Star.
London, England, 1820-06-27 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The debate expected to come on this day, excited the same
degree of interest, which has been witnessed on former days,
when the question respecting the Quern stood for dicussion.—
All the seats in the House were taken at an early hour; and at
about half-past three o'clock the House was more than half
filled. About 20 minutes before four the SPICAIM took the Chair.
.The Anti-blephitic Company's All was read a second time,
and ordered to be committed.
The Drury-Lane Theatre Bill was read a third time and passed.
Sir H. PARNELL brought up the Report of the Dunkary
Harbour Bill; the Bill was ordered to be re-committed.
On the motion of Mr. 'rsaiiir son, the Report of the Land-
lords and Tenants Bill was put off to Friday next.
On the motion of Mr. Lusnixcron. the Twelve Millions Loan
Bill was lead a third time and passed.
Mr. LUSHINGTON brought up the Report of the Lottery
Bill.—To be read a third time to-morrow.
lie also brought up the Report of the Exchequer Bills' Bill.—
To be read a third time to-morrow.
The Greenland Fishery Bill was reported.—To be read a third
time to-morrow.
Mr. BIRCH moved that there be laid before the House an
Account of the quantity of French Silk Lace imported into
Great Britain, during the last three years, distinguishing what
was worked and embroidered, from that. which was plain.—
Ordered.
The House resolved itself into a Committee on the Isle of
Man Trade Act.
Mr. LUSHINGTON said, it would be necessary to abolish
the Fees on Coals imported into the Isle of Man ; and be moved
is Resolution to that effect.
Mr. CURWBN wished to know whether the object of this
proposition was not to swell the large Grant, given some years
ago to the Duke of Athel ?
Mr. LUSHINGTON replied, that the Grant to the Duke
of Athol had already been settled; and ibis measure had no-
thing to do with it.
Several other Resolutions for the imposition of New Duties
were moved. They were all agreed to, and the Report ordered
to be received to-morrow.
°The House, in a Committee, agreed to a Resolution for con-
timing the Welch Coal Act; and a Bill was ordered.
The House went into a Committee on the New South Wales
Duties' nu. The Report tolse received on Wednesday next.
The St. John's (Newfoundland) Bill was postponed to Wed-
nesday next.
The House went into Committee on the Dublin Mimic of
Industry BUL—To be reported to-morrow.
The House' in a Committee of Ways and Means, voted, on
the motion of the Cz.vrauna of the lbauroosa, a Resolution
for raking the sum of X 4.500,000, by Treasury Binh for the

'service et TreissiWarine the tiniest 7eslL—the &poet to IV
ranked tosustrow.
On the modon of Mr. Rosnumos, the House went Into i exan-
mittee an the Barbadoes Free Port Bill.—To be read I third
dine to4nurrow.
On the motion of Dr. Pantaixosa, the Marriage Act Amend-
ment Bill was postponed to Wednesday next.
CRIMINAL LAWS.
Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH said, that of the six Bills
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which the House was about to be occupied, he would not press
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those three Bills et present—a more convenient opportunity
would arise hereafter for discusshig them; but if, in the present
agitation of the public mind, he should bring them forward, the I
object he had in view would be materially injured. With. re-
spect to the other three Bills, he understood that no opposition
was intended to be made to them ; and therefore they might
take their course through the House. He then moved the se-'I
Bond reading of the following Bills :—The Bill to repealthe Act
for making it capital to steal privately in Shops; the Bill for
commuting the punishment of Capital Felonies; and the Capital
Felonies Repeal IN.—These Bills were read a second time, and
ordered to be committed oa Friday.
ttill KING'S MEWS.
Mr. M. A. TAYLOR wished to make an inquiry, with a
view to the acconunodation•of the Public, relative to the shut-
ting up of the King's Mews, at Charing Cross ? His object was
to learn whether it was to be understood that that passage was
permanently closed, and that another would be opened as a sub-
stitute. Although it had not been a thoroughfare for carriages,
its being shut up would be a source of great inconvenience to
many persons.
•Mr. LUSHINOTON said he was sorry that from the
knowledge he possessed, he was not able to give an answer to
his Honourable Friend. He suggested, however, that the tho-
roughfare had existed from indulgence only.
Mr. M. A. TAYLOR said, he never assumed that it was a
right; he merely stated, that the loss of it was an inconvenience.
