0. S. O'Bryen, Mr. Dennis, 878, 935, 1690. St. Ledger. Mr. 287. Oldi, Countess, 924. Olivarez, the Count, Duke of, 67. Ompteda, Baron De, 567. Parr, Dr. 633. P. Palmerston, Lord, 644, 801. Pearson, Mr. Charles, 1590. Place, 1421. Powell, Mr. 565. Q. Rowley, Sir W. 816. Sidmouth, Lord, 18, 66, 77, 137, 408, Wellington, Duke of, 414, 637, 1179. Wilberforce, Mr. 233, 1000. Williams, David, 649. Whitbread, Mr. 699. Whitbread, Mr. (the late) 361. Wooler, Mr. 181. . Wood, Mr. Alderman, 97, 231, 816, 670. Wolsley, Sir C. 710. Russell, Lord John, 167, 233, 513, White, Mr. 1543. 1611, 1668. Rutland, Duke of, 670. Wright, 1421, 1491. Ideed, for not thinking this; for, On the Refusal of the Plate to consequences. the Queen; and on other mal- I am now about to address London, July 20, 1820. Queen's plate; but, by way of It is now about five years decessors have brought this for- Printed and Published by W. Benbow, 209, Strand. public attention aside from the causes of the public suffering. sures which produce such effects! You and your colleagues have Before the arrival of her Ma-said much about the bad advice, jesty, the tables of parliament which the Queen has received, were loaded with the bitter and of this I will speak more complaints of farmers,merchants, fully by and bye; but what sort manufacturers and every class of of advice is it that has brought people, save and except those the nation into this state? You who live and thrive on taxation. are not to tell us, that you did Projects were on foot and open-not wish it, that you did not inly avowed for dividing the real tend it, and the like. These property of the country between excuses avail men nothing when the present owners and the they are arraigned for what are fund-holders. The distress was called radical offences. We are so great in many parts as to be in such cases told, that we are approaching to starvation. Ca- to judge of the intention from pital was, as it still is, removing the act. And we are to judge from the country, in all direc-you in the same way to be sure. tions. All was misery and But, at any rate, such is the state wretchedness; and all is into which you have brought misery and wretchedness. this nation; and, it seems to me, that, under such circumstances, you ought to be cautious how still To this state the country has come under measures adopted by you and your colleagues. you throw out jeers and taunts You have never been thwarted. on the advisers of the Queen, You have done just what you those, I mean who have advised pleased with the persons and her to pursue that line of conpurses of the nation. There has duct, which has placed you and been no power to controul you; your colleagues in your present and those who have remonstrat- miserable situation. ed strongly with you have been ;unished: they have been pro-dicule the Queen's advisers! cuted with the utmost rigour you, who have brought yourfed ruin has been their mildest selves into such difficulties that Surely it is meant that you know not which way to these should be some real re-turn! You are a pretty person nsibility attached to mea- to support the dignity of the It becomes you indeed to ri the Crown and injurious to the best interests of the country; you, who, after this, approved of the opening of these same bags! This is a pretty specimen of Crown truly! Can you look at voted with your majority, that, Westminster Hall and West- to open the green bags, be the minster Abbey; can you look result what it might, must be at the scaffolding, the lodges, derogatory from the dignity of the innumerable benches, the temporary kitchens in and about Westminster Hall; can you look at these, and not feel some little doubt, whether you be the wisest man, and the best sup-your ability to support the digporter of the dignity of the nity of the Crown and to proCrown that ever existed in the mote the interests of the counworld? The sight of these try! This is a fine specimen of would be quite enough as a les- your 66 statesman-like” wisson of modest behaviour to any dom! It makes one sick to think other man in the world in your of such a man being in any pubsituation. I should make but a lic office at all; much more of very poor minister; for nothing his being the principal adviser upon earth would have kept me of a king, that king being the in my place long enough to ad- sovereign of a great country. vise the king to issue the proclamation that was issued on Saturday last. If I had said, on But, look at the whole of the pickle that you are got into. Look at the fact of fifty thousand pounds a-year, a yacht, or the Monday night, that it was a ship of war to go abroad with, absolutely necessary to have the an official introduction as Queen Coronation on the first of Au- of England to a foreign court, all offered to a person, who is gust, no earthly power should now proclaimed to the world have made me avoid a motion, by you and your colleagues, as three days afterwards, for put- a licentious woman and an adulting it off, by saying that I had teress, though only a few days before a deputation from the advised the King to do precisely Honourable House had kneeled the contrary of that which I had said it was absolutely necessary to do. You, truly, are a fit person to talk about mean and foolish ad visers! You, who, after having down before her, and had been graciously permitted to kiss her royal hand! Look at this, and learn modesty when you are talking of the want of wisdom in the advisers of the Queen. You may, for a little while, endeavour to brave the matter out; but there must come a day, I were to open his lips upon any and that day may not be dis-subject; or, at least, just as if tant, when you will be called he were to make no motion, upon to give an account of hav- without previously informing ing advised the opening of the the ministers of it! This would Green Bags after you had voted, be reducing members of Parliathat to open them must be de- ment to a pretty situation inrogatory from the dignity of the deed. If gout or any thing else Crown and injurious to the best keep you away from your seat, interests of the country. what is that to other members? You are a pretty person in- It is quite shocking to see how deed to affect the Statesman; regularly they wait for your arto put on the airs of acknow-rival, and to those who are not ledged superiority of judgment; up to the heighth of the cirto flout at the understanding of cumstances, the thing appears the Queen's advisers, and to wholly unaccountable. Dr. Lushhold forth the notion that you ington brought the matter forare the Prince of wisdom, pru-ward as he ought to bring it fordence, and correctness; you, ward. It was nothing to him who flounder and blunder at every step; and who, in your struggles to make yourself understood, only expose your plentiful lack of every thing, to the possession of which you put for-your good pleasure. ward such pretensions. where you were; and to all the other indignities offered to the Queen, he did not suffer her to endure that of making a complaint of her Majesty wait upon As to the merits of the case, As to Dr. Lushington, he is what does your defence amount as much your superior in point to? Why this; that the plate of understanding and talent as was not giren by the late King, he is in another requisite, which but lent; that it was not the I shall not, because I need not, King's property to give; and mention. The public, of which that it had not been delivered you speak, and long have spo-to the Queen now merely beken, in a sort of language, that cause the King had not ordered that public pays you back with it to be delivered to her. How interest, well know what value does this mend the matter? to set upon the assertions made We know very well that, if it use of, with regard to the plate, had been a pure gift, it could given by the late king for the not be the Princess's property, use of her Majesty, But, in the because, being a married wofirst place, what right had you man, that which was given to to complain of the conduct of her was, in law, given to her Dr. Lushington in bringing this husband, We, therefore, knew matter of the plate forward, very well, and nobody knew when you were not in the it better than Dr. Lushington, House? Just as if you were any that, in point of law, the promore than a member of Parlia-[perty was the King's, in case it ment! Just as if no member was a present from the late |