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been granted to.his brother ; and he attemptod to re-4'
'move the legal disabilities nnder.vrbich a portion of
Ibis subjects laboured, oe account of their,teligio".
Pre firsts in itself, was vernal, bpt iriprincifile it was
objectionable. The Pita had 'Marto have waited
till the Parliament met to have got the grant- rt.
vived. In our own times, the necessity-cif this
dependence on Parliament is, however,_ obviated by
what is called a vote of credit, and vie-taxes, by be-
ing perpetual from their enactment, are not liable to
fall in, at the demise of the Monarch.: One, there-
fore, of the greatest offences with .wiiiCk.lisflis
was charged, cannot now be commitied,—new forms
in the administration of Government, have obviated
the necessity of having recourse to any such measkires
as that to which he resorted : but votes of credit are as
contrary to the Constitution as that which he tried,
and on some other occasion- we may enter into this

at length. As for the attempt of King JAMES VII
remove the disabilities of the Catholics, it was noel
in the principle of the thing so much as in the means
to which he had recourse, that his offence consisted ;
and these means were—the abominable attempts tb
render the administration of justice subservient to that
political object. It is this point, therefore, which
.chiefly calls for attention at the present time ; for it
was his evil influence on the administration of justice
which justified the imputation alleged against him,
that he was desirous of ruling with absolute power.
Our present limits do not now allow us to enlarge
on this topic; nor is it necessary, as every reasonaik
and plain man must, from the cogitations of his own
minds, come at a just conclusion respecting the crisis
in which. we are placed. It is, forsooth, assumed by
some of tie talkers against the QUEEN, thaithe.coun-
try will, ere long, acquiesce in their judgment, and
give to iniquity the name of justice. They most be
undeceived in this particular ; nor is there a moment
to be lost, if we would wish the old maxim of law to
remain unabolished, that every person must be held
innocent, till prOwd guilty. .
Mighty and important as is the case of the QUEEN,
it sinks into nothing when compared with what it
involves as respecting the Nation, and therefore the
People, from one end of the Kingdom to the other,
should, by every constitutional means, express their
loud detestation of the deadly taint that has been given
to the judicature, as between the Crown and the sub-
ject, by the anomalous proceedings against the QUEEN;
otherwise the glory of the British. COnstitution will
henceforth be only an epitaph. The first step is suf-
ficiently obvious :—Addresses to the Quar: are now
of no importance—Let the People meet, in a legal
manner, throughout the whole country, to express
their detestation of the present Bill. The City of
London, it is expected, will set an example to the
country, of freedom; firmness, and promptitude, in
addressing the Crown and the House of Commons
on the alarming degradation with which the juris-
prudencnof the country is now threatened ; and every
corporate Body and also every Parish within the
City, will probably (agreeably to the Lite Acts which
were intended to abridge the petitionary power of the
people), exercise the right which the law still spares
them, to second the efforts of the Corporation in this
struggle between the rulers and the ruled, for the
preservation of the purity of justice.
The speculations at the Mouse this morning re-
specting the state of the looked-for ditision are, that
there will
For the second reading
Against it
Majority

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Lords POMFRET, BRADFORD, and GIIINVILLILi
it is said, not vote.
HOUSE OF LORDS, NOVEMBER 6.
PROCEEDINGS OF THIS DAY.
TRIAL OF HER MAJESTY.

The House met at the usual hour this morning. After
Prayers had been read, the list was called over as usual ; the
number of Peers present was nearly 200.
The Marquis of LANSDOWN rose, and said—" My Lords.
I assure your Lordships that I am not at all disposed to go at
great length into the examination of this question ; but I feel it
necessary to add a few observations to those I have already
Made before. I come to that more important feature of the
case, the character of this measure. 1 am anxious to make
some observations on the evidence—not to go through the whole
of it, but to advert to those particular points to which some
Noble Lords opposite have more immediately referred. When
your Lordships decided on adjournment on Saturday, I was
going to call the attention of your Lordships to the case of Awn,
which rests alone on the evidence of De Mont and Majocchi.—
The fist observation that occurs is that the whole case of the
charge at Awn, is proved by De Mont and Majoccbi exclu-
sively—there is no other evidence to the fact. Lieutenant
Hownam says, he knows nothing of the sleeping under the tent,
and one of the principal. witnesses for the prosecution, Paturao,
is equally ignorant of it. A Noble Lord has dwelt much on it
being a double tent under which the Princess and Bergami slept ;
but there was nothing in else fact of its being a double tent,
which Made the suspicion stronger than if it had been a single one,
since it was double only on account of the het weather. If any
of your Lordships look at De Mont's evidence, you will
see the colouring she wishes to give to the transaction. In her
examination in chief, she said that her Royal Highness was
undressed when she reposed under the tent in the day time.
The inference was plain, and it made a momentary bnpression on
your Lordships; but in cross.examination, she was reluctantly
compelled to do away her former testimony, and to admit that
there was no undressing at all; but that,the Princess, when she
Irested, put off nothing but an outer robe or garment. I think it
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right to call the attention your Lordships to this fact, not that
I say there was no impropriety in a Princess of Wales sleeping
with a male attendant near her, but neither at Awn, nor
' on board the polacca, is there the slightest proof of that
criminal intercourse with which the Princess has been charged.
What was so improbable, in so hot a climate, in the day time,
when repose could be the only desirable object, that her Royal
WOW! *PH select that time for be gratification of ii!