The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-15 00:00:00

CER EM ONIA

TO LE OBSERVED AT THE TRIAL
OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
JAMES THOMAS EARL of CARDIGAN,
IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS.

The Lords Spiritual and Temporal, the Judges,
&c. will assemble in the- House of Lords. The
Lord Chancellor, or in his absence the Lord
Speaker, will be robed in his Lordship's private
room, from which a procession will be made in
the usual manner, his Lordship being preceded by
The Purse Bearer Serjeant with
with the Purse. the Mace.

Black Rod carrying Garter carrying
the Lord High Steward's Staff. his sceptre.
Upon arrival in the House, Garter and Black
Rod will take their places at the Bar, and the
Lord Chancellor, or Lord Speaker, will proceed
to the Woolsack, where, being seated, Prayers
will be read. The Clerk Assistant of the Parlia-
ments will then call over the Lords, beginning
with the Junior Baron.

The Lords having been called, the Clerks of
the Crown in Chancery, and in the Queen's
Bench, jointly make three reverences, and the
Clerk of the Crown in Chancery On his knee will
deliver the Commission to the Lord , Chancellor,
or Lord Speaker, who will ive it to the Clerk of
the Crown in the Queens Bench to read, and
both Clerks will retire with the like reverences,
to the Table.

Then theSergeant-at-Arms will make procla-
mation for silence, and the Lord Chancellor or
Lord Speaker, will acquaint their Lordships that
her Majesty's Commission is going to be read; and
that all persons do stand up uncovered while the
Commission is reading.. The Commission ap-
pointing a Lord High Steward having been read,
Garter and Black Rod, making their reverences
to the Throne, proceed from the Bar to the
Woolsack, where they take their places on the
right hand side of the Lord Chancellor, or, in
the absence of the Lord Chancellor, they will
proceed to the Lord High Steward in his place,
and both holding the Staff, present it upon their
knees to his Lordship, when his Lordship rising,
and preceded by Garter and Black Rod, and the
Purse Bearer, with reverence to the Throne, will
take his seat in the Chair 'provided for his
Grace, on the uppermost step but one of the
Throne, and deliver the Staff to Black Rod to
hold on his right hand, Garter and the Purse
Bearer standing on his left.
Proclamation will then be made for silence ;
when the Queen's Writ of Certiorari to remove
the Indictment with the return thereof, and the
record of the Indictment will be read by the
Clerk of the Crown in the Queen's Bench. The
Lord High Steward will then direct the Ser-
geant-at-Arms to make proclamation for the
Yeoman Usher to bring the Prisoner to the Bar,
whereupon the Yeoman Usher will place the
Prisoner at the Bar.

The Prisoner on reaching the Bar is to make
three reverences ; one to his Grace the Lord
High Steward, the other to the Peers on each
side ; His Grace and all the Peers returning the
salute, the Prisoner kneels, and his Grace will
bid him rise, when he will be conducted to a
stool placed for him within the Bar.
The Lord High Steward will then direct pro-
clamation to be again made for silence ; and his
Grace will acquaint the prisoner with the
charge. The Prisoner will then be arraigned ;
and if he pleads Not Guilty, proclamation will
be made by the Serjeant-at-Arms for all persons
to come forth and give evidence.
His Grace the'Lord High Steward, with their
Lordships' leave, then removes to his seat at the
Table, preceded UST Garter, Black Rod, and the
Purse Bearer, as before, and his Grace being
seated, they will take their places, Black Rod
sitting on a Stool at the corner of the Table on
his Grace's right hand, and holding the Staff,
Garter sitting on a stool on Black Rod's right
hand, the Sergeant at the lower end of the Table
on the same side, and the Purse Bearer at the
upper corner on the left:

The Trial will then proceed, and at the conclu-
sion the Prisorier will be taken from the Bar and
strangers will be ordered to withdraw, in order
that the Lords may deliberate. The Lords
Spiritual will then desire leave to be absent when
Judgment is given, with a salvo jure to their rights
as Peers.

On the readmission of strangers, the Lord High
Steward goes to the Chair, and having summed
up the evidence, puts the Question to each Peer,
beginning with the Junior Baron writing down
their answers, Guilty or not Guilty; and lastly
delivering his own opinion. Every Peer, upon
pronouncing his jud.rnent, will stand up un-
covered, and laying his right hand on his breast
say either "GUILTY," or " NOT GUILTY," Upoi
my Hun Our.

Then his Grace will declare to the Peers how
many have pronounced the Prisoner Guilty, and
how many Not Guilty. After which the Pri-
soner being again brought to the Bar, and pro-
clamation made for silence, his Grace will 6-
elare to the Prisoner the judgment of the Peers.
If found Guilty, the Prisoner will be asked by
his Grace, what he has to allege against Judg-
ment being pronounced upon him ?
If any thing be alleged, strangers will be
ordered to withdraw and the Prisoner removed
from the Bar, when the Lords will deliberate
upon the matter alleged. If nothing' be al-
leged, or nothing sufficient to arrest Judgment,
strangers being ordered to withdraW and the
Prisoner removed from the Bar, the Lords
will then proceed to deliberate upon the sen-
tence to be passed. Their Lordships having de-
liberated, the Prisoner will be again placed at
the Bar, when his Grace will pronounce the
sentence upon the prisoner which may have
been agreed upon by the House.
Proclamation will then be made for dissolving
the Commission, which being ended, his Grace
standing up, and having received the Staff from
Garter and Black Rod jointly (as he always
does), holding it in both hands, will break it in
two, and so dissolve the Commission. The Lord
Chancellor, or Lord Speaker, will then take his
seat on the Woolsack, and demand the pleasure
of the Peers whether they will adjourn ; and if
so, his Lordship returns to his room in the same
form as he entered the House.

NOTE.—ln the absence of the Lord Chancellor,
the Purse Bearer will not be required to attend.
The Peers who are Knights of the several Or-
ders will wear their Collars over their Robes.