The Sun. — London, England, 1820-11-10 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS. [DAILY EXTRACTS FROM 'TIE MORNING PAPERS.: [New Times.] The House of Lords will have to determine, this. day, on the Third Reading of the Bill ; but its passing can add nothing to the perfect con viction which every reasonable person now enter tains of the Queen's guilt. If further satisfaction bad been wanting on this subject, it would have been c.onclnively supplied by the ProteS•ts'ap, - ainst the Bill. The ery documents recurding the unwillingness of certain Noble Peers to go on with this measure, are documents, w i hich exhibit her Majesty in a state ot l / 4 deg - radation, never be fore experienced by a Queen of England. There are three . ProteSts. The first is signed by 18 Peers, and alleges that" in a doubtful case, in which the imputed guilt is not proved, although innocence be not established the benefit of that doubt, conformably to the principles of British justice, must be given to the defendant." The second is signed by seven Peers, and plainly as serts, that ".enough has been prdved in evidence to .satisfy those Lords of the existence of guilt." The third 18 signed by sixty Peers, upon general grounds only, but including. se vei,al Noble Lords, who in their speeches have stiqtnatised her Majesty's conduct with the most, indignant reprobation. Out of the whole 95 who voted against the second reading, not one Peer has been found to enter a Protest in these simple terms—" Because, in my soul and conscience I believe her Majesty to be innocent." It is for tunate for the Queen, that she is not an English :woman ; at she was not born with those sensi .hat hili andtieS, brought up with those acute and .delicate Perceptions of honour, which happily characterise the females of this country ; for if she had possessed such feeling, the mere perusal of thest; Protests, the maddening reflection that no one Peer would put upon record a belief of her innocence, to go down to future ages, ssould have been so painfully oppressive, that Littman nature could not have borne up against the blow. But her Majesty possesses a quality. which has been called magnanimity ; and to this perhaps she is indebted for being able to support so much disgrace. [The Times.] The Bill against. the Queen has now dwindled into the detail. Yesterday was dedicated to the bringing up of the Report ; but to-day will be consigned to the third reading—a measure of more doubtful issue. We wished for the pre vf!ntion ottliis mischievous, cruel, and unjust measure, before it commenced : we, therefore, wish for its frustration at any period of its pro gress. A hope is entertained, as many voted for the Bill in its previous stages, on au understand ing that the Divorce. Clause was to be omitted, and as their expectation has not been fulfilled, that those oppuguers of the Divorce Clause, joined to the, general enemies of the measure, will produce its rejection on the third reading. We doubt of the certainty of this hope, though we wish for its completion. If the conduct of the Queen were at all doubtful with the. people of England, we .should not wish to get rid of the Bill by -a manoeuvre ; but the nation being perfectly as sured of the Queen's innocence, and the Bill, if it succeeded, being able to implant no other con viction, the manner in which the measure is frustrated is of no importance. The truth is, as every one knows, that there is not a woman in the realm, of whatever virtue, or of whatever character, that might not have been proved guilty of incontinence'at a much less expence of-money, of sunotnation, and of perjury, and that with a main whom she had never seen. In the Sitting of the Spanish Cortes of the 24th ult.. Senor Magarino presented the three following Resolutions, relative to the existing state of the Provinces of the Rio Plata:— I. That the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in con seevience of what he stated in his memorial read in the Session of July I ftli nit., and in conformity with what was done re lative to the negociation with the !Toiled States about the Fluridas, should he called to give an account to the Cortes of what is officially known regarding the occupation of Monte Video by the Portuguese troops. 2. That the Minister for the Affairs of the Colonies should give an account of what measure he has taken for the pacifi cation of those Provinces, making known to them the advan tages which their union with the Peninsula, under a consti tutional Government, would procure for them. S. That a special Commission be appointed to examine into the subject, and to, propose the means which should be adopt ed, both for securing the 'surrender of the said fortress of Montt-Video, and for alleviating, in any possible way, the calamities which are endured in those regions by loyal and deserving Spaniards, who are subjected by force to a foreign faction, and to ie ambition of strangers. These Resolutions were seconded by Senor Moreno Guerra.. Count Toreno, arid Vargas Ponce