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LONDON,
SATURDAY. Aucurr 26, 1920.

The proceedings in the House of Lords fester.
day were extremely interesting, but beyond this
we know not whether we are at liberty to give any
expression to our feelings. Complaints were made
by the Learned Counsel on both sides, of state-
ments and opinions which had appeared in some
of she daily Papers, and it is to be apprehended
from a few words spoken on the subject by the
LORD CismicstLoa, that at some future day the
Lords will review the conduct of all the members
of the public PICSB, and vindicate the privileges of
the House in every instance wherein they might
seem to have been violated. For ourselves we con
entertain no fears. Pursuing with respect to the
present proceedings the same course of honest inde-
',claimer, which, we trust, has ever characterised
our conduct, and being conscious of no feeling but
such us is warranted by respect for the integrity of
the Constitution and the principles of justice, we
cannot have expressed an opinion at which any
houe.t Member of Parliantent could take excep-
tion ; but it is impossible to flefine what either
House of Parliament might, in its wisdom, think fit
to call its priiileges, and the security which the
general principles of law might stem to cast around
the subject may in an instant be dissolved by a
vote of either House.

We are not sorry, however. that sonic notice has
been taken of the general conduct of the public
Press, as it will. we trust, have the effect of re.
Stns. ' g in some degree the gross impropriety of
expression in which the Treasury Prints indulge,
when speaking of the effect of the present proce•d-
ings upon the character of the QUEEN. It is dif-
ficult, by imputing any ordinary motives of action,
to account fur the intemperate malignity uniformly
displayed by certain of the Ministerial Prints against
this unhappy Princess;—it is difficult, we say, to
account for it, because, in general, misfortune and
suffering would in any generous mind rather miti-
gate than inflame hostility, and we do not believe
that the Ministers of 'the Crown, who are the
avowed p►esecutors of the QUEEN, are base
enough to instruct their agents to fling every de-
grading epithet, every insulting calumny, upon
■ny individual who had '.en once placed at the tri-
bunal of justice. It cannot be conceived that these
writers should entertain any personal enmity to-
wards their QUEEN, for it is not probable that they
have ever come within the influence of her sphere,
so as to receive any personal injury front her MA-
JESTY ; and yet it is certain that they all emu-
lously express theineelves with a degree of rancour
and hatred towards her, greater, we are convinced,
than is felt by any of the witnesses produced against
her at the bar of the House of Lords, or by those
at whose desire the present proceedings ha►e been
institu ed. There is, indeed, one way of explain-
ing the circumstance, which is thus:—the active
promoters of this prosecution, those for instance who
instructed the witnesses, arid collected the evidence,
having inflicted the deepest injury upon the
QUEEN, as a necessary consequence entertain for
her MAJESTY the most implacable animosity. A
sufferer may forgive an injury, but those who inflict
it are iocapable of such magnanimity ; they will
pursue their victim with undying malignity ; and
it is by the supposition that they who hove been
personally active in getting up the present charges
against the QUEEN, have a temporary control of
the Government Press, that we account for the base
and unmanly spirit that euvenoins the cohusinis of
the Treasury Journals.
Among the witnesses who were examiteol yester-
day, were Captains PF.CIIEi.L mild Barnes, of the
ships Clorintle mud Leviathan. Rumour had been
very busy with the names of these gallant officers,
and had represented them as the most formidable
witnesses egainst the QuEEN, but so little did
their testimony affect her MAJESTY injuriously,
that we are surprised at the ATTORNEY-GSNIRAL
for having brought them forward. Capt. Pitatese
statsd his unwilliegness to sit at the same table
with BERMAN!. because he had previously seen
him acting as a servant. Captain► BRIGGS, how-
ever, did not conceive himself retitled to scan 1110
birth roil parentage of every individual svhoun it
might please the Consort of his Sovereign to hold
in her suite, and feeling himself honoured by the
presence of Royalty, he did not undertake the distri-
bution of its rays, or dictate upon whom it was his
pleasure that they should shine. Possibly lie might
find his self-constituted office of censor some-
what irksome in other places, he therefore very
wisely A-a:lined from exercising it. AVe do not
pretend to conjecture how Captain Pecnet.t.
would have acted, haul lie been honoured by an in.
vitation to dine with the King of SARDINIA, and
found at the table with his MAJESTY, who is right
regally addicted to low company, some persons
whom he lied pr. viously seen in less elevated society ;
but we should have liked to have heard his answer to
Lord OsTORD'S jud►cious question. had the House
4 suffered it to have been nut. Captain PECUELL

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was not welted any questions by the Quesn's Counsel,
and Captain Batons declared that he had never
'linefeed any improper familiarity between the
Princrm and her Chamberlain. There were some
other witnesses examined, whose evidence we have
not time now to analyze.

