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THE OBSERVER OF SUNDAY MORNING, AND TO THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST-INDIA STOCK. THE OBSERVER OF MONDAY EVENING. I • Looms awn Gforrsonto, THE fullest particulars respecting her Majesty the. IT is totally out of my powe r to convey, in ade -1 QUEEN will appear br TAs OberreP of Saida! Morning. - quate language, the deep gratitude which 1 feel from my' The Mer.lar Evening Edition of The i: ll4 e r &er ii . rendered heart for the high ho nour which you have conferred upon me mixt desirable tor Country Readers, and particularly-so fisepee- by the ballot Of yesterday ; but I hope you will believe, that the soafresiding abroad. recollection of this distinguished kindness and favour will ever make the deepest impression upon my mind, and that such a marked and decided proof of your approbation, will be at once the most flattering circumstance of my life, and the strongest 4 motive for the devotion of my time and attention to your in terests. I am still less capable of expressing what I owe to those individual Proprietors who have attended at this period. of ,the year, at such great personal sacrifices, to vote for me ; but their friendship I never can forget, and if I should not be able to return them my thanks in person before they quit town, which it is my anximis desire to do, they will, I truss, do me. the justice to conclude that I have made every exertion to per.. form this grateful office. I remain, with the greatest respect and gratitude, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your faithful and devoted servant, . JOSIAS DU Mt ALEXANDBL: 18, Hanover-square, August 17, 18SO. This day was published, Handsomely printed, and extensively embellished, price Is. THQUEEN's MATRIMONIAL LADDER, a National Toy, by the AUTHOR of the POLITICAL HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT, with Fourteen Step-sceoes ; and Illustrations in Verse, with Eighteen Cuts, viz. High - and Low; He qualifies; declares; She accepts; He alters; im putes ; She exculpates ; emigrates ; re-emigrates ; consternates ; He accuses ; The Press watches ; the British Lion awakes ; He asks for his Crown, and they give him the Bag They degrade Dim; The end—Cats Meat ; Teapot the Great; Gone sailing. Printed for William Hone, Ludgate-hill; and sold by all Booksellers in the United Kingdom. Orders from the Country, enclosing remittances, will be punctually executed, and placards fur doors and shop-windows enclosed. By the AUTHOR of the POLITICAL HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT.—Itt Parliament H E DROPT CLAUSES OUT OF THE DILL TAGAINST THE QUEEN. For Mr. Attorney-General. To peruse and settle. With a Refresher. Printed for William Hone, Ludgate-hill, Solicitor for laid Clauses. Price Sixpence. TO TILE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA STOCK. Lunn AND GiNTLIOUS, • • IF I had reason to d e d u c e f rom t h e i ssue of t h e recent contest for a scat in the direction of your affairs, a judgment unfavourable to my views, I should deem it as obli gation both of prudence and respect to abstain from the further prosecution of them ; but the numerous and flattering .roots of your confidence and good opinion which 1 h. ye had the gratifl cation to receive in the progress of my canvass, and in the course of yesterday's ballot, justify me in drawing an opposite infer ence. When I reflect, indeed, that the sucimislul Candidate possessed the advantage of having polled at the preceding Elec tion, in the month of June, not less than 'B6O votes, that my can vass-commenced only from that date, and that more than One half of the eroprietots were absent on this occasion, I have no reason to feel either surprise or disappoi nt m e n t a t te compara tive.iaferiority of the number of votes in my favour. With a lively sense of gratitude, therefore, for the very gene. ral countenance and encoutagernent which my pretensions Lave received, and for the numerous assurances of future support which have so readily and liberally been afforded me, I respect fully announce my intention of again presenting myself as a Candidate for your choice when another vacancy shall occur. I cannot close this Address without offering a special tribute of acknowledgment and thanks to the I roprietors who hive ho noured me with their suffruges, some of whom have It :d the goodness to submit to gre.t.personal inconvenience for the sole purpose of attending the I have the honour to be, with great respect, Ladies and GentLmen, Your most obedient and faithful humble Servant, N. B. ELMON.STOX.B. Portland-place, 17th August, 1820. VERBATIM EDITION. Handsomely printed in Bvo. on fine paper, in order to be uni versally circulated and presented, from the Palace to the Cot tage. Price Sixpence. THE QUEEN'S LETTER TO THE KING.