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and bled. No, they would un- | kingdom. Sir, if your power derstand no hints or inuendoes. to injure me were ten times They went; and mark the con-greater than it is: if the advansequence.-Lieutenant-Generals tages of your service were ten Blunt and A. Campbell, Sir J. Campbell, and Sir Victor Arentschild, yesterday received an order to quit the country without delay.

times greater than they are, I would not have abated one tittle of the respect which I have shewn, and will always shew, to an Officer whom I have " I shall conclude this record known, have esteemed, and hoof meanness, tyranny, and new-noured, for more than twenty born military liberty, with the Answerofthe gallant Sir A. Campbell to the General who intimated to him tha this conduct in visiting the Marshal had given such umbrage to the New Governors, that he must quit the

years.'

I ought to remark, that the soldiery are by no means satisfied with these indignities shewn to their late Chief, and the Officers, in whom they had the highest confidence,"

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or otherwise, by her Majesty, was the time when I had the honour of presenting your Addresses, which came to me without any previous knowledge of mine, and without any desire, on my part, to have the office to

On the last week's proceedings perform, as is clearly evinced in relative to the Queen; or, an the fact, that several other Adillustration of the envy of dresses have been sent to me to surrounding nations and admiration of the world."

London, Nov. 9, 1820.

MY FRIENDS,

present in company with other gentlemen, and that, being otherwise engaged, I have not availed myself of those opportunities of going. I have never In obedience to your wishes been introduced to her Majesty; I presented your Addresses to I have never given even the the Queen, on the 18th of Oc-most distant hint of a wish to tober. You will see it asserted be introduced to her; not a sinin some of the newspapers, that gle farthing of her money has I have been a constant visitor at ever, either directly or indiBrandenburgh House; that Irectly, found its way into my have been a sort of adviser pocket, or the pocket of any one there; and the New Times has belonging to me; but, with even asserted, that I have placed what talent I possess, I have myself in the neighbourhood of laboured, from the very day of that house. Now, I have not, her landing, and in every way since the Queen came, lived that I have been able to exert within about three miles of that myself, most disinterestedly house; and, the only time that and most zealously to prevent I ever was in it, or in any house her destruction. Therefore, occupied, whether occasionally while I take to myself not a 3,0

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particle of the blame due to the Queen's lawyers; then I those who have caused her de- was sure that it required some feat, I may, I trust, put forward bold, some decisive, some ima fair claim to my full share of mediate, some open step on the the praise due to those, who part of the Queen; some instant have made the struggle produce and resolute step on her part, to to the people such a complete prevent the Bill from passing; triumph over their bitter and and this I said, and this I put savage enemies, who have now upon paper, with as much cerreceived a blow that they will tainty, as I could now write down that the Bill has been read a second time.

never recover.

I shall now endeavour to lay before you, a true account of When I saw that the Queen the last week's proceedings re- took no such step, I was sure lative to the Queen; and those the Bill would pass; and the proceedings do, as you will find, notification of the two famous furnish a most excellent illus-Vice Chamberlains prohibiting tration of that famous THING, the personal approach of adwhich is called, "the envy of dressers in future, which notifica"surrounding nations and the tion came out in a few days "admiration of the world."

after, appeared to me to be an invitation to the passing of the Bill. An actual invitation: it

"You

You will perceive that, in my last Register I said that a Bill would pass. There were peo- was as much as to say, ple, who would have betted ten" may pass the Bill as soon as to one against the affirmative of " you please; for the Queen this proposition. I said as soon" hereby voluntarily relieves as I saw the evidence of How-" you from even the shadow of nam, and especially when I saw" apprehension of popular disthe state in which that evidence" content arising out of any ́ had been left by the Queen's" thing that you may do against lawyers, that a bill would pass. "her." When the subornation of Rastelli had been given in evidence; when Powell had been called up, and had been suffered to go off without even an attack from

The Queen did not see this; she had no idea of the notification's producing such an effect. Nor do I believe that the two Vice Chamberlains, who are

merely poor things, apparently [ger of being called upon to without a second idea, had any acknowledge another Queen, unless the divorce clause should pass, which, from the very first,

notion of the magnitude of the mischief which they were the humble instruments in pro- no one expected. I do not acducing; but, to every man of cuse Mr. Denman of any gift of discernment that notification was foresight; and only mean to decisive of the fate of the Queen. point out this as an instance of The mischief had, in great part, big words, though, at the same been done by the lawyers: they time, there is a sufficient reservahad driven the nail of destruc- tion as to meaning. We are tion home to the head; but it now upon our guard against might still have been drawn these big words. Experience back; therefore, it required the has taught us to depend more instrumentality of the two Vice upon acts, and less upon words. Chamberlains to clench it. Let us, therefore, now, with the advantages of this experience, take rather a scrutinising review of the occurrences of the last week; not attempting to draw any conclusion from rumours and hearsays; but solely from

Every day gives us a clearer view of the intrigue than we had of it the day before; and it is of the utmost importance that we understand it well; and that we shew to our enemies, that they can no longer cajole and deceive what has made its appearance us. You remember Mr. Den-in print. In order to do this, man's flash-in-the-pan declara- the more to our satisfaction, we tion, that he never would ac-must go back as far as the knowledge any other woman twenty-fifth of October, on as his Queen! This was thought which day, it appears to me, the to be extremely " bold." There fate of her Majesty (unless somewere fools to call it even chi-thing very extraordinary should valrous. But, this declaration, happen) was signed, sealed like the jesuits' creed, had a and delivered by those two redouble face; as was perfectly nowned gentlemen, Mr. Kepconsistent with a foreknow-pel Craven and Sir William -ledge that the Queen would be Gell.

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finally degraded from her rank;

On Wednesday the 25th of

for, Mr. Denman was in no dan-October, all wore the outward

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appearance of vigour and cour-delphia, a French "lady," as age at Brandenburgh House; she called herself, curse the and, certainly there was no Quakers, while she had actually abatement of zeal and of energy in her mouth, bread purchased on the part of the people. On with a subscription raised by that day not less, I believe, than those very Quakers, she being thirty addresses were presented. one of the French emigrants There were numerous proces-who had fled from St. Domingo. sions, consisting of most re-God forbid that I should comspectable persons in the middle pare her Majesty to this shockranks of life. On this day not ing instance of human ingratiless than seventy thousand per-tude; but I have no hesitation sons were assembled round the in saying that even this was mansion of the Queen. The surpassed by Craven and Gell, zeal in her cause, the devotion and by those who councilled to her person, might possibly and took advantage of her find an adequate return in the Majesty's want of informgratitude of the heart; but, ation upon this occasion; for they admit of no adequate de- though the " French Ludy" was scription from the pen or the at that moment eating the bread tongue. Yet, it was on the given her by the Quakers, she evening of this very day; it had some reason to ascribe her was at the close of this exhilirat fallen state to them, seeing that ing, this gratitude inspiring, it was their principles of hosthis heart moving scene; it was tility to negro slavery, which at the close of this scene, and might have produced the revolt on the very spot where it had of the negroes, and the present taken place, that Craven and poverty of the "Lady;" but, Gell sat down to pen the cold, in this case, the supporters the forbidding, the rude no- of the Queen had never had tification, though they had still any share in producing her ringing in their ears, the sufferings and oppressions.→→ promises, the voluntary pro- Since her first arrival in Engmises of support to their mis-land, they had, whether she tress, coming from the lips of the were here, or in foreign coundisinterested, just, and generous tries, cheerfully laboured for her people! I once saw, at Phila-support, even in splendour, and