The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-08-19 00:00:00

inalimm.i THE STATESMAN. .. - on , h a d entered the palace 'of the S.ivereign fur the ',moose of meleratining thr m acsared fal.ric of British 1 ,, i.e e mliti not better have complished his ob ltt I f o o hy 4,41.1111 t a cones.. of proreedings like that i,rlishic bud een entered uo. In all tines . it has ben urn rho su b ch measures ba p d n o a tendenev to roll bark e on them 61.11 whom the:. ..manated,.anrit Ives not itripox oir that the emir.. now taken le degrade the Qneen, ric h t hr• regarded as furnishing an example fur the de threarment and degradation of her litomand. lie referred te the Wert* pp, laced by the libels . issue.l a t t h e emu , ✓e ncement of Het French Revollitinn respecting the i zare n of France, reralted to their Lordships the glow lovuage in which such conduct had Fern repre 'marl he Mr. linrke, and exhorted the House, in the spirit which dietated :hat language, to repel th e p eereeat atta ch en the Queen of England. lie spoke of the ne cessity f &Hewing a Civilian to be heard. and expressed a h o pe that their Lordships wool& re-consider their de. „w oo lot that subject yesterday. If this were not ~,"e d e het rusted that timse Peers who Were connected with dot • Ecclesiastical Establishment of the country, rtonothe t'al'e of her 'Bojo-site. and vindicate the aaer edul .tigatinn of t he marriage vow, hy opposing. t he pre am h i . Ile hoped their Lordships would consider the w ante of evil on either hand, and redect, that however it ✓ght terminate, this inquiry could do no gond, lint „ vi m 'fallibly phobice niticfi eyil. tte complained of t h e treatment whirl, her 'Majesty hail received in being Minh- list of the witnesses to he proslnced against I h eq, restablish Girls said toilet.* oetuirrod in the course 0 10 1 01 rd of 6 years. lie denied that the Secret Com mittee led any resemblance to.* Brand Jury, as a per. see 00 me case went before a Brand .!ury always knew exactly the crime with which he was charged, and the parties by whom it was to he 'lmported. lie was of °pink' that in the ccurse of these proceedings the Queen hail nothing to he thankful for, bitt moth to re ✓oute ate against, and in her name he protested against Wing recourse to a Bill of Pains and Penalties where the He use might have proceeded by impeachment. Act ing tk as, they gave up that duty which the Constitu tion it nposed upon them, and took upon themselves a task ti Inch they could never satisfactorily perform. Ile protested against the inference that they were relnctaet to mid the evident., from their opposing the principle of the Bill; on the part of her fhlaietov they claimed the r ight of recriontnation: atoll, finally, he declared that taltatever might be the result tit the present pro credit igt--- ) whatever might be the etin4equences to her Itiajvs.ty of the testimony to he given. and the perjuries to bf directed against her, hr. for one, would never with( lraw those dutiful sentiments of respeet and admi ration which were inspired by her Bich rank, her en. large mind, and her warm heart, but should still regard her 1 s entitled to all the honours attached to that ex- cited rank which, by the laws of bled and man, she was entil led to fill. The ATTORNST-GENERAL rose at a quarter before gne o'cir wk. lie commenced by complaining of the Learned Counsel, heard in behalf of the Quern, baring abused the liberty allowed them of speaking against the prin. cipl e of the Bill, by appealing to the passions of the Lit as, and introJocing calmnions statements. He wry reedy to agree with all the objections urged on the pa?: of her kisjesty's Attorney-Genfirei. against ex pastiness lasts ; and that this was a case.of that nature he could not deny. But it was among the many absurd propositions of thd Learned Gentlemen on the other side. to contend that an oft wee, marked by our ancestors as of the highest magnitude tis• well in itself, as against the State. should go unpunished. !NU °fence charged against her MairAy, as committed ibile Princess of Wales, had been committed in this natietry, it would have been hieli-treaans, and subjected the culprit to the punishment of death : but , bedews. It had Molted out of this country. and under the most aggra *the and disgusting circumstances, with as individual who Owed so allegiance to the Sovereign of the Realm, it did not incur the penalty of the law. and therefore. !rimed these gentlemen, ought to go unpunished. unnoticed ! Re alise it had occurred in Italy, that enormity was not to be visited with any penalty ; and b r• tse it was not an Offelaes when Committed, should not be knitted as such now ? in eases very saakogous to this—in calve of Divorce Is that House, was the Law not an ex h st jade law The miniage tics when coattail d were