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"with beauty; it would not be "heart could only appreciate "the most difficult enigma to "the extent.---But although the "solve, how I became thought- "match was forced, and I was. "lessly extravagant. Notwith- "left (unlike my subjects) to "standing I had experienced "no voluntary choice, I had "the generosity of my country- "still a right to expect in a "men, when twenty-four years "Princess of exalted ancestry, "of age; yet in nine years " and one previously allied to "after, my debts became again" me by relationship, a female, "the object of serious con-" of chaste person and uncon"sideration. In the midst of "taminated taste.---But the morn

a war then raging, expensive "ing which dawned on the con"beyond all former precedent, "summation of this marriage, "and with no glimpse of ter-" witnessed its virtual dissolution. "mination; when monarchy "---Our daughter, the lamented "throughout Europe was threat- "Princess Charlotte, the child "ened with annihilation; some " of a fond and admiring nation, "powerful and unanswerable "was born precisely at the " motive, or some important" moment prescribed by nature. " and ostensible good, could "---Of the causes which led to "alone justify the minister of "this immediate separation, which "the day, in applying to Par- "however was for a time most "liament for the payment of "carefully concealed, and con-> "the debts of an extravagant "cealed, I trust, from, no un "Prince, for such I acknow- "generous feeling on my part, "ledge myself to have been.--- " it does not belong to me to "The justification of the measure "detail the explanation. But "was found to be in my "who beside ourselves was " marriage.---The nation most "interested in it? Surely the "generously paid my debts, "family of the illustrious female " made provision for such mar- " in question! Did they com"riage, and I became an ex- "plain? Did they remonstrate?. "pedient party to the contract. "Did they demand a restitution, "For me there was no es- " of eonjugal rights between us? "cape; the interest of my cre- "Did they interfere to conciliate, "ditors demanded such a sacri- " to palliate, to explain? Never. "fice; a sacrifice of which my "By their silence then was I "justified in requiring at a sciences beneath his notice? "proper moment, a more openly Could there, in this country of "avowed separation. The first arts, manufactures, commerce "wrong was done to me." and agriculture, be nothing found

This, mind, I do not regard to engage the thoughts of a as the language of the king. young man, destined by the It is not on his words and sen- laws to be a king? Monstrous! timents that I am about to and, if the fact were not false, comment; but, on those of some what a satire, what a stain on officious slave, who may think, both head and heart of His perhaps, that he is doing what Majesty!

will please the king; but which, But, now we come to the moas I shall show, has a direct ten- tive to the marriage. The king, dency to destroy all remaining you say, consented to "the conreverence for the kingly office, "tract" for the sake of his audiand to imprint an everlasting tors. This, you say, was his stain on His Majesty's charac- motive. This demanded "the

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"sacrifice." This is a horrible libel on the king, and especially when published in his name, and dated from his Palace. But, what "sacrifice" did the interest

How can it, with truth, be said, that the king, when young, was "debarred from active em"ployment, and destined to pass "his time in "royal idleness?" of the creditors demand? A saSurely the same may be said, crifice of what? I want to know with as much truth, of every what it was that he sacrificed; heir of a Peer; and, then, we for, in the whole history of the are in a pretty state indeed, transactions, I in vain look for having two out of the three any sacrifice on the part of the branches of the Legislatures, king; and the only victim that I "destined to idleness, thought- can see is the unfortunate wife, "lessness, and extravagance." and subsequent mother. Had Have " Republicans and Le- the king, indeed, disliked his "vellers" asserted any thing bride; and had he, nevertheless, equal to this? What, had the still lived with her, supporting all king, when young, no induce- the appearances of content in ment to study? Was history, this respect; had he subdued his were the laws, were all the own feelings so far as never to

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suffer them to give offence to the obligation, contracted towards
wife; had he done every other the wife?
To creditors the
thing necessary to keep the dis- debtor was bound as other debtors
like unknown to the world: then, are, The debt arose out of the
indeed, there would have been a things received on the one side,
sacrifice on his part, though the and delivered on the other side.
calling of it a sacrifice might still The creditors had, doubtless, the
have been going too far, for it usual prospect of gain in view,
would have been the mere per- and a more than ordinary secu-
formance of a duty, and of a very rity for payment. But, what
sacred duty too. But, what was the nature of the obligation
sacrifice could there be, when towards the wife? Why, a most
the morning, that dawned on the solemn contract to love, to cherish,
consummation of the marriage, to honour, to obey, to worship
witnessed its virtual dissolution? with his body, to abide by in
Could this short space of restraint sickness and in health, to abstain
be called a sacrifice? And that, from all others, and to keep to her
too, be it observed, when the hus- alone, as long as the parties both
band himself, according to his should live. What, compared
own letter to the wife, had nothing with this, was the obligation to
to alledge, except his uncon-creditors? and, was this obliga-
troulable inclinations?
tion towards the wife to be con-

