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ere ant of tz ess Ip ary not ng lty, Ps, lai3 representative. All the witnesses were Italian, with rto observe it. His lips hadTrom that moment been the exception of this one and a Swiss maid. He ! hermetically sealedanever to be opened until because begged pardon, there were two exceptions of an im- before the Commission at Milan. Ten months had' portant kind. but they were his witnesses, and with I elapsed in the interval. Did Rastelli, during this them la: should open his , case. He should now I period, live a solitary recluse, without the slightest go on with the German witness's evidence, upon i intercourse with man, woman, or child? Did he which he had been so kindly interrupted by their i not mention it to the boatmen or fellow-labourers? Lordships, and here, as formerly, he would have Every one knew that boatmen were loquacious; that recourse to the account given by the witness of they often told fictitious stories to their passengers, herself; for indeed she had spoken as if she felt the who requited them for the amusement they afforded. utmost anxiety to establish an imputation against But this boatman, unlike all the rest of his tribe, con herself. Barbara Kresse appeared, by her own ac- ceals a fact which must have excited unusual interest count before their Lordships, in the respectable un- among all his acquaintance. It was not the natural exposed character of chambermaid at a German inn. or usual effect of seeing such sights, to induce silence. From the earliest age at which she was capable she had Not one of their Lordships, except one that might appeared in that situation, at the age of thirteen years. have been modelled to the Obsequious secrecy of a In what situations she served afterwards was not so Court, could have witnessed such a circumstance as easily discovered, but her own account of the matter Rastelli had sworn to. No person, not bound by a removed the difficulty. She said herself that she seal of secrecy, under no injunction whatever, wit became servant to a Mr. Madden, but she wished to nessing a circumstance which there was no ef sink the nature , of the service, or the employment fort to conceal, would have kept it a secret. But of her master ; it, however, afterwards came out, these low persons so differed from the higher ranks that all the places at which she had served, since in society, had so much sound discretion and purity the age of thirteen, except one, were inns.— of morals, seeing only those whose cheeks must have Soon after she let their Lordships a little more into crimsoned with the tale, never reveals it ! Was the nature of her fortunes, and first she related by it to be believed, that a man who had seen the what means she became induced to give her evidence. Princess riding, in open day, in the disgusting attitude It was to be recollected, that the Agents for collecting which one witness had described, in a manner so the evidence all over the Continent were supplied with frightful, monstrous, and portentous, could have con the utmost resources, and were engaged in the em-.sealed it for a single day? and yet he conceals it ploy ment with the greatest activity. Of those Agents, until he comes before the Milan Commission. He he rejoiced to say, that the British portion employed had concealed it not only for days and weeks, but for by this Government bole no comparison to the Agents months also. In fact, he had concealed it from the day employed in Germany. Baron Grimm, Ompteda, he had fabricated it until his journey to Milan de and Rehden (who succeeded Ompteda), were the manded that he should reveal his falsehood, and he great negociators. Rehden was one of those who never revealed it after he had received his reward. cared to treat the Queen with those insults which He would now call the attention of their Lordships rendered it impossible for her to remain in the coon- to the witness at the Inn at Trieste. Did their Lord a.-y where those worthy Ministers were at work.— ships, said the Learned Gentleman, forget —no, they That person, Grimm, and another with a very long could not forget the expression of that man's min- Larne, who was in the service of the Grand Duke, tenance—those eyes, that nose, that lecherous mouth, were the unscrupulous agents upon this base occa- from which he detailed his foul impurities. This s;on. Grimm had not scrupled to cast aside all man, this perjured witness, shall not pass unpu those feelings which, though not always necessary nished ; he, at least, is yet here. I could drag others in a Minister, were indispensable in private life ; to punishment, but this fellow shall not escape me. ter, unfoi tunately, the conduct which would fling I will prove by evidence—by the position of the doors disgrace upon a private individual, was