Honour of France and Italy, and the Robing Women; the Princesses of the Blood, the Ladies of the Palace, the Maids of Honour to the Princesses, the Officers of the Households of the Princes and Princesses in attendance.-All will be uncovered. The procession having reached the gallery, the heralds and pages will branch off half to the right, and half to the left, in the Saloon of Mars, close to the entrance.--The Officers and Grand Officers of France and Italy, the Maids of Honour, and the Robing Women, will proceed to take their station according to their rank, behind their Majesties' chairs.-Their Imperial Majesties will take their seats on the throne; the Princes and Princesses to the right and left of the estrade, in the following order, and according to their relation of blood: 6 6 Prince Arch-Chancellor, and make his obeisance to their Majesties. His Highness the Prince Arch-Chan cellor, having bowed to their Majesties, will say In the name of the Emperor (at these words their Majesties will stand up)-Sire, does your Imperial and Royal Majesty declare that you take in marriage her Imperial and Royal Highness Maria Louisa, Archduchess of Austria, bere present?' The Emperor will answer-I declare that I take in marriage her Imperial and Royal Highness Maria Louisa, Archduchess of Austria, here present.'-He will then put the question to her Imperial and Royal Highness the Archduchess of Austria, in these terms:Does her Imperial and Royal Highness Maria Louisa, Archduchess of Austria, declare that she takes in marriage his "To the right of the Emperor, Madame; Majesty the Emperor and King NapoPrince Louis Napoleon, King of Holland; leon, here present?' Her Imperial and Prince Jerome Napoleon, King of West- Royal Highness will answer-I declare phalia; Prince Borghese, Duke of Guast- that I take in marriage his Majesty the alla; Prince Joachim Napoleon, King of Emperor and King Napoleon here preNaples; Prince Eugene, Viceroy of Italy, sent.' The Prince Arch-Chancellor will the Prince Arch-Chancellor; the Prince then pronounce the marriage in these Vice-Grand Elector.-To the left of the terms: In the name of the Emperor Empress, the Princess Julia, Queen of and the Law, I declare that his Imperial Spain; the Princess Hortensia, Queen of and Royal Majesty Napoleon, Emperor Holland; the Princess Catherine, Queen of the French, King of Italy, and her of Westphalia; the Princess Eliza, Grand Imperial and Royal Highness the ArchDuchess of Tuscany; the Princess Pauli- Duchess Maria Louisa, are united in marna; the Princess Caroline, Queen of Na-riage.'-Then the Masters and Assistants ples; the Grand Duke of Wurtzburgh; of the Ceremonies will carry the table, on the Princess Augusta, Vice-Queen of Italy; which are the registers of the civil state, the Princess Stephante, Hereditary Grand up to the chairs of the Emperor and EmDuchess of Baden; the Hereditary Grand press, and return to their places. The Duke of Baden; the Prince Arch-Trea- signing of the Act of Marriage will take surer; the Prince Vice-Constable.-The place in the following manner:Secretary of State to the Imperial family will take his seat at the table. The first bench will be reserved for the Ladies of the Palace. The Grand Master of the Ceremonies; the Masters and Assistants of the Ceremonies, to the right and left front of the throne. On the arrival of their Majesties, all the Ladies will rise up, and continue standing until the end of the ceremony. The Emperor being seated, the Grand Master of the Ceremonies wil! take his Majesty's orders, and proceed to request his Highness the Prince ArchChancellor of the Empire to go up to the Emperor's chair. One of the Masters of the Ceremonies will at the same time give notice to the Secretary of State for the Imperial family, who will approach the "The Secretary of State to the Imperial Family will present the pen to the Emperor, and then to the Empress. Their Majesties will sign it sitting, and without quitting their places. The Princes and Princesses will approach the table, receive the pen from the hands of the Secretary and subscribe their names, previously bowing to the Emperor and Empress. They will subscribe in the order settled by the ceremonial.-The Act being concluded with the signatures of the Prince, Arch-Chancellor, and the Secretary, the Masters and Assistants of the Ceremonies, after making a profound reverence to the Emperor and Empress, will remove the table which had been placed before their Majesties. (To be continued.) Published by R. BAGSHAW, Brydges-Street, Covent Garden :-Sold also by J. BUDD, Pall-Mall, LONDON:-Printed by T. C. Ilansard, Peterborough-Court, Fleet-Street, VOL. XVII. No. 18.] LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1810. [Price 18. "Many public Officers and Accountants have raised great Estates to themselves, at the expence of "the Public, when it is evident they have had no lawful means to attain them: and several persons, "whose duty it was to hinder such exorbitancies, measuring their requests rather by their own avarice "than by their merit, have obtained for themselves Grants to such a value, as in foregoing Reigns have "been esteemed large Supplies towards great and public services: which has been another great cause "of the Debt that lies upon the nation. This general mismanagement of the public affairs did actually "spread itself