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

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lion would have haunted her? Who
could have thought, that IL those d slant
Chimes, where her distracted brain had
sought oblivion, the demoniac malice of
her enemies would have followed Who
could have thought, that any human form
which hid an heart, would have sculked
alter the moiirner in her wanderines, to
note afid con every unconscious gesture
Who could have thought that such man
there was, who had drank at the pure
lonntain Of our British law who had
seen eternal justice 10 her sanctuary who
bad invoked The names Of Holt and Hard
wicke, and held high converse with those
mighty spirits. whom mercy hailed in
heaven as her representatives on earth
Yet such man there was. who on the
classic shores Of Como. even in the land
Of the immortal Roman where every stone
entombed an hero. and every scene was
redoleat of genius, forgot bis name, his
country. and his calling. to hoard each
lcoiuable and rabbie sIanders Oh sacred
shades OF our departed sages avert your
eyes from this unhallowed spectacle; the
lspolless cline is unsullied still; the ark
Iyet stands untainted in the temple, and
should unconsecraied hands assaiI il, there
lis lightning still, which would not slum-
Iber. No, no |; the Judgment seat of Brit
ish law is to be scared, not Cramfed TO !;
tit must be sought upon an eagles pinion,
and gazed at by an eagles eye there is a
radiant purity around il. TO blast the
glare Of grovelling speculation. His
tabor was in vain, sire. The people Of
England will not listen 10 Italian witness
es, nor ought they. Our queen has been,
before this, twice assaiied, and assailed on
the same charges. Adultery, nay, preg-
tuancy. was positively sworn to; one of
the ornaments of cur navy, capt. Mauby,
land one of the most glorious heroes who
lever gave naiiea ima.erlali. sii;;;;ss;;: CT
Marathon or old Thermopy iR--he who
Iplanted highlands red cross on the walls
Of Acre, and Showed Napoleon it was ID
lvincible, were the branded traitors To-
their sovereign's bed EngiisEmen, aud,
greater scandal, English ,vopaen. persons
Iof rank, aud birth, and education, we're
found TO depose 10 this internal charge
The royal mandate issued for enquiry
Lord Erskine, Lord Eilenborougb. man
who had handled accusations from BIS cra-
die, sal on The commission aud what as
The result? They found Derdicf Of per-
jury against her base Gccusersi The
livery child Tor whose pareniage she might
have shed her sacrei blood, was proved
beyond all possible deual, to have been
hut the adoption of her charity - We
are happy TO declare to your majesty our
perfect conviction, thai there is 10 fonn-
dation whatever for believing, 81 quote
the very words of the commissioners that
the child now with the princess, is The
child of Der royal highness, or that she
was delivered of any child in the year
1902 nor has any thing appeared 10 us,
which would warrant the belief that she
was pregnant IN that year, or at any other
period 'U'thin the compass of our inqisis
rles. Yet people OF rank, aud stauon,l
moving 10 the highest society ia England,
admitted even TO the sovereign's court.
actually volunteered their sworn altes-s
tation of this talsehood twenty years
have rolled over her sioce, and yet the
same foul charge OF adultery, sustained
not as before by the plausible iabricatleass
Of Enslishmen, but bolstered by the ha-
bitual invention of Italians, is sought to
be affixed TO The eUening of her life. in the
face Of generous and loyal people A
kind of sacramentai shipioad Ia packed
and assorted cargo Of human affidasits
has been consigned, il seems from italy TO
Westminster tiirly-three thousand
pounds Of the peoples money paid the,
pedlar who selected the articles, and with
this infected freight, which should have
performed quarantine before it vomited
its moral pesiiience amongstus, the Queen
of England is sought to be atlaioled Ii
cannot be, Sire: we have giyenmach. very,
much indeed, TO foreigners, but we will
not concede TO them the hard-earned prime
cipies of British justice. 1t is not to be
endured, that two acquittals should be
followed by third experiment; that when
the English testament has Jailed, an ffaE-
ians misSGfs kiss shall be resorted TO I;
that when people OF character here have
been discredited, others should be re-
cruited who have 10 character any where;
but above all it is intolerable, that de-
fenceless woman should pass her life ia
endless persecution, with one trial in swift
succession following another, 10 The hope,
perhaps that her noble heart which has
ldeGsd all proof should perish in the tor
lure of eternal accusation. Send back,
then, to Italy, those alien adyenturers
the land Of their birth, aud the habits Of
their lives, alike unfit them for an English
court of justice. There is no spark of