- " GOD save the Queen !" Printed for William Hone, Ludgate-hill. Orders should par ticularly express " HOW& Verbatim Edition." Just publi3he3, price.ls. THE KING'S TREATMENT of the QUEEN, shortly stated to the People of England. • The Press is the great public monitor—it shall extend to the fattlizst verge and limit of truth—it shall speak truth to the Xing in the hearing of the Poople."—Coaaax. Printed for William Hobe, Ludgate-hill. • THIRD EDITION. This day was published, price Is. rPHE QUEEN'S CASE STATED.-By .1. CHARLES PHILLIPS, Esq. Barrister at Law. " You shall surely answer it, where the poorest rag upon the poorest beggar in your Realm shall have the splendour of a co• ronation garment."--Vide Statement. Printed for William Hone, Ludgate-hill. HEIR AT LAW AND PERSONAL REPRESENTA- . TLVE WANTED. TF the Heir at Law and Personal Representative of J. THOMAS PARKER, formerly of Pattenham, in the county of Surrey, and afterwards of Roehampton, in the said -comity, Esquire, and who died about the month cf January, 17ffit. will apply at the Office of :%lessrs. Bicknell and *tiding, Wo. 23, Norfolk-street, Strand, he will hear of something to kis advantage. ~, • NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The Wanderer, DONN, from the South Se :s, wit.. all well, sop. posed oil the Ist of June, in lat. 22. S. long. 43. W. The Patrocino, from Oporto to Bahia, was totally wrecked off that port, on the 25th of June. - Fausouvst, Avoetr 15.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Manta, gne packet, with a Mail from Jamaica, sailed the and from Crooked Island 17th July: Adams, Noutoti, I..um London lot Baltimore; and Lovely Ann, DUICCAN, from Ditto for the South Seas. Arrived off this pert, the Anil, Lewis, from Qtieoet: she spoke on the 17th July, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, ate Huddart, Arrtsay. from London tor Quebec, with 80 -passen gers, out nine weeks. Sailed the Muster Castle, Cl/ABl, for St. Petersburgh. . ALL Persons having Demands on the Estate of JOHN TODD, late of Charing-cross, Hosier, deceased, ass requested to send in the particulars thereat to the Office of ' Mr. Baylis Receiver to the Estate, No. 12, Grafton-street dharabirs, Bond -street, on or before the 12th day of Septenu bar next Oa default of being excluded), preparatory to the Ad ittinistritors convening a Meeting of the Creditors, in order to lay before th-m a statement of the deceased's aff..irs ; and all Postbus indebted to the Estate are hereby required to pay the ease ln:o the said Receiver's bands without delay. August 10, 1820. PLYMOUTH, Aeons? 16.—Wind S.W.—Sailed the Scipio, Cool , Ea, for Quebec; sod Mary, Goswsu., for Malaga. PORTSUOUTII, AtIOUST 17.—Arrived the Cow ier, Varorss, from Rotterdam for Surinam.—Pasaed by the Sarah, NORTON, from Bombay fur London.—Came into Harbour, the liegent yacht.—Wind W.S.W. RICHARDSON, - GOODLUCK, and Co. feel the highest satisfaction in recommending the Nsve Lamer to the atientioa and patronage of th-2ir Friends and the Public, Utley can pledge themselves that the Scheme is formed on the fairest and most liberal principles, and they have no doubt but ft will be honoured with those infallible tests of its merit, public opprobadon and support. Among the numerous advantages which this Scheme offers to a4vmaturers are the following :—There are THIRTY CAPITAL PRIZES, INCLUDING Mat., Armes, 17.—Wind S.W.—Arrived and sailed for the River, the John, Smcica; Stranger, FOSTVa ; and Catherine, GREEN, from Jamaica; liourtl, —, from 1)e ; Jane, CLYNA, from Tobago ; and some more, particulars not -known. Cane down from the River and remain, the Sprightly, Frutznit, for the South Seas; Pearl, Crate, for ditto; Mary, Tavi.cia, for Quebec; 6arthland, Knraur ; and Sarah Ann, Amami's, for 31iramichi. TWO CAPITALS of £O,OOO, ALL STERLING MONEY! To be divided IN ONE DAY, among 5.609 Tickets. .Prizes to the amount of X 11,200, Sterling Money, have Au.ltrwrls.—Arrived the North Briton, Am, 4s, from Greenland, with 11 lisp, and 370 butts. NORTH SHICLINS, AUGUST I6.