Show F H aN w w q w 1 1 A II IIi i J Story 8 Soo to y of the Wife Wj fp of IU Ri Told fold by Greevey Papers 1 HOO I Ito It to is simple Justice to remember thatto that thatto to day if it the law of England for anything at all Queen Caro Care Caroline line Idle was Rae innocent says the London Mail In its review of the Creevey ey pa papers a apen I pew pen How immeasurable is the gulf guff t which divides those who are not inno innocent innocent cent ent from those tho e who are not guilty no DO i iman inn man nn has haa ever discovered but there is ie isan isan an eloquent phrase in iR English which we vve are wont to use aae of those thoe whose rec record record f ord rd leaves eaves ves them neither tree from ot of off r f fence nse ne nor guilty of it Queen Caroline j i It if the worst alleged al d of her be true was more sinned against than stoning sinning And the nation felt that Nothing in t Mr Creevey story of Queen Caroline Carolines is s so 80 striking as the cheering which we can almost aI m t hear whenever she appears in the streets the resolutions and anti ad addresses addresses dresses which poor pour in ia upon u On her ber from 1 north and south and lid east ea t and west we t Wean We can an almost almo t see Bee her going soing down the riv rho river river er ere passing the house heave hotI e of commons in her het state mate barge the Ute river and aDd shores of it I filled with ove I people There was not a single ogle vessel venel in ia the th river that did Ad not DOt hoist holet its St colors and awl man Its yards for tor her and aDd it is 18 with I Imen the greatest difficulty that the water watermen wat watermen r I men on the Thames who are all ail her partisans are kept from front destroying the bulk which Alch Ilea lieg lle off oft the house h u e of com corn commons commons mons moss to protect the witnesses in Cotton garden Once aa u he was ryas writing his letters Creevey heard a noise BOise of hurrahing and shouting in the street and ran out to see It was wu I may mar the navy of Eng England land lead marching to house with an address to the queen I 1 have seen nothing like this before nothing approaching q There were wars thousands thou and andor of or se aH iii well dressed dree all sober the be the finest t men you can 1 imagine McDonald asked a one ODe of or theta them how many they wee ware to which he an answered J very civilly I 1 dont know exactly sir but ut we are many thou thousands sands and should have been many more snore but we would not let Jet any man above 40 come because we have so 80 far farto farto farto to walk H This procession adds ad Creevey de decides idee the fate faze of the queen When the seamen take a part the tile soldiers soldier cant fall fail to be shaken Nor Not were they the The guards w were re on her side and aDd one battalion had mutinied George IV had he been but one ODe inch incha a king could hardly have viewed the scenes scene which took place dally daily d ny without some a apprehension we know indeed that when Caroline came back to Eng England England land he sent nervously to his ministers to ask what they would do The fel fellow fellow felt t low was wag hissed today going Ing to court and hooted loudly Lord Brougham wrote to Creevey and so from front day to today today today day through weeks and months and nd years t the e wretched destinies destinI de of a man and find a woman unfolded themselves before be before bei i fore ore the world The rhe Trial Were ever so lib many plots for fOt novels DOVel f tan o many situations for plays as a real life afforded in ia these thee moving days One Sunday afternoon the Duke of Welling Wellington ton dashed madly in a closed dosed carriage along alone Pall PaU Mali Mall and let t himself in by bya a back door of at u palace It was the occasion len we need not doubt of the drawing up of or the bill against the queen dissolving her marriage and anda a her title When the trial ame on Creevey was in the lords lord Jo and aDd sat at near the queen As the names of the peers f rE were betas being called caned people ame in who ho said Id the queen was on tut her herway herway way 8 and as far 90 u Charing Cread Two Tavo minutes otter alter the shouts bouts of the i populace announced a ced her beJ near approach and a nd some minutes after fter two folding doors doorn d o within a fw feet of me were sud dOr thrown open ope and in n her herma ma Queen Q en Caroline at that supreme mo me moment meat ment of her strange st career must have borne arn a manner difficult to describe It was nas said Creevey beyond his powers The records of the house boUM of lords tell tellof tellof of If those long lon days day when the greatest men in England sat in that tbt chamber to 1 j try t the queen q een We need not pause at this great gre t epoch in our OUt etc story MolT It is not nota a 8 pleasant thins thing to read even a sow now and the intensity which swayed the people then hen t must roust have been almost too great Tet Tetto to be borne Let us hope it is true tn that the friends of 0 the kind bought forged evidence and abroad it is ta teas less eN repugnant than to believe that their witnesses stoke spoke the truth But we must believe that Caroline incurred much blame She behaved with a levity quite unworthy of a A footman my lords a com common common common mon footman the solicitor general was able to say with troth truth OW was the tile com corn companion panion of the wife of the heir apparent o of England at a masked ma ked balL Yet all this time Caroline was the lawful wife the only lawful wife of or orthe the man who ruled England m and when her uncle died and ADd the regent re ent became king kinS in name she ahe refused refu ed to sell en her title to the government for a year ver Instead when she came c me to n sand the troops received her with royal salute Whatever else she may not have been she he wa teas as open to 10 her con conduct conduct duct lind it was not Dot against her at ather ather ather her trial that Lord Denman hurled his hiB challenge Come forth thou slander slanderer er Ministers dropped their bill after first abandoning the divorce clause clau e eThe The queen had triumphed but it was the beginning of the end eM of her bel fail all failures allures ures Who has baa not heard beard that knock knack which Came rame to the abbey al bey door when George IV IF wa WH crowned I Ix Lord rd Brougham who followed her on foot on the way to the abbey wrote thus to Mr Creevey y of the scene which took look place The queen had driven down clown Constitution hill at 01 in Sa the morning The queen has lost Incalculably Brougham wrote again by getting out of ot her carriage and tramping about but hut she was resolved at any rate to enter the abbey if she should Mould enter at atall atan atall all an witt the th dignity of the queen of England Lord Hood obtained ed a ticket which h would have admitted her alone hut but Caroline refused refined to go CO into the ab abbey a abey abbey bey except at as queen She returned through Piccadilly and the people say ays Brougham crammed Cockspur street and Pall Wall Mall hooting and d curs CUnI cursing cursing ing the ki king kin and his friends and anti hue huz her herThe herTh The Th uncrowned queen qu n went home and heft r a month mon l had past she sn was be being bEing being ing borne horne back ti t a Brunswick to her Iter fin offin The coronation which had brok beak broken en n her heart had broken her mind and aal body bod too Her lien lawyers lawers laid out her will w ill and papers on nn the he t bed and she BM her name pame four times S in the steadiest manner possible pos In Ira doing eo so she said with great firmness I am going to die Mr Brougham bam but It does not signify Public Pu lic opinion they the told her ber was In her favor and would W uld make her ber amends ameDd But Rut her hope ho was Wd dead I have in indeed indeed I deed the t he empty title Ii tie of a queen but bitt jim am m I queen of England No no DO I am amI ji I 1 ITU rn re private ate p I am not queen f I England She bogged begged led tUm to in Jet Pt her funeral be lw simple that no nu show might be trade made when she was wu one adding with a 7 pitiful smile There Thre has 1138 been quite enough no ugh of that in my lifetime Look Looking Looking ing lug into the face Ieee of her doctor do tor Caroline paW faid Well WeIr l my y dear deal doctor what do you think now and they were per perhaps perhaps perhaps haps her last words w At length at atoj JorS oj her heroic berok and nd persecuted p r spurt spirit l fl t i the region f or i f truth titan and Justice i |