s foiucign nlws parliament hojr of loim monday july 10 th fcirl 01 liverpool called the at tention of their lordships to the bill fra med en the report of thc secret commit tee the queens counsel hail applied that their lordships should proceed tori h- tvjtb with the inquiry this call he thought their lordships treie botnw to answer a far as it was practicable for them to do but be was convinced hat their lordships could not exorcise their duty if they proceeded iu this measure without having the advantage of at least a portion of the judges consistently therefore with the call made for imme diate proceeding he had inquired and found that on the 17th of august their lordships might hare the attendance of four judges and he should therefore move that the bill should be read a se cond time on the 17th of august earl grey observed that if there was any de lay it would be nuch better that it should take place before the proceedings commenced than during their progress he thought that the attendance of the judges might be obtained now and in that case it would be better to goon than to begiu at the 17th oi august with the probability of suspending the pro- ceedinxrs after that period certainly a copy cf the charges and a list of the wit nesses agafnst her ought to be communi cated to her majesty lord liverpool said that he thought that the charges were already sufficiently known and as to the communication of the names of the witnesses he was satisfied that no claim whatever could iu justice be made to such a communication- lord holland cited the standing order regulating pro ceeding oi inquiry declaring it to be im perative on their lordships to grant her jviajesfy tse suictance ci the charges against her every circumstance had proved this proceeding a very singular one surely there could be no reason why the names of the witnesses should not be disclosed to the accused party either atatrnent of the precise evidence should be allowed or if that were re fused a list of the witnesses should be forthcoming lord liverpool said that it would be better if the noble lord tvould make a distinct motion on the sub ject lord krskine thought a list of the witnesses ought to he laid before her majesty and that list ought to be given before any further step was taken lord liverpool then proceeded to follow up the motions he had already made with the following that the house should be called over on thursday the 17th of august at ten of the clock in the morning that the call be enforced by the anthority of their lordships that no peer shall be absent on that day nor on any subsequent one during the proceeding without leave from their lordships that no peer shall vote by prosy that the lord chancellor do write letters to their lordship- that their at tendance is required in the manner above stated ah these motions were successively agreed to lord erdine afterwards moved to take the question for affording a list of the witnesses to her majesty into con sideration oo fridav which mm agreed it is cjffisiiy true r vhiik that there arc ihee parties in the prefent proceeding the kin the queen and the state so far a refpeftg the king perfonally we do not heficatc to ty becaufe we regard it a a high moral qurftion that wcfhouldat once rrjed the propofed raeafure onleft his majefty came under the fame circum lances with others who feck relief in the deputies of the former cortes prcudcot general qutro hid been appointed vice prefidettt immediately after the nominati on of the futn secretaries a committee was appointed 44 member to inform the king that the cortes were actually and legally omutcd a letter was written to the secretary of state in order that he might attain when it would be a- ffrceable to hh majefty to receive the corn- lame imputed misfortune in other words unltfs his majeftys conjugal conduct was mittee from th cortes and the king an as irreproachable as ve witn to crefume it fwered that iu was willing to receive the i fm btfr jveejdy mutmpk jh 10 bill of divorce and pains and penalties against the queen in another part of our paper will be found a literal copy of the bil of divorce now pending before parliament for degrading and divorcing her majefty the queen for an adulterous connexion with one of her own fervant it is our pur- pofe to offer a few obfervations upon this proceeding and its prefent ftagc in the firft place as this was the only poffible mode of bringing the matter to trial and 3 both the minftiers and the friends of the queen are bound to bring it to iffue we think it but candid to ac knowledge that ve do not fee any caufe of blame to the miniftry in adopting this courfe it is much to be regretted that party and oppofitfon feeling6 fhould inter- pofe even in queftions of this kind the plan point is the king accufes the queen denies from the technical forms of the law there is no mode of trial open but by a bill cf divorce both king and queen therefore muft ncceffarily refort to thia bill of divorce let any plain man fugged any poffible objection to this meafure we confefs we fee none for the bill is effentially a bill of divorce though in its form but not in its fuhftance it wears partially the air of a bill of pains and penalties but the criterion is this that it admits of all the forms cf trial afual in bills of divorce aad which in praice at lealt are not ufual id bills of pains and penalties nov if her majefty will have a fair trial a trial at leaft as fair as it is poffible to have under the forms of the law what caufe has flic as far as refpeb this head of any complaint on the other hand ve ftill think that the examination by a feleft committee and fuch committee fo large was juilly objectionable as tending to prejudice fo conficrabua portion of her future judges a commtce perhaps was neceftary but why fo numerous and why not fclcftcd from men who are now retired from 2ft ve duty in the houfe of lords ah vurpolcs of a coaiittec might then have been anfwr d and ah inconveniences re hut when we tnke the intereft of the state into the confideration when we confider the importance of example in high ftation and the countenance which immorality gains by the example of ar audacious contempt of it in pefenages of high rank when we recoiled what the morals of franc- were rendered hy the two fuc- cefilve courts of the recent of orleans and louis xv and when we add to thefc convictions the comparative flateof morals in england and the continent under all thefc confiderations we fay we rccognife a clear and diftina public interefl in piofe- cuifag the prefent aitair to its juft concha- fion and we would grart that to the state which we would rcoufre further grounds before we would concede to the king we are not amongft ihofe who hold the king acquitted from the duty and corfcience of obferving the laws of the country his perfon is certainly exempted from all refponfibility but he remains bound in duty and by virtue of hu royal oilice and cnaracr though placed above all penalties but as the ground of the prefent proceeding is the intereft cf ihe state and as this interefl is fufficiently diftinit and intelligible wc fee no impedi ment in law to the prefent proceeding and as a fufucient ground is thus laid for the neafure we fee no occafon for travelling inio matter wholly extraneous to the merits of the que ft ion as between the quern and the eountir we fhl i deprecate therefore as moft indecent and difloyal any pcrfonal attack upon the sovereign as foreign to the legitimate defence of hei majefty in all thefe obfervations we of courfe prefume that her majefty is innocent and will cltablhh her innocence and we are fatisfied that as refpes theiiain chatge he will acquit hcrfclf w e underftand that fiieis poffeffed of conclufive evidence in anfwer to the alleged adulterous con nection we gnccrely hope that the current report is not erroneous in this refpeft it maybe remembered by fome of our readers that about twenty years fince or perhaps fomewhat more the chevalier deon at that time a kind cf envoy from france was accufed before a police magiltrate of a criminal aflaalt with an improper defign on a female and was put under bail for trial upon the ar rival of which trial his counted fuffcrcd all the evidence to proceed and when finally called upon for the defence ftated that they had but one anfwer that ihe chevalier was a woman j we truft that that the anfwer of the qneen vll be as concluflve and b the present tone both of hermajetty her advocates we a 01 oft an- ticipateihat it will be fo wcfhll be happy to be enabled to add in our next paper solvuntur rifa tabulx her majefty certuiniy preffeson the inquiry as if with a certain convidim of the refult and her adverfaries appear equally confident so much wc think in candid to lltte that we hall give very little credit to a dozen or even afcorcof fuch vito-iv- as tri lw lialijiiu dardlulau vcutftian c t3be nnlcfi the evidence reft upon fomething bcvond their t- llimony unlefs in other words it be confirmed either extrinlically orbyitsown coherence as circumtlartial jmttdence such is the prelent ftatt of morals on the continent and inch the little eftimation of an oath that no englilh court of julice can give much weight to fuch vvitneflcs fame without io ot time the committee called on his yily io received them moft graciously i and who tixcd the 9 fnft at loodok a m to appear before the congress ard make the fokmii oath to the con ft itu nod- on the 1 2th at daybreak another ex- oress arrived f mdtid in 6o hours which brought gazette with the offici al account offc majestys appearance in the cortes sm his oath to the coo dilu tion on the aiorg of the 9th before all tle princes of l blood the diplomatic body the mini council of state the stp cou of jwfticc in fact all the authorities- oi the town an immense numb of officers otliearmy and navy and about 2 iptators which is more t thc glerieft could con veniently hold hia mjty read a fpcech in which he itwftfl all the evils which had happened fr lhc hil fvc soain to the bad counctllors who furroun j- cdhim that jft ncc badatlaft con- defcended to off ljls c an1 j hc trulicd that fh jorte wullld afliil him in promoting the f j jelly appeared lo be ful1 ot fa1 poke with enegy anj without enbarraa- mnt the prr l cortes made a very fenlible irp to lht s l0 his almcvty nfv lc tbaiifctd the corto for thetf fw f