The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-07-06 00:00:00

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THE QUEEN'S CASE.

PRIVY COUNCIL.—this DAt.

At 10 o'clock this morning, the re-hearing of her
Majesty's Counsel in support of her asserted claim to
be crowned at the ensuing ceremony of the Coronation,
took place at the Privy Council. We observed at the
Council table.—

Their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of York asd
Clarence; and within the railing the Lord Chancellor,
the Lord President of the Council (the Earl of Her-
rowby) ; she Lord Privy Seal, (the Earl of Westmor-
land), the First Lord of the Treasnrr, (the Earl of
Lirerpool); the Secretaries of State, Ole Marquess of
Londonderry, Earl Bathurst, and Lord Sidmonth)
the Master-tieneral of the Ordnance, (the Duke of
Wellington); the Earl of Lauderdale; Sir Charles
Long; the Lord Steward, (the Marquess of Cholmos-
&ley); Lord Chamberlain, (the Marquess of Hert-
ford); the Master of the Horse, (the Duke of Montrose);
Mr. B. Bathurst; Mr. Wellesley Pole ; Mr. Peel ;
the Lord Chief Justice Abbott ; the Chief-Baron ; Chief
Justice Dallas, sad the Master of the Rolls; and Sirs
W. Scott and John Nichol); the Earl of Donoughasort ;
Lord Melville; Lord Amherst: Lord Binning: Lord
Teignmouth ; Lord Yarmouth ; Mr. Robinson ;
Mr. Wallace; Mr. Tierney; Mr. Beckett; Mr. Ar-
buthnot ; Mr. Haskisson ; and many other official
characters were present. Sir J. Mackintosh, Sir O. Hill,
Mr. Calera*, and several other Members of the House
of Commons, were among the spectators. At the
end of the table stood M:. Brougham and Mr. Derman,
her Majesty's Attorney and Solicitor-tienerals, and Dr.
Lushington. Mr. Wilde and Mr. Williams were is
attendance, but not in their forensic habits. The King's
Attorney and Solicitor-Oenerals sat near the Lord Chan-
cellor, at the opposite end of the table.

The crowd of strangers was much greater, and the
pressure, on the doors being opened, was tremendous.
The utmost confusion prevailed for several minutes.
As soon as silence could be obtained, at half past ten
o'clock,

Mr. BROVOHAM resumed his argument; and con-1
tended that be had yesterday shewn from an unbroken
series of Queens, before and since the Norman Con-
quest, that Queens had been crowned ; and then ar-
gued that as the origin of either ceremony for the
King and Queen watt lost in remote antiquity, so it
ought to be held in the one, as in the other, that
the uniform usage now constituted the right. This he
contended, from the analogy of proof in the Courts of
law, would be held as sufficient to maintain any private
right. He contended that his cases 'hewed the cere-
mony for the Queen to be integral and distinct, and not
an auxiliary to that of the King's Coronation. The
Learned Gentleman then began retracing his
Historical argument of yesterday, and spewing this
from the casts he had mentioned. This branch •f
his argument was pressed chiefly on the Common
Law, as expounded and declared by the Statute of fitd-
ward 111., declaring it to be High Treason to vio-
late the Queen Consort •r the wiftsoof the Heir
Apparent. The object of this Statute was to pre
veal the contamination of the Royal blood ;
and he contended, that the public ceremony
of the Queen's Coronation was essential, in order to
point out legally and constitutionally, the personal
object of the Statute ; lest in the eye of the law a spu-
rious race might contend for the succession to the
Throne. The circumstance that her Majesty might be
past the age of child-bearing, could not affect this
argument, as the law never presumed this case;
and the Statute guarded the bed of the Queen Consort
down to the last moment of her existence. The Learned
Gentleman then proceeded to cite a variety ofl
cases in which the rights of individuals were clear,
although they could not be obtained except by peti-
tion to the King. He particularly put the case
of an eldest son of a deceased Peer, who was entitled
to the dignity held by his falser. But he
would put a still stranger case. Suppose on the dis-
solution of a Parliament, the King's Ministers Deg-
' !teed to call another within the time limited by law.
—They would be liable to impeachment, but as
this could only take place in a Parliament,
the subjects must necessarily Petition the King
to summon one. And would it then be argued,
that the people, in such a ca.., had no right
'to a Parliament, although they could obtain
it only by Petition ? The application of these
cases shewed that her Majesty's right was not
weakened, because she could obtain it only by petition.
IThe Learned Gentleman, after a variety of legal
references in forsher support of his argument,
Concluded by ,expressing his hope that future ages
would be enabled to sit in judgment upon the law-
yers of the 19th century, without supposing that they
had been influenced in their decision by any reference to
past animosities, and that as this would be the first
judgment upon so important a question, posterity
would not be compelled to refer to those contentions
for the purpose of explaining a judgment, which would
otherwise be rendered unintelligible.
Mr. DaPIMAN followed Mr. Banconan in a speech
to which we have neither time nor space to do justice.
He should compromise the right of his illustrious Client,
if he asked their Lordships decision on the ground of
favour ; and on the other band he was fearful that if
he spoke with that boldness which be felt, be should
presumptuously anticipate their Lordships judgment.
The Ceremony of the Coronation of the Kings and
Queens of England was to be viewed in various lights.
It was at once a solemn compact and a religious cere-
mony ; and with respect to that part of it which
consisted of ceremony alone, nothing had, and nothing
should be beard from him in the slightest degree dis-
respectful. The Learned Gentleman then procee4ed
with great clearness to support the argument of Mr.
Brenham, nentending that the Coronation itself was
foesdad is atom as a necessary attendant apse .a
Mosarebleal Comment. That as a cotes, it must