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doubtful as to the 'right of, exercising such an autho-
rity ; if it were doubtful, caution should have been
used, and punishment should not have been inflicted
on an uncertainty. The whole shewing of the Argu-
ments at the other side evidently proved that some-
teing was intended to affect the dearest interests of
tie Queen, and sure he was, that before an audience
renresenting the feeling,s of the Banish people,
jedement before accusation-would not be admitted.
‘Vas it to 6e contended that his 'Majesty could of his
own caprice strike the names of all he pleased out of
the Liturgy? For, if this weLe not contended for
and maintained, the erasure of her Majesty's name
from the Liturgy was evidently illegal. The charge
against the Queen was but ex parte—the decision by
Ministers was final, and thereby had they passed',
judgment on themselves. They withdrew the 13111,
evidently fearing the House of Commons might not'
be of the same opinion a ith the Lords, and that pub-
lic opinion might, as it had done, boldly act against
it. With all their professions of a love of justice, why
did they not allow a right of appeal ? The whole
complexion of the evidence against her Majesty was
doubtful: why then pronouncea decided judgment?
Such, however, was the Ministers' love of justice—
such their wish not to excite prejudice ! The truth,
however, was, they paid more deference to their
places than their Sovereign. They brought on the
measure, he sincerely believed, against their wishesl
and their judgment. In the House of Lords they',
had a majority of nine, and yet they preferred the
.abandonment of what they said was necessary to
their existence, rather than lose their places. They
made no sacrifice, hut to their office. He would not
longer detain the House, but he hoped those who
thought aright and felt manfully Would not support
2 Governmere who had not courage to defend their;
own measurce—(!rear, hear).
Lined CAeTLEREAGII assured the House, that,
at so laze an hour, and considering the state of ex-
haustion to which Gentlemen must be reduced by a
discussion already too much protracted, it was nut
his inteetion to detain them for any great length of
time. He would endeavour to compress into as nar-
row a compass as possible the observations he should
feel it necessary to offer. He must say, that, during.
his knowledge of Parliamentary tactics, so rich a
specimen of inconsistency, so rich a specimen of the
abandonment of Parliamentary practice, as he had
that night witnessed, he nevi:- remembered to have
seen. In the first place, he denied that his Ma-
jesty's Ministers had a right to feel their conduct,
committed, whether those charges turned out to be
true or false. All they had to do was to take care
that proceedings were not instituted against her Ma-
jesty on light and frivolous grounds; and that they
had conscientiously done. They had not endeavoured
by any influence which they possessed to bias the
minds of those who were to consider the question:
on the contrary, at the commencement of the busi-
ness, they called on those who had any political con-
nexion with them, to act in total oblivion to that
connexion; and he thought Gentlemen opposite would
encounter very little difficulty in finding instances
where persons, who were even connected with the So-
vereign, had acted with the most perfect freedom.
He wished he could pay the Learned Gentleman who
had just sat down, and his friends, the same compli-
ment; he wished their conduct had been equally free
from party motives ; but he believed every unpreju-
diced man would allow, that Administration had
acted a more pure and disinterested part on this oc-
casion than their opponents had done—(Hear). The
Learned Gentleman who had just sat down gave a
very different account of the question on which they
were to decide, from that which had been given by
those who had preceded him. He said that the mo-
tion was a censure on the individuals in power; and
he (Lola Cestlereagli) would assert, that a censure
so disgraceful to those who brought it forward never
was known—yezughter). It never had been the sys-
tem to select one point of censure against an Admi-
nistratioe, for the purpose of picking up a few votes
which might be applied afterwards to their disadvan-
tage, in an indirect and covert manner—(Hear). No
clear and definitive proposition was brought before
the House. It was merely thrown out, that hereafter
sometl.ing might he done with respect to the re-inser-
tion of the Queen's name in the Liturgy; but that ob-
servation had been followed up by no practical Re-
solution, and therefore it was evident, that the pre-
sent motion was introduced in the hope of securing
the votes of certain individuals, who, on former oc-
casions, had expressed doubtful opinions—(clear).
If they meant to do justice to the country or the
Queen, they would have acted differently ; but he
would maintain that they were sacrificing the Queen
for the purpose of putting down the Government
that at present existed—Wear, and laughter). With
respect to the merits of the question, if Ministers had
committed an infringement of the law, it was the
greatest joke that possibly could be—(Much laughter).
In the motion the words " ill-advised and inexpe-
dient" were used with reference to what took place
twelve months ago, and which had nothing to do
with the present circumstances. If the Gentlemen
opposite had come forward in a bold way with a vote
of censure, he would have met it with equal bold-
ness. Bat they had had recourse to a system of ma-
nagement, which could only be met by manage-
enenr ; and when a proposition was made that could
lead to 130 practical good, it was fair to meet it by
moving other Orders of the Day, or by calling for
an adjournment. It was extraordinary that twelve
months had been suffered to elapse, during which
Ministers were allowed to perpetrate a great injus-
tice against the Queen, and at the• expiration of that
time nothing but an abstract proposition was brought
forward. The Noble Lord had, it was perfectly true,
supported the same opinion as he did now upon a
former occasion ; but the House then rejected it by so
decisive a majoiity, that when the numbers were
going to be taken on his Amendment, he thought it
• better to take them on the negative of the original
question, than to put his own Amendment to issue.
Even when the question was so decided, the numbers
were in favour of the original motion 591, and
against it 1`21; of which latter number many would
n..t have voted for his amendment if he had pressed
it. If, therefore, the servants of his Majesty were in
the wrong. that House was their accomplice in it;
for it gave its sanction to the principle of their pro-
ceedings, when it determined, as in July last, to Ad-
diess her Majesty—(Loud trees of" Heart' front the
Altuiaterial ltau,ke.4).—As to the law of the question,

