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Moved, That the farther consideration, of the,
Bill be adjourned to this day six months. Which
being objected, the question was put thereupon.
It was, resolved in the affirmative.
DISSENTIENT
_

Because no-sutlicient ground imiearS for the abandonment
of the Bill founded on the charges against her Majesty
the QuEF.N, which had undergone the most solemn and ac-
curate investigation ; charges in which the morality of the
country was deeply interested, and oti which all the Peers,
Spiritual and Temporal, who delivered their opinions,
with very few exceptions, declared their conviction of
her guilt ; and the abandonment of which is a dere.
liction which may bring into disrespect not only the cha-
racter of our highest Court of Judicature, but that of the
Nation itself. And it is with the greatest concern we observe
the extreme want of consideration for the Sovereign-, by the
dereliction of proceedings so necessarily brought on, by which
a wife declared by the House of Peers to have • been guilty
of adulterous intercourse with a menial servant, and of a
conduct the most depraved, is to remain his Queen Consort;
thus lowering the dignity of the Crown, and embarrassing the
country With far greaterdifliculties than those which seem to
have induced his Majesty's Governifient to relinquish the pro-
secution of the Bill. SHF.FFIELD. .
INOATHUMBERLAND.
LOTHIAN.
WILLIAM.

Adhuc, 10 Die Novembris, 1820.

DISSENTIENT,

Because, that in a case of this nature, in which this House
appears to us, by its Reiolution to read. the Bill a second time,
by
.its proceedings, in the Committee upon the Bill and the
Report, and by its Resolution to read the Bill a third time, to
have strongly manifested, that, in the judgment of a Majority
of this House; the guilt imputed in the Preamble of the Bill
had ,been clearly proved, we think that considerations affect-
ing the justice and honour of the House made it at that the
Bill should pass. _ _ ,

Because this "appears to us to have been the more fit in a
case in which so many Peers, who voted against the third
reading of the Bill, had declared their conviction that the
guilt imputed had been proved.
Because we also think that the House ought not, in consi-
dering whether the Bill should pass after its having been
read a third time, to have been influenced by any regard•to
what might take place in an inquiry in the other House of
Parliament, as was suggested in the course of our debates,
save only that we deem it to have been just that the party
accused shduld have bad an opportunity of calling for the
judgment of both Houses, when this House, proceeding by
a Bill of Pains and Penalties, had expressed in its Resolutions
a judgment unfavourable to that Party.
Because we cannot but apprehend, that the Resolution to
adjourn
,the further consideration of the Bill will lead to
great misapprehension► as to the real opinion of the Majority
of the Peers of this House, as it is to-he collected fr4tn the
antecedent proceedings properly understood, with reference
to the question upon the guilt imputed to the Party accused
in the PLeatuble of the Bill.

BR IDGE WATER.
VE UL A Al.
SH A FTES B URY.
WILLIAM.

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II 1.

DISSENTIENT,

Because it has been clearly established by undeniable evi-
dence, and confitmed by the votes and declarations of a
great majority of 11-10 Hoare of ,Peers,. that the Princess of
Wales (now Queen) did commit adul'ery with% a foreigner,
and because I know of no other Tribunal where this crime
against the State and against locicty can be, punished, or the
repetition of the offence be preented.
2dly, Because the failure of this Bill, unaccompanied by
any other Legislative vr Judicial Proceeding, must encourage
the commission of crime, and leave a great stain upon the ho.
nour of the' Throne, and the morals of the present gene-
ration. HARRIS.

WILLIAM.

IV.,

DIbSENTI ENT,

_ -
Because the guilt of her Majesty the Queen having. after
the fullest investigation and _consideration of the evidence
adduced for and against tier Nlajesty,hee.n wade out and esta-
blished to 1 he entire satisfaction of my honour and conscience,
and the Bill of Pains and Penalties having, in the most solemn
and deliberate manner, passed through its different stages,
and received the sanction 'of this House to the third reading,
I cannot allow of its abandonment at this period of toe sedu-
lous and exemplary attendance and labours of this/House,
without recording my Protest against a measure which in-
volves a dereliction of the sacred duty of administering justice
by this House, and which sutlers the. most abandoned and
licentious conduct to remain, if not triumphant, at least un-
punished, to the disgrace of our Country, in derogation. of
the honour and dignity of this tloute, and which tends to
lower the first tribunal -in th'e world in the estimation of this
Nation, of Europe, and of posterity. POWIS.
WILLIAM,
For the above Reasons.