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London, England, 1820-11-02 00:00:00

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LONDON,
THURSDAY. Novemega e, limo.

The House of Lords will reassemble this morn-
ing at ten o'clock, in pursuance of the' terms of
their adjourennent, when their Lordships will pro.
ceed to form their judgment upon the case of the
Quixx, us lately submitted to them in evidence.
The debate will, it is thought, be commenced, as
we stated yesterday, by the LORD CHANCELLOR,
who will recapitulate the evidence adduced on both
sides, its the manner of a Judge summing up in an
ordinary case, for assisting the recollections and
directing the opinions of a Jury. This will no
doubt be a tedious operation, which will not impro-
bably occupy the greater part of the day. To him
will, it is said, succeed Lord ERSKINE, who will
also review the evidence, and after the speeches of
these two Learned Lords, there would seem to be but
little occasion for debate. Indeed we think it likely
that from the moment wisest the case was closet!,
every Peer in the House had made up his mind
upon the judgment which lie should pronounce,
and that further discussion would be attended with
no other elPct than to confirm the resolutions al-
ready formed. The country, too, has made up its
mind upon the subject, and every haziest man in it,
from one extremity to another, whose mind is nut
enchained ht• the spell of ministerial influence,
openly mid unreservedly declares that the charges
against the QueeN have nut been proved. All
who entertain a feeling of respect for the House of
Peers, and repose with confidence upon the into.
grit), and honour of the hereditary Counsellors of
the Crown, think as we do, that their Lordship. will
not—cannot suffer the Bill to pass the second read.
isig ; while those who represent the House as being
filled with the dependants of the Government,
with men who have nu principle but that of pleas-
ing the present depositaries of laver', and are pre-
pared to sacrifice truth and justice, their own cha-
racters, mid even the public welfare, upon the
shrine of a dispicalde avarice, asses t their convic-
tion that the Ministers will be successful in obtain-
ing a majority. Such language we listen to with
pint soil sorrow, and even now we tremble at the
ponibility that such CAltlaloirs against the Peerage,
against the Nobility of England, against the proud-
est, and, O 4 we had fondly hoped, the purest mist°•
cracy in the world, may receive some appearance
of justification from the re•uit of the approaching
debate. Should the Bill stlifurtunately be read u
*remit: time, it is but too certain that these senti-
- nevus. which are now limited iu their expression,
' sal are still regarded as c3luusniev, will assume the

character of politic opinion, sud weaken, irnot wholly
destroy, the very foundation open Mach the Ham
of Lords, the most venerable pert of oar political
structure, rats. A report prevails that the Ministers
of the Crown have exerted to the utmost the extensive

upon this momentous questioo. They are apprehen.
sin that a delest upon this point might endanger the
stability of their darling places, and to secure their
own power they would sacrifice the interests of
justice and the honour of the Peerage. Should
such a report be founded in truth, we have no hesi-
tation in saying that the Ministers ought to be im-
peached. They would 'bun for the worst purposes
an influence sod patrosiu4e which the Constitution
vests in the Crown fur the encouragement and re-
ward of valour, piety, and learning, and would
thereby exhibit the possessor of the Crown in the
light of a private prosecutor, punning a principle
of selfish vindictiveness with the unthinking violence
of passion mid the efficacy of arbitrary authority.
Should a judgment be obtained by such means
against the QUEEN. can the Ministers of the Crown
hope to carry it into execution ? Such s judg.
ment of condemnation may by possibility expose
the QUEEN to punishment. but it cannot injure
her estimation with the public. It may well be
doubled wbetber-the nation would endure that any
punishment. however slight, should follow such u
sentence. But let us see what could be the effect
of the judgment which Ministers are anxious to ob-
tain. Lord LIVERPOOL consents to give up the
divorce claim, and will he satisfied with a sentence
of simple degradation. The Parliament will thus
undertake to declare that the Queen of ENGLAND
should no longer he QUEEN, while it suffers the
marriage of the Quests with the King of ENG-
LAND t.s remain unbroken ! mid thus in effect en.
sures to her the very title of which it professes to
deprive her. So long as the marriage solemnized
between their MAJESTIES continues undtasolt•ed. so
long by the Constitution of the realas, by the holy
ordinances of the church, and by the force of pub.
tic opinion. shall ()steels CAROLINE continue to be
the Queen of ENGLAND. There is an anomaly in
the iiropiesed measure too gross to be corrected
even by that power which, by a figure somewhat
too bold, has been designated the omnipotence of
Parliament.

