The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-09-06 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY.

Sir Henry Protheroe; hes addressed a letter to the
Mdttor of the Bristol Memory, in reference to a motion
tetiiioAddress to the Qtseet. of which be bad given
notice at a steeling of the Corpvation of Bristol, and
in reply to kressoirk that had been ascribed to the
Xavor of that city on the ottasioh. After adverting
tsi tie genital proceedings against her Majesty, and to
the sestimems they excited in his mind, and expressing
his surprise that on these points the Mayor should
assert that no Gentleman-of the Corporation wools',
second an. Address to the Queen, proceeded to argue
in the following manner :--
Whether the Corporation will suffer themselves to
be guided by the opinion of the Mayor, remains to be
n; but I have lama to hope that the chisela of
risco', generally; will shortly follow the loyal exam-
ple of the metropolis, and other cities and counties,
in addressing her Majesty upon her arrival in this
country. la doing so, they will show proper British
feeling, the respect which is due to royalty, their love',
of justice, and their hatred of persecution.
An opinion, I understand, prevails with many per-1
sous in this city (Bristol), that it would be more cor-
rect to defer an Addressto her Majesty until the Bill
of Pains and Penalties has been disposed of. Prom
such am opinion I whollydissent : for had the proceed-
ings against her Majesty been less oppressive and less
unconstitutional than, they have been, I should not
consider that they have would furnish any ground for
such-delay. The Queen claims, and she has a right
to claim—will any generous mind deny the right?—
" the benefit of the presumption of innocence, until
she is found to be guilty." The laws of England sap-
port her claim ; and the people of England will, I am
persuaded, grant it. Can, indeed, a doubt of her in-
nocence now exist in any unprejudiced mind ? and will
not the evidence of Capt. Briggs, who commanded the
Leviathan man of war, on board which ship her Ma-
jec.ty sailed from Oenoa to Sicily, with the Baron Ber-

gami, more than counterbalance the evidence of dis-
t... Med servants, and the perjury of a thou'and wit-
nesses of the same stamp with Theodore Majocci?
The cariosity of Captain Briggs must hate been
strongly excited by his communication with Mr. Pe-
/ hell : yet what is the evidence of this distinguished
°Atter ?—" Did you ever observe any improper con-
duct on the part of the Princess ? I►vra. Had you
any reason to swiped her of improper conduct ? I saw
\ E."

lint no evidence is wanting to e.tablish the' Irmo-
retire of this illo.trious object of unrelenting perse-
cution. it is proved, not only by her own conduct,
hut by that also of her accusers : for can it be be-
lieved, that Lord Liverpool ;voted have proposed to
Her Majesty, after she had rejected with equal disdain
the bribes and threats of Ministers, that he wou'd
I:re•t the King's Represeatativr at any Court in
Europe to treat her with sit possible respect as Queen
Cannon of England. and to heilitate bet reeeptisin rt
such Court, if he believed her to be engaged In au
adulterous connexion with the Baron Kergansi ; sad
another of the King's Ministers (Mr. Canning) had
nut been satisfied with her innocence, could he ban
declared, as be honestly did, in the House of Com-
mons, that be never would be one of her accusers, and
that her Majesty must Ire the Ltra, user. and
onoastasur of any society in Europe to which she
Night attach herself?" These gentlemen must have
well known that the contents of the Green Bag were as
false as they are disgusting. Her Majesty's own con-
coct, however, in a moment, dispersed &lithe charges
which bad been brought against her, but which con-1
tilued to be urged by the hireling papers of °ovens-
ment with desperate malignity.
It requires scarcely the understanding of a child to
see the utter improbability, of a person conscious of
having committed a crime, seeking an investigatiou of
that conduct, by which the crime would be proved.
The Queen, hearing how basely her character bad
been traduced, returns to England, in order that every
tharge against her may he openly and fairly investi-
gated. Would she bare done so, knowing herself to
be guilty of those charges? It were absurd to sop-
puse so. But she does return for that purpose,
despising the most splendid bribes to detain her abroaad.
Her owe words are—" A coon Nil is
Itr.Trall THAN RIC/ISS : roa I nRtID NOT reveal. v ;

HUT I LOATH TIMPI/01:011, AMD I THINK DIATII Pal-
FSIABLE TO SHAWL" In this spirit of heroism, which
conscious innocence alone could inspire, did our truly
magnanimous Queen land on the British shore ; and
it motet be the prayer of every Englishman's heart, who
does dot consider devotion to the present Ministers as
a tut a loyalty, that God may, a second time, send
Err a happy deliverance from the snares and plots of
her enemies. She has entitled herself to the everlasting
gratitude and affection of her subjects; and Omagh I
will yield to no man in loyal attachment to his Ma-
jesty's Person and Government, I will ever be forward
in rendering to the Queen of England the dutiful
homage, which her rank and conduct, her virtues and
her misforteinniCaqually claim.
I am, Sir, your very obedient Servant.
HENRY PROTHEROR.

SMOCK. Yo MORDZIL—On Wednesday last was COOS-
milted to Pisherton Owl, John Asher, charged on an
inquest holden by Mr. Clare, coroner, with wilfully
murdering Patrick httKey, at the Bull Inn, in War-
minster, on Sunday afternoon, the 27th ult. The per-
san charged with the murder is an old decrepid man,
'Tweeds of 74 years of age, who travellini about the
Lountry vending nostrums, and the cause of the horrid
deed appears to have been jealousy. Asher, it seems,
had for some time.eohabited with a woman of Wiltno,
nailed Sarah Lewitt with this woman the deceased,
who also travelled the canntry with table-cloihs, bad
latterly formed an acquaintance, by freque*tly meeting
her at different houses of resort for people of their env.
ploronst. On Sunday afternoon the old man, under-1
standing that thewonsen and the deceased were sitting
together' on a bench in the back-yard of thepublic-
house where they 'edged, armed himself with an old
cervittg knife, which he sharpened fur his horrid pur-
pose, aid .withoit speaking a word, indicted three
ruortakatahe on the object of his fury. M'Key Isar 11
geistsitd until between eleven end twelve o'clock on
Monday, and then ezpited. It is understood that the
d•cfaxed has left a widow and ten children at Neirry;
it the north of Ireland.