person who was in a very a palace you have no such bar, humble capacity not many years until you have actually dissolved ago. At Hampton Court, at her marriage, with the King. Kew, at Buckingham House, Until then she has the rights of (all most suitable palaces for the a wife, and, if you do not know Queen), all amply provided it, it is time you should know with every thing requisite to it, that, amongst those rights, Royalty, there is absolutely no- is the right of COHABITAbody belonging to the Royal Family residing. TION. Mark this; that, let a wife's conduct be what it may; This being the case, and the let her be proved to be all that country being in the most dis- the bill asserts her Majesty to tressed situation, why are the be; still, until the marriage be people to be called upon to pay actually dissolved, the wife has for a place of residence for the at all times a right to go to and Queen? Why are they to be to live in the same building with taxed merely to gratify the her husband, and, if she choose, desire of the Queen's enemies, to sit at the same board, and to see her Majesty living out of sleep in the same bed! This a palace; and how is it to be right is perfectly INDEFEASIexpected that the Queen will BLE, except solely by a dissoconsent to be a party to throw-lution of the marriage. No mating this additional burthen upon ter that there has been a sepathe people, whose sufferings ration; even if there exist arshe must be well acquainted ticles of separation; the wife with, and whose purses, we are can, during the existence of all well assured, she is desirous those articles, demand admitto spare, since we remember, tance into, and a constant resithat she so generously declined dence in the same house or fifteen thousand pounds a-year place of her husband, be that upon her quitting the coun-house where it will, and be try? long to whomsoever it may; In spite of all that can be except the house be a prison, said and done, we shall, I am in which the husband is confined convinced, see this courageous by sentence according to the due and injured Queen in a palace. course of law, or except it be a And now I beg the public, if mad-house, where he is put unnot you, and, particularly, Ider the superintendance of lehumbly beseech her Majesty, to gal guardians; and all this is perbestow attention upon what fectly well known to Dr. Lushington, though it may possibly am going to say. be excluded from your surprising mass of "statesman-like" knowledge. I You and your colleagues are always prepared with some legal bar to whatever is asked by her Majesty. Some law, some precedent, some usage, is always conjured up in bar against her. But, against her living in Here lies the real remedy of her Majesty. Buckingham House for the town, and Kew or Hamptop Palace for the country, would be sufficient for the Queen; and tempers; they have no desire if these be not given up to her, that her Majesty should do any her short remedy is, GOING thing wantonly to hurt the feelTO CARLTON HOUSE; or ings, or cast reflections on the to the Pavilion; in short, to character of the King: but they all or any of the places where are resolved that, as far as they his Majesty resides; and, if you can legally prevent it, as far, at ask me my opinion about the any rate, as their supplications, fact, my opinion is, that this is prayers, and legal interference the remedy that will be ap-can go, the Queen shall not be plied; and, if it should, we oppressed by the measures of shall then have an opportunity his Majesty's advisers. They of witnessing the consequences are not desirous of seeing of your "statesman-like" mode a strict cohabitation, after all of upholding the dignity of the Crown. that has transpired; but they do desire to see the wife of the Nothing short of palaces ought King in a Royal palace, and to satisfy her Majesty. While holding her Court as a Queen ; she is out of a paláce she is out and to this it will come, sooner of her place; she is in a state or later, in spite of every thing of abasement; for, though you that can be done to prevent it. might live in Portman-street We want to know, too, why without complaining, or even we hear any talk about grants in Shoe-lane, without degrada-of money for the Queen; and I tion from the circumstance of thought it singularly improper residence; the Queen cannot that any one should propose a live banished from the palaces, grant of money for the use of without complaining; she can- her Majesty. The means of not thus live without seeming maintaining the splendour and to admit that there are some dignity of the Queen are 'amply grounds for the accusations provided for in the Civil List. against her; to which I will Was it ever thought of in add, that it is the universal wish the late reign, to vote mothat her Majesty would take ney for the separate maintethe short course of redressing nance of the Queen ? Good her wrongs; that she would God! What are we come to, at make no more applications about last? The Civil List is an implaces of residence; but go at mense grant of money for the once to the palace of her hus-support of the splendour and band, and claim and enjoy her dignity of the Throne; and was rights as his wife. The public it ever contemplated as possible, wish that her Majesty, and the that a provision for the Queen King too, should be happy. could be regarded as not inWith their well-known and pro-cluded in the grant? It never verbial good nature, they do was; and, in whatever view not wish to see a ripping up of of the matter we take it, the old grievances; they make al-Queen is included in every lowances for incompatibility of grant of this description. You may talk as long as you please | beneath her, that I wonder her about a Queen in law being one Majesty has not disdained it, thing, and a Queen by grace long enough ago. This is the and favour another thing: but, only error that the Queen has learn now, if you did not know committed; and, when her Mabefore, that this distinction does jesty perceives, as she very soon not belong to wives. There is, will, that she will get nothing thank God, no such thing as by such humiliating means, I a wife by grace and favour. am persuaded, that she will lose Wives are such by law, and by not a moment in abandoning the law only; and that law is error. She is no Queen of not to be a dead letter with grace and favour. She is a regard to the Queen. The Queen in law; and, what is a Civil List is granted for her as great deal more, she is a WIFE, well as for the King; her right in which word is combined every of cohabitation no man will be thing that her Majesty stands in base enough to deny; and it is need of to secure her all the in her own good pleasure and means of upholding the dignity power to consent or not consent and splendour belonging to her to separate residence; and, of rank. Against this word you course, it depends upon her have no power. You fall nervepleasure what portion of the less before it. You are unmanned Civil List shall be applied to her in a moment. All your talk