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If manners were a legitimate subject of criminal
charge, he thought that there were those who had en•
acted low life below stairs who might be amenable.
But he declared he was not one of thsoe who cert.
inured royal persons for sometimes condescending
to forget they were Kings and Queens, and remem-
bering that they were men and women.
Mr. P. Mooite said, as tits represeiitative of a
populous city, he attended with pie:noire all meet-
ings where they assembled to delt yet their opt-
WWII sits psi bite affairs. Numerous as were the
meetings which 1w had lately attended, lie regretted
that those meetings had flit been still more flume.
rout, NMI that they had not commenced ear Iter._-
lie wished they had began thirty sears ago, at the
first rise of the green bags, for at 111 at pe-toti, in the
House of Cott-memo, ahettever mosey ass waaied
the green bag was referred to a Committee, who
returned it ois the table, with a re!onr t that
the money insist be paid. Sluice then they
Lad fluteus Corpus Suspenston. :Manchester Ma.-
'acre, and Civil List Green flags out of num-
ber, lie regretted that its add:e...log them after
his note. Friend, the Member for Westminster,
whose able and eloquent address hail embraced
every topic, lie was only able to glean some miles.
which he sc.ircely hoped would either pr. fit or
amuse them. He eulogised, in the %serenest teems,
tile talents and principles of their worthy Chair-
man, who. he predicted, would never dears t the
cause of the people so long as they renosiord true
to him.—/Loud applause./—His lion. Friend had
said, the question of her Majesty was changed
within the last ten days ; but he thought it had
changed within the last three days, and the ques-
tion stow was, nut the guilt 01 the Ministers, of
that there was little doubt, but the extent of that
gni It. Load cheering./—The consequences of
their misconduct were not confined to England—
all Europe partook of them ; wherever the fiddle..
pence of their pnweedings had gone, there the 414.
grace of this country was proclaimed. Ile hid
I ag num its his place in the House of Commons,
openly declared that it was a base conspiracy
against her Mejesty, and that the Minket. were
at the bottom of the peueeeding. The experience
of the lost t. w drys had completely coofirrard his
spineless. To support now the infamous proceedings
which had been instituted, they had not offered tree
sierdow of a proof. What hail been doer? First
cruse the Message from the King, sod then was
floe first enemies, of the green bag. That war re-
ferred to a Select Committee of the Linde, at the
head of which. shame to our religion! stood the
Head of our Clisistiau Church, who, if he had
door his duty, we should hare heard no snore of
the proceeding. Ile ought to have gone to his Ma-
jest! in his closet, and told hiss that the Church
would not atauctson it. But no—the proceedings
Ku on till it comer before the Home of Lords in
the shape or .s Bill, of the most singular nature, of
the most docordaset views—embracieg for their
protection our ecclesiastical esiablisliment. the dig.
misty of the country, and the morals of the people.
Hon. Geesilennies then proceeded to comment
its a strain of Isurnoious ineettsee against the whole
course of the proceedings, and censured in terms of
great severity the conduct of the Attoruey-Geoeral
for his manner of opening the case. in which he was
sit justified by the nature and quality of the eve-
deuce. even if that evideuce had remained ousheken.
At she meetings which hail been held at Hackney,
Marty-le- Boise, Paddington, and other plates, he
led declared Its sentiments on the nature of the
proceeding instituted; hefted predicted the charges
would turfs out false and groundless, and now see
the proof.. All the perjury and bribery was now
laid open, and all blows up. He remembered once
tieing en cureversation with • learned Bra 11l ill sit the
East. who. after laying him some compliments on
his skill iu his language, gave him as a friendly
caution from an old man to a young one, through-
out Ins life so beware of words. He compared them
to the elephant's tooth, which. when once out or
116 month. could never be got in Apia. So those
charges of perjury and bribery were before the
world—they were nut of the mouth, and never could
be 101 its agsies. He praised the conduct which the
Nubs. prim had adopted on the present question,
aid declared his opinion that her Majeety's cause
bid beets more benefited by its oedemas than by
any other cause whatever; and he scrupled uot to
repeat an opinion which he lied before decloreil,
%lest if it were put to Inns whether lie wooed lose
the Trial by Jury or the Liberty of the Press.
bighty Us he prized Ilse former, he should, witliotit
Isesseiewo. abandon it rather than the press should
lose its freedom. lie rerouted the indelicacy and
disregard to decorum which some of the questions
pat in the House of Lords evinced. What foreseen.
pie. he mid. could he more insulting to her Ma-
jest than the question put to Lseutenaist How.
scam. of how lie knew that her Alajesty's legs were
swelled ? Look at what it inferred-..that Lieu-
tenant Howatun hash seen her Majesty's legs. Ile
said he had not ; and only knew by her Majes-
ty's informing hint of the fact. He (Mr. Moon )
lied beets • great deal on board a 'hip. and knew
how difficult a thing it was for the most de.
licate lady to avoid that sort of exposure. lie
had also slept under en awning with eight or ten
pretty women, whose characters were of the Oh poem
purity and delicacy. He had also seen bathing in
the Ganges great slumbers of both sex.s, without
the slightest idea of indecorum being att.iched to
the exhibition. He was sorry to see that the Soho-
-he ft

