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essminati°" of "" ‘hi. evidence, that the stroogest judic la
proof of guilt had heen esi,dwished, that an adulterous inter-
course had been much ton sullicieutly proved --(Hear!) Ile
had beard much of the popular feclitig oo the sohjoet ; but
amid all the mischiefs with which the suite was threuttoted,
be saw imae greater than what would teN.lll 60111 a sudden
mid atrium teratioation of the preseet proceeding, instead
of gm lig through With it to a just and satisfactory conclusion.
The Eat! of ItOSSI•VN 1.40,e amidst loud calls for the
question. When lie saw agents employed to corrupt wit-
nesses, nod iewards h id out in provortion to the force of the
charges made, most he not look at such evidence with great
suspicion 1 The greatest portion of the charges had been
ahandthied ;ay tine advocates for the prosecution,and yet they
clung to evidence which they acknowledged to be sus:pencil.
The circuutttance of Minsstels permitting the Princess to live
three yeers abroad, after they had heroine acquainted with
her conduct, appeared as if they connived at it. Thri lilt
was nut th ought expedient when the scandal was fresh, our
when the Princess lived three years iu Italy ; its expediency
only commenced on her urris al in this country. Ii the
divorce cbtu•e, was thrown nit, and the de,eradation of the
Queen persevered ill, then might she Le loaded with the most
odious epith is, and yet she, by such a decision still de-
elated to he good enough to be the wife of the Kirg.—
' Such a proceeding would be unjust to the King. Notwith-
stairllng the public opium's, and the probuiality of the Howe
' of Commas's rejectii.g the Rill, he most notice the hardship
of the Queen, in brio., subjei tea to this troublesome trial,
under such manifest disadvantages, and which were a stroog
aggravation of the hardships to which she was suljected.
At the conclusion of Lord Raoslyo's speech, there was Is
general cry of" Qu.•atiea. question I Withdraw, withdraw I"
His Royal Higtmess the Duke of Clarence, from one of the
galleries, appear •d most anxious to come to a division, es.
claiming loudly, " Wit hdraw h" and Making a motiou with
his Irtoil for strangers to quit their Liwitships' bar.
Lord HULL AN 1.) ruse during the cry of •• Question !" and
" W itlitLaw h" to direct the attention of the House to a
point which appeared to h s Lordship to have escaped their
notice. It was riot nei essary ft.r strangers to withdraw
before the house came id a division. The Noble Lords,
according to previous ;triangesuesit, were to vote without
leaving their places, and if any l'i cr called for a division,
, after the Noble :and Learitid Lord oil the Woolsack declarial
a het her toe qiiest;oli wa, cart ied or oot, then strangers,
accord:rig to the tonal practice. must itliniaw.
The liart of LP/ EtaPtJGI. said it would be the dilly of
the Lord Chancellor, as Speaker of that House, to sine on
which side he tholigh: the majority rested ; hot as it was
most probable the House would come to a division, lie con-
ceived the proper course winild be to exclude strangers
forthwith.

The House below the Bar wait then deiced of sti dozers,
nod the door being closed, they proceeded to a division
iibiont three o'clock.

The crowd of persons without waited with a strong
feeling of expectation to hear the numbers announced.
Several bets were made. Some who professed to be in the
secret were disposed to take the majority at SI. o,lscrs
at 25 ; but the greater part of the specul.stors looked for
something near the majority predicted by M. llobbouse
at the St. James's Meeting, namely, about 61 or 63.
At half-past three o'clock the does-keepers announced
the numbers to the public to be—
For the second reading of the Bill—Centents 123
Nut Contents 'JS

Majority for the second reading 26
The House then adjourned till ten o'clock to-morro•
morning, when a motion will be made to go into a Coin-
millet upon the provision% of the Bill.

