"It is with feelings the most committee, composed of your painful, and with the most ge- Majesty's accusers, comparing nuine emotions of sympathy and themselves to a Grand Jury, by grief, that we advert to the cir- presenting a Report, and introcumstances which, at present, iroducing upon it a Bill of Pains so unhappily exist, and that we and Penalties, before either witexpress our abhorrence of the nesses have been examined or proceedings that have hitherto allegations proved, is a measure been adopted against your Ma- derogatory to the best interests jesty's peace and honour, as of the whole nation. well as of the indignities, to which your Majesty has been so peculiarly and so unwarrant ably exposed; by which the whole nation has been insulted, in the person of their Queen. "Notwithstanding these ai most insurmountable obstacles to truth and justice, and the measures that have been adopted to prejudge the question, by the most unjustifiable reports being "The only consolation we circulated, before your Majesty feel on this occasion, is derived is able to repel them, we sinfrom the dignified, open, and cerely trust, your Majesty may magnanimous conduct, which be enabled to prove your innoyour Majesty has adopted, which cence to the confusion of your is at once the strongest refuta- accusers. "We therefore hope, shortly tion against your accusers, (although backed by a combina- to hail the day, when your Mation of secret spies and inform-jesty will be established, in full ers) as well as the strongest possession of all your just rights, presumption of your Majesty's and sincerely trust that the hoinnocence. nour, welfare, and happiness, of your Majesty may long continue. "Your Majesty's protest against a secret tribunal, and a demand for a full, free, and open inquiry-your Majesty's refusal of a bribe so basely offered, as well as those concessions on the part of your accusers, (because they were inconsistent with either your innocence or honour) is a conduct well worthy of the Queen of England. "The just administration of the laws of our country is a subject of such vast importance to the whole nation, that we cannot but view with the strongest feeling's of jealousy and alarm, the result of the present proceedings. "The appointment of a secret "Signed, on behalf of the meeting, rable loss which I have sustain- | security, and become party to ed during my absence from Eng-my own degradation, by conland, in the persons of my be-senting to continue absent from loved daughter, and his late re- the kingdom, under a comprovered Majesty, is most valuable mise which must have equally to me, and offers the only alle-affected the honour of all conviation to my feelings of which cerned. I thank you for your the circumstances admit. manly and generous expression "It is no slight aggravation that the insults offered to your of the pain occasioned by those Queen you feel as offered to the severe losses, that those ene-nation; and be assured, that mies, who for years have been while my honour is identified seeking my destruction, no soon- with the nation's, (from which er perceived that I am destitute it never can be really sepaof that protection which before rated), with God's help, I will shielded me, than their attacks maintain it in the face of every were renewed in a form scarcely danger, and to the last moment admitting resistance; boundless of my life; feeling at the same as are the means of overawing time, that no sacrifice, but that and corrupting possessed by of the honour of the country, these implacable foes, no less of can be too great to promote the his Majesty than of myself prosperity and happiness of a But, however well calculated nation to which I already owe may have been their measures so much." to effect my destruction, by secret machinations, followed by the most audacious and industrious circulation of slander of The following Address was also presented to her Majesty on Tuesday last: TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT ཝཱཝཱ The humble Address of the Inhabitants of the Town and Neighbourhood of Shaftesbury, in the County of Dorset. their own creation,, I yet feel confident that that justice which has hitherto been the brightest characteristic of the British nation, will not be sacrificed or tarnished in my person. At the same time I cannot but be astonished and grieved that these slanders should have been in any respect sanctioned before I have been heard in my defence, furnished with any specific charge, or suffered to know who "With emotions of the deepare the witnesses by whom I est regret at the afflictive situahave thus been reviled. tion in which your Majesty has "To whatever dangers, how-been placed, under the dispenever, I may be exposed, from sation of Divine Providence, by the power and malice of my the loss of your justly beloved enemies, I never can regret that daughter, in whom our hopes I did not submit to purchase were so fondly centred, and of 66 May it please your Majesty, your venerable protector, our earnest desire and prayer; and late highly respected Sovereign, that your Majesty may be faand with a just degree of indig-voured with the enjoyment of nation at the various injuries every blessing is the united wish which your Majesty has received of your Majesty's most obedient both in this country and on the and most faithful servants." continent of Europe, we humbly request permission to present our congratulations on your safe return to these realms, and Her Majesty returned the following gracious answer: "I cordially thank the Mayor on the firmness which your Ma- of Shaftesbury, and the inhabijesty has evinced in the trying tants of the town and neighcircumstances which have at-bourhood for this loyal and tended your progress through affectionate address. The symlife, from the time of your first landing on the British shore, melancholy losses and the reiterpathy which they evince for the down to the present moment. "In thus communicating our endured, cannot but be gratifyated persecutions which I have heartfelt sentiments on the pre-ing to the best feelings of my sent occasion, our attachment heart. "To whatever trials I may to the illustrious House of Brunswick, together with our unwillingness to revive your feelings have been exposed since I first of sorrow or of just indignation, set my foot on the English shore, we restrain our expressions re- I shall never forget that in those specting the deprivations your trials I was consoled by the Majesty has suffered, or the tenderness, and supported by provocations which you have the magnanimity, of the English received