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London, England, 1820-10-31 00:00:00

TUESDAY. Ot.-rossa Si. 111110.

The Sountroa-GeueltAL engaged the stlestisa
of the House of Lords yesterday until half-past one
o'clock, brit% one hour and a half more than he had
previously prouxi.ed. The Learned Gentleman was
well anise of the advaiitager be most derive from

the renovated attention of the Haase, recreated by

the intervention of Smithy, and judiciously resolv-
ed to porton: thee► to the utmost. Thu great length

of the Learned Gentleman's speech, and the multi-
plicity uT points on which he commented, would
require space as extensive as that which is occupied
by his speech, to particularise the vagueness of his
reasoning and the incorrectness of many of his re-
ferences. The Learned Gentleman was aware that
lie should not be followed •by any Counsel of the

other sid., and therefore conceived that he might

indulge in • more Ilion u=ual contempt of logic.
Ile has •Iso permitted himself occasionally to use

certain tuna of expres.ion from which we think he
would have absiained had he apprehended a rejoin-
der from any one of the Queen's Counsel. The
sot.tctroe•GENattAt. undertakes to protect the

Ch.rad,r or DEMONT% testimony from the attacks

of the other side, but in labouring under this task,
iA Inch is too burdensome even for his strength, he
iniforturourly stumbles against the ATTORN EY-
011111IEA L um] in the confusion, though somewhat
il'OLinerdly, contrives to do the Queee a service.
" Dittilowt," he declurrs, " never said that the
dreirsirell by the Princess at the opera was indecent :
else only said that the neck and arms were bare, and
that the drap.ry was dispowd in the usual manner
to displey the Muse of History." Sir WILLIAM
GEL!. end Mr. KEPPEI. CRAVEN both declared
that the dress was not indecent, and the SOLICITOR-.

GFII ERA I. contends that between their evidence and
that of DEMON? there is 110 contradiction. The
ATTORNEY-GENERAL. had, however, contended,

.:its his accustomed energy, that the dress was
indecent, for it was so transparent that another dress
might he seen ceder it ! We thus have the AT...
itsummr aid the SOLICITOR.GENERAL at variance
in winds—the former anxious to convict the QuElit4
at all hazards, while the latter, more judicious in
his r.ll. is willing to concede this one point
relative to the dress, and admits that it was
Hot indecent—that lie might save Dxatotre-a
testimony for more important purposes. • But
by what pia of the evidence tines the SOLI-
43TarAG F.N CnAL COsictive himself justified in
saying" that the Princess of %VALES had discarded
all her English suite ? There is not one word
throughout the whole of the depositions to warrant
him in using such en expression. This is a new
charge against her MAJESTY. differing essentially
from the Cornier, which declared that all her Eng-
lish attendants had LrFT titta in consequence of the

improprieties perceptible in her conduct. This is
no instance of the adroitness of her enemies, and
smacks of the very spirit in which the present accu-
sations have been prepared. No sooner have they
been beActi out of one point than they cling to
titer, no matter what inconsistency there may he
to the change, and hope by the suddenness and vs-
'let) of their attacks to baffle if they cannot defeat
their sirtagoirist. It is scarcely possible to imagine
airy one occurtence in lire wbi. h might not by tie
evil ingenuity of persons disposed to wickedness be
.construed into an act or inference of criminality.
Thus we find in the present instance the character
of the Princess of WALES sought to he blasted at
one moment by the voluntary departure of her
attendants, and at the next by an unfounded alle-
gation that they had been driven from her presence.
It is not unlikely that had her English attendants
continued in her household, we should now find the
ATTORNEY and SOLICITOR GENERAL warmly and
1,611414 arguing that the Princess of WALE* had
artfully retained them in her service, solely for the
purpose of deceiving the public eye, and covering
by a good exterior the criminal propensity of her
beurt. It is however in evidence wirrositradieted,
, that the English Ladies sod Gentlemen who had
formed u putt of the Priticess's household previous
to her departure from England. had arranged with
her Royal Iliglineds that they should nut continue
with her on the courinesit beyond a certain 'ugh tl.
Souse did leave her Royal Ilight,ess at the time
bitpulaterl, others reinuived in her service longer,
but it is now placed belood the possibility of doubt
that they kit her voluntarily, its pursuance of a
prr•vious arrangement, and wi'llout having seen soy
insproptioty in the conduct or mariners of their
!toys! llestress.
In *nullity part of his speech. the SOLICITOR.
GENERAL observed that the Couirsel for the QUEEN
had dropped the prom-viol 111 l of the charge of cots-
spiraey' trout Move shame. Stem, persons ere an.
charitably of opinion that professional advocates
ver think it diecessery to reptue ;soy belief them-
es in their own ob-ervations, but we cannot
• :glue how the SOLICITOR GENLiAI. could have
'cued shut any Nutoe Lord who lied witnessed
overdo%) its the house upon the subject of
irspiraty, could repose any ew.gassees its him
• or tett-real this air:gear expression. tfhe eel-
,: radar( dby Mr. BitouGnAig.t4f4cirpt

