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lam and from all perSijtis, whiclewas usual for the King's.— /t, ire his opinion. established the fact, that the two ceremonhds acre linked together and conjoined; the Coronatiox oftheQucen Qensort with her Husband the King, was qoite a matter of c;ourre. Then again as to the peactize of :Monarchs when the • Ceeenation took place in France, the only difference was as to pa.i:ee, the King's taking place at Rheims, and the Queen's, he 'believed, at Nantes, but he was not certain of the r,lace of the Having referred to the Saxon Chronicles, he shouid come stt once to the Norman line. He believed that it appeared Wil liarrethe Conqueror was married to Matilda 11 years before the Conspnest. Sae did not come over to Englaod with William, who was crowned in lt76ti ; her coronation did not take place until 1068 ; the difference as to time was ca - pable of easy solu tion. William was at first greatly occ u pied with the agitated .state of:public affaire, and the troubled state of the country, punchne could then h ave hardly been considered to have con . ,quered ; he brought his _Queen over, however, in 1068, and she was :hen immediately crowned. In this, as in other instances prior to the .6sne cf _Henry the Third, it would be found that whnon e ow:no' to circanostances easy of expinnation, the Queen WZ' , 3 itoWile:3 subsequent to the King haviag undergone that ceremony, he was again crowned with. her. The•prevailing lan - ors was certainly . so; but he admitted that there were nu .4.APRS in which the Queen Wee; crowned by herself.— Tfititis was crowned immediately on his eleetion to the' t: Cafe. Ile (Mr. B.) called it his election, for he and the next tro , Kings• of the NOrman line ascended the throne rather by vleeffo,h than. by ran; claim founded upon hereditary right ; for, aceording7to William of Maloasbury, they were, in point of fact o 'electekby a Council of Nobles, and crowned about eleven days after. Henry I. was crowned four days after Wil liam's death—namely, on the Bth August, 1100; he was then - unmarried. On the Ilth November of that year he married Alseifla, and she was crowned in Mnrteamas of that year, pro bably. on the very day of the marriage. The King afterwards married Alice, of Louvain, - -and she, was crowned on the 30th January, 1110, immediately upon her marrnage. On the elec tion of Stephen, in 1135, he was crowned, when he swore to - maintain the privileges and rights of the Nobles and Clergy, both of which classes in their torn gave him a conditional oath of allegiance to support him so long as he supported them in their possessions. Stephen's Queen was crowned on the 22d of _Maien, 1136. Henry 11. was crowned December 19,1154, but there was some doubt as to the time of the-Coronation of his Queen Eleanor. According to .Jervis, of Canterbury, she was crowned with him ; but, according to others, she was crowned in 1155, and 1177. Henry IL was in fact crowned twice, some ' said three times; the first time he was unmarried. A yell, re-1 imarkable circumstance occurred during the reign of that,Prince; the solemnity of crowning his eldest sow took place in his (the father's) life-time; the - Prince (or King, as he was sometimes called, from the fact of his Coronation in his father's lifetime) was married to a daughter of Louis of France, and she was not crowned although her husband was. The novhlty of that omission of what was considered a uniform ceremony led to a complaint and remonstrance to the King of England, and the result was, that he had recourse for redress to the usual process of Kings—to arms, and a declaration of war; and, in front of his reasons' for taking that step, the French King placed the omission to crown his daughter with her husband. So hat here came an interruption to what he (Mr. Brougham) con tended was a long and uninterrupted enjoyment on the part of the Queens-Consort of the ceremony of Coronation, with or after the Kings had undergone that solemnity—an interruption -not acquiesced in by the Queen or her family, but formally and solemnly complained of; and Henry was at length obliged to submit, for he went over to France and entered into some compromise with Louis to avert hostilities, and the daughter of the' 'French King was solemnly crowned at 'Winchester by I r lishops and other venerable and distinguished Authorities, who were sent over from France to perform the ceremony of her Coronation with. suitable splendour. There was a dif ference among the chroniclers as to the fact of the King being ' crowned again with her at Winchester; some asserted that he was ; others that he was not. Richard I. had been twice crowned ; it would be in vain to search for a record of his first wife's coronation, for although he espoused Alice, he never 'completed the marriage ; and he afterwards married again ; and neither Alice nor the second wife ever at all came to Eng land : no wife of Richard's was therefore ever within the four seas. When Richard married into the Sicilian family, his then Queen was crowned in the island of, Cyprus, where he married her. So that in every view of the ceremony, the marriage of the Monarch appeared to bring after it, as a necessary conse quence, the Coronation of the Queen, unless where reasons of accident interposed, not at all affecting the general right.