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from that Noble Lord certainly ! But, my Lords, my coo duct during the whole of this unfortunate investigadon, and my vote, have been fair and open, and free from trick aunts oeuvre! But what shall we say to the tricks and =oeuvres of those who, to get votes for the second reading of the WA held out hopes of alterations and modifications in the Committee? The Noble Lord on the Woolsack, who bad made an eloquent speech in favour of the Divorce Clause, had, with the whole of the Cabinet Ministers, voted against the Clause !---(Rae, have). /sly Lords, I felt indignation and disdain, and I might also use a stronger term, at the charge of my Noble Friend ! I spoke openly and fairly, and had no view to entrap the House; but, in respect to the subject itself, I may say, that nothing is more common in Parliament than, where a strong objection exists to any measure-1 say, nothing is more common than to clog it with such conditions as might prevent its passing —(Hear, he ar !).—But, my Lords, I was not driven to this expedient. I had said from the commencement, that if the Divorce Clause was rejected, the Bill would degrade the King as well as the Queen ; and, when I found that a majority of the Reverend Bench of Bishops said there was no objection to the Clause, on religious grounds, I gave it my conacientleus vote ! Had I been* like the Noble Lord, a supporter of the Bill, I could have felt r.o difficulty : the difficulty with me was, that I was against the Bill; but still I might have stated sufficient reasons for the vote, in my wish not to add to the degradation of Royalty, by degrading his Majesty, as well as his Copsort. Every thing that I have heard; everything that I have read; and everything that I have thought on this subject, has con firmed my original opinion on this measure. I had voted con scientiously that I did not think the charge against the Queen had ben made out ; and yet I found myself compelled to vote for the Divorce Clause, which might appear to give my sanction to the charge. In this I cannot, however, be accused of want of fairm-.4 ; and I do not know how trick and na.uxeuvre can be imputed to me. I have been anxious that this unconstitutional, this painful, and this fatal Bill, should be rejected. I stated my reasons for opposing it, and the Noble Lord might have refuted those reasons by fair means. I therefore think that the Noble Lord should have abstained from such an unwarrantable charge as he has made against me! My Lords, whether I have s9pportcd or opposed a measure in this House, I never dis guised my feelings and opinions in this House; and, though I may have been guilty of some indiscretion in giving the Noble Lord an advantage, yet I cannot be suspected of unfairnesa„ I agree with the Noble Lord behind me (Ellenborough), that those who voted for the second reading of the Bill, in the hopes o: its being altered in the Committee, have been deceived; but, ei course, there were no tricks, no manoeuvres, in this. The Noble Lords who have been thus deceived, and induced to press the Bill to a stage which it otherwise would never have reached, must, however, oppose the third reading of the Bill. I trust, my Lords, I shall be excused if I have expressed my % warmly ; but, considering the charge made against me, and quarter from whence it came, I could not but feel it strongly. My wi-la is to stand well in this House, and to discharge my duty faithfully and conscientiously. Lord LAUDERDALE explained. If he were capable on any account of saying what could by possibility detract from the character of his Noble Friend, it would be Infinitely more painful to him than anything that ever happened to him in the whole course of his life. But he had not used the word unworthy trick. lie had only said, that it was a Parliamentary trick, Awn prac tised, and never, perhaps, more effectually than on the present masion. lie could assure his Noble Friend that, en all Gees i)ns, he could have but one feeling towards him, a feeling S-.l:ch had long existed, and must continue with hint to the end 74: Lis life. (To be consittned iif • Second Rake.) Yesterday the Duke of YORK and the Princess kUGUSTA visited the Kum, at his Palace in Pall-mall. Last night, his Royal Highness the Duke of CLA RENCE entertained a large