over the whole kingdom, and seems to be owing to a disposition of Offices and Places, "where men were rather chosen for their inclinations in serve a Party, than for their qualifications to serve the Public. And these men being conscious to themselves of the many Freuds and Offences "committed against the Public, have no other hopes to shelter themselves from Justice, THAN BY "TAKING AWAY THE REPUTATION OF THOSE WHO DESIRE TO DO RIGHT TO THEIR “COUNTRY BY DETECTING THEIR INIQUITIES; and being UNITED IN GUILT AND IN"TEREST, they endeavour to amuse and impose upon those, whose posterity, we have too much reason "to fear, will groan under the sad effects of the wickedness of the one, and the too great credulity "of the other. We chearfully depend upon your Majesty's wisdom, that all our Grievances, by your "grace and favour, will, in due time, be redressed and removed, by PUNISHING those, who have been "the cause of them, and by entrusting none in the administration of public affairs, who, for their own "private advantage, have manifestiy contributed to the calamity of their Country."- ADDRESS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS TO QUEEN ANNE, in 1702. 673] [674 that en the bottom of their stomachs;, SUMMARY OF POLITICS. MIDDLESEX MEETING.When Mr. Lyttleton and others were engaged in the famous act of disclaiming, or, in the language of Scripture, denying, SIR FRANCIS BURDETT, on the alledged ground of his « unwarrantable resistance," and his Letter to the Speaker of the Honourable House, they did not, I dare say, anticipate, that the decision of the people, upon those points, would be what it has since been manifested to be. However this may have been, it is now very clear, that Sir Francis did act not only the patriotic but the prudent part. On the memorable Saturday when the warrant was to have been executed, and when troops were waited for, in order to insure its execution, I received a letter, drily telling me, that the vote of commit-played. They would have remained at ment had been carried, and that Sir Francis was "gone to the Tower."--I was astonished. I was chagrined. I was in a state of mortification not to be described. "What!" exclaimed I, “ gone to the "Tower, and as quietly as a pickpocket to Bridewell, or to the custody of Governor "Aris! GONE to the Tower; and that * all ?” —How was I relieved; what was my pleasure, upon hearing, on the Sunday morning, that he was still in his house; still in the " Englishman's castle," and that it would require the last move; the playing of the trumps; to get him to a prison.It was, however, this very thing that stirred the gall of the Whigs; that rummaged up the bitterness from Canterbury and Croydon and Ryegate and Epsom and Guildford and Farnham and Winchester and Newbery and Reading and St. Albans and Hertford and Cambridge and Bagshot and Hounslow Heath occupied in their usual business of defending the country against Buonaparté; if this had been the case, the Whigs would have been highly delighted. This is precisely what would have suited them and their schemes of ambition. But, thanks to the firmness and the foresight of Sir Francis, this was not the case: the trumps were called forth and played, to the last card; and of this the whole nation have been witnesses.- -I shall now insert the RESOLUTIONS, which were passed at the Y 66 "That the Thanks of this Meeting are "due, and are hereby given, to Sir Francis "Burdett, bart. for his truly patriotic con"duct in Parliament, for his unanswered "and unanswerable Argument in the case "of John Gale Jones, vindicating the "rights of the subject, and denying the power of the House of Commons to imprison without trial, and during plea"sure, the people of England; for his "Letter to the Speaker, protesting against "the power of the House of Commons to "imprison in like manner one of their "Members, for laying before his Consti"tuents a faithful account of his conduct "in Parliament; and for his constitutional "resistance to the Speaker's warrant, whereby "he has given a practical illustration of its inefficiency, and has shewn that it could not "be put in force without military uid, a vio"lation of our ancient Laws, and a breach "of the privileges of Englishmen. "That these Resolutions be fairly tran"scribed and presented to Sir Francis "Burdett by the Sheriffs, accompanied "by George Byng and William Mel"lish, esqrs. our Representatives. That the Address to Sir Francis Bur"dett which has been read be adopted as "the act of this Meeting. "That the thanks of this Meeting be 'given to George Byng, esq. one of our "Representatives, for his general conduct "in Parliament. "That the thanks of this Meeting be "be given to the Sheriffs, for their readi"ness in calling this meeting, and for } Sheriffs." The ADDRESS, mentioned in these Resolutions, I shall now insert, first, however, expressing my unfeigned satisfaction at seeing, that the author of it was the venerable and venerated MAJOR CARTWRIGHT, who out of more, I believe, than seventy years of life, has spent more than forty in the cause of Parliamentary Reform. It is quite delightful to see such a composition coming from a man, whose brow is literally furrowed with wrinkles, and whose body appears to be of no use except to contain his soul. Of all the men, that I ever knew, Major Cartwright is the most persevering, the