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had visited her if this had been the plan adopted, her Majesty's security would not have been

terated from the human heart! | cause; and, if they find that There are young men; officers cause in their own conduet, let of the army officers of the then no longer complain of any navy and not one, even of body but themselves. That these, has stepped forward! In condnet, however, will, at last, such men, and in such a case, have been found to be fortunate even indiscretion and temerity for her Majesty. For, if a yacht are right, and the want of them had been sent to meet her at almost a crime. Miserable in- Calais; if a Palace had been deed is that state of society provided for her reception; if when, in such a case, men are un-she had been received with milider the sway of cold calculation! tary honours; and if a suitable If this appeared shocking to proportion of Boroughmongers the people, it hus, doubtless, not been overlooked by her Aajesty; and; when turning her eyes towards the people, she has seen what it is at this moment. It such ardent zeal and such disin-was impossible for the nation terested exertions in her cause; to behold the treatment of the so much warmth of affection to Queen without feeling for her wards herself, and so much in and, when it found, that rank dignation against her enemies and wealth keep aloof, it invowhen her Majesty has had this luntarily stepped forward. Some comparison pressed upon her of the first reports gave her and has seen, withal, so much Countess Fitzwilliam for a visiand such superiority of talent tor; and, it was observed, that range itself voluntarily on her Countess Fitzwilliam, or some side "out of doors," is it any one for ther, contradicted this; wonder that her Majesty, with than which a grosser, insult that frankness, sincerity and never was offered to any hinnau courage that belongs to her being. These circumstances, oharacter, should have openly trifling as they were in themavowed her reliance upon the selves, went very far in deciding people?. the nation: and, when it saw, that the sole object was to drive' her Majesty from England, its mind became unalterably fixed.

Let those, therefore, who com plain, that her Majesty relies on the people, ask themselves the

It is for the interest of your cidedly and so instantaneously Majesty and of us all, that this take part with the weak against matter should be terminated the strong, with the oppressed justly and tranquilly; and my against the oppressor. The fears opinion is, that, even now, the of the funding and borough syssafest and best course to pursue tems have gone far in hardening would he to put her Majesty in the hearts of those who depend full and entice and quiet posses- thereon, and have induced them sion of all her rights. My rea- to give their tacit consent; at sons for believing this are found-least, to acts, which, formerly, ed on that state of the publie would have excited universal mind and the state of the coun-horrorg but, in a case like that try. And I'do most sincerely of her Majesty, where these believe, that if your Majesty fears have no weight, the native. were truly informed of what is character breaks forth in all its thought, what is said, and what humanity and all its justice →→→ is expected, we should soon be and, therefore, those were but relieved from all further agita poor philosophers, who thought tion on this melancholy subject. that, because Green Bags had

There is, in the bare facts of been so successful against the her Majesty's history, enough Radicals, they must also be suc deeply to interest a people of cessful against the Queen, much less sensibility than the Her Majesty became an obpeople of this kingdom are well ject of compassion with the known to be Audeficiency in people almost from the-moment politeness has, and with some of her marriage. A great sacrishew of justice, been ascribed fice had been made, and cheerto us. We have been called fully made, to render her marrude and arrogant; but what-riage happy. When, therefore, ever other faults we may have, she, with her infant daughter, a want of humanity, a want of had to quit her home, and that, kindness, a want of the warm-too, without any misconduct on est affection, certainly do not her part, without even any albelong to the inhabitants of this ledged misconduct, the nation island, or of any part of the felt most deeply for her as for an kingdom; and, of all the people injured wife, and it also comin the whole world, none so de- plained, on its own part, that

its reasonable expectations had if this were not really to take been disappointed. place, the lot of a wife would The people well knew the be worse than that of a negro causes of the separation; and, slave. The law is all on the in whatever way they viewed side of the husband; and this is the matter, the Queen was still one reason, and a very good.. the injured party. It was clear reason too, that every body is, that she was treated in a way, in all disputes between man and that even the law did not allow wife, on the side of the latter, of; and, while such pains were until it be clearly proved that taken to inculcate amongst the she is in the wrong. people the obligations of the Women, though almost slaves marriage tie, it shocked every by law, have, in this country, one, that so little was thought (and, thank God, they have) a about example. Surely inclina great deal of influence. Not tion ought not to have been too corrupt influence, but legitistrong for all other considera-mate, wholesome, enlivening,. 'tions in a case like this! But, and enobling influence. They without imputing blame any are, too, a sisterhood. They rewhere, it is certain, that the na-sent every affront offered to tion, from this time forward re- them as a sex. Men are so garded her Majesty as an injured wife, who had a well known legal right to live with her husband.

