Star.
London, England, 1820-07-19 00:00:00

the ends of justice must, in the eyes of the country,
be abundantly satisfied by. the Kttria's addiig his
assent, as a matter of• course. We will not say that
the concurring' decisions of the two Houses would
not deservedly have great weight with the country;
but we humbly contend that the question of granting
the Royal Assent can never be a 'There matter of
course as long as there is a single spark of the spirit
of our Constitution left ; that the deliberate and im-
partial consideration of the third Estate of Parlia-
ment is ju3t as vitally essential to the completeness
of every legislative enactment, as that of the two
other 'Estates ; and that any act in which the three
Estates have nt.t all with equal. purity of heart, and
equal exercise of understanding concurred, is, if not
null and void, at least vitiated and incomplete.
We know nothing in practice like fractional con-
victions of guilt ; and we can conceive nothing more
absurd in theory. Yet, if the KING'S assent to this
Bill is to be a matter of course, the Bill when passed
will be nothing more but a fractional verdict against
her; only twoir of the three E'states will have judged
upon it.

•Besides, the Bill involves something more than
the mere question of guilt—something more than
mere relief to Ole party accusing-it involves the
question of punishmal on the guilty. And is it to
be tolerated, even in contemplation, that the ac-
cusing party may not only pass sentence in his own
favour, but a sentence of Pains and Penalties• on
his opponent ?
We are convinced, that should matters ever come
to such an issue, the KING himself, honourable-
minded as he is known to be, will shrink back from
it indignantly. His NIASIOTY cannot at present have
reflected on the point to which his Ministers are
driving him, otherwise he would never have given
his sanction to the measures they are pursuing.—
Constitutionally speaking, the Kiso can do no wrong,
but to ask him to give his final assent to a Bill of
Divorce from his own wife, will place him in a situa-
tion of tempr'ation which all the habitual reverence
of the people for that vmstitutional maxim will never
prevent them from thinking fatal to the possibility of
doing right. It is a situation so open to stispickin and
every foul imputation, .that none but the most deep-
' rooted enemies to the KING, his Crown, and dignity,
can ever wish to see him placed in it; and it is one
in which, we feel well assured, he never can be placed
without an utter departure from the settled forms
and usages of the Constitution. •

44 The Scripture says, If thine enemy hunger, give
4 him meat ;if he thirst, give him drink and justly
adds, 'for in so doing thou shalt heap coalsoffre upon
his'head that is, thou wilt render any violence or
indiscretion of his the more inExcusable and repre-
hensible. But, on the contrary, every possible in-
sult and indignity is heaped upon the Queen ; and
if, through the acts of her enemies, she is unavoid-
ably forced and driven into situations unbecoming
her rank and dignity, her appearance in those very
situations is urged against her as an offence against
propriety : and she is described by one of the servants
of her husband, As not conducting herself with that
• feeling which becomes her situation and her sex.'
• If,' says Lord CASTLEREAGH, ON the Queens or-
. rival in this country she had conducted herself with •
that feeling which became her situation and her
sex, there was no person who would not have wished
g her to receive everything that could conduce to
• her comfott and convenience. Why, what can the
poor woman do? :;irst, she was not to come toEng-
land : now, being come, the accusation narrows; and
she would receive everything that could conduce to
her comfort and convenience if she would but con-
duct herself with that feeling which Lord CASTLE-
REACH thinks becomes her situation and sex ! But
when, we ask, is the comfort to begin? Her MA-
JESTY has now been two months in England, and we
see the state of destitution in which she still remains..l
According to Lord CASTLLREAGH'S own statement
of the question, there is a mass of plate provided by
the Nation, for the use, and for the use only, of the
Royal Family ; and yet the QUEEN has not been suf-
fered to have a spoon or a soup-ladle out of it. It is
only after a residence of two months among us, and
when Parliament is at the point of a long adjourn-
ment, that she makes these her wants known, and the
application is described as premature and hasty : and
one reason for not granting her the plate is, that she
has not a-Regal residence to put it in ; which very
want of a Regal residence has been, and continues to
be, inflicted on her by those very people who deny
her the plate."—The
" It is a curious circumstance, that while the
House of Lords have determined that no list shall be
furnished to her MAJESTY of the witnesses who are
to be poured into England from Italy against her,
an Dalian Courtqflustice, somewhat better acquainted
with the character of the population of that country,
we presume, than their Lordships can be, found it
necessary to establish it as a rule, that in every cri-
minal case the party accused shall be furnished with
a list of witnesses and copies of the papers or proofs,
eight days before trial, and that no witnesses shall be
examined, whose names and designations are not spe-
cified in such list (non tetra permesso Pero di esami-
nare rerun testimonio, it di cht nome non sia stato con-

nctato nella suddetta I ista, 4.c). If in the neighhcour-
hood where the witnesses live, and where, of course,
their characters are known, it was still found neces-
sary to secure the accused against false parole evidence
and fabricated documents, by a measure of this kind,
how much more must previous inquiry be neces-
sary, when they are brought into a country which
possesses not the slightest knos‘ ledge of them ?"
Akrning Chronicle.
" The plate was not the KtNo's to present, and this
he knew full well; for he expressly said " he had no
more authority to give it away than he bad to give
away the Crown Lands."--(New Thees.)—True—but
has not ;he pre ent Ktxts quite as much power to give
a loan of the plate as the late KINO had ? And why
is 110 t the load (or use of it offered tcher MAJZSTY ?