The queen does not avail herself of her right to appear before the committee; for to her the details of the measure must be a matter of indifference; and, unless the course of these unexampled proceedings should bring the bill before the other branch of the legislature, she will make no reference whatever to the treatment experienced by her during the last twenty-five years. extensive view of the case, and reviewed the testimony--the chief Caroline Regina: to the lords spiritual and temporal, in parliament of which was that of "discarded servants." He regretted the sud- assembled: den elevation of Bergami, as unworthy the dignity of the queen; The queen has learnt the decision of the lords upon the bill now but he thought the circuinstances of her case palliated it-this before them. In the face of parliament, of her family, and of country was at this noment in alliance with a sovereign [Berna-her country, she does solemnly protest against it. Those who dotte, king of Sweden] whose extraction was equally obscure." avowed themselves her prosecutors, have presumed to sit in For a long time the discarded servants did not even whisper about judgment on the question between the queen and themselves. the queen's misconduct-it was at the "Milan commission" that Peers have given their voices against her, who had heard the they first implicated her. He called the witnesses "perjured and whole evidence for the charge, and absented themselves during her abandoned," and said that some of the things stated by them were defence. Others bave come to the discussion from the secret com. "incredible and impossible." He regretted many things that had mittee with minds biassed by a mass of slander, which her evebeen doiA - among them the auswers of the queen to the addresses mies have not dared to bring forward in the light. presented to her, and alluded to the feeling that prevailed throughout the country, but denied that that feeling was caused by these answers-it was not the mob, the rabble, that sided with the queen, but the farmers, artizans, tradesmen-all wise and honest men in the country." He spoke of the difficulty which had be experienced in preserving order in the house, and asked what might then be expected in the house of commons, if this bul went before it? "Misery and danger were impending over the country, ," and be beseeched the house to reject the bill at once. On the outset, he was prejudiced against the queen; but as things now stood, "he never should be able to lay down his head in tranquility in future,il he did not do his utmost to resist its progress;" and "fearlessly, before God, he must pronounce, not guilty." Lord Liverpool followed-be stated that if all the facts which had ap peared on the trial had been known to him before the bill was introduced, he would still have introduced it--but he asked no one to vote for it who did not believe that the adultery was proved beyoud a donet. He also reviewed the testimouy-perhaps, there was not judicial proof, but there might be evidence amounting to a moral conviction of adultery, &c. | She now most deliberately, and before God asserts, that she is wholly innocent of the crime laid to her charge; and she awaits, with unabated confidence, the final result of this unparalleled investigation. (Signed) CAROLINE REGINA. The lord Chancellor said, that in all matters of accusation, the person placed in that situation had a right to be heard after the second reading of the bill, and this paper might be entered as the address of the individual sending it, but it could not be entered as a protest; in which opinion lord Liverpool concurred. The earl of Liverpool then moved, "that the house do resolve itself into a committee on the bill, entitled "an act to deprive ber majesty," &c. Lord Darnley protested against every-part of this unfortunate proceeding. As to the division that had yesterday been come to, an estimate might be found of its real character when it was stated that ten junior barons had said "non content, and eighteen senior baruns had said uon content," and a large portion of the majority was composed of the accusers themselves. After a good deal of debate, the earl of Lauderdale protested against the members of the secret committee being considered as biassed and incapacitated from exercising their privileges as peers of parliament. The lord Chancellor repeated, that the document November 4. Lord Liverpool continued his speech, and point-now presented might be received as an address, but in order to edly descanted on some parts of the evidence, especially relating guard against it being drawn into a dangerous precedent, be to the “gent scene," and said it was clearly proved by heutenant thought it might be right to come to some such resolution as the Howman that Bergami had slept under it, when it was occupied following: "Notwithstanding the exceptions which the house by the queen, &e. He had no doubt that adultery had been com- might take to some parts of the paper now presented, the house nitted. He hoped the popular clainor would not be regarded, and does nevertheless, under all the circumstances of the case, consent that every member would vote "regardless of those treasonable in- to receive the same us the representation of what her majesty has cendiaries, who would seize upon this or any other occasion, to suit further to state to the house in the present stage of these protheir own bad and evil designs." He wished the queen had kept ceedings." Lord Lauderdale proposed as an amendment that the herself clear of such a party and their opinioirs; but her answers word justly should be added after the word might, and that it must shock the mind of every man who wished for the safety and should read thus: "Notwithstanding the exceptions which the domestic tranquility of the country, &c. Lord