LONDON,
FRIDAY, °cross* go, 1020.

The greater part of yesterday was wasted in the
Noose of Lords by most unprofitable debates
respecting the restrictions which ought to be Un-
posed upon the Counsel for the Quaint in their
exposure of the conspiracy against their Ilinstrious
Client. The King's Counsel display • eery suspi.
violas irritability upon this part of the inquiry, and
they exhaust their ingenuity in devising every means
which the quibbles and techuicalities of vulgar
practice cso afford, to impede the progress of their
opponents. The discussions which have occupied
the House of Lords for many hours seen to have
arisen altogether from a 'misconception of the object
proposed by the Queen's Counsel. The %visor*,
filtoet (printed yesterday by mistake Msiuccut)
undoubtedly could not, in an ordinary proceed-
Mg. be suffered to state in evidence what ZANGA
raid that he hod been told by Colonel BROWN, but
as the House of Lords had decided that proof might
be offered to shew the existence of • conspiracy
against the Quests, mid that by this conspiracy the
evnlence against her MAJESTY had been framed
and matured, their Lordships ought to leave it to
the discretion of the Counsel at the bar whether they
will first proceed to prove the existence of the con-
spiracy, or postpone this breach of the case until
they shall have previously linked the stets of parti-
cular agents with the actual prosecutors in the pre-
sent procetdiog. Her situation is one
of unusual difficulty and danger ; she is opposed
by essetuies at once powerful and inveterate. Her
Counsel ore therefore entitled to a more than ordi-
nary degree of indulgence on the port of her
Noble and Learned Judges. The Counsel
pledge themselves to bring forward evidence to
flies, that persons active in the employoursit of
the Milan Commissioners had offered bribes to
various individuals to bear testimony against
the Quality, sod hod even supplied them with the
particular statement. which it should be their part
to make. To one it was suggested that he should
depose to having seen BERGAINI salute the Pin,-
cess—to soother, that he should allege his having
seen the. walking familiarly—to a third, that lie
had witnessed fieedoess the most indecent. Sorely
Wands circumstosices of subornation can be proved,
respecting persona who were popularly recognised
in Italy as agents for the Milan Comini.sioners,
they roust throw a suspicion over the it-stimuli?, of
many of the witnesses against the QUEEN. and in

an agent of the Milan Commission, coming out of
Colonel Butown's 'tense, at Milan, with his hand
Poll of double Napoleons. This witness was not
croft-examined by the Counsel for the Bill. Another
witness, DONISICIIItio SALvanotti, a professor of
literature, was put to the bar, but his evidence was
interruped almost in its commencement by an ob-
jection offe►ed by the AM:MIRY-GENERAL to a
question ►elating to a conversation which the witness
had with SAcCilt. A long discussion arose on this,
and three questions were submitted to the Judges,
who ►equested time to consider them. The House
in consequence adjourned until this morning.

A Flanders Mail arrived last night with Papers
from Brussels to the 17th instant. His MAJESTY
opened the Session of the Stites Gene►al on the
11th instant, in petsoi4 with a speech from the
throne, in which lie announces the prospect of
permanent peace, and mentions an arrangement
which he has made with Great Britain for the benefit
of the commerce of the Dutch colonies of Demerara,
Essequibo, and Wavier and also states that the
Porte has recognised the ancient rights of the Dutch
to the navigation of the Black Ser. For this latter
advantage he acknowledges himself partly indebted
to the influence and interference of his royal rela-
tive the Emperor of Russia.

