The peculiarity of her Majes-her Majesty, in her exclusions: ty's then situation rendered the from Court and in a prohibition taking of this little boy the to visit or to see her daughter, more natural. She was a young was extremely well calculated woman; a young wife without to add to the public feelings ink a husband. Her only child was her favour. All the eircume upon the point of being taken stances considered, there would from her, if not then actually have been sufficient apology for gone. What more rational, attachments, which are not alwhat more benevolent occupa- lowable under other circums tion, than to take a poor man's stances. There were many perchild, to bestow on him a sons who thought, that, if the mother's cares, and to rear him charges against her had been up to manhood? What more in- true, she rendered herself liable offensive and what more con- to no very great degree of censoling, in her situation, than the sure. An injured wife may be hope that she was raising up permitted to do many things one being, at least, that would not to be tolerated in a wife be grateful to her through life? that has received no injury. Greatly to her honour, the taunts For her Majesty to have pined of the wretched villains, who away her time; for her to have have been hired to calumniate sitten moping like a forlorn ereaher Majesty, have not induced ture worthy of rejection, would, her to abandon this child, now in my opinion, have greatly lowbecome a man; and all that we ered her in claim to public rehave to hope is, that lie may, gard. Like a woman of spirit both in conduct and endow-and of merit, she sustained her ments, be worthy of the care cheerfulness and gaiety; and, if and kindness that have been be-she had gone a step further the stowed upon him; and, above opinion of the world would all things, that he may be a con- have been, that she had still a solation to, and, if necessary, title to be judged of with the be ready to lay down his life greatest indulgence. Speaking for her to whom he has, though for myself, upon this subject, I innocently, been the cause of so can see no reason why a woman much persecution. of thirty is to lock up her heart,

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feelings which are a compensa-ment the husband chose to detion for the numerous ills of life; cline an intercourse with them. to become a piece of wood or of For my part, I cannot conceive marble, merely because a hus- how such a thought ever found band's capricious inclination has its way into the mind of man'; rejected her. The wife pro-and, thank God, there are very mises fidelity; but the husband few men, into whose minds the promises all sorts of goodness thought ever did find its way. towards her; and the common Ninety-nine hundredths of the sense of mankind rejects, with nation, and, indeed, of the whole scorn, the idea, that the con- of mankind, entertain a similar tract is to be binding on one way of thinking upon this subside only. Those Holy Scrip-ject; and, therefore, if her Ma tures, on a charge of having jesty really had been justly spoken irreverently of which, charged, in 1806, no very harsh so many Englishmen are now sentence would have been wasting away their bodies in dungeons; those Holy Scriptures tell us, that we are not to

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ed upon her by the public; and though they might have been silent upon the subject of her put away our wives for any exclusion from court and from cause, save that of adultery; intercourse with her only child, and they add, that he who put they would have thought such teth away his wife without this treatment a great deal too seprovocation, causeth her to com-vere, and especially when they mit fornication. So that, if her recollected, and had so fully in Majesty really had had a son, as their minds the causes which was alleged, the fault, according had produced her calamity. to these Holy Scriptures, would What then must they necessari-t not have been that of her Maly have thought, when the jesty. Hard, indeed, would be charges were proved to have the lot of woman, if to all the been groundless; when the inother hardships and privations formers were openly acknowwhich the law compels her to ledged to have been perjured; submit to, if the husband chuse and when the circumstances, to exercise them, they were also out of which the allegations had to be bound to abandon their arisen were shewn to be such very nature as females, the mo- as to do her the greatest honour!

When her Majesty left Eng page; at that very moment land to travel on the Continent, CASTLEREAGH had laid the she left behind her the compas- Green Bags upon the Table, and sion and the warmest good was coolly proceeding to prowishes of the nation. She left pose a vote of thanks to your behind her also very different Majesty; and at that very mo-, feelings towards those who had ment, a shout from the top of been the advisers of the treat- Westminster Bridge ; a shout of ment which she had experienced." God save the Queen,'' told the The death of her child during assembly what the nation her absence; the circumstances thought of the contents of those of that death; every thing Bags!

