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thing which was distinct and substantive in itself;
;mod next, it ought to be espected of him to shew
rights connected with it, inseparable from it, and
depeudibg ou it alone." The.. things applied to
• the coronation of Kier, which was regulated by a
ceremonial, the origin of which was lost in remote

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ell depending on it, while yet they had nothing but
..' usage to plead, either for the rights of eves the
V.lllllfaftillielt AWL. .f.to illie ad,' irammis 'AL.
-!' npaiiitteigiettho Queen's tight. He lied woken
of • usuge. end .f semisoft coronation beim*. f
But betides that there- *en imitate rights,- if
• he might so speak, ceisoected with it, and ilepeodenit
an it alone. As to the ceremonial used. he had
.cited yesterday largely flow the Saxon documenu,
aid m furtherance of those .proofs he bad new to
,offer some • from the Libor iftgatior to which
he had, in the mesertinte. been ambled to refer.
lie ought, in justice to the Dean and Chapter of
Westminster to observe, that they were bound to
tenor to part with the boot out of their immediate
.poftession by a statute of Elizabeth, " ft/Wein all-
gauss neeessituttio." There were found in that book
. three ceremonials (the book was written in 1375) :
First, for the King's catenation without a Queen, at
least the solemnity belonged in this instance to the
sing separate from the Queen. Then there woo .
the double ceremonial for tho coresatims of the
King and Queen together : "$1 Regina man rye idt
euromooda."—(He thee teas( "zooms to aheetsome
• •.t. the ordering of the ementwor..." fintehtem.
core:lsm sego 4* retinas doilies ter cosemett
dine ontiyao, g. Amitosis hadismiteso."]..lit ea.
.ether pirt 'were these words : .‘ Arrow iis odes
.die gee Rex sorommes arsiososto sit &visa."
—'nevi the,inatrectiems to .the Biotic" es is the
. Capri to he given for the occasion : " Tom
-ad regiment argue velem skporiando ail new.
Nelisini et oscaluisda." He neat referred. to the
orders fur the coronation of Qoants is cams con.
remphteil where the King might not Wend. The
-.Queen 'night he crowned alone and the King ma
attend, but only wetness it as a spectator, or beer •
:port' as, an individual not concocted with it by kn.
tAi.a. • In the nest place there .wese• rights sod
tisn,ges dependant on • Queen's venom/ion itede.
..pendent of • King's, establohed-by beg ahorler sod .
enjoyed without interruption. He had referred to
sit lie • 'episode coronation .of the Queen of
Henry the Third, at which the 'Barons of the
Cinque Ports claimed ,to bear and divide the
canopy as at the comaatiew of the King. At the
same coronation bad Gdbert de Seiner put is his
claim to as Chomberhan to She Quiets, to keep
. the chamber on the day of the emenation. and to
have the entire bed, and all the apportenances be.
longing to it, allowed to him. There was as entry
in the ancient Red Book of Knights' fees in the
•Court of Exchequer, from which it appeared, that
the mid (bitten held certain manors by the Per.
• geaniry, that he be Chamberlain to the Lady the
-Queen. lii the !meat Roll in the same Cowl, it
.appeared, that is the reign of Henry Nil. there
wits another entry, which went to show. that by
force pf the King's writ, the above-uanted Red
Book tad been searched, and that the claim of Ghl-
..l?crt had been allowed to have the Queen's bed, and
the other things belonging to the chamber. ..It was
on this claim that Robert Vert the trend, the Earls
of Oat rd, lied founded his . right. to the ineetrio,
'held on The tenure of defog the Ake of Queen's
Chaoslierlaiii on the day of her eoronotioie. It well
t. proved that his ancestors attended • the coronation
of Katharine, wife of Henry VIII. and performed
the services dour at such sole monies. There were
• besides the orders to which he bad yesterday re-
v 'levied respecting the coronation of Philippa, wife
or Edward 111. and the proclamation to the Barons
- of tile Cinque Ports, and the orders to the Sheriffs
of London to .stake proclamation respecting the
. i aziroostion of the Queen of Richard If. for ell per-
to come forward and do serviceiss to the King.
\ - re was also the proclamation for crowning Eli.
seNet4 h, wife of Henry VII. in the meat words as
. - •the.proclemation foe his own. etwonatiou.
.1 The LORD CMARCILLOR asked for a copy of
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BIIOOOIIASI said that it was to be found in
tßrwer. There was another case, that of the hate
reign: proclamation was issued for•.the Kiog's
coronation. and in the interim his nepsisis took
place. Another proclamation was then issued, or.
-4ering.ilie coronation of the King.and Queen.
The Earl of Lteaaasoot. asked -what was the
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• Mr. &tonna/kis was not just then prepared to
say ; he would state it .as he went on. Oa better
lrerbllactirm, he believed it was in the reign of
-Henry 111. Having gone.throogh the main or-
ligaments, the majority of instances, the disinter-
anpted succomion—the sighb•inierworen with the
crnwning of Queews, and .dependant on them
alone—the title either admitted, or, having;
been refused, afterwards concededthe question •
wuaM naturally be, did all this moan nothing--• -
wins it mere unsubstantial form—wos •it
- 'Unimportant, utterly insignilicsin, indifferent,.
and exist* on the king's will and pleasure only ?
Conl4l it bepossible fur any one •to say, that the
'tight so sited, so enjoyed, and all the inferior
rightsvdepanding on that usage were nothing ? It.
*geld be • • violent. concluition to come to. He
thigh' soothe able to soy whence the right origi.
nate& nor describe its intendment or usage in
law ; heinight not give a satifectory account of
she ;myopic of the ceremony ; but prosier ao,
sough feet, all the presumptioas mutt ba
token is favour ,of the peibesple, tad his is-.
Ability to minima the. importance of the pain.
elide timid make nothing agniust • him. But-
coulctany thing connected with a ceremony of this
beki so immaterial and indifferent as to be •
udivisanwileritil or not at the pleasure of the King ?
whs•martstained that the Queen hael•no right,
• ....•hetebused.to thew the principle why all. which he
islhaid download had existed ~.they were bound to
'• 4ibiew that oil meant nothing,end happened at,
lbst embed? could tell how. • If these was benefit, it•
inset rhe (Of the Shute. There was nothing in the.,
Vowalilutiaa, whether of law or .if. usage, .of • any.,
web hvignitude which was held fat the benefit',
of-the lisversign hussrlf unconnected with this?,
bovervigaq of the reabas.—natilat therefor. —L*

