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guilty of haleeoruni with Lord Liver-emit !—(Loud laughter)
—nod that she bud played at filinileim% Lull t. it li ibe Chun-
cellnr of the Eschermer I—(Ceutioue.l r.)-114 Lutd
King) could nut reter to the exact 'permit at which woe •
extraordinary 50..1 indecent proceedings took plate.
Lord LIVERPOOL.—" They never took
(Hear.)
Lord KING.—" I cannot, I assert. your Lordships, re-
fer to the exact time, but it !NMI have been, 1 think,
when the Noble Lord was looking for peace, tie fore the
Itegeacy !" (Laughter.)
Lord LIVER etAll...—" Never, upon toy honours"—
(Hear, hear, ULU fund calls of Qatstion.)
Lord GREY sa.el, that his inclination was to vote for
the Clause; but he should do so upon but one prior
whit It was, that the passing of the Clause would it ail to
the final rejection of the eilions measure allogetht*,•—
(Hear, hear.)
Lord DONOUGHMORE was &tenni:x(l to :advocate
the Clause, m what could he done with the Bill/
Lord ELLEN BOROUGH begged the Home would
consider what they were doing alien they were deliher-
Sting upon the question of up the Divorce Clause.
If they passed the Bill without that Clause, they would be
declaring that the Quceu was too had for the State, butt
good enough for the King! (Hear, liner.) If they omit-
ted the Clause and passed the Bill, their Lordships would
be publishing a seditious libel against his Majesty! (A
laugh, and cries of Hear!
Loud SOIIIEItS said, he could not reconcile it to Ids
conscience that the Queen should be deprived of all liar
rights, and still remain tied alid fastened, like a mid stout,
round the neck of the Sovereign. (A Ilugh, and cries of
scar, hear, hear.)
Lord LIMERICK said, if their Lordships did not pass
it with all its chaciments, the King, and what was of 11101 e
consequence, the Nation, would be degraded by having at
its head a woman who was unworthy to 'cumin at the head
of (male society)
Lord ESSEX said, he had very carefully listened to all
the arguments in favour of thellill, sod to ail the evidence
produced at their Lordships' Bur, and the .:union to
which hr had come was, that her ltlajesty had been ti.e
victim of a base eanspilacy, which had long existed
against her, and been the lesidt of roost malignant pi e-
tneditadon.—( Hear, hear, hear.)—He had (the Noble
Lord said) paid his reps eta to her Majesty, awl seen the
individual in her service of whom so much had been sail
in and out of that House, and he must declare, that that
individual was infinitely superior to those who generally
attended io Re I/ordinate situations, and that his conduct
to his royal mistress had been extremely respectful. He
begged their Lordships would mark, that this visit hail
taken place in the year 1819—a period at as 11101 it could
have been no difficult matter, if any sin pi oper acquaint ant e
bad existed, to observe it iu the con:tart ut troth parties.—
(Hear' hear.)
Lord ANSON agreed with his noble fi Lend who had
just sat down, on the subject of the divorce clause, and
therefore he would vote that it should not be separated
from the Bill.

The Earl of CARNARVON said, the separation and
divorce must go together; for if they degraded the Queen,
without divorcing her, they were dram ing that, although
she was the most worilless of her sex, there was one indi-
vidual In the country who must still remain her mate I He,
fur one, would raise his voice to save the Crown Rust such
degradation.
Lord HOLLAND apprehended that, if the divorce
clause was nut passed, but the degradation only, the
Queen, (hot 7,1 i no longer the Queen, would still continue
the wife of the King, and that to violate her would still
be High Treason. He would vote that the divorce clause
should remain part of the Hill, although lie 41111 felt great
objection to every other part of the Bill, and say Nut
Content to the third reading, *teenier the clauses were
retained or not.