$ raises sots' coosictioa is the oiled or ewer ow
prejodiced man that a comeiiiroey did Oast, of which
the Quart,' was to hove beets nods the victim, bat
is Dot solteiently kid is its chancier to Mt
admitted by the House. Had the Charge areal.
spiracy fullest with such disgrace upon the OSP
motets of it. ks is implied by the eapressiona el list
SoLtenrsa.Gatoomot.. is it credible that he and
the Arena* at-GE a ERA!. should have contended
so aatimasly for permission to bring Col. Bitowne
to the bow of the House to refute the allegation ?
On the conclusion •f the SOLICITOR-GRNI•
RAL*I speech Mr. BROUGHAM again tendered. as
evidence of the conspiracy in the present case. cer-
tain letters written by Baron OMPTEDA in Febru-
ary and March, 1819, and addressed to the Direc-
tor of t►e Police at Pesaro. an agent of the Flume
Department of the Papal Government ! ' In these
letters the Baron notices the confidence he feels in
DIMWIT'S sister. MARIETTE. and in HIRRON
SOUS. " A sufficient answer," as Mr. BROUGHAM
well remarked, " to the repeated questions of the
ATTOWERS' and SOLICITOR-CAMERAL, why these
persons had not been produced ?" The admissibi-
lity of these letters as evidence was denied by the
ATTORNEY-GENERAL. The House also conceived
that they could not he received, for, on the motion
of the Duke of HAMILTON. that the letters should
be admitted as evidence, only 16 Peers voted for it,
while 145 were against it. Lord HOLLAND Op-
posed the motion, on the ground that he had al-
ready made up his mind to vote against the second
reading of the Bill, and thought it unnecessary to
hear any further evidence. Upon the decision of
this point the House adjourned until Thursday.

In the proceeding,' now pending against the
QuerN, the Piosecnior is culled the State, which,
if it mean any thing, must comprise the Cabinet
Ministers : those men who organised and paid the
Milan Commission—who laid the green bag, the
fruit of its labours, on the tables of the Lords and
Commons—who framed the Bill of Pains and re-
'whim and stood forward in its support. A Noble
Lord, we understaiiil, menus to snake a motion to
disqualify " this State" front voting, in all its ra-
mifications, on the question for the second reading
of the Bill. it is a motion founded in justice, and
to which every man anaiour fur its puce adininistni-
tion must wish success. When Queen Katharine
is called to her trial, we bud her objecting to Car-
dinal Wuley in these words:—
" I do believe,
ladeced by potent circumstances, that
You are mina enemy, and matte my challenge,
You shall nut be my Judge : for it is you
Have blown this coal betwixt my Lord and me,

_ Which God's dew goenels ! Therefore I say nails,
I utterly abhor, yea from my soul
Refuse you for my Judge."
To this charge Wolsey pleaded not guilty. Ile
declared her MAJESTY did bins wrong, and said
that what he had done was warranted by a commis.
slots from the whole Consiatory of Rome. If his
enmity were a good cause of challenge to Wolsey
as a judge in her MAJESTY'S cause, how much
more reason must she not have had to complain if he
had been her known, avowed, and relentless pro.
aerator ? We hope that the State, that is, the
Cabinet Ministers whom it comprise., will feel the
weight of this objection ; that, actuated by a sense
of honour, delicacy, and justice, and consulting
the dignity of their high rank and station, they will
anticipate the wishes of the Noble Lord, and take
an opportunity of intimating their concurrence in
l.ty motion.

We hove received German Papers to the gist
instant, extracts frnn► which will be found in
another part of our Paper.

It is now said that Ministers, conscious of the complete
failure of their case against the Queen, but nut powssiag
magnauimity enough to confess it, are endeavouring to make .
a &sent retreat. Witte this view they give out, that if the
House will agree to the Kciend reading of the Rill, it is their
intention to pare it down iu the Committee, au as to meet
the m• charges, which would not amount to more dna
levity and indiscretion. This would bring the peewit( case
to the precise result of the former conspiracy against her
MAJESTY. and would break the fall of her enemies. A tom.
promise of this kind would he am injustice to her MAJESTY,
who is entitled to an unqualified snit triumphant verdict of
acquittal. The partisans of Ministers however flatter them-
selves that by this paltry temporising manoeuvre, they will
be able to carry the second reading.
Tut Qutalr's TataD.—The following is the depositioa of
FAUNA' the Veactiau jeweller, which the Solicitur-Graeral,
use Saturelesy, asserted to have Do existraet
" 'lessee, Sept. 21, 1840.
" 1, the usilenlissed. certify that I slut not sell to her
[Loyal Higbee's the Milne's* of Wales any sort of chain at
the time of her stay byre iu Venire: in assurance whereof I
sits say same. " ANDREW FANNA."
The country brewers have, in almost every part of the
kingdom, reduced the price of their strung beer and ale full
les. per barrel Tlw price of putter was reduced yesterday
tkrusgbuut the metropolis to Id. per put.
The Loan CHANCELLOR will receive the. new
LOKD MAYOR tu-morrow, at his' house in flamil-
ton-place, fur the ptirpme IT giving his MAJKSTY'S
approbanun to Ina being called to the Civic Choir.
The Proprietors of the Lrerls and Liverpool
Canal. ItalE nearly completed t lie connecting
biatich witii the late Duke of BRIDGEWATER'S
Contd. at Leigh, and which will in a few week. be
opened f %Yips' to Leigh. 'nits J u net ion
Curial will lie of se benefit both to the pub-
lic and to the Proprietors of the Leda and Liver-
pool Canal. %finch has hitherto hero mainly curs-
lined to the two rstreutltirs. without any direct
cumin •at ion with the inallasid anti conflict n coon-
ties. but which will now communicate with moot of
the crouch' and waiigable risers iu the kingdom.

tom trees Looehos and Caois oil the iiistaut.euui
to Liverpool, &c.