It is nuiversolly admitted that the ATTORNEY
end Sot.lcuroa-GENERAL displayed throughout
the whole of the proceedisigs against the QUEEN
a very lively zeal for the conviction of her MA-
JESTY, and ulna in fict the Ministers of the Crown
could nut have had servants devoted with more des-
perate energy to them and their mite than these
two Learned Gentlemeo. In their progress they
were neither aba,hed by the convicted perju►ies of
their witnesses, nor deterred by the impressive
contradictions given to the moat important of the
charges by persona of the first respectability, and
of integrity not to be impeached. Tire Learned
Gentlemen still laboured on, and crowned their
task by solemnly and seriously assuring the Lords
that they were themselves folly convinced of the
QUEEN'S guilt, and argued most felicitously with-
out one change of muscle in their faces, that
Dessonr, MAJOCCNI, SACENI, and the others,
notwithstanding all their faults, were fully entitled
to credit ! The most surprising part of their
performance seemed to be the stoical rigidity
of their countenances, fo► they have too much
good sense to have themselves believed one word
of their respective al•eeches, and much of what
they said proved to the greater hart of their audi-
tory irresistibly ludicrous. With what un air of
solemn gravity the SOLICITOR-GENERAL listened
to his Learned Friend while lie was commenting
upon the indecency of u transparent robe, because
another dress could be seen under it ! and how hap-
pily the ATTORNEY-GENERAL repaid his Friend
this delicate compliment to his intellectual power.,
while lie was trying to persuade the House that
although a witness might be convicted of ninety-
nine lies in any given story which contained one
hundred alleged fact*, yet that the said witness was
entitled to full credit for the solitary fragment of
the tile, which, from its nature, could not be
opposed by any counter testimony, and was of no
great importance even if it could ! Neither did the
Learned Gentleman smile while his colleague
laboured to prove that although a charge has been
already refuted by the evidence of ten people, yet
if there should chance to be an eleventh person
who might by possibility have been able to 'eve
esidence upon the same subject, the charge must
be considered as unsliskeu, or even unanswered, if
that eleventh prison be not called as a witness!
These legal positioos, unknown indeed to the great
sages of the law, excited many symptoms of a ri-
sible di►position of wind among their Lordships,
but a feeling botnewlim bordering upon indignation
was opposed to the docteiue which pervaded the
speeches of both these Learned Gentlemen, that a
charge, however atrocious its character, is to be
regarded as au actual Conviction of criminality,
until it has been overthrown by testimony di-
rectly opposed to every alleged incident. If
such were the principle of law, how dreadful
must be the state of our society ? What character,
however fair, could hop* to preserve its purity un-
tainted, if it were to be thus exposed to the ►haft of
private muliguity? The blacker the falsehood, and
the more atracipus the charge, the greater will be

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the MlJetty of meeting it. If en ianeewbs•rrt be
seemed of murder, shell be he considered s• guilty
••less be can contradict eye' particeler chows-
stone* included in the eborge ? How can be sect
such on accusation except by *hewing inconsisten.

cies in theesidence prodered against him, or by ft-
posing the baseness of the witnesses? This has been
done in the present case on the pert of the Quin
'eashall it be now pretended that her Ma'am
ought to be treated as guilty. because from the
guarded nature of some of the evidence brought
against her—one witness deposing to circumstances
not seen by any other persons—it is morally im-
possible that she could possess the means of contra-
dicting it ?

