The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-09-06 00:00:00

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To such of oar Readers 1 . opportunity of
noticitig the particulaf and perspialoas accouatof this
phenotneaten which appeared In oar paper of Satan*,
lett, it may be proper to i adulate that it will be the vest
per
• eclipse that has taken place since 1764, or that ea.
happen till 1347. To an observer in Lomb., milady lit
llths of the San's disk will he observed, mad is comae-
quince the (lithe'ss or gloom that will ensue, may, if the
weather be faxeurable, occasion some of the planets and
arse fixed stars to be visible. Poring the eclipse of
64, the domestic fowls were observed to troop home
their respective roosts, as on the approach of night.
The eclipse commences at 44 min. past 12 o'clock.
The middle of greatest obsearatsaa will be at 63 min.
past I, and the Milne will end at 17 min. past 3. In
the middle of the eclipse, the Sun will not appear
than observer in London quite asiassier, or like a riag
of light, bat will have the appearance of a very 6ne
crescent, with the horns turned upwards.
ferery.---Wilt Ministers carry on their proceedings
In the liouse of Lords to-morrow ? The commence-
meat of the Attornerkleseral's charges was marked
by an awful thunder storm ; and the gloom that still
attend' the eclipse will alga proper character to the
Solicitor-theneral's 'mum up. The prosecution of
dark and deadly siesigni should peones confetti ac-
companiments.

CROSS QUESTIONS ON A MATERIAL POINT.

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cotrieset 4e INTIM rierril.
Of villages ask, if he's disiteeei to sweat
Before this hoes, (tor meets I yaw to keow),
irtetket at aay dame, wissallse Wu there
the ebatabit, bed seem inn that one fit i

iirraviritevaa.
Th• witness. yat, replies, • white sad blue,
Or else iasperhoct oast have bees his view.
111, pi • Nollalt LORD.
Query.—By white std blue inform Rae whelk., or tic;
Is 'least, what here we call • blue ind white pee I

I N PPPP IttTsß.
If right, my Lords, I understand the ease.
He says, lIIi pets were alwa)s is their plane ;
And pots being plural, surely does some light throw
Upon the subject, and proves there were deer pees.

IV ♦AOTMIR NOILE LORD.
Now tell MO, I pray, which owe most contained,
711 white poi or the blue pot, that you*Se named:

wirttess•
They both were pretty full, that Is, so so,
Which most, I easnot say, New met rieorde.
Lereasterrqwwee, Aar. Mt

THE QUEEN.

PRIITEST,
On the motion of the Duke of Leinster, that the Order
of the Day for the Second Reading of the Billet' Pains
and Penalties against the Queen be rescinded.
Dissentient, August 17, IS2O.
Ist, Because we fully concur in the opinion which
has been expressed by the House of Contains, that the
proposed inquiry would be "disappointing to the hopes
of Parliament, derogatory from the dignity of the Crown,
and injurions to the best interests of the Empire."
'ld, Because the institution of proceedings which are
allowed to be anomalous to the spirit of the British Con-
stitution, and which do not appear to be warranted by
considerations of State necessity, is, in our judgment
inexpedient, and may be viewed with much suspi
by thelseople.
3d, Because it does not appear to us that any obj
which could be attained by the proposed inquiry, what-
ever may be its result, is of such importance, as to be
commensurate with the evils which, node all the cir-
cumstances of the case, may be expected to arise from
it. (Signed)
STANHOPE° liamrox.•
Hamm-nix & BRANDON. For the Ist &3d reasons.
Lainsren, A Los nn
Essex, Cowen',
REWORD. DACRI,
DCNCAN.. HlLLsnonovan,
Fouts', Kix°.
Those marked thus(*) generally vote with Ministers.
The others are Opposition Peers.

Her Majesty did not wine to town yesterday.—
ilr. Alderman Wood reached St. Janies's•square, from
Irandenburgh House, about eleven o'chck, and sig-
nified to the persons in attendance that the Queen
might be expected at twelve; and we believe the
worthy Alderman continued to expert her arrival till
after three 4)% luck.

