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. .... l,stlltslieth, then Pagers, of fiats., bad sowlbsetsTess. sort Of this realm, before at Milan, is lacy, eseeeed is her a rvice in a menial iilitatiosioineliartoeuesetergastri, Aber. wise itartoloino Bereetni, • lortletier of 'hew ststimi, who hail lwfore served in a similar capacity: " And Ilieress, after the said BerleMMus Vergami, other. wise ihtetelosse Bergsma, had so masted the wester of hes Royal - Mil/hoes , the said Princess of Wales, a mom onliweets i”g inlittney'estiamiemeed before. her Royal Ilighamis arid the said BattuWOO Peresmi, otherwise Rarto lomo Berposi : •` Anil whereas, her 'Royal Iliehnem not only islwaneell the said 1131101111110 Pergiosi, otherwise Barinkitais Bergasii, to a high situation iu leer Royal Hialniess's bussehold. and received him into her service, and that in high and conedess. itsl situations ..!,out her Roy./ Riglineses peeson, but be. • t eseit upon, :1101 other great and extraordinary masks of t.eiiste and distioction." Se fer I consoler the preamble as completely proved. The nest ample see—" Obtained for him orders or keightlesse, owl titles of himuur." I mean to muve that thaws wow& he struck out ; not that I !where 'any of yob, Lewd. f.ti.p. hive the less) doubt as to the fart, bat you certakelp lco - r nut any direct . widener; Ala, therefore, I do mot Ai* :Luta be properly left as an allegation in She preamble of the Bill. " And eutiferred upon him a portended Order of her Royal Iligliewss hail taken owns to self to isistitote without any joss t w lawful authority."— : son wily •Ilsolusg now to the preamble as movetl by evls slettee at your liar. We stow cOme to a very material part 4_f the preamble : " huh *ilCflE4 her said Royal Riehness, whilst the Bahl Bashilonio NrrKsusi, otlwrwise R-artolomo Refit/owls was in tier said service, further unmindful of her rash , it rank and Illation, and sit her duty to your Majesty, and Wholly regards leas of her own honour and character, conducted herself Its - *aids the wild Ilartolosno l'ercansi, otherwise liartelsosn' *M. 1.z:11W, and to other respects, hush in public and private* in the various places and esinuisiss which her ttrolial,Highs "iser.a visi.e.l, itli indecent and offensive familiarity and fsec.! 1111 l " Now I stop here, loccasse I conceive that to be a slistioirt allegation from the adulterous to reosirse. Now I think it will leave out the *toil Mr," in Ike v.4.suil., ike it in •verious contillits and places. Ido nut think it is ma* out that it took place iii all the eon writ s she t isits it The preample then gills. Asll carried on licentious, sliagracefol. and adulterous intercourse wish the Ilhortolitrio Peigami, otherwise 113artoloinsi o hish continued for Fong period of tiine during bier Royal resideuce abroad, by which condrct of her said R,•yel flightiest', great scandal and dishon o ur have be e n toooght upon pow Majesty'se family and this kingdoms . ' 'Eo.m. are the words of the pisambles and your . et.ip sill see the wit w I have tekin on the suliject 'llse .4ily ail, ration I propose that is material is the leaving nut the under. of knighthood mi l l the change of the name, but the iiely material alteration is She word " Ile." Imes! Shaftesbury, as Chairman, lead the amended petram hle. .•... Lord Erskine said. they were taking old that part of the rn antb'e winch was trine, as to the knighthood, and leaving 'that in that was fettle. • Lord* Grenville, Grosvenor, and Elkinborough said a few " void., skids we CO111111111: diellnetly bear. Lord Kenyon was surprised to find that the Noble Earl (Lite r 101101) shook! have 4 misitoiner in his Bill, as 1111 he )131111. of Dreamt lie wuntil ask him, in plant teem., how he came by the Woman tttt that made it necessary to move as am••mdment as to the same of Ihrgansi I The Earl of Liverpool was thankful to the Noble Baron, fur having asked shit onevtiois : for his ilifisrmatibll he would sell him, by the diplont s of her Majerty, •ppionsing Mr. listernam a Knight or tow Order of Caroline, whirls was re onlarly before their Insilships. Lord Kenyon übses veil, that he thought the taker to Ser e iirti'a cam.•, in the original preamble, might have bins her odoei 41 for the purpuse of coootenaticing the Mime la•lbs names .if the willies...•s in support of the Bill, fur tool Strati had both au alias. Elie amendment was then agreed to. The Earl of Liverpool said, that the next allegation di/ 00 1 go the length of an whilterou. Millet-course, helm* w io!• rent f lee haring taken place between her Majisip and D. resld, which were degrading to her high situation. Tom those familiarities had taken place could sot he &whi ted by any of their Liodthips, whets they nook into their cow. shit-ration the conduct of leer Majesty at Naplet—her going the masked ball at the theatre San Carlin is a !sired ear. rivg.•, only accompanied by Bengston and her chandiermaid. Ile teuuld ask, hew would soy of their Lord.lops feel or it bad coine to their knowliidge that their wiv.s bad been at • mastpirrade at the opera.house, only attended by their :rake de chamber and their Lady's chambermaid ? it was a case 1b.., that came home to every one of ',ism, and he was con vinced they outdo] Gel it a degradioe familiarity on the part ( of their wires. Thal hi, M .jesty di 1 do w would be found au page 255 of the evidence of D. moot gear)—and it was afterwards euudimed by the evidence of Dr. Holland I in let their Lordships sly what t h ey would, be would con trod that Demmes evidence, where it was easy of coutradie. tim,, tend was not disproved, ought to be tales as good evi dence. Lord Kenyon maid, that it appeared from Dr. Holland'. evi•knee, that be knew bee Majesty was at the theatre of San Carlos, but that he did out know who she was wit►. The Earl of Liverpool said, he was going to state that pert of - Dr. Holland's et!.leuce, when he was tuterrnisted by the Noble Lurd.