The Law Officers of the Crown. however. have
only " laboured in their vocation," hut we shall
watch with enrich interest the points of the evidence
upon which the Lords who intend to vote for the
Bell mean to rest their judgment. The eyes of
the world are upon them, they will therefore re-
quire to act with prudence and caution. They
must beware how they affect to repose corifidesiee
on the assertions of an obrualmied woman awl of
diactuded servants, who have in many imp-dual par..
ticulur► been eatisfactorily contradicted. They amok
also ah,taitr from considering the opening opolleil
of the ATTORNEY.GRIIIIRA I. us proof of guilt, and
discard from their miuda every idle rumour dine::
initiated in private, but not produced and whiten-
tinted at their bur. The public have the evidence
before them, and as the sole duty of the Lords ie
to form an opinion upon facts, an) to compare anal
weigh the relative valise of the testimony before
them, they must remember that the public. hairitag
the same means, are as well capable of ascertaining
the truth of the chargers as even their Lordships
themselves.

We have received New York Papers to the 6th
of October. They contain a ridiculous account of
the escape of BONAPARTR from St. Helens. It
states that the British cruising squadron en the
station had removed to such a (bowie, from the
' I-land as to give the French frigate Anse, with
a mutinous crew on board, an opportunity to slip
in clod carry him off to the Island of St. Thomas,
where be was left oil the 18th September offer.
ing his draft. on ROTHSCHILD in payment of sup.
plies. It is not impossible that some fellow ►s seek-
mg to impose himself as BONAPARTE upon the
people of St. Thomas for a swindling purpose.
Mr. STRATFORD CANNING, the new British
Minister to Washington, accompanied by his Secre-
tary. Mr. CHARLES FOLLY WILMOT. arrived in
Hampton Roads, bound to Annapolis. on board
the Sparrow frigate, on the 20th September.
New Oilesiss and Savannah suffer dreadful mor-
tality fruits the fever. Charleston is said to be
healthy, sod as the fine weather had set in, it was
hoped the town would continue free from fever,.

We have received Paris Papers of Sunday. The
JOYINUI des Debate. alluding to the private letter
which appeared in the Gazette de Frndee ea S..
faeday, rnnuuociug the retreat of General l'arz
from Palermo, after a viiiiguinare bottle with the
inhabitants of that city, throws doubt o:i the in-
telligent*, mid cons:dens it lint a repetition of the
events of the Wilt of September. The supposed
battle is said to lassie been fought on the 7114 a 'lay
after the sailing of a Genoese vestige! for Ge► oa. from
which place the latest accounts of the state of
Pale were received in Patio.

The l►rocrediigs in the ease of GRAirlea, Boy-
'VON, and LEGENDRE, were resumed in the Aesize
Coutt of Paris on Saturday. Several witnesses
were heard to the facts of the explosion of the
petard, the seizure of the I,ri►oarrs, and the die-
emery of seditious papery. The Court adjourned
at seven o'clock until the following day (Sunday),
when the Counsel will he heard.

The French Five per Ceti% are 75 f. 5 c.—
Bank Stock, 1,370 1.

A Hamburglt Mail lis arrived, with Papers to
the '2 tat utt. The following are extracts:—

iumavaan, OCTOICR 20.
Wr hive received to-day the following official accoout
from St. Peteribirgh _