— Xing John succeeded Richard, and was known to have had two wives. He was crowned by himself on the 27th of March, 1199 ; and his Queen Isabella was crowned alone, October 3, 1200. John also married Arvisa, of Gloucester, from whom, however, he was divorced. He (Mr. Brougham) could nowhere thid that she had not been crowned; and here he must observe, that where the uniform and undeviating course was that a Queen was to be crowned, historians and chroniclers were less likely to set down the fact that she was crowned, than that she was not, and he took it for granted that this Queen had been crowned, as he could trace no record to the contrary ; but sup pose his (Mr. Brougham's) opponent contended she were not— and here he must remark, that ode of his difficulties in putting his argument was, in not knowing who was to be his opponent, with whom he Was • contending, or whether he was to be re. plied to;—but supposing he was to have an opponent who should contend that Arnsa was not crowned, then heshould say, that even admitting such to be the case, it could be satisfactorily e.ccounted for without affecting his general propoSition. Arvisa was Duchess of Nonnoralv, she was left there when John de parted for England ; he was crowned on the 27th of May, in London; in the year 1199; he left Normandy pretty much as William did—all around him was in a troubled and unquiet state; in little more than three weeks after his own Coronation he had to hasten• back to Normandy, where he was smitten with Isabella. That passion, no doubt, hurried his ,steps to divorce Arvisa, which, however, it was said, he had previously contem plated, before this passion had cotne upon bun. Indeed; at the time of Arvisa's marriage, the Archbishop, who performed the ceremony, protested against the match, on account of her consanguinity to the King ; he said they were too near en blood, and therefore the contract was dissoluble by the canon law. The divorce of Arvisa was, in fact, going on during the time yihich intervened between the King's Coronation and. the marriage with Isabella. Arvisa never in the interim came to Englano ; so that her whole case furnished a conclusive reason why she had not enjoyed the Coronation. Down to John, then, there were eight Coronations of Queens without the Kings being crowned at the same time and eight with them ; in short, .einnht solemnities On account ot the King's Royal Person, in: al , ..viing, Rufus,. who was unmarried. There was the same number, the very same number eight, on account of Queens, and by no means as a mere pageant for the Kings; they were exclusively and entirely on account of Queens, and they occur red unintearuptedly down to Henry 111. who was crowned in the year 1216; he was then unmarried; he was afterwards mar ried to Eleanor of Provence on the 14th January, 1236, and she was crowned alone six days after, namely, on the 20th January, the rung attending in person to grace the solemnityof the scene. Natthew Paris described the whole ceremony—the - carrying of e nvoird of Edward the Confessor, the Earl bearing it as Mar .ital of the Palace, with the right of restrainirg the King if "ha acted amiss." The red book in the Exchequer was also curiously minute upon - the ceremony. • Edwards I. and 11. were both Trcsoned with their Queens—the first on the 19th August, 1274, with Eleanour, and the second with Isabella on the 25th Fe- Lruary, lafi6. No observations arose upon either of these cere s monies. Edward came to the throne January 26, 1326; he afterwards married Philippa on the 24th January, 1327, end sine was crowned 'alp,: in the April of the same year, and a pro ciamation was still extant, ordering the usual solemnities to be solaservcd upon that occasion as upon the King's Coronation. The Earl of Hartoownw thsn • addressed Mr. Brougham, and raid, tha.taalx had come to a point, he wished to inform him, that the book from the Dean and Chapter of Westminster wao.now in tioi r:ouncii-noom, if he' wished to refer to it. The Dean had brought the. book and a missal—which were aleponitod with the Council. Mr. Bum osta hi thanked his Lordship for the information, hut said that he should at present prefer pursuing his line of hiotoric narrative, and that he should by and by avail, himself of their Lordships` kind permission to refer to the 4 ‘ Lib= Renadis." He then referred to a Proclamation issued by the Barons cf the Cinque Ports,- for the attendance of their assist a.nta or bearcro at the Coronation of Philippa, and which was exactly the same as that obnerved at tire solemnity for crown ing the King, and the same services were alike in that,Procla matacn prescribed, and the same conditions made to depend urirn their performance. He now came to the time of Richard who was crowned on the 16th July, Er, 7 l. Richard mar his Queen Anna on the 14th January,l3B2, and on the 926 .of the same month she was crowned. He afterwards.married I . 7.abrila, in the year an; and according to the elm roll in the Tower, elle was C - riswned alone, with the usual solemnity and pomp, the Sheriffs of London having been- enjoined to make the usual proclamation and sunamons as at the Coronation of the Kings, enjoining the attendance of all those who, by virtue of their places, privileges, or tenures, were under a condition to present themselves at such a ceremony. The King in that Coro action bearing no part, it was, like the others, the Queen's Co ronation as of ancient right. There.- was another curious do cument, bearing date about the period of which he was now speak. - in,7, prescribing the duties of persons oqui;eri to attend the t:orenaton, either the particular one of-- Isabella to which he referred, Cr the general formula of Coronation ceremonies, he knew not • which. It was in the Cotton collection, and. con- tanned the instructions to the Keeper of the Wardrobe to take cam and ot ready the Queen's robc " for her Coronation,"— Themext King's reign to which he should call the attention of their Lcrdships was - that of Henry IV. Henry was crowned izial377, afterward: in 1399, and his queen in 103, soon after her re Triage. Henry V. came to the throne in 1413; he was crowned in the same year, and eight years after, namely, in 1_421, he came over from Prance to attend the Coron a tion of hiS , Queen, Catherine, who was in that year crowned alone. The close roll at the ToWer contained the summonses for the perform ance of services upon that occasion. Henry VI. was upon his accession an infant only a few mont*.s old; he was not crowned until 1429; he was a second time crowned in 1431, and again in 1445, on May the 30th, when he was married- to 'Sitar garetta, who was herself crowned with the usual pomp and cere mony. Ile should now, in farther support of the uniformity of the practiee of the Coronation of Queens, refer to the law of Scotland about the period of history at which he was passing. The Scottish documents upon the subject were by no means as perfect upon matters of ceremony