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King, and in case it was some. In short, your explanation thing that he had a right to give only tended to make the matter away. But, the situation of her worse. It only shewed that Majesty, by her becoming Queen, you were ready to seize hold of is very different from that of every little occasion of doing other married women, in respect those things which Dr. Lushof the possession of property; ington so justly described, and for a Queen, though married, in describing which, he spoke can possess property of her own precisely what every body, exindependent of her husband. A cept the tax-eaters, think. His married Queen, her Majesty, for bringing the matter forward has instance, can purchase and hold done a great deal of good; for lands; convey them away; and, it has shewn to what extent in short, do all manner of things, things are intended to be carwith regard to property, that ried; and it has given a new any other woman, unmarried, and strong motive to the peocan do. And, here, I fancy, we ple, to be upon the watch.

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are to find the true cause of the plate not being given up to her! For, if given up to her now, ex-ing the plate, which I must parcept with written conditions, it ticularly notice. I shall take is her own! And why should it the passage entire; and I shall not be her own? Why should take it from the COURIER, who she not have plate given her by points it out, as worthy of parthe public? You say that it did ticular attention. He calls it not belong to the King, because Lord Castlereagh's manly, enerit was bought out of the Civil getic, and unanswerable appeal List money. But how many to the country. Here it is then! hundreds of thousands upon "I am sure the feeling and hundreds of thousands of pounds good sense of the country will have been given away in "bear me out, when I say, that plate and other things, out of" IF her Majesty had conducted the Civil List money? And why" herself with that feeling which is this gift to the Queen, and" became her sex, and that digthis gift alone, to be called in" nity which belonged to her, question? You are become ex-" station, his Majesty's minitremely economical and careful" sters would be most anxious all of a sudden. If the plate "to afford every consolation, was not the property of the last" which a Queen, under such King, it is not the property of this circumstances, can expect. King. If it be the property of" But when her Majesty condeneither, it is the property of the " scends to listen to the meanest nation; and does the nation wish" advisers, when she suffers herthat it should be kept locked" self to become an instrument up, or used by somebody else, in the hands of the basest rather than that the Queen" populace of the country, who. should have it? "have presumed to insult the

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ally an opportunity of witness- This is very pretty language to ing, I have no hesitation to be made use of by a minister of the "declare, in defiance of every King, and at a time, too, when "taunt that the honourable and he is saying that he is urged to "learned gentleman may throw speak in order to support the "out in this House, that I should dignity of the crown! What do "abandon the duty which I owe you mean by populace? You "to the dignity and honour of must mean the labouring classes; "the Crown, were I to advise you must mean these; for of "the Sovereign to become the what else are numerous assem"dupe of such artifices. If her blies composed? You must mean "Majesty's present residence in these; and then let us see what "town is not suitable, I am per- they do. In the first place, out "suaded that no difficulty will of the fruit of their labour comes be thrown in the way of an five parts out of six of the whole arrangement by which her of the revenue of the country. Majesty may find herself a I mean to say, that the labour"suitable residence." ing classes, actually pay five This is an unanswerable ap- parts out of six of the whole of peal to the country, is it? This the taxes. This is one mode of is your way; your "statesman upholding a state: another mode like" way of appealing to the is the bearing of arms, and the country. This is your dignified fighting, if necessary, in defence manner of speaking of your So- of the state. And who do we vereign's wife, and of that in- find here again, who have dustrious and laborious people fought the battles by sea and that cheerfully maintain the by land? Certainly amongst splendour of that Sovereign! The those who won the battles of Roman tyrant made a distinc- Trafalgar and Waterloo, there tion between the people and the were some few men, that did not populace; but even fe made no belong to those whom you call attempt to describe a set of the populace; but is it not nocreatures as being an inferior torious that Sailors and Soldiers sort of populace. This was do, necessarily, come from something left to be done by amongst those whom you stighim who is well known to the matise by bestowing on thei nation under the name of Cas- this degrading appellation? Who tlereagh! The basest popu- is it that fill the ranks of the "lace of the country!" So, then, militia, the local militia? Who according to this description, all is it that is compelled to fill these the populace; that is to say, ranks? Why, for the far greater those whose labour feed the part, those who gain their daily Treasury, and whose arms de- bread by the daily sweat of feud the country; the whole of their brow; those who have no these are base, but those who property in any thing but their cheer her Majesty through the labour; those who have no

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thing of their own to defend the bare circumstance of the but their mere bodies; those husband being in the palace who can have no motive to take and the wife in Portman Street, up arms other than those of would, necessarily, call forth obedience to the law, and a love that which you call insulting of the honour of their country. the palace. The question naAnd, who fill the ranks of the turally arises in every mind, regular army now? Are they "Why is not the Queen in that not the sons, and brothers of the palace?" And in the answer to labouring classes? Are they not this question, and not in any a part, and essentially a part, of baseness in the people, is to be that same mass that you call found the cause of what you, in' populace? Does the putting a your mock heroic style, call, inred or blue coat upon their back sulting the palace of her Sochange their nature? Does not vereign and her husband. the blood of their fathers and Yet, it seems, that her Mamothers still flow in their veins? jesty is to be punished for this If the fathers, mothers, brothers ebullition of public feeling; for and sisters be worthy of the you say, that, if she had conname of populace, where is the ducted herself with that feeling, boundary to be drawn? We which became her sex, and that must all be populace, laborers dignity which belonged to her and artisans, manufacturers and station, then, you would be most shopkeepers, soldiers and sail-anxious to afford every consolaors; the whole mass of us must tion, which a Queen, under such be populace, and base populace, circumstances, can expect; but too; or else, your definition of that when she condescends to basest populace is purely a false listen to the meanest advisers, assertion and an unwarrantable and to become an instrument as insult. before mentioned, then you But, you say, that her Ma- would abandon your duty to jesty suffers herself to become the Crown if you were to advise an instrument in the hands of the King to become the dupe this" basest populace," who of such artifices. have presumed to insult the Now, what do you mean by palace of her Sovereign and her this? Who can make top or husband. What do you mean tail of it? What artifices are by this? You mean, I suppose, you talking about? You had the people having conducted been talking before about the her Majesty by the King's Pa- Queen's listening to the meanest lace, and having there given advisers, and about her suffersigns of their disapprobation. ing herself to become an instruThe word husband you should ment in the hands of the basest have omitted above all things; populace: But how can you for, it is so very natural, and make these out to be artifices? so perfectly proper that the They may be true or false, right wife should inhabit the same for wrong; but nobody but you place with the husband, that would have called them arti

