The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-07-09 00:00:00

Laserna. These letters add that the inhabitants of
Lima welcomed this change with extreme enthusiasm.
They say that the sew Viceroy resolved to take advantage
of the favourable disposition of the people, and of the
troops, and immediately marched from Lima with
8,000 men against San Martin, whom he completely
defeated with the loss of 1,800 men killed, wounded.
and prisoners.
The same letters state that Lord Cochrane attempted
to surprise Lima, but that he was .repulsed by our
forces, and that it was said, that the adventurer bad
been wounded in the combat.

In a preceding column we ;Inert the sequel of the
proceedings before the Privy Council on Saturday, re-
lative to the Qesest's right to be crowned. The ar-
gument of her MAJESTY'S Counsel rests on the usage
that bad time immemorially prevailed, respecting the
Coronation of the Queens of England, except in such
instances where the omission could be satisfactorily
explained. The KING'S Arroareev and SOLICITOR..
Gemmel., on the other hand, contend that from the
want of uniformity in the practice, the enjoyment
of the privilege was at the suffrance, subject to the
will, and the sole right of the crown. The exceptions
advanced against the plea of proscription, are four of
the wives of HaNae Viii., and the wives of CHARLES
I. and 11., and the wife of tizonee I. With respect to
those cases which occurred in the reign of Hauer
VIII., we conceive it would, on any other occasion, be
beemed most inconclusive and ridiculous to infer the
defect of any constitutional right from the omission or
interruption that might have taken place in its exer-
cise during the domination of that arbitrary and capri-
cious Monarch ; and as to those which happened since
the omission of the usage in question, they can be suf-
ficiently explained without any necessity of doubting
the right. In the ease of the wives of CHARLES I. and
11., they, being Roman Catholics, could not go through
the religious part of the ceremony, and were likely to
have originally and spontaneously waived the exercise
of the right. From that of Gwent I. nothing can
with any fairness be inferred, for his Queen never
came to Fngland. He had disagreed with her in
tiermany, and it is understood, was there divorced.
In none of these instances, therefore, can we find
any circumstance that shakes the argument of
the QUEEN'S claim as founded on prescription.—
This prescription, it is maintained. is the founda-
tion of the legal right of the QeraN to partici-
pate in the ceremony of the coronation, for the
right of the Kin; rests on no other usage. But say
the advocates for the Crown, the KING'S right is re-
cognised in other forms; and, with equal force, it
is replied, and so likewise is the Queen's. Divers
of the King's subjects, as her Majesty's Memo-
rial set forth, lay ardent customs and usages, as
also in regard to divers tenures of sundry manors,
claim and are bound to perform divers services on the
day of the QUEEN Consort's Coronation. Now, if the
law admits that these services are imperative and
binding, can the basis on which they are exacted be
in any respect destitute of essential legal form ? It
is asserted, however, that the services performed at the
Coronation of the Kings and Queens were contingent,'
and were not necessarily required, unless the cere-
mony took place. Nothing, it was alleged, appeared
in ancient times to prove that the ceremony was obligee
tots- e% en on the King : he could postpone or omit it
altogether. Admitting this to be the truth, no
stronger objection could be made against the Corona-
nation of the KING himself. Nothing could imply
more plainly the emptiness of the ceremony, and the
vanity of the pageantry. Yet, framing some dis-
tinction between the Queue and the KIWI, it is neces-
sary for the Counsel for the Crown to insist that the
Coronation is on the part of the KING a political and
religious act, in recognition of the compact between
himself and his people ; while, on the other hand, it
is an act with which it is entirely in his power to dis-
pense. The two positions cannot be held together.—
If the Coronation be voluntary, not obligatory
on the part of the Kluft, it is inconsistent with the
solemn character which is assumed, as well as with
the spirit of the Constitution: if it be obligatory on
the King in Ibis political capacity, it is obligatory on
hint to the same extent as on his predecessors, and in
reference to all the relations in which he is recognised
by law. He is recognised by law as married. The
Queen is by law recognised as his Consort ; and what
but the law can deprive her of the honours which have
been exercised and enjoyed immemorially by Queen
Consorts as the rights attached to their rank 1'

Saturdaylast, Robert Wardell, Esq. LL.B. was called
to the Bar by the Honourable Society of the Middle
Temple.
Vesterday, the Lord Chancellor, Viecount Sid-
mouths, and Viscount Melville, had audiences of his
Majesty..

Saturday the Marquess of Cholmondeley had an
audience of the I►in4, at his palace in Pall-Mall.
The Marquess of Anglesea bad an audience of the
King on Friday.
Lisbon Papers to the ?3tl ult. state, that the Regency
have communicated their thanks to the Captain of his
Alajesty's ship Litfry, for his prompt and generous offers
sit assistance during the late fire. It his said the fire
miginated in the design of some incendiary. A small
Iteet of transports with 1300 troops on board, under the
couvoy of the Sao Jn.ks Magnaninso sloop of war, were
to sail from the Tagns with the first fair wind to Bahia.
Advices from St. Petersburgh of the 11th alt. mention,
that an extraordinary degree of activity existed there in
all commerce of importation; but that the reverse was
the Me with regard to that of exportation. This of
comae had produced a depression in the rate of ex-
change.

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