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It was, thercUre, that he should not role for
the adjournment. If the Gentlemen on the opposite aide
of the House only sought to soothe the feelings of the Quern,
and slot to triumph over the King, why did they uot con-
trive mime memoire which would answer that purpose?
I Why, fur instance, did they nut bring in a Roll to react that
in all time to come the came of the germ f.r the time be.
ing, commencing with her present Majesty, should be its.
word to the Liturgy That would have the effect of '
satisfying urns parry without iustiltiug the other. But tiny
did net do this; sail he would tell them why they did mut—
was hesa,,,e it %/wild this hare the effect of dishonouring ,
the King.—(Loud and long-continued crier of " Order!")
The SPEAKER slid, the Hun. Measher was clearly out of
order in applying such terms to any Members of that Hummer
Mr. MARTIN said lie bulged wisdom for tit , es.
premsion, and most then soy that they preferred the present
'node, which they bad proposed, b. cause it wool,' leave so
effect which it was out !gender for 111111 fully to describe.—
(Louoklar )
Sir JOHN NEWPORT deprecated the manner in
which the King's amine had been made use arm the
present di.cossion, for the purpose of influenclog the woods
of Members of that Haase. To answer a legal argismeut by
appeals to the penultsl feelings of any body of mess in that
House, gave the strougist reason to suppose that the legal
arsenate,t could out he met. —Wear,
.front the Attorney.
G I.)—As it seemed to be the intention of the Learn. d
Gentleman opposite to meet the argument, he would furnish
him with oar more subject for the exercise of his ingenuity
in ansiserorg it. In the Act of Uutformity parsed by the
Irish Parliament, two years &fur the Act passed in this
country, there was a clause which ran thus:—" In all
prayers, Will" and collects in the Common Prayer, win-Tejo
locution is made of the King, Qletli, Royal Family, Lord
Lieutenaut, or any other of the lawful artlsorities of the
kisigdom, the haws meal titles shall Ame altered toil changed
from thus to time, as tiremostsoces may require." These
words were a phis comment, which served to explain
the iutent and ineaniug of that poet of the Act, and being
it appeared to him to be impossible to contend that
lily authority ass thereby vireo to trace out may of the par-
ties so mentiowed, or to make ally alteration but that of the
names. With respect to the proposal 0: bringing in • new
Act to the subject, it was fur those to do so who thought
that the law as it now stood was onconehasive ton the subject.
The ATTOSN ET-6EN ERA I. tieing loudly mid
repeatedly called eau, arose. and wan received wiofl
loud and general cheering. Ile said, if the law was so
clearly mcontrusertible is this case as the Huu. Baronet
whir had just sat down, and his Hun. and Learned Friend
the Member fur Oxford, who bad tisplayed ao notich
tug and ability in the discussion of this evening—(Near,
hear, hear)—cutaleneted, he begged to ask the Noble Lord
suit the Hun. Harouet, how it was that, if they were so con-
vincid of the illegality of the order by which the gorea's
mama had bred left oat or the Littirgy, twelve months after-
wards they brought forward a minim, to do whet ?—to de-
clare it illegal ? No! hut to declare that it was unwise and

inexpediewt !—(Leeidekeerrfruffs the illintslerial ;leeches )
He would ask Imo how it was that they had allowed slits
question to slumber so long —(Ltoitd cheess)—How was it
that the Noble Lord had nut done that which in his enu-
merate he (the Miumey Geacral) believed he meant to hare
dome ?—(Henr.)—The Noble Lord said, that his nicotine was
the same as that which he had moved last &Gabon, as as
seneudonest to the saulioni of the Honourable Member fur

Br:rasher. He believed that the Noble Lord originally in-
tended that it should tor en, but that he had altered hi+ in-
tentiou in conaequente of the speech of the Hors. Alderman
(Heygate) under the gallery, on s former eveoing.---(Hear)
He wished that the Noble Lord had manfully come forward
with the sense propnsitiou as he had made on the former
toecusiou, as then the question of the legality of the pro-
ceeding would have hero fairly brought under discussion,
in considering whether it would be proper for that House
to iuterfere for the purpose of forcing the insertion
of her Majesty's name to the Litargy.—(eiteers.)—Bot
as he had raid before, by the court* which they had now
adopted, Vol dearly admitted the legality of whit had
been doue.—(New, bear, &Mrs froat the Opposition side.)
—Let nut the Gentlemen who uttered that cheer deceive
themselves into the idea that he wished to avoid that part of
the question; for it was his ittientiou shortly to argue it,
feeling convinced himself, anJ trusting he should be able to
show to the sati•fairtion of the House, that it was perfectly
legal. Bat he had thought it neetsaary to offer these preLi-
uninary observations fur the purpose of drawing the attention