-.wows hilt *ere there an right; which Anibject
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nagweffitletgeeme silleteetly • could not enforce ?
AR ilfro Suppose, on the decease of a
were a oaths to bebehew is-the Ring Peer, the Crown refuses to issue his summons to
as& , statute of William and Mary, the eldest lawful son, to (sill him to Parliament,
bet ling that there were proofs that 4 could it be denied that the.right of the said son to
Qemses millbletion was looked.epoe its at high, be so summoned was as firmly vested in him, and
inglast, 11.111 itneient solemnity, which eoeld not that he could no more be disturbed from the pos-
be disPeralid *with. which had rights and offices session of that right, than in a case of any common
connected with it. He who was reposed I. contract between any common persons, in which
my that ibis was ao right, but only a form or the Crown had no concern? Again, he would
miespletneut depoudiag on the will of the King, take the case cf prize money, and supposing the
must be papered to go one step further, sod gat used Prize Act had prised, granting the money so
-cid of the IlLisig's coronation. It must, even is taken to the captor, would it be considered consistent
the letter ease, be an insignificant turd unimportant with iustiee that the claim of tbecaptor should be de-
cereassiey.Of dependant on him will ftw solemnizinglacedmild another Act was poised, depriving him of
eel*. The kw cases in a hick the Monarch's act the right heenjoyed nt the tinie the co pt ure was made ?
//481$01 to WNW formed bat a easy ,m.hl chap- Again, by different statutes it was regulated that
' tot atinstamselsts in almost 411.1 his weretial Ammo. Parliament should only last a certain number of
lutaillsi ie his political one, and lawyers had years; at present,st the ezpinftion of seven year.,
Ilmes Meets and solicitous to the last, degree to find the Crown was boded to noose a writ to summon a
thasiv through which they might dial* the former new true. Now, suppose no such proclamation as
teta the verge of the litter. How did, it happen the statute ordains Abu be made, the people are
-east 'in the coronation, which was an act of all d.eprlied of their right, the right they enjoy ne-
ithers in which the Darnell must be most absorbed cording to the hiw, and the right is no less certain
to the politioll capeteity, that atMeMplls should be and absolute because the Crown has refused to
Made to du nee with the Coronation of a ()demote a issue the proclamation. How this right could be
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illiiug of ect indiffe'rence. for in it mutt be depee- rendered effectual he did not now inquire—pro-
%out on pleasure of the King shine ? Whet right, hably by inspeachateat; but his argument was, ee
'it might be asked on this principle, bad he himself if the Queen bad no right to be crowned
to be crowned ? It was impossible from Mecum- without a royal proclamation, then had the
malices to crown Edward V. There Might be half eldest son of a Peer no right to sit in Peas-
e dozen instances in which Kip bad not been sense-..then had the captor no right to his prize—
' crowned ; but that could never invalidate the right. amt, teeth., theti bad the people no right to a
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usage on his iiiile—he was supported on hymen?, because it required a Royal Proclamation
fiery *Maid by precedents-and arguments, and the to call one. Upon these grounds he had placed
'iobjecfrirsi which were edible to shake the right of his argument in support of the Queen's claim.
the King must be equally iultiectual us to the lie had beard it said, the Queen hod no right to
Queen. There were right. belonging to. other prescribe because she was not a corporative, but
‘persons dependent on her coronation : this was one he isoutesided she was as iwech at corporation as the
reason for performing the cereniony: If, tilted as King. Comps laid it down in his Digest, that
to the importance of the right, he wits not bound to cettsin public officers could prescribe, and that
shew hoW small or how great it was. Howeeer, even the Clmacellor. although he held his office et
small, the law took no consideration but of the pleasure, could prescribe. In .the 2cl Hull, page
right. The importance of the right was a qua- g 24, it was also laid down, that • Serjeant, Attor.
tion for the party claiming it aldoe. It might ney, mid Under-Sheriff could prescribe. He
ha enough to chew there was no certain or clear should not trouble their Lordships with any reca-
account of the urigin of the King's eoronition;, pitulation of the statements he had made. This
It might possibly have arisen out at the prOcess of. was his argument in support of the Queen's claim
election; he might have been privately elected: to participate in the coronation. He had strictly
by some persons behied the curtain,. anti abewu at! confined himself to the law of the case, .and he was
the coronatiou for the adoption of the People. happy to know he was addressing Lawyers; their
Lawyers, it was true, were alway suffictently astute consideration would be the more likely to be con-
ic finding out the origin of these mailers ; but as fined to the abstrsct question of law, and not in-
failure of lawyers to trace the origin of the 'King's terrupted by any of the discussions which had lately
coronation would be no argument against the ez- agitated the public mind. Nor would the minds
ignite of his right, so, in like manner, he trusted of men to Come after us be confused with, the in-
the other side might be allowed the benefit alibis terference of such considerations. when they should
argumeut. When the King was held up in this . recur to their Lordships' decision for the explans-
mummer for the election of the people, their Lord- tion of that which would be otherwise unintelligi-
.ehips would find there was also a sufficient reason ' bte. They would resort to their inquiries with all
for bidding up the Queen. She formed a most in). that calmness and security which we had done in
portant part of that solemnity, not, inerelY on ac- contemplating the mouunseuts of . Saxon times,
count of the splendour slig would confer upon it, .examining the decisions. of Norman law, undia-
but on account of her proximity of cooaeaioo Curbed by the history of feudal quarrels. They
with the other branches of. the Ituysl 'Painily.,aud would then sit in judgment upon the great Law-
