ཟླ༤ be your own seeking and your own would look like catching at creating. something to get out of that One word at parting upon trial. There are many persons the subject of the intended trial. who would say that the names" The passing of the Alien Bill, of the witnesses were asked for, notwithstanding the petitions knowing that they would be reagainst it; the passing of the fused, for the sole purpose of. Alien Bill, giving you, and your having an excuse for declining colleagues, such fearful powers; the trial. But the most danger placing all the Queen's witness-ous thing of all would be, that, es so completely at your mercy; as her Majesty would go to the the passing of this bill, without trial in the House of Commons, any clause to protect those wit-it would seem to say; nay, it nesses from being sent out of the would amount to a declaration,. country by you, or by Sidmouth; that her Majesty acknowledged the refusal of this clause, upon before-hand, that the decision of the ground, that if it passed, it the House of Commons, be it would reflect discredit upon you what it might, WOULD BE by implying a suspicion that | JUST!" you were capable of not acting I hope her Majesty will think fairly towards the Queen! The twice and even a thousand passing of this bill has not been times, upon a step like this,, overlooked by the public; and fore she take it? I hope she it has by no means tended to as will reflect well and long besuage the feelings that before fore she give her consent to the existed. adoption of a measure like this. : The refusing of the Queen the Nothing can be more unnecesnames of the witnesses to be sary, to say the least of it, than brought against her, is another to praise one's judges beforething to be added to the cata- hand. Some gentlemen have' logue. It is observed upon recently found to their cost, that1á what ground this refusal was nothing is more unnecessary, made; and the public has stood and, indeed, more imprudent in need of no commentary to than this. It is quite time lead them to a just conclusion. enough to praise one's judges But, it having been thrown out after the proceedings are all in the House of Commons, by over. Her Majesty has had a Mr. Denman, that it might be little experience herself of the thought proper to advise her effects of praising the House of Majesty to decline to defend Commons. When her Majesty herself in the House of Lords, had, in the famous negociation. on account of such list of names papers, so frequently declared. being refused; I must express her readiness to submit to the my opinion, that such a step "declared sense of the House would be greatly injurious to" of Commons." When she had her Majesty's cause. It would done this, she pretty quicklyseem to say, that she wish found, a deputation of that ed to avoid that trial. It House at her feet, with an hum ble and dutiful and most affec-[ing them at once and before the tionate resolution, that she Lords, do all possible good for might safely give up her rights, herself, without risking the and depart in peace to foreign smallest danger; but once more, lands, without the smallest spot I say, that, in giving a PREor stain upon her character! FERENCE to the House of Taught by this experience I Commons, she would actually trust that her Majesty will give be appealing to them from the no preference to the House of Lords, and by this appeal she Commons, who, I am fully would make before-hand, an acpersuaded, WILL PASS THE knowledgment of the justice of BILL IF THAT BILL COME their decision, whatever might DOWN TO THEM FROM be the nature of that decision! THE LORDS. As I believe And again, I say, that, so help.. that the House of Lords is as full me God, I believe that the of wisdom, of justice, of fair-play, House of Lords is full as upof integrity, and of every other right, full as impartial, full as good quality as the House of independent, and full as much Commons is; so I believe that friends of her Majesty as the if the bill pass the Upper House House of Commons! Amen. it will also pass the Lower House. WM. COBBETT. Oh! no! This is not the way to go to work. Let the Lords POLITICAL REGISTER. go on, and let her Majesty, as it is said to be her determina- The present number contains tion, go and face her accusers the Table of Contents and Index in person, and she need fear to Volume 36, of which the last nothing. Her Majesty will have number was the close. By those much better opportunities in the who think it worth while to put House of Lords than she would those numbers into volumes this have in the House of Commons table of contents and index must of suggesting questions to the be taken out of the present accusers' witnesses. Her un-number and put to the beginderstanding the language of the ning of the last Volume. COBBETT'S PARLIAMENTARY REGISTER. Italians is a great advantage. In the House of Lords her Majesty will be better situated for this purpose; and, what is a great advantage, she will be The unexpected torrents of present at the opening of the eloquence which have been