imaissoluble ; hut one party complains, and comes id thx: Home to ask, what' Why to ask them to pass an ex pint fart° law ! It was not eer tainly la the precise form of a Bill of Paine sad Penalties; bat it was ona in every point of view against the wife. Thep were not going to pass an ex post Judo law, in making that high treason, which, If it had happened in shit ronntry, would hate been so; The next point he should reply to in the arguments of his Learned Friend vs 'the other side was, this proceeding ought to have been by i • peachment. For his own part. be knew of no authority. or no precedent which could warrant such a course of proceeding in this case. The opinion of one of the greatest law authorities n thia king doze, file. Justice Blaekstone. distinctly laid it down as a prin ciple that impeachment could hot stead where th e o ff ence wes not known to the law. But as his liononrableFrieuds them selves contended, that this was an offence not known to the law, he took their own coneesaion as an argument against abruselves. Supposing, however. that the more proper anode • .be by impeachment, the mode adopted was still the safer and more convenient one for the accused. The learned Gent. then proceeded to comment on the last topic advanced by the 'e tasl counsel of her Majesty. His Learned Friends would en deavour to permit:le their Lorsliips to enter into the ques tion of the expediency of the measure, and on that head they had, with their usual ability . adduced every argument against it that could by possibility inlinenee the minds of their Lord ships. But without occupying ntoreof the time of the House than was necessary. he would only remark on that point, that the expedieney of the measure adopted was not now Wore their Lordships: that had been recognised in ad • emitting the Bill in the first instance ; and the only question now to be agitated was, whether they should go on with it, or whether they should absndon it, in order that the mat ter speed liertrind at some other bar. Enough. he thought. hal already been said on that point, to convince their Lor dships that both in justice and expedlene) they were bound to proceed in the coarse they had original?y di e'ded on per. suing. The Learned Gentleman, after some farther remarks on the line of defence adopted by her Majesty's Counsel, in introducing ao much extraneous and inflammatory matter into their speeches, tench bol by declaring his conviction that their Lordships 111111 d eo ..e calmly and dispassionately to do tbarideration of toe a bjeet, avid by their final deri sion, they would clearly satisfy the public that under that system of laws which gave protection to innocence in the meinest subject, the highest would not be sacred to offend wit* impunity. The SoLterroa-OtttaaAL next addressed their Lord ships. He began by observing that the present was a most important and momentous subject ; and by noticing the manner in which his Learned Friends had deviated troli the grave and Constitutional discussion be thought thep should have pursued, by indulging in personal in 'fed i yes Against persona whom they charged with the moat corrupt and wicked practices with perjury, and subornation of perjure without having any esidence before them, they put themselves not of the situation of defendants, and placed themselves in that of accusers. Fot his own part he knew that all those accusations re leave to corruption and perjury were false; and the re sult would. show that all. the farts set forth in the preamble of the Bill would he fully substantiated. The Tsestion before theif . riordsidps was very simple one. he offence charged against her Majesty, bowsver aban domed bee conduct might hi, and however disgraceful to the nation, was not only an act of high treason;.but wt. not even sognisahl • b y the haw of the land.' Hi was to assum e , that all the flirts alleged against her Ma jesty could be proved. Yet his Learned Friends hat 14d, that if they maid hr all premed, still the Bill onght net to peas. For the sake rsf argument it ought td he alkettned that aft the chervil against tire Queen were rue; and if se, be would ask his Learned Friends whether they were prepared to say, that such a person ought to sit on the Etienne of England by the side of the King ; and there setting an t.eample 'of profligacy to all the subjects of the realm ? Ile would ask, Rater, was to be no punishnient for such a transgression ? His Learned Friend had said. that as no crime known to the laws had been co: • I, there ought either Us be no penalty, or an impeachment. Certainly the of was not cognizable i.y any known * law; hot. if the facts could be troved, he would ask whether any one could pretend to say. that there ought to be no punishment ! When a case of adult e ry was established with regard to the meanest sutojert, the