er mare close connexion with the Sovereign as yens of the 19th century ; and, lie fervently hoped,
the head of that family. In the time of John there that should any difficulties arise, they should refer
was a distinct recognition of the Queen's right, for to the first decision upon this most important quer-
in an ancient document it would be seen that lion with all the confidence which the great names
" Ile commune consensu et voittittate episeoporome of those who pronounced it were calculated to
&traitorous eSioutque pupal toilets regiii, Regina inspire.
curonetn,". Here then you have io these times a Mr. DIENNIAN then addressed their Lordships.
complete evidence of the solemnity of crowning He commeuced by stating, that. ies discharging
the Queen, as well as the manner and object of the important duty which had fallen to his lot, he
doing U.. The same principle upon which the King lived that, after the extraordinary research and
was crowned, was recognised with respect to her legal argument they bad just heard, he should only
Majesty. It must be. remembered ilae Queeii was weaken the effect of that which had been submitted
not merely the , wife of the Kiieg, but the mother to them, and diminish the light which had been
of the Royal progeny; abe was the mother of the cast upon this most important question; but in a
King's offspring ; she was the person through whom case so novel, so important, so closely interwoven
the succession to the Crown. the grand favourite with the greet institutions of the country, and so
of the law, was to be transmitted. The law. was ex- deeplyinterestiug to all nations where knigly go-
tremtly jealous, and watched with the utmost care vernment+was upheld, lie should feel that he had
her conduct, and .the opinion of her conduct, for abandoned his duty if he abstained from addressing
upon her purity depended the peace and happiness their 'Lordships, even after his Learned Friend.
.if the realm. Both the. purity orally Queen and If lie found it necessary to deprecate any idea of
the opinion of her purity were, strictly gnaided by favour on behalf of lire Majesty. or asserted her
the law. The law of treason wits (ruined to pre- right in a tone of boldness and confidence, he
vent the royal blood from being tainted, and also must entreat their Lordships' favourable eon-
to prevent illegitimate issue front being imposed etruction ; fur although tie would nut be sup-
upon the country; and it was only second in im. posed fur one moment to compromise or sure
portsuce that suspicion should be prevented from render her Majesty'. right., lie should be equally
arising .that might taint the succession. fur such averse to offering the slightest disrespect to their
suspicion could not fait to plunge the country into Lordships. The corotiat..m of Kings and Queens
innumerable evils. These ware out merely the has always been considered a religious ceremony,
grotto& of the statute of treason. but the stature as a solemn compact, and in any thing that should
of Edward VI. was declaratory of this construction, fall from him, he would out be underetood as
and in the Illlrror, which Lord Coke quoted, , meaning to cast any reflection upon that lent of
the same principle mat laid down ; the seine pain- it which was • mere ceremony. In a free country,
ciple was found to the common law of those time*, and iii a free state, much depends upon the recol-
to which be looked back for the usage and practice lections of ancient times, in being able to truce the
for which he woe then contending. But could ally rights of those its.. whom the. Kingly office was
man doubt the object of this aoleineity was to hold vested. Nothing could tend more to bind s free
up the Queen... wife to the King, in order to put people to the instittitions of their country. It be-
an end to all questions . upon thet subject, when came a part of the pride and properly of every
the validity of the Royal matriage might be doubt- man in the country, fur there was a degree of null-
ed. He was now, speaking of times alien chin- vidual dignity which every man felt in seeing the
destine marriages might have taken place, and be right of his Sovereign derived from the earliest
involved in considerable obscurity. and when the age., end lie considered it no small tniefortune to
.anost fatal doubts might be euteitained as to who the institutions of other countries to want these
„„,,, the wire of the King. and still more, who was valuable recollections. It was the remark of a
. the mother of his offspring; and in cases where most itilelligeut English traveller of mit:alter even-
.•the King was married before hit accession, doubts try, America, who in speaking in rapture. of every
were touch more likely to arise; .for lie assumed thing rotund them, lamented the absence of that
• the possobtlity of the marriage brittle secret, and which time only could repair, that they had no
alaims [mine to the Crown by the children of such memorials of former limes. There was another
contract. The circumstance of a Queen bring striking instance of this in an individual whose
.beyond the age of child-brariog had nothing whet.. death had been lately made known to the world.
ever to do with the matter. The Lbw of treason —He who had attained a degree of military
affected a Queen to the end of life. There was no glory unprecedented, be who . had achieved a
propriety in !elutes appealing to the fact, and it train of illustrious actions as a soldier, such as
was hardly decent for hint. when speaking or law amid never before dignified the character of man—yet
theuature of law, to admit even the probability of an was he unable to establish that nobility and re.
appeal to fact. It might be 1444 that lie assumed spell which inferior minds derived from antiquity.
a right *gannet the King. fle,did no such thing. He should, therefore, always wish to speak- with.
reverence of ancient institutions, but we should
He assumed a right in behalf of both the King end
the Queen; he asserted the right nut on behalf of the' not strip them of that from which the derive
Queeutdoue, but for the tit her branches of Royal their importance, sud use the language of a
family, soil fur the Sovereign, as the head of that I great man, who flout vatious circumstencesilitard,-
said family. Wae it to he that no right which a dened to be one of the best historians of Eigtu

