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Having attended to every thing that had pissed, holh at
the bar and in the House, the efiidence, the speeches, and
the argolonessts of Cossesel, and the talent and clog ilia.
played by their Lordship., hr said, on his honour, that he
considered her Majesty's guilt fully proved by her own elvi-
sh:ewe. If he did not state Oda to the House, feeling as he
did, he %Mould not think himself worthy to remota within
the walls of Parliament. On the question before the HON.*,
whether the 801 l should go through a second resoling, he slid
not mean to detain their lordships by going through a de-.
tail of the evidence. It was nun y; for matey Lords
who hail seen reason to vote again,t it, had at the same
time declared that they cools' not pro sssss once the (Wren
to be i 11111 l cent. Her Majesty, it appeared, had passed above
30slay• with Bergamialooe its a tent ; and, added to the other
woolools of suspicion, surely it became him to say that he
could put hut one roonstroctime on that. War it possible
after that, that the Queen should be otherwise than guilty
of a criminal intercourse with this man ? And could any
Noble Lord who believed that to be proved, permit the
Queen to be at the head of female society is this country ?
--(Hear, finsr.)--In giving the vote he wan about to give,
he should consider himself performing a duty he owed to the
character of the country, to it. murals, and la absolutely
necessary to support the delicacy and chastity which had
'hitherto distinguished the British fair. How, he asked,
could their Lordships have their wives and slaughters pre-
sented to the Queen, after hearing what they had heard
To alte.atioas in the Committee he should mot °Nerd, hut
lie could not consent to quash the whole proceeding by
voting azainst the second orading of the Bill. lie in his con.
'trience believed that the body of the people would, of
calm consideration, acknowledge that the House acted
justly in carrying win or some much measure. He was
confident thst dos would he their opinion, and they re-
flected that proof load bran given of the parties living toge-
ther tinder a trot, like man and wife, for thirty days
weedier. It was 010 to be remembered that the
%wen had had doe most ingenious and able advocates.
As an boner nom he could out do otherwise than support
the second reading. If soy thing of a more mild nature
should be proposed in the Committee, which would at the
same time satisfy his naiad that the wellbeing, tlw morality;
and the virtue of British society should he thereby go:trots-41,
1w should not oppose it. Boot those were the objects which
he must see first secured. Ile hail nothing more than this
to any. As so honest man, and a Peer of Parliament, he
felt bound to rote for 11w second reading.

The Duke of Somerset—(.4xsid load cries of " Question")
--paid he lead merino% objectious to this Bill. Ile expressed
hie dissatisfaction at the Malin' of the evidence, and hie dis-
satisfaction was in el by seeing a Commission silting
for the purpose of collecting evidence in contiguity to the
place where her Majesty's alleged criminality took place ;
and that, in order to °limbs evidence against bee ilLijeety,
foreign governments had exerted themselves, while they in.
terfereel to keep back that in her fivour.--(flear.)—His
opinion of her :Majesty woe more favourable thou it hail
been at the commeticemeut of the proceediugs—(ifear.,—
previous 6,113.41 lie had beard stories to her prejudice, hot
the worst of them bad been coufuted by the evidence at the
hair. The evidence for the accusation hail been in great part
disproved, and lie did nut think whet remained sufficient ins
torpor* this Hill of Paine ;sod Penalties.—(fferae.)..-11 worlds
were the same every where, it dill not follow that nerannert
Ought to he the same every where. There were many allow.
Nimes to be nestle for her Mikity in this respect. In the
estimate of bee fact it should always be recollected that
she was a foreigner Her manners hail loot a Notorious for
their frecliolli berme stn' had been selected as a wife for his
blajesty, and if so it was unreasonable to expect a COM.
pleie con fertility in Owen to those who+ prevailed in Ibis
country. Her Wet might have been extraordinary, on-
pendent, Mill hardly to be accounted for, but lie could not
diagnise fr himself that she hod froind herself is di ficult,
in cruel ciretimetauces.—Jfiene.)—He saw nothing which
could lead him to give his assent to the measiree. either in
policy or justice. Justice as it retarder! her Majesty, or
policy as it recorded the errantry. The prosiecution had
already carotid u great feeling of disepprobatiun. Partici-
pating in this be felt himself bound to vote against the
stressed reading.—(Near )
Lord Grenville rose amidst loud cries of it Heise' He
commenced by obsessing that almost every Noble Lord who
loot addressed their Lordship: had spoken of the extreme
pain with shirt; lie had discharged that duty. 11 well for
their Lordships then to conceive with what extreme 'elem.