he thought that there was nothing so decisive in the
clause so much relied on by the Noble Lord, as to
render it imperative to insert the Queen's name in the
Liturgy. The Act of Uniformity was not passed out
of any jealousy of the Crown, but to prevent en-
croachments and alterations from being made in the
Prayers of the Church, and to put down heresies and
schisms injui ious to the establishment. That clause,
therefore, was inserted in the statute to shew that,
though no alteration could be made in the general
Prayers of the Church, those Collects and Litanies
which affected the Royal Family were open to alter-
ation. The genius of our Political agreed with the
genius of our Ecclesiastical Constitution; for so far
from the Constitution being jealous of the rights which
the King exercises over his family, it leaves each mem-
ber of it completely under the discretion of the King.
This was the case with regard to their education and
their marriage, and it would be a most dangerous
precedent if Parliament should now, for the first time
in the history of the Monarchy, take upon itself to
interfere with the King's management of his family.
If the King, in the exercise of the Royal prerogative,
should be forced to insert the name of her Majesty in
the Liturgy— ( Loud cries of Hearf —that would be
found to be only the first step to greater encroach-
ments: for he should wish to know on what prin-
ciple, after such an advantage were gained for the
Queen, she could be excluded from the Coronation—
(Hear, hear)—and all those privileges of grace and
favour which, in happier times, it would have been
the pride of the King to have afforded her?—(Cheers
from the Opposition, re-echoed by the Ministerial
.benches).—His Lordship then proceeded to argue,
that the charge of prejudging the Queen, by striking
her name out of the Liturgy, came with a very bad
grace from that party, which, when it impeached that
meritorious servant of the Crown, Lord Melville,
ssruck his taras.. out of the list of Privy-Councillors
before they brought him to trial—and thaC too, for
no other purpose than to inflict an additional wound
upon the feelings of that distinguished character.—
Where, at that time, did they display that delicacy
to Lord Melville, which they now so loudly, stated
had not been shewn to the Queen ? But how did they
stand with respect to the Queen herself? Had they
not, with Lord Erskine at their head, who was always
talking of the advantages of the Trial by Jury, and
who boasted that lie bad spent his whole life in de-
fence of them—had they not, he would ask, placed
her conduct under the investigation of four Commis-
sioners, without informing her of the existence of such
' a Tribunal, much less of the serious charges which
had been brought against her? Had not that Secret
Tribunal even closed its proceedings, without ever
hearing a word of defence from her until they brought
her up to receive judgment from her King and father?
If ever the Queen had cause to complain of any party
of public men, it was of that party with which she
was at present politically connected —(1 kar, hear).—
His Lordship then proceeded to ask, whether those
persons, who had, upon mere idle rumours of occur-
rences abroad, deprived a valuable member of the
Royal Family of that revenue which would have
enabled him to live in his native country, were enti-
tled to accuse Ministers of acting with a want of de-
licacy to the Queen, when they had evidence of such
