The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-07-18 00:00:00

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CAROLINE R.

TO Tilt WOO'S MOST ['MELLO:VT lI•JISTY.

Tug PROTEST AND REMONSTRANCE or CAROLINE, QUEEN
OF MIRA', BRITAIN AND IRELAND.
Youmpujesty having been pleased to refer to your
Privy it the Queen's Memorial, claiming as of right
to celebrate the ceremony of her Coronation on the 19th
day of July, being the day appointed for the celebration
of your Majesty's royal Coronation, and Lord Viscount
Sidmouth, one of your Majesty's Principal Secretaries
of State, having communicated to the Queen the jndip
ment pronouncing against her Majesty's Claim; in order
to preserve her just rights, and those of her successors,
and to prevent the said Minute being in after tithes re.
(erred to as deiving validity from her Majesty's sup-
posed actriescence in the determination therein expressed,
the Queen feels it to be her bounden duty to enter her
most deliberate and solemn Protest against the said de-
termination; and to affirm and maintain, that by the
laws, usages, and customs of this realm,•frour time im-
memorial, the Queen-Consort ought of right ttfbe crown-
ed at the same time with the King's Majesty.
In support of this claim of right, her Majesty's Law
Officees'have proved before the said Council, from the
most ancient and authentic records, that Queen's Con-
, sort of this Realm, have, from time immemorial, parti-
cipated in the ceremony of the Coronation with their
Royal husbands. The few exceptions that occur demon-
strate, from the peculiar circumstances in which they
origicated, the right itself was never questioned though
the exercise of it was from necessity suspended, or
from motives of policy declined.
Her Majesty has been taught to believe that the most
valuable laws of this country depend upon, and derive
their authority from, custom ; that your Majesty's
royal prerogatives stand upon the same basis : the autho-
rity of ancient usage cannot therefore be rejected with-
out shaking that foundation upon which the most
important rights and institutions of the country depend.
Your Majesty's Council, however, without controvert-
ing any of the facts or reasons upon which the claim
made en the part of her Majesty has been supported,
have expressed a judgment in opposition to the exist-
ence of such right. But the Queen can place no con-
fidence in that judgment, when she recollects that the
principal individuals by whom it has been pronounced
were formerly her successful defendants; that their opi-
nions have waved with their interest, and that they
have since become the most active and powerful of her
persecutors; still less can she confide in it, when her
Majesty calls to mind that the leading members of that
council, when in the service of your Majesty's Royal
Father, reported in the most solemn form, that docu-
ments reflecting upon her Majesty were satisfactorily
disproved as to the most important parts, and that the
remainder was undeserving of credit. Under this de-
dared conviction, they strongly recommended to your
Majesty's Royal Father to bestow his favour upon the
Queen, then Princess of Wales, though in opposition to
your Majesty's declared wishes. But when your Ma-
6jeety had saum.d the kingly power, these same advi-
..
sem In anodier ;minute of Council, recanted their for-
mer judgment, and referred to and adopted these very
same documents as a justification of one of your Ma-
jesty's harshest measures towards the Queen—the se-
paration of her Majesty from her affectionate and only
child.

The Queen, like your Majesty, descended from a long
race of Kings, was the daughter of a sovereign house,
connected by the ties of blood with the most illustrious
Families in Europe, and her not unecjual alliance with
your Majedy, was formed in full cbnldence that the
faith of the King and the people was equally pledged
to secure to her all those honours and rights which had
been enjoyed by her Royal predecessors.
In that alliance her Majesty believed that she ex•
changed the protection of her family for that of a Royal
Husband and of a free and noble-minded nation. From
your Majesty the Queen has experienced only the
bitter disappointment of every hope she had indulged.
In the attachment of the people she has found that
powerful and decided protection which has ever been
her steady support and her unfailing consolation.—
Submission from a subject to injuries of a private na-
tnre may be matter of expedience—from a wife it may
be matter of necessity—but it never can be the duty of
a Queen to acquiesce in the infringement of those rights
which belong to her constitutional character.
The Queen does therefore repeat her most solemn and
deliberate protest against the decision of the said Coen-
ca, considering it only as the sequel of that course of!
persecution under which her Majesty has so long and so
severely suffered, and which decision, if it is to furnish
a precedent for future times, ran have no other aro
than to fortify oppression with the forms of law, and to
give to injustice the sanction of authority. The protec-
tion of the subject, from the highest to the lowest, is not
only time true, but the only legitimate object of all
power ; and on act of power can be legitimate which is
not founded on those principles of eternal justice, with.
out which law is but the mask of tyranny, and power
the instrument of despotism.
Queen's lloose,July 17.

I I .1. NK KING'S VISIT TO SCOTLAND.-It is understood
that the King intends passing the whole of August
and part of September in Ireland; and on Thursday
evening last the Lord President intimated to the Edin•
burgh Vobinteera, who are at present on permanent
duty, that he had the highest authority for stating that
it was his Majesty's gracious intention to visit that city
is September. We also understand that the families
at present residing at Holyrood Palace have received
intimation to remove, as the workmen are to begin im-
mediately to put the Abbey in a proper state of repair
for the reception of his Majesty.
Yesterday a ballot was taken at the Bast India
House, for the purpose of determining the following
question, via —" That Sir James Home, Bart., late of
the Madras Civil Establishment, be permitted to re-
turn to the Service, under the provisions of the Act of
the 33d (leo. 111. cap. 52, sec. 70, with the rank
which lie held when he quitted Madras, agreeably to
the Act of 53d lies. 111. cap. 155, sec. 115."—At six
o'clock the glasses were closed, and delivered to the
scrutineers, who reported the question to be carried
in the affirmative.