Arden wished the house might justly make to some parts of the paper," &c. With bili withdrawn as a peer, and from the duty which he owed the this amendment the resolution passed, and the paper was entered king, he felt bound to vote against it," Lord Falmouth said, if the accordingly. bill could not be passed without the divorce clause, he should vote against it. The eart of Harrowby said if the divorce clause was persisted in, he should also vote against it. Lord Lauderdale was also opposed to that clause. Lord Ellenborough had voted for the first reading of the bill, and he now thought it was inexpedient and detrimental to the public interest, to proceed any further. He expected that the proof against the queen would have been clear and irresistible, so that even the nation might have been called upon to pass the bill: but now he could not declare the queen in- The house then went into committee. The archbishop of York pocent, but he was unwilling to pronounce her guilty. There opposed the divorce clause-be deemed marriage a sacred ordiwere many of the most material allegations not proved-he was nauce: but if he was required to act judicially, he should say unwiling to vote for a measure if it red on suspicious testimo-guilty. The bishop of Exeter objected to the same clause, but ny. Lord Ashburton bad heard nothing in defence of the bill that thought the charge had been proved-he would temper justice satisfied his mind as to its justice and expediency. It was, besides, with mercy The archbishop of Canterbury thought the case of an er post facto bill, and as such ought to be thrown out. Lord adult ry established, and saw no objection to the bill proceeding. Erskine, who appeared to have recovered his usual state of health, The bishop of Worcester argued against the clause; he bishops of again opposed the bill, but a sketch of his speech is not before us. Landaff and London in support of it; these prelates were opposed Lords De Dunstanville aud Manners supported the second read by the carls Lauderdale and Darnley. Lord Donoughmore reSng of the bill. The duke of New Castle said he had been unable gretted that there had not been a concurrent feeling of the rever to be present during the defence, but he had read over the testi- end bench on this subject. He thought this a state measure which mony,—that the queen was indisputably guilty, and that he should ought to pass entire; and that they should not reject the divorce vote for the bill, with the infliction of the full penalties. The any more than any other part of the bill. Lord Harrowby and marquis of Lansion, amidst the cheers of the house, auimad lord Fitzwilliam opposed the divorce clause. Lord Liverpool stated verted on this declaration of the duke of New Castle, and asked that when there was no state necessity to demand a contrary proif the course pursued had any thing in it like even-handed jus-ceeding, he thought the public voice ought to be attended to. On tie? Was the intelligence thus obtained sufficient to enable the that principle he now acted, and as this clause was not called for by Guke to answer at an impartial verdict?" "Did such conduct be-state necessity, he should vote against it. The lord chanceller come one of the judges on this great and solemn trial?" &c. He vben spoke to the question generally, and declared that the evience was insufficient & warrant a verdict of guilty. November 6. The arquis of Lansdown continued his speech, and reviewed the evidence. He said the advocates for the bill were November 8. The archbishop of Taum observed that their content to give up the evidence of Dumont, Majocei, Rastelli, and lordships might find many texts in scripture which denounced Sacchi, but the house ought not to give them up, for they fixed severe punishments and divine wrath upon the man who should the character of the whole transaction. The queen's counsel had put away his wife. The right reverend prelate then proceeded been prevented by "techmalities" from proving a conspiracy, but to argue strongly against the divorce clause, and to declare, that enough had been stated to shew "that infamous means" had been if this clause was retained he could not vote for the third reading resorted to for the collection of evidence," &e. He solemnly pro- of the bill. The bishop of Chester and lord Redesdale oppos ₫ tested against any further proceedings. The duke of Northam the divorce clause. The lord chanceller said, his opinion was in berland considered the allegations as satisfactory and substantially favor of the clause; but for the religious prejudices of others, he proved. Lord Enniskillen thought the mass of testimou to be was content to give it up. Lord Lansdown protested against the Contradictory, that he should oppose the bill, as did the marquis doctrine that there could be a woman existing in this country, the of Stafford. Lord Calthorpe believed that "very gross and degrad wife of the king, and yet not be the queen consort. Lord Ellenbaing conduct," had been proved against the queen. Lords De Clif rough could not agree to reject this clause; by doing so they would ford, Grantham, and Bleisinton opposed the bill. Lord Gosford, do no less than declare, that, though the queen was too bad for thought he could say gudty to the charges, but that to pursue the the state, she was still good enough for the king. To pass such ineasure was inexpedient. The duke of Athol believed that the a bill would be a gross and seditious libel. Lord King said therə case was proved. The duke of Somersett was opposed to the bill had been confusion among the ministers, confusion among the Lord Grenville expressed the pain with which he was forced to lawyers, and confusion among the prelates. He ridiculed the express his conviction that the case had been established. At 3 whole proceeding-said that the queen had been guilty of great o'clock strangers were ordered to withdraw on calls for "the ques-indécorum with lord Liverpool at Blackheath!