Star.
London, England, 1821-07-07 00:00:00

SATURDAY, JULY 7, Pal.

BIIONAPARTWS LAST AND BEST PORTRA TT.
1M ACKERANN has published a whole length
o Print of this late extraordinary Character, it is engraved
by Yr. SAT, after the Original by Gocamm, Portrait Painter
to Napoleon, and is acknowledrd by all who knew the Man,
to be the most correct resemblance inexistence. This is the last
Pictu:e litionaparte sat for, and was painted during his second
Reign of 100 days.-24 inches by ISL Price 215. proofs, 425.

PRIVY COUNCIL.

THE QUEEN'S RIGHT TO BE CROWNED.

FURTHER PARTICULARS,
IN CONTINUATION FROM THE STAR or YESTERDAY.
Mr. BROUGHAM proceeded.—lt was with reference
to Henry's delay of that coronation, that Margaret
of Burgundy declared it to be the only instance, since
the Norman Conquest, of a Queen not having en-
joyed 'the solemnity of her coronation. He had,
therefore, s% ith him the uniform enjoyment of the
right her Majesty claimed; then the successful re-
sistance of an attempt, as in Henry's case, to delay
the exercise of the right ; and, lastly, the total ab-
sence of any adjudication or confiscation, ' or any
thing like either in any single instance against him.
There was, in fact, no other possible way of shewing
the existence of the right, but in the maiiner in which
he was assuming, proving, and, as he thought, esta-
blishing it. How else, before the Court of
were rights of service at the ceremou) of the Coro-
nation established? How else did the Barons of the
Cinque Potts shew their right to carry the Canopy
over the King, and to have a part of that Canopy
for their service? Suppose any instance in which
the Barons should, for want of specific proof, in the
lapse of ages, fail to shew that they had exercised
that privilege—would that countervail the validity
of their claim, founded on repeated usage? Cer-
tainly not. He would venture to say that there were
at lea-t half a dozen instances in which the Barons
could not shew they had exercised their asserted
right ; and would any of these instances, where that
proof tailed, shake the firm hold of their long and
undeniable u-age? In fact, he knew not any pos-
sible manner f panting a claim, or establishing it
.before any tribunal, according to the principles of
common sense, reason, or law, excert that by which
he had shewn the right of the Queen-consort to exist
in this case. It was the only way of establishing any
such right ; it was the only way in s, hich any right
was attempted to be established before the Court of
Claims; and the only froofs receivable or admissible
bet() e hat Colin were those which he now tendered
to their Lor.fships. There was, the other day, a case
decided by the Court of Claims, where the right had.
fallen tor a long course of time into disuse. It w
the claim set up by the successors of John Moyne,
in the .ight of the Manors of Ogres iii Dorset, Ship-
ton Mori4ne in sslmice,tershire, ..ladington in Wilts,
and Eysson atte siount in Es,ex—,, per les services
desire achatour del kuysine le Roy et lardiner le Roy
a temps Coronomentz de Royes et de Itoignes Don-
;4.kter, according to the words in tire Harleian ma-
nuscripts. The claim, as set torch L the original
words he had read, was to be caterer of the King's
kitchen, and 'orderer of the Kings and Queens. This
record of service for the Queens, he begged of their
Lordships to recollect was antecedent to the existence
in England of a Queen-regnant, and could only there-
fore apply to a Queen-consort. The quotation was
taken from the Coronation Roll of Henry V.—( Here
the interruption was so great below the Bar, that it was
impossilde to collect a few sentences uttered by Mr. B.)
He was understood to state, that there was great
complexity in the grounds laid for this claim of
Moyne, owing to the disuse ; but, nevertheless, the
Court of Claims admitted its validity, owing to the
clear proof of the usage having existed in remote
times. Upon a reference to the services which were
to be performed at the ceremony of the coronation,
it was clear, from the separate rights held upon the
performance of particular kinds of attendance upon
the Queen, that her part of the ceremony was sub-
stantive, independent, and principal—that her right
was clearly within herself, and not dependent upon
the mere will of the King. So essential, indeed, was
it that she should be crowned with all the forms of
pomp which belonged to such a solemnity, that the
same writs of summons were issued, and nearly the
same demands of service made upon Officers of State,
as when the King himself was crowned. The usage
clearly governed the right, and more especially in
this solemnity of coronation, which was altogether
the creature of precedent, and existed only by its
authority. So completely was the Queen's right re-
cognized, that a separate ceremony was arranged;
where the King and Queen were crowned apart
from each other. Ile entreated the recollection of
their Lordships to the cases he had cited yesterday.
He had shewn them from the page of history, that
nine Queens were crowned either with their husbands'
original curonations,or where the Kings were crowned
a second time, still more to grace the Queens coro-
nations; there were six cases of. the coronations of
Queens alone after their Kings had been crowned,
viz. the Queens of Edward 111. Richard 11. Henry
HI. V. and VI. If the practice were invariably that
the Queen's coronation should take place with the
King's, then it might be said that her solemnization
was merely as an auxiliary or corollary to his, and
to give additional grace to the pomp of the King'S
ceremony ; but that was not the case ; the Queen's',
coronation was always performed with that separate
attention to her rank which must have been intended
to shew, at least, something more than mere forma.]
lity ; it was a mark of respect evidently intended to
the Queen as Queen, and independent of that always
paid to the King. It was in itself manifestly a sub-
stantive, important, and independent ceremony, il-
lustrative of the tight of the one party, and•not de-
pendent or contingent upon the mere walla the Mo-
narch. The origin of the King's ceremonial was lost
in remote antiquity; but the numerous tenures and
dependencies determinable by the nonpeformance of

services at the solemnity, shewed how important it
was intended to be in the eyes of the people. The
only grounds of right for the Kings coronation,
the Queen equally had for her's; and there were,
as he had already stated, separate forms prescribed
for those who were officially to attend her during
the ceremony. These would be found so ea,ly as
the Saxon records, as he had noticed yesterday.—
He should now beg leave, for the purpose of sheaving
that fixed and important arrangements were always
provided for the Queen's coronation, to refer to the
Liber Regalia, to which he had called their Lord-
ships notice yesterday ; but before he did so, and as
he had alluded to the circumstance of the book hair-

