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London, England, 1820-06-23 00:00:00

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brought to ,their preset) -INttatibo. On the queen's ar-
rival, papers had been laid before the House, -
taming certain charges which were brought against
her Majesty, and which it was proposed to investi-
gate. Upon this being forinally proposed, in making
a motion to which his judgment and feelings...had
prompted him—in asking the House to pause far a
arxii-I,Thise in order that. efforts might be made to
2.voidythe necessity of examining into these papers,
belied scarcely anticipated the universal feelings of
. the House'hy a second of-time. Accordingly that
pause was granted, and the communications on
paper, and the conferences which followed between
his. Majesty's Ministers and the Law Officers of the,'
Qtteen, were cow before them. It was not his in-
tentnicut.to.go into the minute particulars of those pa-
kut he. mustremark, before he went any fur-
ther, that those conferences seemed to have been con-
ductialein aananner totally free from all angry feel-
ing% ~mod as. if the parties had but one common in-
tetest iigvjew. He owned that his hopes had been
considerably raised, even by the single circumstance
oi- the appointment of persons on both sides, for the
purpose of carrying on the • negociation ; and he
could not burfeel a confident hope that some means
would be found of 'averting. the evils of inquiry. It
was because he did indulge in the hope of that taking
place, that he was etwouraged to take the step which
he ROW did. He considered that- these two.parties,
although they, might not find themselves exactly
able' to' agree, might still so far approach to each
.other that tbe subsequent interposition of Parliament
' 'night prevail, on them to think the breach, if not
entirely closed, was still capable of beiug.so. Such
'vas the state of the business at the present period,
and it was natural it should be so ; for they would
see•that agents could not concede quite so far, for
fear of misconstruction of their motives, 'as that
House,- standing in the position of a third party,
Could db.. The House, hi truth, could go farther in
its advances towards a reconciliation than either of
the parties themselves. In continuation of his detail
of the course the proceedings had hitherto taken, he
had to recal to their recollection, that he had had
the great misfortune of seeing the conferences which
bad taken place dosed without an amicable termina-
tion. But, upon a careful review of the papers con-
taining the substance of the negociations, he must
say, that so. far from his hope being extinguished, it
WAS confirmed, as to the possibility of an arrane-
meat being finally adopted. In considering what
course of proceeding offered the best hope of
the unhappy differences which prevailed, two modes
had suggestedifieTkelyes. , The first, which he con-
fesse4 he had been wilfirig toadopt, was that of endea-
vourtng to prevail. on ale House to agree to some Ad-
dress, having in vie*.to:recommend a recurrence to
arbitration, tor the purpose of closing the breach,
• and of effecting an amicable adjustment. But upon
a nearer view, it did appear to him that there were
such insuperable objections, on the part of the House,
that he would not be able to carry this into effect ;
and that evea after carrying it into effect, the diffi•
culties of accomplishment would be too numerous
to be surmounted. That preposition, therefore, had
given way to another, which, after mature reflection,
under all circumstances, he had concluded was the
most preferable one for adoption. He ought to take
this opportunity of explaiiiingeo 'the House that the
delay .which had occurred in 'bringing forward'this
motion, was owing to his having received a commu-
nication from her Majesty which had required his
utmost consideration, and required that he 'should
change the plan of his proceedings. He should say
rozhing more on iris point, further than that he had
received a second communication, eiphinatury of the
first. He dare not say that these documents in them-
selves held out any hopes that her Majesty would ac-
quiesce in the vii acs he entertained. Having since
had. an opportunity of stating to her Majesty the
motives, by which he was actuated, he found that
her Majesty had. no olher knowledge of the nature
of his intended motion than what had been collected
from general report. The measure which he had
el:•3-wards come to die conclusion of adopting was,
that of moving, that 3. ResOlution be passed, the ob-
ject of which was, earnestly to
.express a hope that
her Majesty, now that the material differences seemed
to be so nearly done away, plight be prevailed upon,
under all circumstances, .to wave the only remaining
differences on grounds Which he should state when
he came to the motion itself. It would be remem-
bered, that the ultimiiie difference between the King's
Servants and the Law Officers of the Queen, related
to two points, viz, the causing her Majestyoto he ac-
knowledged publicly as Queen of' England in foreign
....Courts—and the restoration of her Majesty:s name
.•• in the Liturgy—(Hear, hear).—lle wished it to be
. understood,, that it was in one part of these papers
• Tirtually acknowledged, that the objection to giving
• her Majesty a full introduction to one of the foreign
Courts, altlrugh there were nearly insuperable objec-
-eons to it, conid nevertheless begot over. Here the
Honourable Gentle Man read that passage in the Cor-
respondence vithere it was suggested, that in the fo-
• :reign country in which her Majesty might fix her fu-
Sure residence, she should be introduced at the Court
of -that country by the 'British Ambassador residing
• • there. - This was at first objected to, on the ground
• that the British Governer-lent had rio right to prescribe
•to any foreign Prince the course which he should
• • chuse.to pursue under such circumstances; and the
difficulty was not girtrid of. The next point required;
WAS the restoration of the Queen's name to the Li-,
turgy. For his own part, after having given the
fullest consideration to this point, he did not ascribe
so much importance to it as he had at fist been in-
clined to do. It did not strike him as applying to
• any religious view of the subject. , According to the
• mode of conducting the worship 'of the Church in
shis country, when men met to do honour to Hot to
lebons„all bogotir was due, all distinctions of persons
were ddne %limy. Our system of worship diffused a
universal feeling of piety with regard to others, and
put all descripnons.of people on one common level.
This was-the sentiment of many persons with whom
be Issil DPW du the subject ; and must it not be evi-
&at: to everybody, that when prayers were offered
up for the King, and all the Royal Family, the
Queen, as one of that Royal. Family, was prayed kr?
(Loud cries of Hear, 'hear, and murmurs of disap-!
ipooljudie),.Had any
_Gentleman, he would ask, ever
and of the Royal Family without thinking of tire'
'he
Queen ?—(More expressions of certainly
wks usual, summons: to expressly U 4546 particular