an end, I cannot say of her chequered life; for her existence was one continued scene of suffering-of disquiet of torment from injustice, oppression, and animosity-by all who either held or looked up to emolument or aggrandizement—all who either possessed or coveted them-but the grave has closed over her unrelenting persecutions. Unrelenting I may well call them, for they have not spared her ashes. The evil passions which beset her steps in life, have not ceased to pursue her memory, with a resentment more relentless, more implacable than death. But it yours to vindicate the broken laws of your country. your verdict shall have no effect on the defendant, -if he still go on unrepenting and unabashed,—it will at least teach others, or it will warn them and deter them from violating the decency of private life, betraying sacred public duties, and insulting the majesty of the Law. is If WHEN the late Queen Caroline, yielding to the altogether unexampled course of persecution in every form under which she had suffered, was stricken with a mortal sickness, the immediate consequence of mental distress, parties were variously affected by the intelligence that her life was in danger. The people universally and with but little distinction of party or of sect, were thrown into a state of the most painful anxiety, and waited in suspense the arrival of the tidings which were to confirm or to dissipate the prevailing gloom. After a passing interval of better prospects, all hope was soon banished by information that she was given over; and the news of her decease, which happened on the 7th of August, 1821, followed immediately after. In all the places where the event was made known, and where no undue influence or superior authority was exerted to suppress the public feelings, the utmost concern was manifested, not unaccompanied with indignation at the author of those wrongs which had led to this sorrowful event. Among the more ordinary, and therefore, if displayed, the more unimportant manifestations of concern, was that of tolling the bells in cathedrals and churches, the constant mark of respect paid to all the royal family, even the most insignificant and the least popular, a ceremony so much of course that nothing could give it any importance except the rudeness or the servility which might obstruct its being performed. Accordingly, the tribute of respect had almost universally been paid, and had excited no comment anywhere. It was reserved for the heads of the Durham Cathedral to form an exception, the only exception of any importance, to the general course of conduct pursued upon this mournful occasion. They would not suffer the bells of that venerable edifice to be tolled in the wonted manner. It might have been thought that even had it been decent for churchmen to take part in such a controversy, and during the Queen's life to side with the oppressors against the injured party, the event which removed the latter from all worldly concerns would have allayed also the animosity of her clerical antagonists; and that, though they had refused her the benefit of their prayers while living, they would not make themselves the solitary exception among Chapters and other Collegiate bodies, to the regular course of paying an accustomed mark of respect to the consort of the sovereign, now only known to them as one whose death had made his Majesty a widower, and enabled him to gratify his desires without violating his own conjugal duties. These reverend personages, however, thought otherwise; they forbade their bells to toll; and the consequence was some remarks in the Durham Chronicle, a provincial paper long distinguished for its steady though temperate support of liberal opinions, both on civil and on ecclesiastical subjects. These remarks were as follows, and they were published on the 10th of August, while the event was fresh in the recollection of all, and the feeling had not subsided which it was calculated to excite. "So far as we have been able to judge from the accounts in the public papers, a mark of respect to her late Majesty has been almost universally paid throughout the kingdom, when the painful tidings of her decease were received, by tolling the bells of the Cathedrals and Churches. But there is one exception to this very creditable fact which demands especial notice. In this episcopal city, containing six churches independently of the cathedral, not a single bell announced the departure of the |