THE QUEEN.
Lord CASTLEREAGH rose in order to address
the House on the subject of the adjourned debate on
the King's Message, which stood on the Orders of the
Day for consideration that night. He must at the'
outset state, that in consideration of the situation in
which the House then stood, after the efforts to at -
fain conciliation—after the efforts which lead been
made, and which, however little hopes they might
have entertained as to its termination, the Govern-
ment had entered into with the utmost cordiality ; it
must now be considered that every exertion of Go-
vernment and of Psuliament was exhausted, and that.
they could only look at this painful subject as one
which must, for the ends of justice, be carried on with
as little delay as possible. He begged to recal the
recollection of the House to- the moment when Go-
vernment declared what would be their duty, in the
event of the Queeb's returning to this country` ; at
which time they had framed a proceeding in the
course which they conceived would be most conso-
nant with Parliamentary principle and justice. if at'
that time Government had adopted the course •sug-
gested by the other side of the House, no responsibi-
lity of any kind would attach to them ; but Govern-
ment were always ready to take a full share of re-
sponsibility on themselves where the case required it;
and ii they rejected the advice tendered them on that
occasion, it was because the course recommended
was not founded on the soundest principles of Parlia-
mentary practice. For, although Government would
not have shrunk from instituting any proceeding on
the foundation of the charges brought against her
Majesty, supported by such evidence as they had,
yet they did feel that Parliament would not be satis-
fied to adopt a measure of so grave a nature, and
against such an Illustrious Personage, without being
fully satisfied in their own minds that there was
prima facie evidence in support of the charge—(Hear).
These, he contended, were the most justifiable grounds
on which Government had acted in framing the ori-
ginal course proposed to be pursued. But the case
bad since then undergone en important alteration.--
On the first night of the consideration of the subject,
Parliament had consented to an adjournment avow-
edly for the object of making an effort to avert the
necessity of hostile measures. It was perfectly true,
that, in the earliest stages of the business, her Ma-
jesty had been advised to protest against any secret
inquiry, and accordingly she did, in her first com-
munication to the House, desire that no preliminary
investigation might be allowed to take place. In a
later communication her Majesty had renewed that
appeal, in more peremptory and solemn terms ; she
had renewed it in the terms of an injured Queen :
and therefore, in offering to substitute a proceeding
of a more direct character, he did not anticipate any
opposition on the part of her Majesty's supporters.—
The House would recollect, that on the.first night of
the discussion on this question, the adjournment was
not proposed in order to see what shape the proceed-
ing to be adopted should take, but for the purpose of
entering into a negociation, in the hopes of averting
altogether the necessity of taking any steps on the
papers then before them. Without attempting to
cast obloquy on any party, he must say, that he did
feel that there were celtain strong grounds for adopt-
ing the course then • taken. Her Majesty had inti-
mated her readiness to yield her judgment up to the
guidance of Parliament. From the commencement
of the negociation, too, it had been understood that
the moment her Majesty was restored to her dignity
as Queen, she should consider any other arrangement
as of secondary consequence; and in effect, that sine
qua non having been granted, two intermediate per-
sons had been appointed, to whom were entrusted
all other matters of interest, patronage, or income.
After such indications, he should have thought that
her Majesty would have yielded to the anxious wishes
of Parliament. Yet,in a most authoritative tone, she
had repelled them, a thing never before been done by
any part of the same Illustrious Family which now
filled the Throne of this country—(Hear, hear, hear).