tt feelinga towdi him an j tlal hc tered himlelf that a ew rra v ab r n p from that inoincnt iffa mjeily ifica re tired amidil the aiclanarions of the people the tears cf all thc fpctatnrs there are various rports in tke pans papers refpefting li pacha one rumor dates that he had bceaffaflinated vvhilft according to another ibry he had found thc means of ailing ai army of 1 2cooo men with which heiuended to carry the war iito the tnteritf of the turkifti empire according to other accounts by the way of venice ah had no more than fa m t 8 to 20000 men on whom hc could depend and wiib tbele he had 10 meet his determined encny the pacha of scutan who had 2cco ii i however added that fliould he cceed in defeating the latter hc may let defiance all thc tiuops lent againii hirfm conftastino- ple vienna jaiie 27 the auftrfan oofcrr fuya according to dired accounts from turkey ali pachas iituatioii is by 0 means favorable and perfuns who are wii acquainted with it are convinced hue for from being able to undertake oifenfive operations againft the porte he will find n- little difficulty ic defend himlelf againft the forces draws together agaiit him he appears irdcd qitc difpofed to fubnit and the only qutflttin reiair3 to the conditions upon hich he ftal be rcttored tu favoui i cadiz july 15 on the 12th when the lippy news arrived that our idouzed mo narch had renewed his oah to theconditu- tion the whole city wa- fdled with joy the fquareti and ftreets were thronged the regular troop3 and niilitia united and vaft proccffions moved through die ftreets fing ing patriotic hymn and houtiog t long live our constitutional king u long live the constitution m ltmg jive the people an immense procefton moved witi aw effi gy of his majefty mounted on a triumphal car fupported by officers of the militia the royal mantle was fupported by two beautiful children crowned with flowers above the effigy was a ftarue reorefent- ing spain holding thc conftitution in one hand and a fceptre in the other a baud of mufic led with innumerable was lights the procefticn was cfcorted by genmemen on borfeback elegantly drefled in ancient spaniih coftume the rear was brought up by a large detachment of militia all the edifices were mod fplendedly il- juminated at night and the whole popula tion icd with each other in offering a foeetable to express their love for the beft of monarch aid their enthusiasm for the conftitution worthy of a fiee and illuftri- ous people te dcum was celebrated at th cathe dral and a banquet v s given to the mili tia after which the immortal riegu was conducted in triumph to his quarters by the people letter from the fwrican consul in cajiz dated cadiz july the if if 1 s20 this town has been for the lalt lh dav from the london omirr oj j du 14 with anecdote ul uarlotno rgami her majtsfja chambertau this very tt j observable her ma- jestjs late chamberlain is porimj then dismissed l ij queens service i and if souny j his ollicc about iifi person was rnuofefit aii honorable ivfiy is he dismissed at this moineut vvhj iu6 she not bro with ha one single member of her ifaliau household u undisguised manner in which the name ot bartojoffio pefgmi i connected with that of her majtj in the bill of pains or peualtivs or rather the divorce hill which lias fceen introduced in thc house of lords renders wary anecdote respecting that individual of peculiar in terest c our reader will probably recollect that in thc obsnver of the 2jd ol may vvc published a sketch ol her majestys life embracing 1 the circumstances of her firit introduction into this country tlie trouble int which she was subse- tjueutly precipitated throngh the perfidy and falsehood o supposed friends the happy issne ol fch painful ordeal through which she passed- and her final departure in disgust from fiaglaud in lsli we now purpose to enter a little more at lare into the occurrences which imme diately preceded ler majestys embarka tion for thc contiientaud to follow them up by a sketch oi the events of her life during the live years she was absent fioin our shores u after the clrcr and universal recog nition of her ma estys innocence of the crimes alleged against her both publicly and privately in i13 her majesty u as relieved from all those restraints under which she had beei placed hy the circu lation of reports rounded iu the basest malignancy this is not tpafte true the acquittal of in it ii vi as only a we recollect as so being the mithtof william aus tin hi r there iras ro clear or universal recognition of tin purify of her morals a theatre of gaiety and refojciw on t e or i tiulifct oil ll t contrary th e crni- fioui madiid m n of die privj council animadvertrd e cmucioi the siioily npou it impropriety of her jt in ft an ex pre fa arrived in 48 how uating that the spaniih nation had their full filtim on the j conduct ami uic te king in a patcinaj 6th tint ihry had appoiited mr efpigo i m fidw mil l hane ci urn one of the n- enlihteued en liberal i conduct u she was restored iu this ctifidcree of the people and in p portion 10 tin- extent rf her acknowledged injwrips th- r affection seemed to in rcae hlill however her majesty had to encounter nil the