as other records of antiquity elsewhere, but they contained enough to establish the fact, that no King of Scotland who was married at the time of his. Coronation, was ever crowned without his Consort; or, where the marriage took place afterwards, was there an instance in which a Scotti s h Queen was not crowned as soon as possible after. she became Queen, He stated this proposition upon the broadest possible ground, and he had also to adduce a remarkable circumstance, which was, that in the Scottish statute law there was a record having reference to the coro nation rights of the Queen-Consort of Scotland. He held in his hand a small book, yet, small as it was, it contained a digest of the statute law of Secitland for a period of two hundred years. It was a compilation made five years after the return of James 1., and contained words not only binding upon him Out also his succe ss o rs a t a ll ti mes . N ow h e c l a i me d the privilege of using this digest of the Scottish statute laws as a precedent since the union of the two kingdoms, upon the authority of an Act of one of the Ho uses o f Parliament in England; for the House of • Comnions by its Committee, in the year 1788, upon the first Regency question, did direct a search for precedents to be made in the Scottish Records ; and they , did report, upon their (the Scottish) authority, as well as upon the English prece dents—they held them a lik e ill us t ra ti ve . The Learned Counsel then referred to the Act 1423 in' the Scottish statutes, 109, passed in the Bth Parliament of James 1., and read the following aitla to be made to the Qucerebe the Clergie and the Baronnes: 2 — " Quo die Dominus rte x, ex deliberatione et consensu totius concilii, statuit, quod omnes et sine-uli auesessores prelatorurn regni quorumcunque, =non omnes singuli hmredes futuri co mtturn, baronum, ornniunique libere-tenentium Domini Regis ; tenean tsar facere consimile juramenturn Doming: nostrre Regmm, Nee, ullus prwlatus de cetero admittatur ad suam temporalita tern, ant lizeres cujusvis tenentis Domini Regis ad suas tenen clrias, nisi Arius przestet Regia? illud juramentum." ..He contended, that from this authority of the Scottish sta tutes, his case respecting the rights of a Queen Consort, so far as the Coronation ceremony was concerned, was rendered irresisti bly strong. Corrine front the precedents of the Scottish law to ,the period of English history at Which he had broken ofF, he had to call their Lordships' attention to the , time of Edward IV, That King was crowned in the year 1461, he being then unmarried ; in the year 1465 he married his Queen, Elizabeth Woodville, or Grey, as sho had been called, and he was again crowned with her in the year 1465 ; the " orclo coronationis Edwardi Quarti" was to be found in the Cotton manuscripts, as well also as that of " Regina'"—the words were " pro unctione Reginaa" The whole form for the Queen was separately and distinctly laid down as one to be observed independently of the King's, but with equal form, &c. This brought him to the time of Richard 111. and Queen Anne his consort ; and they were crowned together iii the year 1483 ; then followed Henry Vll., upon which period more than one observation arose witn which lie should have to trouble their Lordships.. It was well known that he came to the throne with three tides—they were those of marriage, conquest, and descent ; nevertheless he (the King) always considered the last as his principal and best right, and was disposed to consider the ethers as but auxiliaries to it. In the language of Bacon, the historian of Henry's times, " he (still speaking of Henry) placed his descent as his main shield, and marriage and conquest as only the supporters to it." The King himself thought so, his adherents thought so, and,the country at large, the best authority perhaps upon such occasions, acquiesced and concurred in that opinion. The King de facto was then acknowledged as King de jure by all the constituted authorities, and his claim had the united assent of the York and Lancaster factiors. He was crowned, however, before the Act of Parliament, and immediately after the battle of Bos worth-field. He called the Parliament which sat a few days after his accession, and the Act ofrecognizing him was the conse quence ; that Act entailed the crown upon the heirs of his body generally—no mention was made of those of the Princess Anne ; she still remained Princess, and it was matter of doubt at the time whether she would ever become Queen. He had, it was true, intrusted her with the obligation of an oath that he should marry her, but it was an oath to which, speaking not morally, his policy ran rather counter; he did, however, at length marry her on the 18th June, , 1486. He had himself been crowned in the previous year ; a very remarkable delay then took place, the daughter, of Henry IV. had now become Henry Vllth's wife; she was always treated as Queen Consort, and notwithstanding the del a y, the most scrupulous forms were ob served in the arrangements for the Coronation of that Queen. Bacon, in his history, alluded to tile triumph which attended her Coronation in the minds of her party of that day, which the King, to use the words of Bacon, " rather noted than liked." In fact he put off her Coronation, according to the same his torian, until it was no longer safe for him, on account of popu lar resentment, to withhold that ceremony to which she was considered as having a solemn right.—Margaret of Burgundy, who married the Dake of Burgundy, had used most remark able expressions touching the delay in the Coronation of Henry' s Queen. She s a id, th a t it was ,seen not without great trouble, that an universal delay had taken place in the ceremony of crowning that Queen—an honour, she remarked, of which "no Queen of England had been ever debarred since the Conquest." And she added, " that the time bed come, when, at the birth of her son, every body hoped the King would do her that jus tice." . Margaret of eurgtouly was no bad. authority in those times ; she had been engaged in educating the royal she was an acute and observing woman, and had studied and contemplated much ; she must, from her character, have been well versed in the history and usage of the rights of a- Queen, and she speaking at the time when the historic incidents were comparatively fresh, declared that no Queen since the Conquesit had been so treated.. At last Henry VII. yielded to public opi nion, and the Coronation was cerebrated on the 25th of No vember, • 1487, when the Queen was crowned alone. Lord. 