- - -
sing been withheld from het Niajesty's Counsel by the
Dean and Chapter of Westminster, he owed it to
these reverend personages to state, that (as he had
been informed) they were bound by an old statute of
Elizabeth not to allow the book to be inspected. ith-

out sufficient authority. That book he had since yes-
terday referred to; it was a manuscript of the feign
of Richard 11. It contained a full account of three

ceremonials. Ist, One of the King's coronation sepa.'
rate from the Queen's, at least so far separate as
merely containing the parts which belonged to the
King himself; and in which the Queen had not to
bear any part. In the manuscript were these words
—"
Si regina cum rege sit soronando ;" and then came
the arrangements for diem both—" Ungere et corn-
flare reges Anglia algae regiuns ex antique consuelu-
dine he:denies *tunic, principaliter coastal." Where
the Gospel which the Bishop had to say was laid
down, then again one part was assigned for the King,
and one for die Queen—" Verson si regina eodem die
ungenda et coronanda sit." There was also ar-
'. angement about their receiving the Sacrament alone
—"
Tam ad r?gent quam ad reginant evangelium de-
podabit." Then if it be the Queen alone, the words
ran thus--" Si regina sola sit coronanda." And again
—" Sic recedet rex regalibus suit ornatus, sin present
sit," &c. The Honourable and Learned Gentleman
then referred to the Red Book of Knights' fees in the
Exchequer, folio 43, in which Gilbert de Sandford
claimed, in right of his serjeantry, to be Chamber-
lain to the Queen at her coronation; and when Queen
Eleanor of Provence was crowned at Winchester, he

claimed the right of keeping the chamber-door, and
having for his service certain fees therein named.
Then Richard Vere, son and heir to Alice Vere,,
claimed by virtue of the said manor, which he held'
by the tenure o, Grand Serjeantry by descent from
Gilbert de Sandford, to serve at the coronation of
the Queen of Richard 11. as Chamberlain to the
Queen, and as Keeper of her Chamber-door on the
day of the coronation, and to have certain fees, the
bed, &c. in consequence thereof. He should next
call the attention of their Lordships to the sum-
monses issued on the coronation of Katharine, Queen
of Henry V. by which all persons were ordered to at-
tend at her Majesty's coronation whose lands were
held by thetenute of doing her service upon that day.
These summonses were now preserved in the Close
Rolls in the Tower. He should likewise request them
to notice, that when Queen Philippa was crowned
alone, the Barons of the Cinque Ports performed the
duty of carrying a canopy over her, and claimed, in
consequence, certain fees as their right. In the coro-
nation of the Queen of Richard 11. Reginald, Lord
Grey de Ruth yn, as possessor of the manor of Ashlee,
Claimed to serve the napery as well at the coronation
of the Queens as that of the Kings of England.—
There was also a proclamation relative to certain,
services to be performed on the coronation of Eliza'
beth, the Queen of Henry VII. It was true that the
proclamation for that coronation was not extant ; but
a pioclamation existed fur the appointment of the
Stewards' Court upon that occasion. The other pro.
clamations to which he had alluded were not procla-
mations concerning the Stewards Court, but prods-
mations containing summonses calling upon every'
one of his Majesty's subjects to come forward and
perform the different offices which they were bound
to perform by their tenures at the coronation of the
Kings and Queens of England. To these procla-
mations he would add that made upon the corona-
tion of his late Majesty, when, by a dis inct procla-
mation, it was announced that "it was his Majesty's
royal will and pleasure, that all who were entitled,
by letters-patent to them directed, by offices, or by
tenures, should attend at the ensuing coronation; such
coronation being the coronation of our dearly beloved

Earl of LIVERPOOL-Mr. Brougham, what is
the date of the earliest document you have regarding
the coronation of a Queen-consort, and does it refer
to a separate one, or where the King and Queen were
crowned together ?
Mr. BROUGHAM said he could inform their Lord-
ships in a few moments, but he was not prepared to
give an answer on the instant. At any rate it was
as far back as the coronation of Philippa, Queen of
Edward the Third. Thus it would be seen, that there
were the rights of others interwoven with the right
of the Queen—rights which they could only enjoy
when the Queen exercised her right. There were the
services, there were the claims, and the separate and
distinct proclamations ; and could the whole mean
nothing—absolutely nothing ? Was all unsubstan-
tial form ? Was all what might, or might not, be
performed ? Was that which had always been an
integral part of the coronation, when the King was
martied, unimportant and insignificant? When the
Queen's right was connected with the legal rights of
other pe;.sons, could any one pronounce it to be pos-
sible that a right so used and connected was abso-
lutely nothing e Of all suppositions, that, he thot,ght,
would be the most violent one. He might not be able
to divine how the right had originated—he might not
be able to chew what was the intendment of a curona7
Lion—he might not be able to point it out as a prin-
ciple of the Constitution, as far as documents were
concerned ; but if he could demonstrate what had
been the facts, the presumption would be in favour
of the principle. This inability to adduce evidence
on some points, ought to be no argument againstliim