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Item succeed Atunrath, bat
Harry. Harry." The coronation of Kings of Zap
lead- depended upon custom alooe; then, was eo
solemn or positive law; it is:a law recogamed by
usage of the earliest times, and he -thought
-shauld be able to_ convince Ante _Lord.-
.eps that there was nothing could bi-.4ersved
from this source to prevent her Majesty from
participating in it. His Learned Fieriest had re-
ferred their Lordships to a work entitled The
Titles of Hersoar, the prodnctiou of one of the
wisest of men, who did not consider it unworthy
of his great talents to record the rank, and diguity,
aed court history of stations. In speaking of the
distinctions tube observed at a coronation when a
King was married, he mid, " Si forte ilia tem-
pore, quo Rex sit coronatue, habaerit uxorene, tom
'sewn est coroouri ;" and iu epeirkiug of the cot*.
nation of a French Empress, he quoted the lan-
guage of the French Ritual, " Regina Mom is
teelesiata abilreendu, mite altars prostrandu."—
It might look like an affectation of antiqua-
rian research, but when they saw this great
mau inquire with such atteution into the sub-
ject, and coostasitly warning against the depar-
ture Item ancient custom, it 'appeared to him
that there was something in it to deter mew from
infnnging upon the established institutione of the
country. His Learned Friend had pursued the
custom of crowning Queens down from the Con-
quest, and he should make a few observations upon
the principle from which the claim had originated.
it must, in Ilia opinion, have had some reference to
the Royal progeny ; it gave the people an assurance
that she was the mother of the heir to the throne.
The stature of the matrimonial contract, the habit
of betrothing children at an early age, the difficul-
ties of deciding the mealy ecclesiastical questions
that arose, all suggested the propriety of establish-
ing this solemn contract. in the case of the mar-
riage of A rbysa, the wife of John, the marriage was
initialled *is the groups' of consaugninity, and the
marriage of his second wife Isabel, who was crown-
ed, was publicly proclaimed. The custom of
crowning the Queen, like all other customs, must
be supported by such evidence as the nature of that
case would admit, mid he appealed to their Lord-
ships if ever there was such a body of evidence,
founded aspou immemorial usage, adduced its sup.,
port of any claim. Since the Concinest re Queens
have been crowned, some with, others without these
husbands. The wife of William I. was certainly
crowned ; the wife of William 11. was also crown-'
ed. There could be no doubt that the wife of
.Stephen was crowned.. The wife of Henry was
eretereed two or three times. Richard I. was crowned
_with his wife Belingaria, iu the Isle of Cyprus
Edward I. was undoubtedly crowned with his first
l,wiree• There was no certainty or the second, and so
' down to Henry VIII. and this reign did not fur-
uish any very strong or very desirable precedent.
His two first wives were crowned with him ; cies
cumitauces might very well account for the meal
eion of the two last. But them exceptions afford..
ed no argument against the right. Three of the
wives of Henry VIII. were his oars subjects, snail
Anne of Cleves, who came over to this coontry,i
was soon glad to get rid of the office and retire 4
passing fur his sister. It would scarcely be neceser
awry for him to remark on the case of Henrietta'
-.llfieria, fur if it lied not been sufficiently esplainedl
by hie Learned Friend, it would be vain foe his to'
-attempt it coming to this country Beebe did, et
a times, when Pottery was most detested, so much so
that else was actually 'warned against keeping her:
Men servants about her because they were Papists.
When we considered all these circumstances, it ape
-peered to him far inure extraordinary that the pods-
motion iris issued at all than that the coronation did
not take place. The King must have aceuireli the
almost unpopularity, and the Queeen was happy to
save him more of it. One might easily suppose that
Charles 1. had mentioned the circumstance to the
Queen, and that she bad consented to waive her
right ; but because she declined from reasons of
policy to be crowned, it by no means followed that
the had no right. But the peculiar circumstances
in which her present Majesty war placed, reedered
it impossible that she should waive any right; she
could surrender none of her privileges without sub-
jecting'herself to certain imputations, as the whole
course of her life had proved. But suppose that ice
former instances the right had been wairee, it would
ouly prove that the right did exist, and had bee,
given up from motives of policy, and that humble
consideration and desire to yield to the wishes ot
her huabaud, which every wife; whether living with'
him or separately, should be inclined to feel. al
would now make a few observations on the nature
of custom itself. He did not Wean to inquire
whether it were called the prescription of thi
Queen, or for the benefit of the people, for
wiiose benefit alone all Kings and Princes
reigned. It hail been thus defined : " Pre.
scriptio at titulars ex alectoritate legi deri.l
autos" or this possession and usage ; they had
brought down the uninterrupted succession with
only one exception, and lie really UMW at • !meter
knew how it would be possible to eubsoit a more
indirputable case. The King of this country,
although lie was almost omnipotent iu matters of
renk and dignity, yet he could do nothing except
by law established—" Nihil ailed poles. Rex,
quarts good de lege potest ;" nor could he interfere
with the regular established order. It load been
humorously said, that one thing the King could
not da, and that was, to make another King in
Engl.iid. All that belonged to an individual in
rank or dignity, nothing but au Act of the Legis-
lature could alter. The coronation was a so-
lernn compact, wherein the Monarch binds
himself by oath to observe the statutes, customs,
and laws of the land ; and would it be said,
that upon this solemn occasion the King was at
liberty to violate one of the ancient usages of the
country, and that when lie we. entering upon the
celebranon of tine ceremony, that he was at liberty
of his own her will to dispeure with a most
im-
ptortant portion of it ? Would it be said that the
King, if lie thought proper, had the power lo ex-
clude every Peer of the realm from the coronation.
Just as he would at his own private ball, as it suited
his inclinations? If so, lie would destroy all the be-
nefit or it. Nothing done there would be binding,
nothing would be solemnise, octane ; lie would
vitiate the clemency, and destroy that which had
been established by custom. It was to be a reli-
gious ceremony, and if there was out Win which