serious charges against her? For his own oat, he
ould say, whatever might be the present decision
of the House, that under the same circumstances he
would, with his eyes open, and with the experience
which he now had of the past, pursue exactly the
same line of conduct. Gentlemen ought to recollect
that the question was one full of doubt and envi-
toned with difficulties, and of such a nature that he
would frankly confess that it had caused consider-
able embarrassment to Government from the handle
which it had given to the disaffected !—(llear, hear).
If the law on the subject had been clear, he should,
indeed, have been happy ; but it was by no means
so; and if they had first inserted her Majesty's name
in the Liturgy, and had afterwards found it neces-
sary, in consequence of her conduct, to erase it, the
moral indignation of the country would have been so
excited against them, that they would never have
been able to stand against it. Ho allowed, that now
that the Bill was withdrawn, the Queen was in the
situation of a person technically ianosent, and she
was in as full possession of her rights as Queen Con-
sort as if no stain had ever been cast upon her cha-
racter—(Hear, hear). It was one thins, however,
for her to enjoy the rights to which she was legally
entitled, and another to enjoy those honours which
had been granted to her predecessors as matters of
grace, favour, and consideration—(Hear). She hind
no strict right to have her name inserted in the Li-
turgy : and when the matter had come to such a pass
as it had done in the Lords, where one hundred and
twenty-three Peers had declared her guilty upon
their honours—(Loud cries of " Hear," floss both
sides of the House)—he could not, as a Minister of
the Crown, allow it to be granted to her as a boon.
His Lordship then proceeded to state, that he felt
compassion for the state to which the Queen had re-
duced herself; but there were so many circum-
stances that rendered her dangerous, that it became
necessary to tear away the veil from her guilt—
(Hear, hear.) She had lent herself to a party who,
he believed, entertained views dangerous to the esta-
blished institutions of both Church and State ; and
therefore he could honour her as little in a political
as he could in a moral point of view. He would cau-
tion Honourable Gentlemen not to be deceived by
her advocates, nor to be entrapped into the support
of the present milk-and-water resolution, by any
rash declaration that might have been made in the
country. The country was now, thank GOD, com-
ing to its senses !—(Hear, hear, from the Opposition
benches) —and the efforts of that party which had
hitherto distracted the country would soon expire if
Parliament maintained its present firm tone of deter-
mination. It ought to support the existing Govern-
ment in undiminished honour and character, or at
once to extinguish the present Cabinet as Ministers.
If any resolution were brought forward on the other
side, containing charges of accu,ation, he trusted
that it would appear in a distinct, tangible, and
manly shape. Ministers would then be fairly put
upon their vial, and he (Lord Castlereagh) pledged
himself, that if there was a chance of its success, it
should be resisted by no influence of the Crown,
whose servants would rest their claim to public con-
fidence on the reputation they bad acq•iired during
an arduous and glorious war, and a subsequent in-
terval of peace, during which they had never lost

