The Sun.
London, England, 1820-10-27 00:00:00

[Alorning Herald.]

It will be observed by the Court Circular that
Prince Leopold paid a visit yesterday at Bran-
denim:l.o. Rouse, for the purpose of inquiring
after the health of the Queen, whom he under-
stood to be indisposed. Ife did not leave his
carriage, but sent Colonel Addenbroke to make
the proper inquiries of Lady Anne Hamilton.—
This visit will cause some sensation. It is the
first which Prince Leopold has made to the
queen since her return from the Continent.

[New Times.]

• The close of the Queen's Defence, without an
attempt to patch up the fatal evidence or Flynn
and liownam, has produced a marked and strik-
ing change in public opinion. In the City, where
considerable odds were a short whila ago laid
that the Bill would not go to a second reading itt
the House of Lords, there is now even betting
that it will pass both Houses. On the other hand,
many of the Queen's professed adherents..shew
unequivocal 'narks of desperation. They no lon-
ger affect to treat her Majesty's acquittal or
degradation as a question of reason, but as one
of downright force. For a long time The
Morning Chronicle maintained that prudent,
reserve which we were the first to notice and the
readiest to commend; but yesterday its leading ,
article 'seemed to vie with those which have
so long disgraced the pages of the Mob--teading
Journal. It intimated that because the labouring
classes disapproved of the Bill the Lords "would
not venture" to pass it--and that " the .t,kristo-
cracy would not dare to set themselves against
the whole of the rest of the counrirthity."."' It is
well for the people sornetinies to speak. out. We
are then enabled either to reason with them, if
they wish to reason, or to adopt More eilergetit
measures, if such should be iieceqsary. Novi, the
evident meaning of the passages to which We have
referred is to intimidate the 'Peerage of the
United Kingdom into a base subserVientyjo "The
populace : it is telling thern--We of the Qriecia'S
party have got the Mob on our -Side,and- now
pass the Bill if you dare.
Prince Leopold is like many other fereighets,
who mistake the populace of Eltigland foC the
people Of • England. Ills Royal
:Highness per-
ceiving that so Many Mobs of glass-blowerS; Wa-
, termen, &c-. went "to BrandenbUrgh House,
seems to have thought it neceshry these
weighty examples. • lie therefore ca11i..41 ou her
Majesty, who, probably displeased at hiSlong-
delay, sent, down word 'that she and
could not,see him ; ,to which; we understand,
the Prihce replied, he had heard she was
and theiefore he had called. There is a ffibUlous
story.cUtrent; of a letter which Prince f!-opiold,
is said tbhave written to the Queen we believe
we can cotfidently state that he did not' write at
Ibid.) -

The QUEEN has signified her pleasure not to
receive personally any more Addresses after
Monday next. Addresses after that day-tnay
be transmitted to her; but not, to be preftutect
to heiself.

"'LOUSE ..'OULORDS-TIIIS DAY.

