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drn.tli it t)u If noo r t hil'JN niaicv u I nut Iro!. ! thir l.cm, OIl iniuTatic worm.n! tnudc to rejoice ovef the veiy jjravc cf.litr kbdrcd, In mournful gratitude (let thrir tict t arc marble Durlnj; l'MC probuioit f eHc wl of woc bereft or parent, ountry, child and huhnnd, sht tuul one uoUe ttiU lrr diaratttr was titiMcm Uhcd. f a refinement upon cruelty, even tlut conflation was denied lcrir -Twite. hud she to undergo the IfwjuMtWi of a start I otlinn tin,; 'hi foul conspire f. and ending in complete acqouul. The chutiiy of her mrtuti 'was ntwle the source of crime The peculiarities intcpar able from her lmh were made the ground of ac cusaiion her very servants ere epicstioncd whether every ttioit;htf and word, and look, and Kettuie, id t Kit, were not Ul ko many overt acts of cdujtcry J and when her most sacred nmments had been heartlessly rYpJo7ed,lf.e tafuy 'verdict which freed her from the Ru'ilt, could not absolve her from the humiliating consciousness of the accusation. Your giatious father, hwlced, with a benevolence of heart more royal than hh royalty, interposed his. arm between, ionocr pee U. punish ment for punihment it w, most deep and erievqus, to meet discountenance from all your family, and aee the fame which had defied all proof, made tho capricious sport of hint and in sinuation ; while that father lived, the still had some protection ; even in his night of life there was a sanctity about bim which awed the daring of the highway slanderer ; his honest, open, gen nine Englith look, Would have silenced a whole banditti of Italians. Vour father acted on what he professed he wa not more reverenced as a king than he waa beloved and respected as a man ; and no doubt ho fell bow poignant imust have been to be denounced aa criminal, without crime, and treated as a widow in her husband's life time. But death was busy with her best pro tectors, and the venerable form is lifeless now, which would have shielded a daughter and a Brunswick. He would have warned the Milan panders to beware the honor of his ancient house ; he wouhi have told them, that a prying, pettifog ging, purchased inquisition upon the unconscious privacy of a royal female, was no: in the spirit of the English character ; he would have disdained the petty larceny of any diplomatic pick pocket ; and he would have told the whole rabble of Ital ian informers and swindling ambassadors, that his daughter's existence should not become a perpet ual proscription ; that she was doubly allied to hi in by birth and nurriape ; and that those who exacted all a wife's obedience, should have pre viously procured for her a husband's counte nacc. Coil reward him ! There is not a father or a husband in the land, whose heart does not ' this moment make a pilgrimage to his monument. Thus having escaped from two conspiracies equally affecting her honor and life, finding all conciliation hopeless, bereft by death of every natural protector, and fearing perhaps that prac- among strangers, and he who should have rushed tice mieht make herjuru consistent, she reluctantly between her and the bolt of heaven, left her ex- determined upon leaving England. One pang i rri.3gt was not ll.tn '.trrn;; crxih h rpuclrn 'iito life the aerpciilbioodof lmlcter; no Mai wliuj aliens, no hungry tiitc of local expec imuv then hoped to fatten upon the oITah tif the royal imputation. She wa not long enough in widow hood to r,lvc the spy J the perjurer even a color, for their Inventions. 