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V Pi ►) it li L 14 .. 1. 04 , 7 g .. ', j i• !. • ~.. i . , 111 ... i. , .1. It I i i i Mi , : I f 1 . t . ` .b i 4 '-. - . .• . , \N, NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. tirscoreav Satre.—The Elizabeth, of Aberdeen, (a mining ship), from Davis's Straits; and the Ellison, of Hull, the former with 14, the latter with 15 fish, arrived at Strain ices the 26th ultimo: the latter spoke the Discovery Ships in lat. 68. long. 69. and they had wintered in lat. 75. N. bog. 115. W. The ship Cuttenden, limy, of Boston, from the Havannah to Charleston, sprung a leak at sea, and sunk. Crew arrived at the latter place. The Boyne, -- ; and the Lord Wellington, ANDZIISON, for Batavia ; and the Brailaford, —, all from London, have ar rived at Madeira. The latter sailed on the 22d of Septembc.r, far Bombay. The Charles Henry, Putman, from Wexford to London,was driven on shore near Milford, on Monday, and it was feared would be wrecked. About 1000 firkins of butter saved. The Anna Sophia, Coaorxrus, from Rio Janeiro to Ham. burgh, was totally lost on the 25th ult. on the Vogel Sand. Th_ Mississippi, from New Orleans to Bremen, was carried into Cuxhaven on the 25th ult. with much damage to vessel and cargo, and loss of mast, anchors, and cables. The Little George, KNOCT, has arrived at Norfolk from the Havannah, with loss of foretop-gallant-mast, sails, rigging, &e. Facstount, Oct. :SO.—Wind W.S.W.-LSailed De Jong Char lotte, Gazza•zca, for Havre ; and Enterprise, Howes, for London. Poaeasecitrrn, Nov. 3.—Wind N.W.—Arrived the Crown transport, from Cork; Diligence ditto, from the Downs; Ceres, Tnosaeson, front the Downs for Africa • and Volusia, Russzee, front ditto for Jamaica. Went out of h arbour his Majesty's ship Zit, to Spithead. Cowes, Nov. I.—Arrived the Avon, WILLIS, from Water ford for London, leaky; and Olympia, ROTIILIEOAD, from Vir ginia for RotteriLan, with her sails split. Ltvaaroos., Ocr. 31.—Arrived the Magnet, Glee, front Que bec ; Amity, Rowe, from Labrador.; and Endymion, Tonn,from St. John's, New Brunswick. The Peter, Eiets, from Mayan rah, is arrived at New York in distrese, with five feet water in bee hold: she has thrown 20 cases of sugar overboard, and lost fin of her crew. GALWAY, OCTOBER. 28.—His M a jesty 's ship r er, Captain Corm, has taken the Maria, from New York, with tobacco, off Broad Haven bay. This vessel is coppered to the bends, and oopper fastened, and pierced for 14 guns. Seven of the crew escaped, but were retaken. Two other smugglers, in company, were chased in the same quarter, but escaped. Captain Correa has also picked up a large vessel, the Triton, front bliramichl,' laden with timber, without masts or rudder, and every appear once that the crew must have abandoned her more than a month. HARWICH, Novenase I.—Sailed the Henry Freeling packet, for Holland ; and Lord Duncan ditto, for Cuxhaven, each with a Mail. Seventeen logs of mahogany, marked M. W. B. and numbered, have been picked op in the Slain, and landed here. Meat, Novettssa I.—Wind W. N.W.—Came down from the River and sailed, the Llan Rumney, Manumit, for ihmaiea; Palladium, Parreasox, for St. Vincent's; Henrietta, Simon s, for Genoa ; Salamanca, RAI; for Charente • Prince Regent, TATtoa, for Tobago ; Colonist, SHIM for B arbadoes; Simon Taylor, Mete, for Jamaica; A•me, Faevxr, for Hayti • and Delaford, liennic, for St. Vincent's. Passed by, a large fleet of l ' vessels from Ramsgate Harbour, ang proceeded down Channel' fur their different destinations. The Sappho, ABRIAN, for Ja maica, lost an anchor and cable yesterday, its getting out. Ara, OCT. 26.—1 t is with extreme regret we learn, that, on Taursday last,the Friend's Increase, of llu'ness, having on board 413 barrels of herrings, bound to Westport, in Ireland, sprung a leak about five miles on the south side of the Craig Ailsa, and went to the bottom. Fortunately the hands got into the small boat before she went down ; but no part of the vessel or cargo has yet been seen. HULL, OCT. 30.