Tbe Marquis of BUCKINGHAM said, that passlug the
Bill of Degradation without the divorce clause, was a
monstrous anomaly, and therefore he would vote that the '
Clause be retained.
Tbe Earl of GLASGOW could make no comptoniise of
adultery, and therefore he would vute for the divorce
clause continuing part of the Bill.
Lord MAN VCRS said—" This Bill has my most entire
and iimpalified approbation with its pi esti!' provisions;
Slid I 110.16 t declare so far from considering her Majesty as
the victim of 4 conspiracy, I feel convinced that her con-
duct has been degrading and scant.alous, adulterous and
infamous.
Loud FALMOUTH would yield to no one in his attach.
trent to his Sovereign iii his public and political cupacity ;
but lie would neither be dung hie dui) to his Sovereign,
nor to himself, if lie did not also admit that the King had
private rights and duties to perfut to as well as the meati-
est of his subjects !
Lord DAIiNLLy hoped that the limited phalanx who
were opposers to the Bat in tutu, soppoi tett us it hail been
b) flying petite, all ut•er the House, would triumph at last.
He tievea felt gri ater pride in his life than itt Itetolt elle of
that ;Malawi. lle was tinder the painful utccs►rty, hu w-
ee r, of Mg with his friends, so far as to think 'that
the dtvorer elatibe ought not to stand part of the BM.
Lord IiLLIIAN.LN said, that he agreed wttf the Noble
Earl near him (Grey), in thinking that if the 11.11 was to
pass at all, the diviner, elaii,e thus'. !omid part at u.
The calls of •• Question !" now became rt octal, and it
was put by the Chairman—" Shalt the Divot ce l'eanve
wand part of the Bill?" llis Lordship declared that the
bun-Contents had it. A was tkinatoled, amid
strangers were ordered to iv
'the numbers were: sou after vial ifs ahnotaxed to be as
follow :—Coiotenth L.9—Nun-Ceiirema ity for
the Divorce Clause t 7.

While strangers were excluded. we tiger that Lord
KIM) rose, and said that he should viler nu apology tot
sithiniiiing to their Lorilsbirs a clause, the in.emoa of
which in the 11111 seemed a moue; Of courbe, conbodei log
that :he Unveil was not 1,1110.e1. plat cd ih tin• ulluttioila
line ul 'Ores in the sitece,sion lo lite Up ii of thew
'realms. 'Die Crown vs to !ILI \l.a',ly,io the
event el• certain persons redy cessitig het, nod that by
the most LlCft•d and ftwthoaenial lwatt of the fond. if it
devolved on her; the gclrhuuuu loyidti of iloir Lord.
ships most at note Mike !AVM adopt a d.Cutut V WV+
the ptr+l•ot titieslitm ; Ott-at I--and. fou oard
to that event, they matt he ready to provide tor
P. He therefore movr d this Ain' be it lurthir
enacted, by the authority stud said, that to case the crown
of these tcalms shall at any time dencend to her bald i

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Majesty Caroline Amelia Elizabeth, then, and in such
case, this present Act, and all the matters and things
contained therein, shall become utterly void and of no
Oh et, and the whole of the Preamble thereof shall be
It erred and taken to be false, calumnious, utool scanda-
lous, upon the same evidence on which it hat Ii now been
held to be sotfliciently proved." (Loud cheering, with
some cries of order.)
Lord COLVILLE (of Culross, in Scotland, one of the
Scotch Peers) ruse, with mooch warmth, to vindicate him-
self, and those who acted with him in favour or the Bill.
lie said they w ere aspersed—they were wracked—by this
motion. Ile wished, therefore, to know whether that
Ncble Lind was in order. (Hear, hear.) lie was pin-
eeedi•ig, but was himself interropkd Ly
Lord HOLLAND, who spole to order. The Noble
Lord (Colville, of Culiose.) hail asked whether his NlO/le
le/ tend um;s in order, but had no: shown him to he diger-
oleo hy, or pointed out 1100', which every Noble Lord was
bound to do who tmk upon lion to interrupt another.
(Load cheers.) The motion, he verily believed, might nut
be Ugleeilllle to the Noirle Loud; but it did slot, on that
i.ccomot, heroine disordeoly.(Hear, hear, hear.)
Lord LAUDEISDALE, with great vehemence, sup
pouted the objections to Lord King's clause. He yielded
to no man flu loyalty, hot he thought this motion attacked
every Peer who had supported the Bill; and it was the
111:11111eJ of cloaking it, rather than the 11101(101 itscif, which
all must perceive to be roi-ordeoly. (Cheers.)
Lord KING colloid not allow that any thing disorderly
was conitaired in his climse. It aide ibed 110 111011%45 to
any otoe except loyalty of which every one was, and justly
might be, proud. It cooly affirmed what was the necessary
consequence of loyal feelings, and assumed that their
Lou olships, as loyal men, the 1110111e111 the Queen-Consort
Lt cane, by MlCCessimi, Queen-Regnant, would change
their belief respecting tier conduct. This was a Dect,sli y
e4ll3e(llleoCe of their regard or the first principles of the
Constitution, by which every Mona'. cal was deemed
" most excell:mt." without nay regard to his conduct or
character. _ _

The elcuse was negatived without a divisien, and the
Chairman was du cceed to report the Bell.
The House resumed, cud pestered the Report to be re-
ceived to-morrow.
Tuunsmtv, Nov. 9.
The Lord Chancellor twee. his sect on the woolsack a few
rniiititti lecture evil o'clock. Prayers welt: read, anti the
list was read uver. Apologies were made fur the Marquis
of lier:ford. Lords Holland, Limerick, Huntingdon, and
Motley, wlet were iudispmed.
It pas then resolved, that any Pear might sign the Pro-
test this day. and that bred Holland Ail.llllll be allowed to
sign it when lie was sufficiently recovered to attend the
Hun .e.

Lord SHAFTESBURY brought up the Report of the
Committee.

Ibe antendineots relating to the alteration of the name
of Bergasei. wet e put and aeteed to.
Lord LLLLN BUS:01:611 undeistood that many Noble
Lot :Is hail voted lur the second reading of the Bill, in the
uudeistauding that it would undergo such utudifi:•ation in
the Committee, and the only atteroiou that had been
made, was omittite, the article " the." lie therefore
Loped, that those Noble Lords who bad voted for the se-
cond leading in the expectation ot the Bill being amended,
would oppose its Wither progress.
The Earl of LAUDERDALE could not help remon-
strating on the conduct of those Noble Lords who had
♦oted against the Bill, and yet voted fur the divorce
clause. Dix Noble 1; lend ( Larl Grey) acknowledged
that he had dune so with the view of getting rid of the
811 alt.p.,:ether. lie was 4stunislied that any Noble Lord
could lend to ontell a tuck and Mallii.llere to get
id of the bill. fie should like to know, on what [min-
i:Tie of consisteney those would act who voted for the
second reading, and yet would appose the Wild reading of
the Bill?

