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Queen, although fully eirtitled to all the privileges
and itnntunities belonging of right to her station as
Queen Consort, had yet no right to n Coronation,
todepeadent of the favour aid permission of the
Crown, and that neither he nor any other of the
servants of the Crown were disposed to recommend
his Najerty to grant any such favour. Against
that doctrine, so laid down by the Noble Lord, he
(Mr. B.) at the time protested. 1-k chrism, it wan
tree, feel prepared to lay down the contrary position
as the law, brit he expressly stated his dissent, in
order that silence on his part might not be con-
. suited into en assent to the taw of the Noble Lord.
That was all that passed on that occasion. ANI
hers he might stop his narriviou, to inquire whe-
ther from that it was to be taken as a necessary
consequence that any Coronation at all was to take
place. or, if it um to -take plate, chat theQueets
was to he excluded The Noble Lord amid that that
right of the Queen to be rrowurd could may Ear
derived from the grace cud favour of the Kiug, mat
that he war not disposed .to recommend the grakt•-•
ing of such favour. • •Natorally, after that, her
IVlajesty herrelf, and her law advieers,-who, it had
been well observed by Ur lion. .cud Learned
!friend Starlett)„ wire not to be takes in the
same relation to her tor the &hunters of the Crown,
whose place it **snot to girt -fault 'recommenda-
tion, but to wait for orders--.thaught•it their duty
to wait and see whether any proclatnutims was lean-
ed. And as to the proclamation its. 4 , thst wan
not a certain proof of the event actually taking
place. Ott the Gth May, 1819. a proclamation was
mined for the coronation' .to take place oat the tat
August ; but it was afterwards delayed. 'fir date

of the prochionatiost this. year was.otle.ltrue, which
was on Saturday; it wow not, howeveri, published it*
the Gazette till the Tuesday following, winch was
the The 'Memorial of her Mejeety to the King
in Council was settled and sent off from his (.11r-
8.'.) chambers, where the ennsoeltation on the sulqecs
was held, on Saturday, the 23(1 ; so that the amount
Of the delay was eleven slays after the publicationaf
the pruelautation. Now, under the circumstance,
of the case, he really could not take to himself any
great blame for a delsayeef only eleven days, on a
mutter of so greet importance, attended. anis so
much diffiCulty. Of that delay, however, some
part was occasioned by the illness of his Hon. and
Learned Friend, who was confined to Ins room at
the time ; souse portion of it was also atteibutable
to the tVinisun-liolidays, by which the British
Museum, where it was necessary that search should
be made among the records, was shut up. Great
courtesy, it was true, was shewn him, which he war
glad to have that opportunity of aciteoeledging, by
persons in the house (the Museum), whoa* he wdulii
not name, lest it should result to their prejudice,
by which he had beet' enabled to Search twice.dur-
ing the vacation—bot• Aid these holidayi had %Ae-
rated some delay. The whole delay, therefore, when
it came tube thus accounted for' in reality amounted
to nothing. The Noble Lord had asked. why no no-
tice had beeu taken of her Majeei y'sclaiin, from w hit
he hod said, OU the 'let of 11. y—that lie (lir. B.) had
already explained. But taking it from that date,
there was a lapis of a mouth only, and that was a
delay bluely out very extraordinary. to enable theist
to search and examine, sod deliberate ou a matter
of such impoetenee. A delay had takes place 111/MM
the forwarding of the Memorial, ofeshich at present
he wished to abstain foont'rhy obserestion, because
he considered that no answer having yet been given,
that the sobjecfroust be still under consideration_
He ought, however, to add, as to the necessity of t
louger time to enable any necessary alteration to
be made in the preparations, that they were much.
in error who suppose there was any waist of time
for the purpose. There, were precedents where
the hest proclamation of such a ceremony errs only
sixteen days before the ceremony itself took piety ;
and' changes had been ordered only nine days, and
even but two days before.
The Marquis of LONDONDERRY rose to reply,
tos shortly as he could, to the observations of the
lion, sod Learned Gentleman, In the remark.
which be bad felt himself called eta to make an Sa-
turday upon this subject, it certainly was far from
hie intention to go out of his way, to censure any
pert of the Learued Gentleman's conduct. in his
profeesionel capacity, bat what he meant was rather
to contrast that rapidity which he seemed to expect
its the decisions of others, with the slow and caw-
tious mode of proceeding which had marked his.
own couduct iu this business. The Honourable
and Learned Gentleman had stated, very truly.
that on the 4tat May he (the Morel-lois of Lou-
donderry) had assumed that right of a corona-
tion was only in the Crown. The Honourable
and Learned Gentleman had stated that the sub-
ject was first mentioned on that occasion, but the
Honourable Member might recollect that in the
ninny debates which occurred before that period, iu
which allusion had been mode to the rights and
immunities of a Queen Consort, he (the Marquis of
Londonderry) did most distinctly, as far as his ie.
pressiou went, enumerate the several immunities
%high depended on the special grace and hivour of
the Crown, and among them he especially mentioned
that of her Coronation ; so that the Honourable
and Learned Gentleman's *minims must have
been called long before the Stitt of May to
this very question. The Renewable and Learned
Gentleman had stated, that the Memorial to
the King was dispatched on the 23d June. in
consequence of the proclamation of the 9th ;
but that was not the first time that the
commotion of her Majesty was expressly mentirmeil
because iu a letter to the firet Mioister of the Ch u''•.
Lord Liverpool, between the 41st May mid
date of the Proclamation. her Majesty inquired a.
to the pert she was to take in the erresseav, whe-
ther any and what preparations tied been made. and
wbo was appoiuted to attend her; to which an
answer was returned, that her Majesty had no claim
to attend as a matter of right, and that it was not
intended to advise that she should partake is the
ceremony. That produced • rejoinder from her
Majesty, intimating her intention of preferring her
claim lathe King in person, to which an answer ea,
returned, that his Majesty would be advised not
to receive her. That must be considere'd to have
amounted to a total prohibition, so that there was
no want of warning on the subject. When he (the
Marquis of Looduirderry) gave his opinion as to
what lie cooceived to be the law of the subject, the
Hon. and Learned Gentleman. although be did
nut choose to take his law, laid dews no counter-
law. Without imputing say thin unfair to the Hoe.