of fence of the adultress, although not cognizable by any known law, was punished by a divorce which isnnorthately followed. And was not the Sovereign of the military entitled to the sante rights with his subjects ? During every Session of Parliament Divorce Bills passed, and Pains and Penalties weer inflicted in the degradation of the offending party. The present was said to be a new case; the proceedings were said to be out of the ordinary .4•lntete, and that the present was an e.r peal facto law. The very same objection might be urged against every other proceeding of a similar nature in private life; of which the instances nen• so numerous. Leering out the high cask of the individual in question, the measure was pursued before the *AMP tritium' on unnierous either oc casions. But if ever such a Bill was neveSiery, surely it most be so in the present hombre; for eureirit woo not to be tolerated that en offrocalike this was to pass away with impunity ; anti that the offender should continoe to hold her high station, and set an etample of profligacy to all the females of the land. Betevern the ease of the 1 Bishop of Rochester and the present, there was Ito c - parison whitever. The moment the Queen pet her feet upon the shores of England, and laid claim to all her rights as Queen, from that n tttttt eon tusaltetuative was I left, except that of bringing forward the present Bill ; and it was impossible not to institute this proceeding. His Learned Friend (Mr. • Brougham) hail thought tit to in dulge in some- significant alfusions to the ceign of Henry VIII. If the Learned Uent. would boot state any single case which occurred in the days of that King, appli cable to the present occasion, let him nut hesitate to make nse of it—let him boldly cite precedents from that period, that they might he as boldly repelled. But against dark insinuations it was impossible to oppose any argument—against that covert mode orattack for which the Learned flentleman was so celebrated, be could have no means of throwing up a defence. When the question was put, it had beret answered, that the King would not hear the complaining party. It did nut suit the high character and station of the Monarch to come before their Lordships in the rapacity of a corn plainant. But information having been communicated to him, most deeply affecting the character of hip Con sort, and consequently the honour and dignity of the Crown—his Majesty had recounte to the• stilly- conduct which it became hins to adopt—le' sent duwui.jhe infor mation to Parliament. and left it for the coußeration and judgment of their Lordships. His Learned Friend, however, thought it right, after jotst tuuchiag upon the subject, to say that he would abstrin trued the question of recrimination. His Learn 00l Frieral acted perfectly judiciously by dispensing with any chsclossionnpon tbilt 1 topic—fur he rust have known. that it Itailmetonnolms :ion with the principle of the Bill. After dm enquiry hid been gone through—after the onerito; of the case had been unfolded, a question may arise as to whether such a topic of defence may be allowed to be urged. The course, however, which hell, been thus pendently ful lowed by his Learned Friend, was not judged by the Learned tiesstlemenweele-issibeveed on .dm lame side, worthy of imitatiou. Hs (the Solicitor-lienetni for Isis Majesty) knew the acute mind of his Learnerl•Friend— and reflecting upon theelicearaey of Hoe judgment of that Leartied Denticulate*. mind, he could not but declare his belief that his Learned Friend, moist at the very moment *hen he was urging this topic, hart' been conscious of its total inapplicability. BM it had been the singular misfortune of these proceedings, that in every stage of them, they were attended with eirettnostanien which were wholly irrelevant' tit them, bat whirl, senerceNalated to produce what they were intended to woollier, general agitation and distraction. .Whether or twit, the ease would, in its future stages, he accompanied by the - saute unhappy circumstanced he was unable to anticipate ; but he owned, that judging from the past. he comb! nut avoid entertaining the Most fearful apprehensions fur the future. He took it then, that the present case respoired some r; needy ; anti nett that the remedy proposed by their Lordships was the appropriate one. His Learned Friend, the Queen's Solicitoir-Wetteral, had asserted that a Bill of Impeach ment could not be sustained in the present case; he (the King's Solicitor-tieneral), fully coucurred with liis Learned Friend. in Nuking that such a Bill could not be sustained, and conarquantle that it ought not to he proposed. He defied Isis Learned Friends to show a single precedent in the whole range of history, of an impeashment having taken place, except in came which the common law could not