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stead of being her Advocabe be lesd been one of
tww..,,itufget, he should Im bone' amongst those
who protested her innocruce, and If he did not fuel
those sentiments, he prayed that CUM'S the most
bonible might fall on his head.
When the Hon. and Learned Gentleman con-
eluded, the cry for the question became exceed-
ingly loud, sod the gallery was cleared for the
division, without the usual formality of a reply
from the Marquis of Tasistock.
The numbers were:—

Ayes
Noss

Majority in favour of Ministers.. 146
Adjourn/A at r► QUARTER BEFORE
SEVEN O'CLOCK this use aaa i a sg.

TIIII XING'S COURT.

His MAJESTY arrived at his Palace in Pall-mall
on Moody night, from the Pavilion at linghton.
Yesterday. at twelve o'clock, his MAJESTY held
• Court, which was attended by—
The Lord Chancellor, the Lead President of the Corned,
the Lord Privy Seel, the First Lord of 'the T ry. the
three Secretaries of State, the President of the Board of
Control, the Master of the Mint, the Lord Chamberlain,
the Master of the Horse, the Treasurer of the Ilnissehel4„
the Coatptruller of the Household, the Lord and Gretna is
waiting.
Ikon Et.t.toT, Esq. was introduced to his MM.
J ESTY, upon his teturn from the Government of
Madras.
His M AJESTY held a Privy Cosucil, when he
pricked for one Sheriff fur erch mostly ior the Year
ensuing, out of the three oomioated by the Judges,
&r. in the Court of Exchequer, in November lust,
according to ancient custom.
Lord BERESFORD was introdeced to the Council,
sworn in • Member, and took his min at the Board
aceotdingly.
Mon ELLIOT, Esq. was introduced to the
Council, re-swore a Privy Counsellor, and took his
seat at the Simard accordingly.
The Earl of W ESTMORL AND resigned his seal of
office as Lord Privy Seal, instead of wlirch his
MAJEIIY was graciously ',lensed to prevent him
with • new seal, which had previously reerived his
royal approbation, as engraved for his reign.

ViSeoUtit SIOMOUTH, Viscount CASTIAItrAGH,
and Earl B•TIIURST, the Secretaries of State for the
Foreign, Coleniel Dvpartments, also
resigned their seals of office, made for the reign of
the lute litSG, wild his ‘l,sigllTY Was grin:lowly
pleased to preveht theist with new ones, engraved
fir hr ri:ign, and previouvly approved of by
Ti,e old seals were devil-flyer! by Mr. BULLER, the
Clerk of the Council, who was in attendanyv.
His dIAJ Est y gave audiences to the LORD CHAN-.
CIELLOR, the geit of LsYeassout.. Viscount Sly-
MOUTH, nod Vl•cotint CAsTLICRIAGS.
The Aldine:: of the Miat laid before. his MA-
JESTY, kir big approval, 119113 t sep•citiorOs of it otw
l'olllige.


"That his Majesty's Ministers, is advising the nsensere
which led to the late proceedings against tier Majesty, IMO
not jostilied by any considerations of political expediency ;
aid that their conduct has been productive of consequences
derogatory from the dignity of the Grow,,, and injurious to
the best interests of the rountry."
Those who complained of Lord A irCIIISALD
HAMILTON'S motion, that it was not sufficiently
energetic or decisive, or calculated to express in its
adequate manner . the sentiments of the House of
Commons, should the motion have been carried in
the affirmative, have not, we imagine, found the
like tacit with the motion proposed by the Noble
Marquis. It was, we presume. sufficiently strong
for their perceptions. yet it was framed with such
propriety and judgment that it excluded altogether
the question of the Queen's guilt or inins-
tenet, which could nut be tried in the
House of Corneae,. and grappled solely and
exclusively with the conduct of the Ministers,
which, after the rejection of the Bill of Pains and
Penalties in the House of Lords, was the only ques-
tion that belonged to the House of Commons to
consider. This question properly divided itself
into two parts: first, whether the Ministers,
in advising the measure which led to the proceed..
ings against her MAJESTY, were justified by any
considerations of political expediency; and, se-
condi'', whether their conduct has been productive
of canisequencee. derogatory from the dignity of the
Crowe, and injurious to the best interests of the
country. The ministerial ;surly, in defending their
conduct upon the first part of the charge, assumed,
as the basis of their defence, the very act fur which
they were censured. They say, " Having re-
ceived information respecting the impropriety of
the Queen's conduct. sod having collected what
we supposed to be proofs of such impropriety by
meaus of a Commission dispatched to Italy for
that purpose. we should have been inexcusable had
we not mode a communication to Parliament noon
the subject." Now it was the very act of vending
out this very Commission to Italy—the act of
opening a burials tell Milan fur the reception, it not
the purchase of every species of infamous and un-
authenticated scandal ugaintt the character of her
Maistere--t.he act which, marking a hostile feel-
ing on the part of the British Government towards
this Illustrious Prtucest, must evince to people far
less keen and apprehensive of their own interests
than Italians, that all would be well and unscrupu-
lously received who presented tbeniselies with some
tale of slander befete the Commiseionees--ir was
this very act with which, as " leading to the late.
proceedings against her MAJESTY," the offences of
the Ministers commenced, and they had no more
right to use it as a justification of their subsequent
proceetbugo, than a man would have in a Court of
ordinary jurisdiction to take advantage of his
own wrong. It may, however, be said, that this
argument only throws beck the question one step,
and that having received any intimation of the im-
proper conduct of the Princess of W• Ler. they were
bound to pursue the inquiry. Should this point be
admitted, the ones is then thrown upon the Minis-
ters to prove that they had no other means of pur-
suing this inquiry than by instituting the Milan
Cominission, and that there were no persona in
England—petunia of rank and respectability—who
had resided with the Princess during a consider-
able part of that period embraced within the
charges of her alleged criminality, from whom
more certain information might have been obtained
concerning this matter, than could reasonably have
been expected front publicly " beating up" for
evidence through the impure populace of a nation
almost proverbially deficient, at lead among the
lower classes, in religious and moral principles.
We should be very far from contending that the
Ministers of the King of EN GLAND would
nut be justified by every consideration of po-
litical expediency in instituting at, inquiry into
the conduct of their Sovereign's wife, prod they
bona fide received intimations hom persons
deserving or credit, nut merely that the QUEEN
was actually guilty of freewill to her husband's
honour, but that even her name wus made the sport
of evil reputation either in this or a foreign coun-
try. But the public must look in the sources of
information in this particular. It is impossible not
to feel that her NIAJEeTY's fame was assailed out
of lours at a moment when the I.stl;es oncl Gen-
tlemen who formed her liuuseliotil could see Ito
ground fur imputing criminality in her conduct.
It is hence manifest that the slender commenced
not within her own household, but was ntegina'ed
by persons out of doors, who could nut hese had
sufficient means of forming a correct estimate of
her conduct. At that moment het MAJESTY was
watched by spies, who are now well known to the