GREV.—" My Leads—lt is not only with surprise,
but with some degree of indignation tkat 1 have heard the
charge in the Noble Lord who had Just sat down, who,
from habits of friendship, ought to have know a me better
than to accuse me of to tek and 1'1;11,u:ova« ! 'rite charge
comes well hoot toot Noble Lind et ttabily ! But, my
Litt dotty t wattle& dating the whole of this tiolortiniate
investigation, :cud my vote, have been fair and open, and
free !stoat trick or mancettsre ! Hut what shall we say to
the nicks and iiianCtilVti.ll of those vt ha, to get votes fur
the second leading of the Bill, held out hopes of altera-
tions and modifications in the Committee / The Noble
Lot d on the woolsack, veto had made an eloquent speech
in fivour of the illknisee hail, with the whole of
the ea ministers, voted against the clause!—(Hear,
hear). al:: Louis, 1 felt indignation and disdain, hind 1
also use ii stronger tette, at the charge of toy Noble
Fitend? Had I hero, like the Noble Lind, a Lappin ter
of the bill, 1 could have tilt no difficulty : the didietalty
ith me was, that 1 was agaiast the bill; but still 1 thighs
base slated smticiesit reasons for the vote, in my wish
lint to add to the degredatima of royally, by degiading
his Majesty, as well as Ilia courant. Li cry thing that 1 •
has e firalli ; curly thing that 1 have head; and eve, y
thing that 1 have thought uu tli. subject, has comfit med
my original opinion on this measure. 1 had v,ded con-
:a:tenuously that 1 dud tint think the elterge against the
Olivet) had beets made out ; and yet 1 found tnysell coin-
pelted to yule tor the di; oree clause, which might optical.
In give my sanction to the charge. I stove with the
Noble Load behind me (EllennutunAll), that those who
voted for the second reading of the will, to the copes of
its beim; /dieted in the ceininittee. have toot dueeived
but, or eJtitse, there were em hicks, no manwevres its
this. Thar Noble Lotils who have been thus di (wised,
and indueell ti: pr. as the hill to a stage which it otlicr•
wise would uev,y have reached, west, however, oppose
the third leading of UT bill. 1 tonal, My Lords, L shall
be excused if 1 have expressed Myself warmly; but,
considt riug tlik chat ge made against toe, and the (ratter
Uom wliviite it r.uue, 1 could out but feel it stsougly.—
My also is to Nand with ni ILu House, and to discharge
toy duty faithfully dud conscitutiously.
Lord L4.I.II3EIIIMLE explained. If lie were capable
on any account of loiying what could by possibility detract
front the (711141113 C ter of his Nul.tv iend, if %%mild be ill-
finitely 'mae paitifill to liim Mau any thing that ever
happened to hum iu the whole coin se of his lite. Let he
had nut ti-ed the word waTurt hip trick. lie had only said,
that it was a Pailiamentaty trick, often thradtlittl, and
never, pet lisps, mute etleettially than on the pichent
occasion. lle could spine his Noble Ellicott that, on all
nectatOn%, lie could have but one feeling towilds bins,

a feeling which had long existed, and me►t continue w it
him to the end of hie lite.

Lord 1.11/L• iI,POOL sjould fairly ask their Lordships
whether, un any stage of this proceeding, he could be justly
accused of holding out any expectations that had not been
realised P He had merely stated, on the second reading of
the Rill, that no Noble Lord ou.:111 to feel precluded frinu
vuth g, because of any objections h,- might have to the pre•
preamble, or In the chaise of divorce, both of which would
be open to discussion in the Corainitti e. Ile hod always
stated most distinctly, that the preunilde was, in his own
opinion, most subsnoitially proved, and he could therefore
1/cber have held it out as his opinipo that any material alters
wino would eventually take place
Lord CA urtioit PE thought the vote which the Noble
Earl ne,r him (Lord Grey) had given on the divorce climse
was iwrfectly consistent with all that he had heard from hitu
on the subject of the pioceeding. He avowed it, at the
Hue time, to candour to his Majesty's Government, to lay,
that hu could ant conceive anything more to-coming the
Ministers of a country like this, than, when they f 1 any
pa evious impressions of their own hostile to the public feuding
—it teemed to be a tribute of public feeling—to vote as they
had done yesterday. The divorce clause was undoubtedly
at valiance with the religious prejudices of a very consider.
able portion of the best informed and right judging part of
the community.
The LORI) CHANCELLOR said, that the only question
ht-rote the flou,e was, wheliter a wo:d of three letters, tlin
word " 11,e" should etttu.i port or the preasnlote or not F and
lie did not iina4iue that much tight could have been thrown
MI that point by the sort of canvass which had been goin,,,
on, for he could call it nothing else, as to the votes oil the
third reading of the
_ _

The Duke of HAMILTON maid, it war necessary for hint
to othte to the I lothe tint he objected to the Bill altogether.
Ile, therefore, is ithtint entering into any discossimt upon
the merits of so ohn aloft- .t proceeding, mould mealy
move the omission of that part of tie preamble in which the
words " adulterous ititcrcuurse" were mentioned. It might
he supposed that he would al•o object to the part C1)111,i111111g
an emoneratioll of the ponistitocuts to he indicicd upon a
crime, which, in his °pita tttt had not boat legally and deo
inonstratively proved. 111 this stage of the Bill he shoull
nut do ,o, hut merely confine himself to what he had at tint
proposed, find he should atterwardo wove it no a corolltey
to the lot incr.

