The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-08-14 00:00:00

filE QUEEN'S LETTER

THE KING.

Stals-"Attst the ISllPatolielesi sad unprovoked rem&
tient wtil4, Aerial ',tries of years, has been dirtied oo
against me nnder HIM name and authority of your Ma-
jesty—and width tlecatioe, instead of being mollified
time, time has rendered only-more and more enslir
rlto and unrelenting—it is not without a great waft*"
of private feeling that I.now, even in the way of remon-
strance, bring myself to address this letter to your-31a-
:intr. But. bearing in mind that Royalty rests on the I
-axis of public good r that to this paramount eonsitlem-
inn all others ought to submit ; and aware of the eon-
s
.qienan that may result front the present nneonsti-
tational, illegal, and hitherto unheard-of proceedings:
—with a mind thus impressed, I cannot refrain from
idea !ay grievous wrongs once more before your Ma-
jesty. in the hope that the Instire whieh you Makety
may, by evil-minded counsellors, be still disposed to re-
I to the claims of a &Whit, faithful, and injured
wife, you may he induced to yield to considerations con-
rested with the honour and dignity of your ,crown, the
,'ability of your throne, the tranquillity of yonr donti-
rises, the happiness and safety o. your just and loyal I
people, whose generous hearts revolt at oppression and
erualty, and especially when perpetrated by a perversion
add a mockery of the laws.
A sense of What is tine tu tns character and sex foe
bids me to refer minute'y to the real canoes of our Or
trestle separation, or to the nnmeront unmerited insnita
offered me prerionsly to that period : but. leaving to 11
yoi;r Majesty to reconcile with the marriage vow she i
err r (driving, by such means, a wife from beneath your
roc', with at infant in her arms, your Majesty will per-
mit me to remind you, that that act was entirely your
iwr ; that the separation, so far from being sought for
hi we, was a sentence pronounced upon me, without
se; rause assigned, other than that of your own inch-
ra!iona, which, as yenr Majesty was pleased to allege,
sA'efe nut tinder your eontroul.
Not to have felt, with regard to myself. chagrin mg
:bit decision of Tone Majesty, would have argued greet
iortrioibility to the obligations of ileestenen; no% to lon
dropped a tear in the face of that beloved child, Asia
mtvire sorrows were then bat ton easy tu foresee, *maid
bare marked me as unworthy of the name of mother:
MN, net to have v
have indicated
ibose feelings
f....-tale honour,

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Al np, A meet committee of the Hess* have ex- pool was at Cosnipeutood. He retuned an anstrvr els?
Aimed these doenntots. Thee haereeporta that there Ibe would lose no time in laying it before the k'i,_.
1 lib, no reply having been received,
are grounds of proceeding ; and then the Hasse, merely
upon alai report, have brought forward a Bill containing wrote again to Lord Liverpool, re cstin hif •
On the the
Q. 4,
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er any further communicatiob would be awe
the most ontrageous slanders on me, and sentencing me w •
on the subject of the letter to his Majesty.
to divorce and degradation.
Liverpool wrote the same day from Combewoef •
The injtist:ce of putting forth this Bill to the world hehad nut received the king's commands to make,
fbr six weeks before it is even proposed to afford me an
communication to her Majesty in consequence f
opportunity of contradicting its allegations is too mean- letter. At a late hour last night no answer had '
elet not to hare shocked the nation; and indeed, the pro- 6 received.
eleedings, even thns far are such as to convince every one
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altat ne justice is intended me. But if none of these THE QUERY.
proceedings, if none of these clear indications of a de-
SIR GERARD NOEL TO TIEIbiTI•OI.r.pLAROFE,IA,I2POO/11,.
termination to do me wrong bad taken place, I should
see, in the constitution of the House of Lords itself, a My Lord,—The present moment seems to sae ,
certainty that 1 could expect no justice at its hands. claim the best exertions of every one to preserve •
your Majesty's Ministers have adrised this present- empire in prosperous tranquillity. and I therefore/
tion ; they are responsible for the advice they give ; they no scruple, as an old Member of the Homo; eh. ,
are liable to pixishmeat if they fail to make good their in general given my support to Ministers, tinewilsi,
charges; and not only are they part of my judges, but ways without fixed devotedness to party, in adawiL,
it is they who have brought in the Bill ; and it is too your Lordship previously to the meeting a p.i:
notorious that they have always a majority in the House; went.
so that, without any other, here is ample proof that the I lament extremely to be obliged to complafa
hilt Majesty'a Ministers, instead of edited*, ten cs,
House will decide in favour of the Bill, and, of course,
deviating plan of beeline measures in twilit ID jutifr
against me, the cautionary regulations of the two law /nap lid
But further, there are reasons for your Ministers
unequivocally to mark the wish of Aeliamaties
having a majority in this case, and which reasons do
inure generally to attain the coalesce of gm popie.
not apply to common cases. Your Nfajesty Is the pimia. e
nave ventured to adopt with pertinagity thiamin&
Of: to you it belongs to appoint and to elevate Peers, measure of the Will Of Patwoomo." s
Many of the present Peers have been raised to that dig- Queen, which unhappily hem, the mat fpm
nits by yourself, and almost the whole can be, at your undertaking of the new reign, and by which thee as
will and pleasure, be further elevated. The far greater exasperating the public discontents. and almost
part of the Peers hold, by themselves and their families, forth and sanctioning, by their conduct is this sag•
offices, pensions, and other emoluments, solely at the fair, that impatience against which those cutlass
will and pleasure of your Majesty, and these, or course, regulations have been directed, and hereby /mei
your Majesty can take away whenever you please. There such it ide-spreading dissensions as wiliputin lisped)
are more than foorr:ffiths of the Peen in this situation every clam of society, and may overmany lug le
and there are mane of them who might thus be deprived weaken our national respectability is the Come ef
of the far better part of their incomes. Europe.
If. contrary to all expectation, there should be found, My Lord, it is to me a great proof a the lasi*
tioh of the Cabinet that the return of the !}men is
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in some Peers. likely to amount to a majority, a divot&
lion to reject the Hill, some of these Peers may be ordered
away to their ships, regiments, governments, and other
duties t and, which is an equally alarming power, new
Peers may be created fur the purpose, and give their vote
in the decision. That your Majesty's Ministers would
advise these measures, if found necessary to render their
prosecution successful, there ran he very little donht ;
seeing that they hare hitherto stooped at nothing, how.
'just odious.

England was not foreseen, as the obvious,.
of its proceedings with regard to her Ifejesty; Ist,
when the storm began to throat's apiait her War
diately on the demise of the late Cog, with strong
symptoms of its having been gathering is* liking;
and when, upon her last arrival at bee, there she
WAS personally known, and been finnedysekasi4.44.
ed us Princess of Wales, the Coin thole %Rata lee
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