FOR. Hamilton vil will not do justice to your decision. ] ing to allow the skill with which he have the highest confidence in the couns played the advocate. " try that they will reverence your deci On Monday, the 6th November, the sion, and I am sure the country reposes House divided upon the second reading its fullest confidence in the integrity of of the Bill; and as the names of those this“ tribunal. You are, however, my peers who voted in the majority and lords, a tribunal that, like all other minority will become matter of history, tribunals, stands before the greater tri we shall give the list of each. bunal of public opinion, and by your LIST OF THE LORDS acts you will be judged. But if you As they voted on the Second Reading of the give an honest vote upon this subject, whatever it may be, the public will do Bill for Degrading and Divorcing her Majesty. you justice, and will feel that vote has been given according to the best of your AGAINST judgment, and in strict obedience to the dictates of your conscience. Allu- York Gloucester storm sions have been made by the noble Clarence Somerset Lord opposite, to the judges of the Beaufort land. I'know not to what he refers: Rutland Argyle Leinster but without adverting to that circum- Newcastle Esity Grafton Northumberland stance I will say, it gives me the high Portland 2014 Wellington est satisfaction that this trial proceeds Athol Devonshirehe 13 in the presence of the judges of the Montrose Bedfordonna land. It gives me also great satisfaction Richmond that after this trial is closed, we debate St. Alban's (absent the question in the presence of those from illness) judges. I am sure they have been to Marquises. us of the greatest assistance in determin Conyngham Bath ing points of law; and I think it highly Anglesea Stafford proper that we have their aid. Heaven Camden Lansdown grant your decision may be such as will Northampton satisfy the ends of justice, and vindicate Exeter the cause of truth !-Heaven grant it Headfort may be such as will bear the test of Thomond judgment here and hereafter,--that in Cornwallis pronouncing your decision you may Buckingham Lothian safely appeal for the truth of your judgment to that Being to whom alone the Queensberry Winchester secrets of all hearts are open ;-and that Earls. when, at the Last Day, we shall render an account at the tribunal of Eternal Harcourt De Lawari Justice, we may feel warranted in our Brooke and Warwick Ilchester conduct here, and know we have ad- Portsmouth Darlington ministered justice in mercy, without Pomfret Egremont Fitzwilliam pronouncing a harsher judgment, or a Aylesford Stanhope severer punishment, than is absolutely Balcarras Cowper necessary, doing right hetween the Home Dartmouth 124.19 Queen, the Public; and our God!" Coventry Oxford It is not in our power to go through Rochford Rosebery the remaining part of the debate Many Abingdon Jersey. noble peers distinguished themselves, Shaftesbury Albemarlo both by the ability and by the candour Cardigan Plymouth with which they argued the distressing Winchilsea Essex Thanet "question. In particular we would name. Stamford the Earl of Lauderdale, Lord Donough- Bridgewater Denbigh Huntingdon Suffolk more, Lord Redesdale, and Lord Gren Westmorland Pembroke 91.1 ville. Earl Grey made an elaborate Harrowby Derby) £* 9321293) speech ; and though' we decidedly dis St. Germains sent from the conclusion at which he Brownlow Blessington'out. Morley respons ry arrived, and could, had we space, enu- Whitworth Minto merate many glaring sophistries in the Verulam Harewood course of it, we are, wevertheless, will-. Cathcart Grey 21103 pty Arnar prey toons 1 95 FOR, ROR. ! ! ! AGAINST Nicoty: Suffield" 13-11-.i Fisherwick (M. De Lonsdale hH 12.11 negall) Orford Ainherst Gordon (Huntley) Saltersford 1 Kenyon Rosse Sherborne Rous Berwick Archbishops. York Tuam Bishops. London Hilsborough (Marq. St. Asaph Mount-Cashel of Downshire). Worcester Kingston St. David's Liverpool Ely Digby Chester Mount-Edgecombe Peterborough Abergavenny Llandaff Ailesbury, Cork and Ross Bathurst Gloucester Chatham The aggregate numbers of the above