party, at his residence, St. James's Palace, in commemoration of her Royal ilighness the Princess AUGUSTA'S Birth-day. Among the party wne his Royal Highness the Duke of YORK, the Duke and Duchess of GLOUCESTER, and her Royal Illbhness the Princess AUGUSTA. A Concert was Even in the evening, which was a most delightful treat to the lovers of music. Yesterday, her MAJESTY took an airing, accom panied by Lady ANNE HAMILTON. The following is the list of the visitors at Branden burgh House yesterday : Dachas of Somerset, Countess of Jersey, Earl of Jersey, Vhaount Duncannon, Mts. Brougham, Mr. and Mrs. Hume, Sir Godfrey Webster, Bart. and Mr. Western, M.P. for Essex. Yesterday the Duke and Duchess de CAZES ar rived, at their house in Portland-place, from their seat At Harrow-on-the-Hill. . . Yesterday the Duke de FRIAS, the Spanish Am bassador, entertained Prince Esreanazy, the Duke de Caves, Count LUMEN, Count de &USA, Baron usr, Count de Botramt, and a select party of distin guished foreigners, at his house in Portland-place. Yesterday, her Serene Highness Princess ESTER !' A ZY, entertained Prince LicnTENsrEIN, the Duchess de CASES, Baron de CAZES, Madame de CAZES, Countess LIEVEN, and a party of her distinguished friends, at Chandos House. Yesterday the Earl of HARROWRY entertained the Earl of LIVERPOOL, Earl BATHURST, the Archbishop of TIMM, the Bishop of Balsroc, the Bishop of Gr.oucitsrua, and a select party of the Peers, with a canner, at his house in Grosvenor-square. Yesterday, the Earl and Countess of gave a dinner to the Duke of BEDFORD, the Marquis of LAtSDOWN, Viscount and Viscountess GRANVILLE, and a large party of distinguished Personages, at their house in Berkeley-square. This day the Earl and Countess of DERBY will give a grand dinner to a large party of distinguished Personages, at their house in Grosvenor-square. Yesterday forenoon, Lord and Lady NORMANET left Sir T. LIDDELL'S house, in Portland-place, for Hampton, in order to be present at the nuptial cere mony of Mr. LIDDELL and IJiss SEYMOUR, which takes place this day. Many years ago, Judge Bur.r.ra presided at the Winchester Assizes, when a prisoner being on trial fcr a capital offence, the Judge desired the Jury to Onsidcr their verdict. They turned round to do so, excepting one raw-boned countryman, who amused himself with looking about the Court. Judge Bute $a said, 14 Why do not you consult with your Lother Jurymen?"—He 'answered, " I shall do as t.ley do, my Lord." On this the upright Judge or cered the Officers to Sake Mat fellow out of the box, wLich they did somewhat unceremoniously, and put Ain , out of the Court. The Judge then, turning to the prisoner, congratulated him on having escaped ith his life—for that time—the law requir►ng that he should he tried by a panne' of twelve, and there v•eit only eleven honest Jurors FRENCH PAPERS. The Paris Papers of. Sunday arrived last &et, and this morning those of Monday. M. Hyde de Neuville, lately Ambassador to the United States of America, but now appointed to the. same situation at the Court of the Brazils, had left Paris for Rochefort, where he was to embark on board a King's ship for the United States. His Ex cellency then goes to Washington direct ; and after the Sitting ofthe'American Congress, he will go to the Brazils. Prince Talleyrand had arrived at Paris, from his seat at Valensay. The Duke of Tarentum (Marshal Macdonald) being indisposed, and not being able to preside over the Electoral College of the Rhone, it is said that he will be :placed in that situation by M. de Magneval, Deputy for that Department. The Mail for Bourdeaux from Paris was engulfed in the passage of the Dordogne ; but they succeeded in saving the passengers, the driver, and the guard. The Duchess of Angouleme has almost entirely recovered from her indisposition. Prince de Ruffo, the Ex-Neapolitan Ambassador at Vienna, has left that' city to attend the Congress at Troppau. A modeller in bronze, named Phillipet, has been found guilty in the Court of Assize, on a charge of selling little bronze figures of Napoleon. He has been condemned to expiate the crime of selecting such a subject for the exertion of his art, by two l years imprisonment ! M. Marchargy, the Advocate- General, performed the functions of Public Accuser ; Mr. Canning was in Court during the proceedings. By a private letter from Madrid, dated the 24th October, it appears that the Session of the Cortes will terminate in a fortnight, after having performed many acts of bold and judicious policy, which the con solidation of the new system demanded. The French Five per Cents. left off on Saturday at 75 francs 95 cents. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY, in consequence of the present low prices of agricultural produce, has post poned the Christmas audits of his Dorsetshire te nantry till the spring. The Rev. JOHN ARMSTRONG is arrived at the Cla-, Tendon Hotel, Bond -street, from Paris. Viscount and Viscountess STRANGPORD and suite left Reddish's Hotel, Jermyn-street, yesterday, for Portsmouth, to embark for Constantinople. Lady NicHotaoN is arrived at Blake's Hotel, Jer myn-street, from, the Continent. ROBERT WELLESLZY, Esq. is arrived at his house in St. James's-place, from Brighton. Friday evening, the County of Fife was enlivened by a grand ball and supper, given by Mr. BALFOUR,' at Balbirnie, where most of the beauty and fashion in the County, and many distinguished persons from neighbouring Counties, were assembled. Amongst the company present were— Lady Catherine and Mr. White Melville, Countess of Lau derdale, Lady Julian Maitland, Lori Maitland, Lady Eleanor and Mr. Balfour, Sir Patrick and Lady Mary Murray, and two Misses Murray, the Earl of Leven and Melville, Sir David and Lady Moncrictfe, Sir John and Lady Oswald, Mrs. and Mr. Murray, of Polmaise, Mr. and Mrs. Rigg, Miss Eaglehearts, Miss Campbell, Miss C. Blair, the Hon. Mr. Stewart, the Hon. Mr. Gray, &c. &c. _ _ _ Yesterday, according to annual custom, the Right Hon. the LORD MAYOR, the LORD MAYOR Elect, SHERIFF& RECORDER, and several Aldermen, at tended by the City Marshals, Marshalmen, &c. went in procession from the Mansion-house to Guildhall, where the new LORD MAYOR was sworn into office for the City of London, with the accustomed for malities; after which the two LORD MAYO RE returned in the state-coach to the Mansion-house, where a luxurious banquet, technically termed the ig farewell dinner," was provided, at their joint expense, for the Court of Aldermen, the City Officers, &c. The new carriage of the Loon MAYOR Elect is extremely ele gant ; the City arms are most exquisitely and con spicuously painted on the pannels ; the mounting of the coach and harness is of silver, highly ornamented in the same manner. The liveries are of the most splendid description, and equal to the royal liveries of any-Court in Europe. The cloth, which is of the best English manufacture, is a beautiful puce colour, with vests and small-clothes of superfine white ker seymere, richly trimmed with gold lace ; the coats splendidly decorated with elegant gold figures, the body adorned with a wreath of gold kowers, and the sleeves decorated with a scale-work of the most costly description. The jacket of the postillion resembles the description given of the costly garments spoken of in the romances of Eastern splendour. REQUISITION cam MlDDLESEX.—TwoGentlemen, of the names of LLOYD and MILLS, waited on the Sheriffs on Monday last, with certain papers, pur porting to be Requisitions, signed by Freeholders of Middlesex, for a Meeting of the County, to Petition the House of Commons for a Reform in the Repre sentation in Parliament. The Sheriffs requested till yesterday to return their answer. They were accord ingly waited on again at the Guildhall yesterday, by Messrs. LLOYD, MILLS, and DRAPER, when the following was delivered to them as the answer of the Sheriffs to the application: " Gasrmssum--Having considered the several papers pre sented to us on Monday the 6th instant, and also others trans mitted some days previously by Major Cartwright, requesting us to convene a County Meeting for taking into consideration the propriety of petitioning the House of Commons for a Con-, stitutional Reform of the Representation of the Teople in Par liament, we beg in reply to say, that, fully appreciating the sa cred right of petitioning, we shall feel it to be a duty to convene a Meeting of the County whenever we are called upon by a Requisition regularly and respectably signed for that purpose; but the papers delivered to us appear to have been circulated and signed in a manner so unusual and irregular, that we do not