expressed an opinion, that, as the subject was of great importance, it ought first to be•dis= cussed in beeret, anil that the resolutions should be sent to the Commission of Politics. Senor Magarino thought that the Secretaries of State, and of the Colonies, should be called and beard before the Commission on his third propo sition was nominated. This was put to the vote and carried. —(lbitt.) [Morning Post.] Whatever may be the ultitnate--fate of the Bill for degrading her Majesty—Lwhether justice or mistaken expediency prevail, the great question upon which all our arguments - have been founded is decided. The Queen of England has been found guilty of adultery by the highest Tribunal in the, world, and by a majority of at least ten to one in that august Body. Suppose, then, that auy erroneous view of policy should cause the present "measure to be lost, what is to follow ? The Country cannot endure a Convict Queen. Their Lordships! vote must be rescinded, or some new 'Bill must be introdaced to limit those prerogatives, and effect that formal removal from her rank, which the verdict of guilty has ren dered absolutely indispensable. It will be well. to look forward to this co:itingency now. As the Queen is, to all intents and purposes, ren dered infamous by the decision of her Judges, aid, as inflany and the rights of a Queen Consort are uttell- incompatible as no civilized nation, no virtuous, moral, reli'igious,"or 'even -decent i peorle, •cuu consent to Live under the dominion and example of female pollution—we should be glad to learn what succedaneum is provided to save us from dishonour, and the Throne from dis grace, should the monstrous anomaly happen, that after declaring her Majesty a notorious adultress, all further process should be dropped. Sober John Bull and his gallant Mistress will be but an ;11-matched couple—morality and harlotry will yoke ill together. [Morning Chronicle.] We hope this day will put an end for ever to this pestilential measure, and that the country, which has suffered so much from the subserviency .of Ministers, will at length be allowed some re pose. If, however, in this hope we should be disappointed, and. Ministers, in spite of all the unconquerable objections of so many Peers to the Divorce Claftst; should still succeed in pass ing the Bill, the Country must make exertions proportionate to the magnitade of the calamity with which it would be threatened. Is . - the Country to be kept for a period, the 'ditration of which no man can calculate, in a state - of turmoil and irritation, merely because Ministers 'choose to remain subservient, and have More regard for their own interests than those of the 'public ? Let Meeting,s be every where held for the pnr pose of petitioning the House of Commons to bring this Bill, if it should ever be presented to them, to a premature death. If ever it should be entertained by the house of COm , mons, the inquiry would assume a very different shape before them from what it did in the Lords: There, a non mi ricordo witness would at once meet the usual reward of prevarication,'ls There we should not hear of perpetual referenceS to the Courts below, with a view:to defeat the ends of justice by opposing its forms to inquiry.— There the Milan Com Missioners would be brought forward, and the conduct of the Conspirators exposed to open day. - The country would ne cessarily lean► a little more than it has yet done of the mysterious union between the. - Ministers of the King of Hanover and the Milan Commis sioners. Knowing then how different is the arena on Which the parties would meet, we can hardly think that Ministers will have the temerity to expose their rotten cause to such a severe trial. In deed, .it was the general opinion in the Ilotise of Lords, that the Bill could not possibly make its way through the Commons. [Thilish Press.] • Much speculation is afloat respecting the pro bable result of the division which will take place this day on.the third reading of the Bill:, Many Peers and Bishops who voted against the divorce clause are pledged to refuse their sanction to the measure, clogged as it is with this condition, so that should the .number of Members voting on the third .reading be the same as of the Peers who voted on the former division, the. Bill must either be thrown out, or be supported by so in significant .a majority as must deter Ministers from pressing it to a division in 616' House of Commons. It is, however, to be apprehended, that the Ministers, seeing the extremity of their danger; will exert all their influence to compel a full attendance of additional Members, on whom they can rely for support, while they will induce such of the supporters of the Bill on tiie second reading, who are opposed to the divorce clause, to absent themselves from the division on the third reading, and thus at least neutralize their 'votes since they are unable to secure them. On the other hand, it is to be considered that, inde pendent of the opposition to the divorce clause, some of the Peers who voted for the