We have received Paris Papers of Saturday, Sundae, and
Monday lot. It would seem that the King of SARDIIII/1
has ventured upon playing off a little Royal indignation at
the recent event. is Naples, fur he has actually recalled his
Ambassador. The poor man indeed can only be considered
as a puppet in the hands of Austria ; but the event thews
the determined hostility of the great despotism to depreas
every semblance of popular freedom in places subject to its
influence. The deputies to the Parliament of Naples assem-
bled on the 22d of last month, in a Provisional Junta, con.
formably to the dispositions of the constitution, previous to
the more solemn meeting of she Legislative Body.
A Military Commission, charged with the trial of the
galley slaves who had attempted to break out of prison at
Civita Vecchia, has condemned 30 to death, and 14 to bard
labour for life.

An official notice, dated Palermo, September 11, apprises
the public, that to avoid the effusion of blued, an armistice
had been effected with the Neapolitan army, under General
FLORIESTAN Pir•a; and that a Neapolitan fleet was to eater
the harbour of Palermo. The cilisens are advised to
continue tranquil, which must contribute to the happy
result of the neguciatioas.
The Freucls five per Cents. are 74f. 75 c.-8411k Acting,
1,36 ts f.

Madrid Papers of the 511, of October have arrived at oar
office. They are occupied principally by the discussions in
the Cortes upon various subjects. The Committee of Trade
in their Report, presented to the Curses on the Ist of this
month, recommend the abslition of the exclusive privileges
granted to the Philippine Company. This suggestion was
opposed, un the ground that these privileges had been ori-
ginally granted as an indemnity to the Company for the
dangers and difficulties they ',countered. The result of the
debate is nut mentioned. The 'spews, of the military esta-
blishment of Spain was Axed oil the 3d at 330,245,425 real..

The framing of a new die fur the coin of the realm was
discussed. The Committee of Fine Arts had suggested that
on the face of the coin should he placed the Elmo's bust
adorned with a civic crown, and on the the two
worlds with the books of the constitution, serving as
a pedestal to the throne, and instead of the fleece,
the insignia of the Order of St. Ferdinand. The legend
to be " Ferdinandos pater palria hispaniareins Hex."
Several Members thought the legend should be in Castilian,
and M. Ol.tl►R added that the pillars should not be top.
pressed,as the cuin was known and more esteemed for them in
Turkey and in Asia, the mosey which had them was two to
three per cent. above othe► pieces of coin which hail them
not. M. MORICNO GUERRA, wished to have the legend
" Fernando I .porlagiatio de Dios y por la Constitution,"
and omitting the expression of father of the country, which
the Ktno himself would probably reject as ailnlatoty,
as the Emp►ror of RUSSIA bad Ilene iu 1814. It was re-
solved to refer the opinion of the Committee bark again fur
further consideration. From the 20th 1(1 the 24th, there had
died in Cadiz of the yellow fryer 13 persona, cured 40,
new cases ; number of patients un the 20th, 92; ou the
24th, 111.

The Duchess of GLOUCESTER vi.ited the KING
yesterday.
Ye...today Viscount CASTLEREAGH had an au-
dimes of his MAJESTY at hia Pillart 111 I'rll-Invll,

A grad speculator in money in the City is pre-
paring to send a SUM of 400,0001. in sovereigns to
Ireland. This plan ha• already produced a rise in
the exchange between the two countries.

A letter from Gibraltar, dated September 29, says, " A
considerable alarm oas merited lasi night in the camp of the
64th regiment, on the i►tbmus of the garrium, by the sad.
den appearance of a Spanish force of 6,000 men, as it is
said, at Slurbella. large quail ss t ies of *mmnoiliou acre
sent tont to the regiment, and it was wilder arms all night.
We cannot learn any further particulars."

The Aclic, and Liffey frigates, which sailed from Purls.
mouth 16th tilt with sealed orders, at that time supposed for
Lisbou, passed Gibraltar on the 27th for the Mediterraseau.

The following Addresses will be presented to her
MAJESTY figs Weditesdsy next :
Hisatinedon, City; Carpenters of the Metropolis; Glees.
!dowers of the Metrepulte • Bakers of the Metropolis • VIIIIILee

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