To charge me with having espoused the cause of her Majesty very manifest to me, for it was for the sake of gain, and espe- also manifest to the public, that cially for the sake of rain from there existed an intention of the cause assigned, is stupid as sacrificing her Majesty to views well as wicked. Just as if the of selfish ambition. I need not cause of the Queen was a new tell your lordship whom I sup cause with me! I never had pose to have entertained such any communication with her views, nor need I tell you what Majesty. Never any message savage revenge must exist in from her directly or indirectly. the breast of him who had enNever directly or indirectly tertained them: what Savage received any of her money, revenge against the person to nor of the money of any one appertaining to her Majesty. But, if I would have written against her Majesty, I have a little more than bare surmise to induce me to believe, that I might at this day have been in a state to have had the base lawyer and the still if possible baser Walter, the selfish, reedy, sneaking cowardly Walter, crawling at my feet. For, be it known to these wretchedly degraded men, that in 1812, a quiemiony

whom the public gave a part of the credit of having exposed, baffled and destroyed those views To this savage revenge I ascribe the false and malicious communication above alluded to. Revenge like that of the negro who, when seeing himself thwarted in consummating his vicious desires, cut the throat of the object of those desires,

But, I am not to be turned aside from my duty. I am not to be silenced or checked; I

out o of the country, if she were to do that, never would there drop from my pen one single word with regard to lier case, except for the purpose of causing her pecuniary allowance to be taken from her. This, too,

the Common Hall by her honest and able adviser Mr. Alderman Wood, who, with all the gibes cast at him in the honourable House, has proved himself to be a man truly worthy of the trust that has been reposed in him by the Queen, and which, indeed, the public had conferred on him beforehand.

am not to be made desist for one 'single moment by any attempts of this sort. I shall pursue the path in which I am. I shall openly, publicly, and with all the means in my power, espouse the cause of the injured and oppressed. I see in this attack is the language made use of at upon myself one of those tricks, which corrupt men always have ready at hand wherewith to effect their purposes, and to these tricks I very plainly alluded, or rather, I very fully described them, in my second letter to Mr. Alderman Wood; where I observed that the conspirators against a victim, when they perceive talent drawn forth on his Having touched upon this side, set themselves to work to subject, I cannot refrain from blacken the talent; as the making a remark, which seems wolves, before they attacked the not to have been made by those sheep, first set themselves to who have taunted the Alderwork to draw off the dogs, No man with officiousness upon such attempt at blackening this occasion. It seems, indeed, will, however, have any effect to be no very amiable thing to upon me, I shall steadily per- reproach a man for having done severe, wholly regardless of a meritorious act, and to reovery thing but the object of proach him the more merely bemy labours; that is to say, giv- cause the act was voluntary and ing the victory to innocence disinterested. But, though the and truth; and seeking no re-act was perfectly disinterested ward but that of my own con- in this case, it was not altogether science and the preservation of voluntary; for, when his premy own character in the world. sent Majesty was proclaimed in In pursuance of this object I the City, the people there, as shall continue to protest against was noticed in the public prints any compromise on the part of at the time, called upon. Mr. her Majesty; against the giving Alderman Wood, even at the up of any particle of her rights; moment of the proclamation, to against her listening to any promise to protect the Queen. proposition not consistent with The call was made in the most her character as Queen, I shall earnest manner. It seemed to protest against her Majesty's be a matter much nearer the yielding the point of the Corona- hearts of the people than the tion, of the Liturgy, of the keep-ceremony which was then pering a court, of the fiving in a forming. The Alderman anpalace; and as to her going swered their call by promising

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that he would protect the Queen to believe this would require to the utmost of his power; great deal more faith than is reand that promise he has faith-quired to make men believe that fully kept; he has performed his the moon is made of green duty with zeal, fidelity, and cheese, which has hitherto been ability and the proof that he thought to be the utmost stretch has done so is, that he has ex-of human credulity. In short, cited the bitter enmity of her nobody does believe it, and what Majesty's enemies, seeret as well is more, the assertion has confirm as open. He has not, which Ied the public in a belief of precertainly should have done, at- cisely the contrary. tacked any of those enemies. Well, then, what can have He has not thought it worth been the real reason of the posthis while, probably, to enter the ponement of this Coronation? lists with those who so well Are we to believe that it has managed the matter as to der been postponed in the hope feat themselves; but still this that her Majesty, after having was a species of forbearance been acquitted, may be crowned which I could not have exer- with the King? I should be cised. Still, however, the end very glad to believe this; but I being answered, the enemies of cannot, because Lord Castle her Majesty being defeated, it reagh also tells us (if we can unsignifies little whether it have derstand what he says,) that no been done by speech or by si- circumstance can arise to make lence. any alteration in the intentions And, now, my Lord, let us before entertained with regard come to matters much more in- to her Majesty's exclusion from teresting than those on which I that splendid and solemn cerehaye already touched; namely, mony. What, then, can have the consequences which are occasioned this postponement? likely to result from these un- Only three nights before the paralleled proceedings, You postponement was announced must have learnt by this time, by the Ministers, those same Mt that there is, in fact, no division nisters contended, and in long as to the sentiment existing in speeches, too, that the Coronathe nation with regard to her tion could not be postponed. Majesty for unwilling as some They contended, that it was ab i persons may have been to believe salutely necessary to have the this fact, the postponement of the Coronation, notwithstanding the Coronation speaks the truth in Green Bags had then actually a manner not to be misunder- been opened. They stated distood by any human being. The vers weighty arguments to reasons given for that postpone- prove this necessity; and, they ment are really no reasons at all. concluded at last, that to postLord Castlereagh tells us that the pone it, must, of necessity, propostponement is in no wise con- duce infinite mischief. What, nected with the question as to then, again I ask, could have her Majesty, the Queen. Now, produced this postponement?

