Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1820-10-03
INe Queens letter to DE KING.


The Queen's Letter to the King.
SIN After the unparalleled and unpro-
voked persecution which, during a series of
years, has been carried on against me under
the name and authority OF your Majesty
and which persecution, instead of being mo.
lifted by time, time has rendered only more
and more malignant and unrelentng-it is
not without great sacrifice of private feel
ing, that now, even In the way Of remon-
STRANGE, bring myself 10 address this letter
to your majesty. 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
consequences that may result from the pre-
sent unconstitutional, illegal, and hitherto
unbeard of proceedings: with a mind thus
impressed, cannot refrain from laying my
grievous wrongs once more before your ma
jesty, in the hope that the justice which
your majesty may, by evi-minded counsel
iers, be still disposed to refuse to the claims
OF dutitul, 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 COMMONS, the happiness
and safety of your just and loyal people,
whuse generous hearts revolt at oppression
and cruelty, and especially when perpetrated
by Perversion and a mockery Of the laws.
A sense of what is due to my character and
sex forbids me to refer infinitely to the real
causes OF our domestic separation, or to the
numerous unmerited insults offered me pre-
viousIy TO that period but, leaving TO your
majesty to reconcile with the marriage vow,
the act of driving, by such means, wife
from beneath your root, with an infant i'll her
arms, your majesty will permit me 10 re-
mind you, that that act was entirely your
own that the separation, so far from being
sought Tor by me, was sentence pronounced
upon me, without any cause assigned, other
than that of your own inclinations, 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 majesty,
would have argued great insensibility TO The
obligations of decorum; not to have drop,
ped tear in the face of that beloved child
whose future sorrows we're then but too easy
TO foresee, would have marked me as unworthy
of the name of mother; but not TO have submit
ted to it without repining, would have indi-
Gated consciousness of demerit, or a want OF
those feelings which belong to affronted and
iusulted female honor.
The tranquil and comfortable society,""
rendered to me by your majesty, formed in
my mind, but poor compensation Tor tile
grief occasioned by considering the wound
given to public mo, ais, the fatal example pro-
duced by the indulgence of your majesty's
inclinations more especially when 1 contem-
plated the disappointment OF the nation, who
had so munificently provided for our union,
who had tordly cherished such pleasing hopes
OF happiness arising fro1 that uiion, and
who had hailed it with such affectionate and
rapturous Joy.
But, alas /! even tranquility and csmfort
were too much for me to enjoy. From the
very threshold of your majesty's mansion the
mother OF your child was pursued by spies,
conspirsters and traitors, employed, encou
ragged, and rewarded to lay snares for the
feet, and to plot against the reputation and
life, oil her whom your majesty had SO re-
Gently 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 the Third and the heir apparent to the
British throae, nothing less than 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 OH and matured, perju-
ries against me had been methodized and
embodied, secret tribunal had been held, a
trial OF my actions had taken place, and de.
cision had been made upon those &C tons,
without my having been informed of the ma
ture Of the charge, or Of the names Of the wit
nesses' And what words can express the
feelings excited by the fac', that this proceed
ing was founded on request made, and on
evidence furnished, by order of the father of
my child, and my natural as well as legal
guardian and PROTECTOR
Notwithstanding, however, the unprece-
dented conduct of that tribunal-conduct
which has since undergone, even in Psria-
ment, severe and unaHswerable Rnimadversi.
ons, and which has been also censured in the
minutes of the Privy Coancil-notwithstand-
ing the secrecy Of the proceedings Of this tri-
bunal--notwiIhstsnding The strong template
on to the giving OF false evidence against me
before it-~notwithstanding that there was no
opportunity afforded me of rebutting that
evidence--notwithstand all these clrcum
stances so decidedly favorable to my enemies
even this secret tribunal acquitted me Of
all crime, and thereby pronounced my princi
pal accusers to have been guilty of the gross.
est perjury. But It was now, after the trial
was over, discovered that the nature OF the
tribunal was such as to render false swearing
before it not legally criminal And thus, ut the
suggestion ard request Of your Majesty, had
been created to take cogiiizaDce Of and 10 try
my conduct, tribunal competent to admins
ter oaths, competent to exsmiue witnesses
'a oath, competent to try, competent TO &C