second reading of the Bill, on the presumption that it would have been supported by a large majority, may now be impressed with doubts of the expe diency of passing a measure of such extreme jut portance in the face of so formidable a minority. They must question the possibility of carrying such a measure into effect, and might be unwilling to place Parliament in a situation wherein its authority may by possibility be set at defiance by the force of public opinion. They may not think it prudent to exasperate still further the public mind, agitated as it undoubtedly now is, by inflicting a severe punishment where the guilt of the party is not acknowledged by a fiftieth part of the nation, and is denied by little less than half of the House of Lords, and where the majority of the Peers who denounced the punish- Meta are too deeply interested in obtaining the conviction to have been capable of exercising an impartial and unprejudiced judgment. The ex pediency of the measure has become far more questionable since the nation have seen how many of the best and wisest men in the House of Lords have laid their hands upon their hearts, and de clared upon my honour." - INFIMOUS TRANSACTION.—Yesterday Ga notte, a young man,. was taken to Marlborough street, charged with an.assault, under very extra ordinary circumstances, upon a young woman to whom he was married. It appeared in evidence, that the prisoner, who had been about the streets in the most. .abject distress,. endeavoured to be . come acquainted with the young woman in ques tion, who, in the capacity of . a servant, contrived, from her industry,. to accumulate the sum of 1001. The prisoner being aware of this, proposed matri mony (after a short acquaintance), which was readily accepted. As soon as the husband had pocketed the money, he decamped. His wife, however, some trine after met him, and upon her reproaching him with the ingratitude of his con duct, he ' crave her a violent blow, of which she bore evident marks. The prisoner went off ra pidly, but was overtaken by a constable. After au examination, he was ordered.to find bail. At the Public-Office, Bow-street, yesterday, two women, of the name of Baker, were commit ted for trial, on a charge , of forcibly throwing , a matt out of a two-pair of stairs window of a house in Ville-street, Chandos-street. StiliDEN DEATM—Yesterday,ls Mr. WILLIAM KELLY, of Cromer-street, St. l'ancras, was walking along Tottenhans.Court-road, on his way to the White Horse Cel lar, from whence he was alma to start Tutu the country, he was attacked with a giddiness in the head, fell-down on 'the pavement, and immediately expired. FOR. THE SUN. GENERAL RIGHT. MR. tiDlTOß—Being a staunch Friend to the Constitutional Rights of Englishmen, as I trust and believe all your Correspondents are, I have often been astonished to reflect, that there is one of their most cherished privileges, and, in fact, the most frequently exerted, which never yet, to my recollection, has been publicly avowed or men tioned. It has indeed, in all times, been exercised ; but tacitly, and without any direct assertion of the Right. This reserve has arisen, I suspect, from a species of false modesty, by which Englishmen obscure their own glory, and decline giving-the proper name to their most remarkable exertions. In vindication of this unnoticed right, I there fore think it proper to send a few lines, well knowing that your patriotism will readily give admission to any thing whiclr tends to vindicate a single legal claim of your beloved Countrymen. It is not, however, through any fear that the right in question should at present be relinquish ed-or -neglected, that lam tempted to addreSs you; because, on the contrary, I never 'knew- it so =vigorously exerted as it has been lately ; but because I feel it expedient that such a privilege should not be enjoyed as under connivance, but should be openly and distinctly asserted ; lest at any future time, very different from the present, it might be denied to us, tinder the pretence that it had never been acknowledged by the laws, nor distinctly claimed by the subject. The right then, Sir, which 1 here step forward to claim for my Countrymen, and which, though used perhaps more frequently than any other, has never yet, to my knowledge, been publicly avowed or asserted ) is the right of playing the Fool! On the Very mention of this right, it will immediately occur to your recollection how extensively this applies to the practices, though never mentioned among the pretensions of Englishmen ! I speak not now of private foolery, for that is a privilege allowed and enjoyed in the most despotic Coun tries, but of the right of playing the fool publicly and politically. You cannot fail to remember, for I believe you are old enough to trace back the whole record in your own observations, how in , variably the Livery and Common Council of a certain great City have acted upon this right, ever since they listened to the delusions of a certain oblique-eyed wit, who boasted openly that he could carry