calcu- of the rooms, that this man has sworn falsely. I will lated, not unfrequently, to heap honours on a di- sbew that what he has sworn cannot be true. I plomatia, to whom all things were equal. Baron will prove that the Queen slept at Trieste but Grimm had, with the greatest disinterestedness, given one night ; and neither before nor since has she sap his rooms to her :Majesty, when he heard that she ever crossed the threshold of the door. Having bad arrived! He had, courteously, resigned his own now disposed generally of the character of the wit apartments for her accommodation; and the moment nesses, the Learned Gentleman begged to call sbe departed he returned, and, as Barbara Kresse de- the attention of the House shortly to the several dared, ran up and down, looking into the beds, and heads of charge and the counts, if he might so speak performing other mean offices, in order to recommend of this strange indictment under the form of a Bill of himself to those uho might reward him, but who Pains and Penalties. The first of these was the Neapo never could have been villainous enough to employhim. litan scene. There the connection between the Prin lie, who was sedulous and scrupulous in his obser- cess and Bergami was said to have been first consum vations, and pried into all those circumstances, he mated. The case was this, the Princess, a woman, there did not dare to exhibit himself as a witness, or to tofore of unimpeachable character and conduct, who fie their Lordships, as he had faced the reprobation had been proved to be so by much stronger evidence of the Public in his own country. That he was a than if she had never been suspected ; and who, if there material witness, even to the facts sworn to by Kresse, was any truth in evidence—any benefit in acquittal— csuld not be denied; he was a still more important had been established to be a person of a pure and te, as he entered the rooms the moment the Queen virtuous life—established, as it was, by two solemn d left them, and must have known all the circum• acquittals, after two searching examinations; for so awes to which she had been b rought forward to swear. strongly had her innocence been proved, that, after would call the attention of their Lordships to the one set of Ministers had reported that she was clear 1-y accounts given by Kresse of her motives and guiltless, but had exhibited what they were iirg over to give her evidence. Twice had pleased to regard as levities, their successors, not torn that she would not have conic had she not satisfied with this scanty acquittal, determined that weed. She then acknowledged having re- these levities, too, should be expunged from the a compensation for loss of time, but will not charge, by recommending that she should be received to the sum, and denies that she expects any by her husband and father as one of the purest Prin. !ration. At length it is wrung from her, re- cesses who had ever adorned the walks of Kingly life. !y wrung from her, something like the remn- This Princess, so correct, so pure, immediately on in she had received. When she is asked u Were leaving England and reaching Italy, hires a person :xamined before?" she answers, "Yes, at Hants- to be her menial servant (Bergami, of whom the and when questioned as to what she received for Learned Gentleman would have more to say after there, she says it was so little, so very little, wards), and in a few days, in less at all events that; a could not recollect. She is told the less the month, the whole of that intercourse which was to easier it is remembered ; but it turns out that effect the degradation of the Princess was established, largeness of the sum that makes it not alto- all restraint was flung away, and from the mistress of be forgotten. What, said the Learned Gen- her servant, she became that servant's mistress ! The , if it should tura out that this little, this very whole case fell to the ground if this monstrous impress an, is five or six times the amount of her bability with which it commenced was not established. for the same period ? What if it should be De Mont and Majocchi were the two witnesses ad mes the amount? She had been absent on one duced in support of it, and if the facts they swore to six or eight days, on another five or six only; were to be believed, the guilty intercourse must yet, for this fortnight's absence she receives have commenced on the second night after the arrival than a whole years wages. This very little of the Princess at Naples, and have continued from this mere nothing, comes out to be about that night thenceforth. And how did these wit the sum she ever received for wages, perqui- nesses say the bed-room was prepared for the first and all the little trifles she could make for a night these two guilty persons were to meet— ! year. Will any one of your Lordships believe these persons of love so ardent, that they had thrown roman when she thus attempts to deny what she away all regard to principle and decorum ?