Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1820-10-31
FONEIGN.
From tie LiverhooiAduertiser, dug. 10.
THE QUEENS LETTER TO THE KING.

THE QUEENS LETTER TO THE KING.
SIR-After the unparalleled and I'M
provoked persecution which during Sc
ries OF years, has been carried on against
me under the name and authority of your
majesty--and which persecution, instead
of being modified by time, time has rem
dered only more and more malignant and
unrelenting-it is not without a great
sacrifice of private feeling that | now,
even in the way Of remonstrance, bring
myselfto address this letter to your ma
jcsty. But bearing in mind, that royalty
rests on the basis Of public good that to
this paramount consideration all others
ought TO submit; and aware of the con-
sequences that may result from the pre-
sent unconstitutional, illegal, and hitherto
unheard of proceedings; with mind
thus impressed, | cannot refrain from
laying my grievous wrongs once more
before your majesty, in the hope that the
justice which your majesty may, by evil
minded counsellors, be still disposed TO
refuse to the claims of dutiful, faithful,
and injured wife, you may be induced to
yield to considerations connected with
the honor and dignity of your crown, the
stability of your throne, the tranquility
of your dominions, the happiness and
safety of your just and loyal people,
whose generous hearts revolt at oppres
sion and cruelty, and especially when
perpetrated by perversion and mock
cry of the laws.
"A sense of what is due to my character
and sex lorbids me to refer infinitely to
the real causes Of our domestic separa-
ton. or to the numerous unmerited in
suits offered me previously TO that pc
Rod: but, leaving to your majesty to re-
concile with the marriage VOW the act Of
driving, by such means, wife from be-
meath your roof, with an infant in her arms,
your majesty will permit me to remind
you, that that act was entirely your own;
that the separation, so far from being
sought for by me, was sentence pro-
nounced upon me, without any cause as
signed, other than that of your own in
clinations, which as your majesty was
pleased to allege, were not under your
control.
Not to have felt, with regard to my
self, chagrin at this decision of your ma
testy, would have argued great insensi-
bilty to the obligations of decorum not
TO have dropped tear in the face ofthat
beloved child, whose future sorrows were
then but too easy to foresee, would have
marked me as unworthy of the name of
mother; but not to have submitted to it
without repining, would have indicated
q consciousness of dement,, or want of
those feelings which belong to affronted
and insulted female honor.
The tranquil and comfortable socie-
sy" rendered to me by your majesty,
formed in my mind but poor compensa-
ton for the grief occasioned by consider
ing the wound given to public morals in
the fatal example produced by the indul-
gence of your majesty's inclinations -
more especially wheu l contemplated
the disappointment of the nation, who
had SO munihcently provided for our
union, who had fondly cherished such
pleasing hopes of happiness arising from
that union, and who had hailed it with
such affectionate and rapturous Joy.
Boz alas even tranquility and COM
fort were too much for me to enjoy
From the very threshold of your males
tvs mansion, the mother of your child
was pursued by spies, conspirators, and
traitors, employed, encouraged, and re-
warded to lay snares for the feet, and to
plot against the reputation and life, of
her whom your majesty had so recently
and SO solemnly vowed to honor, to love,
and to cherish.
In Withdrawing from the embraces of
my parents, in giving my hand to the son
OF George III. and the heir apparent to
the British throne, nothing less than a
voice from Heaven would have made me
fear injustice or wrong of any kind
What, then, was my establishment at
finding that treasons against me had been
carried on and matured, perjaries against
me had been methodized and embodied,
a secret tribunal had been held, trial of
my actions had taken place, and deci-
sion had been made upon those actions,
without my having been informed of the
nature OF the charge, or of the names of
the Witnesses? And what words can ex-
press the feelings excited by the fact,
that this proceeding was founded on a
request made, and on evidence furnish
ed by order of the father of my child,
and my natural as we'll as legal guardian
and protector!
Notwithstanding, however, the UMPIRE
cedented conduct of that tribunal-con-