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as say other statute; it was part uf an Act;of Parliament, and
it was only to save lime it was not registered on the records;
It was thee, to all intents, substantially one of the siatnies,
sad he would defy any person to real from the Act of Ulll.
fortuity tiny clause that enabled the King to alter env
part of a prayer, except the one that he wont.' state, MIII.
was, providing that in the prayers for the Royal Fatally,
they might ha changed accordiug to the law eetahlished ;
here they bad ooly the word change, hut no authority to erase
or omit a same ; and if this w•s not the law of the laud,
Lord Hale, wool oilier indent who revised the Liturgy,
would bare trait. There was nu provision in it r
omitting the name of any part of the Royal Family. Could
it thee be euntelooled, that it provided (or ontilitue the name
of the Queen Consort? Eason in the reign of Charles 11.
who was unmarried, there was • blank left in the Liturgy
for the game of the Queen Calumet ; which chewed that it
was evident that it was intended, if he married, that the
Liturgy @hauls! be Ailed up, as it was in the peered.
log 'rigs,. After the Act of Uniformity, all the Queen
Consort's mimes were inserted in the Liturgy, and preyed
for, escept the Queen Consort of George the First —He,
therefore, was at • loss to know bow the anti radical Ad.
asioisiration could have dared to have dune away with that
',Web had remained the law of usage fur three centuries,
and what did the rights of the highest Personage iv the land
depeed on if it was nut the law of usage?—(flear, )
Wes it for the Noble Lord (Castlereagh) soil his Colleagues
the anti-radical Administration, whit dreaded the won,
Rehm, to deprive their Queen of her rights, which were
bets by usage ?—'Near, hear,, from the Opposition Hendee')
—He liked to be consigoeut —(Loud cheering from the Mi.
wisteria, peaches.)—This mitt-radical Adminisoratiou, who
dreaded the manse of Reform, and at the same time changed
the cooslitution as they liked, he thanked them for their
cheers, and the wearing of them ; hut, thank God! his
voice was free, and his vote, and wh s they violated the
rights of the Glee', by the fatal Order is Council of the
35th of February, he was determined to oppose every mem.
sure that was brought against her. He anderstood that ~of
the arguments of those who opposed the motion were built on
tire n see of the Consort of George I. being entitled in the
Liturgy; be would tell ibetto, that when George I. was called
to the throne, h.s wife had been bastikd in Hanover for
eight years, and when she breathed her lint breath she had
been fifteen years Imprisoned; besides, George I. bad been
divorced from tier, and she was • ;semis as safely iinprisunad
as another person at St. Helena, whose name it was net
Necessary to mention ; but, if she had come to this country,
George I. would have the right to produce the divorce, and
ask fur a Bill to cut& en it. But George I. had 81.0 what is
called • left•hatled marriage in Germany, which be
understood retitled the Lady married to partake of the
personal properly of her husband, but nut of his dig-
nities. Thu would any man say Shoot this rag of •
precedent was sufficient for the Privy Collura to
moil the name of the present Queen Couto, in the
Liturgy ? He had put the question to the most expo,
rienced Clergymen, and they agreed that the teat of the
statute of Uniformity had too ambiguity. When he looked
at the Act and the Monarchical Administration, he twofold ask
them, of steels an humble individual might have that pre.
gumption, under what authority they entered the name of
the Queen to be struck out of the Liturgy; and whether the
same authority gave them the power to unite the moue of
the King to be left out of it, also was the Head of the
Church, gad obliged to be • member of it ? lie contended
they had no mote right in one case than in the other.
There was ft prayer for the Privy Council and the Paella-
metal; and would the Monarchical Administration contend
they hail the authority to strike them out If they had not,
they bail nut the authority to omit the mime of the Queen,
for her rights depended on no men. If there was such an
authority is Ilse 'reveals trf the Crown, • popular Parliament
might be omitted and au unpopular one kept in. There sever
had been a tribunal in this country, with the exception of the
Star Chamber, who had ever attempted to use the power
that the Privy Cowinl of the Monarchical and Anti-
Radical Administration, had to degrade the Queen Consort
without • trial or a hearing. If the principle laid dowel
by them was acceded to, as it bore on the Queen, sloe might
he dethroned by the saes suihorily—(Hear, hear)—and any
gores that was unpopular at Court might he degraded by
a Privy Comet il. He well knew there were factious at Court
as elsewhere, fur those who were uuw the opponents of her
Majesty had been her greatest advocates. A more miscbiev.
