Star.
London, England, 1820-11-08 00:00:00

THE QUEEN.

We cannot refrain from beginning our remarks this
day by calling on our Readers, before attending to
anything else, to read with the deepest attention the
lettv from Naples of the 10th ult. inserted in our
fourth page, from which they will learn a little more
of the -artifices yet practised to procure witnesses
against the Qtramr.

woman taken in adultery : and when they had set her
in the midst, they say unto him, Master, this woman
was taken in adultery, in the very act. Now Mow in
Me law cannnanded us, Mat such should be stoned : but
what sagest thou? So when they continued
asking him,' he raised himself up and said unto them,
HE that is WITHOUT SIN among YOU, let HIM
FIRST CAST A STONE AT HER r
HOUSE OF LORDS, NOVEMBER S.
PROCEEDINGS OF THIS DAY.
TRIAL OF HER MAJESTY.
The House resumed proceedings this morning at tee o'clock.
Lord 13masroao (recently returned from Portugal) took

Our Readers could hardly fail to observe, yester-
day, that our preliminary observations, written while
waiting for our accounts from the House, embraced
much of what formed the line of arguments through
the day. But still there is much matter left for re-
flection. The Protest of her MAJESTY against the
Proceedings of the House of Peers occasioned no
little soreness to some of their Lordships ; and no
wonder ; for a conduct similar to that with which
they are charged, if fixed upon any men -in the
middle ranks of life, would cover them with in-
famy, and banish them from every kind of society
above that of thieves, picklocks,% suborners of false
witnesses, conspirators against the innocent for the the oaths.
sake of lucre, and plotters to pollute the pure stream Among the absentees from illness were bird Roos, the Earl
of English jurisprudence. of Dssusurros, and the Marquis of Hearroati.
Lord LIVERPOOL requested leave of absence for the
The conduct of the Duke of NEWCASTLE, and „„, of srlab ,„„
—s w.... was tinder the necessity of
Lords SoMERS and SHEFFIELD, in voting for the se- attending to the duties of the College over which he presides.
cond reading, without hearing the evidence for the Lord KENYON thought the reason Oren
Defence, was deservedly the subject of severe ani- Lord LIVERPOOL said, that the Bishop of Bristol bad pot
madversion in the House. Ministers, remembering canaille a Member of
:hisintriallseettbderli disksalusseas_iyen,Pracawahlg was
meant to
the emphatical declaration of Lord LIVERPOOL in the give, any wee tspea it. we absence awaid,wer. mew, be a
mat.
outset, that he trusted no Noble Lord would presume ter of so imp ortao„ as regarded this peoceeding.
to give a vote on the case, who did not hear the Lord REDESDALE said a few words is favour of the ap.
whole of the evidence, durst not throw their protect- idiestion--Leave of absence hewed-
Lord HOLLAND said, that he had been prevented by W-
ing shield over them. The Duke of NEwcssrtz
disposition from attending yesterday to six his name, within
seemed to feel deeply indignant, that an attempt was
tbe dose iincited by. the Standing orders
of the Home, to
made to deprive him of theinvaluabk privilege of de- the Dom from the second Reading of the Rey He now
ciding a cause without hearing it!, wished nis have their Lordships' permission to do so. He
But of all the nets-light cast upon the country by had from the fiat looked on this BM as a very foolish, a very
the discussion upon the Divorce Clause, nothing has regaldtsheard tall* and very unnecessary measure
ich ' "Lifter hay-
suced a
pread such a gleam as the doctrine promulgated by :gdi, Lordships'Bar, he could now on his erweelesee been Taud biome
the BISHOP of LONDON. We had always understood declare, that be thought she runes improved io May points,
—and we believe that all the people of England doubtful in all, sod the Bin both unjust in plocipie and baud.
were equally stupid—that the protecting axiom +'the ous in its consequences.
King can do no wrong" had reference only to polid- Lord DARNLEY wished to put in a similar plea, on the
cal acts ; because, for all measures of this kind Mi- Visual sd fsegetishass—(the V I*, no I").
Lord MINTO moved, "
.That the Standing Order on the
nisters are held responsible: but this Learned Chris- albite mould be dispensed with."
