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THE ARMY,

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HULL, JULY 9.—The Alfred and Intrepid transp.?)i.? stiled
hence yesterday with part of the 6th Font, 'for Portsmouth, t;.)
await orders. The Defence. to take in the reniiindef,•airivtd
the same day.—The 22d Foot have lnarchied. in,herE 40 sell-cc
the 6th.
The Leeds Volunteers, 3v,2 unslerstax.d„aro to luivep
colours presented to 'them on 'the cOronatron day'; Ole Jadics
the officers; and other, having entered itito.aittlii43ilittfcri
the purpose of purchasing them,

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY EXTRACTS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS

July 11.

[MORNING cunostcrx.]
The decision of the Privy Council on her Ma-
jesty's Claim has not yet transpired. Anticipa-
tion,however, is generally, we believe, very little
at a loss respecting it. Not that the Counsel for
her Majesty have left the smallest doubt in the
mind of any rational person of the goodness of her
Nlajesty's Claim, or that it is even supposed the
Attorney and Solicitor General could themselves
imagine there was any force in the arguments by
which they opposed it. But in looking forward'
to the decision, people consider rather the 'Corn-
position of the Tribunal than the grounds of the'
case. Be this, however, as it may—whether her
Majesty is or is not to be crowned along with his'
Majesty, it was distinctly announced last night
by Mr. Alderman Wood, that her Majesty was!
determined to be present at the approaching ce-
remony. Her right to be present mill, we sup-
poie, be questioned by no one.

[MORNING ILE,RALD.]

ya intimation of some public interest was given,
last night, in the House of Commons, respect-
ing the Queen. Mr. Hume said he understood
it was the Queen's intention to be present at the
ceremony of the Coronation. Were any of
his Majesty's Ministers present, he should ask
whether a place suited to her rank had been pro-
vided for her reception ; and in their absence,
under the circumstances,he felt it his duty to give
notice of a...motion, to be madehy him this day, for
• an Address to
.the Crown, requesting, that the.
House should be informed wirether-such -arrange-
ments had been made with a view to her Ma-
jesty's presence, as would ensure the preserva-
flan of the .:public peace. Alderman Wood con-
•firmed the statement of the Queen's determina-
tion to be present at lite ceremony, as matter
within his knowledge. The motion of Mr. Hume
'is simply an inquiry 'whether arrangements have
been made for _the kueen's reception. We be-
lieve there can be no doubt her Majesty's pre-
sence was never conterrplated, unless upon the
• contingency of her right to be crowned being de-
cided lit the affirmative by the Privy :Couticil.
That question is still sub judice, and we shall
not presume to anticipate the result; but of
thing we are quite certain., that whether the
Queen be present or absent, crowned or not
vrowned, the public peace is happily not in ti,he
slightest danger of being disturbed. Parliament
,AM be prorogued, this day, by Commision.

[NIORNiNG POST.]
If any thing could induce us to believe In .the
-existence df a fatality which prevailed over Itu-
r4an wisdom, and hurried :individuals as weal as
empires irresistibly on :to their ruin, it would be
the conduct which has teen forced upon her Ma-
jesty. by her pretended friends since her arrival
in this country. Occasionally has the wretched
victim seemed disposed to shake °titter trammels,
and to return :to a _course consistent with the peace
of the land and her own dignity.; but as often
have the hopes thus excited been disappointed,
by her sudden relapse under that baneful in-
fluence which rules hendestiny and stifles all her
gOod and patriotic inspirations at their birth. A
fresh and most lamentable, as well as 'perilous,
instance of this infatuation is on the :eve of tak-
ing place, Mr. Hume announced last aiight in the
Ilouse of Commons that .he would this ,day move
an Address to the King,
,praying that he would
be graciously pleased to give directions for the
adoption of such measures as were rendered ne-
cessary, by her Majesty 's rights, and aregardlo the
petice of the Metropolis, upon the approachiagCo-
ronatian. Such a notice coming from any other
Member would have appeared superfluous, and
have created much surprise at his folly, as nooue
could doubt .thedisposition and ability of his
Majesty's Government ito :adopt every measure
requisite to maintain the -public peace on
such .an occasion. Proceeding, IR; wever, from
Mr. aurne, it was regarded as .one of his
usual attempts at works of supererogation,
and would have excited no other feeling :than
that of pity, had not the blundering indiscre-
tion of his worthy friefad, Alderman Wood,
proved that the motion was indeed necessary,
and that unexpected perils were on the.eve of
breaking ou the peace of the capital, if not of
.the Country. " The Queen," said this minister,
or rather guide 'to female Royalty, " certainly
intends to attend the Coronation." That is to
say,- an attempt is ivg:.ended to be made to turn .a
day of lawful pomp and religious solemnity into;
one of tumult, of insult to the Mcnarch, and per-:
baps of bloodshed to the
.people f this be
thought a‘hard interpretation, let it be known,
that it is not ours. It is that of the sworn friends
to her Majesty, who no sooner learn :that she
`''Certainly intends to attend the CoronaVion,"
than. fore Seeing :the inevitable result of such a,
st.ep, they drop for once the prejudices of party,l
announce that they will address the King for":‘;
further -military protection, and thus declare
their clear conviction that the appearance of
the Queen _at ,the Coronation may lead' toi
civil War. If, in this instance, Mr. Alderl
man Wood have not belied the intentions of
her Majesty, what more powerful argument
can -we use :to show her the danger of her Course,
than the motion which it:has induced one of her
own champions to announce.? But if she is iu..
deed so dead to every lady-like feeling as to wish
•to force herself where shelnows her presence is
unwelcome—where abe must tnow she will be
universally shunned--;if she has no respect for
that authority from which-she receives her rank,
and even her clainasif she ligs do .gratitude for
that people from whom-she derives her large in-
come—if-she does not shrink from a course which
:her own friends proclaim may, Van-lust not-lead
4o the shedding of human blood, then let her
take the awful consequences upon her own head.
Let her know that the blood which may be shed
.1011' be 'asked at her hands, -not by the laws',
palcini, but by-the indignation. of themito le country.,
Let her know that the military will ddlheir
duty; Au, that the ,people also will do their