—(" Hear, hear"—" Order, artier.") The Earl of liarrowby rose foe the purpose of spanking to order. lie said the Noble Earl (Liverpool) was stating the evidence, and hr ought nut to have been intermitted. The Earl of Liverpool then contended, that the derid. lot familiarity of her Majesty with Bergarni was fully made lint at the theatie San Carlos, sod by bee asking Derwin to shoe with her at Lugano end the Devil's•bridge, in his courier's dress; btit what look place at Syracuse, I. the sear 11116, 011 St. Bartholomew's day, put it beyond doubt. The ship was partly illnmisated,,and her Majesty walked the deck arm iu arm with Bergson, the crew singing out "Long bre the P. incess!"—" Long live the Baron!" Thew something of the same kind of rejoicing toot place on an. other St. - Bartholomew's day, at the Villa d'Ene. Thew, when they closidered the rank, the age of her Royal High ness sad the character she -performed at the theatre with her menial of, before 411 audietice of 100 ponders, it was impossible for any person to say th it her conduct was nut an offesaive'degradation. Lord Elleuborough said, he objected to the word., " sod in all ether orspeets;" for if they vete allowed to stand part of the preamble, it might appear as if her Majealy had been guilty of humiliating familiarities with other peewits be. aides Bergamai s and there was no evidence before their Lord• ships to support soch a charge. The Earl of Liverpool said, if the words bore themes.. 14C put on them by the Noble. Baron, be could have so ob. jectlolllo their being struck out. Lord Etleitborough said there was another objection to the words, fur as the section tend with ibem it was bad The Etrl of Liverpool had no objection to their Whig struck out. The Earl of Carnarron said, Ise was much sirrprieed to boar the Noble Earl (Liverpool) lay so much slits. on the age of her Majesty as to the bill at the theatre &Infertile, when he hail Ingotteu her age on board the polarre—(lever) and her having been at the ball was doubtful, as it only depended uu the widener of Dement. The Earl of bonotighmore hail told their Lordships he ftier-, that lie bad left the whole of Diatom's evidence out of Lis consideration, and if the making out of the lawanoble il.pended upon her evidence, he outdid not have voted for it. Bet he was cutivinced there was evidence suhSicirnt to yore it without paying any attention to her's. Lind Kedesdale was of opiutun that the evidence of U. moot did oat deserve the erasure it bad met with. The rioe.tion for their Loidsnips' consideration way whether it vas true or not; if it wa. not 11111", it ought to be struck out of the minutes. But the great part of Derooner 11 . deuce haul b. en confirmed by that of Sir William Gell. As to the indecent dance of Mabumet, Sir William Gehl said it wes au more than a Spanish dance; hat a Spaitish dance insight be danced in a decent or is an lailecemt manner ; this site a kind of sliding answer. The areas worn by bee Ma. -jesty es the Histrioute Mose, as described by Delmont, must be considered as loth:mut. If aoy of them Lutdthips wire IMO elealola• Ito arefteel,lvallel Say big eat:l4h. galas' •Ms iniemmer ei is ? Thee if pert et the ihideoce el Await 1m eel ariered by ether witaevaes, the! . wen based le •liike bi sad Ibey had right lb reject bar 'video*. The Sad of larilerditle did soot see soy *Weeps to the evideerv. arch brim( left art. - - The r. 41.1 of Dertieitoo was of opiutoo that Delimit's 'Went-e revolt' slot he encoded to fur a tottuarat. Lord Bede...dale explained. The EarT of Doesoogheisitre said, that is giving his opinion itorfiad expeesely guarded hisnaelf against giving any opiaion *s to the validity or lavelidity of the evidence of Denied. 3filiat he wish. d to "perm woo, that be had wide up his hsitrd withnits taking bee evidence into consideration. The'Lord Chancellor same tad said. that a few days ages. Waste gloms hie *piston mu that subject is a very limited mom r, mid although he had douse so, it was not his dirndls& ' looter now more at large into the rissoles that had 'cough, lin to that °pinkie; hilt if any promo understood him to OF that lie appruveil of the evideare of Demon', he would GaNthent that they misninleratood him. Mi'hat be hail told thew was, that if she elititradieled herself in her evidence they owed to allow her to go lON so as they might be able to compar e the whole of her bvidcnce. He had hi nod that Brigand might bare been called as a witness against the Bill, and lie was of that opinion, although Scotch authority had been quoted against it. He recollected an appeal case from a Court in Sedland, where two "Gentlesnr is were re. roved to lie received on she part of the Lady accused by the Scotch Court. fin the hearing of the appeal, their Lord. shops rent it barb to the Court of Session in Scotland, and or& red that the evidence of the two Gentlemea should be taken. The amendment of Lord Ellenbormigh was then speed to, us eas also the other amendments proposed by the Earl of I.iverorod. The Noble Chairman was proceeding to read the pream ble, when - Lord Ellenbuwough row and said, that although he had voted ageinst the eerond reading of the Bill, he was con vinced that the charge of her :Majesty having committed adultery was fully 'wade nut, bus he voted spit's! it on se , count of the inexpediency of the sadder ; hot if the Bill did pear, he was convinced it ought toot without She dente for divorce was