At a late hour last night we received the remain.
ing Paris Papers of Tuesday, but their contents
have been anticipated by the extracts which we
published yesterday morning from the Juarnal de
Paris of the same thy. The number of military
persons arrested in Paris. in consequence of the
discovery of the late atrocious conspiracy. dors not
exceed 25. Among these were some officers of the
2.1 regiment of the King's body guards. They
have all been handed over to the King's ATTOR-
NEY-GENERAL. The principal framer of the con.
spine,. is said to be a Captain of the Legion of the
North, named DEQUEVAUVILLIMI. who, it is be-
lieved, had served in the body guard of MURAT,
when that person occupied the throne of Naples.

The Paris Papers are very much occupied with
the proceedings in rudiment against our Qum+.
They confine themselves strictly to making extracts
front the reports in the London Rapers. not ven-
turing to utter a remark ma upon the singularity
of the scene.

The death is announced of Madame BACCIOCHT,
frenterly Princess of Promonto, and eldest sister
of NAPOLEON 130NAPARTE. Time was, when such
an event occurring in the Imperiul family of Bo•
NAPARTE, would have been bewailed with every
expres4ion of anguish in the obsequious prints of
Paris! Flow are the mighty fallen!

Thursday the Duke and Duchess Of CLANENCS,
the Duchess of GLOUCESTER. the Princess AUGUS-
TA, &c. dined with the Duchess of KaNT, at her
apartments in Kensington Palace.
Yesterday the Princess AUGUSTA visited the
Duchess of GLoucasTsa.
The Duke and Duchess of GLoUCESTEa hail a
party at d' r yesterday.
Thursday evening the Duke and Duchess of
WELLINGTON had a numerous party at their house
in Piccadilly.
Ills MAJESTY'S Commitsioners of Lieutenancy for
London have been Ideated to appoint Sir Cr.AuDIUS
HUNTER, Mit. to he Colonel of the regiment of
militia now raising for general service in Great
Ordain.

In consequence of the Address to the Queen. said
to come from the privates of the Leicester militia,
pains have been taken to investigate the matter, and
to ascertain whether, in fact, any such Address did
proceed from that corps, and if so, by how many of
the iirivalcs it was sigord. We have had the follow-
ing letters communicated to os for publication, to
chew the real state of the case, and with whom the
measure originated :
No. 1.
"Leiersler, Atigngl_2, 1840.

M Y LORD Dohz—Mr. Deakins assembled the non-
commissioned officers at the magazine this morning, to ►e.
ccive the report of their inquiry among the men belonging
to the regiment residing in Leicester, relative to the Address
to the Ghetto, b, which it appears they saw upwards of 120,
all of whom disdain. having any knowledge of the transac-
tion. Mac ))))) the musidseller, acknowledges having cor-
rected the Address, but says he has no copy of it. Quart. r
master Deakins has ascertained from a stetson of this town,
who saw the Address, that it only bore two signatures, one
named Thomas Staines, a recruit, but the name of the other
the informant has forgot, but says his Christian name is
Daniel, and that he below to the regiment. lam con.
vismed that the men aborenanted, are the only ones In-
longing to the regiment who have been in any way concerned
in the formation of the Address. Notwithstanding what I
have herein stated, I have thought it right to send the non-
commissioned officers to every part of the county, to collect'
the sentiments of the men, in order that I may be enabled
to transmit to your Grace their general disavowal of being
in any way connected with the irallllllCiaUll with which they
have been charged. " 1 have, icm.
" IV. F. HULSE, Lt.•Cul. L.N.
" His Grace the Lhike of Rutland, K.G.

No. 11.
" Leicester, August 22, 1920.

" Div Lana DUKE— I Live much pleasure to stating,
for your GrAce's information, that we have at last traced to
its source the authors of the Address purporting to be hour
the privates of yuur Grace's regimes!, and find it consists
of three individuals not belonging to the same. It was first
drawn out by a person of the name of Harrill, and given by
him to • matt of the name of Laurance Staines, who took it
1.6 a Mr Deacon, a musie.seller, where it was corrected,
after which Staines copied it and left it with Harris. with
two signatures to it, via. Thomas Staines and Daunt
Brookes, both of whom I have seen, and they declare they
never saw the Address, nor heard it marl. I understand it
was forwarded by Harris to Alderman Wood. It was not
till six days after the regiment had completed the period of
trainiicz, that this Adder's was drawn op, though it is au-
tedati d to July Et, three slays previous to its dismissal, to
ani,wer their vile purposes.
" I have received the reports of the non-commissioned
officers that went to the several villages to ascertain from the
men their sentiments relative to the late Address (with the
exception of two who went to Hinckley and adjacent., where
we bare several men reside), they saw 354, all of whom dia.
avow any knowledge ail.
" Ye.tcrday eve ll ill g one of the serjeants came to inform
me that two of the men belonging to the regiment had been
with him, saying three mean-looking persons bad just called
on them, wishing them to sign au Address, which they
refused.
" Lieutenant-Colonel Hulse has not Bern here to day ; he
directed me yesterday to write to your Grace, should he nut
be able to come.-1 have, &c.
(Signed) J. DEAKINS.
"Quartermaster, Leicestershire Militia.
" His Grace the Duke of Rutland, &c. &c. &c."