'Bacon's observation was, that it was "an old christening which had staid long for a godfather." This Coronation of the Queen alone was announced in a Proclamation in the very sairie words in which the King himself had two years and a month before announced the solemnity of his own Coronation. She Was of . course recognised by the King in no other character than that of Queen Consort, when he found that he could no longer delay the ceremony with safety to him self. The form of the Proclamation was to be found in R} pier's Feedera, 3' Henry Vii., and it • corresponded precisely with the form used for the King. He would pause here for a moment, and call their Lordships' attention to the fact, that from the Conquest up to this period, there had been 19 Kings crowned. Eighteen of these were married either before or atter the Coronation, and of these eighteen the Queens were all crowned. Up to that period, fifteen Coronations of Kings had taken place, the purpose ofthose solemnities being to crown - ! the King ; and fourteen of these solemnities had taken place for the purpose of crowning the Queens alone, independently and exclusively of any purpose of crowning' the King ; and ifj Margaret, the second wife of Edward the First, were included, -fifteen would have so taken place. For as many precedents, therefore, as existed, for crowning the Kings of England, up to this phriod, there was precisely the same number of instances fo r performing the same ceremonial, for the purpose of doing honour to their Queens. Of those ceremonials no less than six were known to have been Coronations of Queens without the King-eking crowned a second dine with them. With regard to Henry VIII., he was crowned with Queen Catharine or Arra gon his first wife, and u pon, his divorce from that Queen, and his subsequent marriage, Anne • Boleyn was crowned alone.— Thus far, the reign of Henry VIII. furnished no exception to the firstpdopositron which he had laid down, that whenever a King, being married, was crowned the Queen Consort had. been uniformly crowned with him. 'When - their Lordships re flected upon the peepliar circumstances in which that Monarch was placed, and particularly upon the state of ecclesiastical af fairs during the period of his foer subsequent marriagei, he was persuaded that, even if it were admitted that none of his 'four other Queens were crowned, they would still be of opinion that the omission of their Coronation formed no exception to , the rule. With regard to his second wife, it should be recol lected that hie married Jane Seymour the.yery day after the death of Anne Boleyn ; and, considering the circumstances in which he was paced, it was scarcely possible than to celebrate the Coronation. He had quarreller : with thee Pope, he had quarrelled with the Emperor, and when he' looked at home he could place no reliance upon any body, for he was upon the worst terms with the Church—with the reformed part of tire kingdom' he vela npon no better terms, having that very day _done an . act the most odious to that part.of the community which man's imagination could conceive; by beheading their Patroness, Anne, and on the same day marrying the pstsun for the love of whom Ime had committed that atrocity. -Then the State (tithe Church during the whole subsequent period of his reign was such that it was hardly possible to say tvnether it was Catholic or Reformed, or to determine how any ritual could be perforthed without jars on either, or with comeenon consistency arid decorum. Had he continued long married to this Queen, he Might possibly have turned his attention to the subjxt ; but Jane Seymour was delivered of a son, which had long been the object of Henry's roost anxious wishes, ariP, died the day after her delivery. Then, with respect to Anne of Cleves,, her case formed po exception to the rule, -because it was perfectl y weli known, that from the very day of his marriage with thetPrin case; he commenced his 4t.t.zmpts to affect a divorce, which cb- iect he at length accomplished with her consent. 'it was mate rial to recollect that Anne acquiesced entirely in this divorce, that she waived all claim to the Crown, and never even made the slightest complaint of the terms to which she appears to have cneerfully submitted. The state of the Church was suffi cient to account for the Coronation of his next Queen, Cathe rine Howard, not having taken place. Besides,. the Queen was discovered to be incont inen t very s h ort l y after the naagiege, and a divorce took place in consequence. In like manner the state of ecclesiastical affairs might very well account for the alltatice of a Coronation in the reign of Catherine Pam, if a tt were found, upon full search, no Coronation did take place. This, howev er , he was not prepared to a dmit, f or no man had a right to assume that there was no Coronation. All he could say .was ,. , that he did not k now th a t any suc h C oronat i on too k place, tor no accounts of the solemnity remained upon record. He would pass over the reigns of Edward 1. Queen Mary, and I Queen Elizabeth, Edward L never having been married, and Ithe two latter being Queen's Regnant. For the same reason it would be unnecessary to dwell upon the reign of James I. who was himself. crowned shortly after his arrival from Scotland.