more than another ought to be cherished by their
Lordships, it was the derive to exclude from the
mind of the illustrious person who presided, whet,
he was pledging himself before the altar of hip
God to govern the nation with mercy nod Os-
tics, every sentiment that could ot all interfere
with that spirit unit temper with winch he
should be inspired upon that solemn occasion.
If grace and favour were the ground of the right of
a Qoeca Cowart to be crowned, where, he would
ask, was the proof of that circumstance? King
Wilhelm I. when his Queen come over to this
country had her crowned ; the mane had also hem
the case with the Henrys and the Edwards. The
I)ei gwatia was not conferred by the favour of the
Kits, but was derived from the laws and cut-
toms (einismotidineel of the land. All the prero-
gatives of a Quern, although derived through rt.e
King, yet were not enjoyed at his will. He was
really at a loss to know in what way any person who
might be called upon to argue on the other side,
would set about proving his case. He could not
think of a single argument by which such a propo-
sition could be supported. If from the begriming
of time there was r nothing either in cerementai
itself, or in any thing connected with it, which
could lead to the supposition that any King who,
issued orders for the coronation of Ins Queen did
so as a matter of greet and fevoor, and not rather
es acting ender the influence of a right established•
by custom.-sif the summonses in the althea both
persenages were the same, and required the attend.
since of the same persons, it was too ;flitch at this
length of time to suppose that by those orders and
these summonses the King originated, rather than
ucknowledged. the existence- of her right. Prince
Henry, the sots of Henry IL, married a Princess
of the illustrious House of France, who was not
crowned with him, and on that occasion the
Court of France remonstrated with him in the
usual style of Princes, and the circumetance bad
nearly produced • quarrel between the two countries.
He contended that the right, although not alma-
&ldly stipulated, was yet implied in the marnage
contract, and unless that contract were dissolved,
wader any circumstances the right would still subsist.
When the father of her present Majesty signed the
contract of her marriage to the Prenee of Wailes,
there could be no donbe that lie understood it to be
implied, and .virtuatly, though not specifically sti-
pulated, that whenever the husband should cease
to be Prince of Wales and should arrive at the
honour of the crown, she shonicl participate in she
increase of his honours, and among the rest, in the
solemn reeognition.ef her sight to wear that crows
which had been placed on the heads of all her pre-
decessors. And 'surely' it would not he contended
that become her futher was nq more, became there
was no power abroad to intetfere iu her behalf,
she ought, therefore, to be deprived of her chitin to
that honour to which, not only by the agreement
with her father in the, marriage contract she was
entitled, but which was also by the tindisturbed
autumn and uninterrupted usage of the country
her right. If a right so established were not se-
cure, then no right whatever either of property,
dignity, or privilege rr this kingdom could rest on.
secure foundation. The Crowe itself mated on
custom. Why was this • kingly government ?
Why did this country submit to be governed
by a King 1 Because from the earliest ages a
kingly goes-maw Imo existed in the country ;
I because a Kane had at ail times been recog-
nised in the country ; because beyond all time
the kingly authority had been here • establish-
ed. Why did Juries dispose of the lives and
properties of OHM Because it was the custom of
the country. . Why dud the Peers of. the realm sic
in a Ilottiteof Lords ? Because., cuateno had given
them that right. Why viterelehelniodle represented
by the Cognisant"? Brendle -sinia•the custom of
the country. It was only *by custom that Kings,
Lords, and Commons;_. farmed thi; cone iitutional
Legislature of the country. Ail titles, dignities,
offices, sod possessions, were.by curown ; all property
was by prescription. He said thiiiaot to-derogate
from, but to add to the security dt.ehose rights;
to shew that they were grounded ma Vie best and
soundest principles of human native; If they had
'hewn that the psinciple oa which the .iight now
claimed by her Majesty rested could lint •be vio-
lated without destroying the ground cur which every
other was established, it was impossible that for any
of eaprdieucy or cuusenieace it should be
withheld. If the principle were adMitted, tbey
must take the advantages with-the dis•drantages
the consequences with the arguments—the •benefits
-with the evil. If they admitted the argument they
must admit the deduction. All the grounds of
obedience and allegiapce would otherwise be
shaken, as they all rested on the foundation of
custom. He agreed with his Learned Friend is.
thinking. that at would be highly improper to al-
lude in this argument to any of the peculiar cir-
cumstances of her Majesty's siteution. If her
right to be crowned were established, she could not
by those circumstances be deprived of it ; if had
no right but what proceeded from grace or favour,
her Majesty must not; could nut expect to be crown-
ed. Would to God her Majesty were ins situation to
ask for favour front her Royal Husband ; would to
God she were so circumstanced as to be entitled
to sue to him for a matter of grace ; would that
she had it in her power to waive the question of
right! Iftherights of one individoal were unjustly
disturbed—if the principle were once pat in ope-
ration, there was not one men issahe fr3llll oho
could say that he hail the same interest and security
in his property as before. Her Majesty stood there
for her successors, fur the people of Englaud—
she stood there to advocate that claim, which
could not by her be abandoned without com-
promising the rights of all. It was difficult to
leave such • question without ',inking minute-
ly into the kiwi of evidence which had beet, laid
before their Lordships in support of it. lo a
Court of Justice could such evidence be heard
without effect Take the instance of • right of
pasture or a right of way, and if such evidence iu
support of its exercise were given in any
Court
as had been laid before their Lordships in this
ease, he could not for a moment doubt that
nothing on earth could get over it but some
clear and undoubted proof of the iaterruption
slits exercise. They had taken every instance of
what might be called interruption, and had shown
that they were not only hot fatal to the claim, but
that they did not in any manner bear upon the
queition. If they refitted to James IL there was no