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LONDON.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1821.
THE FUND&
PRICE OP STICKS THIS DAT AT ONE 0-CLOCE
Bank Stock 2271 228-3 per Cent. Reduced 7:4 I
3 per rent. elms. 721 711 72-4 pie trot• 904
5 per Cent. Navy 1061 I i—Long Annuities 12A
India Bonds 40$. 41s.—Bschequer /ills ss. tis. pre.
Cons. for Account 72 721 1 1.

In the House of Commons, last night, after a con:1
siderable time had been occupied in receiving nu-
merous Petitions on the subject of the QuEErr's treat-
ment and the imputed misconduct of Ministers, &c.
Lord A. HASIILTON brought forward his Motion
relative to the omission of the QUEEN'S name in the
Liturgy. His Motion was—,, That the Order of
Council of the 12th February, 1820, authorizing the
omission of her MAJESTY'S name from the Liturgy,
was most ill-advised and inexpedient." Mr. Rows-
SON, on the part of Ministers, opposed the Resolu-
tion, not by proposing a direct negative, but by a
Motion that the 'rouse should adjourn.—An ani-
, mated debate followed, which lasted till near seven
o'clock this morning, when Ministers succeeded in
carrying the Motion for Adjournment, by a majo-
rity of 101.

The main question, however, wfirl hardly be con-
sidered, by the public, as finally settled, The legality
of the measure remains still to be ascertained, and
this may be tried in a variety of ways. One thing
is certain, that no act which in itself violates any po-
sitive Statute, can be rendered legal by an Order in
Council ; for were this the case, the passing of laws
by the three Estatcs iu Parliament ./..it:cmbled, would

be a mere nullity, and the very asserrobli
liament itself would deserve to be chart,
the classical language which one of t!1(
applies to County Meetings, as a mere
Nay, more—Parliament itself cannot by
adjournment, give legality to any Order
which opposes a positive Statutc—or
whatever, excepting only in passing, a
Parliament may repeal, but cannot, in
way, set aside any law of the land.—vvh4,
the real legal construction of the Statetr
the Prayers for the Royal Family ? If 'Ali;
not violated the Statute, it may still be
whether they gave good advice to his ,
but, on the other hand, if they shall be foul
advised a breach of positive law, they ml
or later, answer for it.

A Flanders Mail arrived last ni,9,!:t,
hardly anything deserving of notice. '
Gazelle announces, that the great corm
of BERKSTER and Co. have stopped rip
that Viscount CIIATEAVBRIAND, the ne,
Ambassador, had arrived at Berlin from '

The Paris Papers of the 2:3d also au
night. They anntnince the arrival of M 7
in Paris, on Sunday last. The KING

had not left Berlin on the 12t..i, as stated
the German Papers.—French 5 per Cent
This morning the Paris Papers of the
to hand. They present nothing interesti

THE KING'S LEVEE.

Yesterday HIS MAJESTY held his fir,
mentary Levee, which was ve: y numeno
tended. A more than ordinary degree
was excited in the public mind, by the
th it a great number of Addresses we!e
seined ; the crowd was, therefoie, unusual!
His NIA-JesTY entered the State apartment
o'clock, and received his august visitors,
by the Dukes of Year:, CLAEr:Nce, and
TON ; the Earls of LIVERPOOL and BATIII."
BIDMOUTH and CASTLE/MAUL-SIC. Ste.
distinguished Members of Opposi'ion, most
presented Addresses in favour of the Qum,
the dismissal of his MAJESTY'S present Mir'
the Dukes of BEDFORD, DEVONSHIRE,
STER ; Earls GROSVENOR, CARNARVON,
Lords HOLLAND and ERSKINE ; the Mari
cisrocx, and Mr. LAMBTON. The LORD
LONDON, Sir W. CURTIS, Sir C. FLOWEI
HUNTER, and a greet number of Military
were also present. Among other Addresses
was one from the Coi poration of Dub/.
up by the LORD MAYOR and Sheriffs,
several other Members of that Corporation,
State robes, and were most graciously receiv
horses were most splendidly decorated w;
and Royal blue ribands, and attracted.,.
tion. About three o'clock some of the corn'
parted, but the Levee did not conclude till
The following were among the
tations to his MAJESTY :

