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sod etirefstett lit liad titidersteed that thesiitgle qaesoinn to which their Lordships' attention was to he directed by Ciattsel, and the ointments of - ihelitter to apply was this, whether assuming. that the preamble of the Bill sheeld he Peered to their L o obitipti . ' satisfaction, the Bill of Pains and Pe „hie, should then be pissed? lie therefore im plored their Lordships to brutish from their minds en v imprewisintis which might have been produced bv the Anneals of his Rom and Learned Friend., s i n d puticolorlv he that powerful and eloqnent one o w e had just h-ard. For with al the respect which he intermitted for their leurning and talent. lw was corn ovl64l to say that nitte.tenths of whist had been said he them wits %hone foreign to, and ought not, cen! , l not. remold not afteet the Oration then nnder ! h e ir Liril•hips s consideration. whether. if the foul and disgusting charges enatained in tee preamble were substantiated, their Lorilshops were prepared to rite that the Bill was of so nnconstitntional nature that it should not receive the sanction of the [louse ? Ilia Learned Friends had admitted that th e qrestion 'might to he argued on the anpoosition the preamble had been proved. yet ^II along I;irir L'irdships bad heard of things completely un connected with that cnnaiderAtion, of corrupt wit unit perjury, a n d inhumation of evidence. Ile therefore said that in indulging in such topics, hi• Learned Friends were only tampering with their L or d,: i ip s • feeling% nod avoiding the point to which the, should have confined themselves. There w il e elan nnnther difficulty in which he found himself invlo‘ 111/ Lelrtsed Friend who had addressed thifaseeee of the• caws,. as those advanced is *it prelims me:— " Therefore, to, niimifest Our deep most of suck stall: kitse, dlsgssetlLl, sod vicious amdael aver she pats a heti said klejesty, by which she bag violated She duty she meek to your Majesty, sad has rendered !semi, ureteral, of the exalted rank had Maims df gates Cnuwt of Ill* realm, and so evince ear jest regard fur the Agility of the Cr•wk and the honour or this nation we, your Majesty's most de ntal and loyal subjects, the LW, Spitiliql ae4 Temporal and Commas. in Parliament assembled, de hereby entreat spur Majesty that it may be enacted," At. When the evulenee should be produced, it would be seen whether the facts established bore that cha. racter or not. Then an objeettan tame. that tint charge was foamier' on slander and perjury, and that a decisive opinion had beets formed on the evi dence bv the Secret Committee; but isii judg ment had vet been formed on the evidence,thut was to be dour by Weir Lordship % when the witneestar should have been examined before them. If he (the Attorney-Griteral) now undertook to deliver the character of the witnesses from the alsersiosis cast on them, it might lie objected that he went ont of his way to advance usatters injurious to her Majesty. Therefore he should only nay, that 16 evidence contained matter of very grate and wed supported charge. His Lea:m.4l Friend then, with an air of ridicule, which hail its effect at the am, meat, had recalled the attention of the House so the different sterns which had been taken on this moat distressing case, and the endeavours which had born made to prevent these painful procued.. lags by acconsmodatiott ; and then endeavour ed to show what ought to have been the en actments of a Bill of this stature, after the com munications and nrgociationa with her Majesty; best with what justice ? At that time had the c l i sr g . s against her Majesty assumed any toe cilic shape ? was not this so far from betug the fact, that it was the object of the ne.,aociatiots that the evidence should not be seen or !mown by any ' individual ? The offers to her Majesty with a view to an amicable compromise, hail tint been made on a supposition of the indecent and disgustiug fami.. hardy and adulterous intercourse, and that with is menial servant, stated in the preamble of the Bill. Till the evidence had been heard, which it yet. was not, it wag too much for his Learned Friend to say, that that the overtures had been made to her Majesty on an assumption of these facts ? Then his Learned Friend complained that the ism. ccedings had not that