'I h? peculiarities of the for eigner, the weakness of the female, the natural lvacity of youthful innocence, cobM not then be torture! Intcj"demonUulwnairtrongM for you. yourself, in your iccordmg letter, had kft her imtity not only sit.itwpmhtd, but uujuspected. That iuvaluuble letter, the living document of your separattoif, gives es the sole reason for ) oar ile, that your inclinations' were not in your power! That. dre, and that alone, wafHii ter rific reason you gave your contott for this riubtic aodliieart .Tending , degradation. Tcrhvp .they .te Dot ('but, gtvc me leave to asK re not me obligations of leligion independent ohts t l.IUa any man a richt to square the solemnities of mar ilac acrerdmg to his rvle caprices f -Am' I, your fowly subject to undcrsTaiid that ITtriiy kneel - before the thrwie of Cod, nd promise conjugal fidelity till death, and self-above myself what ever moment it suits my u inclination V Not o will that mitred bench, who see her majesty ar raided before them, rcal to you this ceremony They will tell you it is the most solemn ordi nance of man ; consecrated by the approv inj? pi e ence of our Savior; acknowledged by the whole civilised community ; the source of life's purest pleasures, and of death's happiest consolations ; the rich fountain of our life ami being, whose draught not only purifies existence, but cause man to live in his ostcrity : they will tell you that it cannot perish by inclination," but by crime, and that if there is any difference between the prince and the peasant who invoke its obliga tion, it is in the mote enlarged duty entailed on him, to whom the Almighty has vouchsafed the influence of example. Thus, i ben, within one year after her marriage, was she flung Mli';e a loathsome weed" upon the '.vorld, no cause assigned except your loathsome inclination i It mattered nothing, that, for you ahc had surrendered all her worldly prospects tnat she had leTt her home, her parents, and her country that she bed confided in the honor of a prince, and the heart of a man, and theOfailh of a chrhtian ; she had, it seems, in one little year outlived your liking," and the poor, abandoned, branded, heart rent outcast, must bear it all in si lence, for the xvat a drfrticelen woman and a stranger. Let any man of ordinary feeling think on her situation at this trying crisis, and. say he does not feel his heart's blood boil within him ! Poor unfortunate ! who could have envied her salaried shame and her royal humiliation ? The lowest peasant in her reversionary realm was happy in the comparison. The parents that lov ed her were far, far away the friends of her youth were in another bind she was alone and !if ,. !fi. rcol'crli.'n. Ti e poet np, lint even gilcf find comfort in society, end Midland wcjt ftlthtiu. Hut, l (iod 1 what muit have been that hapless "mother's misery, when first, the dit. mal tiding came upon her J 1 he darling chill over whune crudlo the had shed to many tears; whose lightest look was treasured in her memo ry ; who, mid the" world's frown, t till smiled up on her the fair and lovtly flower, which, when her otb was quenched In (ears, lost not its filial, its divine fidelity. It was blighted In its bios torn; its verdant stem was withered! and in a, foreign Ind she heard it, and ahnt -no. not quite alone. The myrmidons of British hate wero round her and when her heart's salt tears wero bUnJinx a t, a German' nobleman w as plundering titr biters? Uclhink you, sire, if that fair para iron of daughters lived, Vould England's heart bo wrtnig with this roqnlry Ob J she would have torn the diarrfonds from her brort " and daubed each royal mockery to tbe earth, and rushed be fore the people, not in a monarch's, but In va iuhfi iijc'$ty ti child tppesling for.li.erJperse;,;L cuted mother I and (iod would bless the sight, Shd'man" would ha!Ior itrhd "every r"little ihfant ' in the land uhd felt mother's warm te'ar upon , her cheek, would turn liy instinct to that sacred summons. Vour daughter, in her shroud, is yrt alhit sire her spirit is amongst us- it rcxe un tombed , when her poor mother landed it walks anid the people it has left the angels to protect a parent. J he theme is sacred, and I will not nlly it ; I will not recapitulate the griefs, and worse than griefs the little, pitiful, deUberatc insults, which are burning on every tongue in Ijigland. Every hope blighted :very friend, diacountenanced her kindred in the grave her declared innocence made but the herald to a