The amendment, that the words " adulterous intercourse'
be omitted, Wllll negatived.
Lord 1 ITZWILLIAM said, the apulterous iutercptirse
had, in his opinion, by no means been proved. But he cal-
led on those Noble Lords who held an opinion that her Ma-
jesty nas guilty, to limit th• period during which they con-
sidered that sh,• had been engaged in the criminal intercourse,
to a pm tutu of time previous to the yeur itlli, as no piton(
n hatevrr had been brougut forward of her conintiasicalion
With Inc individual named in the Bill after tutu period.—
'l`sr retuse to adopt this principle would be extreme injustice
to the multiunit:de accused.

Lind CA liN A It VUN said lie had a clause le propose to
to the Hiewe, for the propriety of which ilealsould refer to
to the former conduct of both /louses el Parliament, it was,
he obsci veil, most necessary to mark in the Bill the real
cause of the present proceedings, which, certainly, would
never have been entered upon hod her Majesty remained
abroad. The nation well knew that Ministers had, is
in conjancrion with another great burly occasionally con-
nected with them, supplicated the Queen to put an cud to the
proceedings agaiiist her, by leaving the couutry, and that
they had tarred her the stain of 40,0001. a year, upon
the condition of her absence from this country. Whatever
might be said to the contrary, his Majesty's Ntiniiters had
made this proposition t and it was clear, that if the tempi,
had been accepted, the country would never have heard
more of the investigation. The Noble Lord then moved an
1111Wildtpellt, that there should lie introduced into the
after the worst " atm acid," words to this tired : " That her
Majesty bad refused she cam of 30,0001. a year out of the
public money, prolferred to her us a (multiage from hoot
Ititises of Parliamiatt."

The Ansesidme,4 was negatived without a division.
Lard KING moved that there should be it claii.e intro-
duced to the folio's ing effect, after I .e wind " :the md,"—
That ft'rlail. Lii;11211 Commissioners appointed at Milan,
with an ttaliati Attorney named had colke:ol
a mass falsc, calarani.san a it:let...es, who had lire,, produced
and bad given false testimony at th. it Lordships' bar for
many auks, wit-tell the di,uity of the Crown, the Natioci,
mid the Parliament, had sidle' ed 4reat scandal and dishonours
and that toe Huai e entr,ated tine it sihnild he row.frel that
the pci3oant who bad acted on the Shoohl
rendered fur ever incapable of nuaitim uay plar:. co pen-
sion whatever.

The amendment wav negatived; and the whole in eatable
having been gone through, the !lame adijoitrai.d.
fitl.ll. 14 Eit MA'
TiIIUD REALINti OF TIIE PAINS AND PRAALTIES
HILL, AN!) ITS REJECTION.

NOV.
The ]louse met this thilfilltig at the usual hour, %rhea
pra}etc sterereitil, and tile list valleil user as usual

tin the Order 01 the for ft ailing of the BA
being read, and the tillt.',lloll being put,
Earl MORLEY rose, and said, he had conceived it ne-
cessary that sonic enquiry sauuld take place into the con-
duct of her Alajcsty, and that his Majesty's Ministers were
called upon to institute such an enquiry i and thinkin,t•
n!su that the ineasure• taken in Parliament were the most
likely to investigate the subject fairly, he had given bit
vote for the en.ptiry. lie had, however, on Monday la.",
upposcil the second, as he now intended to oppose the thud
readidg et the Sall, because he did not think the facts hilly,
ur as they ought to have been, inecoitestiiily proved. It
ever the pi iiiciple was admitted of divorcing
the hog ur
the Queen, except in eases where.the public safety required
it, what daii4ers would they not run? The ..ecority of the
Throne anti the safety of the State itself v.ueJd thus be ha-
zarded. No man was inure sensible of the advantages of
•trtue and moral character in the Sovereign than himself,
but these were out 61.1'4 1.0 the adi :ionises of hereditary suc-
cession. 'flio Noble Luid concluded by opposing the tin"'
reading or the Bill. _

