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London, England, 1820-10-17 00:00:00

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SIX HOURS...ALL TO MORROW.

LONDON,
TUESDAY, thresosse 17, I t 440.

The proceedings against the Quint hive now
occupied the almost undivided attention of Pa►lia-
ment for something more than four months, during
which time her MAJ erre ha, been subj•!cted to slan-
ders the most cruel, to injuries the most severe, to
insults the most ignominious, and to a trial hoeing
no parallel in the annals of mankind, save the mock-
ery that marshalled the lovely but unfortunate
MARIE ANTOINETTE to thescaffold, and yet to this
day the Counsel for the QUEEN are compelled to in-
quire " who is the prosecutor that demands judg-
ment against their Illustrious Client ?" Lord
CALTHORPE called upon the head of his Majesty's
Government, the framer sold proposer of the Bill,
to announce in a manly and ingenuous manner the
name, existence, and quality of this hitherto im-
perceptible being ; but Lord LIVERPOOL could
find no other answer than what may be obscurely
collected from a history of the rise and progress of
this most portentous measure, with winch he
obligingly favoured the House. Now as every
body knows that the KING himself is the ac-
tual prosecutor its this ease, it might be asked
why does Lord LIVERPOOL thus derogate front
the respectability of his own character, by co-
quetting with so serious a subject ? while on the
other hand it might be thought superfluous
in her Majesty's Counsel so sinuously to seek for
information in the House of Lords, which every
man, woman, and child beyond those venerable
walls could without hesitation afford. Upon the
first point, Lord LIVERPOOL alone can give any
satisfactory explanation. Why his Lordship at (me
moment assumes to himself individually the exclu-
sive parentage of the Bill—why at another he seems
desirous of sharing this honour with the House of
Lords in general—sod why, again, lie conjures up
an allegorical personage, and under the moue of
" Public Justice," arrays this !Mouton) in the
rubes of state, and pushes it forth as the substantive
and yet intelligent being which has set in motion
the whole power of the Legislature. marshalled a
host of King's Counsel, and instructed them to
prefer charges of the deepest criminality against
the QUEEN of these realms—why Lord LIVER.
POOL has thought proper to involve himself
in proceeding-I,r so inconsistent and apparently
absurd, rests with himself solely to replant.
But the motives that have induced the Queen's
Counsel to press for some precise understatidiug
'you this point tire much more clearly intelligible.
A principal part of their Illustrious Client's de-
fence will necessarily rest upon exposing the cha-
racters of the persons who have given evidence
against her, and sliming to the world the infamous
arts practised by certain ■gents for the prosecution
in gleaning this evidence throughout Italy sod
other parts of the coutiueut. It has already ap-
peared that RASTELLI, with less discretion perhaps
then men more practised in bribery and subornation
of perjury, boasted of the means he possessed of pur-
chasing evidence, and sheered the actual value its
the currency of the country of several of the wit-
nesses. DEMONT, as he stated, had made a for-
tune it, the business; and for himself he had the
power to " make a great man" deny one who had
a good tongue in his head, rufficiesit briss in his
forehead, and was not overburdened with too much
conscience. What lie has made of himself is pretty
manifest. Now it will be remembered that when
some of the Lords (Earl Gaze particulerly) weie
examining Pole ELI., the Ex-Commissioner of Mi-
lani, upon some circumstances relating to the
affairs of his agency its this case, the mats stated
his unwillingness to produce certain letters which
had passed le-tweets him and Colonel Reown,
a brother Commissioner, ctrl agent fur the Bill in
Milan, upon the ground of their being confidential,
and the LORD CHANCELLOR fortified PoweLL's
objection, by observing to their Lordships that
there was no relation more sacred than that which
bound party and agent, and that the confidence
subsisting between them ought never to be violated.
The principle laid down by the Noble and Learned
Lord is, in all ordinary eases, as between party sud
agent, one indeed of the nobleet and most conserve.
live that are found in our whole system of admitii.
stiative justice ; but a relation cannot subsist without
parties, and before POWELL was excused from an-
swering IIII!.1101111, or producing what he was pleased
to call confidential documents, the House ought to
hi '.a ascertained the identity of the party whose con-

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