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P.ARLIAMENT, HOUSE OF LORDS, THURSDAY, Nov. 23. This day, at two o'clock, the House met pur l:mint to adjournment. The Loan CHANctLLort, the Earl of LIVER roor,, and Earl "BATnuasT, sat upon the Wool sack as Royal Commissioners, in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty. There were pre sent about tett Peers; including the Earl of Db- Notionhouc and Lord ELLExnottouou. The House of Commons having been pre viously summoned by the Black Rod, the .tipeaker. 'entered the House of Lords, attended by the Serjeant at Arms and the other Officers, and followed' by several Members of the , Lower . The Lone. CHANCELLOR then made known to them that his Majesty had been graciously - pleased to appoint a Commission, to impart the Royal ASsent, to the Bill for relieving the Earl of harboroukft from certain disabilities therein named. The Commission was, them read by the Clerk. The Lotto CHANCELLOR then, in obedience to the positiVe commands given by his :Majesty to them as Commissioners acting in his Majesty's name, declared and notified, to the House of Cormaons that his Majesty gave his Royal As sent to the_ Bill mentioned in the Commission, and that the said Bill would become a law in like force and effect as if his Majesty had signi fied his Royal. Assent in person. The Loan CHANCELLOR then announced, that the Commissioners had it in command from his Majesty to prorogue the Parliament to a certain period .mentioned in the Commission for that purpose. The Commission, authorising the prorogation of Parliament from Thursday, the 23d : of No vember, to Tuesday, the 23d of January, was then read. The Loin, CUAXCELLOR then said, " My Lords and Gentlemen, in conformity with the powers intrusted to us to act in his Majesty's name, and in obedience to his Royal Commis bion for proroguing this Parliament, we do ac cordingly prorogue it to Tuesday, the 23 d of January next, to he then holden ; and this Par liament is accordingly prorogued to Tuesday, January 23." The Commissioners and - Peers. retired, and the Speaker, and the Members of the House-of Com mons withdrew also. No alterations have at present been made in the arrangements below the Bar which were fitted _up during the Queen's trial. porary accommodation—but she nature' y expected that the failure of that unparalleled attempt to degrade the Royal Family, would be immediately followed by submitting seine permanent measure, to the wisdom of Parliament—and she has felt that she could no longer, with propriety, receive from the Ministers what she is well assured, the liberality of the House of Commons would have granted, as alike essential to the dtgnity of the Throne, and demandedriby the plainest prin ciples of justice. " If- the Queen is to understand that new proceeding/are meditated against her, she throws herself with unabated con fidence on the Representatives of the People, folly relying on their justice and wisdom, to take effectual Steps to protect her from the farther vexation of unnecessary delay, and to provide that . the;e unexampled persecutions may at length be brought u a close." FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. Frankfort Gazettes to the 17th instant, and other German Journals, arrived yesterday even ing.—The following are extracts .CARLSRUBE; Nov. 11.—Our Gazette of the 9th contains the following passage, in an appa rently official article, respecting the trial of the Queen of England:— , When Mr. Brougham, the Queen's Attorney-General, speaks in this trial (on the affair of 'baron Von Ende) of a German Despot, he insults the Prince of a cuuntry which is in the possession of a free Constitution, the excellence of in the most essential points, is universally acklow !edged, and will hardly be disputed in England. But if he believes that witness to have been withheld by compulsion ,from appearing in his cause, he has reflected that neither compulsion nor sickness arc necessary, lint that a sentiment of disgust at such advocetes must keep every iuoral minded European rilnote from that scene.' TROPPAU, Nov. 6.—lt is stated, that a cou rier has been dispatched to Naples with the final decision of the Cabinet. GL CASSEL, Nov. 9.