— Upon the reign of Charles 1., hay/ever, it would be necessary to make some observations. The Coronation of that Prince took place on the 2d of February, 1625, being aconsiderable period after • his aecession. A Ptochamation in the usual terms, and with one exception, in the same terms as those used in the Pro clamation of his psesent Majesty, was published on the 17th of Jan. 1623, for the Coronation of the King, and his dearly belov ed Conroet the Queen. On the 24th of the same - month another proclamation was lasaed, appointing the Court of Claims, and in the recital to that P roc l ama ti on the Coronation was mention ed as about to take place on the 2d of Feb. and as the Corona tion " of ourselves and our dearly beloved Queen Consort," so that it was proclaimed in two successive Proclamations that the Queen Consort was to be crowned on the 2d of February. It was true, that on the 30th of January, three days before the Co ronction took place, a third Proclamation was issued for creating Knights of the Bath to assist at the solemnities of the Corona tion, in which Proclamation the words " dearly beloved Con sort" were dropped for the first time. It was to be observed, however, that the Corronation of the Queen Consort had no con nection with the creation of Knights of the Bath, which was _ the subject of that Proclamation. - The King's intention with regard to the Coronation of his Queen Consort might still have continued, nor indeed was there any positive evidence that her Coronation did not actually take place. There was an account of the ceremonial extant among the Manuscripts in the liar leian Collection in.the.British Museum, in which the part of the ceremonial relating to the Queen was as minutely detailed as that which relatedno the King. The account was given in the past tense, as of a ceremonial which had actually taken place; but supposing that it would not bear_ that construction, an d that it was to be taken rather as a prospective account of what was to take place, still there was nothing on the face of that manusciipt, nor indeed was there any other direct evidence to shew that the Queen was not actually crowned. But suppose it otherwise, and he would fairly avow his own opinion that Henrietta Maria was not crowned, for there was certainly a want of legal evidence to sustain the fact of her having been crowned ;. and with regard to the question of historical evi &zee, he was inclined to think that the scales preponderated against such a supposition. But let it be admitted that she was not crowned, and he thoueht he could give so satisfactory an explanation of that circumstance as would convince any can- • did and reasonable mind, that the omission in the case of Hen rietta Maria did not in the slightest degree interfere with the principle for which. he was contending. The marriage of Charles I. with a French Princess, had given very great .um braze to the people. .In the treaty of marriage, a provision was made to quiet the alarms of the people, containing. an express stipulation that none of the King's subjects, who were Paptsts, should serve th e Q ueen . N o sooner h a d Henrietta Maria ar rived' in this country, than these alarms increased, and upon the assembling of the first Parliament which was held in his reign, Charles alluded, in his speech from the Throne, to the malicious reports which were circulated, that was not likely to - be so true a keeper anti maintainer of the religion of the country as he ought to be. He complained of those rumours as malignant misrepresentations, and assured the Parliament, that as he had been brought up like Paul at the feet of Garnaliel, so he would ever preserve the religion in which he had been bred. The state of religion was immediately afterwards taken into consideration by Parliament,• and a grand. conference held between the two Houses on the subject. The result was a joint Petition from both Houses of Parliament, praying the Crown to enforce the laws against Popery, and to advance the true religion. In the fifth article of this Petition' express - mention 'WA made of the Queen being a Papist, and his Majesty's attention was called to that clause in the treaty of marriage, by which all Papists, being natural born subjects, were disqualified froth serving the Queen. Immediately after the Queen's arrival, the discontents running very high on the important and delicate que s tion o f th e Queen's religion, and her proximity to the King, and the coun try being much disquieted on thin subject, Parliament went every length short of a direct remonstrance, and urged the King to preserve by all poesitde means the established religion, which they evidently conceived to be in d a ng e r from th e religion of the Queen. After the King had' given . satisfactory answers to all the articles of this Petition, his Ministers took occasion to men tion the next day that the King said he always took it well of them when they reminded hini to take caresilf the established religiOn, but nevertheless he should 'have done and granted the same things if the two Houses had never pefitiOned, and he 'Said, that when his father recommended to him the, person of his wife, he did not recommend her religion. Ile (Mr. B.) cited this as another instance of the religion of the Qiietrobeing a subject of great jealousy and 'suspicion. A Proclamation in consequence of this was immediately afterwards issued against Popish recusants. The grand conference was held, the Petition presented, and the answer returned with the Duke of Bucking ham's remarks upon it early in the month of August, and on the 11th of that month the House of Commons resolved itself into a Committee of Orievances, the grievance which occupied their attention being the subject of the Queen's religion. The usual course was taken of refusing the supplies, unless the grievances were redresOed ' • the two ,parties came to an open rupture, which Concluded by the King's suddenly dissolving the Parliament. After the dissolution, and before another Parliament was held, the Coronation of the King took place. Such was the frame of mind in the country, and the two Houses of Parliament, when the pr ac ti ca l question arose whether a Popish Queen should be crowned or not ? The first determn: nation of the King clearly was that she should be crowned, though he might possibly be induced 'to alter it afterwards to prevent a revival of the animosities of the preceding month. This was the least favourable supposition for the purposes of his (Mr. B.'s) explanation; but there was-another way of ac counting for the Queen not having been crowned, namely, that