The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1821-1823, 1821-08-29
LUNUUN3 JUL d
PRIVY COUNCIL.
The Queens right to be crowmed.

AT 10 o'clock, yesterday morning, the
Privy Council met at Whitehall, to hear
her Majesty's counsel in support of the
Queens legal right TO be crowned with
the King at the approaching solemnity
of the coronation. For MANY years so
large a Privy Council had not met, there
being forty-nine Prvy Counsellors pres
ent, together with large assemblage
of Members of Parliament who are not
of the Council.
At the end of the table stood Mr..
Brougham and Mr.. Denman, her Males
tvs Attorney and Solicitor Generals and
DIR. Lushington. Mr. Wilde and Mr..
Williams were in attendance, but not in
their forensick habits. The Kings At
torney 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 admission of strangers; the small
space near the door, which is only ca
pable of containing about dozen per-
SOiRS. was INSTANTLY ulIeu.
The Clerk of the Council, at five
minutes past ten o'clock, proceeded to
read the three memorials transmitted
by her Majesty to the King, and to the
King in Council, asserting her legal
right to participate in the honours of
the coronation, and praying that neces-
sary arrangements for that purpose shall
be taken and communicated to her Maj
esty.
The following is the principal memo
rial addressed to the King in Council =
"To the Kings Most Excellent Maj
esty in Council assembled.
The memorial Of her Majesty the Queen
s'Sheweth, that your Majesty has by
your royal proclamation, bearing date
at Carlton-House, the 9th day of June
instant, declared your royal will and
pleasure to celebrate the solemnity of
your royal coronation upon Thursday,
the 10th day Of July next, at your pal
ace, at Westminster; but that directions
have not been given for the coronation
of the Queen, as hath heretofore been
accustomed on the like occasions.
"That divers of your Majesty's sub
jects, by ancient customs and usages of
these realms, as also in regard of divers
! tenures of sundry manors, lands, and
other Entertainments, do claim, and are
bound to do and perform divers services
on the day and at the time of the coro-
nation of the Queen-Consort of these
/, realms, as in times precedent of their
ancestors, and as those from whom they
claim, have done and performed at the
coronation of the Queen-C ensort in
| times past.
CItrHles as of'IIsIrfs ovIcp4sttu Int; ll1r
emony of her royal coronation; and TO
preserve, as well her Majesty's said
right, as the aforesaid lawful rights and
lnhentances of others of your Majesty's
subjects.
"The Queen respectfully prays, that
your Majesty will be graciousiy pleased
forthwith to issue your royal proclama-
ton, thereby to appoint the same 10Th
day OF July next, at Westminster afore-
SAID, to celebrate the ceremony of her
coronation as Queen-Consort, and to d.
rect that all such as by the said customs
and usages and tenures are bound to do
and perform the services aforesaid. do
duly give their attendance accordingly
at the said day and time of the corona
ton aforesaid, in all respects furnished
as to SO great a solemnity appertaineth,
and answerable to the dignities and
places which every one of them holdeth
and enjoyeth and further, that your Mai
esty will be graciously pleased to issue
your royal commission under your great
seal, appointing Commissioners to re.
celve, hear, and determine the petitions
and claims which shall be made to them
in this behalf.
I" And the Queen, as in duty bound
shall ever pray"
Mr. Brougham then addressed the
Prlvy Council in support of the petition.
In long speech, which he had not fin
ished when the Council adjourned.
Madrid papers to the 22d nit. arrived
yesterday. Spain is suffering severely
IN her commercial interests from the
prohlbitory system which the Cortes
introduced in their infancy of Legislation