forgotten the dignity of her rank in every step she has taken since arriving in this country ;had she preferred the habitation that Russia's Czar deemed fit for his abode as an Emperor, before the house of a private individual whose politics are too bad for his own professed party, and whose officiousness is their worst annoyance; had she sent a message to Parliament that embodied an evident disclaiming of, instead of a distinct association with, the ideas and principles of the factions ;-then might the Queen, from the high ground of such positive and negative vantage, have given Parliament that denial which it as little expected as deserved.

To speak plainly, Parliament dreaded the investigation, as well for her own sake as the country's their vote is a record time cannot efface, of the impression her conduct had made on its mind. I defy the world to prove that the stern integrity, the jealous gallantry of the British Senate, would give a mixed majority of 391 in favour of a proposition, which went to entreat their Queen to relinquish a jot or tittle of her rights or privileges, unless as a supposed alternative in the true spirit of respect for

Monarchical Government, and its necessary gradations of rank and dignity, to save her from a far greater degree of degradation. In this light will posterity construe the 391 votes of the ever-memorable morning of the 23d of June.

Had the Queen relied on the people of England she had done well; but suffering her cause to become the cause of the rabble, and the despisers of all authority, she cannot expect concessions which would re-animate the disaffected, and re-organize the retreat of Jacobins and traitors. I blame her not for the mob which huzzas her, or the pickpockets who speculate on her appearance at her window; but I blame her, solemnly blame her, for the paraphrase of factious sentiment with which she has just addressed Parliament, and for that fatal denial she yesterday gave to the respectful request of 391 of its most distinguished Members.

We must be firm-duty must be paramount to private considerations: from the moment of the Queen's betraying no desire to keep a dignified and scornful distance from alliance with factious outcry, from that moment was her

cause the cause of the mob-from that moment concession to her was felt as concession to it. Every point which kindness to the Queen, delicacy, and reverence for her high dignity, induced Parliament to adjust and modify, the seditious have seized on to misrepresent as a a cause of exultation and triumph to the Queen. Let me tell the world, that history will record, and posterity analyse, not only the feeling that pervaded the British Senate on the 23d of June, but that agony of anxiety which, from the first, toiled to avert the investigation of the accusations against the Queen. Posterity, too, may be able to discriminate obstinate defiance, which is crutched by miscalculation of expected support, from the noble grandeur of dignified and conscious innocence.

JULIUS.

IN

SIR,

LETTER III.

то THE SAME.

June 29, 1820..

In my letter to you of the 25th instant, I most distinctly and unequivocally explained the light in which the never-precedented majority in favour of Mr. Wilberforce's celebrated motion ought to be viewed. I there defined' the feeling that produced such an extraordinary unanimity as proceeding from a conviction that an acquiescence in its request was the Queen's only alternative from far deeper degradation and disgrace.

The proceedings which have followed in close succession her authoritative rejection of the request of Parliament, by very significant implication, confirm me in my opinion. On the Saturday refusing to comply with the expressed wishes of the British Senate, the Queen sends down a petition for delay to Parliament on the Monday; and previously defying and challenging

immediate investigation of her conduct, finds an advocacy in the House moving the sine die adjournment of the Inquiry, on the Parliamen tary plea, that this said Inquiry, which all classes were so earnest in deprecating, could not but be" derogatory to the dignity of the Crown, and injurious to the best interests of the Empire."

There are cases where we have but a choice of evils; and cases, moreover, utterly beyond our own control-dilemmas in which no fault or error of our own has plunged us that it certainly must be derogatory to the dignity of the Crown, that one, entitled to wear it, should be sent to trial on charges of the gravest nature, who can dispute? That such trial, however resulting, must, in such times as these, be injurious to the best interests of the Empire, who cannot see? But have the logicians of faction, the tools of party, forgotten the mere rules of grammar, and set aside all need or idea of the degrees of comparison? Such a course may be derogatory and injurious; its only alternative opposite more derogatory and more injurious.