—•-• :eceived, when the sum was so far beyond her What preparations were made for the indulgence of tnary compensation a as must have impressed the a passion so paramount to every other consideration? 'sction of it upon her memory ? Can she then Why, a small iron bedstead, which the Princess had :dited when she says she expects nothing for the used in travelling, so small as to afford scarcely room ? Must she not expect to be remunerated in enough for a single person to sleep on, was laid out tme proportion ? When the same witness, after in the Princess's bed-room. It was true there was that she had seen the Queen come out of her another and a larger bed in the same room, but the denies that she went into the room of Madame story of the witnesses was, that it was the small iron from motives of curiosity, she is as little entitled bedstead which had been slept on, and not the large one. :dit The fact was, it was Madame Oldi, and When De Mont was first asked by his Majesty's Soli re Queen, that she had seen. She was not certain ; citor•General whether the large bed appeared turn she went Into Madame Oldi's room to ascertain bled in the morning ? she answered, that she did not was, and there she found only Madame Oldi. observe that it was ; but three days afterwards, when necessary to her purpose that she shculd deny cross-examined, she mended her evidence, so far as to Madame Oldi s room for the purpose, be- to say that it was tumbled, but not much—it seemed her going there proved she was not previously in the middle as if it had been pressed by two persons. In as to the person she had seen. There was Being reminded that she had said no such thing at ter person in the Carlsruhe case who might have first, what did she say? Why, that she had since alled. Reding might have been called, and other recollected something, and would. tell more about it; is belonging to the Inn, as well as those of the and then came out the additional story of the stains. suite. The Learned Gentlemau said, he must Could their Lordships believe, that, if such things igain direct their Lordships attention across the really had been, that the witness would not have re- He had already dismissed three of the principal collected them, when asked in the first instance so asses, and the rest were only makeweights to the directly concerning them—and when she knew, too, .station. The character of these witnesses should that the whole object for which she was standing at noticed ; they were of the lowest class in society, their Lordships' Bar was to prove an act of adultery? he meanest and most despicable appearance, and, Could there be any doubt on their Lordships' minds everything could be done by new clothes, they that these after-thoughts of the witness were anything utterly destitute of the slightest appearance , of else than downy fight fabrications, intended to help :stability. The secrecy which' all these wit- out the case of which she was the main prop?— :s had observed with regard to the facts they. De Mont had said, moreover, that the Princess had aided, even swore to have seen, was remark- on that night returned early from the Opera, in un- The boatman at Milan, on being asked if usual agitation, and had, for the first time, dismissed tad ever mentioned what he had seen, said Billy Austin to sleep in another room. The impu once at Milan, before the Commission. It tation which the witness meant distinctly to convey so with Rastelli, eho swore to that filthy prat- was, that the Princess was in all the 'agitation of a which the Queen had been guilty of in the face bridal night. But what would their Loidships think, open day ; which he had observed at a distance of should it be proved that the Princess did not return ract3, and that v ithout even turning his head early from the Opera on that occasion, and• that Billy Austin had been removed to another room 'weeks ..before the night alluded to. At gaples there was another scene. One night, De Mont says, she saw Bergami come out of his mom naked, at lesiit with nothing on except his shirt, and move towards the corridor where the Princess slept. —De Mont does not start back, but moves towards Bergami; and Bergatni, as little reserved on his part, advances towards De Moot ; and, without offering any excuse, though he saw her run of affrighted, moves on to the accomplishment of his purpose with as steady a step as if he had been a husband going to the bedchamber of his own wife. Was this probe bk.