laud SONIUIt.S spoke at some length in favour of the
as it seeined to him that the adul ery had hi eii fully
proved, au opinion, he li2ld, which had beets Jiso deelar
by sev, 141 utile lords wl,e, Mid voted against the cce•ood
of the Bill. Ills Lordship concluded by observing,
that though some of theebidcuce %as rat lwr conti adictory,
as, for instance, that of Cuchi, yet, upon the whole, he
felt conscientiously bound to veto fur tbu passing of tbe
. .

Karl FORTESCUE said, that it was with much pain that

1.

e now, for the first time in his politicel life, differed with
his Noble Friend near him (Lord Grenville). He thesseht
that it was 1111pOSSit,lit to give to the sort of testimony pro-
duced, the c diet of a legal proof of guilt. It was but tem
true that persuas in a royal station might he guilty of itn-
proprieties, and even ci ; but he hail always understood
it to be the wisest policy to keep them as mush concealed
as possible! Ile was convinced that much mischief had been
done by this inquiry to the interests of the elonarchy ; lie
hoped that it was not yet quite irreparable; it was still in
their power to du much towards that desirable object, by
finally rejecting the Lill; and he fur one could not in his
conscience give his vote otherwise.—[His Lordship spoke
is, so low a tone as to be almost inaudible at the liar: and
it was with difficulty we could collect what he said. The
above we believe to be the sulistanes of his speech.]
The Duke of BEDPOItD said that, in his opinion, the
measure was one which, to use the emphatic words of ano-
ther branch of the Legislature, " was derogatory to the
tumour of the Crown, and injurious to the hest interims of
the country." Ile did not vote on the Diviece Clause, be-
cause he could not conscientiously vote spun it wit bout
thinking the Quee
n gaity. It had given II:O1 great !ISt o-
niiliiiwnt to see Ministers supporting the omission of the
clause, converting to the castration of their ono measure,
depriving it of the only feature which gave it the semblance
of rationality. He did not mean to go its detail into the
evidence, but lie could not, however, help ,Hering a few
remarks en sonic parts of the proceeding. A Uccle Earl
opposite (Lord levet pool) had commented ou the evidence
in a manner which had given him great surprise. He had
aisitined seine of tee most important facts of the case as
proved solely by the testimony of Met pure mud immacu-
late witness 1)e Moist. He had ventured to say, that she
was in one instance supported by Dr liiiilause but on the
minutes of evids Tice belie: referred to no such corrobiention
appeared. A Noble Lord on the cross-lis nets (Loud Lau-
slerdide) haul, equally to his astonishment, commented Tin
the evidence iu a similar style, assuming fates to be con-
firmed by the evidence fur the defence, which depend, ii
only on the unsupported evidence for the erosecution.
There was another cueun,stauee which he could not help
advs.-Ilene to. The Noble Earl opposite (Lord level pool)
had coniniceited with what he eonceived a insist tilled:is ed
severity on the conduct of her Majesty in acting the part
of an Antemuiron. Nothing, was lucre common than fur
persons in the eielier situations to represent characters io
ancient or modern history, or the Gods and Goddesses of
fabulous story; he had known it done by personages than
whom the Princess of Wales was not more exalted in reek,
sand whose chat:lcier the breath of calumny had never dared
to assail. The truth a as, every thing that could in any
way lie turned en the discredit of her Majesty was made
use of to etfeet the purposes of this Bill, without aliy re-
gard either to their justice or probability. He would ask
their Lordships, how the character of Qiicen Elizabeth
would have stood ?--vu here the glory of her reign would
have been te if she had been infested as the Princess of
Wales had been, by spies and informers ? Ills Grace con-
eluded by declaring, that if called upon, in his judicial
character, to givu a verdict. on the es idence which haul
been produced, he Insist say " Not Guilty, on lily honour
and conscience!" and, if asked for his opinion as a Legis-
lator," that the Bill was as impolitic as it was unjust!"
The 1.0111) CHANCLI.LOIL--" My Lords, at an i.rtly
stage of these proceedings, the second reading, 1 statist,
that it appeared to me utteily impossible that any man
could vote fir the second reading who was net convinced,
not eu moral conviction, but on legal evidence, that her
Majesty was guilty. I did not state any t Mug as to the po-
licy or expediency of the measure; but I said it was still
competent to your Lordships, if convinced that the sub-
rtantial charge had been proved, that you might alter the
preamble SO as to include all nest you believed had been
proved, and rejecting all that you belies cd riot proved by
legal evidence. I also stated tlut the cimetwent of the
Bull might be altered. It was, therefore, for yews Lord-
ships to decide whether the Nemec Clause shriek! coutiuue
a part of the Bill or trot. Tim Learned lord Mee pru-
ceedesi to argue at great length in favour of the Bill, and
concluded by saving, I feel gratite d, and so I am sill, will
your Lordships, that I aiii now going to utter my last woe's
on this great and nielancliely question. If I feel that the
Guilt of the Queen Isa, heti) proved by legal evidence, I
shall act accordingly; hut if I was not FO convinced, no
earthly consideration should induce tee to vote for the third

