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the present King. Strange as it may appear, it Easy to account for all these anarchical incon sistencies, because men take a confined view, cir cumscribed by self-interest and all its concomitant .passions. When this is the case, he who consci entiously means to assist the State,. had better re tire to Ws closet, and first consider what wise men have done when they found themselves in the wrong ; let him next refer to the pages of History, ‘ and more,, especially those of this country ; he sill find ample and irresistible proof of the great and imminent, we may add, certain danger of not keeping pure and undefiled the 'lame of the King and his family. Our late revered Monarch, when he had been consulted on a de licate family subject, emphatically said_ to one of the advisers of the present proceedings, " for God's sake, let us keep to onrselve:; the faults of .our own family, else what will the people think ?" How . has it happened that the Noble Lord has forgot this just remark ? for it must have made a great impression on his mind ; we reasonably fear, that he knows well enough that the sayings of a King that is gone are not so essential as the acts of one that is living. We conclude " Fiat Justitia runt Ccelum," but let us at the same time remember, that " fools rush in where angels fear to tread." [British Press.] A Minority consisting of ninety-five Noblemen, the most distinguished in the empire with refe rence to the moral character and princely for tunes of the individuals, does not, it seems, deter the Alinisters of the Crown from endeavouring to push the Bill •of Pains and Penalties through • the remaining stages. The infatua tion 'that hurries them blindly into evil would no doubt exercise the same unhappy influence over their minds had their majority upon the second reading been even more contemptible, for assuredly even the Ministers themselves cannot mistake their majority of twenty-eight, of which their own immediate body and followers formed so large a part, as a manifestation of the sense of the - House of Lords in their favour, nor can they deceive themselves into the presumption that the public will regard the division on Monday as a sufficient justification of so pernicious a measure. Under all the circumstances of this case, and re flecting upon the constitution of the majority, we have no hesitation in saying that a superiority of 2.8 in point of numbers deserves no more con sideration than a superiority of one ;- for let the names of the Ministers and place-holders, all of whom are personally interested in this case as the prosecutors, he removed from the list of :those who voted for the Bill, as in common sense and justice:ought to be done, and the majority of numbers will then be - found opposed to the _measure. But in a case of this nature is no • consideration due to the characters, talents, and personal influence of the Lords severally composing the majority and minority ? Look through the lists of both, and though on either side will be found the narnes.of Noblemen distill guished alike for private and - public virtues, yet who that is capable of appreciating the qualities that ought to command respect and reverence in a free and popular state, can hesitate to give the preference to the list containing what is called the Minority ? There are to be found talents the- most commanding, wisdom the most pro found, political science the most enlightened and comprehensive. If any weight be due to the possession of wealth, among the Minority are to be found' the largest proprietors of Eng land ; if ancestry be entitled to any influence, there are to be found the representatives of the noblest and most ancient families of ' England ; if disinterested patriotism, and virtue in' its purest and noblest sense, can ensure the ve neration of the public, where shall this tribute be paid, if not to many of the members of the mi nority ? They, in fact, constitute emphatically the aristocracy of England, audit would be as monstrous to imagine that their sentiments should , not be embraced by the mass of the nation, a 3 to believe that they were not formed by a conscien tiousregard to truth and justice. A Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Parishes of St. Giles in the Fields, and St. George, Blooms bury, was held yesterday in the Great Room at the