Star.
London, England, 1820-06-07 00:00:00

The House balsot.eventeuld why.these inasb
wire ofroteci to her Majesty. Tromithe couctuat
*distaffs it was an evident conclusion that they used i
their iiffisence with a view to condemn her unheard.
Be implored the House to remove from their minds
11 prejudices, and to enter upon thetaslt before them
in the spirit of the law, which accounted all untried
persons to belnnocent, notwithstanding Ministell
had, as far as in them lay, condemned her Majesty.
•It was the spin't of the Constitution that the acts of
the Governnseet should at least be characterised with
liberality. Was the Order in Council excluding her
name from the Liturgy in this spirit? Was it not
issued rather in consequence of some dark intrigue
hatched against her? It was a curious fact, that
this Order of Council, having been sent to Scotland,
was no rare than a piece of waste paper there.—
Many of the Clergy prayed for the Queen ; and, in a
late assembly of the General Convocation, a motion
was made to condemn this Order as an improper in-
terference with the Ecclesiastical Administration of
that country. He (Lord A. Hamilton) thought it
nee essary to say this much ; for he could not see the
acts of Ministers pervade every part of the kingdom,
without protesting against their conduct, and with-
out insisting on the right of her Majesty to be treated
in the same way as the meanest criminal, namely, to
be.put on her trial without prejudice.
- Mr. DENMAN did not rise for the purpose of
entering into any detailed discussion of the merits of
this case, as perhaps a fitter opportunity would after-
wards occur. He confessed he was not anzious,to
give language to his sentiments upon this occasion,
kst he should be betrayed into those ardent feelings,
the exposition of which did so much honour to his
Honourable Friend, Mr. Bennett—(Cheers)—feelings
which, he declared, were much less alarming to his
mind than the temper, coolness, and coldness with
which measures of such consequence, and opening
such a prospect to the country and the future policy
of its Governors, had been proffered to the House—
(Cheers).—He would not trust himself in pursuing
the topic, but in common justice to the illustrious
Person whose arrival in this country was greeted
with an accusation founded on secret papers, and not
authorized by evidence—to be pursued also not by
the ordinary tribunals—in justice to the Illustrious
Lady, he begged to know what were the distinct
proceedings about to be instituted against her? He
asked this on the part of her Majesty—not that he
was instructed particularly to put the question; but
he thought it such as might be put .by any Member
of that House. He then gave notice, that he would
renew the question to-morrow; for he thought the
information most essential in the awful proceedings
about to be instituted—(Loud cheers).
Mr. BROUGHAM would not enter even so briefly
as his lion. Friend (Mr. Denman) had done into the
merits of the question before the Hou. e. Unhappily,
not only for the Illustrious Personage herself, but
unhappily for the House, for Pal liatnent, for Go-
veinment, and for the Country, a resolution had, it
appeared, at last been taken, which made longer si-
lence upon that most important subject utterly im-
possible. The time was, unfortunately, approach-
ing, when all men would be called upon to make up
their minds, and when his (Mr. Brougham's) lips
would, at length, be unsealed from that state of si-
lence which he had hitherto imposed upon them. At
the present moment he should only say, and he
thought it but fair to give the Noble Lord (Castle-
reagh) such warning, that his Majesty's Government
would not only have to perform the task; and to suc-
ceed in the task, of making out a strong case against
the Queen, but they would have another task to exe-
cute, foremost in situation and paramount in im-
portance, as regarded their own justification=thej
would have to shew, satisfactorily to shew, to con-
vince the House and the Country, that it had become
impossible longer to iostpone or to suppress the dis-
cuision. Which way soever might be the merits of
the case,' was, in his view, a matter of minor im-
portance, because, whatever might be the Queen's
case, the case of Ministers must be, that the landing
of the Queen in England, that simple act, Inade all
further forbearance absolutely impossible. This truth
was so manifestly clear, that he would not waste the
time of the House in urging another word in sup-
port of it ; and he took it for granted that the Noble
Lord and his colleagues were prepared to stake their
places upon the event of the present proceeding. In
his own justification, the Hon. Member continued,
he now thought it proper to acquaint the House, that,
since he had taken his seat, a public Newspaper had
been put into his hand, in which, to his infinite sur-
prise, he had seen a long statement, in many respects
au inaccurate, and, in some most material points, a
garbled statement of the recent transactions which
had taken place at St. Omer's. It was necessary, in
justice to his • Noble Friend (Lord Hutchinson) with
whom he had acted upon that occasion, and who was
net now present, that he should first declare the
statement which had appeared to be imperfect and
garbled ; and, in his own defence, -he felt it neces-
sary to say, although he believed that no Member
could suspect him of such a violation of propriety,
that he knew nothing of the mode or manner in
which, or of the channels through which, those cir-
cumstances had been made public. To what breach
of confidence this publicity which had been given to
part of the proceedings could be attributed, he was
at a loss to conjecture : until he bad conic into the
House, he had not been aware that a tittle of the
matter had been promulgated.
The question, " That his Majesty's most gracious
Message be taken into consideration to-morrow," was
then put and carried.
Lqrd CASTLEREAGH moved, " That the Pa-
pers which he had delivereB should be kept in the
custody of the Clerk of the House."—Agreed to.
PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.
Mr. LAMBTON observed, when 'he stated last
night that he knew of no public grounds for post-
poning his motion, he was not aware of the measure
which had just been announced by the Noble Lord ;
but he now felt that he should be doing extreme in-
justice to the subject which had been entrusted tohis
care, if he were to bring it forward in the present
agitated state of the House. Convinced as he was
that he should not now be able to obtain attention,
whatever he might do on any other iaccMion, he
would therefore postpone his motion until the 276
instant.
Leave was then given to bring in a Bill for re-'
moving the Elections of Knights of the Shire for the
County of Susses, in future, to the town of Lewes.