reach, or in anat• versation of office. At all events, without being understood to give any positive opinion upon the subject, it appared to him that the Tossibllity of this case bring a case for an impeachment was at least veex doubtful. And their Lordships would not fail too.take into calculation one especial ground why this was not a case for impeachment—. namely, that the punishment which it uniformly inflicted in case of conviction, went to the life, the properly, or liberty of the person. Supposing that a conviction was established in the present instance, were their Lordships prepared to say that the guilt which was brosight to light deserved any of these punishments, which were the inseparable consequence of guilt established by ism peachment ? Hence, if it did so happen that their Lord ships in their wisdom had thought it right to bring this matter forward by memos of an impeachment, it must necessarily follow, that upon conviction by sorb a pro cess, some Bill of the nature and description of that upon their Lordships' table most follow. Why then did he object to impeachment?: Bkeause its application to the circumstances of this case was axtremely &Ostia{ ; and next, it was an inadequate remedy. broom l'ir punish ment which it inflicted could not be mit into exectdiod id the present instance; and because, therefore, some Ober ineansot punishment must follow. Hut he begged tektites. frost' his Learned Friends in what 'respect it would be hot ter for her Majesty to have this case hronght forward is the shape of an Impeachment than in its present form. What advantage would the former course afford her, which she did not enjoy under, the presents Witnesses woniel be examined on both sides . ;. this evidence which they would furnish must he adettustle to support the charge; the Om, if it should pass in that Nouse, would hovels came before the other Immesh of the Legislature, where it was by so tarsus a matter of course that it should be oddpteti, and where her Majesty would hey* a second aad as am ran, opportunity as that which she would enjoy be re their Lordships, of going through her defence. ex amining witnesses, arid - beTng heard by her Counsel. But their,' said tier learned Bent., the charges against' waited, if the mode by impearhioent, had him dinto operation, "mold be more specific and parricide,. ais dig Dow were. Etutituaskted his Learned Friend rlli a l accusations be mime spesilie ? Could th ry opkaßst f ro o k an t higoity gran-lor than tlsole vhigli h blip, eidesol 1.4 Milo the preamble to the Bill ? _ln tlietleetplexe,tkit name oft he aduheter was giveh 1 it was speciOcilly salad that as to time, the adulterous lineman., s'e for two Lein ; and that as to place it was not confined to one, but was extended to many kingdoms. Could charges be more specific than this ? At least it was quite clear to hint, that if an impeachment had been the pro cess heed upon, the charges would not be made morel specific than they were in the preamble to this Bill. Be sides, according to the principle laid down in Sacheve rell's case, it was not necessary ; that in the case of an itorpracliment a specific detail of the charges was by no means necessary ; and certainly, according to that principle, the specification and particularity which had appeared in the preamble of the Bill, was fully as extensive as they could be its the case of an im prae.lurat. Ilia Learned Friends had next recurred to another ground of objection. They said, that the charges mask against the Illustrious Accused referred to the tissue when she tilled the rank of Princess of W al es; that 1 in that capartty she enjoyed advantages as a defendant, of which she was deprived as Queen, and that consequently it was an injustice to await until t he period when she was stripped of those advantages, or not to concede them when the accusation was brought forward. Hut their Lordships, he was eunfident, had not yet to learn, that the conduct which was imputed to her Majesty in her capacity of Queen, would have been equally criminal iu her capacity of Princess of Wales. The same policy, the same reasons, !the sauce overruling necessity, which urged the prosecu tion under her Majesty's present circumstances, were eopiaily forcible in regard to her as Princess of Wales. His sietied Friend had next proceeded to state, that • marriaire was a religious tie, and they quoted the opinion ' of Sir Wm. Scott in the case of Dalrymple and Dalrymple. . It was quite true, that marriage was a religious ceremony, but it was equally undeniable, and the same authority which furnished the opiuion, declared it, that the critnea . adultery dissolved this religious tie. And here he hews] ! once for all to say, that he argued upon the assumption : that the farts cliarged in the Hill were trite, because otherwise, it was