Star.
London, England, 1820-11-11 00:00:00

THE QUEEN.

No language can describe the scene of exultation
and joy which yesterday spread like lightning over
the Metropolis, as soon as it was announced that
the Bill of Penalties—" shapen in sin and brought
forth in iniquity"—was consigned to " the tomb of
all the Capulets !"
Deep and anxious were the enquiries in the morn-
ing respecting the probable issue of this diabolical
measure; and no wonder, for Lord LIVIIRPOOL,
who, early in these detestable proceedings declared,
that unless the Bill in its progress should meet with
" the general concurrence of the House" he would
cease to press the measure, had pressed the Bill
into a Committee, though the majority had consisted
of only tweareight for its second reading ; and was
known to be determined to force the Bill on to
a third reading ! 44 General concurrence of the
House !" Could any man but a Courtier trem-
bling for place, for emolument, for character! hold
a majority of twenty-eight as expressing the ge-
neral concurrence of the House of Lords, in the
policy, expediency, and justice of the proceedings ?
Yes, hold such a majority, and composed of such
materials, as expressing "general concurrence" in
the dirty, immoral, and cruel measures, levelled at
the honour and life of a forsaken, unprotected, and
insulted woman—yes, forsaken by her natural pro-,
teem, cast off by her constitutional guardians, in-
sulted by base, despicable panders and jacks in office !
—and that woman the niece and daughter-in-law of
our late beloved Monarch—wife of his present MA*
JE•TY.***QUEEN of ENGLAND !—yes, that woman our
lawful and beloved QV EEN

Seeing Ministers, notwithstanding of their pre-
vious declaration, thus press the 13111—the abomina-
ble danger-threatening Bill, to d third reading, was
it surprising that yesterday morning was one of great
anxiety ? It was so indeed ; for, however some incon-
siderate men might view the possible result, it was'
held by every rational being as involving the perma-
nency of the British Constitution, the purity of our
national jurisprudence, the personal rights of every
subject (threatened in the person of the first subject
of the realm), and the stability of the Throne itself.
Could the burst, then, of general joy at the triumph
of the QUEEN be other than general ? It was gene-
ral, indeed, and was demonstrated in the evening
with a blaze of light throughout the Metropolis,
which could hardly have.been expected on so short a
notice; and the illumination will be universal this
night and on Monday.
We will not repeat here any part of the general
proceedings in the House yesterday. Suffice It to
say, that at twenty minutes past one o'clock the
House divided on the question that t4tis Bill be now
read a third time:
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*Majority for the Third Reading - 9
After the numbers were announced as above, the
House continued sitting, without strangers being ad-
mitted, and various contradictory rumours got into
circulation as to the cause of the continued exclusion.
The prevailing report was, that the numbers bad
been erroneously taken, and that a second Division
was going on.
At a quarter before two o'clock the circumstance
was explained in a way much more satisfactory to
the Public, by Mr. VIZARD, her Majesty's Solicitor,
who came out in front of the window of the room
occupied by her MAJnaTY, and called out, in an
exulting voice—,‘ THE BILL IS REJECTED!"
This welcome intelligence was immediately hailed
with loud and unceasing cheering from the assent•
bled multitude, who, we need not say, were of uhe
most respectable description, none but persons of the
better classes being admitted within the barriers.
The intelligence quickly spread, and in a few mi-
nutes nothing was beard but cheering and rejoicing
in all tke streets and avenues leading from the Par-
liament House.

Immediately after the majority was announced—
namely NlNE—the precise number of Ministers who
sit in the House, and who had, on their own respon-
sibility, advised this measure and brought in the
Bill of Pains and Penalties, Lord Limcarom., per-
haps thinking that they had incurred a sufficient
degree of responsibility already, rose and stated,
that whatever his own conviction of the guilt of
her MAJESTY might be, yet looking to the difficulty
of intreising that conviction on the public mind,
and to the small majority by which the third read-
ing was carried, he felt it his duty to withdraw-
the measure, and therefore. moved. that the putting of
the queition that " this Bill do pass," be postponed
to this, day six months. The motion, after a few.