saner it was that he now presented himself before them,
abet he stated that up to the very moment in which lie rose
lie lout hesitated considerably whether lie ought or ant to
tl.tie his eweioaoi WI this oc•casion, that tempestuous period
of whkh a Noble fdieyid had spoken so feelingly and elo-
quently having gone by, he did hope that lie might hive
been guilty of obi eleeelictism wf politic ditty. if now, at the
end of eight-mieldhirry emirs in which he lead been regard
in public affairs, he sliontel have dedicated to test and re.
iteement the few ri•maissing years, and few they insult be
which Providence 'should allot him; and were it otherwise,
were he as anxious to interest Mill tosvolve himself in the
elewiessicso soil decision of political affairs, as lie with the
hoist pet re:. pieverity was dem 1111 l s to withdraw himself from
them, yet there sea? ir aus ter connected with this case
which hied occurred many years MO, mail which he had ems.
voidalsly load mini elMftril which 10111111.1,
indeprn-
droil, Of other consideratiniw, have rendered him particu-
larly desirous of lakisig no part either in the progress or the
result of this illVlstigni iota But their Lordships had Ilimight
it proper to require tlw attendance of all their Members for
the rooted, ration of this ireetion, and he had them ght it
his duty to obey 11w call ; he am here, thereto a, not
volmiterily, certainly—not according to Isis own wishes,
ant aretlf,11111: to Ins 11W11 inclisiations, as he had often
• in the eli‘cussion of quest 00000 • here, hat most 'v-
-111(141114 to perform • duty whirl' he would gladly have
escaped. Under them circumstances, he had most seri-
•ly doubted wlwther it would be proper for hint met any
pint of this paisitul transact ewe in attract thew
Lordships' attention, feeling 110 desire to influence or alai
the opinion to which any other Peer might manse to Oss
nil oth r orcas 00000 • ins a hick he led addresoral the Howie,
he hail bees actuated by a desire to press his own semi-
tiered. me the minds of wile's, by a wish that the House
should adopt that line of policy which he hod joked to lie
the 1111 l ss (mishit neelor to the real interests of the country ;
trot on this iteration he considered it to be abloom a duty to
•lest sin from t w attempt to elialige the 5tp10914.11 of soy other
individual. The duty which a Peer bail to eliecharge here
mesa a joslicial one. He was to pronounce his iteetaion a. •
*until not Its lei• view of she miller he eon.
stment with the duty of a men in that eliareschr, not only
time his own vote, hut endeavour, if he possessed Ilse
power, to sticilie the •optisioue tit when. Hr hod no swath
wish. Ilium if the confusion arising tower& 11w close of a
•debate, protracted a. this* haul home, Wit not prevented many
Noble Lords alto very rarely took • pail in the discussions
before the [loose from venting forward, and avowing the
grounds on which they meant to art on this Iffeal•ileil, lie
thenight hintaelf compelled, though sorry he was to be so,
to express, the grimed* of ties resolution lie hail fOlllll.
aid which lie should feel him.. If obliged tei follow. With
no presumptuous hope, with en wish W a...homer the nisi.
neon of any other to en, be owe to tremble their Lordships
for a few aiiiiiites..—•Henr.)—The sovettiies was, not whether
this Bill, or :MS Bill to • tar circumstances. shimilitfinally
pass the Honor, hot whether it ought to be- read a second
time, that was the epiestion ; snit like every other (sureties/1., it
was of iwermity componside•d of the ealard cosisideratisio
wf justice and oxpedieney. Of its justice he should first
speak ; for no mail could powered one step is this betemess,
after hearing the i eidence gores at the Mar, sue degrading to .
her Majesty's character, swishiest' beteg impress"' with the
rOliariCllo4l, that the veniality fully establiehed a clear and •
sufficient ease of that nature set forth in the preamble of
the Bill. Without that conviction, it was otipuesible that•
soy men could give his vote fur its second toasting. This.
volt had been established far inure sufficiently and fully•
thin it had been his wells; but considerations of a public •
velure weighed mere with hits than any privateers... On'
one point he felt bound to say, that meld he have
brought blesuilf to eosieur, and most earnestly did be
endeavour So -brims himself to concur—if lie boald have
concurred to ithe opinion of those who' thought that sus.
pie ions and presumptions, of guilt • bad Wen •the only con-
clusions established by the evidenire—Asis vote would have
be.n given without- a inument'r hesitation—But oat the
fullest consideration of the et ideuce be had becu compelled