Impossible fur him to proceed with Iris argument. The Learned Gentleman had next denied that there was any offence committed. No offence eon,- ' milted! What was the substance of the preamble ? That her Majesty went to Italy—that she engaged in her service a menial servant, who had been in a similar situation before—that in a little time an imptheer fami liarity had taken place, between them —that she heaped favours upon him—that she fenced herself round icy his relations—that an adulterous intimacy had taken place, which degraded herself and the nation to which she belonged in the eyes of foreign na tions. Would Isis Learned Friends say, that no crime was charged here. Ilia Learned Friend, the Queen's Attorney-Ueneral, bad said, that he did not understand what was meant by an " adulterous intercourse." He Would take it upon bins to say, and he was under the correction of their Lordships—tint every Bill of Divorce at least the majority of such Bills, contained the word; " adulterous intercourse." lint his beamed Friends . next hazarded the assertion, that there was nn difference between the crime of adultery when committed by a woman, or when by a man. Such a monstrous propose- . don he did not repeat i hear—adultery in a man could not be made the ground of a Bill of Divorce, whereas adultery committed by a woman might. And here he begged leave to observe that the cruel and unnecessary • attack upon a certain Illustrious Person might base been spared. and that an argument should be put forth . in order to justify such an attack, was indeed surprising. It was then sejd that her Majesty was encouraged to eatigeate, in order that she might be made the victim. Ile noticed this, the rather because it was a specimen of tht spirit in which the proceedings had been conducted .ios gerte,iu..quarter, What: was it posailile that let , sone filfieg tut eminent situation in the state—with the feelings which a ',dished intercourse most always ! engender, .anti with that spirit with which, from j their elm:alien and rank they must be supposes! to ' he possessed. Was it possible that persona like ' these could countenance so base a conspiracy against Ithe honour of All Illustrious Lady. The Learned Gentleman hail condemned the measure of her Majesty's i departure from this reentry. if censure was to follow i 41 account of that measure, hr begged leave to ask, was nod the individual who received the proposal for her de -I.porture equally guilty? Hnt blame was to be attached to no quarter, because the advice, in his opinion, was good. 'fhe Learned Gentleman then proceeded to re . capitulate his arguments, and concluded by an srppeal to their Lordships' judgment in favour of the justio e, pro ' priety, and expediency of time Bill on their Lordships' table. Mr. liarive ear immediately presented himself at the liar , of the flame, to reply, at a little after three o'clock, Shortly .1 after die commencement of his speech. her Majerty re-entered 4 the nom, the Peers all rising on herentranee, and until she I had resumed her seat. The Learned Counsel begun by 1 awing, that he should confine himself to very few of the I observations which had be". urged with so much talent by I his Learned Friends on the other side. In reviewing the arguments he had heard, the first which suggested itself to him was that elaborate, eloquent eulorium passed bi his Learned Friend, (the Solicitor-General) on the Constitu tional proceeding by Rills of Palms and Penalties in toe ab street. They were, es the Learned Gentlemen stated. part of that happy Constitution which Clod forbid auy man should live to see injured. Without subscribing to this character of Bills of Pains and Penalties, he, as a lover of the popular branch of our Constitution, would be permitted to say, that if, by Constitution, was meant joutice—and au impartial ad ministration of the law, together with all cause things which were loved and respected by every society—that he was ready to admit that cases might occur which 11 , /' only justified hut enjoined such measures as Bills of PIIIIII and Penalties. But it lay with his Learned Friends to show that the present was among such rases of emergency—and their Lordships who. could not be under those biassing influences which sometimes pre dominated over an Advocate's mind, so as to shut out the contemplation of those things, by which he might arrive at a more just, though not an acceptable view of a case—their Lordships, at least, would bear in their recollectios, that he and his colleagues stood before their bar, professedly to declare eirsinst the necessity or expediency of :he Hill upon their table. Next he was told, that he interfered at too late a stage of the Bill, for that it had been read the first time. If this were the fact, then, truly, was his illustrious client in a lamentable predicament. Fur their Lordships could not fail to recollect, that her Majesty's Counsel were refused to be heard against the receiving of this Hill- They were refused to be heard against the first reading of this Bill, and it was hecasise they were so refused that it was Competent to them at this sow of the proceeding to enter into the represen tation of all those reasons--all these frightful obstacles, which, in his opinion, ought to scare their Lordships from adopting the Bill. His Learned Friend had said, that sn the whole mass of declaration which they had put forth, lie could find but one argument, and with respect to this pour little argument he bad dealt with them like the man in Nathals's fable, for hr took it wholly away. Ret the Learned Gentleman would not deny, that as impeachment might lie in die case, and the utmost that he could be brought to say was, that the qneetinft was - Yen deubtftd., And was this doubt, in deed, the grontiffOpen which their Lordships woald be called alma tepees a Bill of Pains tied Penalties? Ths Learned Attorney-Owed bad chart,. feint bet Inallrerently read in the Canon moo. cue ittOorr, ; end skid, that he (Mr. B.) had elem. errs ell Nettie pages of that hishog, Bat he seem, Ireg leave to tell that Learned Gentleman, whose . . Constitutional experience was but of yesterday whet' compared even to his. (Air. Brougham's), he would. tell that Learned Gentleman that he had not only skipped over pages of that history, but that he had closed his eyes upon chapters and volumes of it. Mr: Brougham then proceeded to quote a variety of cases in point, it'd then referring to a question of the Attorney-tegneval, begged leave-to correct atieTessiete of the Learned tieutleinan, by which he seem to ...- tribute to the recent decision of the Judges, an extent which it did not bear. The dodges were simply aseel, whether a Queen consenting to he violated by a foreigner, did thereby commit high treason, and they determined to the negative, leaving the question still undecided. liecanneitiormed no part of the case pot to them, if such as offence was indictable under any other head than that of high treason. But the Learned Gentleman bid ad mitted that this was aMN of Divorce; and if so, than she Attoiney-General, his Bill, preentble, and yrovisos, were all out of Court. They said too, that every Bill of Divorce contained the words " adulterous intercourse:* It might be so—but then they were merely expletive, it being well known, that the stringent wordein all such Bills were, "the foul crime of adultery." The Learned Oentleman bad with extraordinary inconsistency called this*Bill a Bill of Divorce at one time, and dented that it was so at another. The King he said was no path.. ' This was the strange anomaly of the proeweditigtossisit was the little particular which was wanting, and which being wanting, formed the foundation of their Lord ships*,istristliction. lie would challenge hie_ loused Friends. as he bad done before, to show a cote where Parliament interposed to dissolve a marriage without the application of the party injured. His 1 4 14- irCy, indeed, was placed partly in the attitude of a COM plaining party--but not sufficiently so to furnish his Consort with those means of defence, which would be within her grasp, were he in the ordinary situation of a complainant, suing for a legiclative reinedv—for hariltis MAjesty come before their Lordships in inch a capacity, he must of course become snbject to all the trending orders of their Lordships' lionise. The Learned Coun sel then adverted to the circumstances under which her Majesty bad been formerly induced to leave this country, and stated that be referred to it merely to exhibit in its true colours the conduct of those who had a share India transaction, and who now were implicated in framing this Bill against tier Majesty; and he said that this me duct was sufficient to mistiest their conviction that Ed* measure was neither expedient nor necessary. WI, it ! was it possible that an offer to procure her Majesty an appropriate reception at foreign Courts—that an offer of money even, could proceed from those who felt that her Majesty was guilty of the crimes which they Dust imputed to her? Said the Attorinty-General, " I still pass over all these degrading. disgusting, anti teliouk sets of hers, which are offensive, and injurious, to the character of the country, and tending to degrade as in the eves of foreigners 1 4 • Now, be would ask. *as not the ljtgittal inserfereere from these expressions 'this that an order should have been despatched to her Majesty to return home and preyont that degradation to* our character which she syas effecting witblhatig • tier. 1 But nu ; she was encouraged—she was enjointil to wak ibroad—she Will menaced if she returned,,tand piety facility was