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fices. The truth is, that, in fand with that dignity which beyour round-about harangues, the come her sex and station. close of a sentence has very sel- has shewn as much sensibility, dom any relation to the begin- judgment, and courage, as ever ning of it. It is a parcel of marked the character of wowords that we have before us, man: a great deal more than out of which we are to pick a Queen Elizabeth ever had an meaning, if we can; but your opportunity of evincing; and. speeches, if they do nothing indeed, the best commentary else, tend to give the world on your accusation, and the best a high opinion of the patience, answer to it, are, the love and adthe complaisance and the miration of this whole people, quiescent disposition of the with the exception, solely, of renowned assembly in which those who have an interest in they are delivered, and which, the carrying on of measures even without a division, reject-hostile to the peace and happied the motion of Dr. Lushing-ness of the country.

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"IF" she had conducted herBut her Majesty has, it seems, self properly, then you would according to your notion, not have afforded her every conconducted herself with that feel-solation. Yes; and I will ing which belongs to her sex, tell you, what you would have and that dignity which belongs deemed proper conduct. In the to her station. To hear you first place, it would have been complain of any one for want proper for her to be terrified at of feeling presents so strong a the threat at St. Omers, and to temptation to laughter, that one have fled away and not atcannot treat the matter serious-tempted to set her foot on Engly; but, to hear you, who have lish ground. But, having lisbeen one of the advisers who tened to the "meanest advishave heaped every species of ers," and actually come to Lonindignity upon her Majesty; don, it would have been proper you, who are one of those that for her to shut herself up, yield refused her a yacht to come herself wholly to the advice of over, who refused her a palace those who might have betrayed to reside in, who presented her; and skulk from the light green bags against her, who like a guilty thing. The highhave brought in a bill, stigma-blooded gentry not having vitising her as a licentious woman sited her, it would have been and an adulteress, and stripping proper for her to have drooped her of her title and rights as down into a state of despondenQueen; for you to complain cy; and if the mass of the that she had not supported her people, whom you denominate dignity is something more than populace, attempted to apcould have been expected even proach her with congratulafrom you! The fact is, how-tions, condolence, and offers of ever, that her Majesty has con- friendship and support, it would ducted herself with that feeling have been proper for her to

reject them with disdain, to you are persuaded that no difspurn them from her presence, ficulty will be thrown in the to condemn their sentiments and way of an arrangement by which their language, as was done in she may find herself a suitable the answers which absolute wis-residence. What is all this pardom gave, in her injured name, cel of words about? By the to the people of Nottingham IF" you would seem to and the people of Preston. doubt whether the house in When the deputation went to Portman-street is suitable or her from the great House of not; a doubt, by the expresCommons, it would have been sion of which you get no addiproper for her to have dressed tion to your popularity, though herself in a penitent's sheet, to it is very possible that it will have kissed the resolution as a not cause any change in the whipped child kisses the rod, public opinion with regard to and to have prepared herself you. But, what the public ask for being packed off to the Con- is this; " Why is not her Matinent in that yacht which, on jesty in a palace?" This is the the very day of the deputa-question that the public ask. If tion's going to her, the Courier plate be not the King's proinformed us, was actually come perty, palaces are not his proround into the River! perty. If they be not the pro

This is what you would have perty of the King; they are the deemed proper conduct, I dare property of the nation; and, say. Such conduct would doubt-then, the nation has, the palace less have received the "high at Windsor, the palace at Hampapprobation" of all the Scotch ton, the palace at Kew, the paPedlars that ever tramped lace of Kensington, the palace north-about till they got into of Buckingham House, the pathe sun-shine of the South. Her lace of St. James's, and the Majesty, however, has chosen palace of Carlton House. Bea line of conduct precisely the sides these, there are the royal opposite of this, and in so do- mansions in Bushy Park and in ing, she has insured her own Richmond Park, the latter of safety and her own honour, which, be it observed, was and has prevented this nation built for one of his late Majesfrom being plunged into ever-ty's sisters, and is now, and lasting disgrace; disgrace which long has been, occupied by that must have fallen upon it if she every-way-worthy colleague of had been driven out of the coun-yours, SIDMOUTH. Thus,

try, after which event no sub- then, there are three palaces ject of the King would have in town; one no further off dared to own himself as such in any country in the world.

than Kensington; three palaces and two royal mansions in There remains to be noticed the country; and out of all only one part of this harangue. these no corner can be found for You say, if her Majesty's pre- the wife of the King, though sent residence is not suitable, one of them is occupied by a

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