use. Her Majesty degrades her- about law, and grace, and faself by condescending to apply vour; all your quibbles vanish to any of you on the subject of in a twinkling. That all powerresidence, plate, or any thing ful name places her in the same else. Her husband's residence palace with the King, at any is her residence, and the short moment when she pleases; and way of settling the matter is being once there, she quits it, TO GO TO IT. This would if she quit it at all, on the terms settle the dispute at once, and that her own good pleasure shall would expose you and the ho- dictate. nourable House to no more of Thus, you see, there are those that laceration of your tender who think very differently from feelings, of which you, tender you about this matter; and who soul, make such mournful com- understand it, too, rather better plaint! It does not become a than you and your colleagues. Queen, and particularly a Queen It is earnestly hoped that her like her Majesty, to be carrying Majesty will wait for no trial, on a chaffering correspondence as it is called, before she assert with a set of toad-eating clerks. She has a husband; that husband is a King; she is descended from a family in every way equal to that of his own: appealing to his clerks for the means of existence is so much her rights as wife. To forbear from that assertion, is tacitly to admit a doubt of acquittal; and to admit such a doubt to exist in her mind is what I am sure her Majesty does not mean. I must repeat, however, that the public are all alive as to this These men know very well what point. They are indignant at the effect with regard to them, seeing her not in a palace. There of such popularity must be. is no need of a trial to convince There is nothing in this world them that she is a wife; or to which they so much dread. To remind them of the great dower make the Royal Family suspect that she brought to her husband. the people, and to make the peoIt was not to pay the debts of ple entertain towards the Royal her Majesty the Queen, that Family feelings, which I will not nearly seven hundred thousand describe, is the ruling principle pounds were paid by the people of the policy of this base, cruel, of this country. To pay that and cowardly set of men; one sum, how many of those whom of whom has lately observed, you denominate the "base po- that her Majesty took measures "pulace" had to part with a as it were for the purpose of inportion of their comforts! yet, flaming the country. If you had they parted with it cheerfully; called this a mean and base adbut FOR WHAT? Why, be- viser, your words would have cause his late Majesty asked been appropriate enough. What for it, as being necessary to the has her Majesty done to inflame happy establishment of his then any body? She has, as I have Royal Highness and his Spouse! just shewn, greatly erred on the It was upon this ground that the side of condescension and humimoney was asked for, and cheer-lity; and if she had not, should fully given. And is this wife, we have heard from the lips of the wife who brought this the silky gentleman, who has dower, to be treated by the ser-risen from the very lowest stàto vants of her husband as a sort since the marriage of her Maof beggar, to be relieved, if re-jesty, and whose wife as well as lieved at all, from motives of himself are fastened upon us as compassion, grace, and favour! pensioners for life: if the Queen Away with all your pretences had not condescended too fat, about feeling for the Queen; if she had asserted her unquesabout delicacy; about wishing tionable rights, in the manner not to distress her! Such pro- that I have described, and in the fessions are an insult, a cool and manner that I now most strecutting insult, to her Majesty;nuously recommend, and which and as such they are received by in so recommending, I only join the public. in the universal voice; if her Before I conclude, I cannot Majesty had asserted her rights help observing on the tone in this manner, she never would which has been taken by some have been insulted by the pert of those, who hate, much more observations of this subtle and than they hate the devil, the silky slave, who is not even bare possibility of there being now fit for any thing higher in this country, any single soul than that of handing her plate of the Royal Family popular, at table. whether as to character or deeds. Instead of endeavouring to of the Borough of Newbury, "in Public Hall assembled, beg leave to approach your Majesty, not in the language of unmeaning adulation, which " inflame the public mind, her Ma-" and loyal subjects, Inhabitants jesty seems to have been seeking, almost up to this moment, to prevent every thing like inflammation. Insulted at St." Omers; threatened there with prosecution if she dared put her would be as disgusting to the foot on the shore of England; dignified mind of your Majes accused the inoment she arrived;" ty to accept, as it would be attempted to be weedled out" degrading and disgraceful in of the country, and when that" us to offer, but with our had failed, ilified, abused, and" warmest congratulations upon pointed out that she ought to your Majesty's safe return to be made to yield as a martyr, if" this kingdom, after an absence no crime could be made out" of six eventful years, during against her in the midst of all" which period so many illustrithis she kept her patience. She" ous personages of your Royal answered coolly to the warmest" House have been removed addresses, lest. she should be in- from this transitory world. strumental in causing agitation." And we feel ourselves called But, there is a point beyond upon in a particular manner which to exercise forbearance "to offer our sincere condolence would be criminal, or would, at" to your Majesty, in the great least, argue a consciousness of" loss you sustained by the guilt. And, accordingly, when" death of your Majesty's guarthe bill of pains and penalties" dian and protector, our late virproclaimed her to the world, as" tuous and revered Sovereign, an abandoned adulteress, she" King George the Third, and assumed the tone that became " your amiable and beloved her. Of that tone her answer" daughter, the Princess Charto the Newbury Address is a lotte, upon whom the hopes specimen; and that specimen," of the nation had fondly resttogether with the Address that" ed. called it forth, I here insert, for "We have never ceased to the edification of the mean and feel regret for the unrelenting base man, to whose charge" persecutions and indignities against her Majesty, I have" your, Majesty experienced above alluded. "The humble Address of the "sembled. "MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY, 46 " 66 "while Princess of Wales, from "some of the highest authorities in this country; but as your Majesty completely tri"umphed over a foul conspiracy "in 1807, formed against your "life and honour, so do we sincerely trust your Majesty will 66 prove equally triumphant over "renewed attempts to vilify We, his Majesty's dutiful" your character. |