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tended to keep alive the feelings Every occurrence from that which existed at her Majesty's day to this has tended to departure. No wonder, then, strengthen and confirm what that the people in London, while the nation then thought the heralds were proclaiming dence conveyed in sealed bags. your Majesty King; no won- Secret Committees to examine der that their voices drowned that evidence and report upon the noise of the trumpets with it, while the Queen prayed for the cry of God bless the open trial. A refusal to furnish "Queen!" No wonder, that, her with the names of the witat that very moment they nesses to be brought against crowded round Mr. ALDERMAN her. A refusal to give her the WOOD, and besought him, with names of the places where ther an earnestness not to be describ-alleged acts had been commit ed, to promise to protect the ted; and, a suspension of the Queen. No wonder that, when opening of the trial for five they heard of her heroic conduct weeks, while a document chargi at St. Omers, and when they ing her with the foulest offences saw her throw herself upon was promulgated throughout their protection, they should the world. Treated in every feel a resolution to defend her respect as criminal, and not perby all the lawful means in their mitted to take any one step to power! While her Majesty was prove her innocence. All these entering London, with her de- things the people have well obplorable and dust-covered equi-served; and, above all things,

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having been suffered to offer a word in her defence..

Upon all these things the publie have rentarked; and the result has been a decided convietion which nothing now will CASTLE be able to shaks.

The press, that part of it, mean, which is, upon all occasions, praising the ministers, has assailed the Queen with a deFree of bitterness and foulness, which, if employed against the wife of any Boroughmonger, REAGH now alleges that the would have brought down up- Queen's cause is made a handle on the offender, a punishment of, by those who wish for a relittle short of death. And volution! If this were true, it these atrocious offences have would be wise in him to give Been committed with perfect way at once, and let the revoimpunity. But, amongst all Intion quietly take place; for, the incidents, none has been even excisemen, custom-house better calculated to excite dis-officers, clerks in office, and other ́gust 'and resentment than the numerous persons who are paid conduct of the Members for out of the public money, and to Yorkshire, in refusing to be the name whom, in a manner more bearers of an address to her Ma- particular, would be something jesty from a great town in that more than unnecessary: all these county. The excuse of one of are for the Queen; so that, if those members was, that it would the Queen's friends are Revolu be inconvenient to him to wait tionists, the thing is as good as settled.

upon her Majesty. His own affairs took him another way! But, Sir, this is not true. The This “ Corinthian Pillar?! as Queen's cause is by no means his teacher, BURKE, called him, connected with any hostility to had something else to do! And, the Throne, or to any part of as to the other, he regarded the the Constitutional” Estáblishaddress as prejudging the ques- ments. It is connected with a tion, forgetting, apparently, that desire to see measures adopted the Bill of Pains and Penalties, that would give stability to the which calls the Queen an adul- Throne and to those establishteress, and which divorces hierments: and the attempt to make

It be believed that those who restored, we complain that more object to this course of proceed- than fifty thousand pounds a ing against the Queen, are ene-year are taken from us to be mes of the Throne, is much given to the French, and other, about upon a level with the as-foreign emigrants, and that, sertion that, to uphold the too, at a time when documents Throne, we must approve of are before Parliament, to show. the selling of seats in the Par-that, in whole. districts, our liament.

own people are starving, and while we are actually paying other taxes to ship off half starving creatures to dwell on the sands of the Cape of Good Hope; if, under these circumstances

This is, however, an old, stale, disgusting trick. If we complain that sixty, eighty or ninety thousand a-year, is voted as money for secret services, we are, at once, accused of want- we complain of these enor ing a revolution. If we com-mous benevolences to French plain that a hundred thousand and other emigrants, we are a-year is given out of the taxes charged with wanting a revolu to a clergy who already receive tion! If we complain that. a tenth part of the produce of pensions have been settled on the earth, many of whom have foreigners, in direct breach of two livings, and reside upon that very law, which, placed, neither, and the dignitaries of your Majesty's family on the which church have, many of Throne, we are silenced by being, them, palaces to reside in, and told that we want a revolution! incomes allowed to them far In short, we can complain of greater than those allowed to nothing; we can pray for noyour Royal Brothers; if we com- thing; we must subscribe to plain that, in addition to all, every thing; we must be as sithis, a hundred thousand a- lent as the grave, or we must, year is taken out of the fruits of crawl like spaniels, or, we are our labour to be given to the charged with wanting a revo-. members of this church, our lution!

complaint can be accounted for. If, however, there are danin no other way than by assert-gers of revolution, whom has, ing that we want a revolution! your Majesty to thank but this If, now that the Bourbons are very CASTLEREAGH and his