reading; but after hearing all the evidence, and devoting
every attention in my power to the subject, I cannot con-
scientiously but vote for the third reading of the Bill.
The Bishop of CHESTER ruse to state, that he had voted
for the second reading of the Bill upon the full conviction
that her Majesty was guilty of the crime imputed to her,
which had been proved by circumstantial evidence of the
strongest Nature. Certainly the evidence had been no mole
than circumstantir:; but if the Queen was innocent, her
innocence was accompanied with such eorroborants of guilt
as never had been heard of in the annals of history. It
was from a moral v new of the question that he was induced
to vote fur the secant) )(ailing of the Pill, but it would be
recollected that he had decidedly given his (111iiii011 and his
vote against the Divorce Clause. 'fins be had dune her:slew
Le considered thnt Clause contrary to all established ie.:lves,
and opposed to the Divine Precept. Nothing could be more
abhorrent iron) his mind than the idea of perfot ming :my
act which could tend to degrade liis Sovereign; " and it
is," the Rev. Prelate said, o w nth horror I heard it stated
by a Noble Lord (Gros% emu), that if let was the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, and hid been requested by his Ma-
jesty to omit the Queen's name in the Liturgy, he would
throw the Prayer-book in his Majesty's face." The Learned
Prelate then declared, that as lie coedit not conseientiotokY
vote against the Bill, being clearly of opinion that her Ma•
jesty was guilty, and us lie could not consistently vote for
the Divorce Clouse, his impression with respect to that
Clause remaining linelnitiged, lie should c.itlulraw himself
from the House, and give no vote one way or the other.—
(A laugh, and cries of '4 Hear, hear !" and " Order !")
Earl G R(isV ENO It said, it was impossible not to ties-
Pass upon their Lordships to take with-ea what had fallen
train the Lamed Prolate. If he recollected right, le had
stated what was supposed to have passed between his Ma-
jesty and his Ministers—that there hail heels 111111.01114,11.11h7:1
were fostered by Ministers, that the Kim; htol been ill,
artin cause of the at:nat. of the question, and that Ins
Majesty had proposed the omission) of the Otteett's 'lame "'
the Liturgy binise'S. He (Lord ) had distinctly stated,
that such tumours tended to thlow odium and contempt
upon the Crown, and were in et el y respect wicked and in-
tarltous and he admitted that he had declared, that if he
were in the place of an Archbishop of Canterbury, to whom
suck a proposition was made, he shook nut hesitate to

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