Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1820-11-07


than his Royalty, iuterposed his arm be-
tween innocence and punishment for
punishment il was, most deep aud griev-
Gus, To meet discountenance from all yoIfr
family, and see the fame which had defed
all proof, made the capricious sport of hint
and insinuation; while that father lived,
she still had some protection even In his
night OF life there was sanctity about
him which awed the daring Of the high-ay
slauderer; bis honest, open, genuine Eng
iish look, would have silenced whole
banditti Of Italians. Your father acted
upon the principles he protested; he was
not more revereBced as king Than he
was beloved and respected as man: and
no doubt be fell bow poignant It must have
been TO be denounced as criminal, with
out crime, and treated as widow in her
husbands lifetime. But death was busy
with her best protectors, and the venerable
form is lifeless now, which would have
shielded daughter and Brunswick.
He would haze warned the Milan paDders
to beware The honor of his ancient house /;
he would have told them, HAT prying,
pettifogsing, purchased inquisition upon
the unconscious privacy Of a royal female,
was not in the spirit OF the English char
acter; he would have disdained the petty.
larceny of any diplomatic pick pochet ;
and he would have told the whole rabble
of Italian informers and swindl;Dg anI-
bassadors, that bis daughters existence
should not become perpetual proscrip-
tion; that she was doabiy allied TO him
by birth and marriage; and that those
who exacled all wife's obedience, should
have previously procured for her nus
bands counlenance. God reward him
There is not father OF an husband in the
land, whose heart does not at this m0a,eni
make pilgrimage 10 his monument.
Thus having escaped from Two conspi-
racies equally affecting her l.enas AMI lie
finding all CANCELLATION hopeless, bereft by
death Of every natural protector. and
fearing perhaps that practice might make
perjury consistent, she Reluctantly deter
mined upon leaving England. One pans
alone embittered her departure-her dar-
ling, aud. 10 despite OF all discouutenance,
her duteous child chung round her heart
with natural tenaciiy- Parents who love,
and feel that very love compelling sepa-
ration, alone Can feed for her. Yet how
could she subject that devoted child TO
the humiliation Of her mothers misery I
How reduce her TO The sad alternative Of
selecting between separated parents! She
chose the generous, the noble sacrifice
selfbanished, The world was before her
one grateful sigh for England--one lear
the last, last tear upon her daughters
head--and she departed.
oh Sire. imagine her at that departure!
How changed how fallen, since few
short years before, she touched the shores
Of EnsIandl The day bean, fell not 90
happier creature--creatiou caught new
colors from her presence, joy sounded lis
timbrel as shS passed, and the flowers OF
birth, OF beauty, and OF chivalry, bowed
down before her. BIT now, alone, an
orphan and widow her gallant brother
in his shroud Of glory: no arm to shield,
no tongue 10 advocate, no friend TO follow
an o'erclouded fortune, branded, degraded.
desolate, she fling herself once more up
on the wave, to her less tickle than hus-
bands promises | do not wonder that
she has now to pass through severer
ordeal, because impuniiy gives persscu-
ton confidence. But | marvel indeed
much, that then, after the agony Of an
exparte trial, aud the triumph Of com
plete though lingering excuipaiion, the
natural spirit of English justice did not
stand embodied between her and the shore,
aud bear her indignant TO your capital.
The people, the peerase, the preiacy,
should have sprung into unanimous pro.
cession; all that was noble, or powerful,
or consecrated in the land, should have
borne her to the palace gate, and demand
ed Why their Queen presented TO their
eye this gross anomaly! Why her aaoint-
ed brow should bow down in the dust,
when British verdict had pronounced
her innocence Why she was refused that
conineal restitution, which her humblest
subject had right to claim, Why the
annals Of their time should be disgraced,
and The morals of their nation endure the
faint Of this terrific precedent: and why
it was that after their countless sacrifices
for your royal house, they should be
cursed with this pegeanfry Of royal HUI
initiation! Had they so acted, the dire
afflic,ion of this day might have been
spared us. We should not have seen the
filthy sewers of Italy disgorge living
Ieprosy upon our throne; aud slaves and
spies, imported from creedless brothel,
land TO attain, the sacred Majesty of Eng
land! But who. alas! will succor the
unfortunate The cloud Of your dis
pleasure was upon her, and the gay. gilt