our principle could nut be laid down than an attempt to
degrade the Queen, as it must bring degradation on the
King, sad they were tope g n door by which the dignity
of the Crown might be invaded.—(ifenr, hear.)—The Order
la Council was * gross act of illegality and injustice—it
was dethroning the Queen iu the face of Europe, snot
esehierlag her in the eyes of the Church.—kHeur.
hear, hear.)--The Honourable and Learned Geeilentan
then alluded to the threatening letter which was seat
to her Majesty at St. Omer., fur the purpose of pre.
veal Mg her from returning to this country and entering on
her &from written by • Noble Earl at the head of the
Anti•Radiral Administration, " Put your foot on British
ground, if you dare, and you are ruined " She, however, did
come, and it proved that a British Minister may vary the
Constitut on, but that he cauntit vary British integrity and
spirit, by which her %Neill was rescued from the machinations
against her. The Hun. and Learned Gentlensaa articled. ol
by saying, that he fully agreed is ith the motion of the Noble
Lord, and sat down amidst loud and repeated cheers.
Dr. DoDstre it was not his intention In
follow his Hon. and Learned Friewl in nil 'lie eit..
trainman salter he had entered into. He contended, that
the book of Common Prayer combated from the Crown,
which gave the Sovereignior his advisers, power to make what
stterai toot in it, from tine to time that they thought proper.
Ilia Hon. mid Learned Friend, and the Noble Lord who
brought this question before the House, mainly relied uti
the clause In the Act of Uniformity, which enacted, that
" in all thane collect., prayers, &c. where Ihe ileums of the
Royal Family were married, such alteration should be made
from time 10 time as circumstances may require;" and they
said, that were it tint fur that clause, it would soot he in
the power of the King to make any alteration whatever.
Bet how did the rase stand before the passing of that Art ?
Alieratieiin had frequently been mode before, which must
necessarily have hero mole by virtue of some authority
independ. sit of that clause. Again, they said the donee re-
ferred to the 'newton of the name only, and there was too
authority in the King to make nosy other alteration. But
what was the find act of the reign of the late King? Did nut
be strike out the name of the Doke vf Cumberland ?—(Hear.)
His Learned Friend hail expressed great alarm upon the
subject. Ile saki, if the name of the Queen could be left
out, there was no knowina to what consequences it might
lead ; the name. of that King might hereafter be left out
oleo. But he could assure Ina leterned Friend that his alarm
was gr.ounelless ; •nd he believed his Learned Friend wouhl
himself no koowle.lge that there was hut little danger of such
as. "moss 1111 l , whom it was considered iu whom the power lay
of to ole.oot the alteration—that the order must proceed
from the Kiel; hinted( —(elepar, hear)—dot his teeniest
F. itmi, with his hieltly mu...archival opium..., was to
fear lest the Ktote 'Mood order his owls name to be left
out of the Liturgy. —( fausahler, and hear, hear, heirr.)—
If only Iton name could be altered, 1)11 what principle could .
they account for the adiopimu of floret occasional fume s.f
Prayer *loch sere frequently need hy order of the King, Oil
fleCßOtills 5 rthsuksgivitg,snd others of a similar naiere?—
(Ilene, henr.)—He begged the pardon of the Hoene for bor.
tog 1111/.1111 promised in
the imiaet nut to detain them lung, awl be had entleavitmed
to express what had utcurrod so bins to say in as short a
cowtass as possible.
ir, Al•ltrts, of tr; add 11 u fen ()beer-
y.ittoo4 to the I I•nise from the gallery. Ile wail lie
thought it most unaccountable thst the no•jority of that
House having, in the last &loms, voila as. Address to the
Queen, praying her to CUII.IIi to remain in her locket
intnation, tor name brine then out of the Lowrey, mod as.
Poi lor.r that it would by t:o means lower her in the ilpi•
stool of the Hoopoe, SIOW 111 1 tio It round and addres. the King
to regime her et.nne to the Liturgy It would be telling his
Mojesty, that they hoot aloraoly ail.; d the Queert,
WI um they rung ••ived to be in the wrung, advising her to re-
main contented as she was, but that she, under the lhaiistice
of 10.1.1 advt.- rs—(Leseggler)—liavieg refused, they now
CANDI to ask bins, whom they con.iderett to have dune right,
to undo his urns set, and restore her mug to the Liturgy.