Lieutenant Edward Hall, R.N. on his retard from
of Saxe Meiningen and Coburg, with dispatches for
Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Clarence,
carried out the important and gratifying intelligence
of the Princess Elizabeth, by the Earl of Mayo.
Dr. Andrew Halliday, by Viscount Sidmouth,
copy of the History of the Royal Family, dedicate
jetty, on which occasion he received the honour of
the King having been pleased previously to no4i
Knight Companion of the Royal Order of Guelph.
Alderman Inolham, to present an Address from
ration of Tallow Chandlers, Soap Boilers, and
Makers, or Guild of St. George, Dublin.
The lion. Captain Edward Cust, M.P..sth Dragons,
being appointed Equerry to his Royal Highness Prince I
and upon his marriage.
The Mayor of Limerick, with a Loyal Address
Mr. Alexander R. Stewart, with an Address from
of Londonderry.
Mr. ('harks P. Archer, Sheriff's Peer of Dublin,
Corporation, to present the Address front the Cutlers
tioners' Corporation.
Alderman Cash, to present the Address of the
dens, and Brethren of the Corporation of Cutlers,
Guild of St. Luke; Dublin.
Right lion. Sir W. Rae, Bart, Lord Advocate
by the Lord in Waiting.
Colonel Sir Robert Steele, on his marriage, by !
the Duke de Frias, the Spanish Ambassador.
Captain Slegg, of the Royal Dragoons, by
Waiting.
NAVAL INI'ELLIGENCE.

FALMOITTIN. JAN. 24.—Arrived off this port
tii.sess, from St. Andrew's in five meek., for I
The Dutch galliot Vrow Elizabeth, VireENS, which
on the 40th inst. leaky, Is discharging her cargo to •
I•I. MOUTH, JAN. N.R.—Arrived '
SALA Ills, from Dainzic.

l'oassasomm, J•\. 26.—Wind E.—The Mary,
reported last alight as from Lisbon, is from London
she has sailed to-day fur Lisbon ; sailed the Lord
DAVIN, for Jamaica.

JAN. M.—Sailed the Princess Charlotte.
of Or:lnte packets, with Mails for llolland.
DEAL, JAN. 26.—Wind I%l.N.E.—Caftle down from
and salleki, the Maria, TArr, for R. Lucia. A fora,
suppocd to be French, got entangled on the Good,
hut boats having been sent to assist her she is now
tfie South Foreland. Sailed his Majesty's ship
wcitw•ard.

1)0%Ell, JAW. 26.—The American brig Mars has
dentned, not being worth repairing. The Mr
cunt r, has brotight in a fine lugger, with :560 tubs
Custom JAW. 26.—lintered [awards •
well, from Jamaica; Deception, from Boulogne
St. John's.— Entered Outwards : Margaretta, tor 1
fnr Lisbon; Atlantic, and Ann and Sarah, for
I'ristiana, for Amsterdam; Colon, foe Antwerp
Naples; Throe l'ri,sndsi, for Chtend; ParfAit Lnien, -
Ck.tred Outwards: Merchant's Friend, for Palermo
for Cork; Elizabeth, for Lisbon; Marc, for Berisice7
for Oporto; Lively, for Malta; Standard, for Jr

A Common Hall will be held on Monday.
hoped, that every Liveryman who values his
will attend the Hall, and be on his guard, and 1
the disgraceful conduct of the Mack Loyalists,
are endeavouring to cast unfounded imputations
the great body of the British People. In times
these, apathy is a crime: let the Livery be on
i guard, and if attempts should be made to nt
their proceedings, similar to those at the
house, let them watch and expose the ;ndr."
who may (Lire insult them with the like di,-

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