Court. She will hear her ac-poured fourth in consequence of cusation read. There will be the arrival of her Majesty the no mummery going on. She Queen, have made it necessary will see the witnesses at their for us to alter our plan a little, first appearance, before they and to bring out more than one get accustomed to the scene. number in a week. The reIn short, she will, by meet-maining numbers will now be DOCUMENTS got out as fast as possible, and the Volume will be completed, with all the possible aids of indexes and references, so that it may be ready for use before the Houses meet to proceed to the Relating to her Majesty the Lord W. Russell and Mr. Whit Address to her Majesty, on TO HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY CA ROLINE AMELIA ELIZABETH, QUEEN The dutiful and loyal Address trial. We shall then start fairly bread presented the following with them again; and by the time that we get through the next Volume, we shall, we think, be able to present to our readers such a mass of materials for present amusement and information and for future history, as the world never before saw in so small a compass. We are thankful to Providence for casting our lot to live in these days, Every day now is a month of common days. Every year is a "We his Majesty's faithful century. Events and not hours and loyal subjects of the town are the measure of life. To have and borough of Bedford, beg enjoyed long life while one is leave, with every assurance of yet young, is certainly a very loyalty and attachment, to offer great blessing; and for this to your Majesty our most sincere blessing we of the present day and cordial congratulations on have to thank, as the immediate your Majesty's accession to your sublunary causes of that bless-royal title, and on your Majesing, Pitt, Addington, Grenville, ty's safe return to the British Jenkinson and Castlereagh; and empire. we hereby beg those of these "In offering our congratulapersons who happen to be still tions, we cannot refrain from alive, to accept of our grateful expressing our sincere and heartthanks, while we entertain, felt condolence on the irreparathough an inferior, yet a consi-ble losses which your Majesty, derable degree of gratitude, to- as well as the whole nation, wards the Cannings, the Hunns, have sustained, by the death of the Huskissons, the Longs, the your late beloved and amiable Roses, the Steels, the Bankes's, daughter, the Princess Charlotte, the Wilberforces, and many on whom the hopes and expecothers too tedious to mention, tations of the country had so who are all equally entitled to fondly and so affectionately restour good will, and to perpetu-ed; as well as on the death of ate whose deeds, along with our late most gracious sovereign, those of the superior class above King George the Third, who mentioned, has been the occu-ever proved himself your Mapation of no inconsiderable por-jesty's most warm and stedfast tion of our lives. friend. "It is with feelings the most painful, and with the most genuine emotions of sympathy and grief, that we advert to the circumstances which, at present, so unhappily exist, and that we express our abhorrence of the proceedings that have hitherto been adopted against your Majesty's peace and honour, as well as of the indignities, to which your Majesty has been so peculiarly and so unwarrantably exposed; by which the whole nation has been insulted, in the person of their Queen. committee, composed of your Majesty's accusers, comparing themselves to a Grand Jury, by presenting a Report, and introtrodueing upon it a Bill of Pains and Penalties, before either witnesses have been examined or allegations proved, is a measure derogatory to the best interests of the whole nation. "Notwithstanding these almost 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. tion against your accusers, (al- "We therefore hope, shortly though 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, "Your Majesty's protest of your Majesty may long conagainst a secret tribunal, and a tinue. 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" Bedford, July 11, 1820.” 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 feelings of jealousy and alarm, the result of the present proceedings. "The appointment of a secret "Signed, on behalf of the meeting, "JOHN GREEN, Mayor. Her Majesty returned the following gracious answer: "I receive, with the most cordial satisfaction and gratitude, the assurance of the affectionate attachment of the Mayor and inhabitants of the ancient town and borough of Bedford. "The condolence and sympathy expressed for the irrepa rable loss, which I have sustain-1 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 a Imitting 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 TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT The humble Address of the their own creation, I yet feel also presented to her Majesty confident that that justice which on Tuesday last: 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 1 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, |