duty ; for though it may be in the power of a
few incendiaries, seconded by the momentary
excitation produced by her presence, to break
the peace, arid to occasion violence, yet it would
be libelling the great body of the public to sup-
pose that they would not exert themselves, in con-
cert with the military, to prevent offences,or cause
offenders to be punished. These considerations
are wholesome ones. Let her Majesty indulge
in them for some time ; and may they prove suf-
ficiently strong to induce her to retract a resolu-
tion which cannot fail to create general alarm and
disgust throughout the land.

[TILE TIMES.]
The present King does not choose that his
Consort should be crowned with him. He, and the
Privy CounCil (we suppose) with him, will say
that his Majesty 'has a right to issue that
inhibi-
tion ; but if all earthly authorities were to unite
their voices to that of the King and his Council,
-they could not all persuadeller Majesty that she
hasdone any thing to deserve so marked an insult;
she, therefore, intends to be present as Queen of
England, though uncrowned; and, we presume,
with so much a royal pomp as the malice of
her enemies will enable her to display. Other
Queens have bees present at -similar cere-
monies, though, with the exception perhaps of
the wife of Charles 1., not Queens-Consort. Ca
therine Parr attended at the coronation of her step-
son, Edward VI. Charles L's Dowager—a lady,
by the way, not vastly free fromimputations after'
the murder of her husband—was ,present at that
of her son, Charles II.; and, which is more re-
markable, the widow of Charles IL attended the
coronation of his immediate succeEser, James 11.
We find, also, by reference to the ceremonial of
the late King's coronation, that the Princess
Dowager of Wales, with the younger branches of
the Royal Family, " did not walk in the grand
procession, but made up a lesser procession of
their own. They had a box to see the corona-
tion in the Abbey, and afterwards dined in an
apartment by themselves adjoining the Hall."

NEW TIMES.]
The Privy Council assembled yesterday, to
determine on their judgment upon the Queen's
claim of right. What that judgment was nobody
can doubt ; but it cannot be made public unless
it has been submitted in the usual way to his
Majesty.—The argument of Mr. Brougham,
though not of the Slightest weight towards esta-
blishing a legal right, has opened the way to
much curious speculation on the hiaterical cha-
racter of a Royal Coronation ; and after tracing
that ceremony through a succession of ages,
it is in possible not to conclude, with the Au-
thor of 46 The Queen's Claim to Coronation Ex-
amined," that, strictly speaking, the King's Co-
ronation is a matter of duty and necessity ; the
Queen's a matter of grace, which whenever it is-
conceded to her, is conceded at his desire, and:
for his honour and advantage. MI the hereditary
Monarchies in the world avere originally elective,
and onlyzeased to be so, in consequence •of the
evils which experience proved to result froze the
former mode of succession. Many of the oere-
monies in use under the one form of Government,
however, were naturally retained under the
other, and accommodated to it : and this 'is parti-
cularly the case with the Coronations of the Eng-
lish Kings. It is also observable that the ceremony,
which at first was merely military or civil, after-
wards receded a sacued character, serving, in the
expressive words of Burke, "solemnly for ever to
consecrate the Commonwealth, and those that offi-
ciate in it."—" This consecration" continues he " is
made, that all who administer in the government
of men, should have high and worthy notions of
their function and destination; that fitt;ir hope
should be 'full of immortality.; that they should,
not look to the paltry pelf of rthe moment, nor.
to the temporary and transient praise of the van-.
gar but to ,a solid and permanent existence, in'
the permanent part of their nature., and to a per
manent fame and glory, in the ,example theyt
leave as a rich inheritance to the world." tipout
these principles the Christian Priesthood seem
to have proceeded in superinducing upon the old
Heathen ceremonies of the Romans and Saxons,
the religious solemnities of unction and consecra-
tion, and finally binding the whole into a sort of
sacramental form by the administration of an
Oath to the new Sovereign.