The National Register.
London, England, 1820-10-08 00:00:00

3mpertal Vartiamtnt.
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HOUSE OF LORDS.
TUESDAY, OCT. 3.

This day the House met, pursuant to its adjournment.
At its o'clock prayers having been read, the roll was
veiled over, when excuses from 15 Peers were allowed,
and three declared absent without excuse.
Lord LIVERPOOL then rose, sad at considerable
lengtb unsuccessfully attempted to clear Colonel Brown
from the charge of having threatened that the Alien Act
ilbould be pnt in force against Signor Marietti the younger,
who is now resident in Loudon as the Queen's Agent, if
be did not desist from exerting himself on behalf of her
Majesty.
Lord DARNLEY afterwards moved for an account of
all the expenses of the Queen's prosecution. The motion
was, however, postponed.—Counsel were then called Is.
THE DEFENCE. •-
Mr. BROUGHAM immediately commenced the defence
of berMajesty.—The time had now arrived, he said, when
It became his duty to enter upon the defence of his royal;
client, and it was with feelings of great embarrassment he

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steed at the bar of that august assembly to perform the
important duties that now devolved upon hint. It was
not from any Ipprehension that their Lordships would
refuse to him the necessary indulgence, for he had often-
times experienced the indulgence of their Lordship; it
was not from the novelty of the proceedings, calculated
as they were to perplex and to agitate, for the mind of
man became gradually reconciled to the strangest things.
It was not from the magnitude of the undertaking in
which be was engaged, for he was borne up by the con-
viction of the justice of the cause which be had to advo-
cate; a conviction in which all mankind joined. It was
not from the operation of those circumstances that he
felt embarrassment, but it was by the force of that conviction
that he was oppressed; it was by the fear of showing his
unworthiness to enter upon a subject of such awful im-
portance that he was now agitated; and while others
Might tremble for a guilty client, or he clipped or chilled
by the indifference' or dismayed by the hostility of public
opinion, ho knew he had nothing to apprehend but the
feeble discharge of his own duty, end the consequetitet
to which that might lead in the opinions of the millions et
his countrymen who had their eyes fixed upon him as to the
charges against his Illustrious client. Ile felt so troubled
under those impressions, that he could hardly compose hle •
spirits to the discharge of the duties he had to perform. It
Vas with great sincerity he now expressed a hope, that 1a
the course of the proceedings so unexampled, his character
for loyalty would not suffer in the opinion of their Lord.
ships. The Princess Caroline Amelia of Brunswiek
arrived in this conntry in the year 1795, the niece of the
rlovereign,and the intended consort of the heir apparent,
and stills a distinct title, at no very great distance, to the
throne. But it was not his inteution to allude to the in-
terval between that period and the year 1814. He
rejoiced that the faithful discharge of his duty did not
require, at this moment, any reference to that period.
The attempt to prove his royal client criminal did not
require recrimination—did not require that a whisper
should be made against her illustrious husband. His duty
prescribed to him at the present moment silence upon
that subject. But their Lordships might be assured that
but for the conviction of the expediency of observing that
silence, his lips should not be closed 'llion that inipui lent
topic. In postponing what he could say upon that snb• .
ject, he felt confident that be was waving • right ; but It
should not be supposed, that because he abstained from
neakiug such a statement, lie would not, if hr felt it no.
cessary to do so upon a future state of the proceedings.
He was actuated by that feeling which lie knew prevailed
universally at the bar—to discharge his duty without
looking to the consequences. He had once before taken
leave to assure their Lordships, that an advocate knew
but one person in the world, that person his client—that
It was his duty to serve that client with all expedient
means, to protect him at ell hazard and coat to others and
to himself, and not to regard the pains and injuries, and
even destruction of others, in the performance of that
most sacred of duties. The advocate must in tact go on
reckless of all consequences, even if amongst those con-
sequences should be the confusion and mho rrrrr meet of
the make. He felt that if he were to proceed by recri.
situation, if he were to approach that branch of the ease,
he should scent to their Lordships to be justifying, when
be pleaded Not Guilty—to be palliating crimes and impro-
prieties, the least of which lie denied to exist; for he
would say that it was false and foul in those who pretended
the observance of their duty towards God to forget it
Inwards Man. It was scandalous in those to t that
isupaoprieties were admitted to be paused manna the
(burn. He deeded it. He would show that the evidence,
so tar front proving that, ;flowed the reverse. One thing
lie would admit, and the eliensies et his client might take
the full bruefit of the admission. He granted that his
client left this counity and went to Italy, and that she
associated with persons, Welty foreign/ is. 11 hile the
Queen was enjoying the society of their Lordship; and