The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-11-28 00:00:00

him to state, and he would appeal to his Honorable
Friend near him (Sir ti. Noel.) who was, he believed,
one of the persons who joined in that expression of
indignation—that the number was mach nearer to
sixty than to six—(Applause).—The fact was, that
the number of persons who did not call shame might,
with more probability, be stated to be only six. At
all events it was a dirty, mean ungentleman-like
and paltry manteuvre to get rid of the meavire, by'
briuging In the Black Rod, introduced as 'lse was by
the Secretary of the Treasury. Reformed or unre-
formed, the House of Commons ought to be treated
RUtit deeettcy. Bee k was not to he !adored that a
le whittling fellow should come in and tell them,
As moment of such importance, that their presence

itras commanded in another House. It was Undoubt-
edly the prerogative orthe Crown to order the atten-
dance of the House at the bar of the House of Lords,
for the purpose of proroguing the Parliament at any
time, but then it should be exercised with discretion,
with a little regard at least to the sense of the nation
—(Cheers).—Thus, then, the Ministers seemed ull-
- to delay, for two minutes, to listen to the com-
plaint of a persecuted Queen, asking how long she
was to remain without a house or a home, or scarcely an
appendage that belonged to the Queen of this country—
(Crimes of shame).—The people, however, had gained
semething,they load gained much on that memorable day.
He (Mr. II.) had lived to see that M inister (Lord Castle-
reagh), who, in ISI I, had been received almost by
every Member of that House with clapping of hands
end uncovered heads, absolutely hissed out 'of the
House of Coonsomons.—(Loud and vehement applause.)
—He was delighted to see it.—(Continued applause.)
—Thank Hod (said Mr. H.) I have lived to witness
that scene ; it is trite enough, even though I died
the moment after.—(Continued cheers.)—The House
of Commons, they should recollect, was not what was
impudently called a radical assembly composed of the
cream of the gentry; of the go.. I manners, and what
was better, the good property. of England. It was an
assembly, lie need not remind them, which had been
always des-01AI to the Ministers, but their conduct lat-
terly bad been so scandalous, so very base as to make
them afraid even to face their own to.ols.—(Applause.)
Unless the people persevered, lie feared that House
would so.ou change its tone—he feared there would be
use more hootiugs—indeed, a Ministerial Member had
said, in leis hearing un that day, wait until January,
and we will see you much cooler. Ile trusted% how-
ever, that the friends of the people would persevere,
u wearied and unintitnidated. Ile hoped to see the
task.. House of Commons as heavily loaded
cab Pe as th# Tables of Brandenbuigh Node,
were loaded with Addresses.—(Applastee.)--Until Mkt
;tome!' was established in her full rights, and the ena
mita of Ate people driven ftum those seats which they
so munch disgraced—the people owed to that Illostri-
trious Woman nit the common homage of a subject,
but the pure, the heartfelt homage due to her brilliant
conduct, to her noble actions, to her generous and en-
lightened zoal in the cause of liberty.—(Applause.)—
Her Majesty had done more to reconcile him to the
cause of Royalty than all the kings that had ever sat
on the Throne of England. Yet how was she treated ?
She was treated with insult and with cruelty. Her
Majesty wrote a letter to Lord Liverpool, and, for-
sooth, she was not entitled to the common courtesy of
life—she was not to receive any answer for seven days.
And why? Because the Prime Minister wes not in
town. But it was his duty to be in town ; he was
paid for being in town. Her Majesty then deemed it
necessary to send a Message to the House of Com-
mons. That Oody, it seemed, was out of town too.--
(A laugh)--so that they thought it right to adopt
nearly the same sort of treatment of her Majesty that
the Prime Minister did, differing only in this, that
!toile the latter was to be absent only for seven days,
the House of Commons was not to return for two
months.—(A laugh.)—After all her unparalleled
wrongs, after having been brought to a trial, in
which, from the disadvantages that she was subjected
to, the Administration of justice was groosly reviled,
after the determination of her enemies to convict her
at all eveuts, which they were prevented from ef-
fecting only by their fears—after all this it now ap-
peared that her Majesty was yet to undergo fresh per-
sectitions.--(Shame.)--Indeed he had seen in the
Court Gazette, not that which was printed every Sa-
turday, but that which was published every evening,
he meant The Courier—he had seen it recommended,
that as the Queen was the wife of the King, his Ma-
jesty ought to exercise those powers over her, which
were sometimes resorted to by husbands for the re-
straint of refractory wives. In short, tha: his Majesty
might confine her, and keep her from the benefit of
an Habeas Corpus, the unalienable right of the meanest
subject—(Shame). But whatever might be said of
time absurdity of this project, it was evident that the
projectors were the persons who wished for a revolu-
ti.m—they thirsted for the blood of their fellow-citi-
zens, nor would they be satisfied until their lips were
tinged with that unholy beverage—{Loud and con-
tinued ap;olause). But her Majesty would not be con-
tined—(houd cheers). The people of England would
take care of that—and as for a Habeas Corpus, the
people would make that unnecessary also. There was
one other point which he would notice. lie had just
seen in one of the newspapers something said about
her Majesty's being married to two husbands. The
one, as they all knew, was the Kiug; and the other,
it turned out, was a personage whose name had been
hitherto unrevealed--namely, the State. From the
treatment which she wet with from both, it would be
better, perhaps, that she had remained single all her
life. The one could not bear to live with her for
more than eight or nine mouths; and the other had
treated her so scurvily, that she had little hope of
ever seeing his affections revived. but circumstanced
as her Majesty was with the King and the Slate. she