The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-11-18 00:00:00

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the treatment continually experienced by the Quante. i
The most etitragentisly virtuous of eithet sex have I
never ventured, till the present instance, to utter such
language in public, as is now issuing forth with im-
punity tend with encouragement from the courtly
press. It is language such as one would think, a sen-
timent of seltre4pect alone would restrain a man from
expressing; it is such as all the decencies of social life
indignantly reject; it is such as could be conceived
that no man in England would be gross enough to
employ ; or if there was any man so depraved and sb
much beyond the reach of general contempt that
there could be only one. Has regard to the interests
of morality any share in prompting this atr.scious
treatment? if the base being who , employs it had
the hypocrisy to pretend to any principle of de-
licacy, his language and his manners would
im-
mediately belie him. Nothing but the most unmanly
and the vilest spirit canmove the tongue or pen
that usethe reprobate expressions. And, under
what a cloak are they now employed ? That the
Queen has been 'convicted of infidelity by a ma-
jotity of Peers? Granting, for the sake of argu-
ment, it were so; would even that conviction war-
rant such a treatment as she constantly experiences?
According to the laws of the land and of society it
certainly would not. But do the votes that had been
given in the House of Lords on any of the stages
of the Bill against her MsJestr. justify the inference
on which the abominable license is asserted to be
founded ? Without referring to the mode in which
the House of Lords is constituted, to the competency
of the several individuals to decide as Judges in such a
case as has recently been brought before them, or
to the intitteuce under which the majority has, on this
occasion, been supposed to act ; without availing our-
selves of those well-grounded and insurmountable ob-
jec;ions which arise front the Irresitible determination
which most have led the 31inisters, in whom the
measure (stir:mated, and their immediate depend-
ents. to act upon the point in question, we would only
a.lvert to the stage it; which the decisive vote was
given, and on tibial the measnre was abandoned.
The Bill was in its third stage, and had not even
passed the House, when it was arrested. By what
colour of pretence can it assume a legal form?
Ae-
corling to the forms of Parliament it is as much a
nullity as if proceedings on it had never commenced.

LORD L1VF.R1.)0123 z‘NSWER To THE QURIN.— 1
After all the time that has been taken by the Ministers
for deliberating on her Majesty's application fur a
residence, the following answer has been returned by
the Earl of Liserpoal:—
" That he hss received his Majesty's commands to
lufortn the Queen, that it is not possible for his Majesty.
limier &lithe eirctsmstanoes, to assign any of the Royal
palswes for the Queen's residence. Lord Liverpool hea
been further commanded to inform the Queen, that, until
Parliameat shall meet fur the despatch of business.
'the alkblette, which lwateksaseria'*en enjoyed by the
Queen, will he continued to her, and fEliflt ',Witten
be for Parliament to determine the amount of the future
psovision to he granted to her Majesty."
In an annexed paper Lord Liverpool adds,
" That he thinks it material to observe, that this ens
suer must not be understood as withdrawing the fad-
lities which had be. .a previously offered for procuring a
residence in Lontlon for the Queer."
On the arrival of the news at Chichester of '
the abandonment of the Bill of. Pains anti
Penalties, a clergyman of that place is stated in the
Brig/slum herald to have pubicly applied against her
Majesty such an atrocious terns as will lead to the in-
stitution of .legal proceedings agaitst bins.
11se tillawing are the names of the Peers who have
annexed their signatures to the Prutests. mentioned
yesterday, against the withdrawing of the Bill of
Pains awl Penalties :—To the first, Lord Sheffield,
the Duke of Northumberland, the Marquis of Lothian,
and the Duke of limner ; to the second. the Duke of
Bridgewater, Lords Verulam and Shaftesbnry, and the
Duke of Clarence ; to the third, Lord Harris and the .
Dike of Clarence; and to the fourth Lord Powis, and
again the Duke of Clarence. Mu chagrined does his
Royal Highness appear to be at the fate of this afore-
Armed measure, that he cannot sulficieutly potrot
against it !
Sir. 12 tNNING.—From the Paris papers arrived to-
day, it appears that Mr. Canning had an audience of
the King of France yesterday s..'nnight. On re-
ceiving intelligence of the fate of the proceedings
against the Queen, Mr. C. is stated to have hastily
left the French Capital, and proceeded to Calais. Fur
four days past he must lave been necessarily detained
by contrary allots, on the other side of the channel.
Ihe win; had this day permitted the arrival of the
Paris papers, which have been so long delayed ; anti ,
this dap, we doubt not Mr. Canning has arrived iu
Louth's.
Yesterday morning the Earl of Liverpool came to
town fr•tas his seat at Consbe-witotl, and the Chancellor •
of the Exchequer came to town from Blackheath, to ,
attend a Cabinet Counsel summ.itei to meet at two
lo'clock at the Foreigtvoffice. The Council sat in de-
liberation till about half past three.
The following analysis of the division in the House
of Lords *Too the third reading of the Bill of Pains
and Penalties is probably different from any that have
as vet been made. and may suggest some important re-
fieitions. Of the 207 Peers who voted on that ques-
tion, 134 have inherited their seats, while the re-
maing d 3 have obtained them by creation or prem.
tint', by election or by appointment. Of the 124 who
have inherited their seats, 45 voted fur the Bill, /1
against it. Of the C 3 who have obtained their seat*
by creation or promotion, by election or by appoint-
meet, 63 voted for the Bill, 20 against it.
Died, on Sunday evening, at his Marine Retreat. at
Peiphane, Sussex, Win. Heyley, Esq. in the 76th year
of his age, universally regretted by his poorer neigh.
hours, as his charity was unbounded, sad by the Li-
•---its as oae of due most amiable poets of his day.
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