more cruel accusation her two trials followed by third, third on the , same charge her royal character insinuated awayty German pickloeh and Indian conspira torsher divorce sought by an extraordinary pro cedure, upon grounds untenable before any usual law or ecclesiastical tribunal her name meanly erased from the fiturpy her natural rights as a mother disregarded, and her civil rights as a queen sought to be exterminated-and all this all, becaube she dared to touch the sacred soil of liberty ! because she did not banish herself, an implied adultress ! because the would not be bri bed into an abandonment of herself and of tho generous country over which she has been called to reign, and to which her heart is bound by the most tender ties, and the most indelible obliga tions. Yes, she might have lived wherever she Hclectcd, in all the magnificence which boundless j bribery could procure for her, offered her by t,hosev who affect such tenderness for your royal char acter, and such devotion to the honor of your royal bed. If they thought her guilty, as they . allege, this daring offer was a double treason treason to your majesty, whose honor they com which would warranl the belief that she was preg- promisedtreason to the people, whose rooner nam In that year, or at any other period within the they thus prostituted. But she- spurned the in- ' . compatt of our enquiries" Yet people cf rank, famous temptation, and she waa right. She was WIi.l rr.f.Jd have jbou-J., ihfcl in a krt inn hr. J .he icHtJcu fiend of persecution vould have haunted bcr I ho could huc thuixht, that jn those distant clime, wheie her distivcted brain had sought c-Umon, the demoniac malice of her tneipics would have followed f U'l.o could hae thouht, that any human f rm which hid a heatt, would have aculked after the mourner, iti her wanderings,' to notu ihl con every unconscious gesture ? Who could have thought, that such a man there was, who had drunk at the pure foun tain of our llritisli law! who hud seen eternal justice in her aiuctu irv I. whi had invoked the shades of Holt and liardvricke, and hiMMgb converse with those ni?sbty spirits, whom mer cy hailed in Heaven as her lepreiefttaUfti on earth!. 1 :X . Yet sucli a man there was, who, on the classic siiorcs of CoinoTcvtn Irt the lihd tpfttie lifitr.6r tal llomun, where every stoneentombed a hero, and every scene was redclcnf of genius, forgot his jjame, Lis.cotintry, and hii calling,, to hoard ChC I) CHiiaoui auo- roo-aiiut-.. shades of our departed sages! aveit your eyes from "this" "unliilfowed spectacle " Uie s)i6(lcks clime is unsullied Mill ; the ark' yet stands un tainted in the temple, and should unennsecrated hands assail it, there i a lightnin; still, which would not slumber J No, no ; the judgment seat of British law is to be soared, not crawled to ; it must be sought upen an eagle's pinion, and ga ted at by an eagle's eye f there is a rudiunt pu rity around it, to blast the glance f grotehng oeculatian. ills labor was in vam. sire. Inc people of England will not listen to Italian wit nesses, not ought they. Our queen has been, be-! fore this, twice assailed, and assailed on the same charges. Adultery, nay, pregnancy, was posi tively sworn to ; one of the ornaments of our na vy, capuin Manby, and one of the most glorious heroes who ever gave a nation immortality ; a spirit of Marathon or old Thermopylae ; he who planted England's red cross on the walls of Acre, and shewed Napoleon it was invincible, were the branded traitors to their sovereign's bed ! en glishmen, and, greater scandal, Englith-women persons of rank, and birth," and education," were found to depose to thir infernal charge ! The royal mandate issued for enquiry lord Krskine, lord EHenborough, a man who bad dandled accu sations from his cradle, sat on the commission , and what was the result They found a verdict of perjury aguimt her Late accutert t The very child for whoc parentage she might have shed her sacred blood, was proved beyond all possible denial, to have been but the adoption of her char ity. We art; happy to declare to vour majes ty our perfect conviction, that there is no founda tion whatever for believing (I quote the very words of the commissioners) that the child now with the princess, is the child of her loyal high ness, or that she was delivered of any child in the year 1802 ; nor has any thing appeared to us, i . J. in. ' a I . . . . I CiKiut9 vi vur tv"' ei l poseu io.