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London, England, 1820-11-08 00:00:00

THE QUEEN'S TRIAL.

HOUSE OF LORDS. TUESDAY, Nov. 7.
The Lord Chancellor enterer! the House a feie mientes
before 10 o'clock. Prayers were read, and the name, called
nave. The space immediately soirrounehing the bar was kept
clear for.aosse tine, Milli the note-hooka of the short-Irtud
writers, together with paper. peas; ■ad ink, fur Counsel,
were laid out upon the desks at the ha,.
The Earl of Lauderdale did not understand that any order
had Iteen given ha the House to make preparations fur the
appearance of Counsel at the bar, lie wished the Officers
Of the House to be called to the bir to know by whose
order those preparations had been made.
The Lord Chancellor said, th It no communication hail
been matte by him for that purpose.
The Deputy Usher of the Black Rod was called up, and
stated, that he knew not by whose orders the hie bed hero
prepared for Counsel, as the arrangements were made Wrote
fie entered the House. Ile was directed to cull Sir T. Tyr.
whit!, Usher of the Black R.I.
Sir T. Tyrwhist appeared in a few naiiiiites. and stated
that hr had ordered the bar to be prepared fur Counsel, in
consequence of inforenatiou from one of the dour-keeper*
that the clerk of the Attorney-Gearryuf had toll hint that huts
master was coming down to the Hon!!, and that it would he
accessary to makr preparat' aat the liar.—(ffene, heirs.)
The Laird Chancellor said, that the matter might Is: al.
lowed to drop there, with sit intinsstion to the Usher and
the officers of the House, that they acre ■ot to Broca to suy
infante- t i )))) a which mittlit be given them, as to prryurati.•os
to he made in the Hoene, without an order front the House
to that effect.

Enrl (key rose and made stone remarks, which were ren.
dried isioudible by the disorder which prevailed brlow the
bar.

PROTEST OF THE QUEEN.
Lord Doerr rose to present a Protest from her Majesty the
Quern. It might appear extraordiult. y that such 411 iMtru-
meut hail been placed in his Inutile, who haul out participated
in any way is the deliberatillfie 011 this lamentable mid slip.
tressiug occasion. Po chaps he ought to apologise, con.ider-
lug the strung opinion which he entertained opus the sub-
ject, fur not having stated that opinion in the course of the
debates stooling these difficult awl disagreeable proceedings
Rut he had floundered that his opinion of the me
could not have been altered by any thing which could
occur al their Lordships' bar, and therefore the expcoarion
of it would have been useless sod obtrusive. His objection
to Bills of Pains and Penalties fur acts of moral turpitude
long since past, was grounded upon such legal and coastitos-
thous! principles that no cvideumce which could transpire
would alter that objection. Suffice it to say, therefore, us
far as he felt it memory 60 state soy °plosion
upon what had passed iu those proceedings, whatever ha
might have thought of the measure before?, he perfectly eon.
furred with her Majesty's Protest, as it went to titsiect lb
bee acithowledgeol prosecutors having masks part of the
judges who determiued the case.—(Loud Antra )--Pre was
well aware that ;precedents might be quoted entirely in fa-
vour of such a practice. He did not contend ageism any
argument drawn from that source; he would leave it to
the minds of those who were inclined to use such a shelter
to defend the ace of such an etample as they cossilil.—(Hear)
Rat the cotter, would judge the case by soother standard
of equity. Such precedents were manifestly full of danger
to the Werra, of justice and the freedom of the subject,
and were known to be so by the people at large; and if
such opinions 'Coded before, they most have been ctn.
firmed soil authorised by the events which bad risen toot
of these painful proceedings---(!leer, hear;—The Queen
further cotroplaiuod that many, or be shoot.' say, some of
the individuals who were sitting in joidgment upon her,
and bad promonuced judgment whist her, hail acknow-
ledged that they had nut attended daring her defence.—
(Loud theers.)—Ou that subject he would only offer one
single observation—that those individuals could suet be
blamed if they were nhle to recoucile fur+ conduct with
their owu firebugs of delieary and what was dole to impartml
justice. Mee Majesty further protested her hisiocence of the
eloper Imputed to her before Gild and the country, sail ex.
pleased bar resolution to abstain from any further appeal to
their Lordships in any other stage of the proceeding..

The Protest was then read, of which the following is a
Copy t—
" The Queen has karat the derision of the Lords
upon the Bill now before them. In the free of Parliament,
of her family, and of her country, she does solemnly pro-
test against it. Those who ■vowed themselves her prose-
cutors have presumed to sit in judgment upon the quer.
tion between the Queen Duel themselves, Peers have
given their voices against her, who bad heard the whole
evidence fur the charge, and absented themselves during
her defence. Others have come to the discussion from the
Secret Censiniller with meads blamed by a MOM ei shingy
der, which her enemies bare not dared to bring forward is
the light.
" The Queen dors not avail herself of her right to
appear before the Committee; fir to her the details of
the ovenware must be a matter of indifference ; and,
unless the course of these unexampled proceediors s►ould
bring the Bill before the other branch of the Legislature,
else will make so referrece whatever to the treatment expe-
►ienced by her during the last 26 years.

" She stow most deliberately, and before Gud, wens.
that sbe is wholly ienocent of the crime Ishl to her
charge; soil she awaits, with essabsted confidence, the deal
result of this neparalleled inrestigatiow."

The several clauses of the Protest were cheered loudly by
the Opposition Peers.
The Lord Chancellor slated, that the (ordinary coarse on
Bills of Pains and Penalties was, after the second readiug,
to allow the amused to be personally beard at the bar. That
was the proceeding in the A tterboory case. If their Lordships
thought Ai it would hr fur Own. to 'revive the &women. now
altered as the address of the party under to ial. But, strictly
'Trotting, be did sent know bow they comet receive a pivot,'
from ally istiliwidual out ot that House.
Lord Dome was pert; ctly aware that formal difficulties '
might prevent the reception of the paper. But as the Queen
in point of strict form was entitled to he beard in persur al
the bar, liebopeal their Lordshipa wanld have little Melina.
time to perm on a party in the sitetatiou of her Majesty, wham
was perhaps unequal to the forms.of spe.oltimc, Pam as to be
able to Micheal she House with satisfactions to herself.
The Earl of Liverpool bad no obknimo to t►e paper
being received as the Address of the Queen, provided a formal
entry were motile in the Journals to that effect, so as to re-
cent it from being quoted as a precedent of a Prates. having
been received by their Lordships from a party ruder arcs-
eati..a.
The Lard asaamilor repeated that the paper could mot