any question, by taking the nonsense of the City, while others took the ' sense of it against him. This right, Sir, has constantly been annexed, though still tacitly, to the Constitutional right of addressing and petitioning, either the Crown, or the Houses of Parliament ; and has shone forth, though with clouded lustre, as unavowed, in ad dresses grounded upon error, or upon subjects of which the addressers understood not a word ; in petitions against grievances which never existed, or were likely to exist ; and in bold declarations of opinions, founded upon nothing but prejudice and passion, not only without proof to support them, but in the very face of positive evidence. It is not long ago since this kind of diversion took a serious turn ; and, from being mere foolery, was in imminent danger of degenerating into villainy and treason. But a prudent interposition of the Legislature gave a timely check to this extravagance ; and instructed multitudes, that, though they. .might with impunity play the fool, as of ancient practice and custom, yet if they ventured to play the madmen, they might like madmen be shut up till they were cured. But as a torrent stopped at one channel is apt to force an issue at another, so has the right of fool-playing, since that period, been more vio lently exerted than ever. Thousands have been tempted to go in public procession in exercise of this unowned privilege. They have gone for miles with banners and with music, to give opi nions upon questions which they have never exa mined, and were previously determined not to examine. They have been led by a Wooden idol to commit more extravagaucies than were ever seen in the orgies of the heathen Bacchus, or the celebration of a Catholic Feast of Fools. Why then,Sir, should all this be dotw, without a fair avowal of the right on which kis clearly fodnd ed ? For though it may be thought that so glo rious an assertion of the fact could never be for gotten, yet history is not always faithful ; law yers are cunning and disputatious ; and should .this right, by any unforeseen, and I confess im probable, c-wain of circumstances, long remain unexerted, it might speciously, at least,be contend ed that no such right had ever been admitted ; and thus should we be in danger of losing, if not the noblest, yet surely the most delightful and comfortable privilege that has descended to us from our ancestors ; that of playing the fool in public. SQUIB. A. CHILD BURNED TO DEATH.—AbOnt eleven o'clock on Sunday forenoon, Mrs. Wicks, who keeps a green-grocer's shop in Brownlow-mews, Benry-ftreet, Gray's-inn-lane. happened to go 'out on some trilling errand, leaving her two chil dren by themselves in the parlour : the eldest, a girl about three years and a half old, set her clothes' on fire by some means ; her screams brought in a neighbour; , who, seeing her situation, threw a pail of water over her, and extinguished the flames ;. but she was so dreadfully burnt, that she expired shortly after in great agony. MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.—,On Wednesday even in; au Inquest was taken before .bitlN Watcti r UN WI N, Esq. Cormier, at the house of \1 r. Clarke, sign of the Horns, op posite tiborediteh Clittreh, on view 111 the both• of a fine pained Elizabeth Sinclair, aged About 15, who threw hetseft into a deep pit, full of water. It Ivan stated it) part of the videdce, that the deceased had said she had been seduced. Tile Jury c‘insidered for a few minutes, and returned a ver dict—“iliat the deceased drowned herself, being at the time in a state of insanity." A pauper of the parish of Longford, St. Mary, near Gloucester, of the name of Mary Bennett, died of Friday last at the extraord!nary age of 105 years, and retained all her faculties in a wonderful manner until within the last two years of her long life. PATENT COFFINS. CONSISTI:AY COURT, DOCTORS' COMMONS, SO DEcistox.--This important and novel proer o. ing, which had been argued at great length ° l f former day, came on for judgment before Sir t.. SCOTT this morning. It was a suit brought 0: .John Gilbert, parishioner of St. Andrew, 0 , born, against John Basward and Williaml3 o9 / 4 ' ' churchwardens,.for the offence of obstructingkft'' interment of his wife, Mary Gilbert. stating in substance the criwinating articles, the defensive allegation, the Learned Judge •ceeded in a long and elaborate speech to deb b the opinion of the Court on the question of rig. which had been submitted for its decision. h William first took a view of the different nO' of disposing of th e r e mains of the dead, r, corded in history, and then came to e°"' t .,l der the argument relative to particular Co fins. The argument that rests the righ t ,e 1 admission for particular coffins upon the talc right of the parishioner to be, buried in his chu rc d t yard, seemed, the Learned Judge obserc e v rather to stop short of what is requisite t° ,t proved, the right of being buried in a large cl e t or trunk of any material, metallic or other; his executors think