Our history might be searched without finding a case
wherein this, or any other family, had ever been
found thus to treat the request, so tendered, of that
House—(Hear, hear).--He did not state this in a tone
of reproach, but the House could not but feel cha-
grined to have their counsel rejected when they ad-
dressed the Crown on a question deeply involving
the interests of the country, and of a nature so serious
and sacred. On such an occasion would the House not
have desired to know who was the Minister who had
dared to advise the Crown against the recommenda-
tions, and in the very face of the House ?—(Hear,
hear). But it was one of the many excellencies of the
Constitution under which we lived, that what no Mi-
nister wound dare to advise, an might
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with impunity venture to adopt. That Illustrious'
Individual might repent the step which had been
taken. It certainly. was a most serous appeal as ever
- was made to any Meniber of the House of Bruns-

wick ; and after that, he appthended all that re-
mained for them to do was, to see what course of
ptoceeding war best calculated to put the matter in
a train of judicial investigation, now that they had
done all they could to avoid that alternative—(Hear,
hear). With reference to that part of her M
apprehensions of
exciting the resentment of the House, because her
Majesty had denied herself to an application which
no Brunswick before had ever done, he trusted the
course they_ should deride upon adopting would be
such as would convince that Illustrious Personage
that their object was nothing but to pursue the ends
of justice—(Hear, hear, hear). If, therefore, the
House would permit of the matter's originating witlf
himself, he was prepared to say that he had in view
to bring forward a motion on a future day, whirlf
would be founded or. the Queen's Answer to the late
Address of that House. He was sure the Horeb
would not wish him to go into. a detail of the nature
of the motion, but he would state that it would have
this distinct character, it would put her Majesty, the
House, and the Country, in possession of the wHele
of the evidence contained in the Papers on the
table relative to this matter.-(Hear, hear, hear).—
If the House should please, after hearing his motion,
to go on to institute any proceedings in the case,
without entering into a preliminary inquiry, it would
have also that characteristic so vehemently demanded,
viz.—it would be open in itself—( Hear, hear).—lf,
afterwards, a prima fade case should be made our,
and it should be thought proper to follow it up by
evidence, that of course would be brought forward.
—He must so far revert to what had passed on this
subject, as to state that the matter was at present
involved in considerable awkwardness. Nothing
could be more embarrassing than a judicial inquiry
( Hear, from Me Oppcmition).—He would not now
look at the prima foie cause ; but he contended, a: d
he had the authority of Blackstone for saying so,
that nothing was more difficult in itself, and nothing
was more absurd, than to require that two judicial
inquii ies on the same subject should be carried on at
the same time in the two Houses of Parliament. If
both the Committees should, as he could not for
moment doubt they would, decide that there wen:
sufficient grounds for instituting and arranging some
judicial proceedings, he entreated the House to con-
sider of the difficulty that would exist as to where
the proceedings should originate. Now, he hoped
the House would not think that he undervalued
the capabilities of that House in cases of judicial
proceedings; but it appeared to him, that if they
had determined that there was cause for judicial pro-
ceedings, then they would have waited to see what
was the nature of the proceedioas adopted by the
other House ; and if that proceeding were within
the reach of their judicial functions, they would in
all probability follow it up. That was the view
which Government had been induced to direct their
proceedings upon, viz. that if the House of Lords
took the matter up judicially, that House would ne-
cessarily wait. He wished it, therefore, to be under-
stood, that it was necessary to name some day for
his motion, sufficiently diitant ti give to -the other
House, before that day should arrive, the possibility
of having framed some proceeding on this very im•
portant and grave accusation ; and which, at the same
time, should not be too late for the purposes of justice.
—ln consequence of this impression, he should name
Thursday se'nnight as the day on which he would be
prepared to offer, a motion to the House, founded en
the answer of her Majesty so the Addrest of that
Howe. He had no hesitatioit in sayitig ' that he
should desist from making that Motion, it House
of Lords should have, in its judicial character, insti-
tuted anything which must, in due course, come
down to that House. But after waiting that reason-
able length of time, he did not feel that, after all that
had passed, after the fact had been so broadly avowed,
that the papers on the table contained matters of
charge so grave against her Majesty, even if the
House of Lords did not institute any proceedings,
he considered that he owed it to her Majesty, and
he trusted the House would allow him to put the
charges in such a shape that her Majesty may be
able to defend her own character—(Hear, hear).—
He had nothing further to state, but that he was
ready to charge himself with the whole responsibility
of originating this measure. He allowed that the
House ought to feel a degree of• jealousy in leaving
it in the power of 'any Minister of the Crown to
bring against her Majesty such grave charges, en-
tirely of himself; but the House would see that it
was relieved from any feelings of that kind by the
appeal of the Queen to adopt the very course he was
proposing to them. After that appeal, he conceived
himself called upon, as a Member of Parliament, to
take the steps he was proposing. With
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bring forward his motion on Thursday se nhight,
meaning to debate the. King's Message on Friday
se'nnight, the following day. The effect of this
arrangetnenrwouli be, that if the House of Lords
took the matter up, he should not bring forward
hii motion; but if, Failing in the House of Lords,
he brought his motion forward, and they should
accept it, then the debate of the next day would fa)l
to the ground. If again, as he confessed he did cot
foresee was likely, the House should negative his
motion, then it would leave the matter in the precise
state it then was. He had heard it insinuated abroad,
that, from the meatier in which Parliament had ap-
proached her Majesty, the business must be ipso
fbcto dropped altogether—(Hear, hear, hear).—The
construction which a Right Hon. Gentleman had
been.pleased to place upon the vote of the House the
other night, viz.—that any inquiry must be e dero-
gatory to the dignity of the Crown, and obnoxious
to the best interests of the Country," had helped to
give rise to this notion ; but he did think that nothing
couldhe farther from the notion of the Honourable
Mover:of that Address, as to its ultimate effect, than
this :he could. not conceive-how it was possible to
torture any of his Honourable Friend's words to bear
such .a meaning. For his Honourable Friend had
expressly.stated, that the adoption of his motion was
the last alternative between inquiry and reconciliation.