-a nwe wo .u s caprices. Anu ye snc ?l0ne embittered ner departure ; ner aaning, ano, ....j movin' the highcsl'soc cty in Eng. right to front her insatiable accusers-even wero lived, and lived without a murmur; her tears ,n despite of all discountenance, her duteous child . , .k- .ILhi. m.Jltv. niver sv thrv . .Inlm .hi, .n,h latlU, auiiiuivii til iv l..v av.vifciii a vuuii, .- J - - ... w tually volunteered their sworn attestation to this crying palliations but all innocent, as inmy con l falsehood. science I believe her to be, hot perhaps of the Twenty vears have rolled over her since, and levities contingent on ner oirtn, and which shall ret the same foul charefc of adultery, sustained not be converted into constructive crime, but of I not as before by the plausible fabrications of Eng- the cruel charge of adultery, now for a third time I iitiuhirrH against her. She wit ritrhf.' fMrft aF , ... 1 a ,1 IJ9IIIIIVI., UUk UUnifcltU Ul lilt, iihiiiiu.i lllivill.uiii K- O V-- - -JJ---T w- .ww ....v..... . w r..wft.w Wbv..v.uua, .r .i., i,a ,:,. rt0.h tn h afKvrt in ihf ihe court, wnicii was utx natural residence, and r i r- i r -a i r j tiv iBia w a -w T---w r 3acnncc-5en uaui&ncu, inc worm was ociorci . .i r it 1 1 .n.k.iftn her one grateful sigh lor the last, last tear upon her been minster people's monev naid the ocdlcr who selected the harbor . articles: and with this infected freight, which Sire, I am almost done I hare touched but The day beam fell not on a happier creature should have performed Quarantine before it vom- slightly on your queen's misfortunes 1 have con- creation caught new colors from her presence, itetl its moral pestilence amoncst us, the queen of tracted the volume of her misfortunes to a page. joy sounded its timbrel as she passed, and the England is sought to be attainted ! It cannot.be, and if on that page one word offend you, impute creation ! Too soon life's wintry whirlwind must "7,' , , ' UCB. V1" "HU u t,ud" ins : wc nave given mucn, very mucn inueea, n to my wa ..ucuuu... iwmniH. .u : .i ... ' t ecl tiotn before her But now, alone, an orphan m forip-ners. hut will not rnnrtde to them mv life to speak the simple truth, I offer it with and a widow ! her crallant brother in his shroud k un'T.A-nmA nrtnr-tni.a f nr;,;.t, ;.ciir. n f-..rl4 honestv to my &ovei'e!on. . You are in a rm . . q. C' I i kiiw imiu'kui f.vvt t,viiv4v v. uiiiisii jusiivv. " " y - r l hus, aire, lor many and many a heavy year 0f elorv : no arm" to shield, no tontrue to advo- ia tmf tr tm awt-wlsi ! tKut t tarn oknitt'slsi Jrt Ko I rliftirult. it niav be in a moat nerilotM emrfpncv. did your deserted queen beguile her solitude. Cate, no friend to follow an o'erclouded fortune, fnllowrl hv a third Mtwrimcnt ' that whpn the I Banish from vour court the sveonhantswho abuse j i w - . - w :d, an Italian miual tou surrounu your palace witn approving mui- that when people of titudes, not. with armed mercenarieSi-Other were ulcnt her sighs were lonely ; and when clung round her heart with natural tenacity. Pa: you perhaps in the rich blaze of earth s magm- rents who love and feel that very love compelling -licence lorgot that such a wretch existed, no rc- separation, alone can feel for her. Yet how could proach of hers awoke your slumbering memory, she subject that devoted child to the humiliation remaps sne cnensnea me visionary nope, mat 0f her mothers misery : How reduce her to ihcbabe whose perilous infancy she cradled might the sad alternative of selecting between scpara one nay be her helpless mother s advocate ; How