The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-09-05 00:00:00

TO THE EDIFOR OF THE .!.*PATE.SII.I.V.

Sta,-1 cannot resist the &tire at the present
period of the Trial to obtrude a few words. When
we Pre a woman assailed with every species of abuse.
her character blackened with every tieing filthy and re-
volting,--when her servants are t•rielit and tempted to
I spy, to calumniate and revile---when malignity, arm• !
with power, proceeds to work under colour of lan,
and seemingly resolved upon a woman's destruction--
n hen this woman is to be held up as the beacon of
inbuiy, and this woman is a Queen, renowned for
generosity, frankness, and honour—.-pitied for r
sorrows and persecutions, and the object of admiration
for her courage and sagacity.-1 would ask, where is
the heart that would not beat fur her secs ire, and the
tongue that would not plead in her cause. If we lu
at the Trial it is unprecedented in the 41111311 of on:
history; and if it is examined with attention it is
levery thing but fair, and in fact every thing hut legal.
It is a law made after the commissional& crime. con-
demning that which did not before exist; and no
called for by any exigency of the State, the only ces;
that would allow a Bill of Pains and Penalties. The suc-
cession stands undisputed. and wohing could result,
even if the charges were true, to endanger its security.
Besides, if it has been laid down as an axiom iu a'l
just governments, that the legislative shoulJ not in-
terfere with the executive part, in the Queen's per-
secution, this principle is trampled upon, and our
Constitution is degenerating into desk otism. If it is
the part of a despot to legislate, to execute, and punish.
the principle is now at active work, and it ought to
excite the utmost alarm. Ex rtions have been nobly
made, (and I hope three exertions will be c4ntinuel‘
to stop the Bill in all its stages : and these exertions
ought to increase, when it is considered the fair fabric
of our Constitutiori has been in part demolished by the
enactment of some recent an.l shameful laws.

But, Mr. Editor, I will p. to ptove, that there is as
much hypocrisy in the prise:it proceedings, as there
is that of illegutity and despotism. If, as Ministers
say, it were not tit that a Queen, implicated in these
crimes, should be reinstated in her privileges, and
placed at the head of her sex, I would ask, in reply,
if there was any fear that these charges could not be
followed home, by absolute proof of guilt, (which has
not yet been done) why not conceal them ? Then the
example could not base injured, and the ast,rals of
the nation would have remained untarnished. If it is
answered, provided the body of the people did not
know them, the Court knew them, then, why, in the:
face of the Court, offer her 5..,0001. e•year
to live with her alledged paramour? Ibe Queeu uas
well aware of the insidiousness of this offer, and there-
fore she rejected it with disdain ; and not only reject-
ed it, but defies her enemies to their teeth to do their
worst. Now mark, Mr. Editor, after this noble dis-
play of becoming pride and dignified anger on her
part, arising from conscious rectitude, they not only
agreed to cancel the charges and regard them as fals
but repeated the offer of the same sum, with also an in.
trodnction as accredited Queen to some Foreign Court.
as if she who was nut tit for an English Couto on al-
coast of the fiagitionsitess of her manners, should be
fit for any other a fine compliment by the bye, to the
morality and honour of ano:her nation. I his also the
Queen refused; she set too high valorem' her honour
to barter it away ; she- had too much penetration
not to see this tissue of inconsistency. And now we are
to be inundated with filth and obscenity, to be censs
pellet' to listen to tergiversation and slander, to see
adultery attempted to be infe•red from frinksiess and
familiarity, and our pur-es drained to pay for d po-
sitions, if not slanderously false, yet voaationsly trivial.
In fact the public are now pretty well aware that the
proceeding's have not been entered into from any .
gard to public morals and national honour. 'I hi
have commenced, they have con:inued. and the end :a
yet to be seen, merely to gratify the malice and pri
vale pique of one or more individuals. Anil/sus. tit.,
nation is made to suffer in its morals, in bfitalf ug
which the party who persecute cry so honeetably
and religion—aye, religion, that stalking horse of.
tyranny and dppression—.ls outraged II ilte pr,
sence and by the co-operation of it... who are paid s 1
very ,veil-÷r its nipper,.
TUE FRIEND OF JUITICE,