Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1821-08-31

vention voted for the dea.S ,,e LEXIS XVI. of
whom % died by the guiilotine, % by sr;ci'e,
S24 in obscurity, aud IS were living in 1916.
PRIVY COUNCIL.
The Queens right to be Cro,raed-At 10
O'Clock yesterday morning the Privy Council
met at Whitehall, To hear her Malesty's coun-
Gil in support fthe Queens legal right To be
crowned with the King at the approaching So
ennity of the coronation.-For many years
so large Privy Council had not met there
bemg 10 Privy Counsellors present, together
with large assemblagc of Members of Par
Lament vino are not Of the Council. We oh
served at the council table,
Their Royal Highnesscs the Dukes of York
aud Clarence and within the railing the Lord
Chancellor, the Lord President of the Coun-
Gil 1.-THE Earl of Harrowby,) the LoId Prvy
Seal, (the Earl of Westmoreland,) the First
Lord of the Treasury, the Earl of Liverpool j
the Secretaries of State (the Marquis of Lon
donderry, Earl Bathurst, and Lord Sidmouth J
the Master General of the Ordnance, 1.-THE
Duke of Wellington;) the Earl of Iauderdale
Sir Charles Long the Lord Steward (the
Marquis of Cholmondelcy y Lord Chamber
lain, 0he Marquis of Hartford J the Master OF
| the Horse 1.-THE Duke of Montrosc J Mr.. Il.
Bathurst Mr.. Wellesley Pole: Mr.. Peel the
Lord Chief Justice Abbott the Chief Baron
Chief Justice Dallas, and the Master of the
Rolls; and Sirs VIM. Scott and john Nicholl;
the Earl of Donoughmore (; Lord Melville !;
Lord Amherst: Lord Binning Lord Teign-
mouth Lord Yarmouth Mr.. Robinson Mr..
Wallace Mr.. Ticrncy !; MIR. Beckett; Mr..
| Arbuthnot: Mr. Hu5kinson; aud many other
official characters Were present. Sir J. Mack
| intosh, Sir G. Hill, Eir. Calcralt, and several
other members ofthe House of Commons,
were among the spectators. st the end of
the table stood Mr.. Brougham and Mr. Den
man, her majesty's Attorney and Solicitor
Generals. and DIR. Lushington. Mr.. Wilde
and Mr. Williams were in attendance, but not
in their forensic habits. The Kings Attorney
and Solicitor Generals sat near the Lord
| Chancellor, at the opposite end of the table.
| As soon as the members had taken their
seats no objection was made to the admis-
sion of strangers; the small space near the
floor, which is only capable of containing a
| bout dozen persons, was instantly filed.
| The Clerk ofthe Council, at five minutes
past ten O'Clock proceeded to read the three
memorials transmitted By her Majesty TO the
King, and 10 the King in Council, asserting
her legal right to participate in the honours of
the coronation, and praying that necessary ar
engagements for that purpose shall be taken
and communicated TO her Majesty.
| The following is the principal memorial adj
dressed to the King in Council =
"To the Kings Most Excellent Majesty in
council assembled.
The memorial of her Majesty the Queen
"Showeth, that your Majesty has, BIZ your
royal proclamation, bearing date At Carlton
house, the 9th day Of june inst. declared your
royal will and pleasure to celebrate The solem-
nifty of your royal coronation upon Thursday
the 9th day of July next, at your palace, al
Westminster; but that directions have not
| been given for the coronation of the Queen, as
hath heretofore been accustomed on the like
occasion.
"That divers of your Majesty's subjects, by
ancient customs and usages Of these realms,
as also in regard to divers tenures Of sundry
manors, lands, and other hereditaments do
claim, and are bound TO do and perform di-
vers services on the day and at the time of
the coronation of the Queen Consort of these
realms, as in times precedent OF their ances-
| tors, and as those from whom they claim
have done and performed at the coronation of
| the Queen Consort in times past
That the Queen most duGfully claims, as
OF right, to celebrate theceremony other royal
coronation; and to preserve, as well as her
Nlalcsty's said right, as the aforesaid lawful
rights and lnheritancc5 of Others of your Ma
jjesty's subjects
Z" The Queen respectfully prays, that your
Majesty will be Sraciously pleased forthwith
to issue your royal proclamation, thereby to
appoint the same 18th OF July next, at West
minister aforesaid. to celebrate the ceremony
of her coronation as Queen Consort and 10
direct that all such as by the said customs and
usages and tcnures are bomdto do and per-
form the services aforesaid, do duly give their
attendance accordingly at the same day and
time OF the coronation aforesaid i'll all respects
iurnsheda TO so grcata soemnity appertaneth
and answerable to the dignitics and places
which every one of them holdetl and enjoy
eth; and further, that your Majesty will be
graclously pleased TO issue your royal commits
sion under your great seal, appointing com
missioners TO receive, hear, and determine, the
petitions and claims which shall be made to
them in this behalf
" And the Queen as in duty bound shall ever
pray"
Mr.. Brougham then addrcs al de Priqy
Council iii support OF the petition, IN long
speech which he had not finished when the
council adjourned.
Accounts from Lisbon are to June Il. The
King had directed a loan to be negotiated TOR
SIX millions Of crisadoes for the Bank of Bra
I'll. If II could not I've obtained in Portugal,
application was to bemadein England or else
where. The Cortes had dsappTcved of this
loan.
The Kias of Portugal has sent to the Cortes
new assurances Of his determination TO sup
port the new constitution and a disavOwal of
any thing to the contrary which may have
been said at the Congress OF Laybach, or at
any of the Courts of Europe.
1t was reported the latter part of June, that
the whole Russian feet al Cronstadt, was fit-
ting out with all haste, to proceed to the Me-
dterraneaD.
The East India proprietors complain Of the
new law for giving more freedom to the ports
of India.
Easterly winds, which are very unfavorable
to agriculture in Great Britain, prevailed there
at the last dates and had continued for some
inne. which cnugnh aninc annrn l1ntlsinne r,.ln