The National Register.
London, England, 1820-06-26 00:00:00

No. Irtil—VoL. XIII.]

171 E QUEEN.

lmportart documents were presented to both
Houses of Parliament on Monday last relative to
THE KING AND QUEEN.
We are obliged by the limits of a weekly paper to
omit the whole of the Epistolary part as having
relation only to what has been generally known,
excepting the following letter, containing from
Lord Liverpool to Mr. Brougham, offitially the
basis of a treaty which was subsequently commu-
nicated to her Majesty by Lord Hutchinson at St.
Omen.

16th April, HMO.
" The act of the 54th Geo. 111., cap. ltio, recognised the
separation of the Prince Regent from the Princess of Wales, and
allotted a separate provision for the Princess. This provision
was to continue during the life of his lace Majesty, and to deter.
mine at his demise. In consequence of that event it has alto-
gether ceased, and no provision can be made for her until it shall
please his Majesty to recommend to Parliament an arrangement
for that purpose.
The King is willing to recommend to Parliament to enable
his Majesty to settle an annuity of 50,000 L a year upon the
Queen, to been joyed by her during lice natural life, and in
lieu of any claim in the nature of jointure or otherwise, provided
she will engage not to come into any part of the British do-
minions, and provided she engages to take sonic other name or
tide than that of Queen ; and not to exercise any of the rights or
privileges of Queen, other than with respect to the appointment
of law officers, or to any proceeding in Courts of justice. The
annuity to cease upon the violation of these engagemente, via.,
upon her coming into any part of the British dominions, or her
summing the tide of Queen, or her exercising any of the rights
or pryileges of Queen, other than above excepted, after the
annuity shall have been settled upon her.
6* On her consent to an engagement upon thc above condi-
tions. Mr. Brougham is desired to obtain a declaration to this
effect, signed by herself; and at the same time a full authority
to conclude with such person as his Majesty may appoint a
formal engagement upon these principles.'
Then follow the Epistles, and afterwards the
following Protocols
PROTOCOL OF THE IP/IDIT cowrzarscn HELD IX CT.

SA./lES'S SQUARE, JUNE 15, 1830.
In pursuance of the notes of the 13th and teth of June, the
Duke of Wellington and Lord Castlereagh, on the part of the
Xing, having met Mr. Denman and Mr. Brougham, her Ma-
jesty s law officers, in order to facilitate the proposed discussions,
it was suggested by the fanner—
t. That the persons named toframe ari arrangement, although
representing dent interests, should consider therntelves. in
discharge of this duty, not as opposed to each other, but as acting
in concert with a view t frame an arrangement, in compliance
with the understood wish of Parliament, which may avert the
necessity of a public enquiry into the information laid before the
two Houses.
Y. The arrangement to be made must be of such a nature as
to require from neither party any concession as ,tar the result to
which such inquiry, if proceeded on, might lead. The Queen
must not be.understood to admit, nor the King to retract any
thing.
3. That, in order the better to anomplish the above important
object, it was proposed that whatever might pass in the firs: con-
ference should pledge neither party to any opinion ; that nothing
should be recorded without previous communication, and, as far
as possible, common consent ; and that, in order to facilitate ex-
planation, and to encourage unreserved discussion, the substance
Ga of what passed should be reported.
These preliminary points being agreed to, the question to be
examined (as contained in Lord Liverpool's memorandum of
April 15, 1820, delivered to Mr. Brougham previous to his pro-
ceeding to St. Omer's, and in Lord Liverpool's note of the 11th
of June, and Mr. Brougluurer note of the I.'th of June, written
by the Queen's command) were.
Ist, The future residence of the Queen abroad.
2dly, The title which her Majesty might think fit to assume
when travelling on the Continent.
3dly,The non-exercise of certain rights of patronage in England,
which it might be desirable that her Majesty might desist from
exercising, should she reside abroad, and
ethly. The suitable income to be assigned for life to the Queen,
residing abroad.
Her Majesty's law-oflicers, on the part of the Queen, desired.
in the first insusnix, that the fourth point should be altogether
laid aside in there conferences; that her 3iajestv desired it might
make no part of the conditions, nor be mixed • with the present
slinansions.

They_ then proceeded to state, that under all the circumstances
!flier Majesty's preposition, they erould not say that her Ma.
jesty had any insuperable objection to living abroad ; on the con-
trary, if such foreign residence were deemed indispensable to the
cempletion of an arrangement so much desired by Parliament,
her Majesty might be prevailed on to acquiesce; but then that
certain steps must be taken to remove the possibility of any in-
ference being drawn front such compliance, and trout the enquiry
nut being proceeded in, unfavourable to her Majesty's honour,
and inconsistent with that recognition which is the basis of these
negociations; and her Alajesty's Law Officers suggested with
this view the restoration of her mime to the Liturgy.
To this it was replied, that the King's Government would no
doubt leant with great surprise, that a question of this important
nature had now been brought forward tur the lost time, without
having been adverted to in any of the previous discussions, and
without being included unionist the heads to be now treated of;
that the Liturgy had already boat regulated by his Alajesty's
toi:nial deciaratton in council, und in the exercise of his Alajes-
ty s legal authority ; that the King, in yielding his own feelings
441111 views to the wishes of Parini:tient, could not be understood
( ti.the absence of enquiry) to alter any of essiten. muter
witch his Nlajesty had hitherto deliberately and advisedly acted ;
and that, as it was ill the outset stated, the King could not be
expected to retract any thing, no hope could he held 0111 that
the King's goverimient would fe,l themselves juAided an slab-
nitttitig such a proposition to his Majesty.
To this it wa,atisuerea, tuat altlf.tigh the point of the Liturgy
weseertainl;, not included by name amongst the heads to be
titscussytl. her Majesty's Law Otlicc..s felt theurelves entitled to
bring it f.rsartl in its councsion with the question of her Ma.