The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-08-05 00:00:00

cision. On a judicial proceeding
own Judgment' on a la,
donee in the judgment of tr.
the House of Peers general)
In the men who hare sd.
forward this sorrowful bush
brneght down the informs
same men who examined
strling themselves gear
who are shout to decide
and their own characters,
charact..r of judges. There
the prejudging of the case.
of the litnrge—the (astir
honours, even before any
of a list of witneeees,
charges ;—in abort, there
nemlier which show an
her power-ftl and almost
What has been the
universal as the air, that the
an!, not to be tried ; a feeling
are none hilt must applaud
provoked it tot long the results.
that if the Queen is sequitur
far her triumph mar rise,
mar sink: if she is condemned,
indignation will pervade the pee
will lose, in the first year of •
of your inheritance—the he
We cannot forget that
given for the degradation
bill, that to mark this mores.
made to precede the divorce . con'
than we are of the right of Parliament to alter the ette-
cession of the Crown : none respect more than we do
the Art of Settlement, which took away the Crown
from the hereditary successors, and fare it to the
House of Brunswick. But we are not for liner awning
a royal head without necessity : we see much to slam
'us in the example--nothing to console us in the imme-
diate bene6'.
Why then—and this Is the end we humbly aim at
—why rhould Queen Caroline be prosecuted at all its
lone as she behaves with propriety in this country ?•
From her future conduct your Majesty and the nation
Kill be enabled to judge whether the reports from
Milan were well-foundei, or whether they were the
offspring of curiosity and malice. If the former, the
nation will be at once supplied with a mason for in-
qniey, and deprived of much of its sympathy ; if, on
the other hand, the Queen's conduct bears the test,
your Majesty will have cause to rejoice that von have
'seed bee from humiliation, and preserved her front
sentence which must destroy its hoe 411 Away, ant
extintraisb for ever the care of her caution. Fug
these reasons it would have been in 'our view more
consistent with good morals and olds humanity if
your Majesty's minister, when they first heard else
sinister reports from Italy, instead of ofering the
Queen a large Income to stay abroad, had WI-ere I
her an increase of revenue to returu home. Nur
must it be forgotten that your Majesty has already
tier power of indicting a severe punishment. Your
Majesty has the prerogative (and it is one with which
the House of Commons refused to interfere) of •a-
clmling the Queen from your palace and your court.
This most be a severe, it might be an unjust, +(Wiliest
on any woman: but on the Queen it bears with pe-
culiar weight. The splendour of her rank, the at.
tendant pomp of Majesty, the pre-eutineace of her station
above all other females, are taken away and annulled at
once by the simple pleasure of your Majesty. All who
look for Court-preferment, all who are aurbitoua
of the King's regard—all who fly to the side of power
—all who are bound by nice---desert the Queen,
without a doubt or a question on her behaviour. Her
only resource is to unite a few friends about her, and
to lire without ostentation, without homage, without
authority. But, in addition to this, if she forfeited
her reputation by her conduct. all women who have a
regard for their own characters would instantly leave
her ; she would receive nu favour in this respect. Is
your Majesty not satisfied? With all the interested
passions against her—with all the virtue of the ladies of
Queen Charlotte's Court on the watch to take alarm--
conld not your Majesty safely leave the Queen, with the
'veleta of suspicion about her, in the midst of the so-
ciety of England ? Can there ben More painful situ-
ation ? Can there be a more dillicnlt trial ? If the
habits of the Queen be In reality as degrading as the
bill represents them, what can she dread more than to
live in the moral atmosphere of England?
We have endeavoured to make it Appear so your Ma.
iritv, that the act by which it is propnseit to de—grade the
Queen is not necessary to the State—that, on the MR-
trAry, it will be, to use the words of the House of Corm
mons, "disappointing to the hopes of Parliament, dero-
eatery to the honour of the Crown, and injerions to the
best interests of the empire." We also have attempted
to show that another course is open. In recommending
your Majesty to abstain front farther priweeilings, we
give no opinion on the merits of the ease. We do nut
ask your Majesty to retract any opinion you have form-
ed: we merely ask your Majesty to decline potting the
Queen on the herd task of defeuding herself against
foreign rumours, springing up in the course of six yes"
and nursed into importance by a commission seat from
England for the purpose.
Your Majesty, we know full well. is too generals and
too maenaninsons to pot any laelieation of your owe la
the balance aoinat the real welfare of veer people.
the last year the
civil war. A new subject is the only Huai( wanting_ to
eonsidicwteolffarepasTounisreibrorenrist .oarpeeoritlingtry.to the verge el
renew those passions in a inure dreadful form. Shy
poor Majesty not furnish the oreasion! Already die
be•ties who ed,lress the Queen ire called "Rail-
east" those who Wass lier are styled "preseteters sad
raisminiators." By a single word year llarsty map
dispel thir• imprisdinp storm. We, therefore, blowy
pray WOW Majesty that you will be pleased to lame
orders to prorogue the Parliament, and tiles pat as and
to all proceedings at present penitinkapaleat tha (berg.
And your petitioners will ever pray. La.
• taw* in Ores boobies viol vat fare, t id aids eat pa.
annum ; leo quid est lejustius Ciesee. See also Faber.

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aw they often Ist, from motel-
of others. And in whom 4.9
acridly place their tronli.lence
tlyi,erl your Majesty to bring
businees—lo the same men who
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led it in a secret committee,
rod juror.—in the same men
e on the conduct of the Queen, .
firs, for a third time, in the
'here are other cite-matinee% 2
:Sae, by keying the Queen on,t
sting her out from all royal
y charge will marle..ethe refusal
and of a specification of the .
re are circumstances withont
unfair bias is the mind. of
t resistless ji:dges.
consequence ? A feeling ,as
t the Quests is to he aispremett
reling so generous, that there
tad its spirit. To those who
results. Those resells must be,
quitted, no man can say how
se, or how low the nimsarzhy
ndemned, a general feeling of .
e the people, and your iiije.o7-
:sr of your reign, the best part
! hearts of your subject..
at an example is about to he
on of a Queen. We ere ;n the i.
ore strongly, thedegradation is
oree ; none pre more CORTibet"i

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