Viscounts. lists were as follow : Exmouth Contents 123 Granville Lake Anson Non-contents Sidmouth .protest, in which there it pot Duncan Melville Hood Majority for second reading 29 Curzon Torrington Sydney Bolingbroke It is necessary, however, to state, that Falmouth the real majority of those who consiHereford dered her Majesty guilty, was considerBarons. ably greater than the numerical one above stated. Many peers, who voied Somers Ashburton against the second reading, and whese Rodney Bagot Middleton Walsingham names appear in the minority, distinctly Napier Dynevor and unequivocally declared that they Colville Foley considered the charges fully substane Gray Hawke tiated by the evidence; and many who Saltoun Ducie did not so deliver their opinions, yet: Forbes Holland made no secret of their entertaining Prudhoe Grantham similar ones. Some there were who Harris King objected to the bill upon grounds of po Ross (or Glasgow) Belhaven litical expediency; and others, from reliMeldrum Člifton (Darnley) gious scruples with respect to the dis Hill Say and Sele Combermere Howardof Effingham vorce clause. Few, very few indeed, Hopetoun De la Zouch avowed their conviction of her inno Gambier Clifton cence. This fact will be more clearly Manners Dacre established by the following protesis, Allsa Audley which were entered against the second Lauderdale De Clifford reading, and from which it will be seen Sheffield Breadalbane that only eight peers were dissentient Redesdale Erskine on the ground, that the second readSt. Helens Arden ing of the bill was equivalent to a Northwick Ellenborough decision that an adulterous intercourse / Bolton Alvanley (the only foundation on which the bill could rest,) had been satisfactorily Bayning Fitzgibbon Carrington Calthorpe proved.”. Eight other peers sign a preDe Dunstanville Dawnay test, stating, that though enough had Bro trick vi u Yarborough been proved in evidence to satisfy Stewart of Garlies,in Dundas them of she existence of guili, yet they Stewart of Castle Selsea stest thought it inexpedient to proceed in Stewart Mendip the measure, Eighteen Douglas (Morton), Auckland third Grenville Gage sufficient that adultery should be merely f “ inferred," though innocence, they ad- Anson Scott (Portland) mit, is not established.” The fol Yarborough Thanet Sherborne lowing are the protests alluded to:" H. Hood 9ibino Ashburton Audley Howard of Effingham Against the Second Reading of the Bill of Kenyon piscin Alvanley Pains and Penalties. Carrick Carnarvon น-1) Dundas Caledon Sundridge (Duke of Dissentient, No. I. Egremont Argyll) Because the second reading of the bill is Torrington Ducie equivalent to a decison that adulterous inter Suffolk and Berks! King course (the only foundation on which the Loftus (Ely) Rosslyn 3r, bill can rest) has been satisfactorily proved. Morley 1 5 والی Dacre Because that adulterous intercourse has Granville Calthorpe been inferred, but not proved ; and in a Richmond & Lennox Grantham doubtful case, in which the imputed guilt is Bedford Ellenborough not proved, although innocence be not established, the benefit of that doubt, conform. ried, her Majesty, on the next day, The second reading being thus carably to the principles of British justice, muse (Tuesday, Nov. 7th,) delivered the fol, be given to the defendant. Essex, first reason Mansfield lowing protest into the hands of Lord only Enniskillen : Dacre, to be, by him, communicated to Hilsborough, ditto Richmond & Lennox the house, which was accordingly done a Kenyon Jersey, first reason « CAROLINE REGINA. Orford only « The Queen has learnt the decision of Somerset Carrick the lords upon the bill now before them. In the face of parliament, of her family, and of Roseberry only Morley, first reason Anson, ditto her country, she does solemnly protest against it. Those who avowed themselves her pros only Darlington, ditto Leinster secutors have presumed to sit in judgment Belhaven, ditto upon the question between the Queen and DISSENTIENT, No. II. themselves. Peers have given their voices against her who had heard the whole evis Because this proceeding, from its nature, dence for the