Caroline R

QUEEN of ENGLAND.

Sketch from Life by H. R. Cruikshanks. –

"HERE IS A MAN WHO WISHES TO GET RID OF HIS WIFE!!" he
talks of the honour and safety of the country, yet its dearest interests, its peace,
its morals, and its happiness are to be sacrificed to GRATify his desires.”
Speech of Mr. Brougham, Aug. 17.

BY THE AUTHOR OF “THE ROYAL WANDERER.”

LONDON:

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY H. ROWE, 2, AMen corner,

PATERNOSTER ROW.

BRITIS

INTRODUCTION

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THE TRIAL,

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THE immense importance of the pending proceedings before the House of Lords, under a Bill of Pains and Penalties, for the degradation and divorce of her present Majesty, Queen Caroline, must be so self-evident to every reflecting mind, that little need be said by us, for the purpose of impressing their actual character upon the attention of our readers. But strange to say, at this peculiar crisis,-at this momentous period, big with events of no common order, and no common interest,-and of which the termination, be it what it may, must be productive of striking consequences somewhere, there are yet so many individuals who look on with a feeling little short of apathy, that we must be pardoned for this endeavour to point out the principal features of the Bill of Pains and Penalties;-to shew its present operation; and to demonstrate some of its most probable results.