-that she had jiaytion." At twenty-five minutes before 4, the vote was taken and ed at blind-man's buff' with the chancellor of the exchequer! Co. stood thus-for the second reading of the bill 123, against it 95-(and there was great laughter). The earl of Liverpool—“Dey zmajority in favor of the bill 28: and then the house adjourned. November 7. Lord Dacre rose, and after some preliminary reparks, presented the following protest from the queen wished to hear the opinion of others before he expressed ins own. Lord Duncan considered these proceedings as founded in a base conspiracy, and supported by perjured evidence, and that the queen was not guilty. never took place." (Hear.) Lord King-"I cannot, I assure our lordships, refer to the exact time, but it must have heen, I tină, when the noble eari was out of place, suo looking for meas to get into office, before the new regency." (Laughter.) Earl of The committee then divided, when there appeared, 127 61 67 Majority for retaining the clause, Strangers were not re-admitted, but lord King, alluding to her majesty's claim to the succession to the crown, moved that the following clause should form part of the bill:-"And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that in case the crown of these realms shall at any time descend to her said majesty, Caroline Amefia Elizabetb, then, and in such case, this present act, and all the matters and things contained therein, shall becote utterly void and of no effect, and the whole of the preamble there of shall be deemed and taken to be false, calumnious, and scandalous, upon the same evidence on which it bath now beenjheld to be suificiently proved." (Loud cheering, with some cries of order.) Lord Colville (a Scotch poer) and lord Lauderdale, in great warmth, opposed the motion, which they considered as conveying a reflection upon those who supported the bill. Lord King said, that there could be nothing disorderly in inputing loyalty to the noble lords, as it was a necessary consequence of their regard for the first principles of the constitution, by which every monarch was deemed "most excellent," without any regard to his conduct or character; the moment the queen succeeded to the throne they must change their belief of her conduct. The clatise was negatived without a division, and the chairman was directed to report the bill. The house resumed, and ordered the report to be received to-morrow. List of peers who voted for and against the second reading of the degradation and divorce bill. FOR THE BILL. Fitzgibbon, Loftus, Alvanley, ¶ Ellenborough,¶ Arden,¶ Erskine, The lords thus marked entered a protest against the bill on the following grounds:-Because the second reading of the bill is equivalent to a decision, that adulterous interepurse (the only foundation on which the bill can rest) has been satisfactorily proved:-Because that adulterous intercourse has been inferred, but not proved; and in a doubtful case, in which the imputed guilt is not proved, although innocence be not established, the benefit of that doubt, conformably to the principles of British justice, must be given to the defendant. The lords thus marked entered a protest against the bill on the following grounds:-Because this proceeding, from its natore, cannot be assimilated to a common inducement, in which a conviction upon one count alone, ont of many, is sufficient:-Aid because, although enough has been proved in evidence to satisfy us of the existence of guilt, yet as evidence on many of the allegatious has been contradicted, in some disproved, and in others is so suspicious, as to be laid wholly out of the case, we are of opinion, that it is inexpedient to proceed further in this measure. The Peers thus marked also protested against the bill on general grounds. Minority in the house of lords that voted for expunging the divorce clause. Lords.-Hill. Rodney, Yarborough, Saltoun, Bansing, Kenyon, Earls-Winchelsea, Courtoun, Mount Cashel, Romney, Stani Dukes-Clarence, Portland, Beaufort. Cabinet ministers, framers of the bill.-Sidmouth, Melviliè, Bathurst, Harrowby, Mulgrave, Liverpool, Westmoreland, Weilington, Eldon, C. Nov. 7. Earl Lauderdale said it had been stated by a noble lord that his motive for voting with the majority yesterday, was to throw the bill entirely out at its third reading; and spoke of consci ence in such a manoeuvre. Earl Grey repelled the imputation, with great indignation. It did not become those to talk of trick and maneuvre who had held out an expectation that the divorce would be abandoned in committee, and that the bill was to puder go sundry material alterations, &c. Earl Lauderdale apologizel, and lord Liverpool explained. Several other lords delivered their sentiments. The lord chancellor acquitted earl Grey of unfairness -but thought if the bill passed at all, it should pass with the divorce clause. Various motions to amend the bill were made, all which failed-certain quizzical motions of lord King filled the house with laughter; he wished to add a clause, saying that these that those engaged in that business sliould be disqualified from holding any office of profit or bonor, Lord Kenyon, after adverting to the odious character of this measure, said, it was plainly set forth in the sermon of our Saviour, that "whoso putteth away his wife, except for fornication, causeth her to commit adultery, and he did not think that any state expediency should abrogate the word of God. Could the house proceed to pass a bill of divorce against a wife who had been put away by her husband without a cause? He thought they could not, and he should move as an amendment to the bill, that the divorce clause should be wholly omitted-This amendment was put and negatived. Dukes-York, Clarence, Beaufort, Rutland, Newcastle, Northum berland, Wellington. Marquisses.