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must be the result; and he was the more anxious to im press this on the House. because the subject seemed entirely to escape the consideration of the Miiiisters.— The Petition also noticed, with pain, the a✓itated state of the country, produced by an impolitic interference with► the royal name and privileges ; and the Petitioners prayed that the Ministers might be dismissed by his Majesty. Much had been said about " folly" and " mischief," but could any thing equal the folly and mischief of those mea sures which the Ministers had vainly attempted to cosy? —Cheers.) The CHANCE-UM:of the EXCHEQUER moved that the House, at its lisitig, should adjourn to Wednesday.— Agreed to. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved the House into a Cemmittee of supply. Mr. CIfEEVY said, the public had prevented the Queen from being sacrificed, and lie hoped they would now look to their propel ty, which that Ilouse was in pos session of. He hoped they would meet iu all pm is of the country, and make tlic House mind its usatiners.—(-k laugh and applause.) The House went into a Committee, and the Report was ordered for Wednesday. Loan ARCIIIB4I.II HAMILTON'S Mwriov.—Lord HAMJL'I'ON then rose to bring forward his important motion, to place her Majesty's name in the Liturgy. He called the attention of the House to the vast multitude of Petitions presented upon the subject, and entreated that they Should be added to the observations he had to make, ou a topic which bad created such a ferment i❑ the pub lic mind. He did not Walt to hear the public opinion when he heatii of the indignity offered to her Majesty. It became from that moment his determination to endeavour to pi mime rcdrus for a greatly minted and insulted wo man. Last session a motion, substantially the same as lie was now about to propose, had been made by him, but what had occurred since rendered the present occasion ono peculiarly calculated to ensure success.—(Hear.) — He did not think it possible time the Queen could remain in this country under conditions which Ministers intended to propose, namely, the making a mere provision fur het•. The Noble Lord hoped that Ministers would put an end to the d floslollS of the Press, on both sides, by adopting the measure for which the people so loudly called. He trusted that an end would be put to the revolutionary proceed ings of his Majesty's Ministers (hear, hear!) by Ministers themselves, and that the necessity of a struggle would be avoided. He then entered into a statement of her Ma jesty's situation before her name was snuck out of the Liturgy, and after a power fill appeal to the House, con cluded by moving the following resolution ;—" That the Order in Council, dated the 18th Feb. 1520, in which the name of' her Majesty Queen Caroline, Consort of this realm, was directed to be omitted in the Liturgy, appears to this House to be a measure ill advised and inex pedient." Mr. ELLIS entered into a long uniuterestiug defence of 31r. Canning's conduct, and Mr. F. ROBINSON, nfter speaking at great length against the Resolutions. moved " That the House du uuw adjourn. Mr. HORHOUSF. said, that the onus probandi lay entirely Lyon ministers; it was for them to prove, that when they ventured to erase her Majesty's name float the Liturgy they were nut violating the law. It was not for them (the opposition) to wove that ministers haul done any titbit; of the kind. (Hear, and a laugh from the ini nisteiial benches.) This was an obseivation which he could sufficiently prove in a few words. Since the year 1546, there had not been, so far as he knew, one single instance in which the name of the Queen Consort had been omitted, until it was first omitted 1011 the present occasion. One exception, indeed, there was; and this lie mentioned, because lie saw the learned Attorney General taking notes, as if lie (Mr. H.) had made some slip. (A laugh.)— But he repeated, that if lie had lead the History of Eng. land aright, thei e was but ewe instance (if such it could be considered), and that was the case of the Queen Con sort of George I. But that Queen had been previously unkeoa it to 'country asl Princess of Wales: iti uo such character, indeed, had she ever been recognized.