The National Register.
London, England, 1820-06-26 00:00:00

MONDAY, JUNE 2,3, 15(29.

jesty's reJidence abroad. It was further contended, that the
alteration in the Liturgy wag contrary to the pain scum: and even
letter of the statute, and that it was highly objtctionable on con-
stitutional grounds, being contrary to the wlioie policy of the iaw
respecting the ,ecarity of the succession, and li:ilia: to he repeated
in cases where the succession itself might be endangered by it ;
and therefore it was said that a step so taken might well be re.
traced without implying any
.unworthy concession. It was also
urged, that the omission having been plainly made in contein.
phirion of legal or Parliamentary proceedings against her
Majesty, it followed, when those proceedings were to be shim-
cloned, that the omission should be supplied; and it followed,
for the same reason, that supplying it would imply nu retraction.
It was replied, that his Majesty had decided that her Majesty's
name should nut be inserted in the Liturgy, fur several reasons
not now necessary to discuss ; that hi.i Majesty had acted under
legal advice, and in conformity to the practice of his Royal
predecessors ; and that the decision of his Majesty had not ben
taken solely with a view to intended proceedings in Parliament
or at law. _ _ _

Independent of the enquiry instituted before Parliament, his
Majesty had felt himself long since called upon to adopt nicasures
to which his Majesty, as head of his family, and in the exercise of
his prerogative was clearly competent. These acts together with
that now under consideration, however reluceantly adopted, and
however painful to this Majesty's feelings, were taken upon
grounds which the discontinuance of the enquiry before Patlia-
ment could not affect, and which his Majesty could not there.
fore be expected to rescind. The principle fairly applied would
go, in truth, no further than to replace the parties in the relative
position in which they stood immediately before her Majesty's
arrival, and before the King's Message was sent down to both
Houses of Parliament.
After further discussion upon this point, it was agreed that
the Duhe of Wellington and Lord Castlereagh should report to
tl.c Cabinet what had passed, and conic prepared with their deter-
mination to the next conference. _ _ _

Her Majesty's Law Officers then asked, whether, in the event
of the above proposition not being adopted, any other proceeding
could be suggested on the part of his Majesty's Government,
which might render her Majesty's residence abroad consistent
with the recognition of her rignt. and the vindication of her
character ; and they specially pointed at ate official introduction
of her Majesty to foreign Courts by the King's Ministers abroad.
Upon this it was observed, that this proposition appeared open
to some difficulty in point of principle: it was calling upon the
King to retract the decision formally taken and avowed on the
pan of his Majesty—a decision already notified to foreign Courts;
and to render the position of his Majesty's representatives
abroad, in relation to her Majesty, inconsistent with that of their
Sovereign at home; that the purposes for which this was sought
by the Queen's law officers was incomistent with the principle
admitted at the cornmeocement of the conference, and was one
that could nut be reasonably required to be accomplished by the
act of hisMajesty—nameiy, to give to her Majesty's conduct
that countenance which the state of the case, as at present before
his Majesty, altogether precluded.
At the same tune it was noted, that while his Majesty, con-
sistently with the steps already adopted, could not authorize the
public reception of the Queen, or the introduction of her Majesty
at foreign Courts by his ministers abroad, there was nevertheless
every e:sposition to see that branch of the orders already given
faithfully and liberally executed, which enjoined the British
ministers on the Continent to facilitate, within their res,aietive
missions, her Majesty's acconnuodation, anti to contr.:mite to her
personal comfort and convenience.
Her Majesty's law officers gave die King's servants no reason
whatever to think that the Quern could be induced to depart
from the propositions above stated, unless sonic odiers. Munded
on the same principles, were to on the p.st of lii. Ma-
jesty's Government.