The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-07-18 00:00:00

claim, or clear and valicient grounds may be shown
for authorising a rsfusaL It is stated, on the same
good authority, that his MAJRIIITY, immediately on his
accession to the Throne, expressed his wish to render
this justice to the Quiets, and to tindieate his own
character in the important relation of Sovereign and
husband ; but that his advisers, who have shown
themsilvez in nowise averse to the cruelest mode of
effecting a divorce, sire:mm.ly resisted the Royal do-
sire for an open itiqury, well knowing the risk they
would incur of losing their places, should the allega-
tions on which they relied be proved false and ground-
less ; and rather than hazard the result of a trial on
their Administration and their beloved sinecures, they

would have granted her MAJISTY any pecuniary amount
she could have wished, to remain on the Continent,
whatever distresses might aMict the people of this
country from the unjn•t and extravagant waste of the
national resources. Her 1111 AJ MITT, however, by
her firmness and prompt rejection of their pecu-
niary offers, evinced that she was without apprehen-
sion of the consequences of an investigation into
her conduct, and that she was more solicitous for the
establishment of her innocence and honour than of
enjoying an iguominiona splendour, obtained by adding
to the buithene of an already too mach oppenbed and
impoverished people. It Is the victory herVasaser
bas already acquired over the prohibitory and corrupt
influence of selfish and time-serving partizans, which
has excited the enmity that seeks to effect her degrada-
tion by machinations that will not bear the light, and
by methods of procuring conviction hitherto unknown

TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS
LEOPOLD, PRINCE OF SAXII-00113111W.
fits---4 slide use of the freedom, as an honest
Rignehmen, to address your Royal Highness on the
14th of last mouth, regarding your waist of proper
feeling towards her Majesty the Queen. lam happy
to say, that the expression which I pre to my spon-
taneous feelings has met with the approbation of every
well-regulated heart ; and I am not without hops,
that it has operated in some measure nom peva--
llthottgh nut in the way precisely that your atonal**
was called to. lam induced to believe this from
tateusent made by Lord Castlereagh in the House

Commons, to the effect that your Royal Highness hasl
taken upon yourself the charge of the maintesaise
and education of the infant of her Royal Highnen t►e
Duchess of Kent ; and this was " landed to the skies,"
as a very great and a very generous act of your Royal
Highness, that you should, out of your own pocket, be
at t►is expense. 1 confess I see nothing more in this
than I witness every day of my life, in the tower classes,
w►o work hard for, and earn their Income. las 111
to be extremely sulTicions of these generous kind of
sets iu Princes, especially when so much is said about
them. I look upon them in general as pretty little
traps to catch a momentary applause from the vulgar ;
but they do not succeed very well in these days; for
these vulgar people happen to be furnished wit► suc►
excellent eyes, that they see a little further than is de-
sirable by the higher classes ; at the same time that
1 they admit your generosity, they inquire into year

