Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1820-10-03

AH'e- w Hnt, tiCii1 ude Wy otoiiSuuruS
at finding that treasons against me had
been carried on and matured, PERFUMES
agaiost me bad been methodized and em-
bodied, a secret tribunal had been hell, a
trial Of my actions had taken place, and q
decision had been made upon these ace
tiens, without my having been informed
OF the Dature Of the charge, or Of the names
OF the witnesses And what words can
express the feelings excited by The fact
that this proceeding was founded Oh re-
quest made, and on evidence furnished, by
order Of the father of my child, aud my
natural as well as legal guardian and pro-
tector?
Notwithstanding, however, the unpre-
cedented conduct of that tribuuai-cons
iiuct which mas since undergone, even in
Parliament, severe and unanswered anis
madversions, and which has beer also
censured 10 minutes of the Privy Council
the secrecy of the pro-
|ceedings Of this tribunal--notwithsts
The strong temptation to the giving OF
false evidence against me before it--not-
withstandiag that there was 90 opportuni-
|ty afforded me Of rebutting that evidence
notwithstanding these circumst ances,
$50 decidedly favorable TO my enemies
even this secret tribunal acquitted me Of
all crime, aud thereby pronounced my
principal accusers to have been guilty Of
the grossest perjury. But it was nov
latter the trial was over) discovered that
the nature of the tribunal was such as TO
render false swearing before ii not legally
criminal And thus at the suggestion and
request Of your Majesty has been created,
to take cognizance of and try my conduct,
a tribunal competent TO administer oaths,
competent TO examine witnesses 90 oath,
competent TO Try, competent to acquit or
condemn, and competent, moreover, to
screen those who had sworn falsely against
me from suffering the pains and penalties
which the law awards TO wilful and corr
rupt perjury. Great as my indignation
naturally must have been al this shameful
evasion Of law and justice, that indigna-
ton was lost 10 pity for him who could
lower his princely piumes to the dust by
giving his countenance and favor TO the
most conspicuous of those abandoned and
notorious periurers.
Still there was one whose upright mind
nothing could warp, 10 whose breast in
Justice never could iud place. whose
lhans was always ready to gaise The nnr
fortunate, and TO rescue the oppressed.
While that good and gracious father and
Sovereign remained in the exercise Of his
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.iamented father was held
over me, / was safe. But the melan-
ciloly event that deprived the nation Of
the active exertions Of its virtuous King,
bereft me of friend and protector, aud Of
all hope OF future tranquility and safety.
10 calumniate your innocent wife was
now the shortest road 10 royal favor aud
10 betray her was TO lay the sure founda-
ZION OF boundless riches and titles of HON
or. Before claims like these, talent, vir-
tue, long services, your own personal
friendships, your Royal engagements,
promises, and pledges, written as well as
verbal, melted into air. Your Cabinet
was founded on this basis. You took to
yonr councils men, Of whose persons, as
we'll as principles you had invariably ex-
pressed the strongest dislike. The inter-
est of the nation, aud even your own feel.
ings, in all other respects, were sacrificed
to the qualification of your desire to ag-
gravate my suiferings, aud ensure my hui
initiation. You took to your councils aud
your bosom men whom you hated, whose
abandonment Of, and whose readiness TO
sacrifice me, were their only merits, and
whose power has been exercised 10 man
uer, and has been attended With conse-
Iquences, worthy of its origin. From this
|unprincipled aud unnatural union have
sprung the manifold evils which this ma
|tion has now TO endure, and which present
mass Of misery and degradation, ACCOM-
panied with acts of tyranny aud cruelty
rather than have seen which inflicted oa
his industrious, faithful, and brave people,
your Royal Father would have persisted
at the head of that people,
When to calumniate, revile, and betray
me, became the sure path to honor and
riches, it would have been strange indeed
if caIumniators, revilers, and traitors, had
not abounded. Your Court became much
less scene of polished manners and re-
fined intercourse than Of low intrigue and
scurrility. Spies, Bacchanalian tale-
bearers, and foul conspirators, swarmed in
those places which had before been the
resort Of sobriety, virtue aud honour To
enumerale all the various privations and
notifications which had to endure, all
the insults that were wautonly heaped
upon me, from the day of your elevation
to the Regency, to that Of my departure