deluded in is, for if they degraded her Ma. jest, without enforcing the divuice, they would be degrad big the thesine. Loud Cashorpe was of opinion that theievideimee against her Iliajesty would be sufficient for any jury, however pais. fed it weight be to them, to give a verdict against her, and, that must have bees the feeling of every Noble Lord who hail voted for she *road reastieie of the Bill. The Earl of Livelpool allowed 'bat Noble lords were juittifird yesterday in eating against the Bill on the ground of expediency, 'Omagh they were of opinion that the guilt of adultery had bevel roved against tier Mei -sly; hut she emotion at present being, whether the criminal acts sit forth is the preamble had le.eu proved, cettainly every Nu. Me Lord who had been of opinion that the guilt of adultery bed bees proved, Wes bound to volt for the keyedg iu of ehmeiords The Bill having gone through she secoo7tread. hag, the proper lime for opposing it on the grouted of expe diency would be on the bringiag up the Report or on the third reeding. Lord Erskine said, th*4 his r. anon fur objecting to the keeping in show wurda was, first of all, Mist he slid no' think the guilt of adultery bad been prove.l.—(Near, ligorj—and he risntd not help thinking that that paper which her Wiest,' had loin on the table this morning, is which she called Gout to witness the troll. of the soleness declare. time of her innocence, coofirmeil that opinion. Forming the epie ion which he bad conic to on the • videsee, that op' • er .s strengthened by the act of her Majesty' to which he had referred. A further reason which he had for "hdlg. lag that these word. ought to he left out was this, that if On put 11113 the preamble of the Bill she rxpreesinn of their judgment that the Goren was guilty of adultery, they would he edmpelleit as a necessary comierptesice to retain the clance of divorce, and Ci di.solve her marriage with tha 'King. The Qcieen stood in a great public situation s /Fe bad imporitint public ditties to discharge; and if be bed How& on the soreugth of the evidence that she lied ow* ed its that oiliotie, disgusting, and disintoefid mow imputed to her, lie should cettaiuly *SR for bee divorsed from his Majesty. When a grim* comm i tt a l adultery, the first object with her husbandoldelighor Is Is. tended to dirty egad or not, was to have it. ggplial din 'basule.it. Ile thought that adultery bad not begs commit ted. nod, therefore, he held that 'buy ought to get rid of this dinicolty the first moment it Incurred, by striking these word. out of the preamble.—fllear, hear ) toed Gage said, that not thinking the adulterous inter comae ha.! been proved, he could not vote fur retaining those words. lie, therefore, *mid prefer that the words " ass ' ?hiring intercourse" shonl.l be substituted fur them. We understood, however, that this propueitiou was with. demo. The Chairman then put the optestion on the wad deviled oolsor she preamble in question standing part of the 111:11, and that the Contents had it. The words were accordingly retained. Lord Carsiarvon proposed, that after the word " fibroid" in the preamble, the following wurdsi should he introduced : " and suliscqueutly to her return refused 40,0001. a year of the public money, aad the proffered htinage of both Houses of Parliament." 'Lord landerdale opposed the motion. He thought it 'could Not be adapted, as sutbiug to that effect had been "proved at the bar. ' After a few observations from another Peer, the Elul of Carnarvan consented to withdraw the motion, reserving to hiancell the right of poop oshig it ou the bringing up of the 'Report, alien 'it 'could appear recorded uu their Lordships` Journals. Laid Ellenhorongh said, he did not find any evidence of the homage of the Howie of Lords baviug been offered to her Majesty. The question was then put, that this be the preamble of the Bill, which was carried in the affirmative without a du- The'Cluileman then proceeded to read the enactments of the Bill. When he bail read the clause, " and that the said wilarriaee be for ever wholly dissolved, anointed, and wholly made void." The Archbishop of York rose soil said that he could by no means give his consent to any Divorce Bill, in which, from its nature, it was impdsaibte that the same means of 'redressing conjugal injuries, mid tlid same opportunities of obtaining equal justice, should he afforded to lamb the parties, which they enjoyed in every other 'ease.--; Hear 4— He 1111 11111 - re in the Bible foetid any mention ut experlieuel justifying a proceednig of this nature. Ile looked upon mar. visite out as a civil compett, bat a sacred and *dead reli gions ordnance. lie alsomild rely out the words of God, and of God only, at a guide for his remind on this occasion.— ` I (Herr.) —He cook' nos, in obedience to Iris law, ceased to retaining the divorce clause. and yet If it were rejected, and the other clauses of the Bill 'eluded, it would exhibit the extranrinuary and .anort monstrous spidecle of a &graded Queen contiewiag to be the Consort of the Sovetkioo...- For this utensil, he owned he saw uo possible 'remedy but -throwing wit the Mull *Stop ther.—(litar, hear.)--in voting yeast& cy, as hue had dune, against the steered reading, it was 'nut Out he had felt any difficulty in noakieg up his wind co Met videe'd as a Judge, bus he had felt himself justified as a L gislator, run sit the cireumataatita of the case, to say Nut Content. If he had teem ealluJ upon to pionoucce a di-ci lium in a judo id charade', be wueld have (woad nabesitati ~,, en saying Guilty. Ile thought it outi!tl h sic beets much better, bulb fur the mamba the people and the ieti natio( the coun try, that this Itill bad lirttr hien introduced. Fur is %hal ray Wire she public diddle to be aultanced liy the disitesnotalion and the ictroduetiou into every privileged ly of t hose obscene - . • mod dt.enaisn tales by which their Liiidihips had heel' Now If so mass we. ks Rau& d %-i-(lleur, keen.)