Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1820-10-03


sole us i'm the immediate benefit.
Why ihen-and this is the end we hum
bly, aim at-why should Queen Caroline
be prosecuted at all as long as she behaves
with propriety in this country From
her tature conduct your Majesty and the
nation will be enabled to Judge whether
the reports from Milan were wellsfound-
ed, or whether they were the offspring OF
curiosity and malice. If the former, the
nation will be at once supplied with
reason for inquiry, and deprived of much
of IFS sympathy if. on the other hand,
the Queens conduct bears the test, your
Majesty will have cause to rejsice that
you have saved her from sentence,
which must destroy in her shame, aud
exiinguish for ever The care of her repuia.
ton. For these reasons il would have
been, in our view, more consistent with
good morals, and with humanity if your
Majesty g Ministers, when they first heard
the sinister reports from Italy, instead of
offering the Q0cen large income 10 stay
abroad, had offered her an Increase Of
revenue to return home. Nor must il be
forgotten that your Majesty has already
the power Of iniiicting severe punish
ment. Your Majesty has the prerogative
(and II is one with which the House of
Commons refused to interlere) OF exclude
ing the Queen from your Palace aud your
Court. This must be severe, il might
be an unjust sentence on any woman
but on the Queen il bears with peculiar
weight. The splendour of her rank-the
attendant pomp of Majesty the pre-em
inence Of her station above all other fe-
males, are taken away and aDnulled at
once by the simple pleasure of your Ma.
je=ty All who look for Court prefrrment
II xssI,, Al a Ill
who are bound by office-desert the
Queen, without doubt or question on
her behaviour. Her OILY resource is Ia
unite few friends about her, and To live
without ostentaiion, without homage,
wiihom, authority. But, in addition To
ambitions OF the Kings regard-all wlio
iiv this, il she forfeited her reputation by
her cOndn I, all women who have a re-
gard for their own characters would in
stantly leave her she would receive no
favour IN this respect. Is your Majesty
not satisfied with all the interested
passions against herewith all the virtue
OF the ladies Of Queen CharIoite's CouIl
on the watch 10 take The alarm could
not your Majesty safely leave the Queen,
wltb The weight Of suspicion about her, in
the midst of the society OF England Can
there he more painful situation E? Can
there be more difficult trial : If the
habits of the Queen be in reality as de
grading as The Bill represents them, what
can she dread more than 10 live in the
moral atmosphere of England 3?
We have cndeavored to make IL apDa
rent 10 your majesty that the ACT by which
1t ~ proposed to degrade the Queen is moi
necessary 10 The Staie-tlIai, on the con-
trary, II will be, 10 use the words of The
House OF Commons, " disappointing 10
HE hopes OF Parliament, derogatory 10
the honour of the Crown, aud injurious
To the best interests Of the empire" We
also have attempted 10 shew that another
course Is open. In recommending your
Majesty 10 abstain from further proceed
lngs, we give no opinion on the merits of
the case. We do moi ask your Majesty 10
relract any opinion you have formed we
merely ask your Majesty TO decline put
ting the Que - on he hard task of de.
lending herself against foreign rumours,
sprlnsinS up IN the course of six years,
aud nursed finio importance hy Com
mission sent from England for the
purpose.
Your Majesty, we know fall well, is loo
generous and 100 magnanmoms 10 put
any inclination OF your own in The balance
against The real welfare of your people
That welfare requires rposc. During
the last year the conflict of passions
brought our country 10 the verge of civil
war. A new subject is the only thing
wanting 10 renew those passions in more
dreadful form. May your Majesty mol
furnish the occasion Already the low
al bodies who address the Queen are call
ed Radicals; ;" those who accuse her are
styled prosecutors aud caiumniaiors."
BY single word your Majesty may dis.
pei the impending storm. We therefore
humbly pray your Majesty that YOU will
be pleased TO issue orders 10 proroyue the
Parliament, and thus put an end 60 all
proceedings at present pending against
the Queen.
And your Petitioners will ever pray, &c
New YORK, Sept. give sion the
press 10 announce The arrival Of the shin
Belfast, Captain Thompson, in 80 DAYS
from Liverpool. by this arrival the Edi-
tors of the Commercial Advertiser have
received London dates to The evening f
the 10Th OF August, Liverpool 10 the i7ln.
and LlOyd's list OF the 18th.
MEETING or PARLIAMENT.
A postscript 10 the London Courier of
The lllb, announces The meeting Of The
House OF Lords. The Lord Chancellor
took the Woolsack al half past o'clock.
Messrs. Brougham. Deuman and Lush
ing'on, were below the bar. examining
the arrangements which have been made
for the accommodation of the Witnesses,
&c.
Lord Liverpool moved addresses of
coincidence TO his majesty, and The duke
OF York, OF The occasion of the lamenied
death of her late royal higbness, theduch-
ess of York.
The duke of Lenster rose and stated.
that, in consideration of the present slate
OF the country, he tell it consistent with
his duty TO give the earliest possible init