Earls.—Limerick, 2,500l.; Ross, governor of an Irish county; Donoughmore, 4,377l.; Belmore, 1,660l.; Mayo, 15,200l.; Longford, 7,369l.; Mount Cashel, 1,000l.; Kingston, 6,400l.; St. Germains, brother-in-law to Lord Hardwicke, who received 7,700l.; Brownlow, 4,400l.; Whitworth, 6,000l.; Verulam, 2,700l.; Cathcart, 27,600l.; Mulgrave, 11,051l.; Lonsdale, 14,352l.; Orford, 6,700l.; Manvers, 4,759l.; Nelson, 15,025l.; Powis, 700l.; Liverpool, 33,450l.; Digby, 6,700l.; Mount Edgecumbe, 400l.; Strange, 13,988l.; Abergavenny, 3,072l.; Aylesbury, 6,300l.; Bathurst, 15,423l.; Chatham, 13,550l.; Harcourt, 4,200l.; Warwick, 6,519l.; Portsmouth, non compos mentis; Macclesfield, 3,000l.; Aylesford, 6,450l.; Coventry, 700l.; Abingdon, 2,000l.; Shaftesbury, 6,421l.; Cardigan, 1,282l.; Balcarras, 46,050l.; Winchelsea, 6,000l.; Stamford, 4,500l.; Bridgewater, 13,700l.; Home, 2,800l.; and Huntingdon, 200l. We must not here omit Lord Eldon, whose vote would have been against her majesty if it had been required; his income amounted to 50,400l., with immense patronage.

Viscounts.—Exmouth, 10,450l.; Lake, 7,300l.; Sidmouth, 17,025l.; Melville, 18,776l.; Curzon, 2,400l.; Sydney, 11,426l.; Falmouth, 3,578l.; and Hereford, 1,200l.

Archbishops.—Canterbury, 41,800l.; Tuam, 28,000l.; both with immense patronage.

Bishops.—Cork, 6,400l., besides patronage; Llandaff, 1,540l., with twenty-six livings in his gift; Peterborough, 4,140l., with an archdeaconry, six prebends, and thirteen livings in his gift; he had also a pension granted him by the king's sign manual, in

[[362]]1804, of 514l.-4,654l.; Gloucester, 3,200l., twenty-four livings, besides other patronage, in his gift; Chester, 4,700l., with six prebends and thirty livings in his gift; he has also a son in the secret department in India, 2,000l., and another a collector in India, 2,500l., as well as sons in the church with benefices to the amount of 2,750l.-11,950l.; Ely, 21,340l., and the patronage of one hundred and eight livings; St. Asaph, 6,000l., his son has two livings in the church, 1000l., and he has ninety livings in his gift,—7,000l.; St. David's, 6,260l., besides one hundred livings, prebends, and precentorships in his gift; he has also a relation in the church, with two livings, 1,000l.-7,260l.; Worcester, 9,590l., besides the patronage of one archdeaconry and twenty-one livings; London, 10,200l., with ninety-five livings, twenty-eight prebends, and precentorships in his gift.

Lords.—Prudhoe, 700l.; Harris, 3,800l.; Meldrum, of the Gordon family, who annually devour about 30,000l.; Hill, 9,800l.; Combermere, 13,500l.; Hopetoun, 15,600l.; Gambier, 6,800l.; Manners, 21,500l.; Ailsa, expectant; Lauderdale, 36,600l.; Sheffield, 3,000l.; Redesdale, 5,500l.; St. Helens, 1,000l.; Northwick, 1,500l.; Bolton, 4,000l.; Bayning, 1,000l.; Carrington, 1,900l.; Dunstanville, 1,500l.; Rous, motive unknown; Courtown, 9,800l.; Galloway, 9,845l.; Stuart, 15,000; Douglas, 2,500l.; Grenville, 4,000l.; Suffield, brother-in-law to the notorious Castlereagh,—need we say more to point out his motive for voting against the queen? Montagu, 3,500l.; Gordon, 20,990l.; Somers, 2,000l.; Rodney, 6,123l.; Middleton, 700l.; Napier, 4,572l.; Gray, 200l., with great family interest; Colville, 4,600l.; Saltoun, 3,644l.; Forbes, 8,400l.; Lord Privy Seal, 3,000l.; and Lord President, 4,000.

Notwithstanding this phalanx of corruption being arrayed against one virtuous female, after an unexampled multiplication of abuse and perjury, on the fifty-first day of the proceedings, the infamous bill was LOST, and, with it, the pretensions to uprightness and manly feeling of every one who had voted for it! What was the dreadful, the overwhelming, responsibility of those who had ventured to prosecute,

[[363]]of all others, a great, a noble, a glorious woman, (we speak unhesitatingly, for we speak from the EVIDENCE OF HER OWN PUBLIC ACTS) by a "Bill of Pains and Penalties," which was so far from being a part of our common law, that that was necessarily sacrificed in order to give effect to this? The mock trial was supported by the evidence of witnesses who, day after day, perjured themselves for the sake of wealth, and by the ingratitude of discarded servants, treacherous domestics, and cowardly calumniators; evidence, not only stained with the infamy of their own perfidy to their generous benefactress, but polluted with the licentious and gross obscenity of their own debased instincts, for we cannot call their cunning by any other name. This, Englishmen! was the poison, this the vast and sweeping flood of iniquity, which was permitted by the government to disseminate itself into the minds of the young, and to inundate the morals of the whole country! A great moral evil was thus done; but the antidote luckily went with it. The same press, upon which the absurd, foolish, and dangerous imbecility of incompetent and unmanly ministers imposed the reluctant office of becoming the channel for the deluge of Italian evidence, also conducted the refreshing streams of national sympathy and public opinion! The public sustained their own honour in upholding that of Caroline, Queen of England! When that public beheld her intelligent eyes, beaming with mind and heroism; when they heard of her pure beneficence, holy in its principle, as it was unbounded in

[[364]]its sphere; when they felt her glowing affection for a devoted people; when they observed her, scorning alike the weakness of her sex and the luxury of her station,—actuated solely by the mighty energies of her own masculine sense and powerful understanding,—braving fatigue and danger, traversing the plains and mountains of Asia, the sands and deserts of Africa; and contemplating the living tomb of ancient liberty in modern Greece; when they heard of this dauntless woman sailing over foreign seas with a soul of courage as buoyant and as mighty as the waves that bore her; but, above all, when they knew of her refusing the glittering trappings and the splendid price of infamous security, to face inveterate, persecuting, and inflexible enemies, even on their own ground, and surrounded by their own strength and power, they felt confident that such a woman must be at once a favourite of heaven, a great queen, and a blessing to the people, who fervently offered up their prayers for her safety and her triumph! It will readily be supposed, then, with what joy the result of this important and unprecedented investigation filled the hearts of thousands, which manifested itself by shouts of exultation from the centre of the metropolis, and was re-echoed from the remotest corners of the land, by the unbought voices of a brave and generous people, who considered the unjust proceedings alike "derogatory to the dignity of the crown and the best interests of the nation."

From the very commencement of the queen's