many detached individuals. But> women are a body corporate: Touch one and you touch the whole. Coquettes, who hate There is nothing surer than each other as rivals, will defend injury to beget friends, in a case each other as women. Every like this. Mankind have the husband should bear this in justice to bear in mind what mind. It is one of the indirect enormous sacrifices every wo-checks upon his husbandish auman makes in giving herself up to a husband, and how little she receives in return. Indeed, it is agreed by common consent, that she is to enjoy by influence Queen's scale, the moment she something to balance against quitted Carleton House without the husband's authority; and, any offence even alledged.

thority; and woe be to the man that sets it at defiance. The whole weight of this corporation was thrown into the

against her. And, the whole of of the parties, I am inclined to think, that we should hear no more of the cause of agitation.

this immense weight she has had on her side from that day to this.

The strong feeling favourable towards the Queen, which existed from the moment of the separation, was never weakened by the tales of 1806 and 1807. The women, who had always supposed that she had been calumniated previous to the separation, either regarded the tales as arising

This fact, of such vast importance in the case, your Majesty's ministers, who are, I believe, all married men, ought to have well considered, before they filled their Green Bags., If, upon this occasion, their wives had been consulted, the measures would, I imagine, have from new calumnies, or, worst been very different from what come to worst, apologized for they have been. Had I been a her beforehand, upon the ground minister, I should have made a of her being neglected, ill-used, hasty retreat, the moment it and abandoned; but, which was was determined on to leave her great protection, the late the Queen's name out of the Li- | king showed her his countenance turgy. I should have been sure all the while. And, when the that all the women would be real facts came fully out in displeased; that they would 1813, they were filled with inmake the cause their own; and dignation. They had supposed, that, in the end, they would, that lies enough had been inby one means or another, make vented; but, when they found, me repent of my share of the that the wife of the heir apmeasure. If your Majesty could parent, and the mother of her have seen, as I did, a group of whom all the young people women, the other day, standing hoped to see Queen of England; at the corner of Westminster when they found this wife and Bridge, with one, as spokes-mother had been accused, on woman, saying to the rest

oath, of having been pregnant, of having had a son, and of having suckled him; when they

Why, is it not our own Queen; "and, shall we not have her "crowned?" If your Majesty found, that all this was false; could have seen this group, and and, moreover, that the perobserved the determined aspect jured witnesses had been shel

tered from punishment; when [taken from them. I myself have they found this, their feeling in known three instances of this favour of the injured and insulted kind. And, indeed, it is notori Princess met with an equal in ous, that there are many women, their detestation of her base so fond of little children, that and execrable accusers, whom nothing can restrain their desire they have never forgotten or to have them in their arms or forgiven to the present hour. about their persons. In the But, there was a child," course of a day we see scores. said the vile ealumniators, leath of women in the public walks to let loose their hold. There quitting their companions to go. was a child; and, it was very up to a baby in arms, though, strange, that the" Princess never seen before, to chirrap to› should take the child of a poor it and caress it. Nothing is a man, and breed it up." This greater treat to a company of argues great perverseness; most women than to get round a malignant wickedness; or pro- baby and talk about it; and to found ignorance of the charac-it, though it be not a month old. ters of women. There are some The fondness of women for women, whose very nature im-young children is perfectly a pels them to fondness for babies; passion it makes a part of who actually are miserable, till their nature, and a very amithey arrive at a certain age,unless able part of it too. In proporthey have little children about tion, also, as this passion exists them, and even to be nursing in them, they are kind-hearted, and dandling. Every man knows ardent in all their feelings, this; but, the proof of it may generous and brave. Unfortu be found in the records of the nate is the man, who does not Foundling Hospital, where little know how to prize this endearing babies are put out to be kept propensity in woman; and, of for a time by poor men's wives, all the amiable and excellent and where it will be found; that things that I have heard of her hundreds of the children have Majesty, the Queen, nothing been kept and brought up by does, in my eyes, do her more honour than this very trait, the poor people as their own which her enemies have made children and at their own ex-use of for the purposes of calumpence, rather than let them benious insinuation.

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