fit. With respect to the ' o j ference in the duration of the coffins 01 and coffins of iron, it was, said the Learr l ' i f Judge ) the fault of the party complainant , it being left by him to judge of this matter, with ° ;,, sufficient information, I judge amiss in holdi' l l - f " that Coffins of iron are much more, perhaps do' ll :t more, durable than those of wood. He then ice . o , On to shew that all contrivances that, whether J.O tentionally or not, prolong the time of dissoint'l"e beyond the period at *Melt common local us''', had fixed it, is an act of injustice, unless conll' el c , sated in one way or other: If, therefore, th e ' iron coffins are to bring additional charges parishes, they ought - to bring with the' t , proportionate compensation ; upon all c ou 9 f ° 4 principies of estimated value, one must pal the longer lease which you usually take of " ft ground. At the same time parishes are not l e i ; to carve for themselves in imposing rates ; are submitted to the examination of the FCC siastical Magistrate, the Ordinary. " It To mains only," added the Learned Jud , e, 64 " o f I should direct the parish to exhibit a table ; burial fees for the consideration of the Ordiu 3r i ) io , I would recommend, in the mean tith e , that t a t body - should be committed to the grave with ° , lo further obstruction, but without prejudice t 0 :. h , present question, or to the rights of the par ° 4 f No prohibitory resolutions existed-at the time: the death ; and I willingly lay hold of - that c to cumstance to recommend a measure of. peso' d e the living anti-to the dead. I shall ad..nit at - U g vits to be brought in on both sides, before t tables of burial fees." • IefftWA.M.MILIM3I:I , MI • WARW/CKSIII HE E o Birtll ; Mg I Warwick, and Coventry, there have been .1 5 very-disagreeable scenes, resulting Crom attal by the mob on th e f r i en d s o f M r . L aw l e y ; bar; pily the Magistrates h ave been a bl e hitherto t o restrain the f ur y o f th e p o p u l ace vi ithout aid of the military. Some of Mr. Lawley while proceedin g t o W arw i c k on Th urs d a y, we i‘. r , seriously hurt, in consequence of stones and br' e t . bats being thrown a t the m ; sonic! of' the assain: are in custody; a horse patrol was aft e rwards est 3,, lished to convoy Mr. L's voters in a t ou t of tl - 1 , town !—The question as to the right of persons j vote for the county, whose freeholds are s ituat e j within the city and county of Coventry, was argu e ,;, by Counsel before the Sheriff and his Assessorl* c t G. Clarke, Esq. on Wednesday evening. Agai n :a the right it was argued that Coventry was erec te re into a County by King H e nry VA. an d theref° it separated from the County of Warwick ; that was not shewn that the freeholders of C o yent r ' e had ever vot e d i n th e e l ec ti on o f Knights for t b , Shire of Warwick ; that since the charter in go e , tion was grant e d t o C o v en try, th e f ree holtie r had not disch arge d an y o f th e d u ti es o f fre e ; hoklers in the County of Warwick, °° were the Land Tax Assessments returned ~ the Clerk of the Peace for the County o f W ar ' t • wick. For the right, Mr. Taunton argued, tl i ' l r; before the charter was granted, th e se f ree holde always voted for the county of Warwick ; m therefore maintained that the charter could ° ° t deprive them of this right ; that in point of these freeholders could not vote for CoventrP the right of voting there being confined to Pe r ' sons who had served apprenticeships in the ci t li and therefore that the charter would, if construe to deprive the freeholders of their previous righ t l be a charter of disfra n chisement, and not 47 t grant. The Assessor gave it as his opinion ti ts the acceptance of the charter had precluded t he Coventry freeholders from voting, but that tb e i t had of course a right to tender their votes. h, was then decided that such votes should be re y ceived at Coventry, and that on th e list so ° j tained, the right might afterwards be determin e ia by petition to the House of Commons, shon' e either of the- parties think proper to move t h question there. The votes were accordingly te te tiered at Coventry on Friday and Saturday lasi' • Mr. TtititY has renewed his engagement Wl to § Mr. Mounts for three years. Miss CAREW ha e also signed articl e s t o g i ve h er voca l a id to t" success of the Haymarket Theatre. BIRTH. On the sth instant, at. Plas-Power, Denbighshire, the I' of Thomas Fitzhugh, Esq. of a son. NIARRIED. On the nth inctant,i'at the Nviv Church, Nfarytebonef o f Rev. C. V. Rawlyl4, ;on of Sir C. W. Banitykle, Bartlv , 1-lardinorm Park, Sonwrset, to AM', eille:t dAughter of late James Row, Fsq. of Nriicastie,npon-Tyne. DIED. Esq . On 'the Bth in...twit. after a short illness, J. J. Appacll of Clayton-terrace, aged 77. On Monday. the rtlt. instant, at his house at MilbroA e ' o f Soulhampton, Ca , the wife of Henry Bartow, Esq . the Croa'n Office, Kine'slienelt. LONDON: Printed h', J. 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