"We admire the prompt re-nerosity. Those obligations "fusal of your Majesty to com-" have been greatly increased promise your honour for a pe- "since my return; and I should cuniary consideration; nor can be insensible to all right feel"we forbear expressing equal" ing, if I did not, hereafter, "admiration at the magnani- consider England as my only "mous and decisive conduct" home.

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"your Majesty has displayed, I have shed many tears over by your unhesitating confi-" the early grave of the Princess "dence in the loyalty and ho- Charlotte; and I am, at this "nour of the British nation, as "moment, sensibly affected by "well as the courage you have" the tribute of affection which " evinced in boldly meeting" you have paid to her memory, "your accusers, protesting "and by that tender recollection "against all secret investiga- "of her worth which is so uni"tions, and demanding an open" versally cherished.

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" and Constitutional Tribunal. "When death removed his "We sincerely hope that" late revered Majesty to a hap"your Majesty will be estab-" pier scene, I instantly felt the "lished in all your just rights" magnitude of the loss I had " and privileges; that you will" sustained; while his sacred "triumph over all your enemies," life was spared, it operated "whomsoever they may be," like a barrier against the " and wherever to be found;" vengeance of my persecutors. "and that you will reside" But his dear remains were "amongst a people zealously" hardly cold, when my enemies "attached to the House of began to renew their persecu"Brunswick, and who feel" tions, and to load me with deeply interested in the wel-" aggravated indignities. I was "fare and happiness of your" almost instantly held up to Majesty." "the people as a criminal, un(Signed, on behalf of the meeting,)

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worthy of having my name "inserted in their devotional " formularies.. The Conspiracy, "which had been defeated, "though only by a partial in

Her Majesty returned the fol-" lowing most gracious answer :

vestigation of my conduct, in "1806 and 1807, again reared "His Majesty's dutiful and its vindictive head; and an "loyal subjects, inhabitants of "attempt is now making to de"the Borough of Newbury, me- grade me in rank, and to sink "rit my grateful acknowledge-" me in infamy, by a procedure, "ments for this frank and affec- which is at once an outrage “tionate Address. During my" upon all law, and wholly inlong absence from this coun- compatible with the spirit of "try, I never ceased to remem-" the British Constitution. But "ber the obligations which 1" my honour and my rights are, "owed to its high-minded ge-" in fact, those of the country;

our security? What becomes of the security of any man who is hated by the ministers of the day? Can any man hope to plead successfully against that species of jurisdiction, to which the wife of the King has been compelled to submit!

"and every one is interested in "their preservation.-The tyranny, which destroys me today, makes every man's liberty "less secure to-morrow. In the present alarming crisis, when "I am attacked by the strong "arm of overwhelming power, "I rely first, as an innocent The case of her Majesty, then, woman, upon the favour of a is the case of us all; and there "protecting Providence; and naturally and necessarily arises next, as an insulted and a per- a fellow feeling; a community "secuted Queen, upon the sym- of sentiment and of interest bepathies of the People; and tween her Majesty and the peoupon that potent agency of ple; and especially any part of public opinion, which now the people that may have been "forms the best safeguard marked out as objects of opagainst the aggressions of ty- pression. And who has been ranny, and the enormities of injustice."

the cause of this community of sentiment and of interest? Why, those persons who have placed her Majesty in her present situation, and with regard to whom, her Majesty must feel precisely as others feel, who have been persecuted by the same men; and, for the greater part, by precisely similar means.

Nothing that ever fell from the pen of man; and, what is a great deal better, nothing that ever proceeded from the heart of woman, was more proper than this. Her Majesty does not at all over-state the matter when she says that we are all interested, equally with herself, in Therefore, the mean and base the preservation of her rights. man, to whose words I have alThat which is her lot to day, luded above, may, as they say in may be the lot of any of us to- Yorkshire, keep his breath to morrow. If her rights can be cool his porridge. The Queen taken away, by a process, no can say nothing to defend hermatter what, our rights can be self; she can say nothing in retaken away by that same pro- probation of her persecutors; cess. Indeed, if this were not she can make no complaint, no the case, the injustice of proceed-remonstrance; she can make no ing against her in this manner movement in order to parry the would be too horrible to be blow that is aimed at her: she thought of. It would then be must close up her lips, and go a thing invented for her alone. like a lamb to the slaughter; or Well, then, every one of us is she must make common cause liable to such a mode of pro-with the people: to which I ceeding. Any man may be have only to add, that, if this taken out of the ordinary tri-be a subject of lamentation with bunals, and tried and condemned you, you have the consolation to by bill. What then becomes of know that it is altogether of

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 re against 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 dangerplacing 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 fairly towards the Queen! The passing of this bill has not been overlooked by the public; and it has by no means tended to assuage the feelings that before existed.

I hope her Majesty will think twice and even a thousand times, upon a step like this, be fore she take it? I hope she will reflect well and long before she give her consent to the adoption of a measure like this. The refusing the Queen the Nothing can be more unneces→ names 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 that 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 quickly seem to say, that she wish-found, a deputation of that ed to avoid that trial. It House at her feet, with an hume

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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 PREber character! FERENCE to the House of or stain upon 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 Amen. if the bill pass the Upper House House of Commons! WM. CORBETT. it will also pass the Lower House.

P.S. I have just room to congratulate you on the Glorious Revolution in Naples. A second Revolution, effected by Soldiers! and not a life lost!

Oh! no! This is not the way to go to work. Let the Lords go on, and let her Majesty, as it is said to be her determinaPOLITICAL REGISTER. tion, go and face her accusers The present number contains in person, and she need fear the Table of Contents and Index nothing. Her Majesty will have to Volume 36, of which the last much better opportunities in the number was the close. By those House of Lords than she would who think it worth while to put have in the House of Commons those numbers into volumes this of suggesting questions to the table of contents and index must accusers' witnesses, Her un-be taken out of the present derstanding the language of the number and put to the beginItalians is a great advantage.ning of the last Volume. In the House of Lords her Majesty will be better situated for this purpose; and, what is a The unexpected torrents of great advantage, she will be 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 She Queen, have made it necessary no mummery going on. 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

COBBETT'S PARLIAMENTARY

REGISTER.

DOCUMENTS Relating to her Majesty the QUEEN.

Lord W. Russell and Mr. Whitbread presented the following Address to her Majesty, on Tuesday last:

TO HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY CA

ROLINE AMELIA ELIZABETH, QUEEN
OF ENGLAND.

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 trial. We shall then start fairly 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 Perceval, Jenkinson and Castle-empire.

The dutiful and loyal Address of the householders and inhabitants of the ancient town and borough of Bedford:

reagh; and we hereby beg those "In offering our congratula of these persons who happen to be tions, we cannot refrain from still alive, to accept of our grate-expressing our sincere and heartful thanks, 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.