judicial character which they would have had if the course had been by impeach ment, and that • her Majesty had been shut out from advantages which she would have enjoyed by that line of proceeding. And throughout the whole of the day and yesterday that had been assumed which was either not true, or at least very doubtful, namely, that the circumstances of the Case admitted of an impeachment being brought. But if the method adopted had been by impeach ment, he was sure that they would have heard the same inflauonatory Komori', the same violent ob jections against it, which had been urged against the Bill on the table. The adultery charged against the Queen wits not high treason, because if committed at all it had been committed with a Lordships this day fwd attacked the presmble of tlct Bill. and gone through • h:story of the Secret Committee. and of the Bill and tlot 'winner in which it bed been introduced into the flonse, and ended with asserting, first by the course adopt. ed, her Majesty lay under a disadvantage, which would not have been experienced, had her case lo en investigited before on ordinary tribunal, as in the litter way she would have bail the benefit of hot!' a Grand Jury and a Petty Jury. not R. to tiii, complaint, whit lied passed yesterday must hive s itisfiel their Lordships that there era. nn or pretence whatever for it—for they had 1)0.1) informed hr this first law authorities in the country, after solemn deliberation and csnotiltstinti, that by reason of the arts alleged to have been committed by her Majesty bar. i!ig taken place out of this realm, she was net amenable to any Court of Justice for what, had it been done in this country, would have been the highest and most aggravated offence known to the lin. fibs Learned Friend who had spoken last, obwiving that the Secret Committee hod been oss i. milated to a Grand Jury. ted that they bad found a charge which no (rand Jury would hove found no the evidence Lid before them. But in point of fact, hied the Secret Committee found any charge ? As lw understood the proceedings, they hail not—they found that there was matter of charge, and .ithout saying that her Majesty was guilty or innocent, recommended an inveatueation into her conduct. The 13111 under consideration had not been recommended by them. But in the twat breath his Learned Friend told them dist the Bill had proceeded from some other quitter. According to his (the Attorney-Ge sieral'il' vices the Secret Committee had recom mended some legislative proceeding. But the wisdom or justice of introducing the Bill ems not the question before their Lordships ; that had been sufficiently decided by the first reading; and the only question now was, whether it should he pro cr,Nled with ? Another objection enhanced was, that the Secret Committee had founded a charge nn otivonched documents. So far as he (the At to-irey-Genernl) knew such was not the fact ; lie that their Report had been grounded on sworn depositions ; bat his Learned Friend had taken the Bill to pieces and gone through it, and lie had made statements repecting it the most extraordinary which he had ever heard from any lawyer. lle (Mr. Denman) said, that the per noble contained what an indictment d;il not, facts in evidence of the crime, instead of a short specific charge as at the common law. But V. as 164x:wired Friend so ignorant, had he never Beard or reed that the Legislature, feeling the hard of the ruleof commisolaw, hod provided that on charge of high treason in the indictment, not only the charge should hr stated, but the facts to be ritrered in support of it ? So far from the particu larity of the prelontile hiring a haedsiiip to her Me jesty, hid the eireumstarfces now complained of beu untitled ? the coutplaint would be, that there was noilimg but • gestural aiarge of adulte rous irstreconrs.-. Mid tarring' mentioned those words, he (wild not help adverting to an objec f.a of I very refined description, advanced by h:s Learned Friend (Mr. Brinigham) yester elay—uhat the framers of the Bill had been afraid to tine the common hingutge in setting forth the came of adultery, and had there fore been driven to a circuitous periphrasis.