--It is 'well known that the Elector has prohibited the Journalists of Hesse,. upon pain ,of being fined and forfeiting their licenses, from inserting any articles rela tive to Spain, the. Two Sicilies, and Portugal. lie has extended this prohibition to all articles containing Report's of the Trial of Queen Caro line of England, and in. which there are expres sions calculated to violate the respect due to persons of elevated rank. Hithertoa (Yommissary of Police had exercised the functions of Censor of the Political Journal of Cassel, but he had frequently suffered articles to pass which had not had the approbation'of the Sovereign. It is now affirmed, that the - Elector has just taken upon himself the Censorship of our Gazette. Mr. !Li valier, one of his Councillors, is obliged daily to read the proof-sheet to his Royal Highness, who decides on those articles which shall receive the ilitprimatur, and, those which are to be modified .or suppressed. " CONSTANTINOPLE, OCT. 26.—Fresh differ ences having arisen between the Schismatic and the Catholic Armenians., the Sultan has appointed a Tribunal to adjust them.' This Tribunal has proceeded with great rigour and real barbarity. Accusers and accused, guilty and innocent, were put', to the torture. Three Bishops, one of them a venerable old man of eighty-nine years, Were beheaded, two other individuals were hang ed before the gate of the Patriarch;three bankers bani Shed, and their property confiscated, by which from twenty to thirty millions of piastres have accrued to the Sultan's treasury. This financial operation has, however, excited in Con stantinople great dissatisfaction with a favourite of the Sultan's, .because several Pashas, who had placed their property in the hands of these bankers, have 'lost their all. A. son of Baba Pacha,. who, commanded the Turkish forces against Ali Pasha,' has arrived here in a beauti ful English carriage, which his father has taken from Ali.. The Sultan received this young man very graciously, and appointed . him Chamberllin." LASI' AND ONLY DAY, NEXT TUESDAY,-TWO TWENTY THOUSANDS AND EVERY OTHER CAPI TAL MUST 13E DRAWN,---ALL IN THREE HOURS, -ONLY I,7OO:NUMBERS. PIUCE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O.CLOCK. Bank Stock 2191 I Bank liong . Ann. 17i 13-IGths ifi er Cent. Red. 65444 {'lndia Stock 2341 3 per Cent. Cons. 69541 1 India Bonds .... 275. 9.45. pt. 31 per Cent. 1 per Cents. Bfii+ 1 I Cons. for Account i per Ct. Navy Ann . ..105iii- HIGH WA'T'ER-AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Nioniing, 32 minutes after 5. 1 Evenitiz, 54 nn mites atter 5 TIIE SUN. SOLED! QUIS DICRRE FALSUM AUDEJT LONDON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1820. HOUSF, OF CONIMONS. At a quarter 'before two o'clock the SPEAKER entered the house. Many Memhers were pre sent, particularly on the Opposition Benches.— Prayers having been read, and the SPEAKER hav ing ascertained that forty Members were present, be took the Chair. The SPEAKER then acquainted the House that Mr. LEY was appointed Clerk, in 'the room of the late ?Ir. tiATsELL—aud Mr. - LEY took his seat accordingly. The New Members sworn were — Mr. onm:osex, for York. Mr. lavvi.or, for Wrirw'cli , bire. New Writs were ordered for Berwick and IV estbnry. A Petition of Appeal was presented from the Electors of Petersfield, against the determination of the late Conunittee on the Petersfield Elec tion.—Some other Petitions were also presented. Mr. DENMAN rose at two o'clock and said— Mr. Speaker, thold in my hand a Message, which I .ani commanded by her Majesty the Queen to present to this House.--(Loud cries of Hee r . , .hear At this moment Mr. Quarme, the Deputy Usher of the Black Rod, tapped at the door and immediately entered. This interruption .occa- Ooned great uproar. About fifty Members rose in their seats, ' and the general cry was, " Mr. Denman, Mr. Denman !"—" Withdraw, with draw !" but the noise was.so great, that Gentle-. man in vain attempted to be heard. In the midst of the tumult, , Mr. Quarme proceeded thus—Mr. Speaker, the Lords Commissioners, appointed by virtue of his Majesty's Commission, command the .imme diate attendance of this Honourable House in the If wise, of Peers. Cries. of " Shame, shame !" were now reiterat ed on all sides, and the utmost indignation was manifested by a number of.Mentbers. The SPEAKER instantly quitted his Choir, fol lowed by Lard Castlereagh and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The utmost confusion pre vailed at this moment ; and it, would be in vain to describe the tumult which took plabe in the body of the House. The loudest and most in dignant cries . of Shame!". were reiterated as the Speaker, followed by his Majesty's Ministers end several other Members, advanced towards the . door.