A crowd of three or funr hundred persons, chielly
well-dressed women, many .4 them apparently from
the country, remained in fronnt the house the whole
day.
Mr. Alderman Wood, immediately on his arrival,
went down to the House of Lords, and remained
there about two hours; when he returned to St.
James's square. In the meantime hackney-coaches
were frequently sitting down, and taking up persons
at the Queen's house ; and an unusual bustle was ob-
servable.

In the course of the day, a man, evidently drunk,
was taken into custody by the police for addressing
inflammatory language to a crowd of perions collected
about him in St. James's-square.
To the Address from the Borough of Boston her
Majesty returned the following gocious An-wee :
•• I gratefully accept the congratulations and the con-
dolence of the Householders aid Inhabitants of the
Ikrough of Boston.
My life furnishes a singular instance of the manner
is which injustice and cruelty base been formed into a
systematic conspiracy, and prosecuted for nearly a apat-
ite of a century against an individual of wy exalted sank.
Pas conspiracy has shewo itself at different periods, is
ditprsity of machinations; in plots, upon a grand
scale upon a small: in the bold asseverations of ma-
bleat- -"ill, and in the minute - ifications al

We understand that yesterday afternoon. after the
adjournment of the House of Lords, the King's Mi-
nisters went to his Majesty in his retreat in Windsor
Great Park. The purport of their audience we pre-
tend sot to divine. Rumour, indeed, rays, that as
the great body of the evidence fur the prosecution is
now drawing to a close, they desire to take hisila-
--'. phrents n to the tardier pen-Nall its the
'her it is meant by this that they will sub-

...win p;rjur) . remit._
a.5001p..... , sad Weasel trieed-
all this secretly directed by lodivitioal in.
and instigated by individual malignity. Thus
nearly one-half of nty existence has been passed amidst
the wiles of treachery. My confidence has been sought
only to be betrayed; the mask of regard has been worn
only the more easily to deceive. The very men, who
are sow my accusers, were formerly my declared advo-
cates, and my.professedly zealous friends. The majority
of the present witnesses, who have been marshalled
against we. like an armed host, and regularly trained to
be expert is circumstantial falsehood and methodised
,fterjury, were rescutd by my bounty from penury and
wretchedness. But they seem to have been warmed
kw life, only like vipers, to bite the hand by which they
were cherished in adversity.
" My regard for those rights of the people, and those
abattiirs of the nation, which my ancestors were invited
Is defend, makes me more deeply grieve to see both so
easily impugned in my person, and so essentially trio-
jated in the Bill of Pains and Penalties. I would rather
Save perished in defence of those rights and liberties,'
than that they should receive a fatal stab by a measure
which cannot degrade the Queen without enslaving the
People.
" As the first subject in the realm, 1 feel the rights of
all other subjects identified with my own ' • and as ,1 am
luat be l a
c rtiloar forisamelliaities secunctuarcitty,
when l it
witlstlie Throne,
leatnonot
I
eprived of its only solid support—the respect and sties.
lona of the people.
" After having encountered so many storms in the
former period of my life, 1 am anxious that the remain.
der of my days shoOld be a period of repose, in which this
wicked may cease to troublr, and the treacherous to en.
snare; when 1 may enjoy that tranquility to which 1
have long bees a stranger, and practise that heneficeace
1 which has always been my delight.-

mit to his Majesty, that the evidence has not clearly
proved all the facts set forth in the Inquisition at
Milan ; and that though his Majesty and his confi-
dential servants conceived that they had sufficient
grounds for submitting the cause to public inquiry, the
evidence does not justify them in persevering, and per-
ticularly with respect to the Divorce Clause. This,
however, is only the report of the day—and it does
not seem worthy of credit, because, undoubtedly, t.
persevere in the Bill without the clause of divorce,
would leave his Majesty in a worse situation than that
in which they found him before the production of the
Green Bag, since it would amount to this—Before,
there were only rumours and suspicions of indecorum
and levity; but we have put them on record. We
propose, therefore, by the Bill, to degrade her, but in
this degraded state she is to remain your Majesty's
Consort, and in passing the Bill, your Majesty will
have to give the assenting nod—" Le Roi le read !"
Another report is, that the Attorney and Solicitor-
General mean to ask for an interval of Ave days, as
they expect other witnesses, and particularly Unr,
from whom they trust they shall draw a strong incident
which he witnessed at Lugano. If this should not be
granted, the ease for the prosecution will close this
day, and the Solicitor-General may proceed to sum
up.