feel ourselves justified in convening the great body of the Free holders of this ettensive County thereoc. (Signed) " Row. t Sheri ff of the County " hstis S of Middlesex. " Nov. $, 1820." LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, NOVEMBER a. DJDCTMDNT^DOD ON TER moan OF WFAITLAKII, V. WUTLAEI. This was a motion for a new trial in a cause that had been tried before Mr. Baron GRAHAM, at the Assizes for the County of Devon. when a verdict had been returned in favour of the plaintiff. The plaintiff and the defendant were first cousins, and nephews of the testator, lessee of certain tenements at Eabourn, in the County of Devon. By the will of the testator he had devised the property in ques tion in these words, " To my brother Matthew, and to Simon, my brother's son." It appeared on the trial that the sestator had three brothers, each of whom had a son of the name of Simon,-arid the de fendant was the son of Richard, deceased, the eldest brother of the testator, and his heir at law. The action of ejectment had been brought by Simon, the son of Matthew, to which Matthew the testator had devised the tenements at Ezbourn, and the Jury under the direction of the Learned Judge, had found in favour of the plaintiff. Mr. MOORr moved the Court for a new trial,' on the ground that Simon, the son of the deceased bre ' Cher Richard, and heir at law of the testator, was the person intended in the devise. To establish that point, he had been allowed at the trial to call parole evidence; and both the person who had drawn up the will, and the wife of the testator, had given evi dence of their firm belief that Simon, the son of Richard, was the person intended by the testator to succeed to the property in question on the death of the said Matthew. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE was of opinion that there was no ambiguity in the will ; there was cer tainly no doubt in his mind as to the intention of the testator, that Simon, the son of Matthew, named just before, and connected with him, in the mind of the testator, must be the person to whom, on the death of his brother, he intended the property to devolve. If a mistake had got into the will, yet the Court could not interfere, when the language of the deed was clear and consistent with itself. Rule refused: POLICE. MAxstoit-Houn.—Monday, Mr. Stokes, of Lom bard -street, appeared before the LORD,MAYOR, on a penal information under the Act for the Prevention of Seditious Meetings and Inflammatory and Sedi tious Publications, charging him with havii3g refused to obey the order of the Magistrate to produce the copy of a certain placard printed by him, inviting the Citizens of London to a general illumination. Mr. Emus attended as Solicitor for Mr. Stokes : and Mr. NEWMAN, the City Solicitor, conducted the prosecution. The refusal being proved, Mr. EICICR said, he should not now enter fully into the merits of the case, as he had a number of objections to the infor mation, which he was apprehensive must prove fatal to it. It did surprise him that his client, than whom he jrnew no one who could possibly have a greater interest in the preservation of the peace of the City, and the prevention of everything like sedition or tu mult, should be prosecuted under such an Act as the 39th of Geo. HI. cap. 79. sec. 29, being " An Act for the more effectual suppression of Societies esta blished for seditious and treasonable purposes, and for the better preventing treasonable and seditious practices." Mr. Eicxe contended, that the infor mation could not be sustained, inasmuch as it was uncertain in its allegations, and at variance with the evidence, and, in fact, charged his Lordship with being the printer of the paper. The information stated, that " on the 4th of November, the defendant, John Stokes, appeared before the Lord Mayor, and refused to produce the copy of a paper printed by hips." Now this pronoun clearly related to the Lord Mayor, who was the antecedent, and not to Mr. Stokes: and the grammatical construction here was, that Mr. Stokes was summoned to produce a paper printed by the Lord Mayor. The LORD MAYOR said, that the pronoun him re lated distinctly to Mr. Stokes. The objection was over-ruled. EICICE said he had another objection, which was, - that there had been no evidence to support the allegation that Mr. Stokes had printed the bill on the 30th of Octoher, or that Mr. Stokes had printed the bill at all. The CITY SOLICITOR produced one of the printed placards in question; the date of which was the 30th of October ; Stokes, Printer, 6, Lombard-street.