Really, to state this,
state it in the king's

There was " no escape," you sidered as nothing; as a thing to say, for the king, "Escape" be contracted as a mere "expefrom what? The interest of his "dient" in order to get money creditors demanded the marriage! from the nation to pay debts Good God! what a declaration to with! put forth under the name of the and to king! And is this to be tole-name too; to put these words rated? Is it to be published, into the king's mouth; to make in the king's name, that he actu- them drop from his pen, and to ally did marry in order to get his cause it, or endeavour to cause it, Debts paid! Was ever decla- to be believed, that the king is ration so shameless as this? the real author of such sentiments; Talk of obligation to creditors, this is something too monstrous indeed! What was this obliga- to be credited, if we had not the tion, when_compared with the fact before our eyes.

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In another part of the Letter, " to be done, from him upon the king is made speak thus to "whom fell the most painful his people, on the subject of "duty of its performance !--leaving the Queen's name out "Behold then, your Sovereign, of the Liturgy, and we shall in the presence of that God see how it squares with the " to whom all hearts are open; foregoing. "When the powers "required by the first servant " of my regency merged in the "of our holy national Church, "succession to the throne, one "to sanction as head of "of the first duties devolving "that Church, a formulary, in " upon me as a head of the "which the thousands and tens "Church, was "to settle ac- " of thousands, and millions of his "cording to the Act of Uni- "subjects were to address their "formity, such parts of the "prayers, and praises, and sup"Liturgy as were affected by "plications to the King of "the decease of my venerable "Kings."

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"Father the King of blessed Now, compare this with what "memory." How lightly have the Parasite has said about the "too many of my subjects marriage of expediency; the mar"thought of the feelings by riage to get money to pay debts; " which their sovereign must have compare the two, and what an "been influenced upon so solemn odious hypocrite would this writer "an occasion ! How inconsi- make the king appear to be! He "derately have too many of my first represents his Majesty as " subjects viewed this vital act of having married solely to get money "religion as a mere matter of to pay his debts; and as having " form, requiring only a dash of virtually dissolved the marriage in "the pen! How narrowly have twelve hours after the consumma" too many of my subjects con- tion. It represents him as having " fined their sense of this form, broken the most solemn of all "within the bounds of custom contracts; as having gone to the "and precedent! How blindly altar, and there in the presence of ' have too many of my subjects God, made vows the most solemn, "viewed this act of devotional and of breaking those vows di"formulary.---And how com-rectly afterwards, having made pletely have too many of them with the view of instantly my subjects separated the act breaking them: and, after this,

it represents this same man as one of expediency on the part of impressed with so deep a sense of the king; that it was forced; that the importance of religious forms; it was virtually dissolved the next as so conscientiously alive to re- morning. Now, if we were to ligious duties; so filled with the believe this; if we were, as this fear of doing any thing to offend writer would have us, to believe, God; so replete with pious and that the king has said this, what reverential awe in the discharge more should we want to account of his duties, as to refuse the in- for all the long train of persecusertion of his wife's name in the tions againt her Majesty? What Liturgy of the Church, lest she enemy of the king suggested this should afterwards be found not statement, then? This is a real to be a woman of strictly moral enemy of the king. This is an conduct; while he has no scruple enemy of the Throne, indeed. whatever to cause his own name He brutally says, in another part to be inserted in that Liturgy! The of his book, that the king louthed reader will bear in mind, that they the Queen. If so, what need are not the words, the declarations, should we have to seek further of his Majesty, that we have been for a cause for all these accusareading; but of some corrupt para- tions against her Majesty? And, site; and, that this picture of the how imperiously should we be most odious hypocrisy, and, indeed called on to stand forward in her of the most glaring blasphemy, put defence? Here we should see forth under the king's name and clearly the origin of all the tales, signature, has been put forth by all the slanders, all the machinaone, who abuses the Reformers, tions; all the conspiracies and all and accuses them of designs to the swearings, that have filled all pull down the Church and the the civilized world with disgust Throne! and horror. It is for the king's friends to disown, and for his lawofficers to punish, the author, of

But, as relating to the case of her Majesty, how important would the declarations here brought forward these intolerably outrageous atbe, if they really had come from tacks, upon his motives and his the king, as this Parasite would character, made under his own have us believe they do! Here, name; or, those friends must not we are told (and under the king's be surprised to find, that unwary name too), that the marriage was persons, imposed upon by the