to the practice of civilized judicature. justice, aud this instantly mills to their mind your ne-
tt appears, from the correspondence which passed glect and inattention, not only towards her Majesty.
between Lord Ltvraecom, in the name of the P111,14:11 but towards the memory of her deplored daughter.
ReGINT, and her M LUISTT whilst Palaces., of Watts, As a matter of feeling, the people of this country
in 1014. that the IiItOVNT and his Ministers were i will be shocked to learn, that yon have not ins-
aware of the Plummets intention to travel into Italy, bibed front the example of that high spirited Pria-
snit perhaps into Greece, in search of an agreeable re- eels any of her notions, and indeed acts, of gene-
sidence, previously to her leaving this country ; and rosity and humanity. She visited the fathers, and
that her Royal husband, by a written document, left mothers, and children, of poor people around Liam-
her entirely to her own discretion in visiting whatever mont ; she devised improvements in and about her
places she thought fit to resort to, and to select her residence, and paid her workmen liberally fur their
abode wherever she pleased tJ reside. It was even labour; but bow mean and narrow the boundaries
expressly mentioned in the agreement, upon the faith of your soul must appear compared with her's, when it
of which her Royal Highness consented to go abroad is known that your Royal Highness has actually made
" for souse yearst,•' that her apartments in Kensington a deduction of two shillings per day from that which
Palace should be preserved for her use, and that of she paid to these poor people ? How does this accord
her suite, in the same manner as she had occupied with that generosity which my Lord C. trumpets forth
them, including, it might he snpposed, the use so loud ? I will not say that it is a robbery of these poor
of the plate which the late KING presented to people, but I may venture to say, that itis not justice to
her Royal Highness. The Princess, of course, expect- the memory, the feelings, the *salons, and the wishes
ed that she should at least have one becoming residence of that amiable Princess, who " did good by stealth,
to return to, and little contemplated, we dare say, at and blushed to find it fame." Had it pleased Heaven
the time when Mr. CAN m.yo was cajoling her into al to have spared her to this day, hew would she have
reliance on the sincerity of the professions made to her i blushed at your neglect and want of feeling towards
by the very men who are now persecuting her, that her insulted and persecuted mother ! Here is scope
out only, would Kensington Palace be withheld, and the for just and generous actions, worthy of a Prince.
meanest and dirtiest quibbles be adopted to deprive her How noble it would be for your Itoyal Highness to say.
of her plate, but that she should be interdicted from its this simple Why—" The mother of my dear and la-
treading British ground by the heaviest threats of muted wife is accused of offences ; she is without a
punishment, though elevated to be the QUFEN of these! amoral friend and protector ; nay, be who should be
realms. If, as proved by the correspondence, the cots-) one is against her ; her accusers are also her jolter:
seat of the Niece ItestreT was fully given to 'Ter nothing but conscious innocence and fortitude trona
Royal Highness to % isit whatever country she pleases', ' Heaven itself could enable her to stand up against all
and fix her residence wherever she chose, with what this ! She must be innocent ; at least as a man, and
justice is her travelling from place to place made a her Son-in-law, I know it is my duke to believe ber so.
complaint against her Instead of leading the lat all events, until she be (if it can be possible) found
Roue life imputed to her "in various parts of Europe,- I guilty upon clear and gout/ evidence." What can
we find the deserted Princess performing the duties of induce your Royal Highness not to reason has, and
virtue and benevolence wherever she went. At every place not to act accordingly ? Is it because the King is a
she visited during her travels, her benevolence seems party in the question ? If so, I tell your Royal High-
to have been on the alert to seek and relieve her fellow 'less very frankly, that you degrade yourself as a man.
creatures. In fact, the period of her long exile has you forfeit your independence as • Prince, and you
been spent in privation- and exclusion to herself, and will sink in the estimation of that liberal and co-
in constant acts of liberality to others, her chief lightened people, from whose industry you extract
plpasure and employment having been to distribute i ..E50,000 per annum, without making a• y retorts, or
Islittey to the pour, to liberate slaves and prisoners fur showing any deference to pablic opinion, by extending
ADM, and to bestow benefactions upon orphans and your band to protect, or opening your heart to pity a
*blows. There arc virtues Which it may be criminal female exposed to every species of insult, degradation,
In the eyes of some persons to exercise ; but it will not and abuse, both in words and deeds. If your Royal
lb, adduced as a fault against this persecuted female, Highness read this, I dare say you will act the part of
who has proved herself so worthy of a Crown, by those a Prince mighty well ; you will doubtless clap your band
who esteem virtue and detest vice aud extravagance, to your sword; but set me advise your Royal Highness
that she has nut lavished her uteaus on courtly sycu- to clap your hand to your heart, and say, how is it here.
pbants, and spurned at the distresses and the claims that I have nut one impulse of nature in me to afford all
of humanity. )es, this for!orn, this calumniated the comfort, counseli, and protection, in my power to
Princess, who might have remained in the haunts of ,my suffering mother-in-law ? When you have drawn
haturious sloth, has voluntarily incurred toil and breath enough to answer this, you may draw your
trouble, and danger, to be the tuinister of relief to the sword, and make such use of it as virtue, honour, and
hopeless slave----she has sat amidst the ruins of cities ' justice, only shall point out.--I am, nay it please
sod nations which were onee great and prosperous your Royal Highness, your must bumble servant,
us ours; she has no donbt marked, and moralized' Leadua. July 17. IMO. I. K. H.
weer the CRAMS of their decline; she has seen the
desolation of Jerusalem, and sighed over the lonely
aneattusents of the mighty PALMYRA : whilst the
Princes of the earth were wallowing amidst corruption
sad licentiousness, thoughtless of the perishable na-
ture of all mortal grandeur, and deaf to the cries al
distress which the iron hand of their extortion and
power were exciting around thew. Which of the
Queens or England shall we compare to this perse-
cuted claimant of the British throne, whose just right
is now attempted to be set aside by a Bill of Pains
and Penalties, inconsistent with the practice of British
law, and at war with every established principle of
justice ?

