the wind, and snatched awayas awning, and we know, that that! quickly as a bit of paper is light must burn every night; it blown from a table; and, in has been proved, that there was rough weather, every thing on a gang-way, or staircase, going the deck was liable, at any mo- down from under the awning ment, to be swept into the sea into the parts below, and that Who can describe the tossing, several persons had to go up the buffettings, and the incessant and down without restraint or dangers and alarms in such a ceremony at all hours; it has: situation in the night-time: been proved, that the Lieutenant sailing, too, for great part of on deck (by night as well as by the time, amidst islands, rocks day) had frequently to go into and shoals, and in the well- the awning part to see, and known track of barbarian pi-speak to the Queen; all this has rates? If you say, "why did the been proved; it is a notorious Queen, from her own choice, fact, that the Queen might, if? "place herself in such a situa- she had chosen, have remained on "tion; my answer is, certainly shore, in the safe and secret en"not for indulging a propen-joyment of her alledged para"sity, to which such a situation mour! and yet, the placing of "must have been an effectual this same man as a guard or help "damper, and in which she might "have indulgence in safety and "secrecy on shore."

or protection, near her person, in such a perilous situation, is, by the Detested Class the plundering abettors of perjury and

garded as a proof of an adulterous intercourse with that same alledged paramour!

night, in which the aid and pro-subornation, affected to be retection of a man, and of a stout, active and trusty man too, might not have been necessary to save even the life of the Queen, It has been proved, that a light was burnt under the awning by night, until it was necessary to burn it no longer for fear of alluring pirates; it has been proved, that the light of the binnacle showed in under the

It might be peculiarly proper for Mr. Hownam to be asked, whether he had seen her Majestee's lags; but, what moment of any night was there, when it might not have been necessary for some man to catch her in his arms, and, whether with bare

legs or not; lug her, head or the cabini Bat, did the base heels foremost, down below! I thought ofcillicit intercourse ask this of any man who knows ever come, into my head! In a what it is to sail in a vessel of the midst of the dangers of the two hundred tons, and who sea and sofe mutiny, I wished, knows what gales, storms, and when I thought it my duty to squalls are; and, if such man be take my turn on deck, to know. not a corrupt and partial and some man was near my wife to forsworn abettor of perjury and keep her company, to give her subornation, he will say, that, confidence, to quiet her alarms. for the Queen to have passed a And what man, worthy of the might in such a situation with-name of man, would not have out an able man always at hand entertained the same wish? to succour and to save her, What, but ad base, effeminate, would have argued, not only impotent, would-be cornuto,: fool-hardiness, but downright would have thought or acted insanity, on her part.

otherwise?

And, it being absolutely necessary, that some man should be constantly near the Queen by night, who so fit as her principal officer? As to the Lieutenants, one must always be on deck constantly on the watch, looking after the men and the winds, and the other taking his turn to sleep. Sometimes, and that, too, all of a sudden, both. must be on deck at once; both engaged so anxiously as not to be able to turn aside for one'

But, besides these incessant dangers of the seas, was there no danger to be apprehended from a crew, such as the Queen had on board? How long is it since a crew of these half-Italians, quarter-Turks, and quarter-pirates, actually violated as well as plundered their female English passengers? I have known what it is to sail with a mongrel crew partly of the St. Antonio sort, and I could keep on deck with the captain and mates; many hours at a time by moment, though they saw awnnight, while my wife, then only ing, Queen and all, going overeighteen, instead of fifty was board! And, in the midst of lying in her birth below, not all the whistling, bawling, many feet distant from a French-thumping, running and rattling man, with no other person in of reefing and tacking, while

the vessel was tossed about like been proved, there are two a cork; in the midst of all this, things to be pointed out to the is there a man, except, he, be- public, who, generally speaklong to the plundering and De-ing, are not at all acquainted tested Class, to say that a wo- with a maritime life the first man ought to have been left is, that, to bear one's existence alone under that awning? The at sea, is, of itself, no little difwonder is not, that her Majes- ficulty; that, to make it, beartee's lags were swalled: the won-able to the King only for a few der is how men could sit and days, yachts, costing hundreds listen to a detail of her suffer- of thousands of pounds, with ings, her perils and her heroism, accompanying squadrons of friand contemplate her cruel per-gates, are necessary; and that, secutions, and still restrain the when a Maitland moves by tears from gushing from their water, the sweat of the people eyes; a weakness which cer- of England has to, answer for tainly would have been betray-his comforts and conveniences. ed in any other body of men Last year, only in one year, this upon the face of the earth. laborious and heavily taxed na