—Mr. BENNET rose and said, that this affair, was a scandal to the country. Mr..DN•rm XN, during this confusion, remained OP' his legs, holding in his hand her Majesty's INlessage.. • The Speaker quitted the House, and proceed ed to the House of Lords. On his return, instead of going into the House, the Right lion. Gentlemr proceeded directly to his own residence. , The Members, being thus left without any re source, gradually separated. The folloWing,is the Message which Mr. DEN MAN requested leave to read to the House THE QUEEN'S MESSAGE. " CAROLINE It. " The Queen thinks it proper to inform the House of Com mons, that she has received a communication from the king's Ministers, plainly intimating an intention to prorogue the Parliament immediately, and accompanied by an offer of muncy for her support, and for providing her with a residence until a new Session may be hoiden. '" This offer the Queen has had no hesitation in refusing:L while the late extraordinary proceedings 'were pending, might be fit for her to accept the advances made for her tem ST.,YAb'S CATIIIDUAL.—A very ,gross inis statement„.. but almost too absurd for belief, hav ing appeared in all the Morning Papers, resPect ing intended preparations ,for the Visit of the QUEEN to St. Paul's, we have full authority to state, that the Church will be thrown opeti to' the Public at large, under the protection of the LORD MAYOR. We have had no arrival of Paris Papers this We yesterday stated the Prorogation of Parliament to the 23d January, and the cir cumstances which occurred in 'the House of .Commons, when.. the Usher of the Black Rod came down to require the attendance of that House at the Bar of the House of Lords. Circumstances of more indecorous and undigni fied conduct never, perhaps, occurred, whether we consider the disapprobation that was ex pressed, as directed at the SPEAKER ; or merely at the measure of Prorogation. For, with regard to the SPEAKER, he was discharging a duty which was IMPERATIVE upon him, and in which it would have been as dangerous to the Conititu tion, as contrary to all precedent and reason l to have faltered. We confess, we were surprised' to se P air la forward awl taking, • • a ?art in this disgraceful proceeding ; for though he is the organ of the Whigs, who, aiming at power and place, have not and will not omit any thing, which, in their opinion, may tend to clog the wheels of Government, and raise them selves to office; yet we expected that this Gen tleman, whose talents we respect, and whose professions of unaffected patriotism and modera tion we were inclined to believe, would have pursued the objects of his party in a constitu tional and dignified Manner, far different from that which we observed yesterday, and which, we believe, even in times of the greatest violence and heat, was never before equalled. It is al most unnecessary to cite precedents to shew, that 'when the Usher of the Black Rod goes to re quire the attendance of the Commons in the House of Lords, all other business MUST IMME DIATELY cease; that as soon as he knocks, the doors must be opened ; and when he has deli ;ered the Message, that the SPEAKER and the House must without debate or delay go to at tend the Peers; for long and unvaried usage has established it beyond a doubt ; but as the conduct of the Opposition yester day betrayed either a shameful ignorance or a perverse neglect of it, we think it may be satisfactory, and not uninteresting to our Readers, if we refer to one or two cases, especially as they will shew that the custom has not been gradually introduced without notice or inquiry, but that, on the contrary, it has been investigated, and that it has been found to be the legitimate and un doubted prerogative of the Crown to require the immediate attendance of the Commons in the House of Peers on occasions similar to that of yesterday. The first instance which we shall mention,- is that of a Message from the Lords authorized by his Majesty's Coohinission to pro rogue the Parliament on the 2,3 d April, 1666, when, a motion having been made and the ques tion put, votes given in the affirmative, and the Speaker being about to put the question in the negative, the Usher of the Black Rod knocking at the House door, no further proceedings, it is said