-Winchester, Buckingham,Cornwallis, Exeter, Nor-things had arisen from the acts of the Milan commission,' &c. and thampton, Camden, Anglesea. Earls-Huntingdon, Bridgewater, Westmoreland, Stamford, Winchelsea, Cardigan, Shaftesbury, Abingdon, Rochsford, Coventry, Aylesford, Macclesfield, Ponifret, Graham (D. Montrose), Ports mouth, Brooke and Warwick, Harcourt, Chatham, Bathurst, Ailesbury, Abergavenny, Strange (D. Athol), Mount Edgecombe, Digby, Liverpool, Powis, Nelson, Manvers, Oxford, Lonsdale, Harrowby, Mulgrave, Catheart, Verulam, Whitworth, Brownlow, St. German. Viscounts. Hereford, Falmouth, Sydney, Curzon, Melville, Sidmouth, Lake, Exmouth. Barons.-Middleton, Rodney, Somers, Gordon (M. Huntley), Montague, Suffield, Grenville, Douglas, (E. Morton), Stuart, (E. Moray), Stewart. (E. Galloway), Salcersford, Reus, De Dunstan ville, Carrington, Bayming, Bolton, Northwich, Edon, C. St. Helen's, Redesdale, Sheffield, Lauderdale, Ailsa, Manners, Gamhier, Hopetown, Combermere, Hill, Meldrum, Ross, Harris Prudhoe. Scots peers.-M. Lothian, M. Queensbury, E. Baicarras, E. Home, Archbishops-Canterbury, Tuam. Nov. 10. The order of the day being moved, the third reading of the bill of pains and penalties, lord Morley said it struck him as a most remarkable feature in this case, that, though it embrac ed a period of six years of her majesty's life, during which time Bergami was in her service, no one specifie net of adultery had been proved to have been committed on a given day, and that, for the last three years of that term, not the slightest imputation had been attempted to be cast upon the parties. He proceeded to descant on the testimony which he could not believe. Lord Somers thought it impossible to doubt that the adultery had been comnitted, and referred particularly to the deposition of Barbara Kress. Lord Fortesque said the proofs were neither clear nor convincing-it was best to retrace the steps that had been taken. The duke of Bedford contended that, "in the whole catalogue of the charges against her majesty, there was not one, of the slighest imBed-portance, supported by credible testimony." He severely reprov ed the means that had been taken to get testimony against her, -that slie had been watched by spies, and infarmers, &c. The lord chancellor repeated his reasons for believing that the queen was guilty. The bishop of Chester reproved the language that had been used against his majesty, especially by lord Grosvenor, (inserted above) as well as by the queen's counsel, and extolled the acts of George IV.—yet he had opposed the divorce clause on religious scruples, and would not support the third reading if it contained that clause. Lord Grosvenor was not disposed to retract any thing he bad said. Lord Erskine combatted the arguments of the lord chancellor. The duke of Grafton and the marquis of Done gal spoke against the bill, and the marquis of Huntley supporti it. Several other lords expressed their sentiments--at last the house divided, when there appeared, for the third reading 108, against it 99, leaving a majority of 9 only in favor of the bill. As soon as the state of the division was announced, lord Dacre Dukes.-Gloucester. Somerset. Richmond,†f Grafton,† Viscounts,-Bolingbroke, Torrington,¶ Leinster (I. Duket Barons.-De Clifford, Audley Clinton, and Saye,t Dacre. Zouche, Howard. Say and Sele, Clifton (Maruley). King, Grantham, Holland Dutie, Sundridge, D. Argyli,¶ Hawke,¶ Foley, Dynevor,t Walsingham, Bagot, Ashburton, Berwick, Sherborne. Kenyon,†¶ Amherst, Fisherwick, Gage,‡ Auckland, Selsey, Mendip, Dundas,, Yarborough,¶ Dawney, Calthorpe,$1 of London were filled until midnight with people rejoicing. on the queen's arrival home, she found there several Italians, nobles and other ladies, who had just arrived to give testimony in her behalf, had it been necessary, before the house of commons. Addresses were again pouring in upon her from all quarters, and her husband was also complimented on her acquittal, but called upon to dismiss his ministers. Grand processions took place in many of the principal cities. The newspaper offices in London, which had been unfriendly to the queen, were attacked by the people, and the windows demolished, as were those in some of the houses of the lords, and others who had opposed her. All was riot and wild enthusiasm. The marquis of Buckingham was pelted as he passed a market-house, with sheep's heads, mud and dirt, and "so they went on." We cannot relate particulars-they would fill our sheet, and be worth nothing when related. The cabinet appears to be in trouble-several meetings had been held and nothing determined upon. The queen had demanded the treatment due to her rank, and lord Liverpool replied that he had not res ceived his majesty's order respecting it. It is rumored that lords Liverpool and Harrowby will resign. The bishop of London and his house were pelted with stones,because be would not illuminate. Many petit battles had taken place in the provincial towns, be tween the adverse parties. Majoeci was burnt in effigy in many, places, on the 5th Nov. ("gunpowder plot" day.) It is said that cer tain of the witnesses against the queen will be prosecuted for per jury, and that she will bring actions of slander against some of the royal family! The lord mayor's day was one of the most splendid ever known in London. When the toast of "the queen" was drank, every male and female cheered; the uproar fasted ten minutes-and the glee, "here's a health to all good lasses," was sung with the liveliest acclamations. The following ministerial lords voted for the queen-Harewood, Bradley, Morley, Minton, Granville, Innerskillen, Blessington, Grantham, Amherst, and