— She had also been divorced from her first husband before she came over hoc to be Qultell of England. She never had been created even Pi incess of Wales; as Princess of Wales, bile had never been prayed fur, nor had she kept a court in this country, nor, iu fact, was she ever in any way recognised, either by the laws or by the people of Eng land. It appeared to him impossible to gi t over (tie words, the precise expres-ions of the statute of la and Charles 11. commonly called the statute or nnitormity : these directed that the names should be al ered amid changed from time to time, as fitted the present occasion. It was impossible that those grave nuthurities by w hum that statute was flamed—he meant Sir Matthew llale and Lord Clarendon—could ever have been guilty of that slip-slop (a. it was sometimes It imed) in latignitAc, as tu base suppu.ed fur a niobium that the words •' alter and change" should embrace a power to " omit" also.— (Cheers.) They evidently aiiil expreruly meant that the names should be varied with the occa.ion, amid fitted veleta. 1S hat was, pertiupe, a strong confirmation of this tact was, that at the time when the statute of unifo•- mtty was framed, the reigning King, Charles IL had Hu Queen; but there was a vacant space left, in the pros I- Ilion% of the art, for the lase' tam of her name, and accor dingly the moment that the King did massy, the Que.. ICS name was inserted in that space, and in the Lillis gy, Comm. forrnably to the act.—Mr. Hobliouse concluded by ing, that lie trusted hon. gentlemen would well consider what they were to du; that, by so adjourning, then; would re ject the prayers slid petitions of the whole people of England, ot• which they had received so 11111,1 y mautlesta toms. He would entreat the House to t member, that even if they might, on other OCCiIO.IOIIB, consider them selves pledged to vote with the right hon. gentleman by a poiut ot hemmer, that point ut bunion it now behoved them to give tip ; and finally that they should I efer to their vote oh last at:skein, which had cliaracteitsed the whole pro ceedings against her Majesty, " as do ogatory from the dignity of the crown, and injurious to the best interests of the country." ( I lea r, hear.) Mr. W went abstrusely into the questiou ; he quoted many authorities to prove that such All 111111:Silhl wa. at once improper and illegal, and t•onclu-ed sa) mug, that the whole of the proceedisigs against the Qiieen ss etc ill dtwgctuus mud iriegutur eharaeter, contrary at Duet in the totes ests of public older ;rod the lutes of righteous judgment. (Cheers.)—A tribunal to try the queen for °llene° unkone to the law winch might likewise extend its authority to try Krug, and thus the n u •:tsure was revolutionary null inis rhievens. The Honourable and Learned Gentleurnii toe- THE NATIONAL REGISTER. eluded by thankirvr the House for the patience with u hich lie was listesse to, and declaring, that long before the olli•r at St. Omer he was convinced of the illecahsy and inexpediency of the measure which he tad stow exlte•ed. (Ttt•' which followed the powerful speech of t he hon. gent. was as loud, and continued as long, as we ever remember to have hearth in Parliament. _ _ The ArIGIIN EV GENERAL of course opposed the motion. lie spoke at great length, and speech pos sessed so little point, as to defy the possibility of an abridgement. lie was followed by the Solicitor General. Sir J. MACINTOSH said, they had been taunted that they had slumbered for the last eleven months upon the subject; lint when this bill of pains and peuri'dms had begun its farad deploraWe career. that House had been adjourned for two mouths.—(cheers.) Another objection had been brought forward by n member of filo most c a n d i d ' I and most amiable disposition and manners. Ile had objected dist they had not stiongly branded the exercise of the royal prerogative. Now lie (Sir J. Mack intosh) had always thought that the sentence of truth, was to be carried into effect eveu against the crown; but he had understood that the sentence of truth and justice was to be carried in the mildest form of words.—(Cheers) They meant now to arraign and to condemn as illegal the Order in Council. It was unadvised, because it was il legal—it was inexpedient, purely because it was a breach of the law.—(Hear, hear.) 