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its guided nature, contradiction could be applied
—bad ludo oircomPtatices occurred in any ordinary
prosecution is an inferior Court, we do not besititte
to affirm that the Judge would have advised the
Counsel for the defence to spare his out; labour and
the time of the Coen, and hare at mite directed
the Jury, from a defect of proof, to tomtit the de.
tendon,- The charges contained in the preamble et the
Bill. or.as Mr.DEllats X calls them. the counts in the
indictment, present a ,trange mixture of motets the
most corneiaptibly (tilling with others of the grairest
and deepest criminality. We cannot 'tippets that
sill the charges of the latter ile.scription being re-
futed. the Ministers of the Crown will still cling to
those of a trifling nature, as oft-outing a pre-
text for degrading the Wats. Degrading the
QUEEN ! with what alarming ease this expression
has of late been spoken and written ! as if it
were a matter of every-day occurrence, and or
HO more importance to the well-bring of society
than the trial and punishment of an ordinary
offender ! Surely the familiarity of the expression
has not so far blunted the faculties of the nation as
to direst the idea of such an event of all those jai-
portant considerations which most. in every reflect-
log mind, he necessarily associated with it. Yet
certain it is that the magnitude of the evil don not
gushily consist an much in the very circom•timmice of
time dr ..brommetuctit and degradation of a Queen Coo.
tart the Imperial Crown of these realms. as
io famMliarising tale public mind to the notion that
lira ally may t.y poss.bility he assailed with inspome
oily, and that the great body of a nation will quietly
mid patiently stand by and not iiiterfere when " an
uctive ninonit:4" is ',may engaged in effeetitig PH
01,i,Ct so terrific. Strange it is that although the
lions, of Commons, influenced by such feelings.
evinced so dreidtd a repogisance to entert:iiii-
Mg the green hog. even in a Secret Committee.
the nowt. of Lords. the boasted depository of
all the wisdom t.f out Constitution—having for its
cspress object to control the fervour and animation
of the other I louse. too prone from the cm udene.s of
its materials to legislate rashly—the hereditary
Counsellors of the Crown, the support and guar-
dians of the Throne should, absolutely without any
debate upon tls• alarming conseqttences involved in
such a measure, suffer themselves to be dragged
into the present proceedings. They hove thereby I
done more to agitate the country, degrade the
Royal Faniily, destroy the pnpulority of the KING
and his Govertimmont, and endanger the stability of
the Throne, than could have been effected by hordes
of brawling Radicals for centuries. By the rides
of the lions., the wisdom and expediency of such
a proceedito; will must happily and consistently
mine to be discuned after the injury has been in-
flicted, that is, when the question shall he put from
the Woolsack fur the second reading of the Bill.
But the matter fur consideration now is, whether
the charges hove hero proved ogainst her MAJESTY?
Some tri. them Lmeiroubtedly hive been proved, such
as thz creation of tit; Order of Knighthood, and the
elevation of BEncamt front a situation compare-
beefy mean to one of coolimleuce and honour.
Butt the one must be regarded in the light of an
net of merriment—soil the oilier may be an act
deserving of praise or censure, according to the eir-
eumstaiiees with which it may chance to be assn.
doted. I: has indeed been urged as an incident
to muk a criminal attachinent, but if the greater
charv., to which this is merely tacked as en acces-
sory. be not supported by evidence. this lesser
incident become* a mutter of indifference. We
shall trot follow Mr. DENMAN through his ela-
borate commentary upon the testimony produced,
to thew that there is nor one point of evidence
which can in lam lfre said to prove—not that the

(41.1:EN &KI L>ERCAM! did actoully commit the
crime :,,dged —bolt that they wire ever so circum-
stanced us to he ins situnii4n wherein they inizhi

Lure tir;nterriptedly indulged their criminal de-
sire,. I towssst's arlinist•ion of his belief that
1.311 mss: the Prioress reposed during the

ni4lit under an awning. diavrn into the shape of a
teat on deck, i• not legs! evidence of such a fact.
But suppoiing tiu to have beeu true. it does nut

amount ecru to an inference of will:, stokes We

ore at the same time prepared to say that every

female who might have been so circumstanced aw
to hare Le4:ll ettobt: d to gratify her evil propensi-
ties, has actually on that account been guilty,
Let the peculiar circumstances of the QCEEN'S

biturtion not bond the polacre be coasidered—the
natnre of the tent, the proximity or the heltnoman,

the danger of passing the night on deck without

t:ie pre,ence of some of her - attrnilatito to watch

o•er her prritunal ssfety, the parties reposing

upon different voucher. the illness of Ow Princess,

the circumstance of both reposing io their usual
clothes, the eoniintivication with the iiiiiiog.rown
being always open—let all t hese pointi be fait ly con.

sidered. and we conceive tliat intone will be Po on-
eloaritobte a< to draw floin thr client:lot:ince en in-

fereliee of guilt. Tlu., buntver, depends rot upon

leg:: eddei:ce—told we boldly affirm Out every

ether point uricrai ni tie oprning %perch of the AT.

Tons PT-GENERA L lets bet) either omitted in evi.

(Tents,. ill:proved 01..0u:illy, or satisfactorily rx.
ylaiutd.

The represeiststiou of the tragedy of Cynebeline,
at Covelo-prilec, i. shooed by the scribes io the
Treasury Ptiots. Because the audience have sp-
oiled seine passages to the case of live Qualm. in a
way Dot greefsil to her euelnies, that beautiful play