16 NOVEMBER 1839, Page 10

'bit Faustus wit Diabdus Surely the learned hand of ISAAC

TOMP- KINS or PETER JENKINS may be discerned through its disguise in a pamphlet just published—" A Letter to the Queen by a Counellior of the Crown." The Councillor is in amaze that the interesting young Queen should be unpopular ; and, while carefully recording and ex- panding notorious reasons why "the people's loyal enthusiasm" has cooled, he pours out a profusion of lamentation that such should be the fact. He is at pains also to show her Majesty, that her position is one of great difficulty and some danger. 'Whence the danger? Mainly from this source— "Ever since your Majesty's accession, when the Court for the first time these hundred years became devoted to the Ministry, the Ministers have inure and snore Ni ithdrawn from the People. They early determined that no change should be made in the Reform Bill, beyond some adjustment of petty details. They have suffeied year after year to puss away without endeavouring to carry any IVIIOICIMOC 111Cfl:ure of improvement. They have contented themselves with balane:u• between coiflicting interests ; and, after doing some things and giving up otl.,:rs to ;airily those advasaries they never could win, they have deemed it quite enough for their own er«lit, if they could set off against their sins of cemmision and omission, an exuberant show of favour to the Irish Alemliers, and a lavish grant of patronage tu their adherents, for the purpose of retaining Parliamentary votes."

The remedy ? Hear the Councillor-

" Bear with me yet a little, while 1 point out the only alternative which you have, the only middle course, between dismissing your present servants—in other words, receiving the Conservatives into your favour, Cabinet, house- hold and all—and suffering the standard of Radical lletbrin to be raised, with a call on the hotly of the people to rally around you, and a Ministry composed of their chiefs, with perhaps a few of the men already known to office. You cannot change the constitution of the present Parliament : di:,:q)lve it you cannot, without insuring a large Conservative majority then, assuming that you are nut prepared to give up the present Ministry if you can help it, and yet less to summon a Radical Cabinet to your assistance even supposing such a thing possible, your only course must be to give a more liberal, a Inure reform- ing, a more popular tone to the existing Government, and thus to amend the temper of the Douse of Commons, and to regain the confidence of the Reform party among the People."

The affitir of the Bedchamber 'Women is well put— "The Ladies in 'Waiting and the Ladies of the Bedchamber to a Queen Regnant are in every sense of the word public functionaries. If it be asked what lady will bear to have waiting-maids imposed upon her—the answer is, that no one is speaking here of waiting-maids. If it be asked who will submit to have her friends, her familiar society, prescribed as if she were a child— the answer is, that no one is pretending to prescribe who should be the Sove- reign's friends, or who shall compose her society : the question is about Ladies of the Bedchamber ; and when any private lady shall appear who shall have such attendants, and such attendants paid by another, then we shall answer the question, how far such a lady may have a right to choose them and dismiss them at her pleasure. Be assured, Madam, that there is no possibility of draw- ing the line between one set of your servants and another, and that nothing can be more absurd than the notion of your Ministers being chosen for you and removed from your presence according as the voice of Parliament may direct, while,their wives, and daughters, and sisters, are to remain in the House- hold or to withdraw without any regard to the authority which has appointed the Ministry. Nominally, indeed, and in point of form, the Ministers them- selves are your choice ; the Great Officers of State are appointed by you. The Keeper of your Conscience is installed by your Majesty's delivering to him the Great Seal. The Chamberlain of your Household, your Lord Steward, ...your Master of the Horse, are all named by you, and all have daily and hourly interference with your private life ; but which of them all ever held his sent or his wand, or his key, one hour after a vote of Parliament called for a din! missal of the Ministers? This is the Constitution of England ; this is the kind of Government over which Providence has called you to preside; anti this form of polity knows of no distinction whatever between Chamberlains and Ladies of the Bedchamber in these respects."

Royalty has considerable advantages to compensate some restraints-.

"Princes are in all the things which all men prize the most dearly, ship. larly favoured by Fortune. The heights to which anxious mortals climb with incredible toil, vast suffering, great peril, extreme solicitude, are the smooth, green, sunny eminence on which the cradle of the prince is rocked, and whme he disports him until a prodigious funeral pomp bears him to his last repose among the heroes and the sages who have adorned the country. -Whatever honours other men most difficultly and most dangerously struggle to grasp, fall spontaneous into his hands; for he is born to them, and, by condescending to receive them, enhances their value to the greatest of the great. The hero of Salamanca and Vittoria, for conquering the captains of invincible France, received the baton of a Field-Marshal, Zell hail long before been wielded by the young Princes of a blood never shed but by the lancet, and who neverlaul seen a shot fired. The blue riband, which only one:Commoner ever wore of all the illustrious statesmen that ever emulated the Crown in the extremity of public danger, and shook the Senate in debate involving the existence of the dynasty, is wrapped as a matter of course around the:Royal infant when be can scarce make his voice articulately heard. The children of science, they whose motto is to disregard all authority however venerable, emulating the cultivators of Court etiquette, have rewarded a member, a most estimable member of yeas Majesty's family, with the chair once filled by Newton, for a proficiency in IMO thematics that probably carried him no further than the Golden Rule ulcroo:dfriterye, how learned soever he may be in other walks of literature. wants are supplied in abundance—without labour, or risk, or exertion of any kind. Amalthen's horn is poured oat before time favourites of Fortune as before the gods of Olympus ; and the debts which drive others to the workhouse, or the gaol, or exile, only in their case occasion Royal Messages, Addresses, and Committees of Supply. Nay, even that which the fair most sigh for, and in other ranks often sigh in vain, a suitable settlement in life, is pressed upon the Royal Maiden with an exuberance of choice that only embarrasses from its richness and its variety. Surely these things are to be reckoned in the account for something. Surely they should comfort the great under any little con- straint which may be exacted as the price of a happy and perennial ignorance of all the cares and nearly all the sorrows that checker the lot of -ordinary mortals."