tthe objection arose not from the King, but from the Queen herself. The peculiar circumstances in which the Queen was placed, must . have operated most power fully upon .her mind, nor was it easy -to see how she,, Catholic Queen, could be crowned. by the ceremonial which was used' in a Protestant country. The ceremonial was performed in a Protestant, cathedral; at, a Protestant altar, by an heretical Archbishop, as she must have thought him, and in a most 'heretical place. The very phrases used at this solemnity, though they might be used by a Catholic when applied to a Catholic King and a Catholic Queen, yet when ap plied to a Protestant King and a 'Catholic Queen, must either mean one thing in the, one case and another in the other, or 1 they must mean something heretical and abominable in the eyes of this Catholic Queen. Out of this dilemma it was impossible.for human ingenuity to escape. To say nothing of that part of the ceremonial in which the sacrament was re .ceived, which at a Protestant altar and hi a Protestant church no Catholic could receive without abhorrence, she must also re ceive a ring from the hands of a Protestant Archbishop, aceoin partied with these words, " Accipe annulum fidei, signaculum sancta. Trinitatis." Now, although a Catholic might, by an effort of casuistry, apply the - word " fidei" to his own faith, _yet,. .when it was considered that the word was pronounced by a Pro testant Archbishop, and addressed th a Protestant King, it must be taken to mean the Protestant faith, and then the Queen would be called upon to receive the ring as a symbol, not of her own faith, but of the faith which she abhorred. The same ob servations applied to the words " Sigoaculum sanctec Trinitatis." The form went on, " quo possis (mines hereticas abominationes evitare." So that this ring was to be a charm by which the parson receiving it would be enabled to avoid all heretical sins, and as these sirs, denounced by a Protestant Archbishop in a Protestant Cathednal, could be no other than those of the Ca tholic Religion ' a Catholic Queen would be called'upon to receive a charm which was to enable her to avoid the abominations of her own faith., It went on, " et barbaras rates virtute Dei sub jicere, et ad agnitionem verit.a.tisativocare." Such was the vir tue of this ring, that it enabled the,possessor, not only to avoid sin himself, but to work marvels in other men—not only to escape contamination himself, but to militate with success against popular heresies, and convert infidels to the Protestant faith. This would be no doubt a valuable present to a Protestant Queen ; but it most appear so detestable, so • abominable, so abhorrent from the principles of a Catholic Queen, and in all respects so damnable to her, that _lf enrietta Maria might well be supposedanxions to decline any participation in such a ceremony, through she had the same right to participate in it as any formes Queen Consort, and an equal right with the King Regnant him self'. Taking these two circumstances together, first, the wish of avoiding odium and exciting or renewing toe jealousy of the people against hereelf, and her religion ; and, secondly, the objection she must have felt to participating in the ceremony froni religious motives, she might well be supposed to have de clined insisting on her right, and their Lar:c,hips were bound under these circumstances .to infer that objection moved From the Queen herself. This was the opinion or antiquaries or'. the subject, and there was .another and a third reason a - isin frora• a considSration of clates; tertdui greatly to corro borate it: 'lt was barely 1?osa;111 Ning might have , been compelled to yield to popular clamour, anti, that such re presentations were made to him through his councillors, as in duced him to forego his determination, and the Queen to waive her right; but if theirLordsTains considered the dates, thiswould appear to be highly improbable. , The second Proclamation was made on the 24th January, only nine days before the Coron a ti on , and he would put it t o 'thei r Lordships, • whether it was lik e ly `that any representation was' made to the King in th a t sho r t in terval rich could induce him *forego a solemnity whi c h h e akad solos. y annomicedN e n the 'l7th and 24th of thea a montlia Parliaineil‘ was not sitthagarait did not assemble till after the Coronation ; papilla eirianes tatarel P hot li Iy BO NA been called in those days, nor indeed was there sufficient time for holding therm Public opinion could h a rdly b e b e tt er k nown on the 25th or 2tith, or on whatever day the alteration was de cided upon, than it was 02 the 24th ; there 'was no likelihood, therefore, in, the supposition that the Queen wa i ve d h er right through compulsion, acting upon the King. Their Lordships were bound, therefore, to conclude, that she lis tened herself partly to what she knew to be the public feel ing, and partly to the religious scruples which she entertain ed •against participating in the ceremony=; and that for these reasons the omission in her case formed no interruption of the right of Queens Consort, and no exception to the rule which he had laid down. The next case to which he begged to call their Lordships' attention, was that of the Queen Consort of Charles 11. which was no exception to the rule. . First, because the same observation applied to this as to the last case, on the ground of her being a Papist ; and secondly, because the King was unmarried at the time of his Coronation. This case was capable of precisely the same explanation a s h e h a d g i ven i n t h e last; and the more so, as the divisions between the Catholic and ,Protestant faith were increased, as they were fast approaching to the period of the Exclusion Bill ; and as the example of the great rebellion, and the sufferings which Henrietta Maria had brought upon herself and her family, in consequenceof her faith, were not forgotten. The people were never more alive to the ' recollection, that the Princess on -the Throne was a Catholic. In the twelfth of Charles 11. there was a - debate in the House of Commons, upon a formal motion, desiring the King to marry a Protestant; which motion was made at the very time when it was well known that the King designed to marry a Portuguese Princess, and when there was consequently abundant reason to suspect the sincerity of the King's profession of the Protestant faith. It was said that Queen Catherine, when she came over to this country, took an objection which was extremely likely to operate with regard to the Coronation, and which tended to confirm the view which he had taken of the objection to the Coronation in the last reign having moved from the Queen her self. Queen Catherine refused to be married by a Protestant Bishop or a Protestant Priest. Henrietta Maria was said to have . objected to be crowned, unless assisted by a Popish Priest; but Catherine objected even to be married by a Protestant Priest.