fondly did she trace each faint resemblance ! Each little casual paternal smile, which played upon the features of that child, and might some distant day be her redemption ! How, as it lisped the sacred name of father,. did she hope its innocent infant, tone might yet awake within that father's breast some fjnd association ! Oh, sacred fancies! Oh,1 sweet and solemn vision of a mother who but must hallow thee ! Blest be the day-dream that beguiles her heart, and robes each cloud that hov. ers o'er her child in niry colours of that heart's creation ! Too soon life's wintry whirlwind must come to sweep the prismed vapour into nothing. she departed - Oh, Sirc,simagiae her at that departure ! How changed: how fallen, since a few short years before, she touched the shores of England ! le worm was bclorc nig.her inthc face of a generous and loyal all-buoyant with innocence as she feltf bravely to England one tear , A kind of 4(JCramen( thililjad a pack. fling herself upon the wave of the' people that tiaugner s neaci ana ed nrf assorle(l Q of human anklavits has people v, ill protect her Britain's red cross is her consigned, it seems, from Italy to West- flag, and Brunswick a spirit is her pilot May tho er r'tliirty-three" thousand pounds of the Almighty send the royal vessel triumphant into .1 .Jl. ... I , ...J .kft. hiiKrvn1 " ; ' " til mnv nfh.l n I rv r urm n II -f t .inn. rvill na.tim.il Lull l.,l . . n I ....v -v.. u mis nwiiw aaauiiitu it.- oranuea,egraueu,oesoiate,sne liung ncrseit once English testament has faiu Urlot smiles the ready he denied your errors more upon the wave, to her less fickle than a hus- kb &hall be resorted to ;. . v.,... v.... ...v.. ... udim s urunuscs ; i oo not wonuer tnai sne nas i-horrrir hr Kn 1 I Vllttl HVIVI IIVI O IM V wwia humble man was merely duty, and mid the din of pomp, and mirth, and revelry, if remorse spoke, 'twas inarticulate. . Believe mc, Sire, when all the tongues that flattered you arc mute, and all the gaudy pageants that deceived you are to pass through a severer ordeal, because impu nity gives persecution confidence. But I marvel i indeed much, that then, after the agony of an cx ..! - . a - . a parte trial, anu tne triumph ol a complete though discredited, others crowns may1 be bestowed by despots JVttUCM.aadowr t Jii "ft .t". 1" munuer, cuu your poor wne deserve mis treat ment, merely from epmc distaste of 44 inclina tion i It must be answered. Did not the ul tar's vow demand a strict fidelity, and was it not ....... . . lk- a solemn anu a sworn duty, "lor better and tor worse," to watch and tend her correct her way- wardness by .gentle ; chiding, and fling the fond ness t-whttssandV love bet wcciV h er e rrbrs" and the world ? It must be answered; where the , poor rag wppn lb,e, pwrc&t4beggar in your. realm shall have the splcndour-of tv coronation garmeht. Sad, alas ! wcie these sorrows of Ivcr solitude, but sad as they cy. The first crTollowed. Th . ..... U mA Ktr rannmi Kit, llCllft'lVU J ....v... i.iv J , .The tbrcno wa honor u the people's choice. -. Jts safest bulwark , is the populaV heart, nf its b ightest ornament domestic virtue. ForgeUJOt, 'also, there is a throne which is aboye'een the should be recruited who haVe no character any where ; but above all It is intolerable, that a de fenceless woman should , pass her life in endless Persecution, with one trial m swift succession fob ingeringexculpauon.the natural spirit of English lowing another, in the hope, perhaps, that her no- justicc-tlia 0trtan4 embodied" between hcrand 1 blebearCwUch'bardefiedltliroo throne of Englandwhere-fljitcreTS cannot, qumer ...w .... v-. ..v. hiuiuuihw juui vapuiH.ii5n U mc torture 01 eternal avecusauon. ocnui wnerc Mosaic accjmcicss. iuc?gjuuuM' no peopic, me peerage, ttie prelacy, should nave I back, then, o Italy, those allied adventurers : the are written in language brighter than the sun, and sprung into unanimous procession ; all that was hand oT their birth, and the habits of their lives, in the course