The Royal Exile: Or, Memoirs of the Public and Private Life of Her Majesty, Caroline, Queen Consort of Great Britain ... A Full and Impartial History of the Charges Against Her, and Proceedings in Parliament, and ... the Important Events ... Since Her Return ... with Original Letters, and Other ... Documents, Never Before Published, Volume 2Jones and Company, 1821 - Trials (Adultery) |
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Page 329 - for precedents as to the best means of enforcing the attendance of peers of this house during the proceedings on a bill intitled " An act to deprive her majesty, Caroline Amelia Elizabeth, of the title, prerogatives, rights, privileges, and exemptions, of queen consort of these realms, and to dissolve the marriage between his
Page 374 - of never-ceasing love ;— thus to be comforted, consoled, upheld, and blessed, was too much to be allowed me. Even on the slave mart the cries of " Oh ! my mother, my mother ! Oh ! my child, my child !" have prevented a separation of the victims of avarice. But your advisers, more inhuman than the slave-dealers, remorselessly tore
Page 456 - of between twenty and thirty carriages and four, headed by the parish beadles on horseback, carrying the banner of St. John, and another with the inscription, " Take away the wicked from before the .King, and his throne shall be established in righteousness." THE GLASS BLOWERS. This, perhaps, was the most splendid pageant of the day. It consisted of a great body of persons walking three abreast, and
Page 370 - sense of what is due to my character and sex forbids me to refer minutely to the real causes of our domestic separation, or to the numerous unmerited insults offered me previously to that period; but, leaving to your majesty to reconcile with the marriage vow the act of driving, by such means, a wife
Page 226 - of commons, and sparing this house the painful necessity of those public discussions, which, whatever might be their ultimate result, could not but be distressing to her majesty's feelings—disappointing to the hopes of parliament—derogatory from the dignity of the crown, and injurious to the best interests
Page 371 - giving- my hand to the son of George the Third and the heir-apparent to the British throne, nothing less than a voice from Heaven would have made me fear injustice or wrong of any kind. What, then, was my astonishment at finding that treasons against me had been carried on and matured, perjuries against me had
Page 375 - what I now demand, and this is refused me, Instead of a fair trial I am to be subjected to a sentence by the Parliament, passed in the shape of a law. Against this I protest, and upon the following grounds :— The injustice of refusing me a clear and distinct
Page 65 - as it might have been naturally expected, lost no time in addressing the following message to the house of commons, in consequence of that which had previously been sent down by the king. " The queen thinks it necessary to inform the house of commons, that she has been induced to return to England in consequence of the measures
Page 329 - of these realms, and to dissolve the marriage between his majesty and the said Caroline Amelia Elizabeth."—Ordered to report. The committee have met, searched the journals, and found the precedents annexed to this report ; and the committee are of opinion, that, if the house think fit, the following resolutions should be agreed to : Resolved, That no lord do absent himself, on pain of incurring a fine of
Page 108 - or to any proceedings in courts of justice. " The annuity to cease upon the violation of these engagements, viz. upon her coming into any part of the British dominion«, or her assuming the title of queen, or her exercising any of the rights or privileges of queen, other than above