The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-01-05 00:00:00

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k attempting t 6 degrade her in the eyes of the country 4111 operating upon the present queetion. the..
be erasing her manse from the Liturgy in so doing, Henry VIII. r. 19, deviates! that no Canon Ce
they had violated that invaluable principle of English titan or Order of the Church be blade, Hest
jurisprudence, by which innocence is invariably pre- now to the King's prero 4sat contrary tuts.
atoned until guilt is established. Every effort is made laws or customns of the realms this was held to be
•to keep her Majesty f..otai tie arm' of Englithinen;l law he Olio celebrated chilli' tiosdolphin, by bord
but every effort failed against that fearless and Mar i Cat', Ventria, and Hankins; !pits pleas of the Crown.
nanianous spirit width the conaciousoess of innocence' Its the case of Phillips r. Rom in Lord Raymond's
inspired. History might be searched in vain for an! RePorts, and by Lord liardwieite in that of Middleton
iostance of snore determined courage than that which ; r. Cmf-, it wee laid down that the Canon Law was
her :Ilejesty displayed iu bracing every danger, and , not obligatory owns any subject of this realm, usnles !
throwing herself unprotected into the arms of Eng- lit had been incorporated into the Common Law by
lisbnien. No sooner was this decisive step taken, i Act of Parliament. or heti existed time out of mind.
110. n a message was sent sloe n to both Houses of Par- , and consequently become putt of the common law. An
lianieut, and it was the intention of Isis Majesty's Mi• i Order in Cootheil possessed no other efficacy than an
sisters, in the first instance, to institute souse proreed- , Ecclesiastical constitution t in support of this position,
ing against her Majesty in the (louse of Commons. hr quoted balkelmrs Reports, anti Viner's Abridge•
The rattse of Cutuasons, bowl vet, foresaw that nu- i meet. Sim., I•mm lc of Common Prayer, which was made
thing but 11111nOralitt% anti a contempt fur every timing ; part of the law of the laud by the Act of Uniformity,
held eacred among us could arise from such an in- I ordered prayers for the Queen, and those prayers
tittirv, and they refused to interfere. Foiled in could not he discontinued without degrading ant de-
tbeir application to the House of Commons, Mini. 1 rogramling front Cie Liturgy. lie contended that the
ears were obliged to bring forward the measure in 1 Queen's name could not he left out of the Liturgy by
another shape, . I authority, short ef that authmity which placed it titer:.
•• If shape it might he called, which si‘pe bed ncne.- ,It could only be displaced by legal authority, that is
A Bill of Pains and Penalties was resorted to--a 'pro- to say, by an Act at the Leeislature, for he trusted the
carding as abhorrent foot' the osinciples of the Coto oil' of a Minister .•r an Archbishop would never berc-
stitntiou, as it was sitilversive of every principle of scalercol as h•gal authority in this conntry.—(Appl4o4
I:rirate justice. The Horonrable Oentlensah dwelt i The proviso 01 the 1.1 Car. 11. which gave aloha
vs Ala murk fbree upon the injustice which her Majesty for alteriuo the names of the Royal, Family accordhtt
c•aperienerd in the cones/. of the late proceedings, anal Ti ciret,„,,taoces, gave no authority fur exiwnging
the accanmulated diffictilties whirl, were thrown in the • them. The meaning. of the Statute was evident, it
wty of her defence. Her Majesty's name was still I contemplated only time alteration necessary to be %We
excluded from the Liturgy, and her just richtom either by time death, or chanee of the title before
and privileges withheld from her, even when she, prayed for; and he quoted Mr. Chr:stian's note on
had teen pron.:minced itinocent, f.r he would ever Blackstone, anal Ilme case of Stradling r. )lorpan, in
.. Intain that she haul been pronounced innocent.— toow i
...anm's reports. He preyed it was Unjust to tie-
It wan true, indeed, that a majority of her es, such prise the Queen of her prerogative of bring prayed
as they were, in one branch. of the Leslie tare, had for, serif), that she had enjoyed that privilege %IP Princes.
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N Aril for the third reading of the Bill ; lint the Bill of Walt s, anti on„ ht to have had her name altered and
a odd only have been passed with the joint concnrrence ; fitted to tl:e ()et-a-ion of her subsequently acquired dig-
t t the Kings, Lord and Commons. It should never nits, anal he cited 'he case of Willion r. Berkley is
t e forgoo;ten, that the tnajority against the Queen in Plowden. Plackstone bad said that where an Act of Par
the Howe of Lords was wholly composed of her ecru- . • liament its spae:tic, nothing short of an Art of Pnr-
eer,—of those nine men who were personally reaponsi- (lament conld restrain its operation. Not only were
I'r to the country for the part they had taken it, this .
