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he determined is not one of justice to the Rim*,
ruing iu his personal capacity foe a theme, but
taw far such a =enure is essential to the tarty of
?he State, sod the honour and dignity of the Crown.
"llaaerer the House oftords may have decided Ibis
f in t , the opinion of the House of Cosataoo• re-
specting it is happily upon record; and should the
Commn.is re•ohe to entertain the subject, they
wttt act in direct contravention of their own Rear
lanais, that declared an investigation into the con.
.turt of the *QuEea, in the mamma proposed by
the Mittisters of the Crown. to iss " pregnant with
c..:Amitiee, derogatory front the dignity of the
Crown, and injurious to the beet iaterwto of the
• .spire...

''l.l-1 E. gitrriSii PRKSS.

I.ONDON,
TUESDAY. Annan' 2+2,
It .411 he seen in oar Report of the proceedings
the Ilou•e of Lords )notetdsy, that her MA.
Elvv left the Have on the appearance of the Grit
11cr tMAaLarY slept itt Brsailenburgh
House list night, and is expected to attend the
ilo-ase of Lends at ten eelock this morning.
Au erroneous opinion is gone abroad that her
'MAJESTY did Mt expect that the witness, Theo.
dore Neecchi, would give evidence against her.
0., the contrary, the QUEEN knew that he was one
it the cniginal promoters of the plot, and on Ins
rooting into the House of Lords, she expressed
cher indignation \at the tight of a man to whom she
had been so liberal and kind..

The wetness of last morning did not prevent con.
siderahle numbers of persons from collecting in
front of the Queen's house in St. James's-square,
and also in the vicinity of the Huns, of Lords. Her
11113 ESTV. however, did not go co the Howse until
slew minutes after twelve o'clock.
Before the Arroaxav-Gettgait. resumed his
statement last morning, Lord HOLLAN4 rose and
proposed some questions to the Ministers, for the
purpose of ascertaining whether the British Go-
vernment "were holm(' by any declaration of opi.
ilium respecting the Revolution in Spain, similar to
those contained in the fluvial) Manifesto. Lord
LivEaroot, replied in the negative, end expressed
his• hope that Spain would derive great benefits from
the Revolution. The ATTORN MAL then
reamed his statement, which will be.found fully
reported in another pert of our Paper.

The ATTQJMY•GIEWERAL resumed his state-
ment yesterday morning in tfie House of Lords.
nud recited various circumstances in the Quagm's
conduct abroad, from which he inferred the core•
mission of the crimes imputed to her MAJESTY.
The circumstances are fur the most pert such pm
usually figure in those cases in our Courts of Law,.
wherein juries are required to estimate the honour
of a deceived husba►d, or the value of s faithless

wile. The public, however, most perceive that
even in the es parte statement or the ATTOkNER,
GENERAL, strongly coloured as no doubt it is,
there is no precise or positive charge of she actual
commisNion of the principal crime. The evidence

is altogether circumstantial, and although it cannot
be denied that many of the circumstances charged
by the ATTORNEY-GENERAL would, if well sub-
atantiattd, justify a conclusion of the Questes
guilt, yet great allowance must be made for the
zeal of Counsel, desirous- of pressing the points
strongly, and for the erroneous impressions which
men are apt to receive who have read and exa-
minid only one side of any subject. Many of the
tocidents in her Majesty's conduct are most ma-
nifestly distorted. They have been viewed through
the medium of prejudice or hatred, and circum-
stances not in themselves criminal thus become
either direct acts of guilt, or evidence of. depraved
habit. There are twiny of them from which the
ATTORNEY-GENE:IIAI. implied criminality, which-
might easily be explained as perfectly innocent.—
The removal of young AusTris's bed front
her MAJESTY'S own chamber was perfectly
ti6ed by the age of the lad (twelve years)
which .residered it improper that he shOuld con.
tioue any longer to sleep in the same room with
tier MAJESTY. It is severe that a circumstance
which in itself implied delicacy of feeliiii, should
be disported into au evidence of • guilty intention.
Great strtvs is Isid upon the circumstance of Bas.
CAIII'S chamber being always near that of her Ma.

J says ; but what would be said if sufficient grounds
- were laid before the Lords to chew that her MA-
JESTY did nut lightly entertain an apprehension of
noi.ger to her life, and that she conceived it twee*.
spry to her personal safety that an armed nun should
piss the night in • neighbouring apartment ? The
same motite of personal apprehension might have
1-d to the circumstance of the Questu's permitting
llattossit to sit with her at table, antkit is known*
that her MAJESTY Inver at table partook of any
food until some part of it was previously eaten by
lisaoasit. or some other domestic. With respect
to the minute porticulars of the QUEEN'S conduct,
not only mud the character of the witnesses be
scrupulously examined, but also mud be ascertain-
Crl their opportunities awaking observations; and
the cspability of their minds to form correct opi-
nions. VPCv.shon hl not c4eive a peasant ors boat.
stifed4tit jOdge of a Orincese's conduct, the
inure eapeeially as it is the habit of vulgar minds to '
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