offered to her to continue that &drag of de grading conduct which now formed the preteNt-of the anemaloitt proceeding against her. They (the Qiienn's Advocates) had, among other things, been accused of caltimitiating a very numerous and respect dire' clay of persons, whom, for thr make of lorevitY, he should ear th.. `witnesses. They were charged .with ',labia, Lanais/et depreciation of the evidener ' wo which they inight•arts V !lat.r reserved till they saw th at there was in it something I wrong. He was tire last person to calninniate tiny one. On the contrary, he etrieCtet that the witnotset re duced wield he a race of 'exalted station, Troporetimitsl to the rank of the accusal ; that they wonigire7sit•least persons of independent fortune, and such as.drep wore accustomed to meet in society; he imagined that they were visitors to this country supported aOkeir itit a ex pense: that they would be 'fair, unbutight, itnetrellpellcd evidence, from whatever country they tpring. This aas his expectation, anti the appearanee of a elouttof *ji mmies of this stamp was the only thing which Kits him any apprehension for his illustrious client. Menisci eO. retell a fair allowance of 11013/e testimony; of respect able English Officers, and persons of that orderwisith would give weight to what they stated. lier.-Majtat l y and her Advisers had to await the cowing of, those le., tribes, if their Lordships, after hearing the argilineton they had urged, chose to go on with the Bill n o w keen er them. lie was sorry on nn affair of th:s piihtie nature to have to take up a few moments in defendingiiiiieelt against a charge of having digressed, in order to initial pain on an illustrious individual, at the 'lame time is AO not verve the cause for which he stood. ritrilliks charge, aggravated Ivy the consideration, that flue attack was made at a time when every good feePteg should have prontipteti an opposite line of trembles (alluding to the attack upon the Duke of York, waste* lienourable declaration, that however painful, he woodd prof tem his great public thuy as a Peer of Parliament. seemed tJ have drawn down rarur party, reseplent upon him.) lie antivered that he was Cmiape led to allude to the character of that indivitiiial lii the discharge of his professional ditties. 'tie but, indeed, heard a new code of morality this de,. • Its way told it VMS ludicrous to compare the case of ortibee and !'rides, in these matters, as affecting the 'aka* ui the country. It wit not to throw odium that he rapped up pa.sages of the life of the illustrious individma Ili' statement was to lead to the conclusion, that att th • murals of the country were concerned, they, Par A on not to sleep ever one case, and in another, ett la slightest lapses with' the - severest prnalti4 - .116 slioidd he deeply pen; ten. were he, in the strict aksPeri gorous discharge of his prefessitmal duties, in nartsesi that party at such a time as this. And homes: r, i that whatever he did in the conscientious fulfillina of te , his charge, there was ton much manly sentiment IA ai person not to supply something to console him for rue unintended pain, lie now retired, etnititlent that thinfe Lordships would do justice to all emeeerned, antitioisi cider 35 well the expediency as the necessity of thi s liefore them. ' • The le a pleadings being now concluded, kw. " Toe Marquis of littssnows expressed a trisis„iit 4 inconsistent with usage, that the grounds on torten I e Judges had delivered their opinion might heist& Parliament. A conversation ensued, in which tire Level ettlifitill Lon, Lwril thtav, awl Lard Hotieln pertieipatedetill seemed to be finally understood, on Lar' LI ralte/ibles ' observing that the opinions of the Jodgee•in 1 7911jgetyst `on record, awl would suppl)all the informatioa metal s that motion - 1 which they I toot no motion was nece•isairy. r rum.. isms t o at . i',`:' a nit, ani wit b . MOTION TO SET ASIDE TILE 111 . 2 . t.... . : d t h d r eA t i onk t nit i h t l i Licit K.er; rose after Mr. Profiles.* eihaost gli l Wired, that it was his townie* Pei:Omits milord a would sell House, wlsleb would liars she sem ef peostitelast ties hr ease. , sad of Oak Lordshipa on third:K.44e of WC Bill. .1.. was, tnat tne a y sg the T iaviesalopF jpariv on his • • by els doubt, is. the a ist Awhile' of the econsel iit the !sir ips would be strolsi thin heti/NW Nr floe to consider +e !Y.• allies'? The b h ~,,r a d. 4 if a periled Ives ritade ti pat .if thrillasdatib. him with consideration et tbiCilill. Me AA not fia•Niare asitaKte ion! . I Plet oF it tor %loch to ask his MAU Primed • & pm, his id Veet'a 10 _,Se 'unison ts4-laarrow.. 704 ail the Wass 0 : at he wawa Yeaki ra lb* Bill , cerfainly the itote pa • Day, whose t milkl was' that, a mode of itreiLliat The ta`ll all S i. • imam l `i l i . , 1 't ,: , , .