boldness of the imposture, give" was born precisely at the moment credence to the statement, draw prescribed by nature. Of the the natural conclusions, and be-" causes which led to this immestow detestation and abhorrence" diate separation, it does not on him, whom it is fitting they belong to me to detail the exshould behold with affection and planation." And then the king speak of with reverence. is made to say, "The first wrong was done to me.?

However, after all, every thing in these declarations, made in the Wives, look at this! Husbands, king's name, sinks out of sight, even the most unfeeling, profiwhen compared with the base and gate, base and abandoned, look black-guard insinuations contained at this; and say, whether even in them against her Majesty.ruffian, in stew begotten and in There is something so vile, so brothel bred, ever was yet found filthy, so beastly, so much worse so shamelessly infamous as to deal than brutal in that to which I in insinuations like these: and, allude, that I cannot proceed fur-when you have answered this ther to notice it, without begging question, say what is due to the pardon of both King and Queen men, who have written, printed even for attempting to describe and published a book, putting the infamy of the pretended friend these insinuations into the mouth of the former and the avowed of the King, and sending them assailant of the latter. forth under his royal signature!

The task must, however, be performed: let us, then, take a look at the horrid words: "Though "the match was forced, I had still "a right to expect a female of "chaste person and uncontami"nated taste." As to taste, that is a thing wholly unreduceable to any standard. But, he proceeds: "but, the morning which dawned "on the consummation of the "marriage witnessed its virtual “dissolution. Our daughter, the

child of a fond admiring nation,

All, the reader will perceive, was discovered between the evening and the morning? It is here clearly insinuated, that the King discovered want of chastity; for, it is asserted, and the words are marked by italicks, that the first wrong was done to him. The remark as to the precise moment of the birth of the Princess Charlotte, and the calling of her "the child of a fond admiring nation,” admit of some latitude of inter pretation; but, coupled with the

-other parts of the statement, to before the consummation of the what a sum of infamous calumny marriage; for in that case, what does the whole amount; and to horrid baseness in the husband what horrid ideas would they not must the consummation imply! give rise in the mind of any one Could it possibly be made afterwho had been imposed upon by wards? Could the proof of the the signature and the date of this first wrong be discovered after nefarious publication; which, ob- the consummation, and yet before serve, has come forth with the the dawn of day? Surgeons in King's arms at the head of it; the pursuit of their necessary dated at Carleton Palace; and studies; butchers in the cutting with an imprint, purporting, that up of arcases, find themselves it is published by TURNER, the compelled to familiarize their King's Stationer, and sold by minds with the ideas here awakSAMS, bookseller to His Royal Highness the Duke of York! The audacity of this is beyond every thing ever before supposed possible; and yet, it would seem, that five editions have been suffered to go abroad with as little interruption as just so many Religious Tracts!

ened; but was there ever before heard of a man so audacious as to impute such brutality of thought and of language to a husband? The husband himself, if such an one could be found upon earth, must raise against him the voice of all woman kind, and must flee from society as a monster unfit to be However, leaving his Majesty's suffered to live except amongst character to be, on this occasion, brutes. And yet a prince, famed for defended by his law-officers, let accomplished manners, priding me, begging his Majesty's par-himself on those accomplishments don even for noticing the foul alledged, even in this very book, calumny, proceed to inquire a to be uncommonly sensible to the little into the possible foundation | power of female charms, and of of that calumny.

exquisite niceness in poin of taste, is here, by some unknown Parasite, aided and abbetted by the king's Stationer and the Duke of York's Bookseller, exhibited to

Only a few hours passed, it is asserted, while the parties were alone. The context necessarily implies this, even if the assertion had not been made. The disco- the world as speaking of the pery could not have been made secrets of the wedding night, and

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that, too, in a way, that would, would appear to be insinuated by if imitated by a drunken Sailor this Parasite; if the consummain a Portsmouth-Point Brothel, did not take place, 'what is the send the beastly blackguard neck necessary conclusion? Why, that and heels into the street, the Princess Charlotte was what To make, however, common I will not even name! And this, sense of this imputation against I think, caps the climax of inher Majesty, the proof of a want famy in the way of insinuation; of chastity must have been dis-while, if we believed the Letter covered before the wedding night. to be what it calls itself, it would, For that alone is reconcileable when we recollect the accounts of with the first wrong as here the king's sorrow at the death of alledged, and the immediate sepa- that royal lady, hold him forth as ration; unless we go upon the the most consummate. hypocrite supposition, that the king had that ever disgraced the human very sedulously studied as an form. But, our consolation is, accoucheur. Yet, if the discovery that the whole of the story is a took place before the marriage, lie; a complicated lie, invented where was the taste, and where for the purpose of injuiring the the fine sentiment, that could Queen, without, apparrently, endure the marriage ceremony? caring one single straw about the. Oh! that was compelled by justice injury likely to be done to the due to the poor creditors! In-king: and yet this abominable deed! And did justice to the book is published by the King's creditors; did their interest pro- Stationer and sold by the Duke, duce the consummation too! of York's Bookseller. Never was there so scrupulously