— He knew not how this was to be got over; nor did he know indeed of any evidence to shew that she was ever married by a Protestant. if she could object to her marriage by a Protestant, , still. stronger must have been her objection to the solemnity of the Coronation, which must be performed by a Protestant Me tropolitan, according to the Protestant ritual. Now James the Second being married at the time of his accession, he and his Queen were crowned together. It was said, he knew not upon what authority, that the ceremony of the Sacrament was omit ted on that occasion. Flow this was got over he knew not; but whether it were omitted or not, there was this remarkable dif ference between their case, and that of Henrietta Maria and Queen Catherine, that both the parties were of the same faith. They were not therefore exposed to that dilemma in which Henrietta Maria and Catherine must have found themselves placed, if they had participated. in the ceremony. James 11. made no secret of his faith ; he went openly to mass, and Parlia ment had even entertained a Bill for his exclusion before his ac cession. Both the King and his Consort, therefore, professing the same faith, they would take the same words in the same sense, and they would not have the same contradictions and in consistencies to encounter as in the case of a Protestant King and a Catholic Queen. - He was glad to have finished this part of his historical deductions, and to have arrived at the period of the Revolution, after which, as their Lordships were aware, all Queens Consort had been regu kirly crowned as a matter of course. The Queen of George the "First, if she could be so called, formed no exception, for she never came to this country, she was never in any manner recog nised or mentioned as Queen, and she was said; indeed, to have been divorced from the King by the sentence of a foreign Ecclesiastical Court before his accession, so that her Co ronation was utterly impossible. It was legally impossible in consequence of the divorce, and physically impossible because she Dever came to this country, so that her case formed no ex ception to the principle for which he was contending. It might be said that some proceedings had lately taken place with re gard to her Maje.sty which might affect her claims, but as he was now upon the mere question of law, he wished to establish her claims upon the legal positions which he had taken, independ ently of any appeal to the facts of her Majesty's case. If au thority were of any weight with reference to this view of the case, he might appeal to that of a Noble and Learned Judge in the case of the King v. Wolfe, which had lately been argued in the House of Lorda, some objection having been taken in the course of the argument to a person who had been found guilty but was never sentenced. The Learned Judge in that case made use of the following expressions If a man were found guilty of ever so gross a charge, and the proceeding failed at any subse quent period, he was entitled to be considered as innocent as any person against whom no charge had been made." This was undoubtedly the law of England, and he was almost ashamed of reminding their Lordships that the law knew no distinction between the absence of complete legal conviction, and complete innocence. He had now arrived at that part of the argument in which it became n ecessar y f or hi m to request their Lordships' permission to withdraw for the purpose of con sulting the Liber Regalia. The Court having granted permission, Mr. Brougham, Mr. Denman, and Dr. Lushington, withdrew at about one o'clock. At half past one o'clock Mr. Brougham re turned, and stated that he should be obliged to ask for leave to withdraw for at least another hour. . Lords ECDON, LiVERPOO t, and SIDAIOUTII spoke of the uncertainty in which this left the Court. They also wished to know, whether further Counsel were to be heard for ber Ma jesty, because, otherwise, the Council could ad journ four o'clock. Mr. BROUGHAM replied, that it was essential to him to consult the Liner Reg'alis fully before he could proceed with his argument ; but he cal culated that he should be able to conclude his argument at the next hearing, whenever that was granted. It w;s only desired that her Majesty's Solicitor-General should be heard in further support of the Queen's Memorial. Lord ELDON—If the Council adjourn till to morrow, would your arguments be finished in the course of the day ? Mr. 13ROCGHAM—I certainly think so. The Lo . nn CHANCELLOR, after consulting with the Council for a short time, said, that as there was business in another place (the House of Lords), it was deemed most advisable to adjourn till to-morrow morning at ten o'clock; and if the arguments of the Queen's Counsel were not con cluded by four o'clock, then their Lordships would adjourn till six o'clock, and resume their labours in the evening. The Council adjourned accordingly at a quar ter before two o'clock, till ten to-morrow morning. ' Report says, that through the great interest made in favour of some Lieutenants, especially those that are at present re-employed on board th e Rochford, having served eighteen months under Sir TUOILIAS F'REEMANTLE, and in consequence of his death were re-appointed under Sir GRAIIAIVI MoORE, they may look forward to promotion. On Monday last, at the fair of Ardagh, in this county'-, a dreadful riot occurred between two factions. The Police having been called to pre serve the peace, a furious attack was made on tilein by the parties opposed to each other. Tier jeant NOEL, of the Police, had. his skull fractur ed, and his horse was killed.