—could their Lordships give a moment's credence to it ? Then came the scene at Catania,about the Prin cess being seen returning late in the morning from Ber gami's room to her own, the crying of the child, &c. Here it will be observed, according to the Attorney- General's opening, there were two witnesses—the two maids who slept to the room next to that of the Prin cess; but of these witnesses the Attorney-General had only called one, Mademoiselle De Mont. It had been asked, why did not her Majesty's Counsel call the other witness, Marlette ' the sister of De Mont ? Our answer, continued the Learned Gentleman, is this—" She is your witness, because you opened her evidence, you vouched for wh a t s h e wou ld p rove , you told what she had seen—she is your witntss, 1 because in a criminal proceeding, in what was worse, at least of a higher nature, as regarded the exigency for the most pure and perfect evidence, a Bill of Pains and Penalties, you are bound to produce the best evidence your case admits of. She is your wit ness ; because we are the accused, the oppressed party—the party, I say, who is sought to be op pressed, overcome, and made a'victim of; and you have no right to put us to bringing forward evi dence which it belonged to you to produce, We stand on our defence, and defy you to prove us 'guilty ; and, until you make out a case of guilt, by such witnesses as circumstances admit of, you have no right to call upon us for a defence. The Learned, Gent. proceeded to observe, char: under the strong feeling of suspicion which a life of persecution and suffering could not fail to have implanted in the breast of . her Majesty, she did not know in whom to put trust. She might be harbouring another viper of that brood, one of whom had already conspired her ruin, and might possibly, in producing De Mont's sister, be bringing forward another ingrate and betrayer to support the cause of her enemies. He was satisfied, and no doubt all would agree with him, 'that he was net bound to call the sister of De Mont. He felt con fident that he might leave the cue sts it now stood, but he should not pursue that coon. She should be presented before their Lordships in order that none might suspect that there was one whom be dared not call. The story told at Charnitz was equally inconsistent, with that which had been mentioned at the former places, and all that bad occurred there should appear be fore their Lordships In the meet satisfactory light. What could their Lordships think of the memory of a witness who had recol lected within half an hour, a circumstance which had occurred at the distance of three years and while she was asleep, and could not recollect within three hours another circumstance of great mo ment which took place when she was broad awake ? It would be proved that the moment the passport had been procured at that place,, preparations were made for departure, and that in an hour and a half the departure took place, all the persons in the service of the Queen, being in the constant habit of passing through the Queen's room In the interval. The door of her Majesty's room was open the wholetime, and her . Ma jesty lay on the bed in the riding-habit in which she always travelled. At Carisruhe, it would be proved that the Queen had been left behind at a music party on the night on which the prosecution charged her with guilt, and that Bergami, his sister, and child, had gone home; and that Bergami, being ill, bad gone to bed. And here, before he should allude to the evi dence of Sacchi, he thought it necessary to advert to what had escaped from several people in conversation upon this subject.— They said, that if this was a plot, the witnesses had not gdne as far as a plot would permit, or indeed require them to do.— Could it be forgotten that the most effectual way of laying a plot, was to direct those who were to be the instruments not to swear too hard, but to by a foundation upon which to build their fanciful fabric most close to nature, and to state facts as moderately, and as little calculated to offend, u possible ? Why this plot was got up with all attention to this great prin. .ciple. Why had there not been two witnesses brought to swear to the same fact at Naples? Because Lewes a dingerous expe riment. Those who conducted the business were too clever not to know that a cross-examination would, in all probability, tend to thew that one of the witnesses was at fatrl variance with the other. The charge against the Queen at Naples was such as sequired to be established by a crowd of witnesses. His Learned Friend ought to have supported this part of the charge with peculiar care. The circumstance of the Queen being hissed out of the Theatre, could not have been a thing to which only one witness could swear. The hissing of such a person for such a reason, must have been matter of knowledge somewhat more ge- Dual All must have known it. What had become of Anne Pryson? He would tell their Lordships she was