Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1821-08-07
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or,,sh q woman whom he would call an
;,,o.snt woman, and wnom even they
themselves could not deny to be an unpro-
+sc,ed woman. TWAS under the expect
alton that she would be unprotected and
npable to defend herself that the noble
lord and his colleagues had dared TO take
the course they had taken, and had expect
ed that she would fall The noble iora
and his colleagues were the cause OF the
discomfort and Inflammation oI the coun-
try. They were the persons who had
nearly driven the country into a state OF
internal commotion, and yet they upon
his side of the house were now 10 De
tainted with having excited discomfort
This sort of trickery, which the NOBLE
lord knew well the use OF, would In mat
ters of little moment merit only the de-
rision and contempt with which every
sound mind and honest judgmen' must re-
gard it. Such taunts, convenient as the
noble lord might find them, when used on
subjects of deep and lasting Importance,
he could not hear without repelhng them
with disgust and indignation. 1t was
well for the noble lord to attempt to turn
of the real and unanswerabie charges
against the government, by abiding to
the motion of his hon. friend respecting
the state of Europe That motion had
not been for war, but for preventing war.
The pacific and salutary intention and
tendency of it had been at the time ex-
planned, and could not have been mista-
ken. But it was convenient here, too,
70 assume what had been denied, and was
obviously unwarranted by the observa-
tions of the motion of his honorable
friend.
But it was quite too much for the noble
lord to call the coronation an august and
sacred ceremony. He Mr.. Humel de-
MED that it was either august or sacred,
or that any ceremony could be august and
sacred, that was like this, founded in in
iustic Cries Of hear" If it was pro-
per that the king should be crowned, it
was right that the queen should be
crowned also; if otherwise, the corona
ton. instead of being an august and sacred
solemnity, would be a partial, wanton,
cruel act of injustice. The noble lord 4
another noble lord stood pledged to what
both had said in his hearing, that if the
queen should be acquitted, she would be
entitled to all her rights and privileges
as queen, and to be in every respect SO
treated. Yet the noble lord now talked
to the house of the august and sacred So
lemnity Of a coronation, from which the
queen consort should be excluded; and
then did the noble lord accuse his (the
opposition) side of the house ofattempting
to disturb the country! If his majesty's
ministers would persist in such course
of persecution, in such fragrant outrages
of law, Justice, and humanity, crinSng
when necessary, and insulting when safe
he Mr. Hume) could tell them, that they
would leave nothing august or sacre. In
the institutions of the country (hear)
He believed no administration in this
country had ever departed so widely
from the principles OF Christianity or
woun1ed 50 deeply all tne feelings and
principles that were dearest to the heart
of :nan. Was 1t not then too mucn for
those who exerted all their power to pre-
vent, to stop, 20 arrest such wrongs, to De
charged by the noble marquis with dis
turbing, exciting ana inhaming the eoun-
try He had early, earnestly, aud in ev-
cry possible stage, resisted the persecu
tion against the Queen. which had more
generally and more justly infamec the
country than any aet since the revolution.
He now gave piece of advice, to the no.
bic lord, if the noble lord would allow
him to take that freedom: to be just as
ministers both to the King and 20 the
Queen, out of respect not less 20 the King
than to the feelings of the cOantry Let
all their acts be just towards her majesty;
let them no longer advise measures res
pecting her that were cruel, tyrannical,
and oppressive, but let them advise his
majesty towards an individual whom God
had placed under his especial care and
protection