-1t bad been sail it ass dee Su the cause of movably to slake an example if vice; but it ass his upiniun Shut the Litireste both of swinality mid religion tusk' nut he noire vitally itiered thee by pesstrering in Hurt iuquiries. lie thought it a measiineubich, in the language of the noose of Con►s►uas, war" sktrogatory from She himuur and 'bruit)! of •she ('.oar, and I. -juries* to the best inlcrmts of the empire; ~ w►ich bail giver obr untried pins tis %wiry loyal and rood •maa, mid bad ►rough pleasure only to those abuse object ..it , •oas to degrade sad vilify every constituted authority. When he fiat heard ineutivu of the Lill, he flint his soul The Archbishop of Casiterbory observed, that lA. Mort Reverend Brother (the Archbishop of York) had stated to their Lordships, that he felt a difficulty is voting for the divorce clause on religious grunads; bid he could not coul eur with him in this feeling, for a divorce o staters *ale,- monii, for cense of adultery, was consistent with the law of Gad; and they would And ignition , ' of divorces pronosenced on this geom..' in this country, antecedently and subse qnently to the Reformation. On this, therefore, he grounded himself in supporting the clause; fur he told their Lord ships that a divorce fur the cause he had stated was consistent with the direct and express revealed law of , God. Divorces fur adultery were not forbidden by the rations and constitutions of the Established Church, and there was nothing in them contrary to the com mon law of the land. Marriage harmed one of the strongest supports of social order, and therefore it had bees the must anxious object of every State to rcuder it as suletan mid binding an ordinance as portable ; bolt, notivithstandiug, divorces for the crime of adultery had prevailed in this sotto try nut only antecedently. but subselpiently to the Rotolo tton. Under the law of WWI, divorces bad been admitted, partly fur general, sod partly fur special csuses. The New 'testament permitted divorces for the crime of ado! cry Onr Saviour said, as his woad's were recorded by St. Matthew, that where • dissolution of marriage took place fur any cause but farnication only, such dissolution would he followed by adultery hi the parties marrying again. St. Mark and St. Luke gave the general prohibitory urdinshce ouly without the excirtion. Bet is interpreting the true geese of these ;images, they were to take that which was less express, and measure it by the one more express. It appeared, therefore, that there was a divine authority for /1111ffeell for the speciel cause of adultery. l• our own law the same exception occurred. With respect In the tondnet of the Qurru he had nothing to say put this, that the acts charged hail Laren inquired IWO, awl, iu his upittion, a case of adultery established. Therefore he saw nu objection of any description, and least of alt a religious one, against this Bill being passed in the manner usual in similar castv. Lord King sable few words which were out heard below Bit her. The Bishop of Worcester spoke at considerable length on the clause, but is so low a lour of voice as to be with great difficulty audible iu •liik l onft. We understood his Lordship lu say, that lie could itairbrisig himself to suppoit the divorce clams, ,as the parties stood in so different a sitnatios there from what they would if the case could have gone illlo au other Court.' _ The Bishop of Landaff was understood to say, that his ♦iew of the ease entitled him to give bis consent to the clause. There was no qualifying clause to our Samna's ilijuncliou in regard to adultery. Ile apprehended aelious danger to public morals from rejecting the dance, and thus le./9'lllg it to be supposed *hit proved adultery might so far pass unpunished. The Bishop of London said, that after the most painful and anxious attention devoted to the inquiry, be felt him. self called upon to rapport the clause. lie believed that with respect to the permission given by Scripture to dissolve • marriage fur the cause of adultery, there was no doubt whatever. He could nut sultacribe to his Most Reverend Brother's (the Archbishop of York) doubts on the subject, as he bail not stated any pentads to them. He thought that those who opposed the clam*, on the ground that both pare ties slid nut possess equal 011 . 41111 of redreesing their cutijugal iujuries, had riot observed that there was • ercat constitu tumid principle involved in the Bill begone them, namely, that the King could out lie supposed capable of cumulating any crime. The Queen, therefore, had uo right whatever to recrimination. Many Divorce Bills had been passed is that Illutiae, where the conduct of the histibalid had beets notoriously repro hensible. In a mural, religious, and consti tutiorsl of view, he felt Wood to support the clause. The 1::01 of Lauderdale said, that he rose with some dif- Realty to tlw discussion of thia question. He could nut but recollect that be bad heard it said in that House, that the istelasion of the dense would'ilegrade the King. Was it to be said that the King was uut to have Irons this Muse that remedy by • Bill of 'divorce which was allowed in common caws ? Nobody, he thought, would say so. But though he should contend that this clause ought to stand as part of the Bill, he was nut for supporting it in the same way that the Right Reveresul Prelate who bail addressed the House last lead supported