§ Sir R. Wilsonpresented a petition from the operative braziers of the metropolis, praying for the restoration of the Queen's name to the Liturgy. In presenting the petition, he took the opportunity to contradict the reports which had been spread to the prejudice of the Queen, and these petitioners, relative to the sums of money 554 that had been paid by her majesty towards defraying the expenses of the processions that carried addresses to her. He was authorized to state, that the brass armour and different devices, wrought for the purpose of the procession of the braziers to her majesty's residence, cost 7,000l. and 150l. more was expended in support of the procession; but that not one shilling of these sums was paid by the Queen. The master-manufacturers furnished the materials for the men to work, and each journeyman paid two shillings for the procession. The petition had 1184 signatures, and concluded with a prayer, that the Queen's prosecutors might be made to pay out of their pockets or pensions, the whole of the expense which had been incurred by the prosecution of her majesty, and that the House would not assent to any proposition for a grant of the public money for such purposes. He should certainly support the prayer of the petition. There was a mysterious connexion betwixt the Hanoverian minister and the Milan commission to be explained, before he could vote for a shilling of the money expended by that commission. It was yet to be explained how it happened that a certain Hanoverian minister, after having been detected in picking locks in the Queen's house, was appointed minister to the Hanoverian court, at Rome, where he was found offering 1,000l. to a member of the pontificate to gain over the members of her majesty's household.
§ Ordered to lie on the table;