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submit tor three weeks 111 ileac' to the its•inaating
effect, of the cue foe the passeetttina, enfueeed as
the jeofeeesion will be with ell that malice sod in-
genuity ems sagged to point the evidence or supply
the implication". tat over the, unwires initial
such Bettie cruelty can have sai influenee. As the
think, in her sensitise regard for public opinion,
has dangerously abridged iffe time necessary f,rr
preparing her defence. lest the might by longer
delay encounter the risk of Torfeiting her high place
in the estimatiote of the country, the public
ought to appreciate her motives and suspend their
judgment upon the evidence adduced, so far at
least as it might seem to criminate the illustrious
defendant, uotil the opportunity shall arrive of com-
paring the chatges with the defence. This is a right
which belongs to every individual under accusation.
but hoer much more emphatically is it the right of
one who has been exposed to every difficulty and
hardship, in whose way impediments of the must
alarming kind have been thrown, whose judges
base frit Do sympathy in her sorrow., who his been
deprived of privileges that have been granted to
others, and who is now placed in the unhappy situa-
tion of demanding, as so exercise of generosity upon
the part of the public, what she might. under
Other circumstances, have claimed as a right, not
by any fault of her own,
,but solely by the
conduct of her prosecutors arid judges, when
they withheld from her the knowledge of the
charges and the accuser', which would have en-
abled her to meet both in fair and equal trombat ?
To her MAJLSTT'S enemies, and those eh() having
heard only one side of the question, will yet in the
exercise of their enlightened judgments undertake
to pronounce her guilty, we would quote the ex-
pressions used in the House of Lords on Friday
last, by the LORD CHANCELLOR, when he said,
" that their Lordships should hear in mind,
that it was possible for every word of the evi-
dence they had heard at their bar to be com-
pletely refuted." This sentiment, so essential to
the purposes of justice, will, we are convinced, be
familiar to the minds of the QUEEN'S more imme-
diate judges during the suspension of the proceed.
logs I. but as a further judgment is to be pronounc-
ed by the public, one no less solemn in its nature,
and far more comprehensive, as it will embrace
the judges and the parties, the caution addressed
by the Noble Lord on the Weolseck to his fellow
Peers is no less imperative upon the great body of
the nation. if the people were suffered to think
and act without the uncharitable interference of the
ministerial agents, we should not feel it necessary
to make this appeal to their sense of justice, we
should rely with confidence upon their native gene-
rosity and integrity; but we have seen the detesta-
ble arts of a mischievously active faction, and we
would guard the public against even the possibility
of being beguiled into error by such practices.

The Bishop of liVtacnErrei has not attended
at the House of Lords since the first .1 of the
QUItEN'S trial, when he was present as Bishop of
Lincoln. His Lordship has not yet received his
suminons to the House. The Bishops, it is said,
are adverse to the Bill now in the House of Lords,
so far at least as respects the clause of divorce.

Yesterday seinniglit orders were received at
Portsmouth for the three royal yachts to disperse,
it not bring his MAJESTY'S intention to embark
this year. The Hord George, Commodore the
Hon. Sir CHARLES PAGET. came into harbour neat
morning, and Sir Cnattuss struck his broad pen-
dant: the Royal Sovereign, Sir EDWARD COWER,
and the Prince Regent, Sir M. SEYMOUR, pro-
ceeded to Deptt.ord.
MAJESTY still continues at his Cottage, near
Windsor, iu the enjoyment of the most perfect
het& h.
Ills MAJESTY, we understand, received the as.
cf.:meat in the Chapel at Windsor yesterday se'n..
night. Ile arrived at the early hour of eight
o'clock, in his private travelling chariot, with one
tiair of ho ses, and was attended by Sir AVII.LIAM
KEPPEL alone. The Dean, assisted by the Rev.
E. NORTHEY, administered.

Paris Papers of Wednesday and Thursday last
base arrived at our office. Advice, from Madrid, of
the 29th of A u gum. state, that General RI 800, com-
manding the constitutional army in Andalusia, has
been appointed Captain-General of that province,
iu the place of General O'Donosu, who has been
appointed Minister of War. This intelligence
would imply that the representations recently made
by the army to the Government and the Cortes have
been successful, and that the decree for sepsrating
or reducing it, until the promised rewards are paid,
either will be, or has bern revoked.
The Government Gazette of Madrid contains a
decree of the Cortes, ivinctioned by the King, re•
lathe to the sale of nstionel property, comprisiog
the Linda and effects formerly belonging to the lii-
rptivition. The produce of the vale wilt be applied
to the liquidation of the public debt.
The Paris Papers speak of several further arrests
that have takeii place in the northern drpartmeists
of France, in consequence of discoveries made te-
speeting the late eonspirocy against the Govern-
ment. 'the persona arrrand are all military men,
some of them bearing high commissionsin the army.
Several of the lir:I-weer, in Paris have undergone in.
terrogniorier before the Committee of the House of