could said of his were personal will and plleasstrer -subject could enjoy was to be allowed without some Ni
or be ifi2polo No rapport the act proceeding from the Crown If this caste se, Am
apasseryidliiir die Soilsitseersed then no subject has any rights. For whet mesas HMI
forigEsWedd.s. kji‘drintl. 'ThelPills■ had a *tibiae! <ts reader his right eflhettsal, if Ito lent
stitullbi ii blicaco. Any itdd jected, -without theAtiterference of the Croton/ sole
the salmi S.bstevei way the Sovereign matt All writs issued from the •King, upon these writs the
asst-Jae ..erotoif Jai. pasuuTts .obro.sight..af the subject .dapauded; .hatt.if -Ls
after K~titapeuie with. Every selentnity of the Oa- was refused; bow was the subject to attain the • Shit
in question derived from antiquity, and aged fee t ? •He might, it am true, proceed agaitst the hoc
ibel:seam Seedr must be heard ;won othenia. cer, but were there so rights which the subject per

iiolibt allittail: if they referred to Charles IL
hoo•nbateleeminti4mistre his isortisge. reek, tbey
refer Wilk leforge I. about which so ostich
opiorepoesenoeti:7lool prevailed
on aoodier oubject?
so well might orefer to say ease new pending
is the Court- King's Bench. Ti.. wife of
George 1. might have been divorced in her own
misery. Whether *he woe legally divorced of not,
she was never known here as being legally married ;
she was wholly onktiowe in England-. as the wife of
the King. If she had ever been recognised here by
the Kiug as his wife, her case might now have afforded
gaps ground for as oriomoot agoiest the present
dais. Custom, to which he hod *fere referred IMF
being-the foundation of the Law of England. was re-
mortised as such by the Barons in the reign of
Rein 111. in their celebrated declaration. "Noiatatas
hies Anglia salami, qua oil wisticsio spoitoes seat."
Redid toot think it necessary to trouble their Lord.
ships with any observetises en the extracts from the
Liber Regales. One remark. however, it was im-
portant to make. It ismer faded. io *peaking of the
uormiatioa of a 4.)«een. to ems the espression, " air
engage* use etde easseeeivhine regoi"--“aceording to
the ancient usage and costal) of the kingdom." It
might appear not improper thst he should Dot omit
any topic which might serve to illastnue this
question. but be 'weld not fatigue their Lordships
1/ dwelling on points which were slresdy Ito clear.
He hoped what had fallen from him might not have
the effect of weakening the strength of his Hon.
and Learned Friend's argument ; and be trusted
that their Lordships would believe him. when he
assured them on the part of her Majesty that
nothing het a sense of ditty had impelled her
to advance this claim; sad that her Majesty
was prepared to submit with cheerfulness sod re-
signation to any derision of their Lordships.
The Learned Gentleman bevies concluded his
speech, strangers were ordered to withdraw. In
few minutes afterwards the Coed being re-opened.
LL was ordered that the Attorney and Solicitor-
General be heard to.ftwernmr, and. the Council ad-
journed at two o'clock till itllto.menow (this day).

QUEEN'S MEMORIAL.

• TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY
IN COUNCIL ASSEMBLED;
The Memorial of her Majesty the Queen shewetb, that
yew May has, by your Royal Prociamatioe, bearing
dear M Caelten.beeise, the Sib day of June byelaw, declared
yooe royal will and pleasure to celebrate the Solemnity of
your Kaye' Coronation apes Thursday, the 19th day of July
deice, at your Palace at Westmioster, but that direction'
Twee not We* given for the Coronation of the Qum', as
both beretoluire bees accustomed on the like occasions.
4' net divers of your Majesty's 'objects, by ancient cus-
toms sod usages of these realm., as also iu regard of divers
i~ep/utt of sundry atawors, lands and other Isereditauteator
ide Adis, sod are bound to do ant perform divers services
milk/41w and at the time of the Coronation of the Queens
Comort of thew realms, as is times pretedeut their aerators
and these from *bon they thieve hoes dose sad performed
at the Coronatioa of the Queers Consort is ham pew.
spat the Cloven most dusifiilly skims, a• of right, Ito
Wichita the ceremony of her Royal Grammies, sad to pre.
owe, se well her Majesty's said right, as she afbresaid lawful
rights sad iitheritances of others your Majesty's subjects.
The Queen respectfully prays that your Majesty
will be grackasly pleased foroliwetb to bone your Royal
Plwitletaaden, thereby to appoint the nose 15th day of July
heal, it Westminster aforesaid, to celebrate Hie ceremony
of bee Coronation as the Queen Coition of year Majesty,
and to direst that all such ashy the said customs and usages
mid teweres, are bowed to do sad perform the services afore-
said, do duly give their Olielidalitall aceordiagly, at the said
isliiitswar time of the Cortmalliso aforesaid, is all respects fur.
as to so great • soleasoitv 'appertaiectb, and answer.
Nlwta the dignities sad places which every use of them hold.
ear aid torjoyeth; and further, that your Majesty will be
grackimily pleased to issue yeas Royal Consraissiou under
year prat Seal, am/intim Commisaioaters to receive, hear,
sod &tensile' the petitions and claims which shall be made
I. then on Me behalf:—And the Quietly" lee.
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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
SOUSE OF LORDS, FRIDAY, JOLT O.

Their Lerdships wet at font o'clock.
The Ildrief SHAFTESBURY presented a Petition from
the labehitsene of the ?ewe of Chigwell, in the County of
Mass, he fewer of the Bill for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Hersts..—Read and laid on the table.
The Iletrated TamesCumspeintiea Bill wee read the third
pew* toad seal to toe Howie of Commons.
The Doke at Cloacae's'. Provides Bill, thr Appropriation
Bill, this ONllMlNSilleffe Or Biaik.upte Court Bill, the
Customs& pure Relief Bill, the Public Works Bill, the
Piletropelki relies Bilk, the Letter, 1141, the Stamp Duties
(luta** BA sod the Tobacco Duties Bill, were severally
ruorinsitheil, mod orpoitted without soy antendineet.
U. the etetion of the Earl of SHAFTESBURY their
Lordships adjounwd to Hoadey seat.

T3RBRITI SII PRESS.