He never did mean to propound such a proposition
as that imputed to him. He sincerely trusted, how-
fever, that they should bear no more of these quib-
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would return to its ancient character foi dignity and
moderation—(Hear, hear)—and that, in the course,
of this painful examination, the Houseof Commons
would exhibit itself in its proper attitude, without
any of that angry feeling, which, however much it
might belong to politics, ought to find no place in
this subject—(Hear, hear).—These, he assured the
House, were the feelings on which he grounded the
motion, which, he begged to give notice, he would
bring forward, If in the meantime no judicial pro-
:eedings were instituted by the other. House. He
wok the entire responsibility on himself, but he did
rot intend to embarrass them with any different
xo..lrse of proceeding, if any other were adopted by
the other House—(Hear, hear).
Kr. BROUGHAM said, he concurred, from the
iierrom of his heart, in the appeal which the Noble
Lord had just made ; and in imploring all sides of
the House, from that moment henceforth, through
the whole course of the now inevitable inquiry, to
let the voice of party cease—( Hear )—to suffer no
factious, personal, or political feelings to interfere in
the prosecution of this question ' • in order that no
shadow might be said to Cross their path towards
the attainment of substantial justice !—(Hear, hear).
(L the part of her Majesty, he had to express his in•
finite satisfaction, which he knew to be the reflected
image of her sentiments, on finding at length that
there was some chance of her obtaining justice on con-
stitutional principles—on finding that there was an
end of that dark, inquisitorial, unjust, unconstitutional,
and illegal proceeding, which it was the tendency of
the green bag, accompanying the Message from the
Throne, to institute against her—(Hear, hear!)—Her
claim, from the beginning, had been for an open in-
quiry; her protest had been against an invisible Tri-
bunal. Ile had, however, not to thank the Noble
Lord (Castlereagh) for this favourable change. He
had to felicitate Parliament, the country, and herself,
who had declared with one unanimous voice, that
that secret trial should net take place—(Hear, hear!)
After saying this, he would say a few words in reply
to some observations of the Noble Lord ; and he must
begin by stating, that although it had been his. lot
viten to admire the great talents and tactics of the
`Noble Lord, he had never, till that night, had an
e?poltunity of knowing, to their full extent, his sub-
tlety, dexterity, and sophistry ; for now he would have
it appear that they were to go into the inquiry, not
because there was a charge—not for the purposes of
justice—not in compliance with the Message from
-ene Crown, nor the voice of the country, nor even in
deference to some over-ruling state necessity, that
t';e7 were now to go into the inquiry; but because
)3 Saturday her Majesty requested they should do so.
'll.e Queen had said, last Saturday, that she defied
:a I open inquiry, and put herself on Parliament and
tae Public for her trial. But was that the first time
that she had said so? Had she not stated it as clearly
in her Message to that House, the very first day she
had heard oT the proceedings against her ? Why
then had not the Noble Lord, a fortnight or three
weeks ago, complied with her request ? A month
;ign the Queen had requested, had challenged, nay,
had peremptorily demanded an open investigation—
hut the Noble Lord refused the challenge. Something,
however, had happened to change the Noble Lord's
determination. He had now found out that a Queen
could not decently be put upon her trial by a subject;
and all, the House were told, was made easy, because
her Majesty had asked to be tried) a request which
the Ntwie Lord could not in gallantly or politeness
refuse ! (Hear! and laughter)..--Often as he had had
occasion to notice the dexterity of the Noble Lord,
lie had never seen so marked and signal a specimen
if his powers as in the management of the present
case. The Queen could have nothing to wish for
but a public inquiry. She had constantly and ar-
dently courted it, and by its result her Majesty
vas prepared to stand or fall !—(hear, hear! ).
