Excerpt from The Queen: The Conspiracies of 1806 and 1813, Against the Princess of Wales, Linked With the Atrocious Conspiracy of 1820, Against the Queen of England The Queen lande and reached the capital, amidst the love, and prayers, and joyful acclamations of her faithful people. He panic of conscious guilt, the cold ral sis of a premeditated atrocity, seized her enemies. Rea ing their hired witnesses, apprehensive of discovery and de feat, startled by the prospect of impeachment block, they would have capitulated; and, in for their own escape, they offered terms. Aflirt, h ing oppression upon op ression, and wrong upon wrong, ese inhuman an merci ess persecutors, at the end of twenty four years of nu merited conjugal injuries, would have the weaker rty, the sufferer and the innocent, to consent, herself, by a public act, and a fresh sacrifice, to a last sur render, incompatible with her honor. At t when humanity wept and trembled, and simulation, cloaked in the outward sanctities of religion, had marked her fall, a deep prayer ascended to Heaven in her behalf, from the fire-side sym ethics of England; from the chaste wives and mothers, t e true husbands and fathers, from the hearts and souls of the whole of her faithful subjects. Her noble nature rose superior to this last hard trial she stood firm, and rejected the insidious and dishonorable pro position. With the commanding ascendency, which God has so largely blessed her with, she calmly braved the crisis. London was surrounded, and entered, by forty thousand troops; trains of artille raded the streets and fortifications were erected, as i? T e capital was about to stand a sack or siege immediately. Thus entrenched, steeled against, the feelings of nature, deaf to the voice of the public, the managers of the tragad opened their green bags; the grave actors entered upon t re stage; and the examination of the foreign witnesses, hired fin' the d adation of a oaownsn head, ' began. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.