TVESDAY, NOT. 7.
Tho Lord Chancellor took his seat on the Woolsack a
few minutes before ten o'clock, when nrayers were read
by the litshop of Bristol, and lie list of Petas called over
Lord DACRE then rose to present a Protest from her
Majesty, and said—" My Lot ds, since I came down to the
House this morning, a Protest from her Majesty has been
put into my hands. Not having taken any share in the
debates on this painful and important questinit, and en-
tertaining, as I do, strong. feelings on the subject, I ought
perhaps, to make some apology for now addressing your
Lordships. But my opinions, my Lords, were not in-
fluenced by what has passed at the Bar of this
My objection to Bills of Pains and Penalties for acts lung
since coinnfitted, was so strong, that no evidence that
could be brought forward would, in my opinion, jostlty
resorting to such a measure. Having land this Protest
placed in my hands, I will make nue of tart observations
upon it. Whatever opinions I may have hail 44 to the
nature of this proceeding, I concur twist cordially is the
• first part ratter Majesty's Protest, that her tieknowledgel
proseentois hove voted against her on this trial. I Loose
that precedeit is may be found for such votes, and it is left
to the individuals themselves to deride OH the propriety
of prosectatois acting as jurors, but the cotantry will fin m
an opinion 1113011 it which it is not didicult to anticipate.
Her :Majesty further complains, that some of the parties
who have given their voices ;against her, have not attended
the trial duritit: her defence. (Ifeat, hear.) 1 will not
say they had no tight to vote, if they could reconcile such
an act to their consciences. Ifer Majesty then protests,
before Goal, that site is wholly innocent of the ;Aisne laid
to her charge and declares that she will abstain from all
fat titer appeal to your Lordships, reserving to het self the
fiatlter vindication of her character in another place. I
stow, toy Lads, will read
THE PROTEST.

" The Queen 114% learnt the decision of the Lords 'twin
the Bill now before them. In the race of l'oillament, of
her Frailly, and of her Country, she does sole iiiii I) protest
against it. Those who avowed themselves her Proseem
tors, have presumed to sit in judgment upon the qiiestiois
between the Queen and themselves. Peers have given
their voices against her, who had heard the whole evi-
dence fur the charge, mid absented themselves during her
defence. Others have come to the dismission from the
Stet-et Committee with minds biosseil by a maw, of ,lan+lu'y
which her CIIC,IIIC3 bare nut doled to 'bring forward in the
light.
" The Queen does not avail herself of her right to JP-
pear before the Committee for to her the detai!s of the
ineamye mil be e matter of indifference; amt. macs, the
conrse of these tetexritiykil Ilniecediligs skuntd bring tl!•
13111 befe.e the other blanch of the Legislotiire.shc aOl
make no ref: tenet w atever to the treatment expert need
by her Miring this twenty-five yeses.
" She WPM, I St ill, •Iterately, ond before God, asserts
that else is w lib:ocent of the crime laid to her eiiorge
:mil she nee s, with iniutkoted confidence, the final result
,d* this ibloar4l,ele..l tisaWskru!

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The LORD CHANCELLOR.-1 apprehend that, ac-
cording to the ordinary coin se of proceeding. arter the
sceniid reading of 4 Bill of obis iiriiiie, she sill' who is
she objert of the li It has a rigat to be pei.on •:•v heard. It
is, there•.fore. for your Lorilsittps to whether this
Protest is to be received as Cie Address of the
as sticli, I conceive that it may be received, hat that as
Protest it cannot.
Lord DA CitE.—My Lords, I em aware of the dirictilty
pointed out by the Learned and Noble LIM on tho Wool-
sack ; but as it is admitted that her Majesty may be• heard
personally, your Lordship., I am sure, would not wish to
press on a person of her exalted rank and situation, the
necessity of addressing your Lordships, but that, iu some
form, the l'rotest of her Majesty will be admitted.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL thought, as this might be
the moat convenient mode ot• her Majesty expressing her
sentiment., there could be no usjeclions to receiving it ;
and, to prevent its being into a precedent, sonic
entry on the Journals, stating it to be a specialcase, might
he made. . .

