* state that under all the circumstances of her inajesty's position, they would not say that her maajesty had any insuperable objection to living abroad; on the contrary, if such foreign residence were deemed indispensible to the completion of gan arrangement so much desired by parliament, her majesty might be prevailed upon to acquiesce; but then that certain steps must be taken to remove the possibility of any inference being drawn from such compliance, and from the inquiry not being proceeded in, unfavourable to her majesty's honour, and inconsistent with that recognition which is the basis of these negotiations; and her majesty's advisers suggested with this view, the restoration of her name to the liturgy. To this it was replied, that the king's government would no doubt learn with great surprise that a question of this important nature had now been brought forward for the first time, without having been adverted to in any of the previous discussions, and without being included amongst the heads to be now treated of; that the liturgy had been already regulated by his majesty's formal declaration in council, and in the exercise of his majesty's legal authority; that the king in yielding his own feelings and views to the wishes of parliament, could not be understood (in the cabsence of inquiry) tó alter any of those impressions under which his majesty had hitherto deliberately and advisedly acted

and, that as it was at the outset stated, that the king could not be expected to retract any thing, no hope could be held out that the king's government would feel themselves justified in submitting such a proposition to his majesty. To this it was answered, that although the point of the liturgy was certainly not included by name amongst the heads to be discussed, her majesty's law officers felt themselves entitled to bring it forward in its connection with the question of her majesty's residence abroad. It was further contended, that the alteration in the liturgy was contrary to the plain sense and even letter of the statute, and that it was highly objectionable on constitutional grounds, being contrary to the whole policy of the law respecting the security of the succession, and liable to be repeated in cases where the succession itself might be endangered by it, and therefore it was said that a step so taken might well be retraced, without implying any unworthy concession. It was also urged, that the omission having been plainly made in contemplation of legal or parliamentary proceedings against her majesty, it followed, when these proceedings were to be abandoned, that the omission should be supplied; and it followed for the same reason, that supplying it would imply no retraction It was replied, that his majesty had decided that her majesty's name should not be inserted in the

liturgy, for several reasons not now necessary to discuss; that his majesty had acted under legal advice, and in conformity to the practice of his royal predecessors; and, that the decision of his majesty had not been taken solely with a view to intended proceedings in parliament, or at law. Independent of the inquiry instituted before parliament, his majesty had felt himself long since called upon to adopt certain measures to which his majesty, as head of his family and in the exercise of his prerogative, was clearly competent. These acts, together with that now under consi deration, however reluctantly adopted, and how ever painful to his majesty's feelings, were taken upon grounds which the discontinuance of the inquiry before parliament could not affect, and which his majesty could not therefore be expected to rescind; the principle, fairly applied, would go in truth no further than to replace the parties in the relative position in which they stood immediately before her majesty's arrival, and before the king's message was sent down to both houses of parliament. After further discussion upon this point, it was agreed that the duke of Wellington and lord Castlereagh should report to the cabinet what had passed, and come prepared with their determination to the next conference. Her majesty's law officers then asked, whether, in the event of the above proposition not being adopted,

any other proceeding could be suggested on the part of his majesty's government, which might render her majesty's residence abroad consistent with the recognition of her rights, and the vindication of her character; and they specially pointed at the official introduction of her majesty to foreign courts by the king's ministers abroad. Upon this it was observed, that this proposition appeared open to the same difficulty in point of principle; it was calling upon the king to retract the decision formerly taken and avowed on the part of his majesty, (a decision already notified to foreign courts,) and to render the position of his majesty's representatives abroad, in relation to her majesty, inconsistent with that of their sovereign at home:-that the purpose for which this was sought by the queen's advisers was inconsistent with the principle admitted at the commencement of the conference, and was one that could not be reasonably required to be accomplished by the act of his majesty, namely, to give to her majesty's conduct that countenance which the state of the case, as at present before his majesty, altogether precluded. At the same time it was stated, that while his majesty, consistently with the steps already adopted, could not authorize the public reception of the queen, or the introduction of her majesty at foreign courts by his ministers abroad, there was nevertheless every

disposition to see that branch of the orders already given faithfully and liberally executed, which enjoined the British ministers on the Continent to facilitate, within their respective missions, her majesty's accommodation, and to contribute to her personal comfort and convenience. Her majesty's law officers gave the king's servants no reason whatever to think that the queen could be induced to depart from the propositions above stated, unless some others, founded on the same principles, were acceded to on the part of his majesty's government.

(Signed

WELLINGTON.

H. BROUGHAM.

CASTLEREAGH.

T. DENMAN.

On the 16th, the lord mayor, attended by the Sheriffs in their state carriages, the common serjeant, the city remembrancer, &c., and about fifty private carriages, containing members of the common council, went up in state to the queen's resi dence with the address, voted to her majesty by the common council, on the preceding Wednesday. Her majesty received the corporation in the front drawing room. She was attended by her ladies, and remained standing whilst the town-clerk, read the following address: