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

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. Mr. G RFIN ive notice, th it, o iv: • a • •
Friend of his (Mr. I).. CilSert) moving that it be an in-t.ut.ti
to the Commit e • to add a elm.e t', the r ill trap,ferring the
right of voting tor buretsses to serve in Pais: sent for Cratn.
pond, to the Preabeilders of Ponder and Pider, he should alto
move, that it be a further instruction to e)told the franchise to
the Hundreds of Peowith and Nerria.

THE ROYAL MESSAGE.
• Lord CASTLEREAGH appeared at the Bar of the House.
The SPEAKER—Lord Castlereagh what have yougot there?
Lord CASTLEREAGH—A Message from the King.
The SPEAKER detdred him to bring it tip.
The Noble Lord than brought up a paper and a voted gran
bag: the paper he gave into the laa fof the Spzaker ; the green
bag he laid upon the table.

The SPRAKER then proceeded to read the Message, amidst
loud cries of—" hats of Pie Masase see the Lords).
• Lord CASTLEREAGH then rose. and mived
-that an humble Address be presented to his Majesty.
to return his Majesty thanks for the gracious -Meg- _
sage which he had communicated. and to assure him
that the House would take the earliest opportunity
of taking into consideration the Papers which he
had transmitted to the House. The Noble Lord then
F gave notice that he should on to-morrow (this day)
move that the Papers presented by order of his M:A.
jesty be referred to a Select Secret Committee.
Mr. BENNETT then rose and said, that seeinz-no
one at that moment in the House disposed to address
the House, 'fie should take the liberty 'of asking a
question of 'the Noble Lord opposite. He wished to
know whether a letter, which appeared iron of :he.•
public journals of that day, purporting to he a corn.
munication from Lord Hutchinson to her Majesty
the Queen was a genuine document? He,wanted to
know; if that Nobleman was instructed by his Ma-
jesty's Ministets to tender to the Queen of England
a proposal to la% down th. s! li;lts and dignities, of
which no authority •oa earth could deprive her?—'
(Load theering)—aati to ask her to consent to be
bribed with
.1.!3.),000 a-year for th;s surrender ?
(Chcers)-11ardy as these Ministers were, be could
scarcely believe that they would venture upon' a
measure of this extraortenary nature. V%'!:at.: pro-
pose to the Queen of England to strip herself of her
character—and to accept of a htibe ? If this Wet e
the case, he could no longer entv:tain a doubt of the
truth of an expression sometime since uttered b.. his
Right Hon. friend (Mr. Tierney), that il•e Queen
was insulted, and the Ring betrayed—(liear, hear).
He wished, anxiously wished, to know if this letter,
with the signature of Lord Hutchinson, was or was
not a genuine document. Until he heart the ac-
knowledgment of Ministers themselves, he should
not believe that it was. Without this acknowledg-
ment, he could never give cret;it to the statement,
that an English Minister would say to the Q.sicen of
England, without the consent and approbation of
Parliament—(Load cheers)—'" divest yourself of the
character of Queen of England, lay down y.,ur rights
and dignities, and we will bribe you ss ith L 50,000
a-year; . and this, ton, at a moment when the coun-
try was involved in its present difficulties—( Cheers).
—For it was to be remembered, that this stem of
,E 50,000 a-year was to be paid, not by the King, but
by the People. And to whom waS dn. money to go?
—To an individual who, according to the represen- •
tation of Ministers, was not only unfit, to be a Queen
of England, but unfit even to set her foot on English
ground—(Hear, hear).-To call thii conduct treason,
were, perhaps, monstrous-.but he had no hesitation
in describing it as treachery, the effects of which
were calculated to shake the Throne I—(llcar, hear).
Feeling, as he did, the utmost reverence tor the
Monarchy, because, upon its security he was per-
suaded the tranquillity of the country rested, he
could not, its an honest man, and while he saw
nobody about him disposed 'to perform the task,
abstain from asking if Ministers- had ventured to
transmit a'perion over to France with over uses of
the nature stated in the letter ascribed to Lord
Hutchinson ! He would repeat his Tics ion—were
Ministers, or were they not, parties to a proposal
addressed to the Queen, that she should lay down
her rights and titles as Queen ?—(Cheers). •
Lord CASTLEREAGH said, that on many occa-
sions he had an opportunity of admiring the temper
of the Honourable Gentleman—(Cheers en the Minis-
terial benches)—and he was sure that the present ma-
nifestation by the Honourable Member of that deli-
berate state of mind with which he came to the con-
sideration of a grave question, deeply affecting the
dignity and honour of the Crown, and +lc best in-
tooests of the country, would make a due impression
of the Ilouse—(Hear,hear!)—lf these were no other
reasons for declining to give an answer to the ques-
tion of the Honourable Gentleman, he (Lord Castle-
reagh) would be induced to abstain out of tenderness
to the Honourable Member, and with a view to af-
lbrd him an opportunity of recovering a state of
mind more suited -to the entertainment of a solemn
qnestion of this nature. He (Lord Castlereagh) pre-
sumed that there could be ro difference of c,pioion as
to the propriety of an Address, returning ti.e thanks
or the House for the gracious communication that
had been just made to it. This course, he appre-
hended, was sanctioned by usage, and even it.that
authority were absent, he thought than grateful ac-
knowledgments were due to the Crown for, a com-
munication of the greatest general importance that
had ever been transmitted to the House. He hoped
the House would excuse him for declining to strive:et
the question at preseftit,.aS it had been proposed with-
out notices In the case of a common Turnpike Bill, he
believed it would be decorous to give a notice. Hone
•.uch more essential was this course in a case•af so
Zeman
a nature as the present. The Honourable Gen-
, deman would allow, him, therefore, to say, that on
'this occasion Ire would not be precipitate, but that
Ise was determined to •take that course which was
most congenial toy his notions of prudent Vondact.—.
The Honourable Member:, however, might, if he
pleased, consider this as a' tit time fir mime, end to
might have an opportunity to-morroW (this day) cf
proposing his question.
Mr. BEAUMONT thavght that it swayed s'er7

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