In taking leave of the "tent-tion had to pay no less a sum scene," however, and of the than 7841. 168. to the Honourswalled lags, so many pairs of able Anthony Maitland, Capwhich I have seen on ship-tain of the Glasgow, for giving, board, belonging to women, in- on board that ship, entertainfinitely more virtuous and mo-ment, to Sir Thomas Maitland, dest than the wives and daugh- during his eight trips about the ters of the plundering and De-Mediterranean, all the trips totested Classes; in taking leave gether amounting to about 15 of this last poor attempt on the days more than the 40 days' part of the abettors of perjury voyage of the Queen. This was and subornation to stick a stain for mere entertainment, in addiupon the Queen, and to form a tion to all the expence of a ship pretence for justifying an ex- of war. This was for extra compected stigmatizing decision; in forts and conveniences! Both taking leave of this miserable these Maitlands are, I believe, pretence for saying, that inde-near relations of yours. Sir ceney, though not guilt, has Thomas did not, I'll be sworn

for him, pass his nights under Queen, to suffer her to indulge an awning, with the risk of be-in this unnatural preference at ing blown overboard; and, I the expence of a large part of dare say, that his lags were her income! There is somenot swalled. thing so monstrous in this, that

Farewell, then, to the "Tent Scene;" and now let us come to something much more worthy of public attention.

Then, a thing never to be he who can affect to believe it lost sight of, the preposterous possible, must be one of the idea of the Queen going to sea Detestables, an abettor of subat all for the purpose of indulg-ornation and perjury, and would ing in amorous delights; when cheer even the Devil himself, every one that has been at sea and shake his hand, if he came knows, that the very situation, forth in his proper person to asbesides its necessary exposures, sist in the destruction of the destroys, for the time, every victim! propensity of the kind; that it unsettles the stomach; produces a general loathing of all that was pleasant on shore; causes a disrelish for all the ordinary indulgences; creates a temporary debility; and, in short, suspends the functions as well as the desires. Sea-sick and amorous! oh! the filthy; oh! the beastly idea! But, to continue in this fit for forty days and full as important as the swalling forty nights! To continue in of the Queen's tags, or as the this fit for as long a time as accent and grammar of the Noah was in the ark! To Countess of Oldi, the badness of seek the gratification, and to which latter, as being no test of be constantly seeking it, sur- her want of high-blood, might rounded by witnesses and in the be proved by my producing (if midst of perils; and actually to I had room for such trash) seven prefer this to a bed-room, a hundred and twenty-one errors grotto, or secluded alcove; and of grammar in one single book, for Bergami, who is alleged to written by an hereditary standhave been all-powerful over the ard-bearer of Scotland! I am

The Conspiracy against the Queen.-I am not going to waste my time here upon Powell's speeches, any more than upon the colour of his skin, the African tossing of his head, or the woolliness of its covering, though they are

Rastelli, and, in order to place the facts in as plain a light as possible, and to do away with that mystification, which now

not going to waste my time have been guilty of High Trea-" upon Powell's speeches, uttered son; but, for the present, I shall under the name of evidence; confine myself to the affair of but, leaving those to serve as the means of blinding fools who wish to be blinded and led blind-fold to their ruin, I shall proceed to strip the affair of appears to be the order of the Rastelli of the mystification, by day, and the last miserable hope which it is attempted to en- of the conspirators; I shall divelope and to smother it. It is a vide the principal facts ander matter that defies all painting, distinct heads, so that they will and that laughs at all illustra-be the more likely to meet with tion. In plain narrative it is a clear conception, and to make complete and entire. Every step a lasting impression on the explains its motive. The story mind.

procured by subornation; and that the perjurors, after having been detected, were suffered to escape without punishment, and without trial; and, moreover, that one of the principal perjurors enjoyed a pension during pleasure to the end of his life.

being plainly told, the judgment 1. It is notorious that a foul of the world follows. conspiracy was instigated aThere will be a time, here-gainst her Majesty in 1806, that after, for dwelling particularly it was carried on by perjury, on the deeds of those base conspirators by whom papers be longing to the Queen, were obtained from her Attorney's of fice, by means of a bribe, coming out of English taxes, given to the clerk of that attorney. There will, hereafter, be a time, if even a show of justice is to 'take place, of hearing, to its full extent, all the evidence against in this case, did, before the trial those conspirators, who, as clear-began, solemnly declare, in a ly as day-light, have been guilty letter written by herself, signed of conspiracy to compass the destruction of the Queen; that is to say, to depose her, at the very least; and, that, therefore, they

2. It is notorious, that her Majesty, the prosecuted party

with her own name, and addressed to his Majesty, that the present proceedings had their origin in a foul conspiracy,