Copy—No. 111.
" Leicester, August 23, 1820.
" MY LORD Outs—Tire whole of the non-commis-
pi )))) ed Otliceis who were sent to the several towns and vit.
Isgys in the county to colitct the sentiments of the men
base returned, and I have to report that they have seen 420
of them, all of whom disclaim any knowledge whatever of
the Address. .

" I cats with great confidence say, that no one of the non.
commissiuned Officers of the Leicester regiment know the
least about it, and I am convinced that no one individual
belonging to that regiment has bad the slightest share in
this infamuns hassaction. Of the three "be were I believe
alone concerned iu it, two are of the very lowest order; they
all reside iu this town, but as 1 before said, do nut belong
to the regiment. 1 have, &c.
(Signed) " W. F. HULSE,
" Lit:EL-Cul. Leicester Regiment.
" Ilia Grace the Duke of Rutland, IL G.
" A number of the men are out at harvest work, alike/wise
probably more of them would have been found by the no*.
cuminissiuned Officers."

ADDRESSES TO HER ALCIESTV.
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The following Address was voted unanimously
at one of the must numerous meetings that ever
took place in the Common Hall of Sheffield. It
bears the signatures of upwards of eight thousand
Inhabitants of the Town of Sheffield :
"Ts her Majesty Caroline, Queen Consort of his Majesty
George she Fourth, King of the United Kingduit of
Great Britain and Ireland, &c.
" The loyal and dutiful Address of the Inhabitants
of the Town and vicinity of Sheffield, in the county
of York.

" We, yourll4ajnity's most faithful suljrctr, beg leave to
approach your Majesty with unfeigned professions. of alien
lion for your Royal Peasnn; anal to congratulate your Ma.
jesty on your return to this country—a country that now
calls you Queen, and which we regret that your Majesty
should ever have Wt.

" In addressing you on this occasion, permit us to assure
your Majesty, that the many deprivations you have ans.
tabled have touched a chord in our hearts awl bound us to
your Royal Person by the tenderest ties ("sympathy. Since
your first arrival in this country, great and variuos afflic-
tions have befallen you; the prop and stay of your Illus-
trious Hoese Ms been withdrawn by the hand of Death; his
late Majesty George 111. King of Eugland, your must gra.
(ions friend mid powerful protector, now slumbers in the
grave; and that satiated spirit, who called you mother—she
on whim a nation's hopes and highest expectations were
.fised, and whose untimely death filled every heart with
mourniug, and every eye with tears, can no longer solace
you with her affection.
" Sincerely humming these deprivations, to which your
Majesty has ken subjected, we offer you our condolence;
and under the new affliction that now assails you, we heartily
and must unfeignedly pray, that your Majesty, aided by the
'Actions of • loyal people,may finally triumph over your
itemisers, and put to shame he foolishness of evil men. IVe
heartily disapprove of and sincerely condemn that spirit of
hostility which has too evidently charartmised the *UMW
proceedings instituted against your Majesty; and the mode
iu which they hare hitherto beeu carried 00000 se regard as
harsh, oppressive, and repugnant to the liberal spirit of that
constitution under which we live.

•` le Air fret expression of our condolence, oar wishes,
and opinions, persaii ns So assure your Majesty of our ad-
miration of the magnanimous conduct you have invariably
displayed under circumstances and charges revolting lo your
nature, ■od which we are fully 'pyramided rainbow but a
feeling of conscious innocence could have enabled you so
nobly to sustain.
" THOMAS RAWSON, Chairman."

