Star.
London, England, 1820-10-03 00:00:00

THE DEFENCE.

Mr. BROUGHAM immediately commenced the de.
fence of her MAJESTY.—The time had now arrived,
he said, when it became his duty to enter upon the
defence of his Royal Client, and it was with feelings
of great embarrassment he stood at the Bar of that
august Assembly to perform the important duties that
now devolved upon him. It was not from any ap-
prehension that their Lordships would refuse to him
the necessary indulgence, for he had often:tkines:
experienced the indulgence of their tit
was not from the novelty of the proceedteo
calculated as they were to perplex and to 0,07
rate, for the mind of man became gradually l'ye-
conciled to the strangest things. It was not from
the magnitude of the undertaking in which he was
engaged, fir he was borne up by the conviction of
the justice of the cause which he had to adiocate; a
conviction in which all mankind joined. It was not
from the operation of those circumstances that he
felt embarrassment, but it was by Me force of Mat
conridion,that be was oppressed ; it was by the fear
of sheaving his unworthiness to enter upon a subject
of such awful importance that he was now agitated ;
and while others might tremble for a guilty client,
or be crippled or chilled by the indifference, or dis-
mayed by the hostility of public opinion, be knew he
had nothing to apprehend but the feeble discharge
of his own duty, and the consequences to which that
might lead in the opinions of the millions of.his coun-
trymen who had their eyes fixed upon him as to the
charges against Ms Illustrious Client. He felt so trot-
bled under those impressions, that he could hardly
compose his spirits to the discharge of the duties he
had to perform. It was with great Sincerity he now
expressed a hope, that in the cour* of the proceed-
' ings so unexampled, his character for loyalty would
not stiffer in the opinion of their Lordships. The
Princess Caroline Amelia of Brunswick arrived iu this
country its the year 1795, the niece of the Sovereign
and -the intended Consort of the Heir Apparent, and
with a distinct title, at no very great distance, to the
Throne.. But it was not his intention to allude to
the interval between ilia; period and the year 1814.
He rejoiced that the faithful discharge of his duty
did 'not require, at this moment, any reference to
that period, The attempt to prove his Royal Client
criminal, did not require recrimination—did not re-
quire, that a whisper should be made against her
illustrious husband. His duty prescribed to him at
the present moment silence upon that subject. But
their Lordships might be assured that but for the
conviction of the expediency of observing that silence,
his lips should not be closed upon that important
topic.. In postponing what he could say upon that
subject..ho felt confident that he was waving a
right ;bat it should not be supposed, that because he
abstained from making such a statement, be would not,
if he felt it necessary do so opori,a future state of the
proceeding& He was actuated by that feeling which
he knew prevailed universally at the Bar—to dis-
charge hit duty without looking to the consequences.
He had oncrbefore taken lehveto assure their Lord-
ships that an Adybcate knew but one person In the
world, that pawn his.client—that waif& due ito
serve that cliesk by. all expedient mewls, to.proteit

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