*The line chalked out by the Noble Lord was most
vague and undetermined, but yet enabled the House
to perceive that its proceedings must depend on those
(1 another place--(Hear). The Noble Lord had ob-
s.n.ved that her Majesty was the first Brunswick who
Ltd turned a deaf ear to the solemn determination of
Parliament ; and when he had stated that determi-
nation to have been adopted by 391 Members, he
might have said by nearly .500, for upwards of 450,
flough they disapproved of one part of the Resolu-
tions, had concurred in its main object. That main
object was the solemn and now recorded opinion, that
let the proceedings terminate as they, might, they
must be" derogatory from the dignity of the Crown,
and injurious to the best interests of the country."—
The Noble Lord attempted to do away the bearing
of that vote, by saying that the refusal of her Majesty
must force the Inquiry upon the House. The Queen
could have no objection, and he (Mr. Brougham) as
her Counsel, could have no objection to go into the
inquiry. But it was the duty of the House to pause
for one moment on the expressions in their Resolu-
tion which he had just quoted. They had said that
the inquiry, in what way soever it might terminate,
must haveconsequences derogatory to the dignityofthe
Crown, and injurious to the best interests of the State.
And the Noble Lord himself, to the astonishment of
himself (Mr. Brougham), of the whole House, and
of the Country, had been the first to concur in voting
that Resolution ; thus condemning, in the clearest
terms, the very inquiry which 'he had proposed. In-
stead of following the usual course, and asking leave
to withdraw his motion, he had thought it an easier
mode to step aside and to get rid of it, by declaring
it to be derogatory to the Crown, and injurious to
the State. Whether thus situated, the House should
be prepared to say that the inquiry was necessary, be
should not pretend to say; but only one event had
ever been urged to justify its necessity. Her Majesty
had come to England, and thence, and thence only,
arose that painful necessity. No other ground had
ever been even pretended ; but because she bad come
t,ver, the inquiry must commence. Whether her
Majesty had been wisely or unwisely advised, he
:.1,,,a1.1 not stop now to consider ; be should only add
•mlenin assurance, and he gave it, not to excul-
4,ate any one where no charge heed been made—not
to I,llrink from a responsibility, which be should wish
ca the contrary to assume, but for the sake of her
Alajesty's character, to which he deemed it material
t ..it the whole truth should be known, he gave his
,hems assurance to the House, that before her Ma-
i ty Lad been laid all those considerations which the
~...-It.dge which her advisers possessed of the pro-
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The state" of tie els; (hiring the nignciations had
beta compered with what it was before and had
since become, and above all, every fact bad been
urged to establish in her mind that conviction,
which had never been absent from it, that the •
fusal of the proposition submitted by the '
must lead to a certain and full investigation. %,
all these considerations before her, her Majesty,
with that fearlessness of accusation which nothing'
but the conviction of innocence has ever been known
in the records of history to inspire, pronounced her
own firm, deliberate, and undaunted conclusion to
abide by her demand for a public trial. She might
have been the first Brunswick who had refused to
comply with the wishes of Parliament; but let the
House also recollect, that she had been the. first
Brunswick, the first Queen of England, nay, of
Christendom itself, who had been placed in such a
situation. Addresses had been carried to the feet of
other Queens, but far different in their nature. They
had been Addresses of Congratulation, or of Con-
dolence, or it most had prayed for the removal of
some unworthy favourite. But the Queen had felt
that this Address called upon her not to give up the
Abject of mere caprice, but to dismiss all regard for
her own honour.. She felt that she could not make
the sacrifice required without also sacrificing her
character. He mentioned this in mitigation, if not
in vindication of her Majesty's refusal to comply
with the recommendation of Parliament. That
House, which had in some way been repulsed by her
Majesty, and in some measure offended, would, in
the course of a few short days, become her Judges.