'flue adroitness, dexterity, and parliamentary practice on the part of ministers were striking and extraordinary. Ministers were accused of injustice, and a prosecution was brought into court against them. How did they encounter It ? They prayed that ro evidence should be received, that no %el iliet should lie prommileed.—(Clicers.) The right ivaiourable woolen) in, one of the advisers of the crown, iiid net dare to icre,ve tile judgment of the cowl to whom lie had appealed.--(Lund elects.) Ile shiutik Gnus it. 'file slit gularity, the absurdity of the proceeding was the mute apparent, because the noble lord, the minister of the crown in that House, had staked his existence as minister, on this very question, that the conduct of his Majesty's advisers had been expedient and warranted. Yet now the noble lord proposed to sin kik from this view of his conduct. Such, lie begged the House to observe was his lordship's confidence in the justice of his case. He would nut seder the indictment to proceed to trial—he would have no vet diet—and no judgment.—[Cheers.] The learned gentleman, proceeded to take au historical view of the different alterations which had taken place in the Liturgy, end closed an admirable speech by saying, that Ile had not conversed with one intelligent person, what ever were his political opinions, who did not deplore the omission. —[Cheers.] If the cry of the people I:,1 been for punishment and blood, as in the ease n: Lord Stratfurd is hum lie regarded as a guilty man, lie is uilu have offered himself a sacrifice rather than lent it any seemliest; and lie would have acted in the same manner wiled the inno cent and virtuous Lord Stafford fell a victim to popular delusion. But when it seas 1•or lenity and indulgence towards au 'info' tinr:te. lady, lie thought that such a cry might be listened to by a prince of any humanity even at Constantinu;de or Xl erect:o. lilt, in this instance, the ' illustrious object of pepidar favour had been degraded before trial, pi osecuted iiathout cause, tried upon insuf ficient evidence, and was subjected to punishment after acquittal.—[lle:ir, hear.] Mi. SCA RUA contrasted the boasted promise of mi nisters to meet this motion with their present alleiipl to tly Ifioni it by au adjournment. Wee, lit ice, or thrice, when gentlemen centered the omission of her Alajiaty's name in the Liturgy, they were told that the ir interference was premature—that when the proper time came ministers week' meet the subject matilidly. the tune had come—mid how did the, meet the questa )))) ? Why, they had met it by inns in,: so aajOllllllllllll--- , or, in other words, they had not met it at all. He would venture to put the matter on this point—that th..re were nut ten gem denten present, who, if they met together in a private house, WI/Yid have any differeuce of opillloll Ull the subject. Ills learned friend had, ou this occasion, appealed to the honour able feelings of the house in deciding this question ; be also would appeal to the honourable, the just, and political feel ings of gentlemen; and he would ask them, if they bilked together on tile suhject out of the House, whether there would be any dilleience of opii ) i aaaa as to the injustice of the course which had been u•ed towards the Queen? What was the case? It Was the case of a person punished, not twee ly berme she was convicted, mot merely 'triune she was tried, but absolutely before the accusat . against her was framed. It was an arbitrary right! (Hear.) The learned gentleman concluded a long aud argumentative speech b y expressing his firm belief that the whole conduct of minis ters was occasioned by the fear they entertained of lasing their places; and lie called nu those w:io imagined that, it they were left in a minority on this occmiiiii, they wool,' g Ise up their sitilat s, not to refrain from voting st4ailisi them tin that account, ; °minced as he Was that lin Ville 1111 eSpIcA. aaaaa of disapprobation (mild birth e them to IM ego the advantages of Mtn e. Lord CASTLLItEA( ill, in the first place, denied I liat his Majesty'a had it right to feel their CO/1111aq l'llllll - those charges tuturd out to be true or false. A H they had to do was, to take fare that priee.