of nature, you muf soon confront noble, or powerful, or consecrated in the lahd,raiikc unfit them for an English court of justice them. Prepare the way by. etTking now cacb ai,umu siuc no iu mc ijaiui.c gaie, auuuc- mere is no spark ot ireedom no grace ot rc- seeming siignt, anu tancicu injury i ana wncn you their degenerate Unswcr the last awful trumpet, b-your answer sensuaffromtlieir this : GODr I FOHOAVEI IIOPE TU ftv. venal; and officious : nattinliMd Bfl TORCilVEN " all policy,, and all humanity, ana should heart Ar to the ibunsei countenance thi.inmariiy perse- anneal not tiK ou.but to vour the morals of their nation endure the taint of this mask for the most inCcstuoii inrroHii. rnA harliktncut. 1 anneal 'ttintter sacred firelatv f vs which their nign been kept towards onid r.m mortalia pectora covrts !" the once m- this illustrious lady wlfether the hand I mandeci why their queen presented to their eye Ugion no sengc oL morals in Wdi. JJIULJPointeU.Jjrow ioiL..:Efleminate in roaoners-r snouid dow down in the dust when a British vcr- cradles ; era Kft-I 1 1 .1 Tfl sl ' - . u.wv i uuoncea ner innocent : vvny sne t0 crjme, outcaSfttsof credulity ; they have seen! But if, against wasrefa u.....i.i,ft. ...k:. i i i; .i i L.. -. , i. . .. . .. ' . J .. t ? 'U,"U,H aumC nau a ngni to ciaira ; vvny churches scenes of daily assassination! their which turther the. annals ol their time should be disgraced, and f.tth is form : their mai-ria rMnnVafri. rntion.then must I ,... ... ..., ' " "wv v.. mitsK lur tuc most incosiuous intercourse ; goui parnaincin. i ti()pvai iu mc were they were but intheipnfam. terrific precedent rand why it was :tbat after their is the God before which they prostrate every im- tiiglatid, whetber iheiioi vows bloxv passed a second and sever- countless sacrifices for your royal house they pulse of their: nature- A auri sacra fames' church administered, iAave be he darling chijd, over whose couch should be cursed with this pageantry oi royal hii- quid r.m mortalia pectora cogis !" tbe once in- this illustrious lady vvlither ... v . ! . u J ai luiih I'v uiui C4 . iilii (fiii.aL. ill ahe shed ber eht tearupon whoje, bead she miliauon I ... hd they so Jcted, the dire, affliction dignant exclamation of their aiitinuity, has be- should have erased; he from that page, with which it is worse lhaiwblaspheiny u man to in teiferc whether, difneaven's vicecerents, they ..-..poured ner daily bencdictionm wtiose injant jot this day might have been spared us. We smile she lived, 2nd moved, and "-had' her beincr I should not have seen the filthv spu'pro if 'Ttlv was torn Away, and in the'iriqthcr's sweet endear I disgorge a livifiar leprosy upon our throne: anil incnts she could no .longer.. lose the miseries 67 slaves and spies, imported from a creedless broth the wife. Her Liber,' and her laureled brother el, land to-attaiht the sacred majesty of Entrlahd ! :--iipon t.fieeId.of. battieVcaled4-4fojf glo-j But who, alas ! will succour the unfortunate i ry, hapjytp a -soldier s death, far happier that 1 be cloud of yonr displeasure was unon her. this dreadful clay was spared7 tiiem 1 Her aolrj and the gay, glittering, countless "msect-swarro 'lift-- Um . I lAnA U .... V I J . L i L - J' .I - . i ' . i - . come ine maxim at their modern practice No nice cxtrenie a tnic Itulian knows : Hut, bid. him go t o 1 1 ell to Ikll,htoea. -x Away with the'm ny where Iro in us they can will not adjure the cWdid pavsions of ' the eaitb. imitate the inspired fiumanitv of their Sayicnuv not live in England ; liiey will die in the put it v and, like Himiprccfa persecuted creature from of its moral atmopberc. . ;.. the insatiaterrgsof ruthlesi, bkwdy, ad "nu . Meanwhile, during this accursed scrutiny, even I ing. accusation ! .. . . .. while the legal blood-bounds were on the scent;! I apbccVk tie hcrcditaru fiecrage of the realp'. ..... ..... . . ' I : I .r. tne lasi aear siay which bound her ta the world
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