TI IT QUEEN

The ttraii Chat,i'Ci:Crain mine ter the House at
•
_Ave, minutes to: ten, after winch prayers were
s.-:r‘eadby the. Lord Bishop of BIIISTOL. The three
'Royal' Duke§ were early in 'attetn.lance. At
"half-past ten Counsel were called in.
~.sohECI-1 OF .'II7IE ATTORNEY-GENERAL IN REPLY.
.~TTORNEY-GENEItAL now addressed their
T•
hriisliips. As her Majesty's Counsel-had now
..Co,ncluded her Defence, it was now his duty to
..inidress Lordships - for the Prosecution.
tin-her i the hnprertance .of the case itself was con-
sideri4 as well as the very great period it
o'eriPied, the feelings it had excited, and
the anxious interest tlo was taken in its. result,
be that result as it Might, he was certain that
this consideration-was more than sufficient for him
to, call for their Lordships' indulgence, Nvitiith no ,
Advbcateeveronore required. It was not, how-
', ever, that he felt oppressed by the difficulty of
the, Cese, but the iuvestigation had occupied
their, Lordships so lone-, While his Learned
friends had en roused their attention for the en-
tire, Space of three days, that he feared that at-
tention must be exhausted. Besides the subject
had now become trite and. stale ; and looking
at the man of evidence on their Lordihips',table,
and remembering the length of the remarks of
-his Learned Friends, he Was apprehensive that he-
must be still under the necessity of making a
iarger demand on their Lordships' time, and
perhaps their patience, than he should otherwise
have been called on to do. Before, however,
▪he proceeded 'to investigate the evidence Which
' bad been adddced by his Learned Friends, and
to comment on their re,asonings, he trusted to be
allowed just to advert to one topic which had
bet n so frequently introduced, and so. much
complained of by the other side. He alluded to
'the. disadvantages under which her Majesty was
said to have laboured, in meeting the charges as
contained in the Preamble of the Bill. As to ,
that complaint,' it might appear to apply when
• she was refused a list of witnesses, but surely
that complaint ought to have ceased when
•their Lordships considered the manner in which
the Defenhe was permitted to' be conducted.
-The charges were distinctly know,neven, from the
preamble ; at another stage, proceedings were
'suffered to'stand, at the request of the Queen's
:Counsl, Who were allowed to chase their own
time and method for rebutting the Bill. Unlimited
finds were placed at the Queen's disposal, and
every kind of facility afforded . her, by Govern-
ment. Here he must be -allowed to express his
confident hope, that this instance of accommoda-
'lion would not be suffered to stand as a prece-
' dent for succeeding times ; since nothing could
be more dangerous, or More contrary to the even
course of justice, than to afford time to an-
swer a case where witnesses, and even cor-
rupt ones, were so easy to be obtained as in
that country where- tt:e witnesses came from:—
Ile did not "intend by •thls observation to impeach
:the witnesses for the Queen, hut he'svould say,
that corrupt evidence might have been so ob-
tained, if they had desired it. He would there-
fore now assert that her Majesty had no reason
.to complain of the manner in which her defence
had been conducted. To say nothing of the
-public voice, raised .by all possible arts and
• means in h.r faVour, she had been benefited by
Aire most sedulous industry, and, he must own,
an array of talents the most splendid, in. 'her
cause. She' had every advantage that could be
given her, and if so, then the Charges made in
the Preamble of the Bill remained not onty not
,contradicted, but in many parts supported by the
.evidence of. witnesses who had been brought for-
,ward by his Learned Friends ; he would maintain
that the case Was substantially made out. He
must "repeat it, however, that her Majesty
had no right to coniplain .of disadvantages
on her side, when, in reality, she possess-
ed more than the accused was known to have
.in such a situation. Under these circumstances,
then, be was at liberty to admit to their Lord-
ships, that for himself, it was neither his,duty
,nor in his power to deal so liberally in imputa-
tions and sarcasms on 'behalf of
,the prosecution,
as his Learned- Friends had indulged in, while
conducting the Defence of the Queen. During
their course, all that ingenuity could imagine,
all that brilliant declamation could effect, was
lavished in the furtherance of their cause ; that
'll eld was indeed open to them, and they had
reaped the harvest of it ; but his was a different
task, and he could assure their Lordships much
More congenial to his own feelings. It was his
duty, and should be his endeavour most carefully
-to examine 'the evidence which had been given at
their bar, and compare it with those facts on which,
after .all, their LOrdships must 'decide this
important case, without the least reference to
those ingenious and inflammatory 'topics so un-
sparingly introduced at every opportunity by
the Learned Counsel for' the Queen. Brit
before he proceeded to the examination of evi-
dence and facts, .he wished to be permitted to
avail himself of . what his Learned Friends had
been compelled to admit, 'and this was—That if
their Lordships could believe.what the witnesses
had deposud, it proved fully and clearly the
charges that were exhibited in the preamble of
the Bill. Nay, more than this, the charge was
admitted .on this ground, even by his Learned
Vriendi on the other side ; or else, he, would ask
their Lordships why were 6 days coniumedin giving
in evidence to prove her Majesty's purity and inno-
Ceti ce, and also three days taken up by his Learned
Friends in answering the charges ? His Learned
, Friends, as their Lordships, must have observed,
had been studious to. cull out insulated facts, on
which they commented with that adroitness, so
-peculiar to them, and with that ability which he
was not disposed to deny in them ; but their Lord-
- tships must have remarked, that in doing this,
• his Learned Friends had carefully kept
.from
their Lordships' view those general facts
and leading circumstances of the case which
contradicted, and 'which; he
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