Before I quit this expose de honest a debtor in the whole motifs as to the instant virtual, The thing, if not a barefaced dissolution of the marriage, let, blackguard lie, from the begin-me advert to another part of the ning to the end, would certainly book, where the king is repre be a miracle; which, indeed, is sented as speaking of her Mathe only objection to a great jesty as an object of loathing. many other of the miracles, wit- There is another passage, which nessed by us and our forefathers. has made me laugh: "The But, then, if the consummation Queen is growing old. We did not take place; and even this" are both beyond the hey-day of

life," What! the king is not | from such a wife. I never saw growing old, I suppose! Oh, her Majesty from that time, 'till no! It is not polite to call him I saw her coming up Shooter's old; nor is it loyal; for the king Hill, on the memorable sixth of "never dies," But, the Queen, June last, when I recognised in being only a subject, dies like her face all that good-humour other folks of course she is and all that vivacity, which had growing old; and, as far as I so much pleased me in 1801. have observed, this is the only true remark respecting her, from the beginning to the end of the Letter, so audaciously inscribed to the king,

As to what is beautiful and what is not, there is no standard. All depends upon taste; and our tastes vary with our characters, which are as various as are the

As to her Majesty having, how-wild plants of the field. But, I ever, been an object of loathing, know what my own taste in female to be sure, large allowances are beauty is, and I will describe it. to be made for taste, But, who A woman, five feet two inches that ever saw her Majesty, at high (without her shoes) half an any time of her life, will not inch more or less. Plump, even say, that this description is not when young, and prone to crum, most gross and malicious abuse? I rather than crust, as she increases saw the Queen, just twenty in years. Small-boned, small hand, years ago last Thursday week. and small nimble feet, and giving I was so placed (in the Privy Chamber, I think, they call it), at St. James' Palace, as to see all the persons going to the late Queen's Drawing Room; and, after seeing great numbers colour; features that speak; a pass, I asked who that "pretty, voice at once feminine and firm gay little lady was," and was a laugh that banishes melancholy told, that it was the Princess of from my abode; a temper that Wales. I thought her the most sets disguise at defiance; a will, beautiful of the whole; and I that, by its ripplings, prevents will not attempt to describe my life from becoming a stagnant feelings with regard to him, who pool; a heart that shews its tencould be voluntarily separated derness, not in sighs and whines,

evident proofs, that the fruit of her love are not, for want of an ample natural supply, to be banished to a hireling breast, Sprightly eyes of I care not what

but in excessive fondness for chil-Junperverted mind can now behold dren and in active boldness at the the Queen without feeling eager bed-side of the yellow-fever or to serve her and proud to yield the plague; and, if I cannot pre- her respect and obedience.

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possessor. audacity to tell the People, and ` That this is my taste I have under the King's name, too, that given the best possible proof; this royal lady, is an object of and, it is well known, that her loathing! However, this is no Majesty might have sitten for the more than a repetition of one of picture. I had, on Monday, the the blackguard assertions, made opportunity of seeing her Ma- so incessantly at the West End of jesty, from a distance of about London, for many years, previfour yards, for a whole hour, or ous to her Majesty's arrival. more; and, independent of her heard, years ago, of a book kept station and the interesting circum-in a certain house, where people stances connected with the occa- might go and read the evidence sion that brought me, among so given against her, by the perjumany others, into her presence, I red wretches in 1806; but, where saw in her a beautiful woman. they were not shown any of the Not a doll; not an immoveable statements in her defence. There thing, made of wax, with glass has been a perfect system for eyes stuck on its face. But a calumniating the Queen; and, had living being; a being with fea- not "the Book" been published tures that tell what is passing in in 1813, it seems impossible the heart. No affectation about for her to have been preher; all is goodness, real gracious-served. ness; and, still, all is dignity; Having now done with what every thing to inspire affection may be called the brutal part of and to rivet attachment. And, this performance, I shall proceed when one reflects on all she has to such of the rest as are at all undergone; on all her sufferings, worthy of notice. The writer all her dangers, and on her forti-attempts to justify the proceedtude and her bravery, is it possible ings of 1896, upon the ground to refrain from exerting in her of numerous rumors; but, the service whatever we possess of worst of it is, that the Tribunal jalent or of strength? No man of to try her conduct sat and de