Tire LORD CHANCELLOR deemed it is dirty to state
to the Huitse,that the only way in which he coireeived the
Protest could be admitted, was, not as a Protest, but as a
representation from her Majesty, instead of a persoisal
Adds ese.
Lord L tUDERDALE begged to know from their Lord-
ships, whether, censidering the coatext, teat Address
would have been received in tee House as part of a speech
without interruption ? %Vas it pos- ible that their Lord-
ships would permit themselves to be thus slandered ? lie
begged and isuplered their Lirdships to recollect their
own dignity; and, while they wet e iterinitting any stet e-
mein to go upon their jerirtiels, to lake care that it should
not convey any engem upon their owe character. ( Hear.)
The Duke of leir; r% CASTLE rose. He had, lie said
heard some observations, intimating, that by Nis ex yeast
facto law, some of their Lurdshipe, who had been met-
voidable absent, were to be deprived of their most valua-
ble privilege, that of voting. Now lie was determined to
maintain all his privileges, and he should do his duty coo•
scientiously, withoet tear of consequcnaes.
Earl GREY said, the ipreetion belOre the House was
whether their Lot ilehips should or should not receive the
Paper presented to them--ee question which liad uutning
to de with the Noble Lord's seutimeats of the Lill.—
( Hear, hear.)
Lord CA RNARVON said, the case was of such a nature,
that the absence of any Noble Lard for is aingle hour
might bays beets of great importance. Mitch, however,
its such circumstances as these under which the Queen
laboured, must be left to the discretion of their Lordships.
He was aware that the language of the Paper was, strictly
speaking, objectionable, but great aliowance should be
made for the painful sitnation id which her Majesty was
placed ; and he trusted that the greatest latitude would
be given. He should certainly have been much better
pleased if her Majesty had said, their Lordships had runts
to a cousideration of her case under circumstances which
rendered it impossible that their minds should not be
biassed, (Hear, hear.) He, at the same time, must de-
clare, that if he had been on the Committee, lie should
out entertain a thought of voting, convinced, as lie was,
such was human infirmity, he could not but be an inadequate
judge—(Hear.)—Had lie been Couueel for her hlajeele, he
would not have advised her to subunit any more appeals to
the House; shad could not help expressing his surprise at
the fact that alpine Noble Lords thought themselves at liberty
to come to a &Clout/ about the guilt or innocence of the
garret, and et the same time to trample under their feet the
mast vital principles of justice !—( tear, hear ) cots-
demised the conduct of the Noble Duke (New castle), who
said that an es post facto law had been made ttlp,evelit him
voting. Uua.'custoined to the terms of law, the .No:ite
Duke had, in the auxiorie discharge of his duty, trenched
open the mist obvious principles of justice. Why, asked his
Lordship, had the Noble Earl typovite moved, at tit.• coin-
saeueeineut of this procterline, that the House should be
called over ? Why was it that ins Peer was allowed to vote
by proxy ? Was it not because no Peer was entitled
to vote who did not personally rowed the investieatiou
of the case. When the Noble Duke claimed the right
of voting without hearing Elie defeece, he was, in fie!,
claiming to vote by proxy; it was to all lunette mid
;Imposes the same Oleg. lie remleered welt the word,
of the Noble Earl opposite (Lord Liverpool); alum ire
snored the tall at the House, he had *aid, nto.,t empha-
tically, that he trusted no Noble Lord would presume to
give a vote on the case alio did not hear the whole of the
evidelice.—(Hear.) The Noble Lord ors the woolsack,
too, had assellied to the principle, though lie had some-
what quelified; lie had said, that if he were to be two or
three 'ley' absent during the proceedings, lie sliutifl not
consider himself ju►tified in vernier ou the
hear). But did either of these N elite Lords ever con-
template that any Noble Peer who should be ahee•ut, 1101
days, but weeks, wise should not hear tae word of the
detenee, should come down and say, teat lie Was NA only
reedy to vote for the Hid, hat for the severest perseltiee
which tt ceateined.—(Loud cheeri). ?le thought that consider.
lag every thing, this was a Case in wleeli the House could not
eta; too much, front any tenet rules of practice, in favour of
the itaAlsed party. lie saw nothing so intaneet in the Protest,
as shouid prevent its being metre!. The convents of it, as far
as respected nutter of feet, were strictly true; they were e•uch
as all their Lordships, as the whole country, must reel the torso
et; he v aired to Gorr they could sours be forgotten ; fur, white
remembered the judieed character of their LuMsiiies would never
again occupy that high &matron which it had heretotim;

Lord DONOUGH MORE had the same feeling en the subject
with the Null.. and Ladnea Lord on the ‘Vuolsacit. Atter all,
there was nutting new in the ~nicest; the only new ground of
objection was that some of their Loraships had absented them•
roves during the defeace, and that of coat- e was an objection
which must have arisen at the commencement ot dim
proceedings.
Earl GREY thought that the mischiefs threatened by this
proceeding, v.cre now beyond all hope ot rented). li compelled
to attend he would ; bue he did not feel disposed to take end
further part it, these proceedings, except by giving a Sile;i/
lie considered the objection particularly' strung winelt respected
those Noble Lords who had Ciought it cutiustent with their
honour and duty, and heal ieconciled it to Moir consciences, after
)tearing the Lenience fo, the pua( talon, and nut one syllable of
the net, nce—( lear, hear)—to give their votes on a quostion of
this momentous nature. He had no right to fined Lath with tlic.e
Noble Lords. The} ouna answer to liod arid to hair tnia..:antas
tur the vote they had given.
The Ite.ohnion of the laird Chatcellor, u, aon•lidtsl by Lord
Lauderdale, that the intrie.a ot her Alajesty be teceived, was then
pat and carried wunout a thva:tm.
On use Order of the Day hying read for the llmtsc fe)olwing
itseh .ato a Lon, re,
The b.art ot bAithLLY sod, he would not lon4 detain their