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die had din,s towns/ a Myr euppliii. itrital, the
(sees/ wee seirpened to fed ildit • Meitner bad bees sent
by tamentand of the Kiar to both Ilibettoo or Par""'est, Is
cell their attention to written doesinteida es the fuwodatinn
of proireedinir eilairomplifeit orient hen—and leans* with
mill greater surprise that time peon, are iirupimil to he
referred to • Si-eret Committee. This day fourteen years
the lint Agree wee preferred egoism her Majesty; tlwm,
and on every occasion since that lime, she hes ,Manifested
the etamat readiness to meet her sennen, and to have Itot
fullest inquiry insiituleJ into her emotion. ston she
desires an open inrntigetion into it, in which she May see
Ilre clearers against her, the OrCleller. sad witionwee--(Henr)
—a privilege not denied to llw loweblest individual its the
realm. Bet she, in the fare of Partiarwent end the country,
eolemnly protests against a secret trihirnal—a mode of peo.
mediae s lomat to the rennet principles of jimmies., in it
wee enknowsi to the conatitutioo itid laws of e.o.nd. She
retire, with the fullest confidence, um the jimlies of the Houma
of Commons.

* The Queen cannot forbear adding, that even before AY
proceedings were ennifscared against Mc, the was treated
in a manner too well calculated w prejndge her rause. The
omission of her name is the Liturgy ; the withholding of •
rimy, yauce from the Continent to flan conestry; this rtfosaf
given to as application fur • resiiesee in one of the 'mow-
rims Royal Palaces; and the neglect and atisdicif alights of
alt the officers of the finvernment, nf home and abroad, can
only he justified by l.er regular trial owl conviction."

. Lard CASTLEILEACII then moved the Order of
the pit, li,r the oppouttnaent of a Secret Commit-
tee on l'ilteet regarding the conduct of INF Ma-
jesty.
The King's Message having been read by the
Clerk,

Lord CASTLERFAGII said, that in tieing to call
the attention of the House to the very important
✓ubject of a hich lie had given notice, he was vivre
that the house would feel that the took unloosed
upon him was an extremely painful and deli-
cote one—the task of inviting the attention of the
House to nue of the most distressing and deeply
interesting public questions that had ever been
agitated in that House. or hrought le fore the coun-
try. A Ed he assured the House that had soot lie.
in conjunction with his colleagues. been iieramiderf
that every measure hail hitherto hero taken which
prudence, and moderation, and delicacy, and every
attachment to the Royal Pernmage tilos, nearly tote-
rested dictated, that unless his mind had beet, con-
✓eientionsly ratistied that every possible effort had
beets swede to snare the feelings of that Personage.
and to net rt the tircesrity of public disclosures and
discussions, to all cases distressing. and unwise ir
not strictly owerioary—he should have left the ob-
'creations which he should feel it his duty to sub-
mit to the Home in oilier hands.—(Hear, hear.)—
Ile apprehended it was always usual and strict mat-
ter of course. that whenever a communication was
Made to the House by any branch of the Royal
Family. and ssirtictilmily by the Crown. that the
House always took it into its immediate consider*.
lion; and it was after that coosideratimr, and the
deliberation and thicussimi of the subject. that it
was called iii to pronounce some jnolginent and
decision nit the case.. But he wits sure he might
say. that last 'tight nothing of 11w temper of mood
