A full, true and correct Statement of the Grand Proceedings
took place on Thursday, 19th of July, in the City
of London, on the CORONATION of his ROYAL

July 19 MAJESTY. 1821

King George the Fourth,
Giving an account of the Protestation of Her MostGRACIOUS
and ROYAL MAJESTY.

Caroline QUEENS, of
ENGLAND,

Against the Decision of the Privy Council.

"Your Majesty having been pleased to refer to your Privy Council the Queen's Memorial, claiming as of right to celebrate the ceremony of her Coronation on the 19th day of July, being the day appointed for the celebration of your Majesty's Royal Coronation, and Lord Viscount Sidmouth, one of your Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, having communicated to the Queen the Judgment pronounced against her Majest's claim ; in order to preserve her just rights, and those of her ancestors, and to prevent the said Minute being in aftertimes referred to as deriving validity from her Majesty's supposed acquiescence in the determination therein expressed, the Queen, feels it to be her bounden duty to enter her most deliberate and solemn Portest against the said determination; and to afillm and maintain, that but by laws, usage and customs of this realm, from time immemorial, the Queen Consort onght of right to be Crowned at the same time with the King's Majesty.

"In support of this clam of right her Majesty's Officers have proved before the said Council from the most ancient and authentic records, that Queens Consort of this realm have, from time immemorial, participated in the ceremony of the Coronation with their Royal Husbands. The few exception that occur demonstrate, from the peculiar circumstances in which they originated, that the right itself was never questioned though the exercise of it was from necessity suspended or from motives of policy declined.

His Majesty has been taught to believe that the
most valuable laws of this country depend upon, &
derive their authority from custom; that your Ma-
jesty's Royal prerogatives stand upon the same ba-
sis, the authority of ancient usage cannot therefore
be rejected without shaking that foundation upon
which the most important rights and institutions of
the country depend. Your Majesty's Council,
however, without controverting any of the facts or
reasons upon which the claim made on the part of
her Majesty has been supported, have expressed a
judgment in opposition to the existence of such
right. But the Queen can place no confidence in
that judgment, when she recollects that the principal
individuals by whom it has been pronounced were
formerly her successful defenders; that their opi-
nions have wavered with their interest, and that
they have since become the most and powerful of
her r rsecurors: still less can she confide in it,
when her Majesty calls to mind that the leading
Members of that Council, when in the service of
your Majesty's Royal Father, reported in the
most solemn form, that Documents reflecting upon

her Majesty were satisfactorily disproved as to the
most important parts, and that the remainder were
undeserving of credit.

"Under this declared conviction, they stongly
recommended to your Majesty's Royal Father to
bestow his favour upon the Queen, then the Princess
of Wales, though in opposition to your Majesty's
declared wishes. But when your Majesty had as-
sumed the Kingly power, these same advisers, in
another Minute of Council, recanted their former
judgment, and referred to and adopted these very
same documents, as a justification of one of your
Majesty's harshest measures towards the Queen—the
separation of her Majesty from her affectionate and
only child.

"The Queen, like your Majesty, descended from
a long race of kings, was the daughter of a sovereign
House connected by the ties of blood with the most
illustrious Families in Europe, and her not une-
gual alliance with your Majesty was formed in full
confidence that the faith of the King & the People
was equally pledged to secure to her all those ho-
nours and rights which had been employed by her
Royal predecessors.

"In that alliance her Majesty believed that she
exchanged the protection of family for that of a
Royal Husband and of a free and noble minded
nation. From your Majesty the Queen has expe-
rienced only the bitter disappointment of every hor-
she has indulged. In the attachment of the People,
she found that powerful and decided protection
which has ever steady support and her unfailing
consolation. Submission from a subject to injuries
of a private nature may be matter of expedient—
from a wife it may be matter of necessity—but it
never can be the duty of a queen to acquiesce in the
infringement of those rights which belong to her
constitutional character.

"The Queen does therefore repeat her most
solemn and deliberate protest against the decision
of the said council, considering it only as the sequel
of that course of persecution under which her Ma-
jesty has so long and so severely suffered & which
decision, if it is to furnish a precedent for future
times, can have no other effect than to fortify op-
pression with the forms of law, and to give to in-
justice the sanction of authority. The protection
of the subject, from the highest to the lowest, is not
only the true but the only legitimate object of all
power; and no act of power can be legitimate which
is not founded on those principles of eternal justice,
without which law is but marks of tyranny, and
power the instrument of despotism.

HENRY BAIRD, PRINTER, No. 21, PAUL-STREET, CORK.

(Price One Penny.)