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

PRICE SEISM PENCE.

the question was, whether a legal presumption of gut)'
could he inferred. He would not consider it on the

gronnds of policy, in girinr his opinion on guilty or nel.

He took the liberty of making these few obserrati.•ra,

and he begged to ;more 111(.4 Lordships that it m a

great relief to his mind, as it must be to all their Lord-
ships, when he assured them, that this was the last wortf
he should sad• on that must important question. If Le

hail not been convinced of tlar guilt of the Queen, no-
thing ciauld induce him to vote for the third reeding of
tlar Hill, loot lie **stared their Lordship•, on his con-

arie NIT, that after a most anxious, painful, and attentivit
investigation, he saw no grounds to induce him to alter
the opinion he had already given.—(llear, hear.)
The Bishop of CHESTER said he TORE to ex/plain
the grounds of the conduct which he meant to purest-
upon the present et.oge of the question before the
House. 1k bad given his vote for the second read-
ing of this bill upon his full but painful conviction
that her Majesty was guilty of the crime alleged
against her in the pre:onside of the bill. As it appear--
ell to his jaitl;rusetit, the crime of adultery could be
proved by eirruanstantiAl evidence alone, and it alsit
appeared to him that in the present case that evidenr:•
had been accumulated in an extraordinary and mast-
etonviticing manner. If her 31a:,esty still be innocen.,
he must say that ionocener never before in the enrol!'
of the world was placed, or had to contend oitit
such a t onabiisation of c reurnstantiod and corroltoratis
facts adverse to its ch..raeter. In giving his vote I t
the second reading of Hoe bill, he by no means inter
ed to he understood as corn-tarring in the diem,
clause. (clear.) lte did nut wish, in any thing uhi It
he was now about to say, to enter again into the con-
sideration of 11w proof of her 3lujesty's guilt ; but
he thought the flit tart e clause was contrary to the
estaloli•bed usage of tier civil law in ordinary case-,
and, more espo c.ahlv in such a c. a • as this, against the
divine la .v. Thinking it, therefore, against the pit..
rept of the olivine law, and contrary to the whole spi!it
of the civil law, it was impossible for him now to vote
for the hill will, that choose. (Hear.) In votioo:r
against the divorce clause he begged permission to
repel the insinuation that hail been thrown out, td.ot
persons who toted against the alit oree, but still for the
other choice, were voting rather the degradation of
the King than that of her 3lajeite. Such an insinua-
tion was utterly repugnant to his intention iu the
course which he had taken or was about to take.

(War, hear.) If there was one circumstance mere
degrading or abhorrent than another throughnet
this unhappy case, it was the manner in which the
name of the King had been introduced iu the discuss
sinus upon this bill. The House had heard one Noble
Lord .ay, that if he were Archbishop, and called
upon to produce the 80015.,0f Prayer to his Mafjesty.
iie would have filing it into his King's face sooner than
do such :mil such an act. (Hear, and a laugh.)
Counsel at the bar, participating in this improper feel-
ing, had rentureik 11 Aorreeco erfernat to compare
the present exercise of the kingly power to the most
abominable tyratiqy in the era of corrupted and inipe-
rial Home. (Hear, hear, hear.) This comparison
was in the highest degree unjust and unfounded ; it
%vas totally uninerit .(1 (hear): fur, in the future his-
tory of the world, the national re7enry of this coun-
try, under the guidance of the present Sovereign,
would bear compari,on with the proudest period
the annals of the hist.wy of any country. (Hear.)
!hying s:ated, reliectiug the bill, that he had noted
for the second reading, he was tinder the necessity of
adding that he could nut cote fur the third reading
with the divorce clause for g a part of the Hill.'

But he was in tbi% ilithettity—thatafter what hatl

t. ken place, he could nut bring himself to vote for
the third reatlinz, nor conld he, approving of it gent-
rally, conscientiously vote again,t it. lie must there-
'fore, with the leave of the House, withdraw when the
division tuck place. (Hear.) He would sit down with
this satisfaction, that he felt he had conscientiously
discharged his ulnty—perhaps imperfectly—but assu-
redly with a sincere and hottest desire to act justly an,l
impartially. (War.)
Earl tiIIOSVICNIVA said he did net mean new to
trespass upon their Lordships' time with any detailed
statement of his opinion against the Bill ; but, as an
allusion had been suede to an expression of bis by
the Right Rev. Prelate who had just sat down, be
begged permission to explain the phrase he bad made
nxr eif. It was peifeetly true that ht- had toed the
tr.'r•is initiated to him ; bnt he had dune so in this
111..113 v.—A rumour had prevailed—whether true •r
n.s", he at the time had said he could not tell—that
the supporters of ministers had given out that his Ma-
jesty was the main cause of this unfortunate gne•tion
being agitated, notwithstanding the decided voice of
the country : and that it was the King himself who'
desired the Archbishop to omit her Majesty's came in
the Littirgy. He had .aid at the time that he thuaglit
this tumour extremely inivroper, extremely itide:o-
rolls, and discreditable to his Majesty'. Ministers:.
has•iug► thus stated his opinion of it, he eettai:►ly
• I declare. that were he Archbis•wp. feeling a. \o•
(tad the etil which the erasure of the tjecru's stan►e-
was likely to entail upon the country, and anticipating
the dangers whirls would attend such in act, so con-.
trary to law, jostler, and humanity, he shook!, sooarr
than strike it .tu: front the Liturgy. have arrows the

Prayer-honk in his Majesty's face. And he had also •
that, under ouch rirrn astanees, sooner than re-
wain °sea his Majesty's adininistrati..n, he would have
traerriell upon the seals of office. (Hear.) Such were
his sentitituts upon the mess:tees; and he implored
the House to colsider the situation io which it would

be pi iced if, in Jet me.l opposition to th• geoerol Niles
of the ct.anuy, they pressed this Hi:l with sloth a NO-
' jarity for its second rending us 2$ is a Heise of 211
mendsorcrresent. Thu stisj..rity cool•! never Isetwip.
posed as giv;!g t'he real cos...titre:lre uf *the Voile ll'
a Di:l of fan ua.art. the asure he thurght of the