on various hands. Let nation. it suffice to say, that viewing Though I am well acquaintyour Majesty as a branch of that ed with the activity and the illustrious House, we feel every malignity of my adversaries, I attack on your Majesty's person place a firm reliance upon the or character as an attack upon protection of that great Being, the British nation; and we re- from whom no secrets are hid; gret that the offenders, on va- and while those who are no less rious occasions, have not been the enemies of his Majesty than made to incur the penalties of myself, are endeavouring to which their base slander and ruin me by their wiles, and to truly disloyal conduct have de- crush me by their power, I am served. That your Majesty's cheered by the consciousness character may be delivered from that I possess a strong rampart the machinations of your ene-of security in the good sense, mies, and rise, as we trust it good feelings, and good princiwill, above every malignant in-ples, of this enlightened peosinuation, or open attempts to ple." detract from its merits, is our nity. An address from Newcastle hand, or caused to be distribut upon Tyne, signed by 6,000 per-ed, large sums of money to the sons, was likewise presented to poor. At Tunis she obtained the Queen, when her Majesty the liberty of several slaves, was pleased to return the fol- among whom were two females lowing most gracious answer -one the daughter of the Go"With great satisfaction Ivernor of St. Pierre, the other receive this address from his a Genoese lady. This was beMajesty's dutiful and loyal sub-fore the arrival of Lord Exmouth. jects, the inhabitants of New-Several Roman slaves were also castle-upon-Tyne and the vici- released on the application of her Royal Highness. She gave "I accept with thanks, and 500 pieces (colonnats), and au"I accept with thanks, and to the New Academy at Athens return with sincerity, the affec-thorised the governors to draw tionate expressions of your wishes towards myself, and to- annually on the banker Scarawards that illustrious House 200 more. She also released all manza, at Constantinople, for from which I am descended; the prisoners for debt at Athens, and the true honour of which, and deposited in the hands of as it never has been, so it never the governor 700 pieces, to be shall be, tarnished by me. applied to a similar purpose "Whatever I possess of wis- after her departure. To a poor dom, courage, and magnanimity, Roman Catholic family, whom has been fostered and strength-she found in the same place, she ened by the example of this gave 200 pieces. At Constandiscerning, generous, and gal- tinople her benefactions were lant nation; on whose unalter-still more numerous. To the able attachment to the princi-conventical fathers at Jerusalem ples of justice I firmly rely, un-she gave 600 pieces; in fact, at der Divine Providence, for sup-every place where she stopped port under all my unmerited her benevolence was on the afflictions, and for protection alert to seek and relieve the against the machinations and distress of her fellow creatures. violence of all my enemies." Her Majesty, on her return to Europe, took up her residence at an agreeable villa on the shore of Lake Como, at a small During her Majesty's long and distance from that town. The wearisome, but interesting jour-situation of this house, which ney, her conduct was such as to she purchased of the Countess excite the respect and venera-Pino, was particularly beautiful, tion of the nations which she surrounded on all sides by the visited, in some of which she most enchanting and romantic left lasting maks of her benevo scenery. Her Majesty here lent spirit. At Argossa, in Sici-sought amusement rather in the ly, she distributed with her own resources of her own mind, and among a limited number of atrocions description. These more exaggerated shape, and in the end Lord Charles Stewart was sent to Milan to inquire into their truth. At Milan Lord Stewart became intimate with triends, than from an indiscrimi- stories reached England in a still nate intercourse with the inhabitants of Como; but still she was always hospitable as well as affable to those by whom she was visited. - It was through the recom-Baron d'Ompteda, Knight of mendation of the Marquis Gliis-Hanover, and formerly ambassaglieri that the Countess of Oldi became maid of honour to her Majesty... dor of Jerome Buonaparte, King of Westphalia, to the Court of Vienna, and engaged him to become a watch on the conduct of her Majesty. This was in September, 1815, and the Baron exerted all his ingenuity to promote the object of his employers, and to enlist persons in a more humble situation in his disgraceful commission. We now go back to that period when suspicions were first excited as to the conduct of her Majesty, and which led to the persecutions to which she has been since exposed. We stated on a former occasion, that all her Majesty's English attendants gradually quitted her previous When her Majesty returned to her departure from Europe to Milan, in 1816, she received a circumstance, ave believe, intimation that she was surmainly attributable to their dis-rounded by spies in her own inclination to accompany her house. Endeavours had been Majesty on the long and fatigu-made during her absence to-coring journey which she contem- rupt her servants, and to engage plated. Dr. Holland left her in them in plots destructive of the June, 1815, and came to Lon-honour and reputation of their don to publish his travels. mistress. Among our countrymen whom her Majesty met at Milan was Mr. Wm. Burrell. He proposed to remain with her some months, and accompanied her Majesty on her journey to Mantua, Bologna, Ferrara, and Venice: from thence they returned to Como, and here Mr. Burrell took his departure, leaving her Majesty in the house of the Marquis Vil-d'Ompteda to the apartments of Jani, in the Borgo Vicó.· ́ her Majesty by false keys. ForMt. Barrell went to Brussels, tunately this happy contrivance and in this town one of the dò- was frustrated. Credi was dis mestics, who had accompanied charged, without suspicion of his him in his travels with her Ma- fidelity, for some love-intrigue jesty, circulated reports with re-with a countrywoman of his, gard to her Majesty of the most named Annette, who was cham Several of her Majesty's Italian domestics resisted the temptations which were held out to estrange them from their duty. One man, however, a German, of the name of Maurice Credi, was not equally virtuous. He suffered himself to be seduced, and, for weighty considerations, agreed to introduce the Baron |