Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1820-08-15
RICHMOND, AUGUST Is. 1870.
TIE SEALS OPENEU

livery atteinpt 10 arrest the enquiry IN En-
Gland has failed !: The green bag il opened;
and the curtain has risen upon a drama in
which Kings and queens are players, and The
whole people of the British empire are anxious
spectators.
The first attempt at an amicabI adjustment
WAS through the official agents OF the King
and Queen Various letters had passed be-
tween Lord Liverpool and MIR. BrOngham-
nusil the negotiation was transferred TO Lords
Wellington and CastleIeagli on behalf of The
King and Messrs Brousliain aud Denliam Oh
that of the Queen. After five conferences
from the 18th To the 10Th june this attempt
tell TO the ground in this way: The Queen
was willing 10 live abroad 1.-THE thing which the
king had most aaxiously at heat i-but then
she Teqhlred some guarantee that this com.
piiahce should not carry with il any impnta-
tioH upon her innocence, as If she were afraid
OF an enquiry: as this guarantee, she de
nlanued, as stne qRd non, either that her name
should be placed Ell the Liturgy, or that she
might be formally introduced as Queen of
England 10 foreign cOufis by the Kings mi.
nisters abroad: The servants OF the King re.
Jected both these demands, principally be.
cause II might intimate IA sense of her inno-
cence IN The eyes of the king, and this too af-
Ter lie had recommended an euquiry into her
gun. Instead of introducing her abroad, as
she wished it, the kings servants fiually pro.
posed to cause official no tificaticB TO be made
OF her majesty's tegal character as Queen" TO
the government of the Milanese or Roman
STATES, leaving II to the sovereign of such state
en- TO her majesty an that character" The
Queen rejected this conditional proposition
ana the papers were laid before Parliament.
Mr. Wilberforce then struck out new at
iempt al cancellation. He prevailed on the
House Of Commons to adopt a resolution sub
siantialiy requesting the Queen " to forbear TO
press further the adoption Of those PROPOSE
ions on which any ma terai difference OF Opiu-
ION YET feiIiains :; and declaring that this sac
fIflce on the part OF the Queen To The caase Of
peace, should not be construed by them as any
indication of her wish 10 " shrink from euuui-
ry.-Ihe Queen, however, did not Yield 10
tiiis request. She replied with much dig
nity as The OCCASION permitted that The "aues-
ton whether she would make herself party
TO anyiineasure proposed mast be decided by
hcr onn lettings and conscience, and by them
alone; that as subject OF the state, she would
bow with Difference, TO every act OF the soye-
reign authority but as an accused dhdinIured
Queen, she wonld not consent 10 tie sacrifice
OF any essential privilege, or withdraw her
appeal to those principles Of public justice,
which are alike the safeguard OF the highest
and bumb!esi Individuals"
Twodays after this reply was handed to the
! III OF T.. on the 10Th June she addressed a
| petition 10 the II. of Lords, in which she pro.
| tests against any committee of secret exani0a.
! ZION; but claims AN open enquiry, al which
| she, her c0unseiaDd witnesses NAV be present
| She also prays TO be heard immediat b,
| counsel at the bar of the house. .Messrs
| Brougham. Denman aud Williams, according
| " dpHtdItb q iblHt COuIsN OF tDtiF
pledged themselves TO refute every charge, il
| they had time To collect their exculpatoi,
witnesses which would require not less thai
| OF q weeks-they we're very severe on The
| Kings WITNESSES. whom they styled tools
wretcbes, creatures; and threatened TO driv,
them out of court, II they had time opTocnrt
| their OwS witnesses....No order had been Ia
ken on this petition, as late as the 2Sib Jane
On Tbs 9th Lord Grey moved the House o
Lords TO discharge the secret committee, IL
order TO have public proceeding. This NO
ton was lOIt but in the cOnTse OF the discns
sion Lord Liverpool avowed that the Queer
coulg not be drrdigned ior adultery in iOreigi
country aud that" the only proceeding sp
plIcable 10 the present case was a iegislaLir
Que it might be hill of ditorce, or a bill o
| pains and penalties" sc.
On the day before June 26th) the suhjec
was postponed IN the ii. OF G.. TO the 7th July
Lord Castiereagh giving notice, that II the ii
OF l. did not IN the mean time adopt som
proceeding of judicial chat9cieF, he woul
move on that day the taking Hp tie snbec
poi by secret but open enquiry, IN which th
charges should be supported by evidence pt'
| duced 10 the House.
The last we learn Of this many beaded bus