness towards her donsostic. ; and so imagtl
the Queen must be branded and persecute-11 became
i Ilse has been a munificent benefactress to one, rim
however meritorious he might be, had not the lick
Ito bear the motto " eerie .:elite regihess." For this 1
1 she is to be degraded by a Bill of Pains and Penaltiis
ex poet facto, on the evidence of a Non nei rieorde:!!
Now the Bill of Bights, made the second yearof the
. " glurious Revolution," provides, um row/ sad
I an astral psaiehmfas shall sot be Wieder OS tie sub-
; jest : and does not the Bill against her Majesty, is
defiance of the Bill of Rights, sins at the iallirtioa of
i a cruel and an a,:•treal punishment, if degradation of
rank, loss of honour and reputatien, the dearest earthly
blessings of the feeling and heel:tura mind, be my
punishment at all
But why, I would ask, is this adeletivnal penalty to
be inflicted on the Queen, even if she were guilty of
any offence? Is it because her enemies hare sot
drunk deep enough of vengeance ? Are they sot
satisfied with the coup el. gra •e, but must delight is
beholding the protracted convulsions of their victim?
The constant language of our legal tribunals. from
time immemorial, has been, that it is contrary to the
genius and spirit of the English law, to suffer any ore
to be tried twice for the same offence, in a criminal
way ; how much snore adverse then is it to intlirt
punishment tic ice upon a delinquent. And Las nut
the Queen, in violation also of this law, and of Maps
Charts, been punished by degradation, the worst that
malignity reds! devise, 'mutely, that of !wing pro-
claimed unworthy of ecclesiastical benediction. and all
this without trial, or proof of delinquency ? Am
Magna Charts, the Bill of Rights, and the tandisg
law nothing ? Are the fastidious notl .ns of people d
fashion, who seldom see the mid-day sun, to supersede
the principles of right reason, and bear the stamp of
British intellect? Can say fellow countrymen, who
reputation for benevolence, honour, and justice, ins
been widely extended over the civilized world, ire
much, that a Briton's breast is supposed in be tie
sanctuary of every humane and gentle iirtue,--cat
they, I say, feel otherwise than indignant at the WI
(foisted upon them) of plaintiffs, in a Bill to demi
a Queen, who has done them no wrung of which tiel
have any consciousness, or if she had, has sire)!
suffered an excessive, an ameeenal paulsionent ?
Let it he remembered, that by Magos Charm" 1
one ran he punished without the judgment of his
equals, and according to the Law of the Land; dui
by the Bill of Rights no one can be subjected to end
and reeves/ pneisittneut ; that the law declares tiel
uo criminal shall be tried trice: for the same Wts '.
and consequently shall out be trice raisin,: sot
then compare with these powerful injunetiosts, dm' ciT.
cumstattee of her Majesty having been excluded troy'
the prayers of the Church,from the Prutestaet }:s10
Church Nos—condemned *wheat& without a trisl h
wander about the world tinder as Ecclesiastical Ali'
therua (which iu some ages of the Chunk would WI
caved her Lnesitsbk destruction), a severity of 10"
reeding unknown to the British Laws or Cuastiteties
being repugnant to Christian ebuity, and sun eay
cruel, but unparalleled in ferocity. HAM gals g
the evidence which you have heard, consider thee'
clarations which ban been made, that the Hill is esi!
to uphold the bosom of the country, and mot for an
other purpose, and then putting your bawl um Ps'
heart as a honest man, say if you can, that this cost
is properly your own, and that the promoters of the
Bill are " all, all Aorloarerble sera."
Doctors' Contemn, Sept. If. CASSIUS.

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