1 prayers for the Queen enjoined by the Common and
u mle npreernt.ll proceeding. If on time oilier banal, Statute Law, Lott by immemorial enamel. the tarifa
w • Is °lied to tl:e names and characters of thole who. ejeivm roArrAti,., whieh was the fnundation of cons-
...Aril for the Queen, we should find almost all the I mon law. It was even enjoined expressly be the :kith
:v.:lent Nobility, all t% him stood high in the 'ionise- Canon, a fact, of whirls he believed the Bishops were
::an of the country. If Isis Majesty's Ministers bad i wholly ignoiraut.—(Laughter and applause.) --1 he ex-
r-ally believed in the guilt of the Queen, it was theirs elusion of he Majeste's name frotu the Liturgy was
t aty to have sent down the Bill to the other House of ' such a depravation of the ( ommon Prayer, as soar;
Parlianient. The truth was, that they did not be- jected every Clergyman who omitted it to heavy penal-1
t. eve in her guilt ; they were conscious of the fable- ties, anal he trusted the time WAS not far distant
Iri il of the charges which they had brought against when, if her blajesty's name were not recored, those,
1 :I, and they dared not send them to another tribunal penalties would he rigidly exacted.
—(Applanav).—The withdrawing of the 13111 was (only The third ryes lotion was next read.
a-other link I'm the chain of injustice and versecutinn t After which Mr. A. Moons: addressed the-Meeting:l
it was withdraw a that her Majesty might not have the the subject of the Ito-solution, he said, was one oliim Is'
benefit ad a clear and honourable acquittal in the other I opets,al a very wide field of mliacussion, into 0hm.•14 how-
ti.m..e. Evers- thing dear to us as Englishmen had ever, he woo;.! rot enter. The great point on Otitis time
I.:en endangered by the proceedings against time Queen, I mi•ev
offo ;duo-.
propie.agreed t1:71% ti. that_lhe gellOr. ti ... . •
sillsoltrrititilinvll %%las tics.trtit:iive of every prinetpa! fi. —of"
noml it was the duty of every nman, whatever mieht ise al of justice.—(Applame.)—Why Ministers i
1. 4 reation, to comic forward at this cria:s and boldly *ere ets:l.le•l to carry on a system so disastrous. and 1
m•,. dare his 'emit:lrma. I t behoved those who were i sea ditgram•rfol, might be ensile accounted Mr Irvcensi-
a armed at the tweets, aspect of the timea, and felt dering the system of the misrepresentation of ahe people i
; atious fo r the ;tarty of existing institutions, to con. in Parliamo-nr.—(Louol A pplanse.)a-The principal of time
e''i:ite, inatstaml of insulting and exasperating the Constitution that the King- could do no oron,:, wain I
i • orioinallv estsidiahell for the benefit of the
;,..... t 6311 y of the peophe, and to co-operate with I Prinroi''li - • • .
r:ose who really wished well to existing instil's- Pestlime• became. whilst it relieved the Monarch from ,
"Odic responsibility, it tixe:l the responsibility on his'
I ,ens, by retitioning the King to dismiss from Siittistees. I..tatoorlootoately that respotisil.ility permed no
I 's councils the men who had brought the country i longer to exist ; if the ilommse of Commons really repre-
t•.• •lut verge of ruin. A change of men, however, vented the people, no Minister would date to. item:lure ,
e.m.fmout a chant;( of measures, would, he repeated, be such a measnri• a.: that it hi. Im bail i.e.-as broimalit forward
-worse than nugatory. It was impossible to stint our against the
.Q.meen.—(ApplaTe.)—liat !he. alimmistinte ,
had in that lonise a hired nintormte and it nag as easy'
eyes npon the faithful precipice on which we now for them to hat, dor dot ,17 „',,:350- ari as is was (or
%tooth. Time dangers with whirls we were surrounded hille of ir:,,,..tive• in •
damn to obtain °atinily, outer to rarer i
Isere great awl manifold, and it was hardly possible Ober retreat front the indignation, or the justice i
to nostentiolate the cotiontion of the country without lof the country. Cison constitutional points. he Was ,
feelings approaching to despair. If the present aye- glad to see that a new light had lately been shed by a ,
t^re were to he supported, he trustel it would coati- Learned and Pious Bishop, who declared in Parliament
that the King not only retold not do wrong con- I
r•.•.e to ha supported hr the present Ministers, for theta I etitteionally. lint that hr cook' sot morally do wrong. 1
t; e snen wies wert4be authors of our calamities, would (Laughter.)—The p ple certeinly moist fie pinch ob. !
eo
r..a, the coasequetves of their own usisoleedei After liged to that Learned and Noes !!-shop' at -east,
et/vitiating at some length tit the necessity of aif they were not, his Majesty must.—(.l Langl9
i.efoorm in Oa • Reprinmentatit.n of the people, the If HO-Isis Majesty could do no wrung, it was pretty clear
t•ottrable tientim•man concluded by moving the first lie- ' that Isis Ministers could—one great wrong was that of
a_lution, which was second: al by tile. Slade, and ear. I keeping op a %tan ling army in time of rare, in order
Ito overawe the *Oro of the country, Isaraseed and doo-
r IA lola atistoon.ly. 1 keeled as that country was by a long and Itionity war.