iiortif ni consequmicos ol court iiitlueuce- ne wai debarred from thai elevated society which belonged to her rank and vhat was still more painful to her feelings she was deprived of the consolation which she hid been wont to derive from all her other rongs by fre quent intercourse with her daughter the v riter ought to have added that the restraint upon her intercanre with her daughter was imposed by thc advice of the privy council after an examina tion into the queens conduct which they found was such as to render it for the young princesss sake necessary that their intercourse should be under coh- troul aud restraint 4i it was in this state of things that she determined by travel to divert her mind from tjie indignities to which she was hourly exposed and on he 25th of ju ly l14 she wrote a letter to lord liv erpool the contents of which she desired mirhr be laid before the prince recent here arc proofs in abundance thoi thc queen herself speaks or that the wri ter affects to be in her intimate couii- deiice who else could tell the secret motives of her determination who else could tel her communications with loid liverpool who else ccuid give copies other letters who else could say what she was at the same time doing with mr whitbreud all these little traits are important they affix a degree of au thenticity to this paper which as we shall see hereafter gives out of her own mouth or that of her advocate ample reason to believe that the queen is not innocent of what is laid to her charge in this letter she stated that ac tuated by the most argent motive that of ri i c idhj to ihe iviuce ite- geflt as well as to secure the peace of mind of which she had been for so en a ay years dtpi ived she had after the most mature lellection determined to return to the continent after particularising some of her just grounds of complaint her majesty declared her intention to quit england for a scasen and to em- hark at worthing she added that she would ever be ardently solicitous for thc prosperity and glory of this generous na- c104k ave beg our readers to observe the fill- some jargon with which the writer en deavours to captivate vulgar popularity and to identity the queen with a people for whom individually as we shall see she does not seern to care a fi this is the same tore which the queen herself has used in her public answ ers i her majesty also communicated her intention to mr whitbread who in his ciiswi r stated that he had not been at all surprised at uc resolution with which her majesty had been pleased to acquaint him and concluded by reiterating his sentiments of devotion and zeal for her reestablishment in all the rights of the empire over which she was otic day to reijrn hv the answer of lord liverpool an nounced e communication of her ma jestys letter to the triucc regeut fits floy a uighuess acquiescence in her virws andasuring her that his koynl illhocss would never throw any obstacle in the uny of her present or future inten- iflutb uv io irc place where she might vi ih to reside on the 9th of august 1814 her majesty embarjeed to worthing on board the jason frigate to return by way of ilitniburghj to brunswick lady cliar- lotte lindsay and lady elizabeth to bes were her maids of honor mrst lojjer was her chamberlain mr win geli and mr craven were dlso her chamberlains her equerry was capt hess her physician dr holland her major domo mr si card still holding that situation her messenger mr hi eronimoiis a german stili in her ma jestys service let us here observe thit of the nine persons here mentioned the only two who are still in her service arc foreign ers nov onder she and her partisans should object to the evidence of foreign- cr u is objecting to evidence altogeth er she hid none uthers about her and notwithstanding she affected regard for the english nation she had not one eng lish person in her family or society or not more than one to these were added a few domes tics which constituted the whole of her majestys suit mr st leger from ill health did not accompany her majesty farther than brunswick- lady char lotte lindsay repaired to the spa to join her sister lady glenbcrvic but rejoin ed jler majesty at naples lady eli zabeth forbes returned to england to see her sister mr craven went to germa ny on family affairs and in order to meet his mother the margravine of anspach mr gell was attacked with the out and was obliged to resign his situation captain hess joined his regiment iu con- sequrnce of the renewal of the war and iu line from a varieh of different causes her majesty was forsaken by the differ ent english persons who composed her court we shall say nothing of the cause as signed for thc departure of all these la dies and gentlemen we huve had very different and very praiseworthy reasons assigned for their conduct one tiling we may saj that nearly all these excuses were either temporary or might have biefl foreseen before the parties left eng land and that therefore either they were not the true iflhey wore then that the separatioti was in tended from the bcghmn and persons were chon for farms- sakcj ahom the queen knew could not go ru withher mr oelps gour and mr st ligef3 uness do