winch furl) a course •supposed hail been disclosed.
Ile II gilt he might say. that Kb of lois.
representation, and garbled statements, and im-
proper diacloonires. had. even rio the evidence of
llonourable Gentlemen opposite. taken place out.
lode of doors, without any thing being sluice within the
House adverse to that calm. cool, and taisprejudiced
state of mind which wasindispeesseble to tier arriv-
ing at a just determination of this very grave spies.
tion. In the cowrie resolved on by his Majesty's
Ministers. the object was 111 leave Parlllllllrlll Open
to follow tip the question in whatever snootier it
might think proper. He now wished to whirrs+
himself to that put of the subject which moutally
grew out of the question which hail been put to
him last night, and winch lull to the question. as
to the course of proceedings which Parliamesit
might think proper to adopt. Ile had been asked
tostate distinctly the intime of the proceedings a Inch
would lee recommended by leis Majesty's Minion.s to
be instituted against her. And Isere hr wa.
pelted to protest against the charge that
Ma-
jesty's Ministers, in 111mgisig this question twfore
Parlianient, appeared before Item ail the charac-
ter of accuse.% or prosecutors ; and lie asked whe-
ther any part of their eninduct was liable to such aw
imputation. Ile trusted that when the House
would advert to the Message. they would kgt that
no comfit tttt ication had ever hero made from the
Thrime inure gracious its its ternis—l,4 ANA:. /if—
or which was noire calculated to whew that the King
was sincerely desirous to throw I elf on the great
Council of the Nation. and. to rely on their wisdom
and affection on this great question, which con
cerited linnient amid the country as well 1111
self. and the Mourrchy not leas than the Illustrious
Personage 011 the throne.—( /Icor. hrur. hear.)—
lie apprehended that it was only by taking the
matter tole consideration in the 111111111er in whirls
Parliament had been accustomed, that it could he
enabled to judge of the.enystroto of the papers, or
to propose the must suitable course to be adopted.
He assured the House that et was not the in-
tention of Ministers, its any proposition which
should be made, to fester Parliament as to the
grounds* of the protteeditogr. the nattier of them, or
whether any proceedings at all would he adapted.—
(Bear, Iteur.)—But while he stated that Perlis-
meta mould Ge left sot perfect liberty- on this
head, he should mislead! the House if he sofTered
it to he inferred from any thing which might drop
Irmo Ilion. that there.was not in the documents
coinuttinicated swatter of the greatest and deepest
interest 10 the country. as well as to the honour and
dignity of the Crown. He observed trot, the cont.
muticatiou made to the House by the Queen
through that. Hon. Gentleman tend legal adynter
which the Conetttution allowed her—(l/ear)—raid
lie supposed acting on his counsel, that she most.
tiered the Ministers as persons coming to that
House 0r...11141'4md scaliest her comae. and ailerons,.
ed. d 10111'04r. to secure a convictiolo, mud that she
looked upon the evidence to be exhibited against
her to Colllllbi Of written papers. solely unsupported
by oral trillium/Iy. He could assure the Honoura-
ble and Leaned Gentleman that there existed
no real growud fur the first supposition, but
he wished be could as easily relieve his mind
and that of the illustrious Personage bum the
latter. C.4ad forbid he should sly that be saw uu