— lint if his Lewrtied Frivol(' bad referred to foimer Bills of Divrece, he would have found that in nine out of tea of them the word adultery was never mentioned, hut that, the crime was described by the words aduliernets intercourse, or tolnlterous connexion, or criminal connexidir or conversation. But Ids Learned Frientla had been obliged to ad roit, that the Bill, as it stood, contained a charge I adultery. • His Learned Friend, with some hu mour, had contended, adverting to certain parts of the preamble, that what woe " indecent and offen sive familiarity and freedom" to the mind of one mini, would not be so to that of another. All lie should say to this was, let hint wait for the produc tion of the o'vidence, and theti' liirm his opinion. When the conduct of the framers of the Bill was arraigned for the shape in which the preamble had been &non up, it should be recollected that facts to establish the charge were included in all Bills Pains and Penalite-, acid of Attainder. It had uteri: so drawn up to she*, not only that edul tely had been coettintted, but committed with all the aggravating circumstances mentioned. He %In Heilman) then said, that the Bill went I,l i t o state the wise of Parliament out the con duct imputed, and afterwards complained that it did trot proceed on any State reasons. But let lam look to the pteatubie of the Bill against Bishop Atiertrury, where the grounds were stated 'al winch the House of Lord* asked her Majesty to onsent to the enactment [here the Han. and Learn. ed Gentlemen quoted the pottage), iod he would hod them to bent the same nature, allowing for the . • • Lw • I ttt tlyl qellittalb 6 4. Aliglifiitifif 1 , 44 . Oa' 11 -al rest by what had taken place, yopiordag., and it, Operated to have satisfied the minds of several very . bationribiti and upright chsratters who had efiter. Wired dashes ea the sabjeot. who *lifted, a nd who had i riglttn have their s:Arida eafisfirad. lensed the Counsel on the ether side to wider* a ease, the facts of which were similar to those *toted in the preamble, anti to chew that an impeachment there boy. fie would not carry his argument so far me to *sr that there was on ease where there could be crime in tile acerasory but when ewe writ nine ni the ptincirial. Prot how puitive would it hare been to have chosen a course in which they might have been coin to ttop at the very and step ? They had chosen the turest and safest course, sad one accompanied %vial with the ad ditional advantage to ber illirjesty of two tribu nals. If he were to remit aganist the itivectiers indulged la, and urge tlie great n tnity of the Querit's conduct (inistoming the charges to be true) how wendel he be roiled mg He did ro t complain that h.t wns reldigied Itl idistain from this ; oo the otittrare. it was his wish t h is the House and the pnbltc, notaitlititauding all the at. tempts to e„.4,1,7,.., th e ir passions on the Qatess's side, should will b• kept in igermince of the nob , - cent and flagitious tuts conipsised in the evidence. To her Gotintrel it wet competent to insinuate improper 111011VCI to any individaal ? they might allude even to the Illustrious Person arm is suc cession to the throne, iitid that utmost at the moment when the partner of his affections had been con signed to the north. Bat when the proper time seine nothing should deter him from stating the real facts of the case. He thould now come to that which was the only argument advanced against the Bill (for with all respect to his Learned Friends he had heard but one) ; he meant the objections made by Mr. Brougham yesterday, objections which always deserved to be well weighed *genet Bills of Pains and Penalties, as being iii their nature ex post facto laws. Here an ("Knee, milked out by th e ma ., doni of our ancestors as of the very duepeet di., was alleged to have been committed by her Roysl High ness the Princese of Wales.. Hit had been corniutted Its, and with a subject of this coantryyd would have subjected her to the proudly or demi:), but it Imp petted to be committed out of the cotnitry, sad with a foreigner ; would it be said that therefore it did come within the offence contemplated by our oarestors ? The offence was char,red not only to have Imo committed, but to have been committed with a menial servant, during a long course of Cute, and wits unbecoming and disgusting circumstances. Was that then an offence which ought urn to be marked with the ranges' ce of the House and