most resolute, and, at the same time, the most mild in his manners. ties. At least, never did I know any one to exceed him in any of these qualiI believe, that he has never published any thing, of which he has not sent a copy to the King and to each of his Ministers. He is a true loyalist and a true royalist. He has read, studied, and imbibed the whole of the principles of the Constitution of England; and, all who know him are pretty well convinced, that, rather than yield, rather than make a surrender of one particle of those principles, he would suffer himself to be burnt alive. Many and many have been the occasions, when he has offered Resolutions to public meetings, containing the principles of this Address; and, alas! many and many have been the occasions, when those Resolutions have been, at best, coldly received. At last, perseverance and patience have brought him to the day, when men see the necessity of acting upon his principles, or of, at once, yielding all pretensions to English freedom. The sen timents of this Address must have been very pleasing to Sir Francis, and this pleasure must have been encreased, greatly encreased, by the reflection, that they proceeded from the pen of such a man as Major Cartwright, a gentleman of learning, of independent fortune, of ancient family, and what is more than all these, of perfectly spotless life; a man having a mind which it is impossible to bewilder, and a heart of such integrity that nothing can shake. For myself, I can truly say, that I never read any thing with more satisfaction than this Address; and such I am confident, will be the feelings of all those, who, with minds unprejudiced," execution of their laws, to the civil shall read it. "TO SIR FRANCIS BURDETT, BART. "A PRISONER IN THE TOWER. "The Address of the Freeholders of Middlesex, in full County assembled. "SIR; With the name of Hampden, "consecrated to the eternal gratitude and "veneration of Englishmen, for having "resisted the illegal exercise of power by "a King, the present and future ages will "couple the name of Burdett, for having "resisted an illegal exercise of power by "a House of Commons.-To you we are "indebted for having caused discussions "which have done honour to our age and "nation; but such a variety of principles have been shaken in the strange proceedings against you, that the ex"tent of our obligations to you, first, for your constitutional doctrine, and then "for your resisting the violators of our "Constitution, cannot as yet be estimated. "We trust the obligations will prove be"yond all estimate; as we trust they "must terminate in a restoration of that "violated Constitution. 66 " "Whatever, Sir, may be the prostitution "within certain walls, whatever may be the profligate abuse and peculation of "office, we may, however, congratulate "our country, that she has yet able de"fenders of her rights, who with you are rallying around our two-fold Con"stitution: a Constitution that hath not "only a Law, which is "the perfection "of reason:" but whenever that law "may meet with lawless opposers, hath "also "A sword of its own," without needing to borrow any other, native or "foreign, for the sure and resistless en"forcement of that law.-Inquiry, Sir, is now awake, and at work. Reason, found"ing itself on constitutional principle, hath now to decide, whether, for either "keeping the peace, or for enforcing any process of English Law, recourse ought "to be ultimately had to the County "Power, or to the Standing Army: that is, shall the peace and the law of Eng"land, be upheld by the Civil Power, or "by a Military Force?-It is, in fact, to "be decided whether Governments (what"ever be their form, or their current "denomination) are not definable to "be civil governments, or military go"vernments, that is, free states or despotisms, as they shall ultimately resort, for 66.66 "6 power, of to a military force.-The "County Power of England, which has "been aptly called the martial branch "of the Constitution, is yet strictly a civil "power, being composed of free citizens "only; whereas the Standing Army is "wholly a military force, composed of soldiers;" who, from the nature of the "military law to which they are subject, "are not free citizens; and according to "Sir W. Jones, in fact no more than in""struments in the hands of their Com"inanders."-When (as remarked by. Blackstone) the laws and Constitution "of this kingdom know no such state as "that of a perpetual standing soldier;' "and when (as observed by Sir W. Jones) "the Power of the County includes the "whole civil state, from the duke to the peasant; while the military state, as "such, forms no part of that power, being. "under a different command, and sub'ject to a different law;' must it not "follow, that the law cannot be carried "into execution by the standing army? "that being an instrument it does not "know an instrument under a different "command,' and subject to a different "law.'