—Arrived the Argus, Imam,' from Archangel :—on the lath - ult. she saw an English brig, painted with a broad white streak, on shore on the southernmost of the three Islands, near the entrance of the river Pornoy.—. Arrived of Tynemouth Bar the Industry, of London, from Green land, with five fish :—shout the 15th ttlt. she saw the Elias, lioswixn, with six fish. - - Into added to the Prize :11oney usually allotted io 5,600 tickets. There are no Stock Prizes—No Classes; every Number will decide its own fate, and no other. The lowest Prizes are of _CI6 each. This Lottery will be drawn ALL err ONE DAY, the 30th of TillS moNTH, AUGUST. Tickets and Shares are on sak at RICHARDSON, Com:mires, and CC4o.*:s Offices, Bank-Buildings, Cornhiil; and Chising-esoss. DISGRACEFUL AND DISHONEST OPPOSITION. THE CONTRACTORS for the last Lottery, of disgraccfulnotoriety, (Messrs. CA anou, liazaan, and Co.) thick proper to continue their fruitless, though intended ma -1 cious oppo4ition to the present Lottery ; and, as they have ' n..t one solid objection to make to it, they are obliged to resort to falsehoods, insinuations, and every petty artsfice that their ma 14nant minds can invent. They well know that the S:heme is plain and honest. They are aware-that alt the Prizes are Sterling Money; that there are L 11,200 more Prize Money than any similar Lottery ever did or could coMain, and that it will be all drawn in One Day, 50th of This Month ; and that every Ticket will decide its own fate, and no other ; and that the Tickets, though the same price as last Lottery, are intrinsically worth 13s. Bd. per Ticket more than when the last Lottery began; and they know that every person has a fair chance for all the Capital and other Prizes, nhich was not Me cam last Loewy. . It will be asked then,...Why tiffs opposition f The plain answer is this, Mews. CARROLL, HAZARD, and Co. were the Contractor: for the last Lottery, the Plan of which 1 considered dishonest, the modes adopted to promote the sale still more so, and I'eould not, therefore, support it; but I contented myself with merely stating it fairly, without one atom of ill nature; ohjerted to it front principl e ; and because L did not chuse to go hand in hand with them, in what I considered a frugal on the Public, they now, from REVENGE, oppose my Lottery; and v. proper estimation will be formed of the purity of the motives ca . :hese gentlemen, as, I am informed, they have avowed they will oppose not only this Lottery, but whatever Schema I may itatvfor Me succeeding Lottery or Lotteries, up to the 28th November, when my Contract ftnithes, and the Scheme or Schemes, which I nave not yet even thought of, although they avow their opposi tion before they know what they will be. I take great blame to myself for not having exposed the tricks of Messrs. CARROLL, AZA RD, and Co. at Me er time ; bat the lenity shewn them ought to have produced a b etter feel ing on their part, and instead of thrusting themselves forward to b.! *rimed, they would, had they been prudent, have endeavoured to let talleie misdeeds die away. Messrs. CARROLL, HAZARD, and Co. OK Contratiors for sit Law Lottery, are the only persons making the least opposi tion, as every other Offkokseper, in England and 21v/and, are eying me their support, because they know the Scheme is un- Niv Me lost, IT IS PLAIN AN D HONEST; and that the Public approve it, is evinced by the increasing patronage it Is daily rt evolving. I am the Public's devoted Servant, T. DISH, Corstwortor kr the .Zettery. 4, Cornhill, and 3, Charing-Crow, August 11, 1820. lA MUCH, Atmore 17.—Arrived the Lord Nelson packet, with a Mail, from Cuxhaven. GRAVESEND, Avower 16.—Arrived the Salamander, De Bord. from Embden ; Tell's, Chilton, from Pernambuco • Louisa, Cole, and Sygnet. BU‘ll, frem Holland; Princess Charlotte, Vaughan, from Calcutta; and the Broughton, Ellwood, from Demerara. Sailed the Hannah, Dixon, for Cape Breton; Hannan ' Webber, and Triton. Marshal, for Queb e c; Smith; Ebenezer, Edmond; and Industry, Oaniston, fur Ham burgh; Alert. APDougal; and Richard and Anne, Bergen, for libineur ; Bramin, Lawson, for fklboa ; Joao, Lou, for All cant, and Mantle, Davidson, for Richebucto. Azov/ED—At Bengal, the Agincourt, Henry Porcher, toria, and the Rockingham, Waugh, frcm London; also the Ca ledonian, from the Clyde. At the Cape of Good Hope, the Co lumbus, from Batavia. At Rio Janeiro, the Synimetry, Mor gan, from Sicily. At Bahia, the Calypso and Sultan, from Lon don; Marla, George