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come from the press; but, I may termine; but, at any rate, one venture to guess at what they or the other of these will now,

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will do. That they will not pass the Bill, as it stands now, is, I think, evident. All the signs of that are too clear to be mistaken. But, yet, it is supposed, that they will do a something; and that that something will be of a kind to make it impossible for the Queen to be permitted to hold her courts, to live in a palace, and to be recognized, as Queen in the usual way. In short, that a vote of degradation will be passed on her.

according to all appearance, take place; for, it seems impossible that the Bill, as it now stands, should pass. And yet, what a situation will the affair and the parties be placed in by this expected vote of degradation? In the first place, there is the House of Peers, who have entered into and gone through an inquiry, which, terminate how it may, the House of Commons have declared to be derogatory from the dignity of the If the Bill were to be passed, throne and injurious to the with whatever modifications, it best interests of the nation! must go to the House of Com- Then, there is a Queen, demons, and it is evident, that graded by the House of Peers, there is a great dislike to send and this Queen is not only the the Bill thither, and thereby re-king's wife; but is his cousin vive the inquiry. By not pass- also; is in the line of succesing the Bill, this renewed and sion to the throne; and may long-continued struggle will be possibly, and even probably, yet avoided. But, not to pass a come to the throne herself and rote of degradation would be reign over the kingdom, though to leave the Ministers to encoun- standing degraded by a vote of ter the whole weight of royal, the House of Peers! Next party and popular vengeance, comes the King, who, while the without any thing to shelter Peers vote his wife to be a dethem. Whether it be better to graded woman, unfit to hold do this, or to leave to the king courts and to be at the head of the honour of having for the the females of England, is left remainder of his days a wife, to enjoy the honour of having standing degraded by a vote of that degraded woman for his the Peers, I leave others to de- wife; and, observe this, that, if

the divorce part of the Bill be," thing." Nay, in the examirejected and the Queen de-nation with regard to the exhigraded, the same assembly that bitions of Leone, or Mahomet, degrades her, refuses to relieve which the Attorney-General him from her! And yet it does called "an imitation of the seem a little hard, that "our" sexual intercourse," the wit" most religious and graciousness was actually asked, wheking," as we devoutly call ther she perceived any alterahim every Sunday, in repeating tion in the shape of the operathe Liturgy, should be compel-tor's trousers! Doubtless, the led to remain coupled to a wife, nation's morals will have been, whom the Peers have degraded, and will be greatly benefited by and whose name has been the book of evidence, printed by thought unworthy of insertion order of the Peers, after having in that same Liturgy! The been sent all over the country "morals of the nation," to in sixpenny parcels; but, my preserve which has been the friends, I greatly doubt, whether professed object of this stir; the purse of the nation will be these morals will, doubtless, much benefited by this book have received great benefit from and the fillers of it. However, the detail of the evidence of this is a matter for future obserDemont and Barbara Krantz, vation; and, I have no hesitathe latter elucidated by the tion in saying, that it is better High Dutch learning of the for us to have our money beRight Reverend Father in God, stowed upon the inhabitants of Bishop Marsh. Doubtless the Cotton Garden, than upon nation's morals will have re-placemen, pensioners, or Ausceived great improvement from trian soldiers. The thing will the evidence of these two pry-cost us a good deal; but, in this ing and sharp-sighted lasses, case, we shall have had somewho, as SWIFT said of the di- thing for our money: the three verting vagabonds (players) of hundred thousand pounds, which his day, carried the matter as I imagine, will be about the far as words could be of any mark, will have been well laid use, and, like SWIFT's vaga-out in obtaining so fine, so clear, bonds, stopped short only of so full an exposure of our dead"the actual performance of the ly enemies.

by impeachment, by civil action, or in the spiritual courts, observed that no one would say that the King should have no relief at all. Thus, then, at the

We have talked so long about | affording relief to the King. this Bill of Pains and Penalties, The Lord Chancellor, after havwithout having the Bill itself ing pointed out the difficulties before us, that we almost forget of obtaining relief for the King, what the thing really is. I shall, therefore, go back, to the origin of the proceeding, which will enable me the more clearly to explain the situation in which the parties are now placed. Let outset of the business, relief to us bear in mind, then, that on the King, and the support of the the sixth of June last, the King honour and dignity of the sent a message to the Houses of Crown, seem to have been the Parliament, accompanying it only things thought of. The with a green bag to each House, idea of preserving the morals informing the Houses that the of the nation, by the instrumenpapers in the bag contained tality of De Mont, Powell, matter respecting the conduct Brown, and Barbara Krantz, of the Queen, and expressing seems, at this time, not to have his confidence that the Houses been engendered; for certainly would adopt that course of pro-it did not make it's appearceeding, which the justice of ance.