of the House to she precise character of the motion. Why
should they be called spun iodises's' the expediency or wis-
dom of an act if it were illegal? 'fan act were out legal,
however wise or expedient it might be, it could not be at
all justified. His Leased Friend, the Member fur Oxford,
bad first of all endeavoured to prove the right of the Queen
to have her name inserted is the Liturgy, by the Act of
Ussifotusity; but not feeling satisfied wish the case as
grounded upon that Act, be afterwards said, if the
Act did not prove the right, the constant practice
and usage of three hundred years did prove it.--[Sume
expressions of dissent from Mr. Wetherell.]—He was
in the judgment of the House whether his Learned
Fri. ad did mit at first set nut with an attempt to prove
the right from the Act of Uniformity, and then appeal
to the consist*t usage in support of the elaim.—(flear,
Aster.)—His Learned Friend admitted that before the Act of
Uutfoirnity the power was exercised by the King. He
would find that Henry VIII. altered the whole form of the
Liturgy. Rona the time of Edward VI. down to the passing
of the Act of Uniformity, there was no law for making
the alteration of the names ; so that, if that were law
which his l.rarned Friend led laid down, we should now
have in the Liturgy a prayer fur Edward VI. there being no
power by law to alter it, If the Act did not authorise the
King to erase or leave unt, as well as to alter the names, we
should not now have the power to pray fur the Royal Fa.
Emily at all.—(Cheerefrom the Opposition.)—He understood
the cheers, but if his Learned Friend had produced the for.
snit's appended' to the Art, it would have been immediately
seen that the ease was as he bad staled it. In the form of
prayer annexed to the Act of Uniformity, Wasik' were
It ft which were afterwards filled up by the King. If
she Crown had not the power so ill tip those blanks, they
were not filled np by the Act itself, nod must have remained
to the present day. The argument on the other side was,
that the name could not be omitted ; but let them take the
instance of Frederick, Prince of 'sales, the father of his
late Majesty, who fur a long lime was prayed fur, bat his
name was afterwards left out. His Leaner.' Friend hail ex-
pressed some degree of surprise st his taking a note of hie
'eying, that from the year 1546 down to she present time,
there was no in .tenee of a Queen bring omitted. The rea-
Pull of his taking that note was, that he might metre, the
statement of ins Learned Friend, by reminding him,
that in the reign of Philip and Mary, although Mary
was the Queen Regnant, the King only was prayed fur,
the words lid big. pro rrge et principibms aoslris, and no
mention at all made of the Queen. So far from the uniform
;novice relied nu by his !Awned Friend, repeated instances
hod oceurted of deviations (coin it. The usage was all in
luvuor of the construction which. he pat upon the Act. He
wunitt ask what enactment it was that gate a Queen Consort
the privilege of having her name inserted? Hie Learned
Friend tubed upon the clause which Kest eyed the power of
the Ktug to slur the alarms fruits time in time; but he should
have spews, that at the time of passing the Act any prayer
fur the Queen exist, d. The form effixed to the Act was
black ; and it appeared perfectly clear, that when the Act
was coahl.lered with reference to the form of prayer
annexed to it, it was meant to give to the Crown
she power of :Wing and in•erting, otherwise it never
could have Is-en filled up. If by that Act the power
to Lave oat the mantes was and dear, what haul 'Kew
the usage Do that point? Frequently they had been
left out. Witco his late Mejesty ascended the throne,
. . .

he struck uut lbc name of the Duke of Cumberland. Hu
•ilvuirrs did soul think thAt an immure exercise of power.
1 All that had In en dune by the King in Com col in the pre-
sent case um, in order to relieve penning hunt the pelialtii•s
1 they amulet incur by leasing out the Prince awl Princess of
• Walca without a specific order, •uthocisine thrill au to rips
Iwhile there was kW iutsger a Prince ur Princess of Wale,
existence, an twilir hail been issued authuriaing the
umissious, and thereby leaviae the prayers exactly as they
aloud after the late King ascended the Throat. But would
it be said that the. order was illegal, because it did sot di-