De Lawur. It appears, by an act of Parliament, "Foster, 247," Blackstone, vol. 4, ch. 27, that the majority required to convict high criminals, in the house of lords, must be twelve, at least; and as the queen had only nine votes against her, she must be considered while the people threw the entrails of animals at hind! The bishop as acquitted. The earl of Waterford had his carriage stopped, ef Landaff was also, not treated like a "father in God," but miser bly abused, &c. &c. It was reported that Bergani had arrived in England. Business, which had been nearly suspended during the trial of the queen, had revived on her acquittal. Canning, who was opposed to the proceedings against her, was at Paris; and it was said would immediately return to England. Several conspicu ous persons, who had acted against the queen, were gibbetted in effigy, and afterwards burnt, by the people. rose, and holding a paper in his hand, said he had been intrusted (glarious occasion. There was a brilliant illumination-the streets with a petition from her majesty, praying to be heard by counsel against the passing of the bill. Much cheering.] Lord Liver pool said, that he apprehended such a course would be rendered unaccessary by what he was about to state. He could not be ignorant of the state of public feeling with regard to this ineaaure, and it appeared to be the opinion of the house that the bill should be read a third time only by a majority of nine votes. Had the third reading been carried by as considerable a number of peers as the second, he and his colleagues would have felt it their duty to persevere with the bill, and to send it down to the other branch of the legislature. In the present state of the country, however, and with the division of sentiment, so nearly halanged, just evinced by their lordships, they had come to the determina tion no-to proceed further with it. He should accordingly move that the question, that the bill do pass, be put on this day six months. [The most vehement cheering took place on this unexpected declaration.] Earl Grey rose as soon as the earl of Liverpool had resumed his seat, but the confusion did not subside until after his lord ship had been for some time on his legs. His lordship complained of the whole course ministers had pursued with regard to the bill, which, after the declaration of the noble Earl, could scarcely be said to be before the house, but which was still before the coun. try, and would long live in its memory. [Hear.] He charged the servants of the crown with the grassest neglect of duty, in the first instance, in listening only to ea-parte evidence, and giving a willing credence to the nost exaggerated and unfounded calumnies. [Loud cheers.] They bad thus, for many months, agitated the nation; they had produced a general stagnation of Public and private business; and they had given a most favorable opportunity, were it desired, to the enemies of internal peace and tranquility. They had betrayed their king, insulted their queen (continued cries of hear from all sides,) and had given a shock to the morals of society by the promulgation of the detestable and disgusting evidence, in the hearing of which the house had been so long occupied. Hear.] His lordship also reprobated, in the severest, terms, the conduct of the Milan commissioners, who, hay ing been appointed, not to investigate the truth, but to obtain testimony of guilt, had found in this country but too great an inclination to put faith in all the stories their agents and witnesses might invent against the honor and reputation of the queen of Great Britain. The result has been, that, after enquiries, secret and open-after the greatest calumnies and the foolest libels had been roade the subject of detail and debate for fifty days after all the injury that it was possible to do the queen had been ac complished, the bill was abandoned, not without reason, but assuredly without apology. His lordship concluded by assuring noble lords on the other side, that the people of Great Britain would not be satisfied with the mere withdrawing of the measure, but would demand a strict enquiry into its foundation and origin. [Great applause.] Lord Erskine addressed a few words to their lordships in a manner truly emphatie and striking:"I have heard, said he] the proposal of the nable earl-I see the fate of this odious measure consummated, and I feel nothing but the Dost lively and entire satisfaction. I heartily rejoice in this event. My lords, I am an old man; and my life, whether it have been for good or for evil, has been passed under the sacred tule of the law. In this moment I feel my strength renovated and repaired, by that rule being restored-the accursed charge where withal we have been meniced has passed over our heads; there is an end of that horrid and portentous excresence of a new law,insulted. Squibs, rockets, and crackers were thrown in all direc retrospective, and iniquitous, and oppressive; and the constitution and scheme of our polity is once more safe. My heart is too full of the escape we have just had to let me do more than praise the blessings of the system we have regained; but I cannot praise them adequately myself, and I perfer expressing my own sentiments in the fine language of one of the most eloquent authors of any age, Hooker, who thus speaks in his great work on ecclesiastical polity:"Of law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is in the bosom of God; her voice the harmony of the world; all things in heaven and earth do her homage; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power. Both angels and men, and creatures of whaters-a precious set of people to act on the case! condition soever, though each in different sort, and manner, yet all with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy." The duke