the country ? Wes it because it had taken place iii Italy, that it ought to be exempted from all penalty ? No method Of visitiug it with punishment existed but by a Hill Pains and Penalties; and were they to be told that that should not be resorted to, because it Wel an ez post facto law? Every Divorce Bill which passed the House was an ex post facto low, for mut riage was indissoluble ; but one of the parties came down here, and offering proof of the criminality of _ the foreigner. Impeachment therefore was not open. the other, called upon . . House to pass an ex post and recourse was had to a Bill of Paints and Penal. facto law, to dissolve the marriage and depute the ties, as that instrument of justice which alone would other party. Let the case be taken, done of their reach the offence. All avow arguments which were Lordvhips applying to the House for a Bill of Di. now used against the Bill, all theme allusions to the voice, that was in effect, though not in form.' Bill effect which the 'resent invtatigation would pro. of Pains and Penalties against the individual. Was' duce upon the morals and habits of the people, all the Queen alone to say, " You cannot punish me for high treason—you cannot proceed against roe . those appeals to popular feeling ; the threats, if be might say so, which had been thrown out, all these by a Bill of Pains and Penalties, and I mil go se. c topics would have been dwelt and i t isisted on with core to England ?" Every Divorce Bill was a Bill . just a. much warmth and eloquence had the course of Pains and Penalties, and every Bill of Pains been by impeachment. It had beet. asserted that and Penalties was in the nature of an ex post recrimination was now in their power, a thing which f acto law. In this country the Legislature could not certainly would not have been possible it. an im- go the length of making that treason after the tact . rechment. Had it ever been heard that a person which was not so before, because it happened to .lave been coiamitted with a foreigner. but it said' at their Lordships' bar, accused of the highest of. fence, hail said, allow me to 'thew certain facts on that such au offence shouldltot go unpunished. and the other side, and they will not oily palliate my therefore had recourse to a Bill of Pains maul Penal.. , siffetice, but remove all guilt ? Complaining of a ties. This was an answer to Mr. Broughant's argu. llill of Pains and Penalties, and asserting thut it trent. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman them admitted of recrimination. they at the same tim e proceeded to !thew that the clew was one which did * desired a proceedivg which would altogether not admit of an impeachment bring iustituted. incapacitate them front having recourse to it. The expediency of tie measure was nut a question But such topics were retorted to, not for the par_ for consideration at their Lordships' bar, or to be pose of argument, but in order to terrify and argued there. Iler Majesty • challenged the in. alarm. There was, he Relieved. b tu one instance quay, and it could make no difference to her by (the cast of the Duke of Norfolk) 111 which Coun- whet tribunal it was discussed. Their Lordships sal had been allowed to interfere by argument been told hy his Learned Friends shatshe present against the principle of • Bill. _ witnesses tainted It wee said that Proceeding placed their Royal Client under great the evidence was corrupt, aid the difficulties, as they charged her_ with acts while she before either had been produced before their Lord. tees Princess of Wales, and while she way such no . proceeding had been taken against her. He would - ships. He (the Attorney-General) answered, that it was as foul a calumny as ever had been uttered. tell them that the Queen was not placed in a Such topics had been introduced before their time, worse situation titan it' the same .proceedings had u consequence of the indulgence granted by their taken place when she was Princess. of Wales; there- Lordships,'fore she was deprived of no adv a ntage that she which he could not but think had been a little abused. lie raid that their Lordships should would not have in the former character, in a case pay no ottention to all those insinuations and that would be high treason, if the enure was corn inuendoes, mud all those sweeping charges which ranted in this country, but if committed out of it,• had been launched forth, not only against in- was ant. He would put it to their Lordships, wite'• dividend., hut whole vivant of people. The then the moral principle was not the same, should Houourable and Learned Gentleman then advert- it be left its the power of the ceuntry to say, that a person having committed adultery that vet to the 'molest agaiwit the Bill of Pains and Penalties against the Bishop of Rochester, found- no proceeding should be taken-against that per. ed on the principle that such Bills were, "in son. Then it came to the question of' adultery, their nature, though not in their form, judicial ;" and he gave hits Learned Friends the benefit of the and contended, that in this ease their Lord. argument. The preamble of the Bill was to be ships, though not in form, were yet in fact sitting proved ; then the question would arise whether it aa judge); and that, as judges, they should have to ' was 'proved in whole or in part. It was a case pronounce on the evidence offered. Wes it to be where impeachment would not lie, for which res. supposed, that it was not fitting they should vier. YOU the present proceeding was the proper course. Mile such !Miami:is? Were their minds to be sway. There was a great deed' which laid fatten from his ed by some dishonest and base mauves, and not by Learned Friends. which was merely declamatory, those which influeided all pure :and honourable and he was convinced their Lordships would not minds? He was•qade satisfied that they could not be carried wetly by their eloquence. He had . confidence is. the honour and integrity of the attend to them arguments, earitag that in suhsteare, though not in form, the proceedings Ott the meta- Peoiele to be (*dein, that if crime wus attach sure were judicial. Here tile) there was the advaii. rd to the party. accused, that dory would weight tap of two tribuilate instead of one, as in an int- to be made known. and that the * delinquent Peeehment, mud that was ode of the olsjections stated should not escape. He was willing to admit, that by the reporter to the Bill against Bolen , A ittobtsiy, if- her Majesty was innocent, time situation she ems that their Lordships thus let in the House of ldaced tor was mod cruel ; but if guilty, her lens.; Commons to a share of their judicial atsilititity. Wiwi /rut most deplorable. He was convinced, ' that what sae call e d kinder clamour would not 'rheir Lordships would brie silt the evidence, influence their Lordships. It was- the boost of they would be insisted in all p o int, of doubt or difficulty by the Judge, of the land, and they this counffy, that the lowest subject was protected; would proceed calmly, , tlispas,ionstely amid deli. then; lie would Usk, why should thehighest subject berate ly on evidence given mulct the rolrmu obliga. he iltowed ter ronnutt crime with impunity ? tion of au oath, sod vilerwavile decide ou, the The SoLiciane.Gingitxt, followed, mud said he weight. extent, .0a credibility of that t iedesee. .14, , reed that this was a great and momentous clues. If there was not authority to el ihik t h e o ir o i c , ' tioulor their Lordships consideratinit, but nut so SINS nut high treissim, lie (the Attoinei-eritterel) 'fele his Learned lerlesithe whose duty eras o nly - to wont) not - bare stood at the bar to sumant the • .itis'ents u • dry Itgil Attestiori, 'they- bad denoted .I • ♦f . ... . i ffilllb iopme,i the wei , • ../1 101 . 41 0 80 48 : 4 4 iet tha i rel el :r os es p w rio Hsh• a:4l;c ...emitter° r by er sit t el hall placed themselves oat /lee eitnaiion of difendartts u they ' hid lat!Come an. ;them The Bill before their Lordships vas of a sittlie lige construction ; it wee well known by the law ..L titivettall'lty. that it uuliept tumuli titug edoltery veos !the Qom', the sninivlnnent was death, but arm -the fullest consideration that could be Riven to this rim by the Learoell Judges, they were of epinion, if . it Ives committed by a foreigner it was ire erg: isitatile in the hte. however missend and laciness st might he iu its 94ture. it trio itreeetpity Cq hont. t o % ni p p y' N I efiguinen(y to puppoo, that the pre menhir of the Bill was trade nut ; then if made out, how could it be contended that, after she had com mitted on t reat end irreligious a crime, she should be entitled to eit at the ride of the Km of dam ceuntry ? if there was only soap cma of crime ► would it he said that no inquiry ought to be made i:eo the conduct of the person canirMg the euspreinii ? that was the whole allot:. t if that ergument of his Learned Frirod (Mr. Brant. ham), that suspicion was Not sulEcieirt ground Gtr imfairy. He, however, thought it was impute Ode that any set of reasonable meu could come to th.t conclusion, much less such sit assembly as' lire had the honour of addressing, whu, he was cenviocert,' without hiquiry, would never give the p.rty ace nosed the r.ghts of Queen Consort. The Learned, Collohoel then reed the preamble of the pill, and observed, if the facts contained in it were !roved ; would soy person say that an retirement shruld not take place, end that si.e should cease to be the wife of the Sovereign; for was not he entitled to the same rights as may other married individual instituting a Bill of Divider ? It was said that this was n Bill of Pains end Penalties, but it was not more se then every Bill of I) voice. His Learned Friends!, with eloquence that was never exceeded, hail contended that their Lordships were departing from the u-nal course by maintaisling this Bill. which was not the case, for in private life a Bill of Divorce de; rived the lICCII.CII of ber rank in socety; therefore, leavisi out of the question the rank of the high liersolut;.les, it awes precieely the same as • common OM of Divorce. lie would put it to t heir 1 - o nlsloPso ores it to be tolerated that she should be at the head of the female sot irty of the country when such diaries were against her. If the Qurea had listened to nth r crunsels thm she hid, sod not have come to this couatre, the charges would not base been biought fotward ; bet the moment she put her foot on this seine, there was no measure that could be hiked but the present, for the moment she claimed her rights as Queen Consort, it was impussib.le they could be allowed withont her innecence was established. Was it because it was a Bill of Pattie anal Penal ties that it should not be maiuteieed by their Lord. ships? He would mit wes.,there a pewee in the popular part of Parliament, that would. wish that part of the law of the lend whjeh allowed such Bills, to be dote away with ? His Learned Friend (Mr. Brougham) wished the reign of Henry VIII. to be laid aside on this occasion. hut he afterwards alluded to it. He hail no objection to its tieing brought forward, much less alluded to, if boldly mud manfully brought forward, so as the aigu. anent could be faith! met, and he had no objection to give his Learned Friends all the advantage of the fruits of all the reigns if they boldly brought them forward. The King here was not the accusing pasty ; it did not answer his high spirit and dignity ; hut he sent the accusations to their Lordships, and was __. solar a consenting party. The question of recrie mination was only touched sat by tier Majesty's •Attorney-General, but her Solicitur•Geueral hail urged the collateral convettuence., which, lie said, aught shake the foundation of the monarchy. fie would not enter into the subject, for it was fOe WM to anticipate what was to follow ; therrfr►e he would nut be led into an argument u.i the subject. It had been argued that impeachment was the proper proceeding—he. would rely on Justice Blectistobe, who said, that an impeachment would not lie where the person committing crime, bring the principal, was not subject to the law. of the country. This wa•the opinion of Justice Blackstone, and he would add that it was hie own doubtful opinion. Theta why should not their Lordships follow the track that was pointed out to them ? If au impeachment had been advised, would nut their Loadshipa have thought it 'unnecessary, when a milder course could have been •taken, fur if it was impenclinent, and the party ac cused was found guilty, imprisournent or souse ()ut ct. penalty would ensue f►uni the conviction. Proceed ing by Bill gave her Majesty the opportunity of con tradicting the whole charge, which she amid not have the opportunity of doing in an impeachment where the House of Commons would be the accusers. Their Lordships had been told, that the charges were not specified. lie dritied•that that was the case, for the adulterer