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nit re. %hat ailvamtsge her Majo.ty emilfl derive
.f tf,e prayer of tier Pew wrry agreed to. Their
11.cr,:01,1). were not to form r polgvnent .stoot tlsr
he derived to br Q front a corn.

Kith her reliant; nhe herself was to judge
of Cirt—(flear)iii—ond it 41/11y rein:tined for their
Lorfinhips to etrimider whether soy di.advantmge to
trip piu.e of i Clink!
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Cunt of Justice to ho4r ii dodge decide 1111011 hi
t•y.ir.t lilts this utiosa lits•cousitletrotion of. the tar-
nett[ it would •confirr savoy) the warty chottnitig it.
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14ny of its details if the prayer of her Majuity's Pe-
tition were now acceded to. NC had At-heard a
single expression which went In the slightest de-
gree to. thew dust any such injury would be in-.
cuspid on the present OCCaRI ttttt and- therefore
be entreated their Lordships nut to refuse this
request. It• is said, thut• in the present seea-
snoun
if is operf to introduce evidence of a general
adulterous intercourse; and it is then asked, whe-
ther iii such a case as tins, and under •tleh Cif"ln'
•tanrea, they would accede to this request ? But
let their Lordships just look at what the practice
was in the Courts below, and see the protection
WIII6I was in them shed round the seemed. No
proceeding could be had in the Ecclesiastirul Court
in a raie of adultery, without a specification of
slate, of time, and place, in :di the fulness of de-
tails; and even then there must be a verdict at
Common Law before complete relief was afforded
in the Courts of Civil Law. If this claim oil the
wart of her Majesty were refused, hew was • 01" to
'meet the charges to he adduced against her ? Was
,she in justice and in fairness to be required to pen-
'sect henolf, by producing all those who were/11min
*er„ during the continued iwriod of six years, in.
tnsny parts of the globe? %What the Queen now
asked was not a detail of the facts, but of the
Owes to which the accusation referred. Why r'-
Ise so reasonable a request ? It has been said,
that her Majesty will receive all the informatiou
she requires from the opening of the charges monist
her. surf front the evidence of the witnesses,
and that then she shall have all the benefit of
whatever time she may deem necessary to answer
ti v charge. Granted; hut will she have an op-
pot tunity of crow-extimiising these witnesses ?—will
iftry be recalled, to stand the test of that exami-
cal on to which she may have the power of expos-
tug them, wilco has had time to sift their facts and
characters? If they are to be ree:illrif for such
u trtirtioae, then their Lordships wilt have sanction-
MI as great an anomaly as any they have coin-
. plainest of. If they are not recalled for examination,
Cleo the Queen will perhaps hr placed in Ors state,
.that site knows facto, which, if put to the ten of
crow:ettamination, would destroy the credit of that
softener,-and yet that for wont of the means of
errisa-examination at the time she was deprived of
thelarnefit of such fact.. flow she was expected
-to he prepared to meet lack and witnesses, of both
or which . she was kept before hand in the dark. he
win entirety at a loss to conjecture. The Nol.de
Loid.ronclusled by movircr that Counsel be heard
at rho.bar in support of the prayer of the Queen's
iaa„
'Their Lordship, divided upon this 51r:ditto, wheu
the ':umbers were—