charge, and absented themcannot be assimilated to a common indict-selves during her defence. Others have come ment, in which a conviction upon one count to the discussion from the Secret Committee, alone, out of many, is sufficient. with minds biassed by a mass of slander, And because, although enough has been which her enemies have not dared to bring proved in evidence to satisfy us of the ex forward in the light. istence of guilt, yet as evidence on many of “The Queen docs not avail berself of her the allegations has been contradicted, in right to appear before the committee; for to some disproved, and in others is so suspicious her the details of the measure must be a matas to be laid wholly out of the case, we are ter of indifference: and, unless the course of of opinion that it is inexpedient to proceed these unexampled proceedings should bring further in this measure. the bill before the other branch of the legisPlymouth Clicton, second rea- lature, she will make no reference whatever Dynevor son only to the treatment experienced by her during Grantham Gage, ditto the last 25 years. Denbigh Ilchester “She now most deliberately, and before The following Peers have also protested God, asserts, that she is wholly innocent of against the bill. upon general grounds the crime laid to her charge; and she awaits, with unabated confidence, the final result DISSENTIENT, No. III. of this unparalleled investigation." William Frederick Fortescue A parliamentary manæuvre was now Lansdown Darlington played off by those who were adverse to Jersey Belhaven the bill, which undoubtedly had the efGrey Grafton fect of defeating its progress to the Plymouth Breadalbane House of Commons. The divorce clause Fitzgibbon Auckland was known to be obnoxious to many of Albemarle Dawnay (Downe) those peers who had voted in favour of Hamilton & Brandon Mendip (Clifden), Duncan Leinster the second reading, upon the under Hilsborough Hawke standing that the clause would be given Wentworth (Fitzwil, Gosford up in the committee. The opposition, liam) Romney therefore, with Earl Grey at their head, Roseberry determined to unite their strength, and being FOR 67 vote for the retention of that clause, mary of it complete. The first-is a list with the declared purpose of thus with of the majority and minority who voted drawing from the support of the bill on the third reading; the second, the those who were otherwise favourable to protests which have been entered by the it. Accordingly, when it got into the friends of ininisters against the aban committee, where the omission of the donment of the bill. The language af clause in question was moved and sup- these protests deserves attentive consiported by ministers, a strenuous oppo- deration, and we have no doubt they sition was inade to the motion, and, will be numerously signed. upon a division, the ministers found LIST OF PEERS themselves in a minority, the numbers Who voted on the third reading of the Bull For the clause of Pains and Penalties. 129 Against it 62 AGAINST. Clarence Archbishops. Canterbury Tuam trick, which might be allowable in a York question. purely ministerial or political, Lord Chancellor but which certainly did the Queen's Dukes. cause very little service. The only par- Wellington Portland liamentary majority which could be of Northumberland Brandon (Hamilton) any use to her, as an exoneration from Newcastle Devonshire the charges which had been brought Rutland Bedford Grafton against her, was a majority obtained Beaufort Richmond upon the simple question of her guilt Somerset or innocence. Any thing short of that, left her in no very honourable predica Marq uises. ment. The effect, however, ‘of this Conyngham Bath Stafford manæuyre was apparent, when the bill Anglesea was read a third time, which was agreed Camden Lansdown to, indeed, but by, a majority of only Exeter Northampton nine, the numbers being Headfort Cornwallis 99 Buckingham Lothian 9 Queensberry Winchester This division took place on Friday, Earls. Nov. 10th, and immediately upon the Westmorland, C.P.S. Blesington numbers being declared, Lord Liver- St. Germains Bradford pool rose, and