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clan to her Majesty. who from his situatirm Must
have been able to give the utast satisfactory testi-
nom.), as to the truth or falsehood of the charge
It was their duty to have doubted the evidence of
throw scoundrel. (for that was now the proper epi-
thet fir them) who had given each testimony, and •
to have caller! noon others of her Majeure house-
hold. %Vila prevented them applying to Slimed,
who bad, in the evidence lie had give., contradict-
ed the testirnony of Demont ? But, no! their duty
was to fill the bog with depoodinea against the
Queen. and then the Ministers would he enabled
to say to her, " Come over if you dare." They de-
peoded on her Majesty being as weekly timorous
in repelling the charge, es they pretended to be cr..-
drilous in receiving it. But their hope. were all
blown into air front the moment that her Nlajeste
made the magnanimous declaration that she .will
repel the charges with all the means that GO,l 1.,.i
given her. The neat qnestiori was. not hoe the
Offer of the Queen should be settled, but how
should the effete of the Miniaters be deternitired ?
It was the Ministers now whin were on their trial, mai
he booed that the united voice of the country would
be heard to call for justice ore all there who had di.
reeled that insult opine her Majesty. He had
leineelf helmet Lord Castlereagh declare in the
Iltruae of Common+, that be had given order' to
our Ambassadors et Foreign Courts not to treat hi r
Majesty as a Royal Personage. lie should like to
he 'lammed by some Lawyer whether it was not
now, ao formerly, a greet iniedemesnor to torn.
'Begs' Commieoions. Referring to old tones, he
fume' we were not withotit exemples of persons who
had suffered the punishment of the law for that of-
fence. Surely, then, there was a power in the law to
popish fur the offence of 'soiling that Commission,
which, hr believed, was without example iii the loo-
tory of Eiigleiel—[Mr. P. Moore, who sat dose
to Mr. Ilohhouse, amid, " or in the world ;"),--or,
as his Hon. Friend Mr. Nloare said, in the world.
He should like to know, whether such calunnor
being disseminated agates, the wife of any mile he
would not say the King's elk, but ano 111411.1
wife. that inn would not, if abroad, hasten t..
England, and indict the authors of it. Ile it.
firmed, the King's M nisters it-Roved 'imp.:lch-
mein for is g the Miles, C0M1111914011 alone; but
tbe rattlers given to our Atithamadorir abroad,
formed the too t solid end rational gnomic, for such
a measure. It was the centime' artily of Slinisteio,
when they were charged with lialialaaaKealeal, Its
retort upon their accusers with the charge of oily
deriristg their pieces. He declared himself to l.os-
nue of those politicians who dud out ar,tic to bare
shy of their places, and 1w believed none of those
wheal he had the houeur of aiilrtsoing desired It. he
liii their place.; he believed the people of E 11411111,1
liked their 'daces as little aa their persons.—( fit_
please.) By what might be gathered (ruin °heel vatted
of passing eveuts, it appeared pretty clearly that the
Minutera were at the last gasp—they were strug-
gling in a quagmire, and the dos they threw einem
only served to belted triensaelveo. They lied but
a kick or two left before they would expire.—(Lead
laughter and app/ease.)—The Ministers were now
reduced to the deplorable exigency of existing upon
newspaper paragraphs. Ile alluded to the dtscovery
of the notorious distributor of placards, Mr. Fletcher.,
..liar Ft-mains, alio& Furor,. He cutileosed he was
Dot satisfied with the eaelaincion give.. on the House
of Commons. It was true Lord Castlereagh Rot no
and•assured the House he fatal never the ed %o;,
him ; but then es the gentlemen had so molly
aliases, it might be that be lied dined with the
Noble Lord as Lord Something or Sir Some.
body—lie ought have bad a title for oast OITII-
- j ou that it was tidying northing to say Mr.
Franklin had riot dined with my Lord Castkreattii.
my Lord Sidireouili, or any of the Noble pentoti•
who were in the habit of giving dinners at the pub-
lic expense. But then Lord Castlereagh added,
the Government could not interfere, because it
would have been at, infract.on of the liberty of the
subject. To be sure, there was rather an awkward
giggle our one side of the House when that declara-
tion was made. He had heard of the devil quoting
Scripture; and le would say, there were no word.,
which came with so little grace as the words " liberty
of the subject," out of the mouth of that Noble Lord.
The only thing left them to do was to charge the
friends of the Queen (that was about seventeen
mill* sof the inhabitants of Roglanil. Scodaird.
and Ireland) with being in a plot agleam the Mi
nisters. To that pitiful " complexion had they
conic at last." What now remeined for the people.
to do, serta to continue to give the Queen's cause
every support by all the peaceable lateens in thror
power. satisfied as they intuit be, that in defeediete
her rights they were tnetiorrining their own. They
were now met to congratulate her Majesty on the
failure of this the third, fourth, or filth (he knew
not which) conspiracy which had been formed
against her. That this conspiracy too had failed
was quite apparent ; for what had been proved ?
The extent of the proof was, that her Majesty had
slept on board ship on deck, under a tent, in pre-
ference to sleeping under the deck, subject to the
annoyance of the diluent arising from horses, Ste. ;
that near her in that tent she had chosen to bore
one who had served her with fidelity, and hail be.
fore protected her life. That was the whole of the
proof that she had chosen to repose in that tent—
nut undreesed—with a free passage through it,
and liable to be lifted up a dozen nines in the •
Melt, to see if her Royal (lighters, was asleep,
That was absolutely the whole of the case. Thar
Honourable Gentleinon then referred to a placard,
in which he had been charged with kiwi.o ot. lit
hitting asserted the fact of persons of both sexes 1,1
Russia having batleol toe ether. This, he SIMI. was
an anonymous chargo from the manufactory, he
supposed, of the Gentleman with the stock of
nauit and he had , therefore, cundesceirded
to give it any answer; but for their senefertiou he
would rend a quotatiiii from a book of travels.--
[The ro.iiii being now li Iril, and sonar hundreds of
persons being ender the windows outside, • cry was
raised of " To the window !" in consequence of
which the table on which the Chairman brood was
moved, so that the persons outside could hear as
well as those in the room.]—Mr. Hubhouse pro-
ceeded to read quotations from the Travels of Dr.
Clirke. and Acerhi, which fully bore Imo out in
the statement which he hint made, lie proceeded
to descant on the possibility, if • certain palace near
where lie spoke were to be scrutinized in the way
that her Majesty's conduct had been scanned, lithe.
thee a green hag might net be filled from Bence.