The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-07-27 00:00:00

THE QUEEN.
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" Brave, brave, by Heavens—she deserves a Crown "'
"AU that had beets intended towards Yew blejest was
keesesse, condoler. feeling, and benevolence."—Mr. CA -
Wino's Seneca, Juse 7, PA2U.
" We are governed by a set of drivellers. those conduct
takes away all dignity from distress. and makes even ca-
lenity Mit uloss.**--ktir R. ST s s Ls.

LITER XI?.
TO THE EIHTOK OF THE STATESMAN.

Saw,--le is refreshing to turn our contemplation for
a moment from the dull and desolating scenes, which
mark, I trust, the last struggles of virtual representa-
tion, in this unfuitunate country, to the exhilirating
prospect of freedom, which so auspiciously dawns on
the hitherto enslaved inhabitants of South America,
of Spain, and of Naples ; which must soon enable
them to regard our superannuated and inquisitorial
proceedings with mixed sensations of pity, contempt,
and abhorrence, intermingled, no doubt, with a due
proportion of thanksgivings, that they are not, like
France, placed too close to the mouth of that notori-
ass den, from which have long issued, as from a re-
servoir, those overwhelming streams of pollution that
have hitherto nipped in the bud the nascent liberties
of those surrounding nations which have the misfor-
tune to be geographically or politically within the
range of their destructive influence. It is to their
distance from the boroughuwngcring oligarchy of
Eogiand, and to the diminished resources of that oli-
garchy, more than to any other circumstances, that
South America, Spain, Naples, and other nations in
succession (for the progress of freedom, or its march, as
our great fundamental statesman, in his half English
half foreign idiom, would call it, is not to be imped-
ed, by cabinet calculation, whatever ;nay be thought
by Mr. Canning,) will owe that unmolested career of
happiness and of glory which await them, and which,
in their turn, if we du not awake sooner, will act up-
on ourselves. When priests and soldiers lead the
van of freedom, the age is already enlightened ; and,
it is of little consequence, in the sum of things, whe-
ther oligarchs and other despots, display their valour
by the persecution of an unprotected woman, or go to
sleep, and leave the world to its own guidance. But
it is of great consequence to the character of a nation
as oral! as to its self-esteem, not only that a woman,
thus persecuted, should not be left unprotected ; but
that she should have powerful and efficient support.
This support the Queen of England will assuredly
have, to an extent of which her base calumniators and
persecutors were probably little aware, at the com-
mencement of their proceedings, and to their utter
discomfiture. disgrace, and confusion. She will be
supported by the people universally, because they be-
lieve her to be innocent, and because they know her
to be oppressed. A few hundred corruptionists in the
opposite scale are not worthy of :consideration. She

will be supported by them, because, as I hare already
repeatedly demonstrated, her cause is also that of the
King, and every one of themselves. She will be sup-
ported by them, from those feelings of just indigna-
tion, which glaring acts of tyranny and injustice never
Gil to excite in well constituted minds. Upon all
t►ese grounds, her Majesty may rely upon a daily and
hourly increase, both in the number and the seal of
her supporters, throughont England, throughout
Europe, throughout the world, in the exact proportion
In which her wrongs are accumulated, and made
known. It is in rain that some parisites, in either
" Chamber," by foul and insidious accusations,
amounting to downrik ht abase, endeavour to prejudice
their common canoe, by attempting to disunite the
queen and the people. They will not succeed. Are
the people, do they think, to be deterred from doing
their duly to themselves, and to their Queen, lest their
efforts should intimidate Ministers and the "Cham-
bers," and bring them back to their senses ? Or du
Ministers and the " Chambers," think to intimidate
tke Queen and the people? If they really entertain
any each expectations, they will be egregiously dis-
appointed. Their bolt is now shot. Their most fe-
rutious looks and attitudes will no longer frighten
ordinary women, or even children. One virtual states-
men, in their virtual wisdom, would seem to forget
that there is such a thing as moral power in the
Universe. because none of it lays with themselves.
They koow that the physical force of the nation is in
their hands. But they ought to be warned, if they
do not know, that, by the moral force, which is now
()Waled to them, this physical force, if they should
attempt to use it, may be turned against its employers,
and themselves and their machinations scattered like
chaff before the wind.

We have long heard of " pocket boroughs;" we
sow hear of pocket "edesobere." Lord Castlereagh
speaks, sad Lord Liverpool sets, although he has the
discretion not to speak, as if they severally carried a
" chamber" is each pocket. Nor is it at all uncommon,
upon great state occasions, like the present, to see
uppositlon members, peeping oat of ' the Ministerial
pockets. The public, indeed, however they may be
disgusted, are now never surprised at a phenomenon
of this kind. When they hear the Earl of Lauder-
dale argue for the rejection of the city petition,
against the secret and inquisitorial proceedings insti-
tuted by the Muse of Lords in the ease of her Majes-
ty, they recollect that his Lordship has got a brother
• viceroy in the Mediterranean, and sons and other re-
lations aspiring to promotion in the army and navy,
and they only consider his conduct as a matter of
tuurse, regretting merely that be is not rendered a
less efficient enemy by coming openly from the Minis-
terial ranks. The reception of this petition, was, I be-
beer, supported by the Doke of Hamilton alone. This,
for the sake of reference, I enumerate as the thir-
teenth mmecun of this series of persecution.
It is a wretched state of society in which prece-
dents are substituted for principles. Oar rulers, with
notable sagacity, have appointed a Committee (this is
the fourteenth measure of the last series of primes-
ties) to search for precedents relative to the giving of
lists of witnesses is eases of attainder. bills of pains
aad penalties, sad impeeeluseat ; as if they themselves
believed, or thanght they meld persuade others. that
preeedent could eassonale wrong ; or as if Parlia-
ment had a tight to establish or to Ilellow precedents.
obviously wentrary Co the knows solos of
,eternal jus-
tice. The oblests of this hypocritical pore& are to
bewilder mai nakisni the mind. Her Majesty's per.