•diu,s were not inaituted against her Midesty on light or le ivoliats ground,; mid that they had conscientiously dune. I•hey hail not endravoui'ed, by any i,dlaouce which they possessed: to bias the minds of those who weft! to consider the questliou : on (lie contrary, nt (lie cominenceatent of the busiitc.s, they coded on those who had any political connexion with them, to net in to total oblivion of that cunu.•xioi ; and he thiitt lit gentli•nteu opposite would encounter very little diliiculty in lindha; ilefSl/11,,, who were even cuw:rc•ted with the &Jae reign, had tell with the most pei feet ifret•dinn. bear, hear.) lie wished he coald pay the trained gentleman who had just sat down, mat lii•fricods, the same complimein ; he wished their luct had been equally (rte fi petty motives; lint he believed every unprejudit vd man W11111:1 allow, that illlllllllkl 14111111 hail acted a • pule awl akinn terrified part oh this oft•n.41)11 than their opponents had (11,11,. With respect to the merits of the question, it' utinisters had committed an infringement of the law, it was the greatest joke Ilial possibly ,mild be. (Much langltier.) lit the *notion, the words " ;mil ittealledlellt" were sibcii with releristice to what took place IY months ago, and which had nothing to do with present 1'41,1,111• ,ialierw. If the gentictut•u opposite had euute forward 1/1 kl bold way with a vote of it 11.111 e, he WOllld Kaye stet it with eptal holodess. lilt they hod recant se to a ► % stt•m or manugymetit, which could only be met by management —and when a proposition was ma•le that could lead to 1111 1.1111111 11111 good, it won filir to 111)111 it by mils Mg other or- oleos of the day, or by codling for au an mitiouroosheut. 'r he .S. • - -_ . 57,._. country was now, thank God, coming to its ',mixes, (hear hear, from the opposition benches), and the efforts of that party which had hitherto distraeted the comitry would soon expire if Parliament would maintain its I' esent firm tone of deteri aa ill tioll. It ought to support the existing government in undiminished honour and character, or at once to extinguish the present cabinet as ministers. If any resolution were brought forward on the other side, he trusted that it would appear iii a distinct, t::ngilde, and inanly shape. Alinisters would then be fairly put upon their trial, and he (Lore Castlereagh) pledged himself that if there were a chance of its success, it should be resisted by no influence of the crown, whose servants would rest their claim to public confidence on the reputation they had acquired dnriug an arduous and glorious war, and a subsequent interval of peace, dining which they had never lost an opportunity by their best cilia lions to pro mote the interests and welfare of the empire. (Hear.) Mr. [I:ItOUGHA M said lie should have taken no part in this debate but for some expressions in the speech of the Noble Lord, the whole of which W4B calculated to give new life to the agitations in the couutry, and scented to have for its object to place the royal parties in this pail'. fol discussion ill interminable opposition. For the sake of casting new stigmas upon her Majesty, and fixing upon her the charges ministers had abandoned in their evidence —he had not only infringed all bonds of decorum. but all forms of debate, arid with the artful sedulousness of the penner of a paragraph for a party newspaper had entered into a laboured analy sis of the votes in the Lords, to whose proceedings in onlinasycas.a a bare reference only w as allowed. (Hear, hear.) If the House would allow hint, Ile could show La what way the majority fur the Quern In id been composed : he could show how many of that maim ity tined their places, their patronage, their hononra and their revenues to the patrons of the bill ; lie could prove that while the minority could not in the slightest degree lie influenced by the party who was to be the vic tim, the illustrious personage who was the avowed prose cutor was t opt esented by his household, and slate officers and dependents of all ranks, and Ms power extended as well over those who waited for the highest rewards, a nits. narcli could bestow, as those who accepted even thevery they could confer upon their adherents. Was not this of itself 41.11 array that might strike terror into the most Moo cent ? Was not this an influence