.lift rent* iteideed Viierge tad conviction
Ile feared it* ersult would rove the* this caw was '
toot taken imp tut the alight gruonds the film. end
Learned Otosdemon seemed to tbiak ; the
lion. mid Learlwd Gentleman suippoied that the
Proof of the charge at Mow rested an meritteo tom•
reimoications. he was Utterly relisinfllitited; fur be
could tell hint (or far as he eenitifed to describe
the case now) that the eircaahfoisikeii, though
in the first iustance tuft aced lb the eispe of
rhocusnetote. cosine frelm partici Sho +vete lee'
pared to come forward before soh ateiter trait:nal
Phnulif he appointeml, to corroborate iii person
sod in the limit rolemo. Weimer the whole mat-
ter alleged in the written sorhemfirftte they lied
sielowrilwd. He mow clime to ilk entirie of iro.
everting which he thought it would Become Perlis-
meta to adopt on the premed occasiou. He could
tint here help expressing his testoolislionent that her
Odajedy, with the amble merstonee she had, could
have had fora moment aoggestett to her mind that
it could ever occur to a Minster of the Crown to
recommend any couture of proceeding on the pre-
sent painful tool most distressing occoron, which
comeid (twit any girth upon her Majesty, without al-
lowing her every opport ty and in every roomer
of rebutting wlstlever presumptions now overhung
her eau., sold of doing so both by crora-eseinnia-
tion slid in the most public master; for he thought
to.problicity, when that inquiry came, she was co-
llard; it we. the teapot practice and distinguiehed
character of Dullish Coitus of Judicaturoe. This
opportostity oteglot to le fully afforded the Queen,
under the. pustretiosio of all those safeguards of per-
atonal liberty and individual protection which her
Majesty must *Wm, not certainly in precedence.
but sot common wills otw liminsblest subject in the
realm. The question, however, now for considers-
' tion was. not what should be the ultimate course
which Paihametot ought to take, but what they
ought to take to present, for the purpose of pee-
hininary investigation, what was the coarse of
! proceeding most applocalole to the jultdice of the
case. and most likely ow 'Nord sir nyiport ty
of establishing the innoreace and honour of the
Wllnrtnous Personage (if they ran be establish-
led), and of upholding the dignity wtsf honour
'of the Crown. Hr womild for Oslo porpore re-
coonisteud the same course of proceeding as that
which had been adopted on preceding ores-
. stmts.—(Dear, hear, hear, from Ilse OpproSihoe
/teaches.)—He understood that cheer, and he
km.* and lamented. and felt es deeply es soy of
the Honourable Gentlemen oppornite, that there
were painful peculiarities in this case which it many
instances differed from soy others to which refer-
riser could be mole. What the Howse might
ultimately do, he hail not now to inquire, that con-
sideration woulot remain until they had received
the Report of the C miller, which would pro-
bably befor.e them not only a mess of facts,
hut precedents which, by analogy end reasoning.
night guide them to the proper course they would
have ultimately to pursue. He would not now au-
ticipate whether the House would eventually refer
the case to the ordinary tribunals of law in the
country. or so the High Court of Parliament; or
whether it would be disposed of, as was the case
ito omfatter, in private life, where parties came be-
fore the Legislature by Bill. There was a goes- •
Mil more immediately open for consideration now,
which was the mode of relecting•the Committee,
to inquire into the papery laid on the table of Par-
liseneoot. and consider whether soy. and whet i
proceedings should be adopted on the occasion.
On the consideration of that preliminary Corn-
mittee would not in the slightest degree depend
the broad question of the guilt or innocence
of the illustrions Personage. They were mere-
ly to report upon the nature and substance of the
documents, with their observations thereon both of
fact and precedent. Precedents etinugh they had of
Secret Committers. ito making iirrhiesinety inquiries
siturly analogous to the present. There was the •
rase orßishop Atterbory, and also of Sir Thomas
Ittsinhold. no which the Com 11l i l ter had at the out-
set
to consoler of matter which might lead to crinti-
utility. In the mode of framing these Committees,
hue was unable to find that any course Mill usually
multiplied thou that of a Committee appointed by
ballot. -With respect to the p iple on which the
selection Amid be made. he would again state.
that he hooked at this Comminute so little as one
whose Report would one way or the other affect the
real decision et isaue—(Hear, hear. front the Up-
posiritoos Benches)--he would repeat, that such
was his view of the Committee, mitt if their decision
Ira,. that no grounds existed to justify further pro-
cresting. he would assure the Hon. deutletneu op-
mute that out our them would feel more unfeign-
ed satisfaction than he should at such a result.—
(Hear.)—He could assure tlwin that they could
not feel more relieved than he should at being spit-
ed the pain of entering more at large iuto the
discharge of so arduous a duty. He would
assure the House, that fruni the beg g
• to the rod !of this most painful barium,
the conduct of his. Majesty's Monsters lied beets
abuse all the insimiustious and imputations that had
been by some levelled at it. There was nothing to
the tenor of the King's Servants, from the first mu-
!tient they communicated on the present subject up
to now, which would justify any matt ip insmisaming
that they chewed any great impatience to rush boss
this Ifivrptegaltatt. or to press upon the comoderatiou
of Parliament guy of the aiduous and most painful
circumstences of the case.-.lllear, hear./—W tilt
respett to the 1101 tt Itt Alloll of the Committee.
think it right to make souse allusion+. In our sense
tattler of a per•onal nature. There were two lion.
and Learriem.l Geuileineti (Mr. Broughato ind Mr,
Uroitionto, we wrangle). whose assoteuce. however
desirable on ally oilier °regal tttt ought, in his
optuiuto, both for their own fakes as well as
other groundr. be dispensed with at present. if
the Report of the Committee should be, that
too further proceeding was called fur, than with a
view to the frelitigs of the Illustrious KflielletCe
herself; such a decision would have snore weight
ernamoing from the Committee. without their aid
or persuasion. than with their concurrence. 'rhea,
again. in case the Committee should be of a dd.
fereid topuitm, are the delicate and difficult slims.
lion 111 which *hey iloo4l. see llle psrrdsetstllrut 111
which they would be placed. They had mow a
very honourable. as well as critical duty to pet form
personally to the Queen. They were her profits.
atonal advisers ; they had in . that capacity a ditty
to discharge which might clash with their mother cud

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