had been named, and the space of time. in which the adultery took place was nut coil fined ; it did not say two years, but occupied the space of six years. It was impossible for the Ball to v:sy more than it did, as it was suinomible fur the trainers of it to way that actual adultery had taken place until it was proved before a proper ri bunal. Their Lordships was that tribunal, and who could doubt that they would not decide according to the evidence produced before them ? He had tried to sheer their Lordships, that by Bill was the pro-- per made of proceeding, and if he had dour that, he had done aufficient, cud on the validity of his argu ment their Lordships were to decide. He had no h.- *dation in paying, if the present measure was brought forwiaid when the Royal accused was the wile of the Prince Regent, that the crime would amount to the same as if.she was Queen Consort. They had been told that marriage was a religious tie. It certainly was: but where adultery took place, the Legialsitue had wisely provided that there should be an end to thetie. Taking the preamble of the Bill to be true, a Inch he was obliged to lake to be vo, fur the purpose of his argument, there was not only a charge of one act of wintery', but several acts dor . iog a series of year,. . The Learned Counsel then referred to the preamble of the Bill, and con tended that no man, after reading it, would say that it did not contain charges that required atten tion. As to the specific charmed adultery, the time and place it occtirred was not necessary to state; it never was done in coinmon Bills of Divorcee Wrought into their Loideltive ifoose, for there was nothing more stated than that adultertmetvotoesios had 'taken place. It woo well -kooiata this tior crime of odokery was only poolohOtio• Va. • %wilt at./ ' not iss the mow. Thrit Lorfshi.ri • had beets told hnte indecorous it was for the &tot - mat, its the realm to lirM; foiward such a mei et ; tbryt were also told of a sem •f loos nor boi..g °Med to•h,r Alajesty to *thy abrita that the yre:eist the traight , .uot have bee 14 , ught Rosario her; sb-y were aloe 'alit diet slot was en , wanted Li go abroad, and thct &dome w id attach. dto tip pc who recomoseoded it. All then that hr irould sty vt to, that the persons m ikon; the propet a .l were not roma to Man than three *1 o rec i‘c.l ; but if cenoure vas swirliest. the 1,/l• se Coutme, fit whets engaged sill 11r past .4 her M jests.. mete eittideil to their shore of it. should t og detain their Lordship* liter_-, as lie a i• sure they would tve their full amulet', '0 Cie ease, unit di ride accorJoig to the fact* poixlused ion tvidence. Mr. Beoeclusmi mid, 14 was lordly able , to avail himself of tl:e r Wet of reply. but it bet. . usual, lie would do it its *lenity as pealrle,. casifis.ing himself io a her ponds. A v.totie, change hot burn Insole sglit.•s I i n sit4ol his L ar..ed Friend fK fl.vsb4 is then toetioneut d. ,pole l from the stahjort eater • f the H li. Ile w0t.1.1 lo g to be *11..w.d to remind their Lotalshipo that I e and his Leetied F.i. lid set out with saji , g, that it was a legislative sue 'sup., audit' it ;sassed tutu law it would bra new oue —if it was brunglitio: w.0t.1 as an Myriam-tit lie would hove : beeis pre ;sell tit have rust it as the law scull ly stood. The tot:- lion then ma., whoth..r a new should lie et:. acted or nose ? The cuing) , of the Sulicttor-Genet I on a 11•:1 of Rite a n d Petioles was thrown est. ! , he hid told thetn they were ant iron and puce I 'branches of the Constitution, *lnch tot mati longing to the popular blench of .Parliainet t would ai It to be ,severed from tie Constitutimi. If by conistieritni his Lrarutd Friend notto. that a I that was just shoold not be departed how, len would agree with hum; and Is a lover of the consti. tutio.l he agreed aids Lord Chancel!. r Crepo., tis..t in a case of great necessity he »mild tout objet to such a Bill; but that necessity did nut t o w press; their 1.91d.1.ips were poi to look through eyes 41 an advocate. .who only remembered wl at was net essity for Iris case, and fingot all that Ca. in sutiourt oh the otter bide. He mid his Learned Freud sod, that there was I/0 necessity fur . the Bill of Puns and Penalties, and the very reason of their Lordships having read the Bill the first time in the