The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-10-23 00:00:00

cause, who was to prove the moat material particulate,
who was to speak not only to the details, but to the
very principle of the Bill, who woo to 'Mew that her
Majesty was not the persna described is the preamble
of the Bill, that she was not of low habits, god hied of low
company, skulking fines the conspary of her equals. He
was to shew that she did got avoid the company of her re-
lations; but that Brier the long voyage else went into Ger-
many, and visited the Courts of her blood relations, and
that there, and not in Italy, she desired to fie her abode,
and spend the rest of her days in the neighbourhood of her
Royal and Serene relation.. He considered Shot evidence,
if he had been possessed of it, complete, decisive, plenary,
anal such as would nut have left a single store 'lauding of
the whole structure of the case. That evidence was still
withheld, or at bast they were as unable to produce it as
when it was last mentioned to their Lordships; though in
justice to his Majesty's Government he must say, that ihry
have alone what in them lay to remove the difficulties which
prereuted the appeartnce of the witness. Of their condors he
did nut complain. That they had not sooner applied to them
for their assistance might lie accounted foe by their own igno-
rance of doe importance Orate witness tills late period, and
the reluctance they naturally felt at making sods an appli-
cation, which *fluid have been furnishing a list of the wit.
nesse" to the prusecatorp. Rot events bad skew., that no
earlier application *mild have been successful. His Ma-
jest)'s Government had tried thew indoence, and it had
failed. The liiug's Minister bad kindly gone, or rather it
had been kindly dune of the Mindless hero, to send him in.
stractimis ids go personally to the Minister of the Grail
Blakey( Baden, and had afterwards applied in writing. The
Minister bail replied, that they did not give orders to the
Grand Chamberlain to come, because they were dee'r""• of
preserving a perfect neutrality ; but it 'druid he rerneashered
that the same Minister who made that declarative was the
very man who bad compelled another *deem to tome
and give evidence fur the Bill. Thus thew, at
length they had given permission to the Chamberlain to
come to Lau.l.us to give hi• evidence. He was a very
worthy man by native, hut a Chamberlain by woks.
slow, and be had Immediately fallen ill; an Moms never
heard of before, and hail thought it necessary to take step
fur a lung and serious cure. In this, nu doubt, he coo.
calved hr had well nuslerstood the wishes of certain persons
(in Bade., he meant). certainly nut his Majesty's Ministers,
who hail used their utmost endeavours to procure his at-
lend:Hits; bid they had Out 116111e/i R.nglishmeit to deal with,
but wily foreign courtiers, alto conk' not be persuaded to
attend to word., but looked further mid attended to what
they ronsidlesed 111 he behind. This, after Mr. Lamb had
repeated his application in writing, they conceived they
pea fectly null usadeastood the nature of the application; sail
permission hors sic acceded,i hen the Baron, like a pool courtier
and honest Chamberlain, falls ill of a malady which had
never been heard of bef.we, and cannot possibly give his
attendance. He repeated, that he was bound to say, that on
this account oda imputation rested on the King's Government,
but it was the misfortune of the Queen that other Govern-
ments think, let our Goverment say what they will, that
they understand their wishes better than they do themselves.
Be the cause what it would, he found himself deprived of
that important, that alkinsportant witness. He threw hint.
self, therefaree, ott their Lordships' consideratioa, with a
full confidediee that a Court goveruing itself by the imam-
table laws of reason and jitstice, when it saw a person
timed under ten beads of charge, and completely repellieg
eight out of the ten parts of the secosation, each a poem
would oat now, fur the first time since iwatice held her away
in Courts, he held guilty because she could not prime her-
self iunoceist.

F.arl of Liverpool said, that he Reid l■ his baud cer-
tain paper, which he had received hi. Majesty's enensmods
to lay on the table of their Lordships. They had only ar-
rived yesterday, amd the moment he received them he had
felt it to be his first duly in communicate copies of them to
the Ltarned Gentlemen at the liar, the Counsel for her Ma.
jesty. Oa the commits of throe papers the (Aimed Gentle-
man hail now addressed their Lordships. He could assure
their Lordships, most ►incerely and conscientiously, that it
was the wish and desire of his Majesty's Government, sot
only for the general purposes of justice, but on every other
account, to have procured the attendance of the individual
io question. The Learned Geatkmato had t►erefore dose
his Majesty'. Government nu mo►e than justice in saying
they had made every effort in their power foe that purpose.
He hail only now to lay the papers on their Lordships' table,
and they would be iwilited in ■ few ells's; what their opera-
tion might he when they came to consider the evidence it was
not for him Own to say.
Mr. Brougham said Olt answer to a question fmm a Noble
Lord), that be had no application at present to make to their
Lordships, bet he Plumbd take the opportunity between that
lime and the next meeting of the Court, In consider of the
course he shoold pursue.
The Mouse thee adjoented till Illosday eneestait.