—This day eight men, charged with being concerned in the out rage, were lodged in gaol.—( Limerick Chronkle, Juv .)' IMPERIAL P.,‘RLIA'MENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, JULY 5. Ina Committee of Privileges the claims of the Earl of Lisbtirne and the MarqueSs of Donnegal to vote at the election of Irish Representative eersyere admitted, r.ll , la.son, from - the East India tiouNk qe% , ilfed -an Accotant 9ithe,Pensions and Ghttuitios granted by the Compan)k. Lord CALTHORPE presented a Petition in fa vour of the Cruelty to AniMals Prevention Bill'. The following Bills were severally. read the third time :—The Irish Silk Bounties Bill, the Hop Exportation Drawback Bill; the Isle of Man Trade Bill, and the Irish Customs. Collection Bill. The - following Bills passed through the Com mittees :—The Assessed Taxes Bill, the Audit of Accounts Bill, and the Husbandry Horses Bill. On the Order of the Day for the House reso4y og itself into a Committee on the Duke of Cla rence's Annuity Bill being read, The Earl of LAUDERDALE said, that it was neither his intention to oppose the 13111, nor to disapprove of the principle upon which the arrears of 6,0001. a year were granted to his Royal High ness. On the contrary, he was of opinion that Parliament had done itself great honour by granting the arrears, as it proved that they had acted upon principle. The other House of Parlia ment had determined, that on the marriage of a younger son of the King, a grant of 6,0001. a year was necessary to support the dignity which. he ought to maintain. In consistency with that principle .they had granted the arrears. The object with which he had risen was to re mind their Lordships of the situation of one mem ber of the Royal Family, he alluded to the Duke of Cumberland, who had been treated i 0 a manner which he did not hesitate to call un fair. When questions of this nature came before him, he did not feel himself authorised to ask his own feelings whether the Prince was a fa" vourite or not. All he had to do was to consider whether the sum required was necessary. If it was once to be admitted as a just ground in the consideration of such cases, whether the Prince was a favourite or not, exorbitant provisions - might be sometimes made above the demands Of the occasion. After what had passed in the course of the, last Session, he was sure that their Lordships would agree with him in the principle he had laid down. He would admit, that the moment the proceedings were dropt against the Queen, she was to be regarded as an innocent woman ; but he - would appeal to them whether: after the• investigatiOn which had taken place/ they had granted her an allowance upon awl other principle than that it was necessary to sup' port her rank in the country ? With regard to the low, mean, and slanderous insinuations against the Duke of Cumberland, all that he wished was , that they should be. put in a tangible shape, in which they could he met. The exemplary man ner in which the Duke and Duchess had con ducted themselves in this country.was such as t° f , recommend them ; and f or . a ll those. reasons, Ministers did not think proper, .though he c e , i r. thinly thought th e y wou ld, to. propose an -A - ' 1 ; dress on the s u bj ec t, a ft er t h e temporary war mth excited by long debate had subsided, he should feel himself at liberty to propose an Address , founded upon the principle f or w hi c h he ha contended. The Earl of LIMERICK sail .that he concurr ed in the sentiments which had fallen froth his 17 4 ' W ; ble Friend, and d ee ply regre tt e d' that .eve,r% branch of the Royal F am ily w a s no t provided I.' suitably to th e ir ran k. he could assure th ei Lordships that :f hi s N o bl e F r i e nd s h ou ld h ere after feel compelled to move - the Address he had met ) " tioned, such a motion would. have •his hear t Y: Support. Parlia men t h a d provided for his Ro”: Highness of Clarence as a married'man, but 11c) ; fOr the Duke o f -C um b er l an d, th oug h the latter had a son, wh o mi g ht b e ca ll e d to swa y ' sceptre of the Unit e d Kingdom. He would, t therefore, p u t it no t on ly t o t h e generos ity, °l t to the -prudenceof their. .Lordships, how - far was politic to compel the Duke of Comberi ali s c . : . to educate th a t son i n f ore i gn parts , and.acc,l:s, torn him.to foreign Manners Who might be ur, tined to ascend the th rone o f thi s ki ng d o m was clearly of opinion that no time should - L' lost in order to induc e th e D u k e of Cumberialia to return to this country , with his son. Theßill wasmorrow..—Adjourned. n ordered to be committed ." For LITERARY Arid Scrr.N - Trrlc 1NTE4,74.101 2 "cr 4 ' the Fourth Page. PRICI OF STOCHS TILTS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCIS. 3 per Cent. Red... 77q 77 76 5 per Cent. Navy Ann•••!" • 3 per Cent. Cons. 764 i ex div. ex div. 4 per Cent. 95 94q Excheq. Bills 4 b India Bonds 565. Cons. for Opening .... . HlGii WATER AT LONDO. Morning, 58 minutes after 6. DV I NBRIDOE TO-INIORR 1 Evening, 20 minuteN after -.405 THE SUN. SOLEM QUIS DICERIFFALSUM ATIDEAre, LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 6, Mi. THE QUEEN'S CASE. ro ingP the ßry Y re-hearing C °u NciL.- h A e t r t A e l n A STY'So'cloc kthis I ' l 1 ,1 11 support of her asserted legal right to be eW r t ri l.: at the ensuing cerem on y o f th e Coronati°ll% t place at the Privy C ounc il. Th e sal ve C a ' c ' e , Ministers and P eer s were. thi s day Preserit yesterday. The crowd of strangers was muc .greater, and the rush On ' o p en i na the doors ,verf violent ; the utmost confusion for several minutes prevailed. As soon as silence could be obtained/ 1 at half-past ten o' c l oc k Mr.B RO UGE.AM resum e( ' his argument, and contended that he had yest.rA day shewn, from an unbroken series of Queeri s h6fore and since the Norman Corpest l that DUKE OF CLARENCE. p t 1