The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-06-15 00:00:00

THE QUEEN.
Rrsee. brave. by ilea-wens—she de+ertes a Crown !"

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NTATESMAN.
LF.171.11 111.

Sta—lf. as has been said by an ancient author, to
a great man struggling with adversity be a sight
tv.‘t thy ut the gods, how s..ueh must they be gratititil
it:.• seeing a host of powerful persecutors outwitted,
dtscvmfitted, 2.1 d disgraced by the heroism of an untro-
t,rted woman, aided by the intecritv of a sin:fitAl-
dern.an ; anti their amehinations of fifteen vears, at
.one Wow, levelled with the dust ? No wonder they
Are sure. Their disappuintment and mortification
u.u•t be great in proportion as they have been Ulnae-
.,c,nueti to such sii nal defeats. The decisire, judi-
cious. energetic, and able continet of her Majesty
vs hate done honour to any hero of ancient or mo-
dern times. " I will receive propositions," said she.
" Cons tie' King of England only in London." '1 lie
magnanimity of this determination c .uld only be
equalled by its wisdom. The single step of promptly
rossiss.; the Chiming gave her Majesty that isle, ided
askantage over her base perseentors, which is likely •
ssetersisitse the fate of the negotiation. This is what •
has Leen insolently characterised by Ministers as an
at tot great indiscretion ; and even by the principal
Why adviser of her 3lajesty, as a measure M not of .
..s,u,e wisdom." Those negotiators, indeed, hail her
Majesty adopted the unadvised resolution of remain-
iut the Continent, wood.' have fern able to
-ts•luct the ; roceediuAs in their own discreet man-
r.. r, without the unofficial. irregular interference
of Mr. Alderman Woeil, ur the people of Elm-
land; and the Queen being hound hand and foot,
ti.ey could at their leisure have brought the mat-
tar to an issue very tassels to their own satisfaction.
Balled, however, in their projects, and not daring to
✓ ii directly at her Majesty, our rirtmell statesmen
lance magnaniusously fallen foul of Mr. Alderman
1: Loci, his lips being, for the present, necessarily
sealed ; and the principal official defender of her Ma-
jesty has, wi,h siwil r heroism anti moderation, fallen
Cc! of the press. Now what is the real state of the
ease? If her Majesty, who, excepting in mere mat-
ters of special pleading, or Parliamentary tactics,
lutist i.e drained to be by far her own best counsellor,
I:ad not come promptly to England, it is very possible
that snub stra'ageths might have been put in practice'
tha• si,e would not have been able to come at all; and
if she had been prevented irons routing to England, is
it tout " at clear as the ants at noon-duty" that she could
leer negotiated at 311, but must have tamely consented I
to teceive any terms which Ministers, in their graviton.:
to.ticcets•ion, might have been pleased to dictate to
Ler ? This a mild hare been the rase, even if her
klajosty could hare bad a choice ; if she could have,'
in 'dormer, at all c,.tssented to enter upon negotiations,
wit?-aut the preliminary acknowledgment of all her
✓i,:.o:t•. It was her Majesty, then, who had no option.
• , uuld not hare ronswnted at all to enter upon such
a regociation wits t a tacit aeknowletigment of
; and without instantaneously returning to Kng-
lAr.J, she must have consented to negociate. This
,'0•11, theorise*. was not only prudent and discreet, bat
1..1% " absolutely nisei :" nay, having regard to the
no less than the dignity of the Queen, it VW/
1; prrative. For the " indiscretion" of the iTorthy
Ai:Lerman, then, in aiding her Majesty to carry this
Ise, nisei anti magnani 111111 l s resointion into effect, the
a-h world, with a very few exceptions, justice,
r•Jrah, decorum, civilization themselves, ore hint in-
t' .shle obligations. Away, then, with this base hy-
po Mica!, abominable rant of" weak," " designing,"
atal " wicked" advisers. It certainly conies with a
v•-y ill grace from the weakest, the most designing,
and certainly nut the least wicked men, that ever dis-
graced the councils, or misdirected the energies of a
great nation. The conduct of Mr. Altlertnan Wood
was certainly very mischievous in presuming, in such
a Delicate case, to disregard the prescriptive right of
Ministers to the exclusive "exercise of a sound dis-
cretion." It was exceedingly wicked in the Worthy
Alderman, in these times, in which chivalry is in
such abominable disrepute, to have at all shied any
f.tntale, in the deserted and persecuted condition of
th- Queen. It was a gross said unpardonable
insult to so many of those with whom, in a certain
assembly, 11., almost daily congregates. But it was
still more atrocious in him, to have accompanied
her Ma.,esty in open day light, anti through the
principal streets, of the principal towns, whfcli lay on
t:seir road to the capital. It was exercising 'any thing
but a " sound diseretion," nut to have advised her
Majesty, lalsouring as slot was under a sentence of per-
petual exile, to travel by night, and to keep in the
bye-ways, in order that the people might not be tempted
to such glaring acts of contumaciousness towards Mi-
nisters, as welernuing her Majesty by load and inees-
cessant plaudits to her own kingdom, which, by evil-
minded persons, might be interpreted into disapproba-
tion of her twrseentors. By the well-known inge-
nuity of the Attorney and Solicitor (knees!, I ant not
sure that this piece of audacity might not be brought
under 10f130 of the clauses of the Act which en-
joins us to abstain front (a thing certainly very dif-
ficult) bringing Ministers into contempt. After the
tirad-s uttered a. 4 the House of Commons, it ought
not to surprise of if the Worthy Alderman, for daring
to act with such singular fidelity towards his pro-
scribed Mistrust, shoeid be thought, npott this plea,
entitled to the distinguished honour of a visitation
from one of the aforesaid piddle accusers. It is cer-
tain that, if be Fps not contributed to bring them into
additional contempt, he has at any rate contributed
to bring Ministers into a most " piteous plight," to
use the expressive language of Mr. ierney, a gentle-
man who, notwithstanding much collision with had
company, and a bad system, has no inconsiderable
portion of old. English blood shout him. It was nn-
thsubtedly ii,very week thing in the Alderman, and
deservedly brought down a vituperative laugh upon
•
. hiss from the 'Ministerial benches, to have deserved
for himself so unfashionable, and eonrequeutly so ri-
diculous an epithet in these times, as that of "en
Amami assn." That bosomy is, indeed, of a most
mintisiovons.spuility, width cannot be employed with-
wt bringing men proverbially of such " sound discre-
tion" as our present Illialotere into so piteous a plight.
To time andeubtally, be their system of government,
and to the Queen's raemiee generally, the Alierman's
conduit has been most embarrassing. But it is not

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