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tier Majesty returned the tellniving nurst gra-
cious Answer
" I shall sever be unmindful of the obligation which the
Inhabitants of the town of Midfield and its vicinity have
conferred spew me, by this honest testimony of their fervent
zeal for my ieterest, their tender sympathy fur my sorrows,
sod their generous resentment of any wrongs.
" Though benefits ought In be written in marble, and
Haile. in rbe dust, yet lbe injuries I have endured have
been too many in number, and too grierious in kind, to be
readily ohlitersted from recollection. But, though my
memory retains the impression, I have nut suffered the
spirit of revenge to rankle in my breast. It would have
been well fur me, and perhaps nut 111 for the country,
if my oppressor had hero as free from malice us myself;
for what is it but malice of the most unmixed nature,
■nd the most unrelenting character, which has infest-
ed my pails, and way liid my steps, during • long period'of
twenty.flve years Malice of this description, of suck lest
continuance, awl such extraordinary intensity, hes cerfaioly
bees productive of great !Rimy to myself; butt I msy well
repress the sentiments of revenge, when I reflect that it
must have heels productive of much more inquietude in that
mind which could I.sten to its suggestions, and in that bosons
which could 'cherish a spirit so adverse to goodness, and so
incompatible with happiness."
The following Address has been presented to her
Majesty front the parish of St. Matthew, Bathnut.
Green:—

" To the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty.
Te loyal sod dutiful Address of the Vestrymen of
the Parish of St. •Matthew, tlethnxt•Greeu, in the
County of Middlesex, io Vestry assembled :
" May it please your Majesty,
" We, your Majesty's most dutiful and faithful subjects,
the Churchwardess, Overseen, Governors, and Directors of

the Poor, and Vestrymen of the Parish of St. Matthew, Beth..
sal-green, beg to approach your Majesty to offer our mai-
meats of euudulroce and congratuisoloo at this momentous

sad important crisis.
" The painful bereavements with which it has pleased
Provideurte to visit your Majesty, are events which hate
proved as calamitous and distressing to your Majesty, as
they have bete subjects of deep sorrow and afilictiou to this
portion of your Majesty's people ; mid it is with feelings of
unaffected regret that we condole with your Majesty upon
these acute visitations, so afflicting in their consequences to
your royal and parental heart, and so disappointing to the
hopes of all your Majesty's keys' and affectionate subjects.
14 The arrival of your Majesty in this country, after an
absence of several years, was an tenet which we bailed with
sincere pleasure and gratification ; and we congratulate
your 'Majesty upon your return to a people who have sever
ceased to feel a participation is your many persecutions and
sufferings, or to admire the firmness and generosity of your
Majesty's mind.
Much as we lament the determination which has been
adopted, of preferring certain charges against your Ma-
jesty, which in their nature and proof are so repugnant to
all mural feeliug, so pregnant with objectionable conse-
quences, and so hostile to every overtime lit of British jos.
tiee and generosity; yet, in our estimatitio, the mode of
proceeding which mark■ the progress of the accusation
against your Majesty, is infinitely more important to the
proper administration of public justice, and the interests
of every subject its the British empire. Venerating the
Consitution of this great nation, and being firmly attached
to the House of Di unswick, we have beheld sills pi-L.(0%1.1d
sorrow aid regret the extraordinary proceedings adopted
towards your Majesty. Those principle• of public justice
which form and govern the course of the amuses-, and also
the safeguard and protection of the accused, appear to us
to have been violated in the case of your Majesty; and a
method of proceeding anomalous in its constitution, and
oppressive in its character, has been instituted, alike de.
trimeotal to your Majesty's cause, aid to the liberties and
privileges of the people of this country.
lu reviewing the various efforts directed against your
Majesty's honour and peace, and the oumberleas insults
which have been offered to your Royal Person, combined
with the futile attempt to seduce the integrity of your Ma-
jesty by a proposition to compound your Royal and legi-
timate Rights and Title; we know not whether most to
admire the magnanimity and diguity of mind which in-
stantly detected, despised, and exposed such machinations,
or to express our indignation and disgust upon such at-
, tempts sad practices being disclosed.
" The several severe trials to which your Majesty has
been subjected, and the defeat of every attack which has
hitherto been directed against your Majesty's honour and
dignity, impresses us with the unalterable convittiou, that
the daughter of the illustrious Duke of Brunswick, the
Consort of our Royal Sovereign, and the Mother of oar
ever-to-he-lameuted Princess Charlotte, is worthy of the
honour, devotion, and loyalty of the People of this country :
and that accusations preferred and supported by efforts every
way reprehensible, and by means the tool{ objectionable,
will, if persisted in, be a source of Leslie' regret to our-
selves, but at the same time a subject which cannot fail of
animating, on behalf of your Majesty, the *chap of every
honourable, indrprodent, sod generous Wad."
To which Address her Majesty returned the
lowing gracious Answer:
“ The Churchwardens, Overseers, sad Vestrymen of the
pariah of St Matthew, Betimal.greeo, are requested to accept
sty cordial ihmks for this spontaneous tribute of affectionate
gard.
" The present mode of proceeding 'goblet me in the
House of Lords, say well alarm those who have say re.