Star.
London, England, 1820-10-27 00:00:00

HOUSE OF LORDS.

Their Lordships appeared this morning in most excellent
spirits, with the exception of onn or two who seemed to be un-
errelk A great deal of conversation was carried on In the House,
and the Newspapers were in very general use.
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat at the usual
hour, but a very long pause took place after the Clerk Isaddlied
ever the him', during which, those below the Bar, were em-
ployed in conjecturing favourably is, the popular side of the
minden.

Ate bait past 10 o'clock Counsel were called in, and
The Arrosuev-Ganasoe (Sir R. Gtrroas) immediately com-
menced his Reply. in wady the following- words ;
"My lords--The defence of her Majesty being now closed,
It once more becomes my duty to address you upon the part of
the prosecution. The vast importance of the case, the anxi-
ous and universal interest which it has excited, would in
themselves be sufficient to entitle me to the indulgence of
your Lordship; independently of the fact tbet no Advocate ever
ileod more in need of that indulgence ; but, my Lords, it if not
bums* I am oppressed by the difficulty of the undertaking,
lima I now stains more than ordinary consideration, but because
year Lordships have been long occupied in this painful investi-1
sation,and my Leain4d Friends have been employed the last three
days in addressing your feelings on a subject which has now be-
muse stale. I cannot,my Lords, but see,under these eircumetancrs,
that the great length of the observations made by my Learned
Friends, will place me tinder the necessity of making a larger
Armand upon your time than I should otherwise request. Before
I proceed to take notice of the evidence, I shall advert to a topic
which has afforded much opportunity for declamation, but whisk
his been wholly unsupported. I mean the topic of the-peculiar
&advantages under which her Majesty is said to have lahousod.
Al the witnesses on the part of the prosecution were marnimal
—all the charges were made known to her Majesty, and youiti
lordships permitted the ease to stand still at the doge of the
evidence against her, and gave her the time she demanded; an.
lobed funds, and all the facilities which could be grantedindei
any circumstances. I trust, my Lords, that this precedent
will '
not, in future time, be acted upon. Nothing can be more dagger.
On than, after the close of a ease, to afford time to answer the
:charges, and procure, what it has been admitted upon the
part of her Majesty's Counsel, it is most easy to procure
—the assistance of perjury—in the cause of the accused. U
time and money were likely to be effectual in pining to a
cause the benefit of corrupt evidence, her Majesty has no
right to complain; for unlimited time and ample means were
afforded, and her Majesty has gone into iter defence under cir-
cumstances of the moat powerful advantage, not only -from this
extraordinary ledulgessee, but from the zeal and great abilities of
her Counsel. I have not the power to appeal to the passions of your
Lordships. or to excite your feelings against the Illustrious Defen-
dant, neither is such a course that to which my inclination tends.
To work upon those feelings has been the employment of my
Learned friends, who have enriched their appeals to your Lord-
ships with quotations and illustrations from the mighty stores
of antiquity and the refined sources of modern literature. They
have availed themselves of all that thus presented itself, while
to me it falls to examine, coolly and dispassionately, the eel.
deuce and the facts—au employment in which I know your
Lordships will participate with me, without regard to the topics
which have been so eloquently, but so irregularly introduced.
The charges in the preamble, my Lards, have been so frequently
stated, that it is unnecessary for me to do more than generally
to call your attention to them. Let me, in the outset, avail my-
self of that admission which my Learned Friends have been
*impelled to make, namely, that the ease on the part of the Bill,
Teen believed the evidence in support of it, fully proved all the
&urges in the preamble. There is also another admission which I
shall not refuse—the admission that the case at its close was sub-
stantiated; and three weeks were employed in hearing the evi-
dence for the defence, and several days in -heating the ad-
dresses of Counsel, to prove her Majesty's innocence and purity !
When your Lordships advance to the'diacussion of this subject,
you must never forget that this has been admitted by my Learned
Friends opposite, and it will be for your Lordships to consider how
far the ease has been refuted or weakened by the defence. In the
examination of this case, my Learned Friends have bad re-
course to a very artful, or, at least, for them, a very judicious
mode ; they have selected insulated facts, and kept . out of
,your Lordships view the general features of the case; they,
have not viewed it as a whole. but have argued and dwelt on
each particular incident, as if the whole case for the Bid
rested upon it. Tour Lordships will have to take the while
ease, and to decide upon It. Before j advance •to Oak mere'
minute exuainatiaa of each Dart of die awes I advert to
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