She could not be an accomplice in such an offence of one who, being a foreigner, could not have committed it.

It was equally impossible for the King to sue for a divorce, as one of his subjects might have done; because it was the established practice of Parliament not to entertain a bill of divorce without the judgment of the Ecclesiastical Court being previously obtained and produced.

And, under the circumstances, to obtain from the Ecclesiastical Court such a sentence as could alone lay the foundation for a bill of divorce was clearly out of the question.
The case was a new and extraordinary one, and, being such, could only be dealt with in some new and extraordinary manner.

And in all such cases an appeal to Parliament seems the most, if not the only, constitutional mode of solving the difficulty.

Where the existing laws are silent or inapplicable, the most natural resource clearly is, to go back to the fountain of all law; that is, to the Parliament, which alone is competent to make a new law.