in the Commons' Journals, could be had. In 1679 a Committee was appointed to search for Precedents, whether the House might debate aher the Message delivered by the Black Rod for the House to attend upon His MAJESTY. It does not appear that the Committee made any Report,, but as on the 9th April, 1731, the 16th March, 1741, the 15th April, 1742, and on se veral subsequent occasions, the business before the House was, in each instance, suspended am the appearance of the Black Rod, we conceive, that at least a preponderance, if not a unifor , mity of precedent, must have convinced the Committee, in 1679, that the House may not de bate after the Message delivered by the Black Rod for their attendance in the House of Peers. We are not inclined too easily to give way to the fears entertained by many, that . the times in which we live are, particularly, perilous ; anti that the glorious fabric of our Constitution, whence have sprung the freedom we enjoy, and the prosperity which has distinguished our Country, will ere long be laid in ratios, undermined and 'destroyed by the arts of Revolutionists and Atheists. But we must con fess, when we see the spirit of Faction make its appearance .in the Legislature, which should be the palladium of our venerable Establishments, and the safeguard of our lives and properties — when we see the views of Party predominate, and the rear interests of the Country neglected and abandoned, in L the' struggle for office and Mini sterial influence, we cannot but think it high time for every man, who duly estimates the advan tages which we enjoy under oar free and happy Constitution, impaired as it may be by the cor ruptions of time, to come forward unfettered by tile prejudices of party, and determined to apply his hand to the labouring oar, till we have wea thered the difficulties which seem to surround us. There. never was a time in this country, when every man was more called upon steadily to per. form-the duties_ of his station, unawed by the cla mour of faction and ignorance ; and we think the Speaker yesterday set -an example of dignified firmness, well worthy of our imitation, and such as was calculated to justify the confidence re posed in him, and expressed by his unanimous election to the Speaker's chair. With regard to the measure of prorogation, it is not only sanc tioned by precedent, but, as we think, justifiable and necessary on the very grounds upon which the Opposition attack it. They tell us the Mia nistry are afraid of the agitated state of the pub' tic mind; that if the Parliament had continued sitting, they would have been eiliged to yield sAmething to the yoke of the people, or that it would aVe \k:en extdVed from them by force. s u rklto i suelllllo2,ld ha%:e, been the ease, it was a d Which the Govern' ment owed, not only to themNves, but to that part of the community which would neither de rive advantage or feel pleasure in the horrors of revolution, to pdstpdne discussions which could tend to no possible good, but must be productive of incalculable mischief. 'We repeat, that sve think the measure was necessary and salutaff and we sincerely hope, that in the interval whicil will elapse before the next meeting of Parli 2l ' ment, all parties will cordially unite in endue` veering to restore that unanimity and good 11 11 ' mour among the people ; without which it is irD` possible that any country can be happy 2 54 prosperous. It appears that Mr. CANNING has not sondes'' cended to inform the Editor of The Tithes, :wita t are his future intentions; but who imagines, Mr.CANNINa will quit the Ministry ; whilst ntaof persons believe he has already retired from sla' Which ever way it the present state of of; fairs, can be of little moment' to the public; whether this consistent and consummate State" man remains with the friends of Mr- PITT, 'r joins some of the associates of his early life, call' not now be a - matter of any consequence or lute' rest to the Country. The Editor of The rivet says— • " The general opinion now is, that Mr. Canning 161117 74 " the Ministers. Whatever of uncertainty there may bet ; " this affair we trust is in our knowledge, and Tint in th''"' " Gentleman's course of action ; for the motives .canneit " nearly counterbalanced where there is all the eiferenCe " the result of the choice that exists between honotrr alai " opposite. The Country never can forget—neither, we "will Mr. Canning wish• to forget