" Oar Guircrunsent have concluded a loan of forty mil-
lions of silver rumbles at five per real. interest, nab the
busses of Hariag,Broihersoold Hope arsdC.u. For the redemp-
tion of ibis luau IWe per cent. per annum are set apart, the
interest to be paid half-yearly in March and December. The
amount of this luau is designed f the diminution of the
'tumidity of bank assigosts, which are to be burnt."
The Dry of Algiers having liberated a ship beluntisX to
this port, captured last year by one of his privateers, the
insurers have determined to manifest their gratitude by seri.
ing hiru a valuable cup, made of silver and gold, weighing six
puanda, and richly unmotivated wills fins-reliafs. Owe of
our most skilful artists has been employed in the fabricatiow,
and it is to be dispatched in a few days to its destination.
staux, OCTOBER
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His Highness she Chancellor of state Prince Hardenberg,
is gone in Tromso... His Majesty sets out for that place
the day after to-morrow. The passage of couriers thrones
this city continues wit►out interruption.
An account front Leipsic says, the gold which has been
remitted daring this fair to Hansburgh, anuosuted to between
►ix and &even hundred weight.
The General Hirt of the kingdom of Saxony was opened
at //reader tos the 15th irstaut.
na`tOYtß, OCTOBER 41.
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Though the public are not admitted to the mimes of the
Diet of this kingdom, it was resolved that the pruceitiliings
should be proofed and published. A b.giuniug is now soak-
iug with silage of the Aral Diet, which has loom sitter dosed.
lit future the procerdiags will be published dunes the
Session, told probably in parts.
The Aube Cuuusellur It&tuber( died a few days since in
his 88th year.
LE:Pm, ocrooa• 111.
The body of lilt Highness Prince Scbwartsesberg was
°pewit yesterday, wheat it appeand that ►e bad died of a
disease in the organ of the heart, which was of several years
atausliug before its fatal termisatioa. The }Woos was is t►e
49th year of ►is age.

Yesterday the CIMANCELLOIII of the Eicomitfta
gave a Cabinet dinner, at his house in Downing.
►treet, to all the Cabinet Ministen in town.

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Yesterday the Dukes of You and CLAREKCS
visited the kixo, at his Palace isl
The Bishop of St. DAVID'S had an audience of
his MaJEITY yeaterday.

Yesterday the Duke of You hid a select party
at i r.

The Princess AUGUSTA i I i
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olosy about osselo'clock. from Frog . Ii i Hopi!
Floglioorsoo slighted froom her snivelltoog csrmige at
Glowersier Minor. anool•sher notosls rode out tooth hrr
Royal Sister sloe Duchess.

Yesterday, at tan o'clock, the Auk• of Clot.
cElTila kit town in his If ivtlltilic elt4riot and four
for Blackheath, on a vi-it to his wort-, the Prther..
SOPHIA AIATILDA. Ilya Royal Ilighneas ►rturual
to Gloucester Hostoe to dinner.

Tlw Ptinceas AUGUSTA (fiord with the Duke..
sod Duelers. Of CLAIIINCE yesterday.
The Dochessof GLOUCCSTER had so stxlienre
of his MAJITsTY yesterday.

LONDON NoVRIUBEit FISIIIONS.

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FRENCH.
PARI•11111 EVIMINO COSTUME.

Loma areas of s•tie or • beautiful, pink, tillOtted at the
kweder wit► a ►rod silver frieze, sisrrnounted hp two
of large pearls. Short sleeves si.rAngloise, looped op with
rich tassels of pearls; Ih► part that is looped op iliseortri.z
am wade► short skeve of white swim, finished roomd the arm
with kite ►rout lace. &Maria isobar of pink crap., es.
twitted with prods. °wieldsl pearl necklace, with • Hsi-
tear, crows. White satin shoes, white kid gloves, sad carved
ivory fats.

ENGLISH.
WALILIPG DRESS.

High rowed deem of Egyptia• clulh of the f+lles kaf eu-
tom% with lapelks of answahust lows plash of a bright gee
raisin.. plater, arid the hareder trimmed with two rues ui
double joists of the seam colour. Mary Stuart bonnet, ui
black velvet limed wit► white, trimmed at the edge with
white blued, mid cruwaed with a plume of bier k feathers
small lace inmate is wore wader this bosom'. Half-lrouts
of lapis blue Lid, and blow kid gloves, with lapis blue coffee
ridicule. A escbeasire shawl is tines carelessly thrown over
Ibis dross.