greater than feed es er before been employed upon any individuals presuming to call themselves judges? (Conti 111 l ed cheers). It true, this could not appear upon the Lords' journals, but it was well known to be directly contrary to the fact. On ito question in the history ofl'arliament had more pary spirit been shewit ; and oldie ministers under pretence of rm. part [III y and with the cunning that belonged to weakuess, kept in the back gi mind, quietly but itidustrintisly en (nipping and securing votes, they left three or font- of his (Mr. ongliain's) uuble friends to bear the bi tint and odium of the debate. In the outset of his speech the noble laid, a itli a charity peculiarly I:is owe, undertook to de fend the Queen from Cie noble lord who introduced this motion and the rest of her friends. lle had maintained that her Majesty was degrad. d before her ti ins—degraded by the coidesion of advocates. The House witeld know how to make allonance for the delicacies and diffi culties with alticb lie (Mr. Brougham,) in the instance re ferred to had to contend : be was at that time as pima, less to resent as resist imputation; and the noble lord, ingenuity in which few would be proud to be his rival, well knew how to heap together a few adjectives and sounding epithets, and thus to compound a sentence dif ficult of comp, eliesision, but as far as it was intelligible, calculated to till the ear and to delude the mind. It was not for him (Mr. Brougham) then to say, that his royal mistress was degraded; she was on the brink of an inves tigation whore i 11111 l cetice was no security, where pet jury and bribery %Vele united to accomplish one object, where the long arum of power, and the long purse of miiii-ters, joined their influence over Italian hauls and hearis,ready to crouch under the one, and greedily to switch at the other. (Hear.) From such a trial—troni sorb a threat ened peiseention—the most guilty might shrink a Montt for a moment incurring the imputation of crime.—The hon. and learned gentleman concluded a most powerful speech, by eallitig on the House to restore the Queen to all her rights, as they valued justice and the safety of the country ; for if she was not treated now as it' she 114,1 never been tried, there was 110 justice, 110 se curity in th.• land. That question the Queen could never give tip, and the people would never give it tip. After some remarks ft out Mr. Alderman Ileygate, who supported ministere, Loud A. liainilton replied. The House then divided— For the amendment 310 Agaiut it ' tNI Majority against the original motion—lnt Adjourned at a gads tar before .even. FROM T UESD r NIG 'S G.IZETTr. DA NIS RUPTS. J. Saunders. Duke Street, St. James's, surgeon. r, Mr. Button, New North Stret, Red Lion Square. R. Reeve, Ililgay, Norfolk, dealer. Sol. Mr. Newbank, North Auilley Street, Giosernor Square. E. Bushell, ren. Bath, cabinet maker. Sol. Mr. Makinsoo, Temple. W.. Cooper, Nottingham, grocer. Sol. Mr. Wi Iston, Gray's Inn. C. Haply, Eastdean, Sussex, fanner. Sol. Mr. Ellis, Gray's Inn. W. Almond, junior, New Bridge, Cornwall, brewer. Sol. Mr. Bauye, Chancery Lane. J. Boreham. Haverhill. SuINA, common brewer. Sul. Mr, Stevens, Gray's Inn Square. F. Fisher. Edgewarc Road, nurseryman. Sols. Messrs. Fielder and Co. Duke Street. Grosvenor Square. T. C. B. Pryer, 'Urchin Lane, saddler. Suls. Messrs. Jones and Co. Mincing Lunc. It. l'hilpots, Banbury. Oxford, draper. Sole. Messrs. Sweet and Co. Businghull Street. G. W. B. Tonge, East India Chambers, l.eadcnhall Street, merchant. Sols. Messrs. Reardon ansl Davis, Curbet Court, Gmeechttrelt Street. .1. Dews, t/oett, Yorkshire, clothier. Sol'. Messrs. Fisher antl Stullow, 7'h trice Inr.. DIVIDP.NDS. Feb. 24, J. Bush, Bishop Storttivii, ilerts, money scrivener— ! I, H. lizard, liretitthrel, carpenter-13, W. liner, Greenwich, butcher—l3,.l. WeSt. Little NOVIVIt Street, haberdasher -17. J. Armitage, Shad TlLeaties, Surrey, carpenter-13, G. Milne, Broad Stret, uterchant—ls, J. 11,iall awl J. fital, Combill. wiet.lintakers...le, J. Itutblen, Bribtol, liquor merchant—l 3, T. It. Slogg,att, Ituvrastle, Cornwall, draper—l 7, IL S. Illingteorth, %1:iterloo Flaw, itterrloult —?11, T. F. and J. (;imann. Notting hn, istereliants-16, E Pat rtcP., Liverpool, utcrchaut ...... iill . ..a.