of Montrose said, he should oppose for throwing b He was convinced of her majesty's criminality, and should never look up to her as queen. The notion was then put and agreed to with sachimations, and the house adjourned to the 23d instant, the day on which thoeem mmons meet. on her acquittal, would make a little volume. The kingdom was An account of the illuminations, transparencies, and processions, wild with joy, and many extravagancies were committed-'green bags" were favorite objects of the popular vengeance-they were kicked about in great sport and then burnt at several places. Many riots occurred in London, and the mobs had some sparrings with the guards. The "New Times" printing office was much injured, and the windows of many houses were broken. Some persons were killed in these affairs, which continued several days and nights. On the 12th the Courier office was attacked, and suffered much damage-several persons who defended it were nearly beaten to death. Lord Liverpool had been assaulted and grossly ions, by which many horses were caused to run away, and do much damage, killing sundry persons. Small cannon were fired in the streets, and the terror of the people was great. In the midst of the bustle, a fire took place (accidentally), and many were hurt by the approach of the engines. Disorder every where prevailed-but it was without an object; a mere seene of riot and confusion. A court of the common vouncil of Loudon was to be called to address the queen on her victory "over a foul and attrocious conspiracy." Of the 108 peers who voted for the 3rd reading of the bill, two were of the royal family, and eighty-nine either in the ministry, or in the pay of governineut, as officers or pension The houses of the duke of Northumberland and lord Cas 14 reagh were protected by soldiers-persons paraded the streets, crying out, "here's Brougham's drops and Denman's pills, which have given the gripes to my lord Castlereagh," &c. The shout that passed through London and its vicinity, front house to house, and neighborhood to neighborhood, when the rejection of the bill was first known, is described like "the reverberation of discharges of artillery in a mountainous country, or the passing off to a distance of peals of thunder!!!" Some of the newspapers containing the particulars, were sold at 20s. a-piece. The duke of Welling ton and the marquis of Anglesea were always houted at and hissed by the populace, when they appeared in public. A woman had been held to bail for clenching her fist in the face of lord Liver pool. The queen was in her private apartments in the house of lords while these matters were pending. When it was found that the third reading had been carried by a majority of nine, her counsel advised a petition against the passage of the bill; she signed it, and as she wrote the words Caroline regina, is reported to have said, with great energy, there is regina still." When information was received that the bill was postponed, (or rejected) "she louded fixed and insensible, like a statue"-at length she was roused burst into a floort of tears, and soon after resumed There is a long account of the vaccination of her usual firmness. She was cheered by the lords who had opposed the duke of Bordeaux-it is oficial! He received the, bill, which was echoed by persons in the lobbies. An im-three punctures in each arm, dear bless" the lit mense maltitude surrounded her carriage, shouting in the most FRANCE. enthusiastic manner the bells of the churches began to ring-the tle baby! Two persons have been sentenced to theatres, in the evening, resonaded with the cries of "God save death for producing the explosion under his mamthe queen, Caroline," 2ml John Bull forgot all his eaves on thema's windows,to frighten him forth before his time *It was to the following effect.-That her majesty having learnt the royal child! and so forth. But yet the peo that the third reading of the bill of pains and penalties had been ple were wild with joy at a report of the escape of carried by a number of votes equal to the number of those who Napoleon, and the police at Boulogne had hard avowed themselves to be parties against her, she desired to be work to keep down the populace! Sodwith heard against the passing of the bill. Late accounts from the south of France speak of a considerable degree of uneasiness and dissatisfaction prevailing there. "Art. 1. The prohibition to import provisions o any kind, whether liquids or dry, which is estab lished by the ancient tariffs, and by decrees of the Paris, Nov. 5. M. Hyde de Neuville, ambassa- cortes, shall be retained in the general tariff, and dor to the court of the Brazils, has set out for shall be extended and apply to all such as our own Rochefort, where a vessel is in readiness to condominions produce in sufficient quantity for convey him to the United States. His excellency pro-sumption, without any exception but that which is ceeds direct to Washington, and, after the sitting mentioned in the 4th article. of the American congress, he goes on to the Brazils. SPAIN. "Art. 2. In the same manner shall be retained and extended in the general tariff, the prohibition to import foreign articles or manufactures, of which we have national manufactories and the principal raw materials which enter into the composition of which are produced in our country, without any exception whatever. "Art. 3. In the preceding regulations, cattle of all kinds are included, with the exception of the following article: Advices via Havana."The general cortes have abolished the rich monastic orders, and have laid so many restrictions on the remaining orders of re. gular clergy, that a considerable diminution, if not a total extinction of them, will be within a few years effected throughout the Spanish monarchy. In the debate on this subject, a