it. When a Lady contracted marriage with the King she theieby entered tutu a public end responsible situation ; she because invested with peculiar risbt., and hail ',ebbe duties to perform. la the present este he con. ceived that her Majesty had betty proved incapable of per forming these public duties, arid Ilwrefore Ise was prepaitd to give his amen( to that part of the Bill which Attu iv. d her of her public rights and privileges. But dal lie say that there was oar law for the King awl another for the subject in this respect ? No ; he held the same opinion with a Learned Doctor (Lushingtor) who had addressed the Huns. ou basal of bet Majesty. The la* of marriage was the same in the rase of the King and the subject. The It nil 'Prelate who had spoken last bad sperkeis of that principle of oar Constitution which said, that the King could du no wrong. Ile (Lord Lauderdale) .thought that a false idea prevailed through the world with regard to the cri estimably incurred by the husband by committing adultery. Ile knew that. though adultery was no crime in common law, it was criminal in Ecclesiastical law; bust even in the Ecclesiastical law it wan peruidied as a pectufans, and rot as a crime. At first he had thought that it would be humus able to degrade the Quetta, without divorcing her alas; be. cause, if they slid not destroy the Queen as it respected her lights of a femme civil', she would 13:111211iU • femme enarerle, and the King would he liable for lair debts His mind had Imes relieved by faith r examination. He ••• now tonviticed that it would be impartible to divorce the Quern without following the practice in ordinary Bills of that character. The husband was kept its amendence usually in the House, to be subject to examinatiou, though in few instaucea bad the examisatinat really takes place, b e . eauswthe merits of Mecum were thuroughly iuvestigated is the Courts autecedent to the Bill coming be fore the Muse. lie cuuld out rimiest while they were degrading the Quito, on account of the dangerous example of her conduct, that the conduct of the Kiug, Whose example must be more powerful, should be led without any restraint. He objected to she:clause. The Earl of Darnley said, that his opinion hail not been altered by any thing which had bees advanced from the Res vereud Brawls. Ile wished to put • question to seine of the Reveresel nod Leonard Lords. The decree of the Gospel wee, " He that putted' away his wife fur other cause save committing adaltery,eausesti her to commit adultery." He wished for infurinatiou, to knew if he understood the pas sage rightly. The Queen bad beets pan away frum her hus band kir nu triune, and without her own consent; bad her husband or had he taut teemed her to commit adultery ? If he dills according to the in iociples of the Cation Law could the Muse grant bins that relief which would be denied to any other husband who had so acted? As to the. Bill, With ur without the clause it could nut pass. If the clause uurlJ out Ire retaiiied, Oat would be the use of the Bill ? Could the wife of the King be less than the Queen? He bad heard ahuich of the unisiiputeuce of au Act of Parliament, but it mould not alter the ',inure of things. The Queen could out be deprived of her title except she were to be divorce &from the King. The prosecutors were tied in a dilemma out of which they were welcome to escape as they could. Any way, that detainable measure, which could no; puuthly do soy gthAl, must soon be put au cod to, though the precise degree of mischief which it had operated would nut be Bishop A. esplaiited the text quoted by the Noble Earl to " whosoever puttelle wady his wife, dcc. causer( her to marry woullies man, thereby causelb her to tonsenst adultery." The Fail of Darnley expligined. The Bishop of Landsff corroborated the exposition of the Revereint Prelate who spoke last but one. The Earl of Donoughature cap/ease& *Hue surprise that his Noble Priem' (the Earl of Lauderdale) hod Not, besot sans _ bed With the uptown which 4 been ptorolunted upon Ike lideslitni of Mimes by she Keret& BMA. .f Skase.. Me I ridiculed she pawky sf the sexennest of his Mehl. Friend r ib ppeeiltsg the rospoosibility for debt to which be hod aihsdsd. I This bras not the ease of as lisvidool season for relief. The Kist bad asked for Iso relief rues as brad of the State. The State, their Lordships, sad the Ministers had solicited relief, sot the King. His Lordship was of option that lan little (whist bid bees Isbellested for Hutt !theorises Pat- Dosage throughout these pruceediuga. If Ikea:ban% eras it s hold her situatken after all that hail bora proved, their proreediogs moat go for nothing. They had wily wasted fifty days of their valuable lime to so pit/Vow. He thought those persons meted wroogly who had presumed to introduce the Hide's name in this precreding. lie did' not wish royally to be degraded: there was too Muds of that feeling not of doors. The measure had been introduced few the relief of the /hate; and all be asked, and shit was Hot woeh, that the remedy 'honk' be given in the manner least likely to prejudice its character. The House had de !Oared by its vote, that it conceived the Queen to hare ren dered herself unfit for the rank of Queen Consort ; and they owed it to themselves, they owed it to the women, they wired it to the character of the constry, that she should mot he continued in the character of the wife of the Kin* Every one of the majority most have beer of opioisan that adultery hut been proved ; several of the nsiskwity bad' also declared their cosmic:lion of Ilse /HMI!. A get those was the venerable Prelate the Archbishop of York, who, though oppitarel so the m .jority on the question of the second reit/hog, had rapt-tared his opinion that the Queen was guilty, yet thought it was not justifiable that she should be divorce.l.