not fall mukr the jat- ler rifthese clime- but when the out of srt joruicot bcltr as we are eind o believe it did very oon why did he lover rejoin her and why was not mr st lgrs place ppliedat urunsmck fiie uls native place the chief resi dence ol her family aid her fiiends she sought by every means in her power to replace them by others of the same country but under different pre tences she was unable to obtain any save lieut ilannam r n- who became her private secretary this is an extraordinary admiffion his qncen fo popular fo beloved io innocent could not find one man one woman arid only one child out of this generous nation- who would fuhrnit to live with her under u different preten- ce fhr was rejected of every liritonborn except ifcul hannam of the royal navy and wn aullin who though not men tioned this defence we know ftill ac- compaiud her what were thefe pre tences ipor liiat the defence is filcnt people in general arc o6 enough of ac cepting honoraolc oluce about theperfjni of princca atid fovereirna why had the whole butih world an invincible difguftto accompany the princefi of wales the incautious ufe of this word pretence explains a little of thii matter the writer knows and by thin word ronfeltcs that thc real motives otthofeiefusalfl were fuch as the parties could nut refpeftfully or decently avow and they were therefore 0- bligcd ti iullliiute prctenrtf a falfe excufe when the true motive is unavowable thc writer ihetefwre knows that these ex cuses were false but does fh or he not alfo know what the true motive was but we have heard and believe that z thefe caufes were not pretences and that fome englifli perfons declined the princcf invitations plainly and honeftly alleging as their rcafon that they would not submit to thefociety of pergami w this lituation he was of courfe ob liged to form an italian fuite among whom cta found thefe who endeared themfelveg to her by their fidelity and attachment tliis goes on rather too fall both in argument and in feeling the head and the heart feem both too quick why fhould the extraordinary unanimity of thc englilh nation unanimous for the firft time fince the creation in refufing to enter the priucefs fervice ford her to form an italian fuite she is n t an italian fhe had no connexions nor ft tends in italy fhe nevet had been theirc in her life before j hie i a german her father and mother were and her nephrw i fovereign of a german kate why could die not have formed zgerman fuite the germans are generally fpeaking a particularly mora decoroas and trullworthy people and next to britons would have been certainly the fitted perfonfl to have cempofed the princefss fuice th argument of necefjity is therefore not only not worth much but it u falfe and drives us to form furmifes wdiy eniih lrifh scotch germans dutch danes prufllans c ficci were ujriicd and her fuite compofed wholly and exclufively of italians now as to the feeling is not the word endeared rathei a ftrong exprea- tttoii bfcrvc wtioc iuitc did net become m endeared but only fome of them we prefume the names which follow are thou of thc perfons fo endeared this endearment if advifcdly ufed and with relation to fuch peifons fpeak volumes but as it h only a cafual expree- fion we lhall not dwell upon it 11 thc countess of oldi of cremona a lady respectable for her qualities and mis fortunes became her lady of honour we know too much of foreign titles to be the dupes of thc nobility of the countess oldi thc count oldi may be juft 38 refpeetablc as ferdinand count fathomor bartolomo peigami fr ought we know but it appears by a fiibfequent paflage n this defcree that the countess oldi 13 bat- tolomo sister and that this bar tolomo pergami entered the queens fer vice in a f7rwftation and now we have ap explanation of the 1 range incognito name under which the princess of walea aftonidicd africa afia and europe the countefs angzla cldi it is well known that princes travelling incognito aflame inferior titles but they are generally their own or thole of the family here then we have the daughter of the duke of brunt- wick the wife oi the fovereign of england borrowing a name from the filler of her li ving fervant and adopting herfdf if wc- may ufc the expreffiou into the family ot pergami that her perfonal vanity might have fixed on the very inappropriate name of angela is ludicrous and pardonable e- nough but that flie fiiould have chofen a furname which tended o re prefent her a the filler cf her menial fervant 13 an inde cency and degradation of which we had nu conception till wc read this defence sup pofe it were proved inan ordinary crim cov trial that a lady h id turned her footman in to hcrconftant and mod intimate compa nion and that he pfted abroad under the name of that footmans lifter what would a jury fay refpce table fir her qualities end mitfor tunes this teems to imply that th counters had through her misfortunes- fallen into a low rank in life and thi cant of 4t reipect iblc for her mi- for tunefl is an attempt f flur over thcgroindcco rum of railing the fervants filter fiom a mean fituation ti be lady of honour to a fovcreign if thin woman had really bn and defcended to a rdociab