Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1832-01-06
Ess& EEGN.
From the london Morning Chronicle.
o. p. Q's. ADDRESS I'd HIS MAJESTY

lex datur pronter rcgnum, regnum propter
rogem; potentia non est nisi I'D honunl.
PARGs, Oct. Is, 1881
May 1t please yonr Malcsty--I am a wan !crinp
cosnopol:te. an observer of men and hations a
lover of my species! friend 10 civil and religious
liberty! and ardent and anxious supporter of the
greatest happiness principle, which means The
greatest happiness OF the greatest number for the
greatest period of time! have moi the honor of
beng one OF your MalcSty's Subjects though will
yield to none who claim the privilege oil being
c!asscd among your Maicsty's admirers! In fine,
am, as my caprice dictates, sometimes Journalist,
Your Majesty is British sailor-un honest
man-nnd the Monarcii-I mean the constitutional
Nonarch-cfa country Justly celebrated for her
moral and religious charactcr-for her commerce,
trade, and nanu.actures-for her unrvalicd navy
for her education and human societies, and for
political institutions, which, with all their faults, and
"hch are many and gricvous, have yet preserved
to Great Britain larger portion of practical libcr-
~ than has been enjoyed hy any other country in
snrope, except Switzerland and France.
!i"s there is wide distinction between your
Majesty and o. =. q. as between tho opposing
points of mariners compass and yet take the
liberty of addressing YOU.
Your Majesty has read quite enough Of history
to know that Kings have never been great fayorites
with Cosmopolitcs; that Kings have been dis
ciples of the Eroatest happiness principle-that
Kings have IN nine hundred and ninety eases
Out oil thousand been opprcssors: and That Kings
nave been by no means popular since the com
a Of
hinGsilip would lie too wearsome for your NJ iestv
now to read, and much too inks ONE for Cosmo
polite TO write; or else could show your Majesty
in On hour or two that Kings have really been reat
curses, with, OF course, some exceptions.
our majesty has mixed quite enough with tho
~oriG during the last thirty years to know what
the millions think of Kings, and feel about Kinrs
ana how difficult 1T has been for Kings, with all
their power and influence, and wealth, and cour-
ticrs and creatures about them keep their heads
al Ns-nf,.r lt,rit, 4
and | am much disposed to believe that your Ma
iesy, honest British sailor, has very often
been as Disguised with the absolute or disSoluts
conduct OF Kings as any of yoar majcsty's present
subjects or as your Majesty's most humble CORE
spondent O. p. q.
And perhaps your Majesty is also aware that
the example of the United Sites OF America has
been very dangerous TO absolute Monarchs and alb
solnte Governments, for those Atlantic Republic
ans have shown that can eat, and drink
and sleep, and have children and homes and fire
sides, and Christmas roast beef, and newspapers
and trade and commerce, and agriculture and n
navy and an army, ana great moral and intellect
ual, as well as political, weight in the world and
can be religious, and moral, and literary. and en-
courage the arts and sciences, and have pleasures
and aniusemcnts, and the joys and deicacics of ra
taional and intellectual, and civilized socictv-and
yet have no National Debt, and no King. anv
courtier from Canada, any traveller from the
back settlements of America, shall whisper in vour
Hajestys ear, that in the United States the peoplc
are rot as happy as represent them, and that one
day on other the Americans will have king or
many Kings, and that the Republic will become a
honaTchy-treat such man as your enemy ne
ono who would insult as well as deceive Won and
do by him your late accomplished brother did
by person napcd Brummel-ring the bell and
order his carriage.
Well, then, your Majesty Kings have nearly Al.
ways been national calamities; Kings are extreme
ly unpopular; and the Republic of America is in n
very thriving state. Now let us get stcp further
All this is known to the Emperor OF Russia TO the
Emperor Of Austria to the King of Prussia, 10 the
King Of Holland, and to the King os S2au; that is
10 say, all this is known 10 your MIiestv's Allies
| have not mentioned Don Miguel or the kinp of
Naples, the Sublime Porte, or the ludicroris Dukc
OF Mndcna; but may well add that the Popc
who has al spiritual power millions of tie
human race, is not powerful enough TO keen his
people from instruction; the King Of Sardinia ard
Piedmont, who rules tbs most ignorant pco
pie on the face of this earth, is too wise To- at
tempt the continuance of Absolute Govern
mcut, lest even the "worm should turn:n and vour
Majesty has not shut your eyes TO the French Rev
a,ution--to the division Of Holland from BELGIUM
nor TO the events in SaXony, Illnovcr, Bruins.
wick, i!essc Casscl, Baden, and Bdvar.,, and A.
bOye all, TO the Revolutions in Poland and ItaIvi
But although yonr Macsy's Allies, arc well
aware either appropriately, cannot bc ignorant of
tne demands rulde by incir subcctr, in their res.
uccivc dominions, for free ms. itu'icns, aud lib
cral and Just laws and constitutions; and nithorcl
the examples Of Don Pedro and Charles X, kim
William Of Holland, and the Dukes Of Brunswick
and Modcna, cannot be unknown or unobscrvcd
by them; yet the E,uperors Nicholas and Francis
and the Kings William, Ferdinand and Frederick
arc not convinced that tcy will be too poyvoGcss TO
oppose The progress Of civilization, the efforts
Of the millions, tnc rnarcj O. li.e, and the ratur
al tendency of man 90 Improvement and TO iber.
ly. Your Mljcsty's brother, the Duke cf Cumber-
land belongs to lhis school! viii not sneak Of
bis private virtues, or of his domestic caracter|-
for these are above my praise! But viii merely
speak of the political school to which lie has at
Lached hlmselfo on Tie Continent and which there
fore renders hi poe u'iarY incompetent TO be the
adviser oi tii" Constitutional Hioaarch of Great
Britain. ! Jus Majesty i# perhaps not perfectly III
formed of tie principles of ihui SCHOOL rtch exists
al Berlin, as Vienna, and at -. PcterS'mrgh, and
y which your m ost llustrious brother is a sincere
snd Jealous disciple. Permit me, then, most re-