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The Secret Committee, when they had read the papers of the Green Bag, declared that the charges contained in it deeply affected the honour of the Queen, the dignity of the Crown, and the moral feeling and honour of

Now, it is material to observe, that the King, in this message, said not a word about the morals of the nation. He had only in view the honour the country! But this declaraand dignity of his Crown. On tion took place on the fourth of

the next day, in the Lords, a motion was made to refer the Green Bag to a Secret Committee.

Nothing was still said about the morals of the nation; but a great deal was said about

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July, that is to say, nearly a month after. the date of the King's message; and after there had been, in Parliament and out of Parliament, a great deal said upon the subject of his Majesty's

"constructions and purposes, "whatsoever."

We have now something like a clear view of the matter. We see what was intended at the

being entitled to relief, in a case like the present. We next come to the Bill, which was brought into the House of Lords by Liverpool on the fifth of July. The Bill consists of a long pre-first, and also the grounds amble stating the offences of her upon which the intention proMajesty, which preamble concludes with asserting that the Queen" has violated the duty "she owed to his Majesty, and has rendered herself unworthy "of the exalted rank and station of Queen Consort of this realm."

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ceeded. In a short time after the Bill was brought in; or, at least, after the evidence in favour of it began to be produced, Liverpool declared that, as to the divorce clause, that was the least important part of the Bill. The morals of the nation were This preamble is all talk; but now put forward as demanding there follow a couple of stings preservation through the means in the tail of it, in these words: of this proceeding; through the "I. That the Queen be, and is means of the description of beds, "hereby, deprived of the title sheets, and bolsters, given by "of Queen, and of all the pre- the Countess Colombier, Barba"rogatives, privileges and ex-ra Krantz, and the rest of the emptions, appertaining to her, Holy Catholic community of as Queen Consort of this Cotton Garden.

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But, now, at last, when all these strenuous efforts to preserve our morals are happily in our safe possession, there remain to be disposed of these two

"Realm, and be, from and after "the passing of this act, for ever "disabled, and rendered incapa"ble of using, exercising and en"joying the same, or any of “them.—II. That the marriage enacting clauses of this Bill. between his Majesty and the The divorce clause, that is to "said Caroline Amelia Eliza-say, the second clause, is to be beth be, and the same is here- given up ; or, at least, an intimation has been made to that effect.

"by, from henceforth for ever, Well, then, observe that this wholly dissolved, annulled, will be a pretty sort of answer "and made void to all intents, to the King's Message, in which

But, in this case, the Bill must go to the House of Commons; for,until it has passed that House, and until the King has given his assent, also, the Bill does

Message, he called for a some-dent for the degradation of a thing required by the honour Queen, at least. and dignity of his Crown. How will the honour and dignity of his Crown be preserved by the rejection of this clause? For, mind, the clause must be rejected; which is a very different not become a law; and, of course, thing indeed from its never hav-it is only a parcel of useless ing been submitted to the words, and the Queen is not deHouse. graded. The House of ComThe next thing to be consi-mons will finally pass the Bill, dered is, will the first clause pass in my opinion, if the Lords pass the House? It might pass; and, it; and, it is possible, too, that thus, the Bill would be a com- they may pass it without any plete Bill without the divorce examination of witnesses. And, clause. The Bill, in this shape, indeed, there is no good reason would unqueen the Queen; why they should not, supposing would leave her wholly desti-it to be a Bill proper for them to tute, not only of prerogatives and pass. The House of Commons privileges, but would deprive cannot examine witnesses upon her of all claim to maintenance oath. They cannot come at the of any kind or in any degree. truth in the same way that the It would actually turn her out to Lords can; and, if the testimony beg in the streets, unless main-given before the Lords be laid tained more comfortably by before the Commons; there can charity of another sort. It would, be no reason why they should in fact, be degradation as com-go over the evidence again explete as that of the son of Louis cept we could suppose it possithe Sixteenth, when the despot-ble that the members could take isin had been abolished and delight in seeing the lips and when that youth had been bound hearing the sound of the voices. apprentice to citizen Simon, the of the Countess Colombier and Cordwainer. Degradation more Barbara Krantz. complete it is impossible to conceive; and if the Bill pass in this shape, it will serve as a prece

It is possible, therefore, that the Bill may pass, with the exception of the divorce clause;

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