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London, England, 1820-07-05 00:00:00

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1620.
TiIE•FUNDS.
PAWS Of STOCKS THIS DAT AT ONS O'CLOCK
3 per Cent. iteinced 691/4
31/2 per Cent. 77 4,-1, per Cent.B6A IA A
Long Annuitles 17 1546 Y 8
Imperial -‘ per Cent. Ann. 671/2
India Bends !Bs. 245. pre.
Exchequer Bills, 4s. ss. pr.
Omnium 54 pre.
Consols ior Opg. 701/ 1, 1.
Consols are at 70i for Account. Scarcely any business is doing,
which has disappointed the expectations of many, as the Report
et the Lords, relative to the Qualm's business was expected to
create some fluctuation in the 'Funds. The first transfer of Con-
sols and Mc per Cents. will be to-morrow. On Friday the
Dividends commence paying to the Merchants and Bankers—
Saturday to the Publ!c.

We announced last night (but at so late an hour
that many of our Readers could not see it) that the
Committee of the House of Lcirds had made their r
Report on the contents of the Green Bag:,-namely,
that the ducuments in the said Bag directly impute
to the Queen a criminal connection witbi foreigner,
originally in a menial capacity in her MAJEATE's
service, and a series of acts unbecoming her char-
ter and station, and a long course of licentious con-
duct—and that, therefore, it appeared to the CoM-
mitteethat a solemn inquiry into these matters should
be instituted.—(See our Parliamentary Report).
The reading of the Report was followed by a no-
tice from the Earl of LivaarooL, that he .vould this
day bring in a Bill in reference to the subject matter
of the Report.. His Lordship intimated that proper !
time would be allowed to the Illustrious Personage
concerned, in the prosecution of the proposed mea- I
sure; but reserved to himself to enter into a fuller
explanation this day.
Thus stand matters at present; and thus were the
Public prepared to find them placed by the contents
of the Greet Bag. But we ask, does this Report alter
at all the situation of Mini tern? Their responsibility
remains the same ; !or the Green Bag was filled by
them ! ! Nor have the Public forgot the pains that
were employed, while the Milan Secret Commission
(by whom appointed we know not) were sitting, to
circulate by " Extracts from Private Letters" printed
in all the. Public Journals of Europe, the very state-
ments, on the character of which the Secret Commit-
tee was called to report. This Report reminds us of
the_ certificate obtained by Aunt Deborah from her
friend the Doctor, respecting the ducking a child-in
water. He begged, before giving an answer on so
grave a subject, to have the question put in writing.
The question was, " whether it was not murder to
drown a child every morning in cold water ?" The
answer, of course, suited the remises—" It is down-
right murder.*
We consider the Quazw as now standing not in the
same, but in a much better situation, than when she
reached this country. All the world knew the na-
ture of the crimes insinuated against her character—
and all the world would have believed that there
were grounds for the imputation, had her MAJESTY
listened to any terms of compromise short of a full
establishment of the falsehood of the crimes charged
ouber by her accusers.
On this occasion we think it probable that we shall
be gratifying our Readers, when we lay before them
the remarks that have been made on the Report of
the Committee, both by the friends and the enemies
of the QUEEN, in the Morning Papers;

• FROM TIM mamma CHRONICLIL

" This Report will not, we believe, surprise one individual in
the country, who has bestowed a moment's reflection on the
subject. Every one has heard that persons of all ranks and sites.
tions of life, front Hanoverian Barons down to the lowest scum
of Italy, had been employed to beset the Queer, and that it was
by their evidence the charges against her wise to be supported.
Every ooe knew. too, that the Committee bad only opine
statements before them, and that Ministers having made up their
own minds to bring forward charges against her Mama*,
would not be guilty of such egregious imbecility as not to lay at
least a Ebusible statement before the Committee. We abstain
from all observation en the composition of the Committee,
though we know much has been said on thb subject, becauie we
cannot see how any Committee, similarly circumstanced, could
bring in a different Report. The Report is necessarily neither.
more nor less than an echo of the substance of the sneer roes
laid before the Committee by hfinisten.
" This is the impression which the Report ought to produce.
What impression Ministers wished it to produce is another max.
ter. Why they went through the farce of laying a Green. Beg
before a Committee, instead of at once proposing the a:team-as
which they had in contemplation, is incomprehensible, except on
the supposition that they thought the Report would have the
effect of exciting a prejudice against the Queen, and giving them
an advantage over her in the outset. Whatever may be the rt•
auk of the proceedings which must now be instityted against her
bran:wry, the conduct of Ministers appears to us perfectly
rompcabendble. Be the charges true, or be they false, we must
at all events suppose that Ministers believed they were true.
Id what then, we ask with Earl Gar!, are we to say to the
conduct of Ministers, who, acquainted, as they must have been
for many month!, with all the charges against the flor.mr„ and
believing in the truth of those charges, were still ready to ear
a compromise ?—were ready to compromise charges which, g
founded In truth, tend equally to affect the dignity of the
Throne,the honour of the Royal Family, and the interest of the,
Coustry ?—Tis oaten• them down 'into the term of family dit.l,
coolers, and to take ‘3001109 per annum out of the pickets
• of an impoverished People, to induce her hlaarsrit to made
abroad, and not to come to this Country ? If there were any
foundation for the charges agshist her MAJESTY, how, in Goes
Dame, could her riiideo!ce abroad deprive therm of their chap.

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