If he had before implored Hon. Members to dismiss 1
all party feelings, he now still more urgently and pe- 1
remptorily entreated them to dismiss every feeling of
offence—(llear, hear! front Me Ministerial side).—
It seemed that the Noble Lord intended to propose in
his motion some measure of a Legislative nature to
meet the inquiries'of the other House. On this ground
he should lay a claim to delay in behalf of her Ma-
jesty. Let not the House draw from this an erroneous
conclusion. He should not have ventured to make
such a proposal, had not the reasons for such a claim
been most just and satisfactory. The Queen was
anxious to proceed, and for her, and on his own ac-
count, be should deprecate all delay; but one was
rendered necessary by local distance. It was a journey
of three weeks to the place of her Majesty's late resi-
dence, and three weeks back, to bring the witnesses
and evidence necessary for her defence. Should the
House, therefore, proceed on Thursday se'nnight with
the inquiry, how would her Majesty be in a condition
to meet it ? Five or six witnesses on the side of in-
culpation might be examined, and all on that side of
the case would be over. If this partial inquiry were
open, all the country would see its nature. If it were
secret, it would be still worse ; for a secret intrusted
to twenty-one Members in one House and fifteen in
another, according to the common adage, had little
chance of being kept. How would any man like the
honour of his wife or daughter to depend on the secrecy
of thirty-six Gentlemen who had wives and daughters
of their own, even should they be the most honourable
of men ?--(Hear, hear, and laughter).—lt would be
impossible that some portion of the evidence adduced
should not leak out of those orifices fee emittinr
crets which were found in every family ! If
That evidence would issue out, more or lila; its,
venom would circulate fully throughout the co
Let any man place himself in the position of her
Mn
jesty—let him figure to himself the inevitable Ms
character which must ensue from this interval
three or fourmonths, before the exculpatory evidences
for her Majesty could be produced ? He therefore
a claim to delay ; but let him not be misunderstood, it
was a delay which would not retard for one hour the
ultimate result. It would only allow the two parts
of the inquiry to come nearer together, so that no
portion of the evidence should be divulged until wit-
ne..ses were at hand to enable her Majesty's Counsel
to cross-examine, and to proceed with the trial. He
trusted the House would excuse his entering into'
these explanations. He had been desirous to show
that the delay was not one of judgment, but one
justice, and was essentially necessary to the case.—
He called upon every Honourable Gentleman to lay
to heart the last observations which he had submitted
to the House. They might not strike at once, but
their effect would be the more deeply felt, the more
time was allowed for their consideration. He now
congratulated her Majesty, the House, and the coun-
try, on an open and public inquiry having at last
been granted. The Queen had never been afraid
meeting such an investigation, but, from the begi
ning of the proceedings, had never ceased to claim
and demand it.
Colonel PALMER had voted against the late Re-
solution, because he thought that it called upon her
Majesty to do that which he would not hip done
himself in her place. He now conceived that, con-
sistently with that Resolution, it was the dutycf the
House to desist from the proposed inquiry. He dis-
approved of the omission of her Majesty's name in
the Liturgy, and considered it, not only as an insult
to the Queen, but as a serious charge against Minis-
ters, at a time when they spoke so much of the pre-
valence of revolutionary opinions. He declared that
the speech of the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite
(Mr. Canning) had produced a still deeper impression
upon his mind of her Majesty's innocence, that the
convincing arguments used by the Hon. and Wined
Gentleman who appeared in the character of hersid:-,
vocate. For how could he resist the representations
which fell from one of the Ministers of the Crown„l
and one of her Majesty's accusers ? Had he not said
that she was the grace, the charm, and the ern&
meat of society?—(Hear, hear!).—Had he not toliC
the House repeatedly of his respect, esteem, admira-I
tion, and affection for the Queen?—( Hear, hear).—
If she deserved such a character from so excellent a
judge when she was still in the fervour of youth, he
could not believe that in her age she could have done
any thing to forfeit it. But why, instead of talking
o his feelings for her Majesty, had he not acted upon
'them?—(Hear, .hear). He would then have per-
formed his duty more effectually both to his Sove-
reign and to her Majesty. If it were possible for the
Crown to obtain a divorce, he might consent to an
inquiry into the present charges. If it was, in fact,
an investigation called for by the whole country, as
in the case of the Duke of York, it would be stre-
nuously opposed ; but the whole country was against
it, and, therefore, it was to be forcibly carried into
effect—(Hear, hear).
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