The Statesman.
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was left nothing to object, either matter of fart. or
matter of law. But as to the second p • t. the time.
this was but the one point on which hr was p•. ricitt,4l
address their Lordships, whereas he had naturally
thought, in the first laistance, that there were two,
which mistake ■rose from the mode, haying been .:c-
-pirated from the time, as a distinct and a‘pbstatutial
'wilt; but if be was to go into an argument, to prove
hat their Lordships should chant.te the mo•Ie, of pro-
.ceding before the second reading, he slinnltl he stout
by the ittler44 the House, according to which, when

strictly enforced, Counsel could not be bean( agallist
r: until the second reading. Ile was coast.•
ettently, to speak as to time, and that only. He was
not allowed to urge those .weighty considerations to
!heir Lordships whit), might counteract the effect of
the charges scspendeti over his illustrious client, and
which were, perhaps, susptutled for her absolute de-
s,-action : but the very existence. of charcss, which
r.:re not allowed to be allsVl cred. made it. the interest

): her Majesty to require in,tier in the speediest man-
e••:. She asked for no delay—she was read►• to rattier
wt once upon her ilutenee, and to repel the chargeet'in
'Fi • lieport and the preamble of the Hill—and to prove
jai iu the whole, and every part. a tissue of nnpar-
r►i:rled falselisioil. She called upon their Lordships
with an earnest. a presvina.t. and, he might 'at, r, eta•
: afoul %vier, fur open and i ttttt 'rebate justice. She
was preparel to enter him her defence that eseniug if
it ►ias their Lordships' pleasure, or to-morrow•; and in
her tertian' he laid to require that the seco►sd re-ailintr of
Wight be brought on as soon as possible for
the purpose of throwing it out. He spoke on this
-poirt I►rincipaily- from his on n feelings as an indi-
vidual, and he had to implore their Lordships not to
interpret any thing that hr might say under the pre.-
snre of these in his own disfavour or that of his I Iltiv-

trioutt Client. He must deprecate tbeir lortlybips
loyinc any stress upon any thing that resulted from
unfounded rutnour or interested misrepresentation.
14r trusted nothing 14 these kinds could operate to the
prejudice of his Client in that place. front whence
equal jet4tice should emanate to the lowest as well as to
tH highest individual lu the realm. Hod send she
had novm. risen hither than to the humblest of the
Kinr's sulojects She would, then, in snelt a rage,
have those benefits allowed to the meanest—she would,
witl reference to tr.ol, have been furnished with a
cu,y of the indictment. a list of the witnesses, and all
•;.• other ad%antacei which the equal laws of Eng-

;as J extend to all under their protection. The evi-
olk•ro.-e against her would base been exansined in a
C•otrt of J..stier, and she would have had the benefit
of the verdict of a Jury of her country. Nome of
those persons nould have been the followers of party,
or influetseA by eratitude for favours received, or in-
rttenced by the hope of fivours in expectation; but
sh! wirthl be tried by Inelre honest, upright. and im-
partial £ti Surfs would have been the lot
of his Illustr;ous t liens, bad her famines been among
the husub!e't—lout her present very exalted station
t. nled to destitute her of all these fair and legal ad-
vantages. Recurring then to the %object of time, the
Learned Counsel repented her Majesty's wish that the
sliartest interval possible might elapse between that
.tight an 1 the second reading of the Bill, and was in
anxious hopes of its being yet got rid of. In another
vi•tw something might transpire front evidence which
tray concise! tl.eir Lordships to act as Judges in a cri-
i.riweeiling. Nor copal& they, he thought, as
yet terse made up their minds there could be no ins-
peseh•rctit in the case. The Statute of Edward 111.
might not br acted upon, yet they nay have to con-
sider n farther any circumstance may not hare hap-
pened at Malls, Liibrainu. or solar other place within
thr King's dominions, that may give a new turn to
!h.- cis age.

'flu• Lulu, enaxertiLott retuarLed, that the House
h-►d already determined upon its eourse of proceed-
ing, and the Counsel WAS nut to state what he sup-
po=ed the lluu•e would do in a possible contingency
which he :night imagine.

Baouwiam maJe a few observations in the
war of explainiog the line of argument he was pro-
eeeding with.
_ _

The Loan CHANCELLOR said, the House is used to
be just, and it Lill down the rule in the present T 2,40,
!I order that the Counsel should not be unjust.
Mr. Bativonau proceeded. and repeated her Ma•
jesty's anxious wish that no further ilelav might take
place. 111. censured the charges advanced at Neuilly
as filse atul unfounded: and further, they were false.
foul, auJ most malignant. Hr felt confident the
Hotta could never make itself a party iu curls a case.
He heard they bad ordered the Attorney-Ureteral to
att-ntl; still he could not think that any thing be-
yond public justice was Anted at. lie was at preiblit
arsttiog upon the question of terms merely. The pre,
amble of the Mill. he again insisted, presentede limey
of foul :sad gross falsehood, because If a tenth gored
was believed, it would have been the Jitr of
;mien Advisers to come forward long ago.
The Bishop of Exx•rea ben rune to order. 0/4.41/!
sisted the Counsel bad gone bevonel the lide'ef argm.
went assigned to him by the eviler of the House.
Lord Itot.t.smn, to teem:hies epee the interference
of the Rev. Prelate; (*rafted. tie Spiritual Lard diode
have gone a little further, and shows' bow died/Mend'
Counsel hail tone beyond the tier prescribed. •
Mr. Illatovuusat then resuneeil, and pressed•tbe
nets, line of argesseent be was engaged in,at sewitlee
!her length. Ile repeated' tine principal wish of heft
Majesty, in thus recurrfili.totheir Lordships, *sale
deprecate all farther delay, and, to a4juern thee to ales
eidu upon the Bill in expeditiously as the forms ei
their Lordships Heger weed' admit' her prieeipal
object being to secure to iterself that which the bias'
blest of the King's subjects were entitled to, sagasiy,
full. fair, and impartial trial. ' •
Mr. VENN am followed, bet not at equal length, mat,
ably supported the arguments advanced by her Ma-
jesty principal Law Officer.

- After the Learned Counsel had withdrawn,
The Earl LIVIMPOOL rose, and observed, the goes-
tioa as arising out .f what was advalseed by the Com-
pel, wbetbOr they shield go is the coins derided apes.
or berry on the seat ineponsat stage of the Dili in 14
bows? For she latter he *might ao eileiptate grated
whoever was laid. Os a former disentoolost, the later-
val beeves the first and second millers of Divorce
Mills was s Vert, bet with referees* to a eau et
WI VMS', he thlilare no esseeeetaly delay
ovo be id gives. Ned he diodes* awed, th* is