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

BETTING AT AT TATTERSALL'S, JuLit tr.

The brig William and Matthew, Captain Evans,
from Loudon. was wrecked on the night of the 12th
instant, on Cape Negro; and what adds to the misfor-
tune is, that C. Winslow, Esq. the principal owner, in
his anxiety to reach the shore, was drowned, with one
of t►e seamen.
The following is an extract of a letter from the
Agent to Lloyd's, at Gibraltar. dated June Y6:----
" By the arrival of the United States' vessels of war,
Peacock and Shark, from Leghorn and Algiers, we learn
that information was given to them at Leghorn nineteen
days ago, by the American Consul, of as Algeria*
squadron being at sea, consisting of two sloops of war.
two brigs, one schooner, and one row-galley. and that
war had bee. declared by the Regency against Tuscany.
The Peacock and Shark went in consequence to Algiers,
and ascertained this information to be tree. bat could
get no tidings of the course the squadron took, although
they beard.] every vessel they met on their way down
►ere.
" It is tie opinion of the American Officers that the
operation's of this force are directed against Tanis. with
which State the Algerian are in hostility.
" I am mach iaclined, however, to think that their
plans are directed igainet t►e weakest of the Italian
Slates, and that we shall shortly ►an of rianierous
captures."

D0NC.407101 Si'. ',RUSS.
8 to 1 apt Lent Exeter's Athenian
10 to I Rest Arbutus. In ‘Veltor. d. Viet*
10 to 1 apt Mr. Loftus's Woodbiae
IS to I apt e. by Welton, d. Lisette
lOU to 6 apt Lord Pitswillimes b f. Ropoemis
DISRBY, 1001.
100 to 0 asst a by Election
100 to 6 apt c. by Walton or Orville, oat of Crumble •
100 to 5 asst Mr. Wilson's e, out of Cowslip
A HSTRACT Or BAST INDIA CONDISILCS —The alum-
rate value of goods (the prodnee-of the But ladies
and China) imported front the East Indies, was, la
1818, 8,693,0631.; in 1819, 7,832,9651.; and export-
ed, in 1818, 3,990,1001.; in 1819, 3,600,433/. '
The aggregate value of goods imported from China
was, in 1818,3,598,291 F.; in 1619, 4,256,9511. ; and
exported, in 1818, 862,4021.; is 1919, 791,9781.
Total value of India and China import., in 1818,
12.291,4541.; in 1919, 12,099,9161. g and *sputa, la
1818, 4,852,5121.; in 1819. 4,392.441/.
The total value of exports, from lima Britain to tho
Ent ladies and China, in 1618, 6,889,81t7/. ; in 1819,
2,953,8111.
THE FOOT OUARDII.-.../1 paper of this noothe
110111 fed
the following statement of the misundendinding re-
ported to have take. place in a portion of. the ?int
Regiment of Foot &karat :-.-
.• We eve bappy to find, from eintherity. that no real
ground existed for attributing Illesatiefoeties tp the llPlrstlto-
pewee of Foot awards. The tiresomeness Intl* gave rim
to the amplossaat moneys that have gem abroad *a this
saltjeet were simply as follows:—Phet of two amnposios,
thoesh perfostly prepared for the parade, did ant Maned on
seamen of a intsumeeption of the seder, eriefing from sons
of the mea having previously solo dm the roil was Se he
celled In the Borrea-reme. Nodiseeeteot wee menibensik •
and they afterwards toned oat with Cite greatest ohnerity
Iwhen ordered by the Adjutant."

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