Mackintosh, and Alice, from Liverpool. At Para, the Dandy, Bale, from LiverpooL At Havre, the Fla% Pelucre, from Jacatel. At Naples, the Helen, Roxburgh, from London. At the Liavannab, Polydora, from Ham Yesterday evening, a Meeting was convened , at the Vestry, in the Parish Church of St. Matthew, Bethnal-green, for the purpase of considering the propriety of addressing her MAJESTY on the present proceedings against her. At four o'clock the Chair was taken by Mr. GREENWOOD, the Churchwarden, and a considerable number of parishioners were at that hour assembled in the Church. The Rev. Mr. STURTIVANT moved the first Resolution for an Ad dress, and introduced it by some observations. He adverted to the hardship of her MAJESTY•S present situation, and called upon every Englishman to ad vocate her cause. The Resolution. was h of course, carried, and was followed by six other Resolutions, propmed and seconded by Mr. BIGGS, Mr.Basivoftn, Mr. BEDFORD, and various other inhabitants of the Parish, which were alsci unanimously approved of; and it was ordered that the Address be presented by a Deputation, and it was suggested that some Ladies be invited to join the procession. This was, how ever, afterwards negatived. A Meeting was agreed to be assembled to settle the time and wanner of pre-; seating the Address. . • . 77141 AL OF TH,E QUEEN. YMITSB DF LORDS, AUGUST 11. MINORITY or 7118 DUKE oe LEINSTER's MOTION FOR S:J.^^l.\•B ALL IMOCE=PINCS LGAU4T THE QUEFIf. DO* of Leinster • Viscounts and Lords: Somerset Anson Bedford Duncan Argyle Bolingbroke Hamilton Downe Torrington Hood • Kenyon • St. Alban'i Marl. of Dovenaiiro Earl of Rom Darnley Jersey Albemarle Suffolk • • Besboroogh StatikePe • t FortiPcoo • Common 13fitsvetwor limpet Ccrirper Ikitester Ozford Thy folliTwitig was the tetday in the House of L FOR 2112 RILL. The Zing's Attorney-General Ditto Solicitor-General, and Advocate-GeneraL I):. Adams, and Mr. J..r.les Park; with Nr. and Mr. Boumlt..-r, Solicitors of the Treasury. NAMES OF WITS:ZSE3 MO% The Earl of Guildford The Lord Glcobez vie The Lady William Bentinck The Lady Charlqtre Lindsay The Lady Elizabeth Forb• a The lion. William Burrell Anthony Buller St. Le er, P-61. Henry Holland, M.D. Alias, Say and Sale Gwydir Clifden . Auckland • , . Duudas • Daere &Maisel Sondes Dude 'laud awke Foley. al array assembled yes -ds ACALKST TIE ULU The Queen's Attortey-Getsetal Ditto Solicitor-General. • Dr. Lushington. :Mr. J. Williams. Mr. Wilde. Mr. Tindal; with Mr. Vizard, her Majesty's So lidtor. • .tri FOR, TO SUMMONED : Toe Hon. Captain King The Earl of Llandaff The Lady Charlotte Bury Sir William Gel! Hor. I:eppel Craven The :Larl of Clare The 1..4rd G-ran:illeSomerset The Lord rred. Montague. PROCEED:NG 3, IS CONTINUATION FROST T!I 37.:11 Or YESTERDAY. After the division on the D-.lke of LEINSTER'S mo-' tiOn, it was moved by the Earl of LIVEIIPOOL, that Counsel should he called in and heard ,in support of the preamble of the Bill of Pains and F'cnalties. The Earl of CARNARVON rose to state his mo tives for the course he intended to take u pon thi s c.,t..- cit4ion‘. He thought it due to their Lordships, and to the ceuritiy, that he should idly ent-er intl the ;batons hich induced film to oppose the present. 'proceeding. *He objected to it, because he felt thin it was inconsistent with the public Interests ; lent! also 'because he felt it was inconsistent with their Lord ships honour, which - he conceived would:tse tar nished if this Bill we:e suffered to proceed .one step further. lie felt such strong oblections to a Bill of this kind, that lie was now rea,:• to stite; teat he could hardly conceive any cause sufficiently forcible to induce him to vote for such a proceeding. But if any.case etisted in which he could bring•his mind to .-.upport a Bill of Pains and Penalties, it mast be one of absolute necessity. 'Was there, he would ask, one of their Lordships, or was there a man thronghoot, the whole country, who conceived that the investi. gation of these charges, undo; all the circumstances, was called' for by the necessity of the case?