—[Sume interrsptioa having beets given to the Noble Lord during Isis speech by calls of a Order" sad " Quest iga," he said, those interruptions were disgraceful only to those who used themosed for his own part he treated them with sovereign contempt.) This Lady, be contitresed, sias unfit for the station of Quern Consort; she had been proves) guilty of adultery, mid to let her remain Quash tie her still closer to her Majesty, Is, give him no relief, Mon 1.1 he to manifest a great disregard, he would not say to the feelings of his Majesty, because they hid beeu told front ati:burity shut his Majesty had nu feeling us the subject, but to their own consistenry. With respect to the feeheuges Of his Majesty, he must say, that he believed there never had beets ally public prucetliaguf such motorist, of such am. porlance as this, in which any person au direrily interested had taken see lit Ile forward a past. He slid not, if he might be allowed to use the expression, be Jul nut rare what sasigist be the feelings of that Illustrious Person—be did out view this measure with any relat• to those feelings. God forbid that either ht, or the Mosistris, or Hint House, al Id ever and themselves to soy such feelings! hot as it State mea— slier, he thought the House should pass the whole Bill. Is Biting this opinion he acted not according to the (relines of the King, but •:curding to bin °rm. It was as a State mese suer that he had voted Gir tier Bill, and be thought it ought to toe paserd altogether; for is what situation would they stand, if, after egret lag that She - p.camble had bees proved, they should refuse to pass the divorce clatter? The Bishop of (leaky bid, that the Noble Lord who gook , : last baying stated that 'the whole of the Bishops, is. cept the tearrable Prelate (the Archbishop of York) who bad so ably exin.undrd the erelesiasiical law of marriage, agreed In the propriety of the divorce clause, he felt himself called upon to declare, that by oo consideratiou whatever could he, consistently with the dictates of his conscience, be in. Jared to vote for shell Bill with the divorce clause. Lord Donoughtnore explained. The Earl of Hari uwby said, that the ground on which the Noble Eirl (Demotichewer) bad placed ii, was, in his mind, an additional übjece sun to the clause. The tatroduction of that clause might lend to give a differeot character to the Bill from its tree one. It might give it the appearauee of a leaving for its object the relief of a partienlar India •idesl, while, in reality, et was a measure of State policy; and lie, therefore, wished it to be considered as wholly dis tinct front the object of personal relief. The King and Quern Intel been many years separated, and that separation bad been rreoguistal by an Act of Parliament. According to the Laws of Divorce, persons in that sleuth» were not entitled to relief from the marriage toe. And he thought it wry object tale for the House to do that in this par. Beeler ease, which it could not do in any other of the same nature. As this was a measure of State policy and wet of personal relief, the divorce clause could truly be justifiable tin the ground ut some overwhelming stale isecirmity, but be saw nothing of that Lind in the present ca.t'. Dill nixie Memo spoke fur sonie time against the Bill; hut from the situatiou of ibis venerable Peer under the Gallery, and from the excessive weakness of hie voice, we wield scarcely ascre min ley the sound that any version was 'rat Mg. We unlit caught one sentence distinctly, wherein tie mated. with supple C 1111.114512, how their lestdohips could lake wpm themselves to interpose between MAN and wife, in k case wherein neither of the parties themselves required the it lute efertiece! The Earl of Liverpool said, that on a former occasion, when some observations were mask on the divorce elegise, as being u ineature of personal relief to the illesi r I 0000 s individual on the throne, be had disclaimed any measure of that kind, and had stated that 'fit should appear to be the wish of their Loitiliips, he would not press that clause. He now wished to say a few words iu Reply to the misunderstanding pagans* Nibble Lord. no this poise He had never viewed this pro ceeding as a Hill of Divorce, hut always as a public measure; and in no oiler, light could it be viewed—in pellet of fact a Queen was never divorced. He would put the strorgest case that could be put, ■smely, that of a young King mar ried to a young wife, who should be proved to be godly of conduct the most gross and unbecuatiug, and lie would say, that even its that ease they muld nut wort-tails it as a totes. sure of personal relief. Some Noble Lends epsomite seemed to think that it was impossible to degrade the Queen with- out following up their proceedeog dimmer, for that to degrade the Queen without divorcing her would be to de• grade the King also. But be could slow that nu such Co.WI betinCnCe necessarily followed. Suppose a Qiiern lu be guilty of a feauuy, of uue of the highest crimes known to our lawerrould any man say that it would nut be proper to degrade her from her dignity, and deprive her of her rights and pri vileges as Queen i And yet they could out divorce her in that case. Fur he believed that he should be supported by the authority of the whole bench of Bishop! in saying, that ■ divorce could not take place on any seller ground but that of adultery; stud yet be thought hardly a man could be foetid to mai tttt tin that there were taut may other acts which she might curtsied, desersaug