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nonce and support of his dignity. If they were to
adopt the principle of making grants from favour
alone, the public would soon find that exorbitant
demands would'be tirade, 'mach greater than the
occasion required. Their Lordships would uncle',
stand what he meant by considering what, had
passed this Session; of course it must' be allowed
that when the proceedings against her Majesty had
been stopped, she must be regarded as an inhOcitit
woman; but the principle upon which so large i
grant had been made, was for the purpose of sup.
porting her rank and dignity. As for the' mean
sod scandalous charges against his Royal High.
ness '(the Doke of Cumberland), he knew' there
was nothing would give him more pleasure
than to get them in some tangible shape, in
order that he might be enabled to refute them.
Their Lordships must have observed in what an
exemplary Manner the Doke and Duchess had
lived in this country. For the present he was pa-
tisfird with calling the attention of their Lordships
to the subject, and as he knew that Ministers
agreed with him upon the principle, he hoped that
when the temporary, prejudice and warmth had
passed away, they would submit a measure to Par-
liament upon the subject. If not, he should feel it
hioduty to propose eta Address to his Majesty.
The Earl of LINICRICK said, that he concurred
entirely in the opinions of the Royal Duke on po-
litical rubiects; he deprecated the policy of com-
pelling a Prioce of the Blood Royal to reside upon
the Coosisseat. sod to any preposition enabling him
to return be sboald give his most cordial assent.—
The Bin was ordered to be committed to-morrow.
Adjourned at Errs o'Ciocx.

SP, 'I sit PRES S.

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LONDON,
• FRIDAY JULY 6 isei

In ptiggneeire of the orders preiiousty issued, the
rrivy Council assembled yesterday atnrniog at ten
o'clock. fie.ye purpose of hearing the arguments
of Cuirsiiiel is support of the Quisam's claim to en-
joy the his", tstliekkg crowned with her
Illus-
triorts CeWlit. The assembly' of Privy Counsellors
was the mot istiMerouilhitt has ever been retneni-
kered, maiking Yt once the solicitude with which
the claim is regarded by the most distinguished men
in the empire, mid the anxiety upon the part of the
IliSug's Majesty that it should be investigated with
all the attention and solemnity which so important

a matter deserves. Mr. Bitovooom addressed the
Cassava in a speech replete with the most curious an-
tiquarianism! historical information upon the subject.
Not satisfied with the records of the coronations of
Kings and QUEEMS of the StooST, Tv Dm PLAtts.
tamer+, and Norman hues, the Learned Gentle.
man explored with a careful and discerning eye the
less familiar monuments of Saxon story, and drew
even from them proofs and examples in support of
the right for which he was contending. But how-
ever interesting and curious an inquiry of this De-
foe! molt be into times so far remote, Mr.
Baoughoic felt that it was more essential for his
purpose to deduce tbe right of his Royal Client
from the practice, and the principles as marked by
the practice, of much more modern,
and be occordi tilled, with extreme minute-
nese awl yrettioloo, the several coronations of the va-
rious Monarchs Rho swayed the British sceptre
from the Conquest to the Revolution, aud drew
from them .this conclusion, that it has ever in Eng-
land been esteemed the prescriptive right of a
Queen Consort to enjoy the honours of a coronation,
sometimes witi the King, in coma of marriage
previous to the monarch'. accession' ra the throne,
and sometimes iiiiMallUhe King, in eases where
the moulage* have .
would contracted subsequent
to the accession. would be unnecessary for
us to repeat the instances he produced, which
will be found in our report of the proceed-
iugs before the Council. Mr BROUGHAM'S speech
contains more informatiou upon this delicate and
interesting subject than has poifbably ever been con-
densed into so small a space, and it will, we doilbt
rot, be hereafter retarded as the complet est and most
satisfactory guide to the knowledge of the coronal
rights claimed by Queens Consort of England. It
has indeed never before fallen to the lot of any per-
son to feel the necessity of urging so laborious a
research into this particular subject, for it is the
pecultar misfortune of his Royal Mistress to be the
that Queen of these realms residing in England
who has been reduced by the pressure of unfriendly
power to be threatened with an ignominious exclu-
sion from the coronation of her Consort and Sove-
reign. It is admitted by her enemies, that, although
accused of high offences, her MAJESTY mist be
11011 -considered, with regard to the question of inno-
cence or gnilt, as standing in the situation of nne
whose schleps had never been questioned. The
wife of GEORGE I..never appeared in England, and
*he moreover had been actually convicted of guilt,
and was suffering her punishment at the time of her
litistnicd's accession to the throne of these realms.
That Princes*, therefore, was never honoured with
the title of Queen of No similarity Call
therefore be said to exist between the case of the

Prrtseilt QUM' and that of the unfortunate Consort
of the fiat GEOUGE. The dt.eision of the Council
must pow depend not 'llion any presumed or
irnsErinary guilt of the QUEEN which might he sup-
posed to render her unfit to share the corona!
honours of her Illustrious Consort, but it must be
Inrmed strictly upon a view of the usage and prac-
tice of the kingdom from lime immemorial, and
unut filially determine whether usage and practice