Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1820-09-12

ABROAD, assembled. Hty we're all pre-
sent, except the Duke of Wellington,
the Marquis of Lansdown, and the Lord
Chancellor, the latter being in the House
of Lords, hearing appeals. The COM
mittee first met iii Lord Shaitsbury's pri-
vate room on the first floor story, amongst
the apartments of the Lords officers,
and no person was allowed to remain in
the passages. The committee then went
to the robing room, and finally removed
TO the old House of Lords as the most
commodious apartment, and as the
farthest removed from interruption. The
usher of the black rod, Sir T. Tyrwhitt,
and other officers of the house, were sta
toned in various parts, and suffered no
persons TO approach the committee
room. During the sitting Of the COM
mittee, Messrs. Brougham and Denman
attended officially, as the queens law
officers, and presented a letter addressed
! by her majesty TO the committee. This
letter, it is believed was protest upon
the part OF her majesty against a pro-
ceeding which may prove fatal to her
honor, unless she were permitted to of
| fer evidence sufficient to repei the ale
cations that are urged agains; her. No
answer was returned by the committee,
and Messrs. Brougham and Denman
having waited for considerable time at
length withdrew.
1t is said, that should bill against the
Queen be introduced in the House OF
Lords, her maiesty's counsel, in conse-
quence of their being members of the
House ofCommons, cannot be permitted
to conduct her case in the Upper House.
We are enabled 10 state, however, that
Mr.. Brougham has signifed his inten-
ton of resigning his seat in the Com
mons, in order TO be qualified to plead
her maiesty's cause in the House of
Peers. The Queen has been graciously
pleased to accept ofthis offer, and TO ex-
press her Acknowledgements for such
voluntary sacrifice to her interest, on the
part of Mr.. Brougban. The witnesses
against her majesty are SO numerous and
the evidence of such nature, that she
will have to bring over many persons
from the continent, to disproye the allie
cations laid TO her charge.
Morn. Chroa.
The following are the resolutions in
troduced in the House of Commons on
the ed of June, by Mr. Wilberforce.
They were seconded by Mr. S. Wortley.
Resolved, That this House has learn
cd with unfeigned and deep regret, that
the late endeavors to frame an arrange
ment which might avert the u ecessity Of
public inquiry into the information laid
before the two Houses of Parliament,
have not led 10 that anicable adjustment
of the existing differences in the royal
family which was SO anxiously desired by
Parliament and the nation.
That this House, fully sensible Of the
objections which the Queen might just
ly feel to taking upon herself the relin-
punishment of any points in which she
might have conceived her own dignity
and honor to be involved, yet feeling the
inestimable importance of an amicable
and final adjustment of the present I'M
happy differences cannot fortear decla-
ring its opinion, that when such large
advances have been made towards that
object, her majesty by yielding to the
earnest solicitudc of the House of Com
mons, and forbearing to press further
the adoption of those propositions on
which any material difference Of opinion
yet remains, would by no means be IN
tlerstood to indicate any wish 10 shrink
from inquiry, but would only be deemed
to afford a renewed proof ofthe desire
which her majesty has been graciously
pleased to express, TO submit her own
wishes to the authority OF Parliament;
thereby emitting herself to the grateful
Acknowledgements ofthc House OF Com
mons, and sparing this House the pain
full necessity of those public discussions,
which might be their ultimate result,
could not but be distressing to her
maiesty's feelings.
Lord A. Hamilton moved, as an
amendment, that at the end OF the first
period in the original resolution, all the
words between " that this House, and
the words "sparing this House" should
be struck out, and the following words
inserted in their stead:
That this House sensible of the OBJ
lection the Queen must feel at the relin-
punishment of any points in which her
dignity and honor are involved, Is OF
opinion, that the insertion Of her majcs-
TVS name in the liturgy would be, under
all the circumstances of the case, the
most expedient and most ehectual mode
nc cpar;nu this House &c