Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-05-29
a PROTEST AGAINST ROYAL I'M
|. RuTlhEN(tE.


| In this country, as in others, there are
times when we have difficulties with our
''reigning powers but we have always the
consolation of knowing that, however serious
or notifying they may be, we have only to
await awhile in patience, then the difficulties
and notifications will pass away by the re-
TRACY of those who caused them, to that cell
ebrated mausoleum for American political
greatness, which our poetical appreciation of
the condition of those who retire with more
or less dignity from public service, causes US
to term "the shades of private life" In
monarchicaI countries no such happy hunting
grounds as the mausoleum in question is
provided for annoying and mischievous per-
sons in high places; and, consequently, when
they misbehave, which they commonly do,
the only resources are: First, to cut off their
heads, a practice that went out of fashion
when people ceased to use hair-powder;
second, to send them on a sudden trip to a
foreign land, as was done with Charles Dix,
Louis Philippe, Napoleon the Small, and
others. An attempt IS making just
now to introduce a third mode of
getting nd of offending dignitanes;
this mode Is treating the offender to a
bullet-holing In the streets, but the system
does not appear to take very well and hardly
seems "to pay" To have, therefore, a mon
arch or other ''high parsonage act so as to
make themselves unpleasant, and to know
that they can carry on their disagreeable
ways until stopped by death, Is poor consola-
ton to those who suffer from their insolenee
in office. The most annoying part Of the
affair is that rarely does one of the sufferers
dare to complain. Like poor Lady Flora
| Macdonald, who left the court by whose head
she was outraged and went home and died,
they must bear in silence. If there is COM
plant against monarch there can be no re-
dress, so of course the comp lalnsnt IS wrong.
The sufferer therefore does not complain
he simply suffers. There are natures, how
, ever, that habitually resent wrong, come
from where it will, and that have the discern
ment to discover that wrong is wrong, though
| a crown cover the head of the doer of it.
And we find that, even to-day, there are men
who will proclaim their sentiments
respecting the wrong, spite of rank
and diadem, and spite of the abuse that
| courtly toadies are sure to pour
out upon them. A case of this kind has just
occurred in England, and in a quarter that
cannot easily be put down or pooh-poohed out
| of consideration. The person who declares
! that he will not submit to indignity in silence,
even though the Indignity comes from roy
| atty itself, is the son and namesake of that
| great English statesman, Sir Robert Peel.
| ~ fba
] present Sir Robert Peel made an urcomph-
mentary reference to sc our fat FRIEND" the
| degraded George the fourth. This g friend
: of Beau Brummel was spoken of by the poet
! Byron, during a time of almost famine in
Hk9land when he SAID "While England
starves, great George weighs forty stone"
When Thackery was in this country he gave
Us a candid account of that same debauchie,
| FOR whom his wife Charlotte was nos 'suf-
| 6ciently delicate and retiring in her manners,
and ne prosecuted her before parliament. In
the parliamentary debate in question Sir
Robert Peel made a reference to gentleman
George, and spoke of him in terms-not of
royal adulation, but of simple matter of fact
and truth. For so doing paper that acts as
| mouthpiece to the British court, informed
| the public that for his disrespectfuI
| mention of one of the queens near
connections, several members of the royal
family have declared their intention never to
take any notice of Sir Robert Peel in future. +"
The offending gentleman has aroused public
astonishment by publishing his appreciation
of this piece of royal insolence. He wrote
to the Prince Of Wales, who denied that he
had authorized the publication, or knew of
it, but ne cid not deny the correctness of the
declaration made in it. In another publica-
| tion Sir Robert declared that the effort to
| crush by tie use of royal superb disdain"
was Gin pudence." He further states that
other members of parliament have been
gagged, F." or attempted to be gagged, by
the Use Of similar royal weapons to those
pointed against himself, which he says sis a
clear breach of privilege, recalling the most
, stupid exhibitions of royal misconduct" and
that Mr.. Gladstone had suffered In the same
way. IFis historic that Palmerston was sub
iected to similar lnsolence, and it is known
that one source OF DIsraeh's power is his ob-
Gequiousness to royalty, for which he pro-
| cured the title of Empress Of India" Sir
Robert Peel has opened question that par
lament will have 20 inquire into, and who
knows with what result on coming events?
Should France prove a successful republic,
the Prince of Wales will have "a hard time
when he becomes sovereign of England, as
those who see the year 1860 will be able to
tell.