Freemasons"ravern. Mr. Wlws, one of the Churchwardens, was called to the Chair— and a suggestion, made by a Mr. Watson, that nobody should be allowed to address the Meet in who was not an inhabitant *of one of the above-mentioned parishes, was loudly and un animously ever-ruled. Letters were then read' from the Marquis of Tavistock, Mr. Bennett, Sir Robert Wilson, and Mr. Denman, representing their inability to accept the invitation which they had received from the Committee. No answers had been returned by Sir Francis Burdett and Mr. Irobhouse. Mr. Denman's letter was drawn up in very warm terms, as it respected the late decision of the Lords. The " servile vengeance" of such a majority, he observed, could do little injury to his magnanimous Client. Mr. P. Moore and Sir Gerard Noel were present ; and the for mer addressed the meeting at considerable length. An Address to her Majesty was then agreed to. Firu AT THE CUSTOM 1 101.:S'E.-Yesterday af ternoon..a fire broke out in the stationary room, in consequence of some paper which had been placed to air having become ignited. The wains cot and fixtures took" fire, and great- alarm for sonic time prevailed. By the timely arrival of en gines, however, the . flames were soon got under, after having destroyed the interior of the room, a large quantity of books, loose 'papers, printed forms, &c., but none, we believe, of any great importance. After the breaking up of the House of Lords yesterday, many of the Peers, and particularly the Duke of WELLINGTON and the Marquess of ANGLESEA, were insulted by a mob at the, corner of Parliament-street. Several of the disorderly . persons were taken,into custody by the Police, who on this occasion displayed that promptitude, with which insults to the laws and institutions of the cotultry should always be repressed. THE QUEEN:-; HOUSE OF LORDS (THIS DAY), Nov. 8. The LORD CLIA:NcELLoit came to the House at the usual hour, and prayers were then read, after which dm House was called over. Excuses were made for several Peers. Lord BERESFORD came into the House during the call, and was immediately sworn in as a Peer of Parliament. The Earl of LIVERPOOL moved that the Bishop of Bristol should be excused from further atten dance on the House, on account of the duties he had to discharge in two of the Universities. Lord KENYON said, that if his Majesty thought proper to appoint a Prelate who held situations in two of the Universities, which he must attend to, it was evident he could not discharge his duty in thaf House. He meant no disrespect to the Right Rev. Prelate, but as he had a duty to perform in the House, strong reasons should be given for excuses. The Earl of LIVERPOOL said he might call their Lordships' attention to the manner in which the Bishop had attended and discharged his duty. He did not wish this to be, by any means, a ge neFal principle, that because he held such situa tions, but he trusted that in considei ation of the pecbliar circumstances of the case, they would dispense with his further attendance. ' Lord REDESDALE said that the objections of the Noble Lord (Kenyon) as to the Right Rev. Prelate holding such situations would apply equally to the army and navy, and therefore he saw nothing in it. Lord KEN YON, in explanations observed, he should be sorry if it was for a moment inferred that he objected to the promotion of the Right Rev. Prelate, for he believed that every one concurred in the propriety of the appointment of the Bishop of Bristol. Nor did he mean to re flect on the Noble Earl opposite, wlibse inacence with respect to the Church, as far as he knew, had been exerted in favour of worthy men. The LORD CHANCELLOR then put the question, which was agreed to nem, con. Lord HoLLAND rose and said, that yesterday he was absent from indisposition, which pre vented his taking part in the proceedings of the House. He had since learnt that in his absence aformal Dissent had been Put on the Journals, to which he was anxious to affix his signature, but he was prevented by a standing order of the House, on account of his absence at the time. He had heard the arguments at the Bar, and the discussions in the House on this unconstitutional and unnecessary Bill; which he considered to be disproved in its allegations, and hazardous in its consequences. He therefore now begged the House to allow him to enter his name among the dissentients from it. The Earl