Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1831-01-31

fined 10 individuals connected with the pub
hc press. 40, even excluded from your au-
gust assembly, who are indu,lriously eirou-
latng atro'ious ealunnies against her ma.
! Iesty. Can this be Is II credible, is IL pos
s'ble liza juryman be- found ~ possess any
| knowledge Of thr subject under tral the law
ielk US that we may call him as u witness tn
the bar. The 10 our law ~ England, aud
our shield Come forward, we may say aud
| Lt US confront you. let us see ilao exPlana
ton can be given nj what yon sllsgs, no re-
futaiien rhec,ually applied. But 10 any man
who could even be suspected OF 50 base a
prae iteu as imparting ealumnies 10 judges,
histhing leptous venom into their ears. the
Queen might we'll eIeisin,. "SrAsp roRra
THOU STaNDFRER, let ,ne see thy face, II
thou wouldn equal the Iespectabillty even OF
an Italian witness. STAND FORTH before these
obleJudges and apeak oat what You know.
As thou art, thou art worse than an assassin,
for whist an meeting my accusers face 10
lace thou arr stabblag me unseen, aud con
ssrttng thy poisoned stiletio into tho sem-
blance or the sword Of JUSTICE | would fnin
say, INV herds, that IL 10 utterly impossible
lhH' THIS can be Gua but 1 cannot say IL,
because the fact meets me every where. !
read n even IN the public papers, aud had
not known OF lie existence, Tor The dignity
OF human nature I would have held II 10 be
Impossible. that any one with the hoaIt III
tn1n. or with the honor OF peer, should
No debase his hrait aud degrade his honor.
woolt hnpeaeh him Rs n Judge, and II
were possible for the blood royal OF Eng
lanh to stoop TO such course, would feat
lessly assert that /, ~ lar more just thai u
should deprive hun OF his right OF succession
To tho throne, than that all the allegaI ions
against the Qaeeu, taking them 10 he true 10
the last letter, should warrant your Lord
ship IN passing TIN. bill of degradation aud
alNoTce against heT.'
lie house WAS aghaH, A shock went
through aud through H. The public echoed
o"ck Tue speakers words, Every body knew
INA, TIE duke of Clarence was the man. No
bod denied. nobody doubted IL. The attack
cannot bo sad 20 have been masked undar "a
ny poihetical case. like rnluss upon the king
OF SIr William Wyndhaml, IN Whlpoe's I'M
upon 6eorge The II. IL wins palpable--'t was
Dreaming. Ihern was n dash all aver the honst;
an impulse OF C0uylCt.n, universal, thrill
ing lha newspapers teeaed aoxt day with
the orators terrible denun cation. Stand forth,
thou sidnderer. waseysIy wheIa rehd Atand forth
hon siaHderer, was every where heard II wns
cried aOou IN htni.bIll, IN private circles Il
passed III Whispers az IA ,ltters, he boys shout
cd II IN tue streets; and in tue windows oil Gu.
feature sh ps, o which thousands Hooked, YOU
might read Ia oHpiths, uudrr bgufe The like.
ness OF winch eUHlh not be missed, even II AN
ndmrai's had dies. aud the insignI OF prince
'ota md teen wanting, stand JorM thou siam
deer.
How rcmhfkahlc this whole incident | vii
say no" glorious victory won u nothing
TO II not W,ingtons nj Waterloo. Rome,
republican OF imperial, IN her ste, nasss OF IN
her grandeur, has doibing 10 ovcruu,ch II, II
rs h'I OF richness IN ITS particulars, IN IT'S indI-
yidualHy, IN its natlanalness IN The feelings
tha, II may draw ioIih, IN the nigh lessons That
II may l6stl There - no mistuke Ia my naI-
faiIve. | have not done, as Livy or boita,
made IA speech for Mr.. Denman ! have gwen
his own "ofds, from report OF the irh' II
does SO fall out, too, that one Of the Cariratufe
prints lies before me, with stand forth thou
staHderer underneath Surely, the incident Is
III Tor history FOR, what is The spectacle that
We behold The denounced has become n
sovereign The dcHu,lcidf0r one OF his high oif-
ctTs-hppointed by hls sovereign Uin c0nmis-
| sohed by his s0UeTe ign hand What IA field
iof iuil commentary Dutn no will not 80 com
lnenI. l"Ill e s,lentl wI reflect. SO let hereafter
1--we IN "a land o, treem ~, ~ n laud OF nIe0 OF
n.ellig II c, o. 4 public sptit-m II whose DO
SUM bum IA desotiDu 10 loity viTsues. IN what.
ever land Tiny may shnc-men who will he
ready 10 bail with bat the louder acc iainutun
instances of exalted sentiment aud conduct UNI
der other tIrms of goVernmeni, since these
Innsl ey,r be more especial. toe vital elements
OF tneIt own proud republic Without winch,
inougu II may i've ioI "hn', " 'h"s' soon per.
i'h viii mol eoh'neh' upon Tue "ef'' OF
thi' advocate, who' iteiI"s ior me wrongs oi
II" hlnslr'ons yet "fetchsh Client, could 30
lhfow The ooll' oil ma eI'Puenee al prince "i
the blood, even then at the iooistool oil the
lhlone, Whiting for all its power 10 de
soivr uPJn hun. Nor "h' SPEAK oi
the spirit OF hold liberty mat mus, exist IN "
county where plan Individual mas sueh a
voice 10 eHe't IN tue midst oil us whole af'',oe
rHcy-iaeo 10 iaco 10 is very 'h'one-ho Tor,
m,r, eagerly though calmly listening ",'ooui
interruption or 'pfo"en "'s I"'s. "y' uII'ng
to tOach OF menhee hhif OF ms mead Less
still would desire TO d"ei npo" whatever OF
error OF in6rnity II may have been, that could
have surprised this p''ace oil the oioou into tue
course repIchehded. The last choose to
forget, as the world VIII forget It, i" tho kingly
virtue which shows that he could forget all that
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