The Sun.
London, England, 1820-11-15 00:00:00

[New Times.]

The rumours Of a prorocration of Parliament
were • yesterday very coul9tly. renewed. It
might not perhaps be unadvisabie to afford a short
time for the popular effervescence to cool ; but
we own that we think some means should be
adopted, as soon as possible, to mark distinctly
the sense entertained of the Queen's conduct
by the House of Lords. The nation is now
deluded with the false idea that the Peers have,
in effect, pronounced her Majesty innocent.—
Let the truth on this point be fully understood ;
let Lord Ellenborough bring forward his threat-
ened motion for an Address to the -King, or let
some other- adequate measure be adopted,
which may leave the country at large in no
doubt as to the real sense of the great body of
the Peerage on a question so nearly affecting the
national morals. The Morning Chronicle, we
are somewhat surprised to see, is speculating on
some changes in the Cabinet, without even hint-
ing at the introduction of the Whigs! This Is an
extraordinary degree of modesty on the part of
the official Whig Journal ; and we are inclined to
hail it as a symptom of good sense both in the
party and their journalist. It is true that the re-
spectable part of the nation is grieved and afflict-
ed-at the triumph which. the disaffected have had
in the extraordinary termination of the late
proceeding : and every one sees the instant
necessity of adopting some energetic measures
to save the Country from Revolution ; but
the Whigs are certainly not those from whom
the nation can reasonably expect so salutary an
energy. It is manifest that in the late struggle
the seditious Press has overpowered the wisdom
of the Government and the dignity of the Peer-
age : kt has created a false public opinion; and
to that opinion (founded, as they admit it to be,
on delusion) certain Noble Lords have thought
it necessary to bow. What is this but saying
that the seditious Press has intimidated the Par-
liament, and haspro tank) usurped the Govern-
ment of the State ? The 'licentiousness of the
Press—there is the giant evil ; but with this evil
it would be childish to suppose the Whigs are
either able or willing to cope.

[British Press.]
We have, a"thority to state that her Majesty
has commanded her Vice-Chamberlains to write
to Lord Liverpool, to demand a Palace and Esta-
blishment in every respect suitable to her rank,
with a view to her future residence in this coun-
try. This statement will, we trust, close the
mouths of those injurious simpletons who go about
reporting that the Queen has no intention of fix-
in, her residence in England. For what purpose
ed she, refuse the offer made to her by the Mi-
nisters of the Crown---splendid hi point of pecu-
niary and. other personal advantages—for what
purpose did she expose . herself to the possible
dangers and certain indignity of a public prose-
cution, if her Majesty contemplated an immediate
removal to. the.Contincnt ? This would be indeed
to be defeated ! for what greater triumph did the
Ministers of -the Crown contemplate than to ba-
nish her from England ? They had no object of
public advantage hi view in persecuting her Ma-
jesty; they did not hope, by doling out the im-
pure falsehoods„ the perjured obscenities of the
abandoned Demont, and the ruffians Sacchi and.
Itastelli, to. make the nation happier or better ;
nor (lid they propose to obtain even personal re-
lief for their Sovereign by divorcing her a vinculo
matrimonii. No ! their sole object avowedly was
to remove the Queen to the Continent ; for this
they would have. sacrificed money to any amount;
and is it to be believed that her Majesty having
undergone the utmost force of their power and
malice, having encountered the dangers of the
contest, and obtained the victory, would now
throw away her laurels, - and leave the field of
battle to the vanquished ? . It is, however, some-
what strange that her Majesty should be reduced
to the necessity., under present circumstances, _of
renewing her application to the Servants of the
Crown that she should receive the honours due to
tier rank. :Her Majesty has, we are assured,
waited in daily expectation of learning from the
Ministers of the Crown some -intimation of their
intentions respecting her; but their High Mighti7
sses,, the Members of the Cabinet, having hi-
therto endeavoured to oppress, her Majesty, think
now to treat her with Contempt. Possibly they
mean to adopt the Duke of Montrose's wise re-
solution, and will refuse to acknowledge her as

Timm Queen! ! This would be perfectly consist -
ent with the degree of wisdom they have hitherto
displayed in their conduct towards her Majesty.
Last nigh►'s Gazette did not contain the Pro-
clamation which many expected, for proroguitig
Parliament until February next. It is probable,
therefore, that Ministers will not depart in the
present instance from the uniform practice of pro-
roguing Parliament by a Speech from the Throne,
delivered either by his Majesty in person or by
his Commissioners. We do not, however, sup-
pose, that time will be granted to either House
to take the proceedings against the Queen into
consideration ; this -would be somewhat too ha-
zardous an experiment on the part of the Minis-
ters, consequently ,the moment of the re-assem-
bling of the two houses will also be the moment
of their dismissal.—(ibid.)

[Tice Times.]

There is a circumstance, with respect to the
late lamentable and disgraceful proceedings
against the Queen, which probably led to the
relinquishment of the Bill, and which was, there-
fore, own to Ministers, but of which no notice
was taken by them, either in the course of the
proceedings or at the conclusion. The truth is,
that her Majesty was, by the usage of Parlia-
ment, and the analogy of reason in criminal cases,
acquitted!!! It is true that a bare majority of
one may serve to pass a bill in its several stages;
but how severe to subject' the accused to any
penalty on such a majority, when the unanimity
of all the twelve jurors is required in the ordi-
nary Courts of Justice ! Hence it was enacted,
that in criminal cases tried by the Peers of Great
Britain, in the Court of Parliament, or the Court
of the Lord High Steward, the major ty condemn-
ing should consist of twelve at the least. (See
Foster, 247, and Kel, ; and Blackstone,
1 V. ch. 27.) The real evil, as Justice Foster says, 1
was, " that in the Court of the Lord 11 igh
" Steward the Peer-triers were a select num-
" her, returned at the nomination of the High
" Steward, and the prisoner was debarred the
44 benefit of challenge."—Disc. 1, ch. 3.) What
interest the Crown has in the present Court of
Peer-triers is but too obvious from another part,
of our Journal; and the itght of challenge also
was, as we think, most unjustly denied ; the
servants,of the Crown trying the person, whom
they, as servants of the Crown, accused ! " The
" Act therefore (Mr. Justice Foster proceeds)
" applied the proper remedy, for it enacted',
" that, ' upon the trial of any Peer or Peereis
" for treason or misprision, all the Peers shall be
." summoned 20 days before the trial, to appeir
44 at such trial,' " &c. &c. But still a majority
of twelve was absolutely necessary for the con-
demnation. These are the words of Black-
stone :—" The trials of the Peers of Great Bri-
" th.in differ little in the method and regulation
44 of proceedings, except; &c. &c. and except that
" the Peers need not all agree in their verdict;
44 but the greater number, consisting of Twelve
4C at the least, will conclude and bind the mi-
" nority."—To this notable conclusion, there-
fore, we are come at the last—that in spite of all
the detestable means used to convict her Ma-
jesty, and to degrade her with the People of
England, she has actually been, by law, acquit-
ted, as completely as any one of whom the J ury
has said " Not Guilty." Whether Ministers
were aware of this conclusion we are not certain ;
but if they were, the affected relinquishment of
the Bill was another of those disingenuous arts,
most disgraceful to those who practised it, and
even to the age and country in which we live.

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