of DARNLEY also wished to have the same privilege granted to other Peers, who now wished to enter their names. Lord llomANn said, that names might be en tered and signed in any way before the rising of the House, which was now fixed at four o'clock ; but in ordinary cases such entry and signing could not be effected till after four o'clock, but the hours were more limited now. The Earl of MINTo was desirous of putting his name to the Dissent, and would move that the Standing Order, in this respect might be dis pensed with. The Earl of DARNLEY was persisting in his motion, when The' Earl of LAUDERDALE. moved that the Standing Order should be read, which was im mediately done: Lord if 0 LI, AND could only say from his expe rience of their proceedings, that he believed many such applications had been heard, and he never knew them opposed till now. Another Standing Order was then read from the table. The Earl of DARNLEY moved, that the Duke of Devonshire, Viscount Bolingbroke, and some other Peers, should also be allowed to sign their names. The Earl of LAUDERDALE had no objection to the measure, but he wished it to be done regu larly. If it was not for a special notice, which ought to be given to the House, let them consider if there could be a more direct violation of their Standing 'Orders than this, and if so, they might as. well abolish the Standing Orders at once. Lord HOLLAND knew that the regular course vas to move a suspension of the Standing Order. He did not apprehend that mischief which the Noble Earl (Lauderdale) thought was likely to ensue from a different course. The Marquess of LANSDOWNE took occasion to state, that the first proposition vas in favour of his Noble Friend (Holland), now near him, but the next proposition was much stronger in its nature. The Earl of LIVERPOOL did not see much im propriety, if any, in acceding to the proposi tion first made to the House ; if their Lord ships had standing rules for the Order of the House, it was desirable to attend to them. As to the Noble Lord who first addressed their Lordships, he had stated t his indisposition a s preventing him from coming down, and there fore his request should be complied with ; but then, if Noble Lords wished the same excuse on the ground of forgetfulness, the question took an other shape, and it was quite another thing.— He would, indeed, state a case where the power was expressly given to Noble Lords, on account of pecular circumstances, to enter their names for the dissent for two or three days before they went into Westminster-Hall. In this instance (the case was Lord 'Melville's Impeachment) there was some reason for deviating from their rules. If Noble Lords could not plead the circumstance of ill health, but retired on the score of omission, then excuse could not be attended to. Ile hoped, how€ ver, that this would not be drawn into a fu ture precedent. The Loan Cit.4.NceLLon was satisfied that ac cording to the practice of their Lordships, the motion would not be carried, but upon a notice ( to the House, which must afterwards be brought under consideration. This, he apprehended, was the only way in which the question could be regularly disposed of; but, at the same time, he could assure the House that he had no ob jection to any sort of accommodation they might be inclined to accord to the Noble Baron (Holland) whom he had in his eye, for he knew too well from experience the nature of his dis ease not to make all allowances for the abrupt ness and the uncomfortableness of its attacks; but there was a great difference between bodily and mental disease, particularly when the latter had been incurred through negligence of any sort. When there was no pretence for ill health, he must object to what the Scottish nation called a snug way of getting names. Before two o'clock yesterday, he did not know how their Lordships should act, and he could only add his good wishes on behalf of the Noble Baron, who was most clearly entitled to the indulgence of the . House. The Earl of DARNLEY complained that the Noble and. Learned Lord on the Woolsack had made a direct attack on his mental faculties, such as they. were. He was surprized the Noble Lord objected to any forgetfulness in him, when that Noble Lord had tolerated so many " Non mi Ricordos" at the Bar. Lord ERSKINE wished to add his name to the Dissent then entered on the Journals of the House, but he asked it not as a matter of indul gence but as a matter of right. Lord HOWARD (of Effingham) was understood to complain of sonic misrepresentation of his sen timents which appeared in The Times Newspa per of yesterday. The Noble Lord made no motion on the subject. The Earl of DARNLEY explained. The LORD CHANCELLOR here put the ques tion, if it was the pleasure of their Lordships to make the standing Order with respect to the signing and entering Dissents for to-morrow's consideration ?