tian Bishop—or, more correctly—this Bishop of Lord LAUDERDALE thought such a motion contrary to
the Church of England, applied the axiom to the au form. He desired that the Clerk should read the Standing
Divorce Clause, to thew that recrimination could Order, as also the Order of the Mule respecting Mocha&
ant be heard as applying to the KING. This The Clerk read the Orders referred to, from which it sqre
peered, that no motion for the suspension of a Standing Order
was the more amazing to many of the hearers,
could be
made without wake.
from the circumstance of the Bishop interlarding the Lord MINT() gave up his motion.
same discourse with references to the Scriptures. Let Lord HOLLAND said, that be did not retolka a single
its for a moment compare his doctrine, in its practi- case of an application such as he had made being refused.
cal application, -ow ith the conduct of a Churchman in Lord DARNLEY said, that though it might be incompe,
the Court of Ling David. Did Nathan apply such sent to move the immediate nonunion of a Stanfill Order,
he knew of nothing to prevent his moving, that certain Peers,
nu unction to the soul of David when he had commit-
by name, should be permitted to sign the dissent. He cheat
ted ad.l'.tgry ? That honest Prophet was, on the con- fore moved, that Lord Holland, the Holm of peacetime, Lord
nary, so oncourtly as to say to the King, " Thou art Bolingbroke, and three or four other Peers, whose names we did
not catch, should now be allowed to add their names.
las NEU r But, says our Bishop, " The KING can
Lord LAUDERDALE observed, that to move that certain
no wrong ; be cannot commit a folly, far less a crime ;
Peers who had neglected to conform to a Standing Order should
and therefore recrimination is out of the question r new be enabled to repair that tinier*, was in his
opinion,
That is, should our good KING debauch the Bishop's moving nothing less than a direct violation of the forms of
wife, and afterwards murder the Bishop himself, his that House.
lord HOLLAND said, that to remove all objection, the
Winisters, and not himself, must be answerable : the
best way would be to give notice, which he now did, of a me.
Wrong must be held to have been done by them—not don for to-morrow to take the Standing Order of the House,
by the KING ; for to apply the law otherwise would respecting Protests, under consideration.
" involve a great constitutional principle." Lord LIVERPOOL said, that he thought no man could have
In examining the bearing of this wise Bishop's hesitated a moment as to the reasonableness of doh application
nor Dean
new doctrine,- we would not be understood to insinu- made by
his
btthe Noble Dam °Mas (Lard Holland). It ad
ate that our good and gracious KING has been, or wiiiinT to fi+om maces,
althea by re Tales
of dissent, the as he üb.
House,period and
can ever be, guiky of such iniquity as the Prophet Rabb* could be fairer than to grant the indulgence which be
laid to the charge of the King of ISRAEL—who now craved. But he thought the ease was quite different, of
would ever think of such a thing ? bat we mean to those whose only piss was mere forgetfulness. The very object
af the Sanding Order was to goad against that sort of locos-
say, that his doctrine—if we rightly understand it,
and if not torn up by the roots—may ultimately "sienee
The LORDI CHANCELLOR said, that there was a greet
be productive of incalculable evils to unborn gene- dimioneehetwean mislay ear... and meow dieesee_(.f laugh).
rations ; for it is far from being impossible that forgetfulness was to be admitted as a good plea for getting
all of his MAJESTY'S successors may not possess the a Sanding Order of the House, there would be no end to
same high .and exalted virtues,' the same self-corn- each aPPlleeeken• At v events, the question could never be
in, what the Scotch call, " the shear way," proposed by the
mend, the samb regard for the laws, the same correct post in,
(Lord Darnley). Each Lord must speak for him.
views.of what is due, in--the way of example, from a edf, and state the sd grata en
which lie
sowed die is_
Monarch to his subjects, that characterize our pre- &item of the Hotta ; and whoever did so, ought „moduli
scut 41•19 and whin P 7 suf4 wake t 644 leSh"seo state !bother it really had been his Vitiation to sign the this

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