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ought not to be involved in misery for an alien and unworthy object; we mean for a cause not essential to our national interest, and not of suf ficient importance to call for a domestic division upon it, to the ruin of our happiness and repose, and as the queen alone stands in the way of ars rangement, we say she ought to yield to the universal good, we care not whether as a martyr or a criminal." Could it be believed that this person was no other than the queen consort of England-no less than his majesty's queen. He leftt it to the impression and fair feeling of the house, if language like this was to be sanctioned ? aw

Mr. C. Wynn, and Mr. Stuart Wortley, while they admitted the embarrassed situation in which the house was placed, urged the necessity of im mediate investigation.g

Mr. Hobhouse said, it appeared to him that the queen had gained nothing by the negotiation but the means of going out of the country in a more! suitable manner than she had come to it. He believed that ministers would have been glad He could to get her out of it on any terms. not understand how the green bag was to be got off the table. An honorable gentleman, on a former evening, had compared the situation of ministers to that of certain characters in the Rehearsal; but the honorable member for Bramber and his associates, perhaps, rather resembled

those ins andrama founded upon it, the Critie, where lord Burleigh says to Mr. Puffy Bute Sir, you have not told us how we are to get off.” "Why" replies he,, " cannot you get off kneeling?" "No" " Egad, it will have a good effect if you go off praying "

The question was loudly called for.

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Mr. Wilberforce expressed his regret that the advice of the house of commous had been reject ed, because he was convinced that if it had been followed her majesty's honor would have stood assured in the page of history. Before that vote was tendered, much had been already conceded: to the queen in the course of this transaction. In the course of the negotiation it appeared that only two points remained unadjusted the acknowledgment of the queen at foreign courts, and the restoration of her name to the liturgy. The first was removed by the offer to nominate her majesty as queen to the court at which she wished to reside; and then, all that impeded the final arrangement, was the restoration to the liturgy. Whether the name ought to have been taken out, was not to the point; for the basis of the negotiation was, that the one side was not to retract, nor the other to admit any thing So far did the legal advisers of the queen adopt this principle, that they offered to receive an equi• valent for the concession demanded, and he would

ask if the house of commons had fallen so low that its assurance of the construction put upon her majesty's yielding this matter of feeling was not a sufficient ground to satisfy all that she could have desired? It was on that ground he voted for the proceeding, and he was sorry their hopes had been dashed to the ground,

Mr. Denman said that the legal advisers of the queen did not fear the charges contained in the green bag: it was only its falsehoods they dreaded, and the sole delay they required was to enable them to meet these charges satisfactorily, of which they had no doubt. They asked in the first place an open trial, and if not that, as fair a trial through the interposition of the secret committee as was possible,

The house now divided: for lord Castlereagh's motion, 195; against it 100. Majority for ministers, 95.

On Tuesday evening, earl Grey, in the house of lords, made, what may almost be called the last effort to stay the proceedings which were instituted against the queen, by moving, that the order for the meeting of the secret committee to consider the papers referred to their lordships be discharged. This motion gave rise to a very long debate, in which the same arguments were used by ministers as in the former debates on this momentous ques

tion, and the motion was ultimately negatived by a majority of 102 to 47 so sedeer over fund

In the course of the debate lord Liverpool said, the alteration of the liturgy was the act of the king's confidential servants who had advised it. The act was done in the council, and the lords of the council, who were present were, perhaps, strictly responsible; but in the practice since the revolu tion, the acts done in council were preceded by advice on the part of the king's confidential ser→ vants, who were thus the peculiar objects of re sponsibility. The archbishop of Canterbury merely acted ministerially, and was obliged to execute the orders in council. Thus the public were informed by whom the omission of her majesty's name was advised, and on whose shoulders the whole weight of that odious measure should rest.

During these proceedings in parliament, the whole country rose as if actuated by one spirit of indignation, and meetings were held in various towns, for the purpose of addressing the queen. One of the first of these addresses was presented, from the town of Nottingham, to which the following is her majesty's answer:

"I receive with cordial gratitude, the affectionate a sentiments expressed in this address. on sps and. Sincerely as I must ever deplore the distresses that may fall on any of my fellow-subjects, I must

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decline to speculate on their probable causes, or to cast reproaches on their supposed authors. Having come to this country for my own vindication, I cannot mix political animosities with my just

cause.

My fervent prayers will be constantly offered to the throne of mercy, for the happiness and prosperity of the whole English people; and there is no portion of them for whom I feel a livelier interest, than the inhabitants of the ancient town and neighbourhood of Nottingham.”

< This was followed by an address from the inhabitants of York and its vicinity, to which her majesty replied:

"I thank you for your loyal congratulations on my accession to the throne, and on my return to England, as well as for your expressions of condolence on the severe losses, which, in common with the whole nation, I have sustained in the death of my dear and illustrious relatives. Had it pleased providence to preserve their lives, I should not now have been exposed to the persecutions that await me, nor the country to the fatal consequences that must always follow a departure from the sacred principles of public justice. In the unequal contest against those secret advisers, who are alike the enemies of my royal consort and myself, I rely, with confidence, on the sympathy and support of every generous bosom, and feel secure

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