—The question was agreed to. THE DIVORCE CLAUSE. The Order of the Day for the House resolving itself into a Committee was then read. The Archbishop of TUAM observed that it was with much reluctance he rose to address their Lordships. Ile should not have done so if the Right Reverend Bench had -not been so pointedly called on by the Noble Lord who ended the debate yesterday. So much had already been said on the thirty-fifth verse of the fifteenth chapter of St. Matthew's gospel, that although he should vote against the clause for Divorce, he did not intend to occupy their Lordships' time for any considerable time. Here it must be remarked, that the Illustrious Lady whose conduct was still under the de cision of the House, had been " put away" by her husband, in earlier life, and if he could distinctly skew to their Lordships, from numerous texts of Scripture, the solemn denunciations of the Lord. God against such putting away of the wife, he should vote against the clause as it merely went to relieve the King.-- He had only to refer to the Letter sent by the present King to her at the time; and the solemn denunciations of Divine displeasure on such conduct, for the husband had certainly put away his wife ; and he had only to refer to the 2d chapter of Malachi, where the prophet lamented the putting away of their wives, and described the face of the Lord as turned from Israel, for this their sin against his law. The Bishop of PETERBOROUGH contended that if the Divorce Clause were omitted, there must be an explanatory clause to make the Bill under stood. The Bishop of CHESTER explained. Lord REDESDALE was of opinion that it was religion that made marriage a civil contract. The LORD CHANCELLOR was happy to have called on the Right Rev. Bench for their senti ments, if it was only on account of those who had doubts on the divorce clause. • Several other Peers spoke,. when the House divided as follows : For maintaining the Clause Against it 6-2 Majority fur it —67. After this the House adjourned till Ten o'Clock to-morrow. Coniv-ExcitANGE, NOY. 8.--The price of Flour having been lowered ss. per sack, at the close of Mon day's market, occasioned very heavy sale for Wheat this morning, of which article a considerable quantity remained over from Monday's supply, and alt hough an abatement would have been submitted to of 2s. per quarter, scarce any could be disposed of g except a few picked samples at the above decline. Fine Barley Is. per quarter lower than at the early part of Monday's market, the supply being tolerably large, and the inferior samples are 2s. per quarter cheaper; Oats were dull sale, and is. per quarter lower.—ln Beaus and Peas there is no alteration. As Mr. GATTIE the Comedian, (accompanied by his wife and a friend,) was crossing the end of Fleet Market from Holborn to Skinner-street, on Sunday evening, about six o'clock, he was surrounded by a gang. of pickpockets, who in attempting to force his watch from his fob, li terally tore the upper part of his pantaloons to pieces. He had, however, in the first instance, the presence of mind to grasp his watch firmly in his right had, and the villains were thus disappointed of their expected booty. It is strange thatno'ne of these desperate 'gangs of street marauders ever fall in the way of the Police. 'I TO CORRESPONDENTS. The Letter from " An OLD CORREIPONDENT." and other Articles, are unavoidably postponed. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O . CLOCE• S per Cent, Red 67{, Irish 5 per Cent. ..... 8 per Cent. Cons... 67i 61 67g India Bonds .... 263 • 3i per Cent. 4 per Cents per Ct. Navy Ann..... 104 ii Ex. Bills, id. ...... 45. .9 Bank Long Ann. 17 7-16ths Cons. for Accuunt. •• • 6 Imp. 3 per Cent. Ann 6si HIGH WATER AT LOND Morning, 54 minutes after 3. IN BRIDGE TO-MOrtitn= I Evening , 14 niinutrs atter, THE SUN. SOLEM QUIS DICERS F 4 LSUM A IT DEA ',,.. ' LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 181!: SUN-OFFICE, HALr-Pol Or 46 e The House of Lords adjourned abou t °ll o'clock till ten to-morrow morning. A div' sto took place on the Divorce Clause, which carried that it stand part of the Bill.