of degradatiem. He did uut presume to give an opinion me religious points, but theopiniou which he was inclined to follow was that of the venerable Prelate, the Metropolitan of this province— that divorces were clearly allowable on the score of adultery ; and that the right of recrimination wee net an institnti..n of the Divine law, hut was wisely devised by mar, for the purpose .of compelling the complaining pony to show that he came reefste in curium. He knew that mlikoy persons of religious feelings objected to the divorce idasse, on the ground of the supposed right of recrimina- HOY. But the Learned Prelate he bad alluded to, bad fairly stated in reply to this, that the conetitutitinal nisei% gist " the King can do uo wrung," wholly destroyed that plea; fur the King's corduct was thereby declared out iitarualde to guy power; and yet would any man say, that la no case lead a King any right to a divalent? He was aware that, count cud with ibis topic, many calumnies wee isi etr. eslatiuu—caluiunies which it Will easy to circulate, but difficult to saute, however groundless, mid many of IN* 'thin-id to events that had passed bug shire. But he mar* lie permitted to any, that it was anjart in any matt I. judge upon beariug wily one side of buds riatements, and without braise acirusiuted with every circumstance cosi. untied oath the crews to which such stateineuts related. It was known that twenly..four }ears ago a separation took place which wrs anus tinned by the Klux and coufirmed by Act of Parliament. Now, iu souse muds a doubt 'Rasta whether, after sit long a separation, the House could pro. (veil to a total dMululion of the marriage. No such dirobar operated tau his ono miud; but where many of the 'enigmas part of the community felt au anxiety on the subject, sad • where some doubt did exist, aud there was so oveserlo Waft Slate necessity which peremptorily required macho nterespre, be was ready to agree that it ought be better amt thunkeNta should be withdrawn. He /therefore wan of opinion% . Os clause should be ietrodoced, iu piece of the otaeee of Curie, COlstil wing the separatiou, soil calculated to resent the inconveniences which might arise Irons the situatiou of the Quetta. The Lord Chancellor gild, he cushi noingree In the post lion lair) al5 by that enlightened commentator on the law of England, Oliteltslone, that maninge was • mere veil contract. He had always esteemed it, and linked he thought its istatiteution eleaely proved it to he a contract io its nil. tore partly civil and partly religious. A merely nail too. tract it could not lie, because it was out the child, but the parent of 'warty-- " Prtiticipioni itririti, el eeipietalleire fundanientom." It woo • civil cuetrart with respect to civil rights, and a religion• nomad with respect to religion,. rigida. Ili. L o ma, omit, that d Iles time of the Re forweitioa, esker metes minds were set atiat on such subjects, it was • prevailing upiteion that marriage rag merely a civil contract ; but, except the ECClelliall•Cil law was roe part tsf lire law of the land, it wen a religions no well as a civil eon tract. The civil law knew seuthieg of diveree. but Parlis• meat had interposed to give relief where die civil las snit the law of the lan! bad no remedy; but rhino to a pollee. tar period, their Lordships lied no stands lig meter, ',Tinier that there should have been an action al law previously, sod It was ant till the year 17t 1 3 that they hid ah:an , 6n g o„l r tie render it requisite the preeecediuge in the Lei lesia , ete4 Court should be priaeloced wills the petiiion to that nut Ibis he meant from that to infer that cases 'meld i.• t occur where their Lordships would hot ferrite a me •iotll action at law to have been commuted oil tlie - preeeedinea in the Ecclesiastical Conn, I/I be produced. best it wail a rule by which they had bound themselves not to proceed withent knowing if the puny seeking relief were twitted or mot. With • view to expe.lienev and public moral*, ht mod have leave to put the Hume a mind, Ilia will. respect to re. reirdisiation, lee (mild not bud any Scripture meth...its that the .01114USlitittld SIM be a at away if the M4ll had hismelf been guilty. Their lordihipa, fur the pew. etheu of public morals, had laid it Mont that a patty Sr. keel re :le f at their bands, was nut retitled he cumplain of another, if he had himself Goodin. the &dig:door by which he was himself bound. Their Lordships iis general would nut let a veins.. 'come to their liar fora divorce. He reedlert I rt. mt one case, that of Mrs. Addison; but Oat was a special our, and did cut invalidate the general rule, that their Lordships wohld nut genet that remedy to female., except iii part.eielar virtues'. stators. There the adultery was with the n•ter. and it was usi the ground that it was interioons min fiery Ilist the House relaxed their sole. They also re laurel Use role further, and very properly, in his opinion, relieved her from the nectasity of bringing a previous action.-.. 