— The production of this printed bill, with the name of Mr. Stokes upon it, as the printer, and with the date of 30th of October upon it, was primafecie evidence that Stokes was the printer of the bill, and that he had printed it on that day ; and that the onus lay with the defendant to disprove that he was the printer. Mr. Emu said, he had never heard of such a law before, as that a person who was charged under a penal information should be bound to prove himself innocent, and he hoped that be should never hear of such a law again. He objected to the putting in of any new evidence for the information after the cue had closed. He objected also that the production of the bill which the defendant was charged with having printed, was no evidence of his being the printer, or that it was printed on the day charged in the infor mation. It was not upon supposition, but upon evi dence, that the Lord . Mayor had to decide. The CITY Souctrou persisted in offering the bill as evidence upon the points stated, when a long and warm discussion took place between the parties, in the course of which Mr. Eicke threatened to close his case, and leave the Court, if the course of proceedings adopted was persisted in. He said, that the question was one of immense importance to the Press. The LORD MAYOR coincided with the latter ob servation of Mr. Eicke, and said, that before he ven tured to make so momentous a construction upon the Act, he should like to take the opinions of some law yers of eminence upon the points. His Lordship, therefore, with the consent of the parties, adjourned the consideration of the case until a future day. QUEEN.'SQLTA RE.--Yesterday, Pitcher, Elijah Battey, William Forty, and Richard Lennard, were brought up, charged with exciting the Mob and hissing the Peers on returning from the House on Tuesday night. The prisoner, Pitcher, who is an out of Chelsea, was the first put to the bar. ' Me was accused of using seditious and inflamenatwy language, and hissing the D 4 k- of r rkti A Bow-street patrol, wl o witnessed his conduce, took him into custody, and sw,,, ~4) his hearing a conspicuous part amongst the mi.h, inciting them to riot and tumult, and insulting the Royal Duke as the carriage passed. The prisoner, in defence, said, he had served the King since he was a boy, and had often fought and bled for his King and country ; it would be now hard to accuse him of disloyalty, aft& so many years service, when in fact he only wanted to pacify the people ; and was in the act of cautioning them, when he was taken into custod)s, He was willing to Serve his Majesty again, if his services were required. and was in truth more loyal than the feather-bed fellow who presumed to take him upon such a charge, and who would hide himself if he saw real danger. The Magistrate was glad to see an old veteran pro fess such loyal sentiments. The expressions used probably did not originate with him, but were uttered by some one near him. The patrol did not exceed his duty by taking him into custody; but, upon the whole, it seemed to be a mistake; and, as the charge was not satisfactorily proved, the worthy Magistrate ordered him to be discharged, on giving security that he would not offend again. E. Battey was charged with insulting and hissing the Peers, and exciting the mob to tumult, &c. A. Lloyd, a Bow-street patrol, stationed at the end of Parliament -street, proved the fact alleged to have been committed by the prisoner, and described him to be a most active leader. The prisoner said, he lived in Three Crown -court, Chancery-lane; was a shoemaker by trade. and had a wife and family. He denied having incited the mob, nor had he used any disrespectful expressions towards any of the Peers. The Magistrate censured such conduct, and or dered him to find bail for his good behaviour, and to be detained until such bail was given. Wtn. Forty was charged to have been actively en gaged with the other prisoners in using disrespectful language towards the Peers, conducting himself with great impropriety, and inciting disorder and tumult amongst the mob by his expressions and behaviour. The prisoner said he lived in Spring -street, Gros venor-square; he went to see the Peers returning from the House merely from curiosity; but he do. nied the whole of the charge against him, as he con ducted himself peaceably, and wa not disposed to quarrel with any one. He was ordered to find bail for good behaviour. Richard Lennard was charged with hissing the puke of Wellington and the Marquis of Anglesea, • and conducting himself amongst the crowd riotously and disorderly. The prisoner pleaded nearly the same excuse with the rest, by declaring he had taken no part in the tumult.