member observed, with respect to the fears expressed by one of the ministers, "Art. 4. In order to reconcile the general interlest such energetic measures should shock the su-est of the whole nation, with that of each province perstitious feelings of the nation, "that the govern-in particular, the provincial deputations, who may ment, which had shewn so much firmness in dissolv-apprehend serious detriment to their respective ing Riego's army, ought not to hesitate in proceed- provinces, from the executions of articles 1 and 2, ing with equal resolution against the monks and may petition for the necessary modifications-and friars, whose influence with the people was no on the information of the government, the cortes longer to be feared in this enlightened age." Even shall determine what is proper. the power and influence of his holiness the pope, appears to be at a low ebb in the peninsula, as, in reply to a motion made during the same debate, that a bull should be obtained for carrying into effect these salutary reforms, it was stated, that bulls Mr. Freire spoke at some length on the detrishould be neither solicited nor regarded at the pre-mental influence of this plan upon America. It sent time, and were necessary only in the barbar-was supported by Mr. Oliver, and members of the ous ages, when the sovereignty of the people was committee.. unknown; and in fact, wholly absorbed in the uni versal spiritual and temporal power of the see of Rome." "Art. 5. The produce of the East Indies shall be the subject of special decrees by the cortes, and till they are published, the royal ordonnances hitherto in force sliall be retained." PORTUGAL. All was quiet at Lisbon, and the business of the revolution was consummating with the greatest order and decorun. ITALY GENERALLY.. The French papers announce, with some confidence, that "great events are expected in Italy;" and adds, "that the advanced guard of the Aus trian army is concentrating at Terrone." A letter from Barcelona, Nov. 1, says "The king has sanctioned the decree of the cortes, abolishing all monasteries, and appropriating their immense property to pay off the national debt. This event will form a memorable epoch in the Spanish annals." Madrid dates to the 30th of October, state-That at a sitting of the cortes, on the 26th of that month, it was resolved to build twenty ships of war for the A letter from the British squadron, under vice protection of commerce, via:-two frigates, of 50 admiral sir Graham Moore, states, that the ships are guns each; 6 corvettes, of 30 guns; 6 brigantines, to continue in Naples bay until the decision of the of 22 guns, and 6 sloops of 14 guns;-thirteen mil-allied sovereigns, to be declared in congress at lions of reals were assigned for this object. Trappan, as to the future political condition of Na TWO SICILIES. The yellow fever prevails in some of the cities of ples is made known. The capital is tranquil, and Spain. the regeneration of the government was going on The importation of hard soap has been probibit-prosperously. ed in all the dominions of Spain. We have some details of the proceedings of gen. There is a proposition to ennoble Quiroga and Pepe in Sicily. He had had several severe renRiego, and to settle estate upon them and some contres with the islanders, in which many lives other officers; the king was threatened with an ex.were lost. The treaty which he made with the Pacommunication from Rome, if he signed the law for lermitans had been rejected by the parliament at the suppression of monastic orders-but he did sign Naples, and he was recalled. Orders were isit. We thought that the day of such stuff had gone sued to reduce them to unqualified submission. by. The king of Spain has written a letter to the king of the Two Sicilies, congratulating him on the changes that had taken place, and encouraging him to persevere in the work of reformation! GERMANI. "lluminati," The emperor of Austria has sent a long note to the sovereigns in "Holy Alliance,” in which Re-severely deprecates the progress of bad principles, through secret societies and sceptical writers. Ile Spain is tranquilin all its parts, and the proceed-recommends the immediate extirpation of several ings of the cortes have given general satisfaction. societies-especially "Friemanry, A squadron of 3 frigates, 4 sloops of war, and 3 Fregicstery," "Misticismus," and "Carbonari."store ships, was about to leave Cadiz for Cartha-After which he proceeds to inform them of the gena. steps he has taken to re-establish order in Italy. The cortes.--The following are the particulars of The interview of the sovereigns was to be at Trapthe proposals made by the committees of finance pan on the 26th Oct. No ambassadors to be adand of commerce, relative to the prohibition of fo-initted except from Great Britain and France. reign produce and manufactures, in consequence of the bases 25 and 29 of the general tariff SWITZERLAND. A general revolution was expected in Switzer Jand. All the machinery is represented to be in full motion at Basle and Zurich, and other principal cities. RUSSIA, ous, and certainly ought not to extend to speculators. It is right that these should meet with a severe check, for they have long been the pest of the poor man emigrating to the west. To actual setDuring the last summer, sixty-four vessels ar-tlers-persons who purchased lands for their own rived at St. Petersburg, under the American flag, actual use, we would wish every possible indulof which 36 were direct from ports in the United gence to be shewn-but the others are not entitled States, and 20 from other ports in Europe. At the to it, any more than the late dealers in the stock of last date, 61 of these vessels had sailed for the the bank of the United States. Their rule of action United States, with 267,039 poods of