The National Register. — London, England, 1820-06-26 00:00:00

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In consequence of that event it has alto gether ceased, and no provision can be made for her until it shall please his Majesty to recommend to Parliament an arrangement for that purpose. The King is willing to recommend to Parliament to enable his Majesty to settle an annuity of 50,000 L a year upon the Queen, to been joyed by her during lice natural life, and in lieu of any claim in the nature of jointure or otherwise, provided she will engage not to come into any part of the British do minions, and provided she engages to take sonic other name or tide than that of Queen ; and not to exercise any of the rights or privileges of Queen, other than with respect to the appointment of law officers, or to any proceeding in Courts of justice. The annuity to cease upon the violation of these engagemente, via., upon her coming into any part of the British dominions, or her summing the tide of Queen, or her exercising any of the rights or pryileges of Queen, other than above excepted, after the annuity shall have been settled upon her. 6* On her consent to an engagement upon thc above condi tions. Mr. Brougham is desired to obtain a declaration to this effect, signed by herself; and at the same time a full authority to conclude with such person as his Majesty may appoint a formal engagement upon these principles.' Then follow the Epistles, and afterwards the following Protocols PROTOCOL OF THE IP/IDIT cowrzarscn HELD IX CT. SA./lES'S SQUARE, JUNE 15, 1830. In pursuance of the notes of the 13th and teth of June, the Duke of Wellington and Lord Castlereagh, on the part of the Xing, having met Mr. Denman and Mr. Brougham, her Ma jesty s law officers, in order to facilitate the proposed discussions, it was suggested by the fanner— t. That the persons named toframe ari arrangement, although representing dent interests, should consider therntelves. in discharge of this duty, not as opposed to each other, but as acting in concert with a view t frame an arrangement, in compliance with the understood wish of Parliament, which may avert the necessity of a public enquiry into the information laid before the two Houses. Y. The arrangement to be made must be of such a nature as to require from neither party any concession as ,tar the result to which such inquiry, if proceeded on, might lead. The Queen must not be.understood to admit, nor the King to retract any thing. 3. That, in order the better to anomplish the above important object, it was proposed that whatever might pass in the firs: con ference should pledge neither party to any opinion ; that nothing should be recorded without previous communication, and, as far as possible, common consent ; and that, in order to facilitate ex planation, and to encourage unreserved discussion, the substance Ga of what passed should be reported. These preliminary points being agreed to, the question to be examined (as contained in Lord Liverpool's memorandum of April 15, 1820, delivered to Mr. Brougham previous to his pro ceeding to St. Omer's, and in Lord Liverpool's note of the 11th of June, and Mr. Brougluurer note of the I.'th of June, written by the Queen's command) were. Ist, The future residence of the Queen abroad. 2dly, The title which her Majesty might think fit to assume when travelling on the Continent. 3dly,The non-exercise of certain rights of patronage in England, which it might be desirable that her Majesty might desist from exercising, should she reside abroad, and ethly. The suitable income to be assigned for life to the Queen, residing abroad. Her Majesty's law-oflicers, on the part of the Queen, desired. in the first insusnix, that the fourth point should be altogether laid aside in there conferences; that her 3iajestv desired it might make no part of the conditions, nor be mixed • with the present slinansions. They_ then proceeded to state, that under all the circumstances !flier Majesty's preposition, they erould not say that her Ma. jesty had any insuperable objection to living abroad ; on the con trary, if such foreign residence were deemed indispensable to the cempletion of an arrangement so much desired by Parliament, her Majesty might be prevailed on to acquiesce; but then that certain steps must be taken to remove the possibility of any in ference being drawn front such compliance, and trout the enquiry nut being proceeded in, unfavourable to her Majesty's honour, and inconsistent with that recognition which is the basis of these negociations; and her Alajesty's Law Officers suggested with this view the restoration of her mime to the Liturgy. To this it was replied, that the King's Government would no doubt leant with great surprise, that a question of this important nature had now been brought forward tur the lost time, without having been adverted to in any of the previous discussions, and without being included unionist the heads to be now treated of; that the Liturgy had already boat regulated by his Alajesty's toi:nial deciaratton in council, und in the exercise of his Alajes ty s