stated, that had such a Whitworth Morley division taken place upon the third read- Verulam Minto ing as upon the second, he should have Cathcart Grey Gosford felt it his duty to send the bill down to Mulgrave Orford the House of Commons; but as there Romney Man vers was only a majority of nine, he thought Ross Rosslyn Caledon it proper to more, that the bill should Nelson Enniskillen pass that day six months. The ques. Powis Farnham tion was carried--and thus the trial of Limerick Carrick 10T the Queen ended ! Donoughmore Carnarvon 17247*** We shall not attempt to discuss the Belmore Mansfield policy or impolicy of this proceeding on Mayo Fortescue the part of ministers, nor shall we en- Longford Grosvenor force those obvious inferences which Mount Cashel Hillsborough (Dowt every unprejudiced mind inust draw, as Kingston shire) to the extraordinary situation in which Liverpool Delawar 1 in her Majesty has been placed by it. We Digby Ilchester shall simply confine ourselves to record- Strange (Athol) Mount Edgecumbe Egremont ing two additional official documents Abergavenny Fitzwilliam connected with this memorable cause, Aylesbury Portsmouth in order to make our historical sum Stanhope Cowper 12 FOR. FOR AGAINST Grantham Ponsonby (Besboro") King Belhaven Clifton (Darnley) Saye and Sele Howard of Effingham De la Zouche Clinton Dacre Audley Shaftesbury De Clifford Cardigan The following are the Winchilsea PROTESTS. Bridgewater Moved, That the further consideration of Viscounts. the bill be adjourned to this day six months. Exmouth Granville Which being objected, the question was put Lake Anson thereupon. It was resolved in the affirmative. Sidmouth Duncan DISSENTIENT, Because no sufficient ground appears for the abandonment of the bill founded on the Sydney Torrington charges against her Majesty the Queen, Hereford Falmouth which had undergone the most solemn and Boling broke accurate investigation; charges in which the morality of the country was deeply inBishops. terested, and on which all the peers, spiCork Gloucester ritual and temporal, who delivered their Landaff opinions, with very few exceptions, dePeterborough clared their conviction of her guilt; and the abandonment of which is a dereliction which Ely St. David's may bring into disrespect, not only the chaWorcester racter of our highest court of judicature, but St. Asaph that of the nation itself. And it is with the London greatest concern we observe the extreme want of consideration for the sovereign, by Lords. the dereliction of proceedings so necessarily Harris Breadalbane brought on, by which a wife, declared by Ross (Glasgow) Erskine the House of Peers to have been guilty of Meldrum (Aboyne) Arden adulterous intercourse with a menial servant, Hill Ellenborough and of a conduct the most depraved, is to Combermere Alvanley remain his Queen Consort, thus lowering Hopetoun Loftus (Ely) the dignity of the crown, and embarrassing Manners Fitzgibbon (Clare) the country with far greater difficulties than Ailsa (Cassilis) Bayning those which seem to have induced his MaLauderdale Gwydir jesty's government to relinquish the proseSheffield Calihorpe cution of the bill. SHETFIELD, NORTHUMBERLAND, LOTHIAN, WILLIAM, II. Adhuc, 10 Die Novembris, 1820. Rous Gage DISSENTIENT, Saltersford (Courtown Fisherwick (Donegall Because, that in a case of this nature, in Stewart (Galloway) Amherst which this house appears to us, by its resoStuart (Moray) Kenyon lution to read the bill a second time, by its Douglas (Morton) Sherborne proceedings in the committee upon the bill Grenville, Berwick and the report, and by its resolution to read Suffield Ashburton the bill a third time, to have strongly maniMontagu Bagot fested, that, in the judgment of a majority Gordon (Huntly) Walsingham of this house, the guilt imputed in the preSomers Dynevor amble of the bill had been clearly proved, Rodney Foley we think that considerations affecting the Middleton Hawke justice and honour of the house made it fit Napier toate Sundridge (Argyll) that the bill should pass. tabi ont * Because this appears to us to have been Gray Holland the more fit in a case in which so 'nany |