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LONDON,
SATURDAY, JULY 7, Iset.

The Privy Council awernialed again yesterday, at
ten o'clock i►► the morning, in pursuance of their'
previous order, for the purpose of hearing the
further arguments of the QUERN'S Counsel in sup-
port ofher MAJESTY'S claim. Mr. BROUGHAM re-
maned his argument, it . which he descanted ■t great
length upon the importance of the right claimed by
the QUEEN, and contended that it was derived to

her MAJESTY from immemorial usage, and was
neces•unly asmiciated with public interests and a iilt
the private rights of massy individusls who
claimed to hold lands by services to be per-
forated to her _MAJESTY ut her coronation,, us
was urn the coronation of the KING himself.
Mr. DENMAN followed oil the Lime aide, but
bad not concluded his argument at two o'clock
alien the Council adjourued.
The KING'S Attorney and Siilicitor General
Mill be beard against the claim. Should the
Council decide that the Irgal right of being

crowned with her illastrion; Consort is in the
QUEEN, the Ministers will not, we Wok, venture to
mime lui MAJISTY to separate his coronation from
ihmt of the QuEltk, even though the honour were to
be granted to her MAJEaTY of receiving the crown
subsequently ins diAtinet corottotion, and the KING
will never consult to sharing the aatue ceremony

with his Q 0113 W. In the event therefore of the
Council's deciding in favour of her blaansTv's
claim. it is most reliable dist as coronation will
take place.
Having noticed yesterel•Y the cii _ _
\difficulty experienced by Mr. Baonottele let
application to the Dean and Chapter of WO*
.adorer far permission to inspect the Liber Regalia
it is but right that we should now give equal ip4i.;
licit, to Mr. Baotiouaa'a at bsequest 11.11111111169..,
that an Act of Parliement had basliCoBiii
taiga of Ettzosorm, which preirsotod the Dan*
and Chapter from acceding to Mr. BIIOII4IIAIiN
Brit request.
The accounts of the Quarter's Revenue which
closed on Thursday last, were made up yesterday
at the office, and in comparison with the radars
of the corresponding quarter in the last year, pre-
sent, we are sorry to say. • result not so flattering
as under existing circumstances might be desirable.
The following abstract shews the produce of the
Revenue under the several heads of receipts, and
compares them respectively with those of the July
quartet in the year 1820.
A lISTIACT of the NET PRODUCE of the Rsvotos
for the Quarters ending the .514 of My, 1820.
and 314 of July, 1821.

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15182.10, 51184417, !screw. Demme.
t t
1,552,816 1,41141, 115,1155
6,620,609 6,294,61 221,799
1,551,445 1,514,49 API
352,000 314 34
2,343,380 2,344, 16,340
440,744 445 4,
59,249 64,97 5,713
13,280,!13 12,87.,3 26,1911 434,0111

Customs
Excise
Siamps
Pest-OSis• • • •
Assessed Taxes
laid Taxes
Miscellaneous

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Deduct lueresse 511,190-,
Decrease on the Quarter 5402155
De4net March Stork in hand, paid Jr the t
July Quarter, 1520
Deduct also a psynteat to the Treasurer ii
the Miry, for the expenses( the,Reyeusit
Cruisers under the orders of tee Admi-
ralty, incurred in the year 1619

..-•••••••• 114,223
e 193.670
actual

From this account it will be seen that the _
diminution in the receipt of mosey amounts to
407,8991.; but it appears that a certain sum of
money chargeable rpm the March stock in hand
was actually not paid until the July quarter 1820,
which therefore being supposed not to belong pro-
perly to the July quarter, ought not now to be mar.
shelled within it when placed to comparison with
the quarter just ended. If this sum, and a pay-
ment to the Treasurer of the Navy for certain ex-
penses incurred in the year 1819, be deducted from
the atnount of the actual diminution in the last
quarter, then we are informed .very sagaciously
that the diminution will not exceed the sum of
193,6701. This is no doubt very true, and must
prove a great consolation to the public, and it
would he equally true that if the July quarter of
1820 were still less in its receipts by 200,000/. thee
the July quarter of 1821 would present an increase
of revenue ; but we cannot easily see how the cir-
cumstances tacked to the present account can be
supposed to have any weight in euabling the public
to form a more favourable estimate of the actual
state of the revenue for the purposes of defraying
the public expenditure than might have been form-
ed without the help of such an addition. Of this
payment, however, in the July quarter et 1820.
no notice whateree was taken by the Gentlemen of
the Treasury at the time of its being made, nor
did they then attempt to reduce the importance of
that quarter by intimating that this payment did
not properly belong to it, but that it ought to
have been attribu►ed to the preceding quarter,
which closed on the sth of April. We find on re-
ferring to the accounts of the last year's revenue,
that the produce of the July quarter was stated at
13,280,2731.;.. we alto and on referring farther
beck. that the produce of the corresponding quarter
iu the preceding year war 12,604,130/. and well
do we remember the loud boastings uttered at
the flattering prospects of improving finances
which the comparison of the two quarters pre-
sented. The tone of exultation which the public
felt at such a prospect was not sought then to be
subdued by "deducting the March stock in hand,"
which ought to have been paid in the preceding
quarter, where such a help was much wanted; we
heard nothing of the circumstance et that time, bat
it is unw brought forward as if it could in ally de-
gree account fur the disappointment of the Lords
of the Treasury, and the purist failure of their
scheme• for drawing on extravagant revenue from
the pockets of the people. Front this diminution
in the revenue an advantage will be derived to the
public. The Ministers must perceive that taxation
has reached its limit, and that, although duties ►nay
he nominally imposed, and be effective ill at least
harassing the people and encumbering the opera-
tions of commerce, such measures cannot be pro-
ductive of reienue. They must thence perceive
the necessity of reducing the expenditure of the
Government, mill accommodating their views to
the actual coodicion of the country.