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The principle .
personally, distinguished every occorijou from
the honest and cuuscientious inquiry after truth, is
no less manifest in every subsequent stage of the
proceeding. The erasure of her name from the
Liturgy, condemning her before trial, or even accu-
sation made, was not only an insult rod an irjury,
but a punishment ; the otter at St. Omer. was
the same ; the refusal of a ship to convey her to
Eogland, the refusal of accommodations and per-
sonal respect subsequently, bore • like character;
and who is there in the country that does not feel
the infamous and brutal scurrilit lea that were from
day to day poured upon her devoted head by tier.
Treasury Journalr, to have formed a part of. the
cruel system of persecution which was devised sud
practised for her ruin ?
Have these proceedings injured the country ?
Hare they been derogatory from the dignity of the.
Crown, and detrimental to the welfare of the aim-
munity ? Have they opened a flood of impuritser,
no matter whether true or false, that must con-
taminate the purity of the public morals, and espe-
cially of the youthful minds of both reset ? Move
they prevented the Legislature from entertainiog
the coonioleration of subjects involving the dearest
interests of the industrious classes of the State, and
distracted the attention of the wise and good frost
matters of universal concern to points which, at
best, are only of temporary interest ? Have they
agitated the public mind, and tended to enlarge
the breach already too great between the peopleund
the Government ? These are the questious that ere
suggested by the consideration of the second
branch of the Marquie of Ts•lsToca's motion,
mud as they are matters open to the pen-optima of
every individual in the country—as they are, in
truth, matters of fact and of notoriety, no rewoon-
ing ran properly be applied to them. The Tote of
the House of Commons upon the subject, previous
teethe opening of the green bag, was fearfully pro-
phetic, and the country now have cause to lament .
that the resolution then addressed to the Qisaw
had not been directed to the quarter where an
acquiescence in its proposition could not have been
attended by self.conviction—where, in fact, con.
cession might have been an honour, and could not
have been a disgrace.
The debate was resumed last night by Sir
Roastur WILSON, who enforced these sentiments
upon the attention of the House. The gallaut
Knight was followed by Mr. llusguaoS, whose
speech may excite some interest from the citron].
stance of the Right Hon. Gentleasassia Wag asps
posed to be connected politically with Mr. Cam.
*too, who has avowedly abandoned the Wainer,.
Irian the embarrassment he should feel in unify:
on the Treasury Bench while the coodoct of his
colleagues with regard to the (ItiEsx was under
discussisooo,llllr. HusaissoN admits indeml, fur
which, no dOLIbt, her NIAJESTY feels deeplyarootlisi,
that the result of the investigation in the Platstes-.
of Lords amounts to an acquittal of the Q1;11L;;,
and that she IS in consequence entitled to all the
honours and dignities that belong to her rank; Loa
he undertakes to justify the conduct of the Mtuit-
ters in instituting those proceedings by a reltrer.r.
to the evidence, which was incapable of
conviction of her MAJESTY, even no the Il
of Lords, when hire prosecutions awl her es..ed,t• a
sat us lier judges. The debate was pootrairo:4l
half-past six o'clock this morning, wtw a .the O.
hers were—For the motion, i7B—Agaisait it 3440--
Majority for Milliliters, 146.

We have ret•.iaed .the Pati• Papers of
day tort. The Kitt* hra reoeived the departotoris.
of the Chambers of 14tra arid Deputies,: rigid
,
vend whorl, cboorted to awomar the regrew wog .4-
dighatiois ear 'tied by the :late 'attempt et the Tapir.
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gtrirtive Chambers coritirue to catty ow AIM 4' -
veetigntiona ou thy eubjest, and it watilla4 arfok.,..t
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