Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1820-10-31

nizance of and try my conduct, tribunal
competent to administer oaths, compe.
tent to try, competent to acqait or con
denim, and competent, moreover, tc
screen those who had sworn falsely
against me from suffering the pains and
penalties, which the law awards to will
fal AMI corrupt perjury. Great as my
indignation naturally must have been al
this shameful evasion of law and justice
that indignation was lost in pity for him
who could lower his princely plumes to
the dust, by giving his countenance and
favor to the most conspicuous OF those
abandoned and notorious perjurers.
Still there was one whose upright mind
nothing could warp, in whose breast In
Justice never found place, whose hand
was always ready to raise the unfortu-
nate, and to rescue the oppressed
While that good and gracious father and
sovereign remained in the exercise ofhis
royal functions, his unoffending daugh-
ter-in-law had nothing to fear. AS long
as the protecting hand of your late ever
beloved, and ever-lamented father was
held over me, | was safe. But the me-
lanoholy event which deprived the nation
of the active cxertions Of its virtuous
King, bereft me of friend and protector,
and of all the hope of future tranquility
and safety. To caumniate your innocent
wife was now the shortest road to royal
favor; and to betray her was to lay the
sure foundation of boundlcss riches and
titles of honor. Before claims like these,
talent, virtue, long services, your own
personal friendships, your royal engage
ments, promises and pledges, written as
we'll as verbal, melted into air. Your
cabinet was founded ON this basis. You
took to your councils men, of whose per-
sons, as well as whose principles, you
had invariably expressed the strongest
dislike.
The interest of the nation, and even
your own feelings, in all other respects,
were sacrificed to the qualification OF
your desire to aggravatc my suherings,
and to insure my humiliation. You took
to your councils and your bosom men,
Wiioli Jcd hdtSNl, hiooC
of, and whose readiness to sacrifice me,
were their only merits, and whose power
has been exercised in a manner, and has
been attended with consequences, wor-
thy of its origin. From this unprincipled
ard unnatural union have sprung the
manifold evils, which the nation has TO
endure, and which present a mass of
misery and degradation, accompanied
with acts of tyranny and cruelty, rather
than have seen which inflicted on his in
dustrious, faithful, and brave people,
your royal father would have persisted at
the head of that people.
When to calumniate, revile, and be-
tray me, became the sure path to honor
and riches, it would have been strange
indeed if calumniators, revilers and trail
tors, had not abounded. Your court be-
came much less scene ofpollshed man.
ners and refined intercourse than of low
intrigue and scurrility. Spies, Baccha-
naian tale-bearers, and foul conspirators,
swarmed in those places which had be-
fore been the resort of sobriety, virtue,
and honor. To enumerate all the va
rious privations and notifications which
| had to endure, all the insults that were
wantonly heaped upon me, from the day
of your elevation to the Regency to tina,
Off my departure for the Continent, would
be to describe every species of personal
offence that can be offered to, and every
pain short of bodily violence that can be
inflicted on, any human being. Bereft
of parent, brother, and father-in- iaw, and
my husband for my deadliest foe; seeing
those who have promised me support,
bought by rewards to be amongst my en-
emies; restrained from accusing my foes
in the face ofthe world out ofregard for
the father of my child, and from a desire
to prevent her happiness from being dis
turbed; stunned from motives Of self
lshness by those who were my natural
associates; living in obscurity, while /
ought to have been the centre of all that
was splendid thus hunbled, I had one
consolation lefl-the love of my dear and
only child. To permit me to enjoy this
was to great an indulgence. To see my
daughter; to fold her in my arms; to
mingle my tears with hers; to receive
her cheering caresses, and to hear from
her lips assurances of never-ceasine
love: thus to be comforted, consoled, up.
held, and blessed, was too much to be al.
lowed me. Even on the slave mart, the
cries of !" Oh my mother, my mother p
"Oh !! my child, my child !" have pre-.
vented the separation of the victims Of
avarice. But your advisers, more inhu.
man than the slave-dealers, remorseless.