Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1820-10-03

which the law awards to wilfLl and corrupt
PerJury.-Great as my indignation naturally
must have been at this shameful evasion Of
law and justice, that indignation was lost in
pity TOR 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 Injustice
never found place, whose haad was always
ready TO RAISE the unfortunate, and to rescue
the oppressed. While that good and graci-
Gus father and Sovereign remained in the ex-
srcise of his royal functions, his unofiending
daughter-in-law had nothing to fear. AS ling
ss the protecting hand of your late ever be-
loved and ever lamented father was held syer
me, was safe. But the melancholy event
which deprived the nation of the active ex-
ertions OF its virtuous king, bereft me of
afriend and protector, and of all hope offuture
tranquility and safety. To calumniate your
innocent wife was now the shortest way to
royal favour: and 10 betray her was to lay
the sure foundation of boundless riches and
titles OF honor. Before claims like these, ts.
lent, virtue, long services, your own personal
friendships, your royal engagements, premises
and pledges, written as well as verbal, melt.
ed In air. Your cabinet was founded on this
basis. You took to your council men of
whose persons, 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 aggra,ate my suilerings, and ensure my
humiliation. You took to your councils and.
bosom men whom you hated, whose aban-
donment OF, and whose readiness to sscr fee
me were their only merits, and who's. power
mas been exercised in manner, and has been
attended with consequences, worthy of its
origin. From this unprincipied and unnatu-
raj union have sprung the manifold evils
which this nation has now TO endure, and
which present mass of misery AMI of de-
graduation, accompanied with acts OF tyranny
and cruelty, rather than have seen which IN
fiicted on his Industrious, faithful, and brave
people, your royal Father would have persisted
at the head cf hat PEOPLE.
When to calumniate, revie and betray me.
became the sure path to honor and riches, it
would have, been strange indeed if calumnis-
tors, retliers, and traitors, had not aboundcd.
Your Court became much less scene OF
polished manners and refined intercourse
than OF low intrigue and scnrriity. Spies,
Dachanalian tale-besrers, and f.ul conspirt.
tors, swarmed in those PAGES which had be.
fore been the resort OF sobriety, virtue and
honor. To eBumerate all the various priva-
tons and notifications which had to en-
dure, all the insults that were wantony
i.saped uponlsne, from the day of your ele-
vation to the Regency to that of ray depar-
ture Tor the Continent, would be to describe
every species oil personal offence that can oe
offered to, and every pain short of bodily
violence that car be inflicted on any human
being. Bereft OF parent, brother and father
in.law. and my husband for my deadiiest foe;
seeing those who have promised me support,
bought by rewards to be among my enc
mics; restrained from accusing my foes in the
face of the world, out of regard Tor the cha
racter OF the father of my child, and from q
desire to prevent her happiness IRON beipg
disturbed; Stunned from motives OF selifish-
ness by those who were my natural associ-
ates; living in obscurity, while ought to have
been The centre of all that was splendid; thus
humbled, had one consolation lefl--the love
OF my dear and only child To permit me.
to enjoy this was too 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 falling i1Se thus u be
comtorted, consoled, rpheld and blessed,
was too much 10 be allowed me. Even on
the slave mart the eric of g Oh! my mother.
my mother oh my child, my chlld!' have
prevented separation of the victims of ava
rice. But your advisers more inhuman than
the slave dealers, remorselesslJ tore the mo-
Their from the child. M
Thus berefr of the society of my child, or
reduced to the necessity of embitterng her
lite by struggles 10 preserve that society,
resolved on a temporary absence, in the hope
that tine might restore me to her in happier
days. Those days, alas, were never to come.
To mothers-and those mothers who have
been suddenly bereft of the best, and most
aHectionate, and only daughter--t belongsto
estimate my suficrings and wrongs. such
mothers will judge of my affection upon
hearing OF tie death of my child, and upon
my calling to recollection the last look, the
last words, and the affectionate circumstan.
ces of our separation. Sdch mothers W ii
see the depth Of my sorrows Every being
with heart of humanity in its bosom will
drop tear in sympathy with me. And will
not the world, then, learn with indignation,
that this event, calculated to soften the hard
est heart, was the signal for new c1nspra-
cies, aud ndefatigable Efforts for the destruc.
ton OF this afflicted mother? Your majesty
had torn my child from me; you hsd depriv-
ed me Of the power of being at hand to sue
cor her you had taken from me the possibil-
ity OF hearing of her last prayers for her
mother; you saw me bereft, forlorn, and
broken-heArted and this was the moment
you chose for rebuilding your prosecutions.
Let the world pass its judgment on the
constituting of commission, in foreign
country, consisting of inquisitors, spies and
inforDers; TO discover, collect and arrange
matters of accusation, against your wife,
without any complaint having been commu-
nicated to her: let the wsrld judge of the
employment of ambassadors in such BUSH
ness. and ofthe enlisting of foreign courts in
the enterprise; but on the measures which
have been adopted TO give final eject to these
preliminary proceedings, it is for me to speak
1t is for me to demonstrate with your ma
.jesty il is for me to to protest; it is for me
to apprise you OF my determination.
have always demanded fair trial This
is what now demand, and this is refused
me- Instead of a fair trial ann In he s,b