-And when Blackstone, con"curring with numberless writers of the "highest authority, and with every intel"ligent man's reflection, also remarks, "that in a land of liberty it is extremely, dangerous to make a distinct order of "the profession of arms and likewise "adds in absolute monarchies this is "necessary for the safety of the Prince,. "and arises from the main principle of "their Constitution, which is that of go"verning by fear,' will it be possible, "Sir, any longer to doubt that it is the "design of Ministers to bring us under "an absolute monarchy," especially "when we shall combine together all "their arts and all their practices to that "end? Do we not hear our English "Government, by Ministers, by CourtLawyers, and by all abettors of arbi"trary power, perpetually called a Monarchy, which is a Government wherein "one man's will is the law! Do we not "hear our King as constantly styled a "Monarch? And ever since the dreadful "riots in 1780, when Sir W. Jones took "occasion to complain that our County "Power had been shamefully neglected, "and ought to be restored, to full vigour "and energy,' has not that County "Power from that day to this, now thirty 66 "Ministers and Parliament do not, in "obedience to the Constitution, and in the honest performance of their own duty, restore to full vigour and energy' "the County Power, which, in the very infancy of its organization by the im years, continued in the same shamefully "neglected condition, unorganized, un"armed, untrained? And for what con"ceivable reason can there have been this "shameful neglect, but that it might be "divested of all power and respect, and "then, as a thing useless and contempti-"mortal Alfred, freed England of in"ble, be wholly superseded in the quel-" vaders, who had mastered half the ling of riots? And have we not ac- "counties, or converted those invaders cordingly seen on all occasions the "into peaceable and loyal subjects!"Standing Army officiously and ostenta- "And we would also gladly hear the rea"tiously called forth on every frivolous "sons why Ministers and Parliament, "disorder in the streets, as well as uni- "while neglecting a duty so obvious and "formly paraded and held in readiness "so imperious, spare neither pains nor whenever the people are to have meet- expence, an expence paid by the peo"ings on public affairs, so that the na- ple, for adding to our vast native Standtion, governed by fear,' may quietly" ing Army, another numerous Standing "yield to "absolute monarchy"-If," Army of Germans, Sicilians, French, "Sir, we be correct in our conception of the County Power, it is as old as the "Constitution and Common Law, and vital "to our liberties.-The Standing Army is " a novelty of yesterday; and when not "constitutionally overbalanced by the "County Power, in full vigour and energy,' "must be dangerous in the extreme to "public freedom.-A County Power is "the sword in the hand of the nation, re"gulated by the ordinary law of the land. "Its sole object self-preservation-that is, "the preservation of law and liberty. 66 Portuguese, and other foreign mercena"ries; seeing, at the same time, that "France is so strong by land, we cannot 66 annoy her by offensive war; and so "weak by sea, she cannot even alarm "our external possessions in any part of "the globe!-A County Power, although "the resistless arm of the law, being yet a free part of a free community, must know, that to violate law, would be to "violate its own liberty; and must ever "be alive to the feeling, that, to preserve "the common liberty must be the first " and most sacred of its duties.--Con"cerning a Standing Army, an acute "writer asks, Is it not possible, that these "keepers of ours may come to resemble "those of a scraglio, and hate the very 66 A Standing Army is the sword in the "hand of the Minister; and we have re"cently seen how prone Ministers are to "find other objects for this sword than "those which should seem to be its only legitimate ones, namely, offensive war"name of liberty, when totally deprived "abroad, and defence of external posses"sions; because, a species of force which " is a comparative novelty both in prin"ciple and practice with our Govern"ment, as well as utterly unknown to "the Laws and Constitution,' never "could have had for its object the de"fence of our island; which, as already "shewn, was most amply provided for "defence in the original institution of our "Government; since all the County "Powers collectively must mount to far si more than a million of men able to bear "arms, and willing to defend their King," their Country, and their Constitution. The conquests of the Standing Army "abroad, ought only to be over our "enemies. Its conquests at home, if it "be to obey the will of Ministers and to "have its operations directed by the analogy of time-serving Lawyers, can only be over our laws and liberties. We "would therefore, Sir, gladly know, why 666 of their own?' And a Standing Army,' it has been remarked, 'ever "has converted, and ever must convert "men into machines. The individuals. "of a Standing Army, when they re"ceive orders, cast away the judgment, "the moral discretion, and the will of "rational beings. Obedience with them "is the law and the prophets; and he "that gives the order, they think, is the 66 6 " only person answerable for it.'"Should England's liberties survive the "settled establishment of a Standing Army, she will be the only country on. earth which, in that predicament, "ever “remained free. This, as yet unseen phenomenon, the co-existence of a Standing Army, and Liberty, it doubtless is "in her power to exhibit to the admiring eyes of mankind; but, it can only be "effected by restoring to full vigour and 66 6 energy,' her County Power. That "once done, the Standing Army would |