4t may be impertinent to ask (believing, that the same reason this question, but, the tempta- for postponement will not contion is too strong to be resisted.tinue to exist for a long while! -Come, come, my Lord! You am no believer in Mother know the reason for postponing Shipton nor in Old Nícón ; but, the Coronation; and what is I am really anxions to know, more, you know, that I know it what reason there is for suppostoo! You know that the reason ing that the reason, which now gives me pleasure; and you prevents the Coronation, may know, moreover, that I know it not prevent it at a future time. has given you many a restless I am no lawyer, and if it were and sleepless hour! You know possible, still less of a conjuror, that I have often told you and but, being able to put two and your colleagues, that you ought two together, and to ascertain not to bring things to this pass; that they make four; being able and you now know that I know to arrive at this conclusion, that you know that I know pre- with mathematical certainty, A cisely the pass to which things have applied my mathematics have been brought, and precisely to the question just stated; and, the situation in which you now twist them and turn them how I stand: and being thus knowing will; whether I add, subtract, we will, if your Lordship please, multiply, or divide; whether I veet away from this point a little, work by the rule of three, or by lest we should get into troubled extraction of the square root; waters. Has your Lordship whether I proceed by vulgars ever been to sea, or steering about the mouths of great rivers or rocky beaches? If you have, you must have observed what a sharp look-out the old sailors keeps for: the breakers! That which appears to be nothing but a little froth to a fresh water gentleman, fixes the attention of the old sailor; and he begins to cry out, “ luff; luff I say!?while (all the rest are laughing, not perceiving the most distant danger Taught " by experience," as the Doctor Yet, this sudden stoppage is suid, in 1817, d luffy and bear something! There stands a pròs awayb clamation ordering and comst. But, my Lord, as you so well manding the Coronation. Is know the reasons, or rather the this proclamation to be disobey renson, for postponing the Coro-ed or is it to be revoked by nation ¿to-some time, after the another proclamation? The Bret of August, may Iventure Court of Clairis has assembled to ask you the reason for your and made it's decision. Is the

or by decimals, I am wholly unable to discover any reason for believing that the same reason which exists against having the Coronation now will not exist at any future period; unless, your Lordship will be pleased to observe; unless, I say, her Majesty the Queen participate in the Coronation. And, I have no hesitation in expressing my opinion, as well as my hope, that it never will take place without such participation!

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Baronetcy, or some other reward ||~ Of all the laughers, however, of his exemplary loyalty? Are her Majesty the Queen will the whiskers of the Champion surely be the greatest though, of England, which have been I should be extremely sorry if it growing away for these six were to change her present eleweeks past,to descend again to a gant form into that of a great, mere barrister's beard? Are all bloated, unwieldy, lethargic, the splendid robes, and new puddenny, lump, inconvenient gilded Coronets to be laid aside? to itself, and disgusting and There stands the proclamation. loathsome to all it's beholders. There stand, not indeed those I should think that Old Louis, trees which shaded (as they say the beloved and desired, will in the honourable House) that scarcely be able to hold his ́ ́ Westminster Abbey Church, sides. Ferdinand, whose solwhich is, at least, thirty feet diers have taught him moderahigher than the trees themselves tion, will laugh to think that the ever were, and for the cutting English have found, even at down of which trees; for which Westminster, something more ruthless act of spoliation, threats ridiculous than embroidering have been uttered against the pettycoats for the Virgin Mary, Dean and Chapter, from which one of which he may, perhaps, nothing but a double portion of send over to Buckingham House. penitence seems calculated to The Holy Alliance, and even save them. There stand, not the Pope himself, will scarcely the trees; but there stand some forbear giving way to a smile. as pretty wooden buildings; And when the "cause comes to amphitheatrical lodges,and other be considered, let the Bourbons temporary constructions, as ever reflect, with what satisfaction formed the subject of a May they may, on the arrogance, inmorning's merriment. There solence, and ingratitude with they stand; and if they stand which they treated her Majesty, there, till the King be crowned the Queen, who can now exhiwithout the Queen, I very much bit herself surrounded by gallant suspect, that, if laughter will millions, while they, with the make the world fat, we must aid of a censorship and other soon add width and strength to means which I will not describe, our carriages, chairs, and beds; niake a shift to keep themselves for nothing but a total absence where they aré. : of the breath necessary to ex Mr. VANSITTART said, that a istence will prevent us from be- Coronation was a season for ing the most corpulent people mirth and glec; and though the that ever waddled about upon coronation do not take place, the face of the earth. We need the mirth and glee certainly trouble ourselves no more about will. The songs, odes, sonnets, food for the body. 'Hero's food poems dramatical, didactic, pasfor the nation in abundance toral, heroic, serious, coinie,