Of-elite of the illustrious pereoeiage• accused, and her. Counsel's mouths closed.' proved the tree sits of his impreatiMg on their Lordships that they nii4lit retract what they had done. His Majesty's At ortieyAietteral hawlwaiel, *hat this was the only argument wl ich !nee on the subject ; and like Nathaii's parable, he undertook to take et from uider kiln; he was ready -to grapple with 1 • , tool by argument convince their Lori's' ii.; that los Ls allied Friend bad sot a foot to .tan I on. He eiii.tetided that impeachment did tor. unit he would prove it, however his Learned Filen& might shut their eyes against it, for the jurisdiction of the House of Lord.. ,as Lord Cok: said, was so great, that it had nolio4l—.4oy Might impeach or do any thing else. Ilewitotti ask why this was not a case for impeachment ? Ildthat of a public functionary acting wrong. it was a sub. jest of impeachment, because there wrens, redress. at law—why then nut impeachment its this pier, wheu it was allowed the justice of it ceuld not be come at in a Court of Law ?. It their Lordodips were to look into all outlier:ties as to the crimes of public Functionaries, they would find the name of the Queen at the brad, as holding the situation of a functionary. they • looked to the ego of Edward 111. there eras In impeachment egotist Richard Lyons for fisting lent the King 'Henley at an usurious iistriiiit.— Masl objections had been made to impeaehtuent. All he could say was. that thew sorrows did not draw up their inslctments of impeachment so slo. verily as they were done at the proem day by the way of 11111, or Pains and Primitive: The Leagued Counsel thtu stated stveial cases where tie:sous had loess impeached for smuggling loreign silks into the punned. Ile then said else Atturuey.Georral had sr guetl the question as if ailialtery had hero committed by his Royal cliet.t. Ile inentioped Al* for the purpose that it should not go out to•the politic tint such was the foes. The Solicitin-General treated it as a Bill of Divorce ; and the more he repeated the terist, the inure it was pleestu,T tot his Plr. Brougham'.) ears, fur it went .ta put ,in cud to the preamble of the Bill I . add the Learned Gen demon lid asked if the hang was ihe nay permit that was not entitled to relief by a Bill orDivarce ? He would answer him by saying, that before Divorce Bill was pre.etard to that. House. the sen tence of the Ecclesiastical Court must be,llyeailud confirming the adultery ! Bht then they told this was a Bill of Divorce without thO . party alleging to be injured applying for relief, sod he would defy Luny person, from the cummeaco utent of the world, to strew where relief .orr greeted without the party injured applying for it. if he were disposed he might say a great deal uti the point, but where the accusing potty had rent the accusation to their LOrdshiPs and told them to quire into it, and that lie would he satisfied with any decosion they might come to ; if it had pot come in that 'hope, would not the _party riding it be foible to be onfriaird by the mime,. kiod of defence as in other Bills of Divorier ? The husband was 1101 the accuser; but they - were tahl a bit *chrism were, and. they knew her Al.+-.sty • etas isitiocentsslien they offered. tier a Juirgipuo,urial sum to stay imbrued; fur otherwise they, would - but have proffered it, for the purpose of artatug Midi• tinnal stains to the Crow,,, and ereo art's+ her • at- rivet the o House of Partotmeut wont 41pivie mu their -knees to tier,. thefie,lne as they . vtehlW .to his Mateaty, to beg ("your of . +yr. ..",Tt.e . .T : s- your asked, huwever, .was,.tort Writs 1 , -AX 4 gulled a negative lament to impropeietiee never had been 'cot:Omitted.. He • had triw,. thole to a part of the' subject snatch was the auly one. dist made lints here any dread • for, fbs 11 0 1•1 elieot-- , he meant the trimmers 'rhea ha; the foreign *nee, he sulipmed, were of avail rook is their own eostatry NI that of her .01/kjr*: • or of the rank of • their laeedahiplt, *ad if rot, at lent of the mak of there around Aim' (ht. • lory the bar). who had tai their power the . aareaa of providing sgood dustier.** Ibehthelte* and ris- and st-sit the . Its they athadd 'appoint, not to be toiled so et by the Atilt of bell.' tar the • beet of drum The, .hithroto *btu- WY .•1 6 - e 1 . ■ I