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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 1820.

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Paws SEVEN Plll4Ol.

which was, the production at the account of the nape
elation that passed between the agents of the FAO*
41overtsroent and her Majesty tits Queen. It sea**
that the House was now called upon to institute Vie
ceedings against her Majesty, fur thecrime of setting
her foot in England. This was the sum of the charge.
The King, it appeared, had the same objections,tie be
in the same kingdom with her Majesty, as he formeriy
had to sit with her in the same drawing-room:4lllpar,
bear!)--In pursuance of this feeling of enmity, a
threat was held out against her Majesty at one time,
and then a bribe was proffered of 50.040/. to induce
her to renounce her character as Queen of these
realms. When the King sent a Message to the Molise
of Commons, with a view to induce them to join him
in an accusation against her Majesty, the House had a
right to ascertain, in the first instance, if it was aerate
In which they should interfere at all. He was of opi.
nisi!' that it was not. No man in the country isibtra
that the affair was entirely of a private nature. fur-
ther was there the smallest doubt that the proceedbt; s
were instituted in that House with a view to the pre-
curing of a Bill. Herr the King was the prosecutor,
and lie was to be Judge in the last instance; for it
was well known that no Bill of Attainder could pa.•
without his Majesty's sanction. He begged the House
to consider the state in which they were about to be
placed. Since the time of Heury the Eighth, a dan-
gerous time to draw precedents from, the iateeference
of Parliament was never looked for in a case of this
kind. If the Princess Charlotte err- now alive, the
present Message would never have been thought, of.
He entreated the House to pause before it proceeded
farther.
Sir R. WILSON did not rise for the purpose of
promoting discussion. He believers there was but one
opinion as to the great importance of the case to which
the attention of the House had just been called. He
appealed to Ministers to protect the Queen frontal in-
dignity during the time that the proceedings were
carrying on against her. Ile did not now speak of
the indignity offered to her Majesty by foreign Mi-
nisters and Courts—he did not complain of the indig-
nity offered to her Majesty by her exclusion from the
Liturgy—but he thought it disgraceful in the extreme
to the authors of the indignity, that her Majesty, the
Queen of England, should find no other vessel to curry
her from Calais to this country but a common pocket
—that she should find no asylum, or plasm to reside
in, except the roof of an iudividual—an honest man.
—(Laughter from the Ministerial benches, followed
by loud cheering from the Opposition benches.)—Yes,
an honest man—one who had always discharged his
duty to his country with fidelity and seaL—(Cbeers.)—
He (Sir R. Wilson) was cert tin that his Majesty would
moor 'near any tadigntryitl be ofereal wrest partner
of his Throne, and once the object of his dearest
affections.
Lord A. Hallett:eon thought the present a favour-
able opportunity for the few observations which he had
to make. The House would recollect that he had
formed and expressed .a strong opinion Upcin this sub-
ject before. His Hon. Friend (Si, Robert *Buie)
seethed to attach but little importance to the exclusion
of het Majesty's name from the Liturgy. tie,(Lord
A. Hamilton), on the contrary, was persuaded that
this act of the Ministers tended in no small degree to
exhibit a disposition on their part to condemn her Ma-
jecty unheard. Ile was of opinion that this act of
theirs was wholly illegal, and contrary to the terms of
an Act of Parliament. Was it not one of the first and
the most boasted principles of British justice, that
every kill% idnal. from the highest to the lowest, was
regarded by the law as innocent, until be or she ea.
proved to be guilty. He would optical to the senti-
ments of justice, of Ministers the.bselves, if their con-
duct to the Queen was fair, even upon the supposition
that they were enabled to make out a case against her.
He begged to observe, that he spoke not from any in-
struction or authority upon this occasion. He contended,
that her Majesty', name ought to be replaced in the
Liturgy before any measure of hostility was instituted
against her. That it had been the intention of Mi-
nisters to strip her of her character of Queen was ma-
nifested by their present conduct. Their acts against
her had raised a prejudice, ender the operation of which
the House was now called upon to eater upon the dii-
cussion of charges to be brought forward against her.
The House had not even heeled why tilese indignities
were, *tiered to her Majesty. From the conduct of
Slinisteri it was an evident eonalusioa. the: they used
their intitence with a view to condemn her .unheard,
He implored the Howie to reusove from their minds all
prejudices, ant to enter upon the task Wien them in
the spirit of the law, which accounted all untried per-
sons to be innocent, notwithstanding Miaistees had, an
far as in theta lay, **admitted her Majesty. It was:
the spirit of the Constitution that the acts of the. Go;
moment should at least be characterised with lit
berality. Was the Order in Council eacluding her
name from the Liturgy in this spirit?. Was it not
issued rather in consequence of some, dark intrigue
hatched against her? It was a cesium feat; that this
Order of Council, having been sent to Band, was
'no taper than a piece of waste paper there. Many of
the clergy prayed for the Queen; and, in a late ae-
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of the °metal Convocation, a motion was
, ran& ti oedema this Order as an linproper later-
lertnee with the ecclesiastical administration of that
coitatiy. He (Lord A. Hamilton) thought it neces-
sary to say thus meth ; for he coati MI pee the arta:
of Ministers pervade every part of the kipinima. with-
out •proWitiag *Oast their conilact, aid without in-
sistlag so di* deitetier.llahrity w by treated in the
tarn way as tloriumiliMit RsiAia. asabelY. to be p"
upon her trial irithiliMpt4Uollli _ ,
Mr. Doman dilltamt rimer** purpose of enter-
in join any Mail di•endes of the mem* of this
eats, as pssio.ll birred ems/Vs
Occur. lie esslimed tp give law.
purr se his slllll6o.llllllthlsbedigiak test he should..
be.hrtanyed lullb iikiwimiisp. the expositiun
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