here. Why had she not been called? He would tell their Lordships—. Because she was not an Italian? Who had been called to prove the marks on the bed? Anne Pryson made the beds. Who washed the linen? Why was not the washer-woman called? Because those who got up the business were experienced in washerwomen ! In the Douglas Plot they called a washer woman, and experience taught them that it was a dangerous reliance. If the witnesses were to be believed, the fact of adultery was proved beyond a possibility of doubt. Indeed, their Lordships ought not to compel him to contradict such evidence. If what hlajocchi and Sacchi had said were true, adultery of the worst kind had been proved, and the Queen was as bad or worse than Messalina—she was as bad as the Jacobins of Paris, who covered themselves with eternal iota" my by attempting to prove the guilt of Maria Antoinette.— *Wei of that Itittsses for a refutation of tan odious &arr. An acquittal would be given if that evidence should be fond to con tradict himself in the slightes particular. I call upon you to extend this sort of justice to the Queen." He was told that the situation which Bergami held originally, compared with his for. tune in the Queen's service, was considered a matter of suspicion: Oon forbid that the time should arrive at which all stations except one, were not open to all men. He would remind their Lordships, that the rapidity of Bergami's promotion had been greatly over-stated; and the Manner of his promotion was a proof that love was not the cause of It. De Mont had stated, that three weeks after Bergami's inttoduction to the service of the Queen he had been admitted to those familiarities which formed the ground of the ckarge. How was it at the board? He dined with the servants, and it is proved that even at Genoa he had dined with' the same company. Ile continued for a length of time in the situation of Courier, and his promotion gradually rose with his services. Where was the wretched in sane woman (a charactir which the Queen must be, if the wit nenes were to be believed) who would allow her paramour to sit amongst the menials? This was not like the operation of love.—Bergand was not a man of low origin. His father had been respectable, but had got into difficulties and the son sold the estate to pay the father's debts. He was re duced, but he was a reduced Gentleman.—Reil speaking.) PRICK OP STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK 3 per Cent. Cow. Ilee per Cent. Navy 102 i j Imperial 3 per Cent. 85I—India Bonds 20s. 18s. pre. Tech. IRAs 2s. is. pre.—Omuium 3i j dis. Consols for Account 68e I e: Monday afternoon, the Count Irrsaaarto arrived at the Brunswick Hotel, Hanover-square, from his tour through Scotland and Ireland. Yesterday Prince ESTERHAZY arrived at Chandos House from Worthing, where his Serene Highness left the Princess and family. Lord DONERAILZ has been appointed Governor of the County of Cork. The Bishop of Loam* was translated on Satur day last, from that see to Cloyne, and his Lordship is now one of the spiritual Peers who are eligible to sit in the Upper House of Parliament. Sir Roma GRESLEY, Bart. and the Honourable M. de Roos, have arrived in town from Shugbo- . rough, the seat of Lord /seam Yesterday Sir WILLIAM SCOTT entertained a se lect party of the Law Officers of the Crown, &c. with a dinner, at his house in Grafton•street. C. Kase - itys Trx - rs, Esq. M.P. was, on Friday last installed Provincial Grand Master for Somersetshite, with much Masonic ceremony, in the Guildhall, at Bath. All the Lodges of the County were officially represented, and many Members from Wilts and Gloucester attended. The Rev. HENRY PHILLIPOTS, one of the Prebends of Durham, and Chaplain to the Bishop of Durham, has been inducted to the living of Stanhope, in Wear dale, in that diocese, 'aid to be worth us thousand five hundred pounds per annum. During the ceremony of laying the first stone of Bordesley Chapel, in Warwickshire, on Friday last, a platform, upon which part of the Clergy and some of the persons assisting there stood, gave way, and two or time Gentlemen were much hurt. The Earls of PLYMOUTH, DARTMOUTH, and AYLESPORD, who were present, fortunately escaped without injury. Yesterday the Duke and Duchess de Claus, gave a grand entertainment, at their house in Portland place, in honour of the Duchess de BERRI'S safe de liv.ery of a Prince. The whole exterior of their elegant residence was brilliantly illuminated with variegated lamps. In the centre was a Crown, sur mounted with laurels, with a brilliant star under neath, and on each side the letters D. B. The whole entwined with wreaths of laurels, and a double row of variegated lamps. The doors and windows were bordered with a double row of brilliant lamps ; the whole had a magnificent appearance, and