—He was ordered to find bail. • SINGULAR AND FATAL ACCIDENT.—Friday morn ing, the following extraordinary circumstance took place at the house of W. TURNER, Esq. at Reigate. Mr. TURNER gives away milk to the poor of the place, and amongst the rest to the family of Yeomans. On the morning in question, his daugh ter, aged twelve, went to fetch her milk ; the maid servant took the vessel, and went to the dairy, leav ing the girl standing on the stone pavement in the scullery. Presently after she was alarmed by a noise, and on looking into the scullery she missed the girl, and observed that a part of the pavement had given way, discovering a vault of great depth, which it was almost impossible to explore, owing to the fetid effluvia that issued from it. At length a person ven tured down,ik and found the girl at the bottom, a d tance of thirty or forty feet, quite dead, apparently from suffocation; but it is very singular, its existence was altogether unknown to the present family. The rafters under the pavement were much decayed. They have been repaired, and the vacuum has since been filled up with earth. A Coroner's Inquest was on Saturday held, and the Jury returned a verdict of " Accidental Death." As Mr. Joseph Keys, watchmaker, of Percival street, Clerkenwell, was crossing Mount Pleasant, Cold Bath-fields, about two o'clock yesterday after noon, he was run against by three fellows who ap peared to be at play, one of them gave him a push and threw him down headlong, another of them ran up to him with the pretence of helping him up, whilst the third made a snatch at his watch, and the three then ran off in separate directions. Mr. Ke) s cried out " Stop thief !" when a man who was turning the corner from another street, and who observed the . transaction, ran after and secured one of the villains, The other two effected their escape. The fire at the Custom-house was occasioned by a flue which passed through part of a room which con tained new books, and printed papers of different forms, and was owing to its having been over-heated, and there also having been some unknown aperture or crack in the flue. Yesterday a public Meeting of the Schoolmasters of the Metropolis and its vicinity was held at the Queen's Arms Tavern, Newgate-street. At four o'clock Mr. DEMPSTER, of Kingsland Crescent, took the Chair, and proceeded to address the meeting, in veighing, in forcible terms, on the injuries heaped upon her MAJESTY for a series of years by those • whose duty it was to have protected her. Several other Gentlemen, in able speeches, followed, and a series of Resolutions was put and unanimously agreed to, as was an Address to her MAJESTY founded on them. IRISH LAW APPOINTMENTESOME important changes are likely to occur in our Judicial Esta blishment at the approaching Term. It is believed, that Mr. Justice MAYNE will not resume his fanc tions as a Judge; and that, Mr. Justice DALY and Baron GEORGE are likely to retire. Serjeint JOY has already refused the situation of a Puisne Judge, on the occasion of the last vacancy. It was understood, that he reserved himself for a higher object; and that, calculating on the support of Lord CAarts- REACH, he aspired to the situation of a Chief Justice. If there be (and it is probable) more vacancies on the Bench than one, Mr. H. D. GRADY, Mr. Lzraos, and Mr. VANDELEUR, ate considered as candidates. Mr. H. D. GRADY has much to give up; his present si tuation of Chief Counsel to the Revenue, being one Appoint tents. A new set of the best of our Law of King's Counsel is expected ; Mr. FRENCH, Mr. HAMILTON (the son of the Bishop), Mr. BLACKER. and Mr. KEMMIS, arc included in this arrangement. —Dublin Free:males Joni auk - : " N, 1