3 cnulitiun whorl she could not have complied with. Aguish gentrally speaking, their Lordships raid, where there bail been a long separation, that oat a ease is which they would rclurtanthy inter. pose. Reluelseetly, be nod, because be should lie sorry if it could be said that in no such We Ilira would iii. terpose—berause it might possibly happen that a woman might so cundirct herself as to render it ouposselele for Inc kistabawd to live with her, and she migtio afterwards content adultery; i• which case, undoubtedly the hushing.' might ask fee relief. There wile many ether duties imundenst vu • husband, and other thisgs In maid, besides committing adultery with other women. The Noose hail said, tint ii. no case 'lmola the henbaud lake advantage of his oven urgli geace; and in a ease not two years ago, where the hie.bra,l weut to trellised iu Ike moult, of October, ail I did nut re join leis wife till the mouth of August folioale.g, 'be Mose thought that such an iiistance of neglect. that they kft him to the cons 111 l see law of the country. A Noble Carl who spoke from ler the gallery, and fur whose opiniosi• lie Menem eel the highest respect, considered that tin Home could wet Mee, pan, because tiny would have hereafter to tender the Bell to the King; but be apprehended it win only in that way it could he peopused foe the consent of his klajesly. Suppose the ease of the most virtuous King that ever net rat the throne of tinge realm,. and his wife bad been convicted of adedierrootry the party fur high treason, or proceed O. whatever way they would, could the King get rot of his wife if that were • valid übjectoun ? It was impassible that be could but by suffering the law to take place; but accenting to the neglectful of she Noble Earl, ne every casesthey most remain together till death does them part. Such NM; the getter*, view of the subj. ct, he would beg their Lnritthep• to consider what was the expediescy, for it aunt he opine ex pedieuey sills u flee regard to justice, that their deeisime would be founded. Supposing the preamble proved—soil it ensile! be iu the recullectioa of the Heise, that yesterdlV hi had raid uo mhe couiel vote for the sensed reedit"( who Idid out conceive that the preamble was proved—he nimbi nut reconcile it to expediency to declare her Majesty guilty, and there to slop. They had decided on the truth of the preamble of the Pill, by reading it a second time. The greed.' use wheel, he apprehended the divorce clause propel ly mood in the origionl proceedings was this:—lf they poe t need. d to degrade the (Aileen only, they most sptcify every ! immunity, dignity, and prerogative which they took away; now one of her highest prerogative was, that she shush! be ! considered as a fess** str!e, slit might site or be sued abuse i —these, if they seek away her rights in that respect, they would w offset connect her mach closer wills her meson than she hail hitherto been. Should their Lordship he of op' • that Hee clause ought Hut 10 Maud us aroma of the separatism, why "hued.* fiery out legislate to make that separatien effettual T The Act uf bid tate Alsjoety could slot lie put out of their considevatiou in whatever peons of view they regarded it. He thought it necessary to declare that is his opinion ibere did nut live a man who bad brew guilty of mum cruelty and injustice Its divorce cases, if the evidence on these psucerdinga did nut justify the Maritime of the divorce clause. Each of their Lurdships femalel feu their opinions ute the 'object. He should reserve drelarieg his own opinion till be had beard that of others, awl received all the light winch alisemaios could afford to Mai He conkl ! not sit down without saying. that he Isupstl he should learn the opinion* of these to whom he alluded, by mote other I Mean/ thaw hearing them declare, Cement or Nuo-Cuu tent. The !Hanoi, of I-anodes* protested against being mime dered humid by the Atchison of yesterday. Lord Duncan said he could not solrer the Noble and Learned Lord's speech to co forth to the world, without ex. peening his dissent frees the opinion that the preamble had been proved. Supported as it was by evidence u( such a suspicious character, be, for oae, could rut agree In declare It proved. The Earl of Liverpool said, be believed the regolor way bo proceed would be to report progress. The Earl of Straftesborp pot tire rialeatiors that the Haase • ties. resume. His Lordship declared fist tie Gallegos bsd it, but a division b►ing called fur, strangtve were or dem.) to withdraw, but the divide's was sot pressed. The Hoare thee. resumed, sod sdisessed tell to-morrow morning, at tea o'clock. ADDRESS TO THE QUEEN. Yesterday. pursuant to a requisition signed by above lOU itihrbitatits of the united perishes of St. George, Bloomsbury, and St. Giles-inathe-Fiehb. • public meeting was held in the Freemason; Hall, (heat Queen-street, for the purpose of con weleriog the propriety of presenting an Address to her Majesly Queen Caroline. Long before taelve o'clock the body of the'Hall and the pllerit% ,rre crowded to excrete by • most respectable aosein blage af Ladies and Gentlemen. The Chair was taken by J. A. Willie, G rp. our of the Churchwardens, who, in a few *flea., stated the object of the meeting. and expressed his Lope that ore'' , person would obtain a fair and candid hearing. Messrs. I'. Moore, M.P., Sir Gerard Noel, M.P., Major Cartwright, mac. were preset on the platform. Leiters were read from the Marquis of Tavistuck, Sir It. Wilsoo. Mess's. Grey Bennett, Denman, Whitbread. &c. apologising for their absence. but expressing their high approbation of the object of the meeting, and their wish that the united grace of the people might be directed by petition to the House of Commune against the Bull. Sir F. Bur dett aod Mr. Hubhuuse had burn applied to, but returned no answer. Mr. Press bloom' then rose to move the first resolution. He brgau by thanking the Couansittee apreestei ft, sal he greyest VA tS.4lil nit WWI ewe dimwit the reel of his Ufa to eotedeose W drpeolie The Bishop 'CChem&ld, lhol'iwiliktbv teed 4+ With the lempeowitio tha t stades' pews( hoed bees give*, voted Go the seemed reedlog of BO Bit; yet It tr... the ooderstoodiog that the divorce chaise should sot reothoso to stood as pew of it.--(Hostr.)-04 this males he judged as he hoped to be jodged. _ _ 1 I - H ;z ....111M. . ..- - imiL,