attracted hundreds of spectators. The interior of the house was illuminated with equal brilliancy, and a sunsP tuouslbanquet was prepared on the occasion Among the distinguished guests invited, the follow ing were present : Prince Eaterhasy, Duke of Wellington ' Duke de Friss. Count and Countess Lieven, the Duke of Devonshire the Earl ▪ Liverpool, Earl of Harrowby, Earl of Westmorel and, Lcird and Lady Castlereagh, Count Itterberg, the Marquis of Canute:), Lord and Lady Melville,"Lord Sidatouth, Earl Bathurst Barna Pagel, Count Caraman, Baron de Cases, L o rd Wh itworth, Mr. Planta, Mr. Wellesley Pole, Mr. de Nieman, Baron Just, Baron Bulow, We have great satisfaction in announcing, that our accounts from all the Manufacturing Districts agree in stating that trade has considerably improved ; that the working people are now in general employ, and with some increase of wages in various branches; and that,-in consequence, they begin to look more cheerful and contented. Should this improvement continue, they will cease to plague themselves with politics, and leave that to others, who, it is to be hoped, thus freed from alarm, will seriously tom their attention to the consideration of the best means for promoting and securing the improvement- of our general condition as a people. The following accident occurred in the grounds at Brandenburgh House, on Monday afternoon, just at the time when they were most crowded. A boy, about fourteen years of ageohe son ca a labourer at Hammersmith, having taken charge of a Gentle- • man's horse, mounted it, and was riding gently about the field, which was at the moment thronged with carriages ) when the animal taking frighr at some object, reared, and threw the boy ; and his foot hang r ing in the stirrup, the horse became still more fright ened, and set off at full speed down the field, drag- ging the poor lad after him, and dashing his head and shoulders against the wheels of the double line of carriages through which he passed. The horse was stopped before it reached the bottom of the field, but the boy was then quite dead. Last Sunday night, on the Earl and C ountess o f SURREY arriving in town, the trunk behind their car riage was cut off, and - was not missed until they got to Norfolk House, St. James's-square. The servant, in paying the last. turnpike -gate, in coming into town, had got down ; all was then sate : but in coming through Foley-place, he perceived,alew ragamuffin fellows behind tke carriage, by whom, no doubt, the robbery was committed. Be had another remark to make : he had heard it•said, that be had proved the falsehood of witnesses in particulars which were not important. This came from the lay part of the community ; those who were acquainted with the law knew the absurdity et the position. If he had to set up an informer, it sillionid be ne cessary for him to produce - evidence to support him in some of the. most important particulars; but, in pulling down a perjured Witness, it was quite enough to make him state a falsehood, even upon the most unimportant particulars. it this were not the care, what security could there be for the safety of human kind? What chance of escape from the toil of the conspirator? What safeguard against the malignity of a spiteful witness. " Suppose," said Mr. Brougham, "that any one of your Lordship's bad met with a misfortune, the greatest that could take place, at which ?out delicacy revolts, and from wbich human nature is alien—that a villain charged you with the counni.sion of a crime, the very imputation oft which could never be resnovesi--agaiust the main fact• no evidence could be possi- A letter from Brussels, dated. September 26, says, " A Cabinet Messenger arrived this morning at ten o'clock from the Palace of the Loo, with dispatches for his Royal Highness the Prince of Orange. We learn that his Royal Highness, will set out this morn ing at seven o'clock for the Hague, whence he will proceed•with allexpedition to Warsaw LO his blether. in;law, the Emperor Alexander." bly . adduccd, and you would have to rely Upon the cross-exam ~1 o:ie, as be el had left ther stances to wh He would c contradictot • for coming she sworn th been forced, ceived a con confess to t.l remuneratio luctantly wr neration she you examine ver," and wl going there, that she coul sum the rabic it is the larg ge;her be fa tluman, if it little sum, i wages for th ten times th mission six c and yet, foi more than ; um, this n double the • sites, and al hole year. his woman ad receive, srdinary cc recollection be credited .ature ? Mt 1: - .4e same pi Axing that :oum, denic from :o credit. not the Qtie avld she we • : - .o it was, It was nece going to NI altse her 2 :crtain as I ~ nother poi teen called :ersons be] lueen's su - ow again Aps. 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