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of this disastrous event, many Deputies expres-
sed themselves in strong terms on the suspicious
circumstances attending it, and observed that the
Junta of Commerce, which was very much in
arrear with its accounts, was strongly accused
by the public voice of having been the authors
of the misfortune. Other Members however
said, that such indefinite accusations should not
be made or attended to, and that the Cortes
should confine themselves to appointing a Corn-
, tnittee to inquire into the origin of the fire.
' "M. Castello Branco thought there could be
no doubt of the fire having been the effect of de-
sign, that the insolence of writing anonymous
threatening letters to the Deputies convinced
him that there was a party opposed to the Con-
stitutional system, that this party endeavoured to
sow discontent and confusion among the Citizens ;
that it appeared to him to be a combined system,
and he therefore proposed that the Regency
should diligently inquire if there were any ideas
of a revolution.—M. Borges Carneiro said that he
had received anonymous letters with threats of
poisoning him, but he did not fear even death,
since he only endeavoured to serve his Country
by removing abuses.

64 In the Sitting of the Cortes yesterday (22d,)
a debate was began on the Wine Company of the
Alto Douro and its exclusive privileges : the de-
bate was adjourned to the following Sitting."—
( Lisbon Papers, June 23.)

Mr. DENMAN finished the pleadings berm-, the
Privy Council, in support of her MAJESTY'S
claim, yesterday. It will be seen that not a
tittle of evidence is produced on which to found
any other right than that arising from usage,
which, as we think we have already successfully
fahewn, can only be maintained by persons stand-
ing in all respects in the usual circumstances to
which the alleged usages or customs are ap-
plicable. But what have the remote and la-
borious researches of the Learned Counsel
made, in a Legal and Constitutional sense,
of (he ceremony of a Coronation altogether,
even as it respects, not only Queens Consort,
but the KING, the SOvereign himself ? A
Coronation, it appears, is so-entirely a mere'
matter of splendid ceremonial, depending upon
the will and pleasure of the Sovereign; that
neither positive laws nor invariable usages have
determined whether it shall or shall not invari-
ably take place. It seems that the Monarch
either may or may not be crowned, as he himself
shall think fit ;—that the People,—the Parlia-
ment,—the Ministers,—the Privy Council,—the
Laws,—have nothing whatever to do with the time
when or the place where his MAJESTY. shall
be pleased to appoint his Royal Coronation
to be solemnized. If his MAJESTY indeed does
think fit, in his royal pleasure, to appoint a co-
ronation, then, it is true, immemorial usages have
determined the manner in which that solemnity
shall be performed ; arid have conferred certain
rights, and imposed certain duties and obli-
gations connected therewith, upon divers of
his MAJESTY'S subjects. But, the immemo-
rial usage has only thus determined the
manner of the Coronation ; and has by
no means established, or pretended to esta-
blish, the necessity for the performance of
the act itself, even as it respects the KING,
much less as merely respects his Royal Consort.
So far from this, it appears, not only that the KING
may dispense with the ceremony—but if he be
so pleased, that he may repeat the ceremony se-
veral times ;—that he may be crowned with each
of his wives ;—that he may appoint a coronation
to take place out of the Kingdom, as was the case
with the Queen of RICHARD I. who was crowned
in the island of Cyprus, where Itrcn nn
married her ;—that he may direct a Corona•

ion to be conferred, during his own reign, upo..
he Heir Apparent, and not only upon the Heir
Apparent, but upon the Heir Apparent's' Wife,
as was the case with the eldest son of Ilexay 11.
and his Princess, a daughter of Louts of France;—
and, finally, that even the Queen Consort herself
may, unless the exercise of her Royal htisband's
authority, either as her King or as her husband,
should be paramount, of her own Royal will and
pleasure, also decline the honours of a Corona-
tion, as well as the KING, if she shall think fit !
In neither case, the coronation of a King, or of a
Queen Consort, have either the lazes or usages
of the realm any thing to do with the necessity
for the performance of the ceremony. In the
case of the King, it is clearly a proceeding purely
and entirely depending upon his own Royal will
and pleasure. In the case of a Queen Consort,
it is a proceeding, if not entirely depending upon
the will and-pleasure of the King (since itseems a
Queen Consort may decline and has declined the
honours of the ceremony)yet so depending upon the
united will and pleasure of both the Royal parties,
--upon their agreement, and good understanding,
as obviously to render it one of those disputed
.questions, so frequently arising even in ordinary
life, between husbands and wiver, which no
usages have defined, which no laws have de-
termined, and which no third party can adjust.--
Indeed, so utterly have her MAJESTY'S Counsel
failed to establish her case, that we think it I
quite Unnecessary to purstie the line of argu-
ment, which we had commenced yesterday.—
We shall therefore.
,merely observe, that
when the pressure of other matter interrupted
us, we intended to have pointed out that the
compulsory._ coronation of the Queen of HENRY
VII. (compulsory so far as respected the King)
was obtained, not
.by force of laze, not by the
establishment of her right, but in consequence
of the threats of violence with which the KING
was assailed, '" until" he considered that 46 it
was no longer safe for him, on account of popular
resentment, to withhold that ceremony," and
to which ceremony his consent (observe that the
KING'S consent was necessary),. .to which cere,
mony his consent was at. length thus reluctantly
and violently, not constitutionally, extorted' from
him. In the case of the coronation of the eldest
son of HeNni 11, too, the KING.; having with-
held the ceremony of a Coronation from the
Princess his Son's wife, how vas that Coronation
afterwards obtained ? Why, as Mr. BROUGHAM
stated, by her Royal Father the King of France
having " recourse for redress .to' the usual pro-
Cess of Kings---,to arms, and tO a •.dtaaration