--The hers were— Fur maintaining the Clause Against it bie Majority for it It is rumoured that the Duke de F . niAs7 it I Spanish Ambassador at our Court, is rec a.- having been appointed a Member of the Cotlehe of State. It is not yet known who is to b e successor of his Excellency. -••••■•—_ We have had no arrival of Paris Papers th'° morning. ---..•.—_ IS t° Boston Papers arrived this morning to the October, from which we extract the folio° article : " Letters from Port-au-Prince, dated 24th Augu st ' II the town has been set on fi re in 19 places since the ff.'', conflagration, end the foreign merchants are very N u <<• alarmed, and barricade their houses. Many of th e chants hold themselves in readiness to embark at a 10111°6 notice." IMPROMPTU Well, if the Princess CAROLINE IVIOI Be►►u.tsst did uften dine ; Or, if 'tis true she often ate Of the same dish, on the same plate, What does this mighty matter prove, But that 'twas x4l plat-onic lore. t 4 THE QUEEN.—The QUEEN yesterday,onc onii , t o to the House of Lords, on seeing Mr.B.aoulot, iu the private room, addressed him in th e lowing manner :—" My dear BROUGH tH •fr holdingglad to see you," out her hand, w h it Mr. BROUGHAM respectfully kissed.—This c b j, cumstance seems to confirm the report that i• derman Wool) is wholly out of favour, a ) well known that Mr. BROUGHAM has long dined all intercourse - with the " absolute dom" of the Civic Adviser. CouazTT.—Whatever may be said of a Cod spiracy against HER MAJESTY, judging 11. 1 ; o t the writings of this man, her advocates d° seem to have entered into a Conspiracy ill o d favour, for ' though Messrs. Bitocon_of a o , DENMAN have displayed all possible zeal aod knowledged great ability in her defence, it COBBETT attacks them with as little mercy a" fte r they had been proved to be hired to betra. cause. But whom has not this man praised ' ve r abused, and abused and praised over and ° as t again; ,and therefore who can place the le confidence in his opinions one way or other! THE THEATRE.—Mr. COOPER, who has $ 1 quitted himself so well -in the part of Rome °7 o e Drury-Lane Theatre, last night, in the s a p place, assumed the character of Reuben Glegruly in the Comedy of Town and Country. The 10, 11 6 1 figure, the powerful voice, and the deterre r . action of this Performer, well qualified him 0 5 1, due representation of this rustic philanthr o r i o and .he strengthened the general sentiment ~r ; favour by so successfully supporting chara ct ' a p of so very different a description. He ha s t he ready made a very favourable impression on h e Public, and fully justifies our prediction thato will become one of the solid props of the Lon Stage. SWEARING IN THE LORD M AYOR .--This I: 1 1; according to annual custom, the Right U0 9 % 1 0 LORD MAYoR, the Lord Mayor Elect, Sher t ,i Recorder, and several Aldermen, attendeLL, the City Marshals, Marshals' men &c. we i r g il f procession from the Mansion House to Gandhi-0 where the new Lord Mayor was sworn Office for the City of London with the accus t° ,o ed formalities ; after which the two Lord 11 ' a , returned in the State Coach to the Nialls`f House, where a luxurious Banquet, techu if : 1 l 01 termed the " Farewell Dinner," wa s prov% at the joint expellee of the Court of Al h e c i men, the City Officers, &c . To-morrow I " te r will proceed in the usual state to Westrn.olso Hall, and after visiting the several Law Ccs i fi r t :i, and the old Lord Mayor renders up his accov,:i t i and the new Lord Mayor accepting the -d Books, and inviting the Judges, &c. to the gi l w e Civic Entertainment, they will return in the sa state by. water, and •proceed to Guildhall. ro ll WARWICKSHIRE ELECTION.—SIate of th e (sth day) three o'clock :- 659 Mr. Lawlry On Monday evening last, a General Asser° of of the Academicians of the Royal A c aderoi e t , Arts was held at their apartments in Sonle rs t el House, when Mr. HENRY EDRIDGE WaS CNC i ~G N 1 ......__. ..a...... t rIII ',prop ) , VC7o.c./' tra y b e apreret 4V(; in Qrt4„ t (44 klco ana, an Associate of that Institution. ceminsamt . W C' LONDON: Printed hyJ. B. 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