To this, indeed, the Ministers have formally
pledved themselves by the resolutions lately passed
in both Houses of Parliament, and we have learned
some pa►ticulars respecting their immediate inten-
tions, which would prove the sincerity of their
proud►es. The death of BONAPARIS, by render..

ing the esteldisbuiffst 1 Sti title's inoecessarY,
will of itieff operate-ers*
a
lea
;expeditors, Awl .MI6 respect to our military
twee. It will jdecirtots. to sots at the diapoial
of the Qmorstmetst. Previous to their knowledge
of die emit it ink akiluoded, as we underlining!,
tendon jirerlogimenie of infirmly and two of
eaveley, but to these will now be added two
more mimeses of idolatry ; so that the
. ludo unhook* emeteorphited will embrace six
legiminiti of infantry and two of cavalry. But
it is in the civil deportment* that retrenchment is
sok required, and there, too, will it afford the
Zt, end most luentita
,kgrceott ~.Ifhe public
ism a rank soil utolloatitsese tepidly spring
op, end in them the Ministers are also bound to
effects OMR foUGU4OIUMuuI. by redwing the num-
ber of petions ellophstediptil diminishing salaries.
.The Funds deelioet• little yesterday in coo-
sequesee of the trolbeititritiste state of the accounts
of the quarter's reunite.
..-.......---,
The Paris Pimp of Tuesday lest have arrived at
Oar Office. Use stetroviests recently made in the
British Porlieneent by' tie Marquis of LANsDOwit
std Me..WlLsoitiosocs. and subsequently repeated
by M. 13E11.71111K CONsTaisT in the French Cham-
ber of Deputies, respecting the active pert that is
still taken in the slave trade by the owners of
French vessels, seem to have excited • high degree
of interest in-France. They are occasionally mode
the subjects of commentary in the Paris papers, in .
• one of which, the Gazette de Frames, it is insinua-
ted that the whole charge is the result of a conspi-
racy between the distinguished Peer and Commoner
of Great Britain and the French Deputy, and is
as hot a snanatevve of the rivals of France" to in-
jure her naval or commercial prospects, ~ like the
massacre of the officers of the French marine at
'Quiberon!" The press of France is under the
surveillance of a censorship, and consequently the
Government is answerable for every allegation
made by any of the Journalists. We should hardly
have expected to see this stale calumny •Isoot the
Quiberon expedition revived under the Bridasoo
dynasty, but having made its appearance it ought
not to be suffered to pass unnoticed by our Cabinet.
The accounts from Madrid are of the tett' of
June. The famous EUPECINADO has been remov-
ed from his command out account of his not being
oble to take the Curate Mitatoo. The Cortes
nominated the Permanent Deputation which ill to
exercise the functions of the Cortes during their
prorogation. The Cortes of Portugal are employed
in discussing a Report of • Committee appointed
to Inquire into the cosersf the diplornitir agents
of Portogel .in loOtruses during the late revo-
lairoo. The Se ,116. that they. have
forfeited the confidence of tholestion, and some of
the' Deputies have'proposed that they ought to be
put upon their trial. This debate was not termi-
sated at the departure of the last accounts. -
The French Five per Cents. are 85 f. 95c.

Dutch Papers to the 4th instant have arrived.
The important law introducing • new system of
indirect taxes has passed the Second Chamber of
the States General. It was carried only by a ma.
jority of four : the numbers being, Ayes, 5.5 ; Noes,
51. Only four members were mimeo. It was a
contest betwee• the advocates of •'free trade and
those of the prohibited system. The former pre-
vailed.

Yesterday the Duke of Yoas transacted 'military
baroness with the KING at his Palace in Poll-mall.

The Marquis of Amecusy had an audience Of
the Kama yesterday,.
We hate authority to state that his MAJESTY
will not prorogue the Parliament its person. It
.41 be prorogued by Commission.

The LORD CRAWcaLLott will not sit in the
Court of Chancery this day.

DlVlDENDl.—Yesterday and this day the Mer-
chants and Bankers sign the hooks, and on Mon-
day the Bank will pay the Dividends to the public.
We regret having inserted in our Paper of yester-
day a paragraph respecting Sir WILIJAW SCOTT.
it being a misrepresentation. The paragraph did
not originate in our Paper, but was copied from
one of the preceding day.
A Court Martini was held nn board his Majesty's
ship Queen Charlotte, at Portsmouth, on Saturday
and Monday last, for the trial of Lieut. Timms..
HASTINGS, late of his Majesty's ship /coral, on a
charge of having mode woe of unbecoming lan-
guage in address to the crew of the learns in
December, 1617. when off Buenos Ayres, pre_
(erred against him by Mr. CHARLES CLEVELAND,
late master of the above sloop, wheat the Court was
of opinion that the charge was not proved, and
Lieutenant HASTINOs was folly acquitted; and the
Court wee also of opinion, that the charge was un-
founded, malicious, and emulous.
The first division of the 41.1 regiment, from Glas-
gow, marched into Edinburgh Castle on Friday.
where they are to replace the 711 i Miniver*, which
regiment marched for Hull. The 91st regiment,
. from Ireland, replace the 41st in Glasgow.
CARMARTHEN, .1131.1, 4.—State of the Poll 011 i
Day.—JOHN Jonas, Ea+ 300; Sir WILLIAM
PAXTON. 273 ; majority for Mr. Jonas. 27. The
poll, it is expected, will close to-morrow, aad Mr.
Jones returned.
Accounts have reached the Navy Office of the
safe arrival of the following convict-ships at New
South Wales. having on board 1,112 convicts, viz.
—Mario, 156; Hobe. 160; ',hoorah, 160; Miaow.
160 ; Dorothy, 190 ; Prime of Orange, 136 ; and
Caledonia, 150—of whom, it is gratifying to re-
mark,. only three died on the peeper out, end one
after being lauded,

S.