it—the important scnri ce " which he rendered to the Queen, by declaringiter„ frot»3lo " knowledge, the life, grace, and ornament of potidied " ciety.'" Ott this subject we shall only remark - , llo t Mr. CANNING''S absence during the recent tlii" cussions in the affair of the QUEEN has ex:cite& great surprise, and has led to inferences w-hica 3 we have not any inclination to repeat. To 6' 6 abilities of Mr. CAT' NING we are disposed on all occasions to do most ample justice, and most sincerely we,could offer the same Freed praise to his judgment, for in times like tiaeße " the better part of valour is discretion ;" but we regret to say, we have frequently Seen las much pain the EXTREIYIE earnestness with he has reprobated and opposed the correctioto • of abuses in the Representation of the CouritTfo which is so essential to the future maintenacuco of the Monarchy and the happiness of the people' Mr. CANNING's speeches in Parliament .and el9e where, on this subject, have made a deep impres" sion on the public, 'and have excited feelings the minds of various classes of the commudit.F, who were before induced to believe that there • was an honest and sincere disposition in the Go-. verutnent to rectify the abuses we have referred to, without permitting any innovation to be ;ma& ' in the Constitution of the Countrfin Church awl State ;--'-but when they see one of its mat distinguished Members • declare his inter minable opposition to all salutary measure 4 of this nature—is it likely they should fed' regret at his retirement from office ? deed, what otherwise were they to expect/ but, that adopting as it were, " the rule of arm " Lion" of time Wriigs, that he, Mr. CAN:wro-, ig determined to support that corrupt system, whicU has upheld the influence of the Old Families 'l 3 the Close Boroughs, in order that they may more effectually controul theCrown,and govern tb 4 'people—than which nothing was more foreign to the principles and viewsof the great Lord Cn_vr. HAM, and his illustrious son the late ,Mr. PITT. Sugars are on the rise, and it is thought *ill advance in price ; the Public should, therefore, lay in their winter stock before the market i‘ much higher. It is generally understood that the Navy 'Esti" mate for the current year will far exceed the Vc" . penditure : some say to the extent of a millions and upwards. We wish sincerely it may be so. The preferment of the Rev. Dr. WOOD, WV." ter of St. John's College, Cambridge, to ale Deanery of Ely, must be very gratifying to 11 55 friends, as it is highly satisfactory to the country; for we do 'flot know in the circle of either University, an individual better intitled, or more adequately gifted to fill the higher stations ifs the Hierarchy than this erudite Scholar aside"" vent_ Divine. The AMerican report of a Revolution in Per' nainbuCo, founded on accounts from that quartel of the 2d September, is totally without founds" tion. Letters to the 12th had previously reach" ed this country, and yesterday a fresh arrival: brought others; dated the 21st September, all of which are entirely 'silent .on the subject. incredible what unfounded and preposterous counts find their way into the American Papers' —(11/orning Chronicle.) Letters of the 4th inst. via France, state that. the Brazil packet, Capt. WATKiss, reached Lis' bon on the lst, and that as soon as the Captaiu had arrived, he was arrested and put into prison/ and his mail taken from him. The mails were, opened on the pretext of searching for contrabaul l. property. No such :articles being found, the Captain was immediately released. The packet was to sail again on the 6th for the Brazils, isith the Conde de PALMELLA, but no private letters were to be suffered to go with her. The elec . ' tiOns for the ,Cortes were concluded after th e manner adopted in Spain, and they are to meet in January. Yesterday the Duke of YORK transacted tui" litary business -with the KING, at his Palace iu • Pall-Mall. I°ll r -PAR, l itctc .I>:rish 01 a rest tlgrati AI e M4r 4v E gree d t 11 ( 1 the Of L. e of On ituot dt1 (. , , e 0 ! tR Or avii O tc f cc 1301 St v i Ttero l r alil to nnes } 'at hi Posi t . °lirt q edie l a isLop "orl t,With o Sl op c t °rbi t o f ou, tc sai l 1)11'Y L - c, - Con otr s,x " fo, t, • y, fc'r A 1 , 4 A" •i'4, 4 ta ll 11 € t 4 ) 1 04 44 140 e, at N o 1 11 ,1 a y er i i;14 1 , 411 j a " ( l4i .‘ e4l el ver al l e op 4 T he ' 3, , tt oci _ s EF (1 4r ac 4 Ngn,