—(Hear, hear). Did their Lordships believe that the country would be threatened viith danger if those charges had never been instituted ? For his own part, be con ceived that they did not entertain such an opinion ; but, on the contra' y, every indiiridual who had ma turely weighed the subject was, he had no doubt, im= pressed with the idea that danger was rather to.be apprehended from the course they were pursuing. He could not conceive any benefit that could •he de rived liom the further proceeding with this mea sure; but he cot.ld see many difficulties and dangets that were likely to arise frbm it. Bills of Pains and Penalties' had all the effect of ex post facto laws ; they were intended to punish thox by an indirect method who could not be convicted . by due course of law: they were meant to supply defects of evi dence: but he would. ever contend that an attempt , so to supply a defect of evidence was opposed to every principle of public justice, if the principles of public justice, as laid down by our Courts of Law, were indeed well founded. On that ground alone, if there were no, other on which he could found his opposition, he • would protest against the course which their Lordships seemed inclined to pursue. The last instance of a Bill.of this nature, and the instance which was most decidedly relied on, was that of Sir J. Fenwick, in the reign of William 111. Had he, however, existed at that period, he would have given his decided vote against the Bill. .The only ground for it was, that *some of the witnesses had been withdrawn, and that, thcrefbre, there was a want Of the necessary evidence to go before the Public. But, even in that case, he thought their Lordships should not have proceeded by a Bill of Pains and Penalties to supply a defect of evidence. He could not admit the case of Sir John Fenwick to be of suck a nature that he ought to have been found guilty of such an extraordinary process, when, by the usual course that would have been pursued in a Court of Justice, he must have been acquitted: —That business, he found, had commenced in the House of Commons. It had created many discus sions; and, when a Bill was brought in, there was a majority of 90 members in favour of it ; but when it passed, that majority had dwindled down to Se,. The Bill came regularly before the House of Lords; and so little did their Lordships feel the expediency of passing it, that it was carried by only a majority .of seven. Bishop Burnett attempted to argue that the IBM of Pains and Penalties was a constitutional and j legal mode of Feceeding, and the first case which the Learned Bishop adduced in support of his argu ment was a most extraordinary one. He stated, as a proof of the legality of the proceeding, that a man accused of having . attempted to destrey'the Bishop of Rochester; by -infusing a quantity of poisoe into hisluod, was not.only awarded by such a mea- NUMBER 10,447. PRICE SEEti -PEN CF. sure to be guilty, but was sentenced to be boiled alive. This was the triumphant species of example by which-the Learned Bishop had attempted to de fend a proceeding which was contrary to every esta- • blished doctrine of law, it might be stated, that in tumultuous times, when great danger was appre hended, this arbitrary proceeding might be resorted to, and justified on the ground of necessity. But Where was the dither in.the present case? Where was the necessity of a Parliamentary instead of a judicial proceeding ? And in the case of Sir John Feuwick, which was so much relied on, what evil was likely to have been endured by the country if the Bill of Pains and Penalties had not been adopted? If the case now brought under the consideration of Parliament bad not been inquired into at all, what danger had the country a right to apprehend ? The' conduct—die.votes, he would say, of the House of Commons—the conduct of Ministers themselves, who were the accusers on this occasion—shewed that, • so far from any dahger being apprehended from keep ing this question back. they would willingly em brace any mode by which they could possibly get out of this disagreeable scrape—( Hear., hear).-- Was it not. then a case that violated all the princi• plea of justice, when they were called on to make a law by which an individual who had not committed . any " legal crime" might be found guilty ? Was it not monstrous to ask their Lordships to pass a law of this kind in the absence of all ground of public danger? Looking to the tase, under all these 'eh cumstances, the Public had not—as they felt they had not—any decided interest In this proceeding. If the Noble Earl who brought the measure forward would rise in his place, and state that he , apprehended any real danger to the succession to the Crown of these realms —if he would state to their Lordships and. the Public some strong and paramount reasons for