iron, 251,188 was the same, and as "they made their bed so they do. of hemp, &c. &c. The pood is equal to 40lbs. should lie." [ED. REG. Ainerican weight. Further proceedings in the house of repre. St.Petersburg, Sept.18-A meteoric stone, weigh-sentatives, on Thursday the 28th ult. not noticed ing 40 lbs. fell from the air during a violent thun- in our report of the proceedings in page 295: der storm, at six o'clock in the evening, on the 12th On motion of Mr. Williams, of N. C. it was of July, in the village of Listen, in the circle of Dunaburg, and the government of Witebsk. It penetrated a foot and a half in the ground, whence it was dug up by the peasants, and has been chemically analyzed by Dr. Eichler. A magnetic needle was pretty quickly attracted, as well in a hori. zontal as in a vertical direction, by all points of its surface, but it did not at all attract iron filings. CHINA. The Chinese government has prohibited the importation of opium. Resolved, that the committee on military affairs be instructed to enquire into the expediency of allowing to the officers of the army a salary, or stated sum of money per year, instead of the pay and emoluments as now allowed by law. The house proceeded to a consideration of the report of the secretary of state on the expenses attending the execution of the treaty of Ghent (noticed in the first page of this sheet)-Mr. Cobb spoke of the expense attending the establishment of the northern boundary. Mr. Mallary wished to see whether the progress of the commission had The Algerines and Tunissians are at war. The been proportionate to its expenditure, &c. The squadron of the former was at sea. It was report-report was referred to a special committee conted that they had captured some American vessels, in consequence of which our squadron had gone BARBARY POWERS. to look after them. SOUTH-AMERICA. sisting of Messrs. Mallary, Lowndes, Cannon, Hendricks and Lincoln. Mr. Rich gave notice that, on Tuesday next, in case he should be able to obtain the floor, he should submit a proposition for instructing a proper committee to enquire into the expediency of probibiting, prospectively, the importation of distilled spirits and malt liquors, and sundry manufactured articles, which come most in competition with do. It is stated that the proposition made by Bolivar to Morillo, for a reconciliation, &c. was only a ruse de guerre, to draw the attention of the latter towards San Ferdinand de Apure, while the former should make a dash at Caracas-for which preparations were made; but the scheme miscarried, Morillo hav-mestic fabrics. ing proceeded to Truxillo. His forces were from 5 to 6000 men. Various details of proceedings are given-in general, so highly colored that we do not think them worth notice at present. Morillo seems to be in a nighty passion with Bolivar and the patriots. We have before observed (page 295) that Mr. Lowndes' proposition "to enquire into the expe. diency of providing that the notes of no bank, by which notes below the amount of five dollars are or may be issued, shall be taken in the payment of duties or debts to the government of the United It is stated that the grand expedition from Chili States," produced a considerable debate: the folagainst Lima, sailed on the 15th of Aug. The ves-lowing is a brief abstract of the sketch reported sels, under the command of lord Cochrane, amount- Mr. Lowndes stated that his object was to baed to 50. San Martin commanded the land forces.nish small notes from the circulation of the counIt seems that all New Granada is "restored" to try. Mr. Storrs thought that the effect of the meathe royal authority. But it appears that the patriots have captured Santa Martha. They are said to have carried one of the forts by storm on the 11th of Nov. and to have put to death 600 persons found therein-after which the city was surrendered. CONGRESS. sure would be to give a preference to the notes of the bank of the United States, but he had no decided opposition to the enquiry. Mr. Meigs said when that bank furnished a circulating medium of equal value, in all parts of the United States, he might be disposed to grant it further, facilities-but at present he would not go any fur ther. The secretary of the treasury had power to The bills on the public lands, reported on the forbid the reception of notes not in good credit, same day by the committees of the different houses, which he had duly exercised. The effect of the contain various provisions for the relief of purchas- measure would be to drive many good notes from ers indebted to the United States-admitting a re. the circulation, &c. Mr. Southard was in favor of linquishment equal to the part not paid for; allow- of the resolve-if the small notes were banished ing a deduction of — per cent. if the amount he thought their place would be supplied with spe. due shall be paid on or before -; providing cie. Mr. Lowndes replied to Mr. Meigs-the ob for the payment of such debts by easy instalments, ject of the resolution was not in order to benefit without interest, &c. Such are the leading features the bank of the U. S.-it was general. If the bank of both bills, and it is expected that some relief will had not furnished a circulating medium of equal be granted. But many doubt the justice of such proceedings-every species of property has depreciated in value, and every class of society is embarrassed, and in debt-and it is asked why one class should be favored more than the rest? The principle of these bills for relief is rather danger value, the fact was in favor of the enquiry. Mr. Meigs rejoined-he contended that the bank of the U. S. had not fulfilled the duties which was expected of it-that there is a hundred banks that issued small notes whose credit was as good as that of said bank. He asked, was the circulating me. |