The Sun.
London, England, 1820-09-19 00:00:00

glons part o€-:tale column-pity objeoted te. the
vorce clause' in the there Would be no -Oh-
jection to give that up. lip the Divorce
Clause',-if the rest of the Bill. paSsed, Was, in his
opinion, to. degrade the King as well as the Queen,
and to make the:Act declare that '4' Whereas the
Queen was.too infamotis to cont-bete ( neon of
Eagland., •she. was not. too ;infamous to be the
wife:of the Aing;" This was, in fact, stated
by Ministers when they gave up the Divorce Clanse.
With respect to the:statement that the House had
now been drawn into a discussion on an ex party
view of the case, he ',v01.-lid:ask -wh4t 'Was all that
had transpired but an cx-p:trie View of thecase ?
Had any, thing like it ever :been heard of in a
Star Chantber Court, or a Co:iq 9f High Com-
mission ? No, nothing of the kind had been
neSsed,, 'Olt ihs pne Court of uStice, tha.t over
.s:•adshav,- presided, the proeeedings of
which were speedily followed, by the .terifice of
the. Jife_of the Kiog. The charge and the
disgusting et:ideoce produced, he considered as
disgraceful.to.the At!.orney-Goteral.,The charge
which- he had preferred, but tiot made out, he
though.: .se had preferred to his own disgrace and
to than of his employer (he spoke not or
fer of th4t.allegorical
,peo-sooage he kneo-
nothillej, :whoever be might be. The chargos
preferred- and the evidence adduced were such
as to .snake his blood boil with indignation :OA
be thought of them. The case of the CroWn was
now ,closed. The prose.cutors had fieihetl—they
had done the mischief—trea.3on had done its
worst—and those concerned in the prosecution
could go no-further. What they thought they
had , proved stood before the country. He
gave no opinion on .the truth or falsehood 'of
those charges, but which he saw 'arrayed against
the. Queen 'that Commission* which was to' call
her to account fo'r. every act
.committed during
six years of her life; and whet; he saw that by-
the evidence it was-only in three of those year,
that her conduct had,been impeached, he could
not- but feel that they bad brought themselves
into. a scrape, into which be should not have ex-
pected that wen of, the. commonest understand-
ings. could .have been, betrayed. -The fearless
Manner iu which the Queen had always demand.-
ed a trial, and the iray in which that ,heroic wo-
than had relurned.to ,this country,
,had satisfied
him that though there might have been impru-
dence, there was nothing of baseness in her con-
duct. He had known persons at the lasti hour
Of their lives to deny'crirnesOf which they had
been proved, guilty, on account of those with
whom they Were. connected, but lie had never
known the guilty, to seek trial when they could
get off with credit and advantage. This simple
principle he had ,kept steadily" in his View, and
this satisfied him what was really the case' With
the Queen. Prom the beastly y evidence pre-
dticed, and all the .circinnstances, he felt that
a fouler conspiracy bad never been formed than
that which had been gait up againSt her Majesty,
Feeling,: aS they must, that all classes, or nearly
all classes, were opposed •to the - measure—
when they found that there was a strong
feeling against it on the pa-rt of those that never
interfered in such matters before ;--;--that: the
Navy and the Army took an interest in' this
question, which they were unaccustomed to take
in POlitical matters,—it was
.for that House to
conidEr most seriously the situation in Which the
country was
,placed. One of the evils of a stand-
ing, army. was this, that a standing army was our
master. He would say it boldly,. they were mas-
ters,of the country, and when he saw these holding
opinions directly in the teeth of power and of
the. Government, he could not hitt feel that
Ministers.were embarked in a more perilous
course than ever they ' had engaged in' be-
fore. He could not but feel that the noUse would
do- well, to- escape from' the evil, if that were
possible. He held that he had as good a
right to comment on the-proceedings of the other
House while it sat as a Court of Justice, as he had
to notice those of the Courts Of Kitig'S Bench and.
Common Pleas. . The eXperience of his own
times and theknowledge that he'had of the past,
led him to conclude that no tribunal was so bad
as that before- which the case of the Queen was
pending He referred to the proceedings in At-,
terbury's case, and in others, and contended that
in these a complete party vote had been given,
all the Whigs voting on one side, and, all the
'Tories on the other. This was no credit to' the
country, but was really,- to speak plainly, a dis-
grace to it. in the course -of' the present Pro-
„ceedings cheers had been beard. : :He believed it
was the first time that cheers had ever been heard
from Judges in a Court of Justice. No Man had
'ever .heard the Judges cheer in the Court of
King's Bench. This, too, was the only tithe at
'which every,- thing Was believed on one side, and
nothing on the other, and at which it had been.at-
temptedto browbeat and put down the Counsel.
It was true that the spirit of the, Counsel had re-
sisted the•attempt, but it was not less. true that
the attempt had been made. It had been seen
what was the. effect of having 2.00, ludges in a
cause from what bad passed in the other House.
Should the Bill coa,e down to the Com-nous; it
would be seen. what would result froth, having
.600 Judges. At present the proceedings had
brought nothing but disgrace on the country,,and
he thought 'the House, if it saw its true interest,
would vote for the motion of his
,Hon. Friend, in
order to get rid of the bUsiness altogether. ' lie
should support it from the conviction that the dif-
ficulties complained of were .every day getting
greater, and that there was no other way of get-
ting well tl h
trougthem.
Lord CASTLEKEAGH rose,l but gave -way to—
The ATTORNEY-GENERAI;.-7,1t could hardly
be expected that he, should follow Gentlem€n on
the other
,side through the. various . statements
which they had thought it right to Make. That
persons who, after the Bill had passed the other
llouse, would have to sit as J udges on it in, this,
should come down whilst yet the proceedings
were pending, and try by statements, not only
of what had taken place, but 'of what had not, to
inflame- the public mind, was that for which he
had pot been prepared. lie would not follow
their example by entering into the discusson; but