legal authority ; that the King, in yielding his own feelings 441111 views to the wishes of Parini:tient, could not be understood ( ti . the absenc e o f en qu iry ) to alter any of essiten. muter witch his Nlajesty had hitherto deliberately and advisedly acted ; and that, as it was ill the outset stated, the King could not be expected to retract any thing, no hope could he held 01 11 that the King's goverimient would fe , l themselves juAided an slab nitttitig such a proposition to his Majesty. To this it wa , atisuerea, tuat altlf.tigh the point of the Liturgy weseertainl; , not included by name amongst the heads to be titscussytl. her Majesty's Law Otlicc..s felt theurelves entitled to bring it f.rsartl in its councsion with the question of her Ma. MONDAY, JUNE 2 , 3, 15(29. jesty's reJidence abroad. It was further contended, that the alteration in the Liturgy wag contrary to the pain scum: and even letter of the statute, and that it was highly objtctionable on con stitutional grounds, being contrary to the wlioie policy of the iaw respecting the ,ecarity of the succession, and li:ilia: to he repeated in cases where the succession itself might be endangered by it ; and therefore it was said that a step so taken might well be re. traced without implying any . unworthy concession. It was also urged, that the omission having been plainly made in contein. phirion of legal or Parliamentary proceedings against her Majesty, it followed, when those proceedings were to be shim cloned, that the omission should be supplied; and it followed, for the same reason, that supplying it would imply nu retraction. It was replied, that his Majesty had decided that her Majesty's name should nut be inserted in the Liturgy, fur several reasons not now necessary to discuss ; that hi.i Majesty had acted under legal advice, and in conformity to the practice of his Royal predecessors ; and that the decision of his Majesty had not ben taken solely with a view to intended proceedings in Parliament or at law. _ _ _ Independent of the enquiry instituted before Parliament, his Majesty had felt himself long since called upon to adopt nicasures to which his Majesty, as head of his family, and in the exercise of his prerogative was clearly competent. These acts together with that now under consideration, however reluceantly adopted, and however painful to this Majesty's feelings, were taken upon grounds which the discontinuance of the enquiry before Patlia ment could not affect, and which his Majesty could not there. fore be expected to rescind. The principle fairly applied would go, in truth, no further than to replace the parties in the relative position in which they stood immediately before her Majesty's arrival, and before the King's Message was sent down to both Houses of Parliament. After further discussion upon this point, it was agreed that the Duhe of Wellington and Lord Castlereagh should report to tl.c Cabinet what had passed, and conic prepared with their deter mination to the next conference. _ _ _ Her Majesty's Law Officers then asked, whether, in the event of the above proposition not being adopted, any other proceeding could be suggested on the part of his Majesty's Government, which might render her Majesty's residence abroad consistent with the recognition of her rignt. and the vindication of her character ; and they specially pointed at ate official introduction of her Majesty to foreign Courts by the King's Ministers abroad. Upon this it was observed, that this proposition appeared open to some difficulty in point of principle: it was calling upon the King to retract the decision formally taken and avowed on the pan of his Majesty—a decision already notified to foreign Courts; and to render the position of his Majesty's representatives abroad, in relation to her Majesty, inconsistent with that of their Sovereign at home; that the purposes for which this was sought by the Queen's law officers was incomistent with the principle admitted at the cornmeocement of the conference, and was one that could nut be reasonably required to be accomplished by the act of hisMajesty—nameiy, to give to her Majesty's conduct that countenance which the state of the case, as at present before his Majesty, altogether precluded. At the same tune it was noted, that while his Majesty, con sistently with the steps already adopted, could not authorize the public reception of the Queen, or the introduction of her Majesty at foreign Courts by his ministers abroad, there was nevertheless every e:sposition to see that branch of the orders already given faithfully and liberally executed, which enjoined the British ministers on the Continent to facilitate, within their res,aietive missions, her Majesty's acconnuodation, anti to contr . :mite to her personal comfort and convenience. Her Majesty's law officers gave die King's servants no reason whatever to think that the Quern could be induced to depart from the propositions above stated, unless sonic odiers. Munded on the same principles, were to on the p.st of lii. Ma jesty's Government. PROTOCOL OF THE SECOND CONFERENCE HELD AT TILE FOREIGN OFFICE, JUNE 16, Mat. The King's servants began the conference by stating that they had not failed to report with fidelity to the King'a government the proposition brought forward by her Majesty's law otFeers, that the Queen's name should be expressly included in the Li turgy, in order to protect her 3lnjcsty a g ainst any utiscondruc lion of the grounds on which her Majesty might consent to reside abroad; that they were not deceived, fur reasons already sufficiently explained, in anticipating the surprise of their col leagues at the production of this question, fur the first time, on the part of her Majesty, more especially in the present advaixed state of the proceedings that they were authorized distinctly to state, that the King's servants could on no account advise his Majesty to rescind the decision already taken and acted upon in this instance, and that to prevent mi conception, the King's government had charged the Duke of Wellington and Loth 121.5. tlercagh to explain that they must equally decline to advise the King to depart from the principle already :aid down by his Ma jesty at foreign Courts: but that they were not oniy ready but desirous to guard in futit e by renewed orders against any wk.- sible want of attention to h er Majesty's comfort and convenience by his Majesty's ministers ; and that, wherever her Itlajebty might think lit to establish her residence, every endeavour would be made to secure for her M.:jesty from that State tha fullest protection, and the utmost personal comtent, attenuou, and con. venience. In ex plamit:on of the position in which the King Aetna:ly stood upon this (ph.stion ice his foreign reettiotv, the instructions under winch the ministets itb-ond now acted wcze conintitnicatol to the Queen': law officers, and their attention was directed us well to the principles therein laid down, and from which his Majesty could hot be e.ellal upon to depart, as to that branch of the in• siructions which were studiously fritintd to provide for the Per sonal tuidort and convenience of the Queen aLa Princess of Wales. The qteett'A law officers then stated. that they must not he tinder:Atm° to . stiggebt the of a general poser to h er ma jesty to establish tier Court in any lore:gn country, and to be there received and presented by the En,,iish Minister. becalm reasons of state might render it inexpedient ilia:, under certain eiremistances. sat% un establishment etc tt t be made= but they wished that her Majesty should have the rower of being so reeeived and treated by the English winker* where nu such mum,. of state interlined. and they inquhot uk I let It er the swine ohjerthat would exiin to the public intiodurtion of her Majesty at some one Court where she might fix ha resi , knee, it she waved the claim of introduction of tureign Courts To thin it was answered. that the principle ass, in feet. the sane wheth , r. at one or more ('nuns ; and that if the fling could be consistently advised to meet the Qaeca's wishes in this [Pnici. 9.. . instance at all, it would be more dignified for his alajesty to u, so generally and avowedly, than to adopt any partial or covet: pros ceding. The Queen's law officers, referring to the decision of the Judges in George the First's reign, said it would bee much more unexceptionable exercise of the itoyal prerogative, were the King even to prescribe where her Majesty should reside, but to order her there to be treated as a Queen by his minister:. Tae King'. servants, in consequence of what had parted at a former continence, then reverted to the mode in which the Queen had arrived in Ergland, and the pain her Majesty mum experience were she exposed to leave KngLand in the litre manner. l'hey teeitatinted her Majesty's law officers that they could ven ture to aesure them that this difficulty would not moue. The Queer arrived in England contrary to the King'e wisher. and representations; but were her Majesty now to deeire to pass to the Continent, whether to a port in the Channel, or if it should more accord with her Mitjatty'e views to proceed at once to the Mediterranean, a King% yacht in the one instance, or or a hillit war in the other, might be orderal to convey her Majesty. After receiving these explanations, the Queen's law oflicere recurred to the points before touched upon, viz. the ieserring the Queen's name in the Liturgy, or the devising something in tlic nature of an equivalent, and intimated their conviction that her Majesty would feel it necessary to press one or both of three objects, or sonic other of a similar nature end tendency. They then caked whether a residence in one of the royal palate,. would be secured to her . alejeety, while in this enuntry, and ebeerved, that her Majesty had never been deprived of her apartments in Kensington Paliaze until she voluntarily gave them up for the uccummodation of the late Duke of Kent. It was replied, that the King's servants haul no instractione on this point. They, however, observed, that they believed the apartments which her Majesty thruieely occupied, when Princes., of Wales, were et present actually in the pipie - earn of the lauchusa of Kent ; Led that they considered that this point had been already uipooxl of by supplying to her Majesty the funds which were neceeeary so furnish to her iliejesty a suitable residence. Her Majesty's law officers then inquired whether, supposing an arrangement made, the mode of winding up the transaction, and withdrawing the information reterred to Parliament had been considered, and whether the King's servants saw any objection, in the present instance, to the houses of Patliament, exposing, by suitable address s, both to the King and Queen, their grateiel thahks tbr their Majesties having acquiesced in an arrangement by which Parliament had been saved the painful duty of so deli cute and difficult a proceeding. The King's servants acknow. ledged thii point had not been considered, but reserved to themselves to report tile observations made thereon to their colkagues. It was then agreed that, upon every view of duty and propriety, the tinvl decision should not be protracted beyond Alonday, 1.1 which day it should be proposed that the proceeding:: on the King's message in the House of Commons iniould be adjouened on a distinct explanation to this effect, and that a conference should take place tu•morrow. in order to bring the bueinees to 4 conclusion, and to arrange by mutual coueent the prone:Li:* of conference. PROTOCOL OF TILE THIRD CONFERENCE. Foreign ()Hie..., June 17. . . The conference was opened by her Alajesty's Law Otficet, I::- thuating, that, adverting to what had passed in the preectliT;; conferencee, they had nothing to propose but to proceed t o t, 1 , 3 adjustment of the Protocol. The hing's Servants stated, before they entered into the Mr sinus of arranging the Protmot," that 'thy thought it their duty to advert to the points disaissed in the preceding vonierciwt, upon which no explicit opinion had been expressed by mem on the part of his Majesty's Government then declared that they wereautoorized to i:iforin the Quan's Law Officers, that, in tile event of her Alajesty's going to the Continent, a yacht or ship of war would be provided for the conveyance of her AI il o ll ty, either to a port in the Channel, or to a port in the Alediterranean, as her Majesty might prefer; that every personrd ir_tennon and respect would he paid by the King's Servants abmin! to her Ma- jesty; and cv;:iy endeavour made by them to protect her Majesty against any putsit.de in..meenitnee, whether on Ike travels ur residing on the Continent ; with the understood tarn e, however, of public iceeption by the King's Nlintsters abroad, and intro• ductiun at fbre,gr. Courts. ft was Amber stated by the King's Servants, that, having weighed the suggestion communicated by the Queen's Law Ofii,:ers in the preceding cemfcrenee, they were 110 w prepared to declare that they saw nu diftieulty (if the t rm, on watch in.: sane were to be conveyed were properly guarded) to a progosi tion being made to both ll.l.tses for expressin,4, biotic:rest: to the Queen, as well as to the Kin e „ their t;rut.ful artnowletipinnts fur the facilities which their Majeares might Inl - ..c resp:ctieely afforded towards the accumplishmett of an arrangement by which Parliament had been saved the acces.sity of so painful discussion. _ _ These observations not appearing to make any material till ferenee in the views taken by her 2.lajesty's t alter. t i ti:: result of the conferences, it was agreed to prtn•eti! in the arrange ment of the Proto.rols. Betare,l:owever s the l'rc'ocnl was in s . cussed, the King's Servants desired distinct:v to know from lac: Majesty's Law Officers, win:tiler the introdoct ion I the Qacen'a mune in the Littiriay, and her afar •:;ty's introduction at Fortign Courts, were tither of them a condition sine va: ?hitt of an ar, rangeancnt on the part of the Queoi; to %hien it was replicd, that either the introcloction of her Majtany's name in the I -our .y or an equivalent which would have the ,ffiee.t of pmtettirg her Majesty against the unfavourable inference to %hien net A:itasty might be liable in leaving the country, mido eireums:ante. in which her .\lajesty was plactd, was a :on: siaa We. The Queen could not be ad ised voluntarily to cui-tit to any arrange ment which was not satisfactory ao licr 31krat) 04'11 howtver. her Majesty, with a view to meta toe zonlersteoil wishes of Parliament, had telt it her duty Cu propose to teary t v. who.o question to an arbitration. No proposition on the part of her Majesty other than th ose already ativirtcd to was baraeht forward. (Signed.) PROTOCOL OF 1 8t. 1 °WWI CONFLIVICC. June J. Before proceeding to finish the dismission of the iret -- ;,-eic it etas stigge.ten on the part vi the P.114,,..i Servants. if po,ible to meet her Maje.ty':. wt, lies, and in order the better to e -.tire to h er t ta j e ,, t y e v e ry (notable respect Awl attention within at,: titular State in which *ht.: might think tit to e,t;tbit,;l rut (the Milanese, or the Human States, hrtring hren previAtt..y gesteti by her :tiniesty's Law tfir::-..rs as the alternative AQlnut Fur coetier4atio.: sec ` 4-- . T Abf j ' ir Ivy * --- A e joie N•