Mr. Sent:La-4 supported the next resolution. When ,an attempt to overawe the people by isse:lns of memilitare
1 .- considered, he said, how very important it was that , power, um an act for which, is Isis op.:Moo. a Minister
t • .• established set vice of the church should he eon. mutest to he iisspencheal—(clear, bear.) If Ministers listi
1.. unable to the laws lay which it was pint:tilled, when nut relied on military force, they never swab! have
I e retire:eat on the anxiety nmanifm•sted by the le: ii • dared
the
screen the stupid magistrates of 3latirlseior
lau 'e at various periods since the titoge of the refor- , 11.7rma,otttreo "tlh7velloolenvernv wootota,inhilocrti,wlehtittl:,,"h.?tittletir nv„,.4.7,71,,..,,
r.ation, ta mita'.;e an appropriate national liturgy, or tion rankle its time minds of the friends and relative.; of
forum of .ostaimon prayer, he could not but condemn , those unfitriustote men talus haul been cut doe as on the
C•e late proceedings against the Queen, hecamm-,• memorable W.I. Anguet. If Ministers heal not relied on
1;1 attempt im td been made to at at naught and unenniatitsstional stopper, they never nottlal have out-
.. byert Cie wise institutions of our anem•stars, and 1 1'40141 the ;tailings of the country by employing snris a
noiler the church fernier subservient to the will 1 man as Castles, a witness who had sworn in a Court of
: Jimatice that Ise had Iminmeelf committed an overt art of
s.n.l caprice of inolividualS. In adverting to the hio.h treaties°. witloont taituonitnicalitaa the fact to the
e telnaion of her Majesty's name from the Liturgy, b. I men who were to he hanged for it.—(Hear, heir. hear.)
I.:Oslo-al to call the attention of the Inertial.; fur a ' Castles had sworn to that in public t'uort, and Ise Imo
%%on time to that important subject. From the • liWtl/11 also, that whilst he was Committing' the treason,
n-rangem los which were maiiimm.4, it Was probable. he had beon clothed ant fed by Mr. Stafford, of time Row-
o streeit pollee-other, aatleorbool as that eentleman was by
that some mmf his auditor% lei gilt shortly have to tome Departmenr,—(tlear hear.) They wonloi not,
a.: vide, hi their capacity of Jurymen, upon the lege- to;
he
tifthey dial not rely on nteronstitational anpport, employ
ty or illegality of that measure, awl as he had taken : • so• lp Ird p I
, stir}, mentos . .over and of Ira s-- .1 ward., the leader
a. me pains to ascertain the law upon this point imy re- •of Thistiewo...! .tad his associates. Desperate men un-
-I.•,rring to the Statutes, Canons, .:nti Ecclesidatical I 1 dontstedly; I' at desperate as they were, he verily iwlieveol
I anstitutions, and the aleciaiools of some of the most I that if the country had r.o Edwards, they would have
bail no I 'ato-erret plot. —(Hear, hear.) The gentleman
enlighateneol Judges, he wished to m•ommunicate to time I
ner_aiilv.:rte,..l ta
of
iforeign policy of Minister'. Ile
: eeting the result of his inyeetigations. i 1,.e Rook a
, ! notice'! toe ion ii, standing 3lr. Canning ass anoloaaeador
4 f Common' Prayer was counted upon the Ftatute 2 and to the no Ulmer! of Lialmon which he rolled a abassuitni
.? Ed. VI. : the -5
and 6 Ed. VI ; the Ist 1;:liz. and the . 'oh They had also supported anal countenancer! the
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L 3 and 1 1 Car. 11. 'I he Statutes of Elie. cutetainec 1 Holy Alliati:v. :a lamile compact of the despots of the
:Imo
of the provisions of the former Statutes. By, Continent, to put down thseepirit of truth and freedom
t •at Statute, all manner of parsons were boom! strictly , in their own countries and in every other.—(Applansr.)
t•. a there to time forums of prayer therein contained, mid All" "the "bayerationa on the condom of Nlinielera.
ill
whiels heos characterised as egal, matiimmtil, al
ti:sey were liaise to certain penalties in case of moo I
; 'ski do to the country, Mr. Mooreumen ettneltitle ona an
il bY ex-
compliance. The St mute 13 and 11 Car. 11. eon- ; pressing his opinion its iavour of the Resolution, siltich
Taipei, the clause which was applicable to her Ma- 1 woe plumed unanimonsly.
: nmty's rase. It was there enarse', that the parts id ! The 4th ea as I,ll...oltaimis were nnanimon•le agreed mo.
tbe Common Prayer relating to the King, (-boon, and 1 After a speech from Th. Timemova to. an Addrea. to the
the Royal Family might be altered anal changed from King, prayinz his Majesty to dismiss his Ministers, was
taste to time, and fitted to 'present circumstance., by then real and agreed to.
An Amhirm•sa of l'onoTatalation to her Majesty was
legal authority. This legal authority was declared thee read and carried amid the applause of the Meeting.
by tilbsol , and Burn, in his Ecclesiastical Law, to he A Petition to time !louse oftanumuons was next agreed to.
the King or Queen in Council. As to the authority Mier a Resolution of Thanks to the Independent
ui any Ecclesiastical Constitution, or °Wet of Conn- Press was tutored Judi earthed, the Meeting broke up.

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