adopting such a system, he would pay the utmost attention to that declaration. But he believed there was net one of their Lordships who imagined. that any such ground could be stated. Their Lordships must not forget the situation in which her Majesty was placed at the period when the th.irges contained in this Bill originated. Her's was not a common situation. Long prior to the perioA-to which he alluded, in conse quence of unfertenate circumstances—circumstances not unnsual to fin man nature, and which alone could be at:cowl:R.l for by a reArence to human infirmity, which so:reliiiei disturbed the tranquillity of Mar ried.life—for nearly Z) rears before the circumstan ces which gave rise to this cliscutsion, this Illustrious Personage 1 .:;:,1 zsct only been estranged-from the af aections of Ler Itoyai Censort, but she haeilvvn shut from the Coart of the late Queen, and denied access to any' of the Royal Family. She hadsbeen placed in a. situation of so per Ulla?' a description, that, if eery °cheer individtial had !teen similarly situated, their Lordships well knew that they would not suffer a Bill of Divorce tObe - introduced to their House in consequence - of any fault t h at might have bem com mitted under such circumstances. Ile would assert, that her Majesty had been placed' in a situation, in which no individual throughout the conniryy.from the highest to the lowest, ought to have been .placed. Even admitting the charge to be true. (and* this he did merely for the sake of argument,. for Of the charges themselves he knew nothing), admitting them to be correct to the full extent tit which they were insinuated, not diiectiy made till he felt that, ' under the peculiar circun:stances of thisextraordi nary case, it would have been better not -to hitve made them public. It would have been well, he thought, if Ministers had stifle ed the Alps and the Appennines, the boundaries of distant realms, and the wide extent of seas and oceans, -to thieve a veil over those events which they had so eagerly brought forward —(Hear, hear).—What they bad done tended only to oisturb the public peace—to injure the Teel- . ings of the country—to disgust every individual in the empire —and to excite that irritation of mind which could not exist without endangering the safety of the State—(Hear, hear.-- - Under these circum stances, be thought that the whole of these proceed ings were most objectionable —and that they were calculated to divide and distract the ctimtry (Hear). The Bill was founded on a fictitious opinii n, that the Public bad a deep interest in this matter: but, instead Qf having an interest in p romot i ng , t h ey h a d the strongestinterest in repressing this proceeding. But, if their Lordships thought, contrary to his opinion, that this inquiry should be continued, he certainly would contend that the Bill, new before them was not the preferable mode of efFecting that object. It .appeared to him that they had no right to go into evidence on the allegations contained in the Bill then before the House. The Bill, instead of pointing out some clearly defined and pecific acts of guilt ; some proceeding of a criminal nature, commenced With a long article of accusation, not one single word of which pointed at a tangible charge. k wakgravely stated as a matter of offence, thatx foreigner, wi to filled an lutinble situation, had been promoted Was nothing of the kind ever known in this colintey? Were none honoured with promotion here but per sons of high bit tit ? Was England the country in which the conferring distinction on an individual of worth was to be brought forward as - matter of crimi nal charge? Had no persons similarly - situated been ever - promoted here? Ilad not individuals, origi . nally occupied in an humble manlier in this country, sometime; possessed the confidence of men of high rink, who, with all their power and influence, had assisted :n raising the fortunes of those individuali? (If this were admitted onstitutec. 4 as this coun try was, it must be admit,-,:). then be arqued that ' this point of charge wa s °n e o n wt: ti:cy ha d no right to go into evidence. The oi:ly charge they had any right to consider, was :t sort of make-weight at the end of the Bill, where an adulterous intercourse was spoken of, 'but not in distinct and definite.terms.-- This, if made clearly and distinctly, would be a charge Of very:considerable magnitude. But those who Drought it forward seemed, b, , the way in which ..-