The National Register.
London, England, 1820-10-09 00:00:00

Smptriall Varliament.

HOUSE OF LORDS.
TUESDAY, OCT. 3,
Tbls day the House met, pursuant to its adjournment.
At ten o'clock prayers having been read, the roll was
called over, when excuses from 15 Peers were allowed,

and three declared absent without excuse.

Lord LIVERPOOL then rose, and at considerable
length unsuccessfully attempted to clear Colonel Brown
from the charge of having threatened tike Alien Act
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should Input in force against Signor Ma outlier,
who is now resident in London as the Q ent, if
be did not desist from exerting himself of her

Majesty.

Lord DARNLEY afterwards moved for an account of
alLthe expenses of the Queen's prosecution. The motion
was, however, postponed.—Counsel were then called-in.
TUE DEFENCE.
Mr. BROUGHAM immediately commenced the defence

of her Majesty.—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
stood at the bar of that august assembly to perform the
important duties that now devolved upon hint. It mu
not from any apprehension that their Lordships wood"

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refine to him the necessary indulgence. for he had °flee-

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
van became gradually reconciled to the strangest things.

It was not from the magnitude of the undertaking iu
witch he was engaged, for h was borne up by the con-
viction of the justice of (beaus which he had to advo-
cate; a conviction u uhi t'ail mankind joined. It was
pot from the operation of those circumstances that he
-4elt embarrassment. hat it Was by the force of ghat co/eviction
that he was oppressed; it was by the fear of *hewing his
onworthiners to enter upon a 'object of inch awful im-
portance that he was now agitated; and while others
might tremble for a gaily client, or be clipped or chilled
by the indifference, or dismayed by the hostility of public
opinion, be knew he had nothing to apprehend but the
feeble discharge of his own duty, and the consequences
to which that might lead in the opinions of the millions of
his countrymen who bad their eyes fixed upon him as to the
charges against his illustrious client. He felt so troubled
under those impressions, that he could hardly compose his
spirits to the discharge of the duties he had to perform. It
was with great sincerity he now exp d a hope, that in
the course of the proceedings so unexampled, his character
for loyalty would not stiller in the opinion of their Lord-
ships. The Princess Caroline Amelia of Brunswick
arrived in this country in the year 1793, the niece of the
Soverrign,and the intended consort of the heir apparent,
and with a distinct title, at no very great distance, to the
throne. But it was not his intention to atlnde to the in-
terval between that period and the year hill. He
rejoiced that the faithful discharge of his duty did nut
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 ditty
prescribed to I ' at the present moment silence upon
that subject. lint their Lordships might be assured that
but fur the conviction of the expediency of observing that
aiknce, his lips should not be closed upon that important
topic. In postponing what lie could say upon that sub-
ject, he felt confident that lie was waving a right ; but it
should not be supposed, that be,an‘e he ab.teiurd from
*taking such a statement, he would not, if lie felt it ne-
cessary to du so upon a future state of tl•e proceedings.
He was actuated by that feeling which he knew prevailed
universally at the bar—to de-charge his dilly without
1(101011g to the consequences. He had once before taken
leave to assure their Lordships, that an adverate knew
but one person in the world, that ;Pelson Isis client—that
it was his duty to serve that client with all expedient
means, to protect I at all hazard and cost to others and
to biwsrli, and not to regard the pains and injuries, :111(1
even destruction of others, in the performance of that
must sacred of ditties. The advocate must lu fact go oil
feckless of all consequences, even if amongst those con-
sequences should be the confusi 111 l and embarrassment of
the nation. He felt that if lie acre to proceed by reel i-
ruination, if lie were to approach that branch of the case,
lie should seem to their Lordships to be justifying, when
he pleaded Not Guilty—to he palliating 'venues and intro-
Plielies, the least of %Lich lie. denied to exist; for lie
would say that it was false and foul in those who pretended
the °beet vusice of their awry towards God to forget it
towards Man. It vas scandalous in those to assert that
iinpsuptietica were admitted to be proved against the
Quern. He denied it. He %timid Auw that the evidelire,
so tar from proving that, ;noted the reverse. One thing
lie would admit, and the enemies of his client might take
the toll benefit of the aelunisiuu, Ile granted that ills
client left this country and Went to Italy, and sheet she
ass misled with prison-, chiefly fen eigners. While the
Chi en was enjoying the tueiety of theft Lurdanips and