A person whose same occurred in the examinations
of yesterday, as a courier for the British Cabinet, pre-
paratory to the present proceedings, is stated in a
paper of this morning to have distinguished himself is
more oesapations than those be ostensibly Nod. His
dice, it appears, had been to go in search of discarded
Nil
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servants,
bat unfortunate /keen Trent*. This
E.NGLISH OPERA Hot SR.
servants, for the parson* of collecting their evidence 1 On Monday night was performed a new Operatic
bat while in the prosecution of it, be had ocean Drama, which was repeated last night with'considerable
once to pass through Paris, he paid away a parcel diploma*. The plot is founded on the misfortunes of
forged Beak of Ragland notes, on account of whir although not perfectly etre to the history, evinces.
he was committed to prison. On the interposition of per'a
great deal of talent, and to oar opinion tree dramatic
his Ambassador, the courier was liberated, though not taste. The author has most irigeniouly contrived b the
is such a way as to liberate his character from sue- most happy incidents, to produce what- is termed lags
piclon. elect. The Music is vet/ well essa.ierd, and oast of
A lighterman informs us, that being on the river at be t , Songs well given by Hiss CAReW. The character of
NotHaron was well perfonner I by Mr. L'oona, hat the
Southwark-Bridges, he was surprised at meeting with
one o'clock yesterday morning between London and
priacipal support of this piece is Miss KELLY, in the
an Admiralty-Barr, loaded with people, going Own character a Lionel Sehell, a young boy, who assists
is effecting the escape of the 'Barna. Her acting in
the River. Upon rowing very near, be fond that the this plisse is admirable. The scenery is handsome; and
oars were all moiled with pieces of carpet tied remallt altogether, we think, it is likely to attract a considerable
to prevent seise. It was foggy at the time; they had shore of public favour. It is announced for repeti-
dark lanterns to prevent being noticed. estity—svere 1 floe fur several nights to come.
they not the Italian witnesses ?
The signatures to the Address of the parish of St Yesterday a meeting of the inhabitant householders
Mary, Whiteehapel, shoat to be pretested to the of the Wan' of Ablersgate, took place at the Dispea-
Queen, amounted yesterday to upwards of t 5,1100. A ! sary, Aidersgate-street, and an Address to her Ida-
deputation is to wait on her Majesty this day, to know jetty was unanimously agreed to. Thanks were voted
when it will be her pleasure to receive it. to Mr. Alderman Cox, and the meeting then broke up.
Massevantat. Aersonvitsrers.—Me. illysslsall, of We understand that the Bishop of Winchester has
Lambeth-street, is appointed to succeed Mr. Hicks, of not received his sumnstras to the House of Lords, and
Bow-street, lately deceased ; Mr. Wyatt, of Shadwelfs !•that be has not bees present in the Howe any day
succeeds Mr. Illyashall ; and Mr. Hoskins, a Barrister: simile the first day of the trial, when be attended as
of New-square, Lincoln's-lan, ii appointed to 'seated Bishop of Lincoln. Consequently it is sot true, that
Mr. Wyatt at Shadwell-0116ce. he rood prayers is the Hesse yesterday, and several'
Mr. Nixes, of Aylesbury. undertook on Saturday other days, as has been erroneously stated.
last, for a wailer of ten pounds, to walk one mile and Mr. Hume, the Member for Aberdeen, has received
eas another in sista*, minutes. Thisiparivallosi feat tut Address from St. Alamitos., to present to the Queen.'
of
pedestrianism be poeformed with sass in thirteen Several other Addresses hive also been received fawn
lusisstaa sad a half. ditereat parts of the country.

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