—The Rebecca, AI:DIMON, from this Port, last from St. Lucar, arrived at Malaga on the 6th of October, where she had to perform 40 days' quarantine, on account of the sickness prevailing at Cadiz.—The New Shoreham, Wirrox, from Jersey, last from this Port, arrived at Whitby on Mon day, havhig split her mainsail.—The Samuel Barnett, Mee- LAY, front this Port to Miramichi, was spoken with on the 20th oh. in lat. 46. 39. long. 40. 38. by the Union, arrived at Chap stow.—The Fame, Ilistrere, front Sundswall to this Port, was totally lost on the 39 inst. on Oreground, Gulf of Bothnia. Crew and cargo saved. I'art of the crew arrived here yester day.—The Integrity, StremiRLAND of Scarborough, from Lie bau to London, with oats, got on Lessoe Island, on the 13th In stant, and received considerable damage, but was shortly after got off; however, on the following day, the crew abandoned net iu a siuking state, having eight feet water in the bold, and were taken on board the Friends, Roroxsoa, from Memel to Yarmouth, which vessel landed them at Scarborough on the 231 instant.—The Sally, Nltreourea, front Trinidad to this port, put into Smerwick Harbour, near Tralee, on the 17th instant, and was totally wrecked, in consequence of her cables breaking. Out of twelve persons on board, eleven met a watery grave, is sight of numerous spectators, who could use no exertions for their delivery. Among the sufferers are John Nelig.in and James Kennedy, two revenue officers, of Dingle, who had • boasded the vessel but a short time before the accident. The name of the man who escaped is George Forster. The Master was on shore, for the purpose of purchasing stores for the vessel. CURTJK-HOUSE" OCT. 31.—Ships Entered Inwards :— The Sa lamander, front Pillau ; Prince of Waterloo, from Ostend; Lek, from Qaebec ; Bonito, from Christians; Skylark, front Genoa ; Esther, from Gibraltar ; Louisa, from Liverpool; En deavour, front Archangel ; New Union, and Julie, front Calais; Admiral Berkeley, front the South Seas; Twins, front Palau ; and John and Isaac, from Gottenburgh.—Entered Outwards: The Neptune, for Venice ' • Waterloo, fur Havannah ; City of Edinburgh, fur Calcutta ; Louisa, for Stettin; Nottingham, for Gibraltar; Tees, for Buenos Ayres; and Elbe, for Hamburgh. Cleared Outwards :—The Frew Metta, for Bremen ; Stanley, Hive, Frederick, and Ann, for Jamaica ; George Ilibbert, for Antigua; Redman, for St. Thomas's; Helen, for I/amburgh; Harriet, for Odessa; and Hope, for Jersey. ilmuven—At New York, the Albion, Williams; Hercules, Cobb; Magnet, Agden ; Belfast, 'Thompson; and Duke of Wellington, Watson, from Liverpool ; also, the Thames, Peek, front London. At I'hiladelphia, Tontine, Turley; and Electra, Rubinson, from London ; John, Thurston ; Bingham, Fleming; William Penn, I lamilton; and Neptune, Fisher, from Liverpool. At Charleston, Sybille, Belcher; Octavia, Wilson; and lama, Berry, front Liverpool; also, the Susan, Pollock, front Belfast. At Boston, Mercury, Nickels, from Liverpool. VE..scas scones KITH.—The Isabella, NIC/I.ILS, from Liver. pool to Rio Janeiro, out eleven days, in let. 33. 20. long. 26. Marquis Wellington, from the Clyde to St. John's (N. B.), on the 14th ult. in lat. 43. 40. long. 48. 10. Lune, front Liverpool to Madeira, on the 28th, 43 miles west of Scilly ; and the Pallas, grunt Liverpool to Gibraltar, on the 16th ult. in lat. 39.4. long. 10. Yesterday, the Dukes of YORK and CLARENCE visited the KING, at his Palace in Pall-Mall. _ The Bishop oe•ST. DAVID'S had an audience of his EST Y yesterday. Yesterday, the Duchess of GLOUCESTER had an audience of his MAJESTY. Copy of a letter from Lord lthuron to Alderman WOOD, Treasurer of the Plate Corn tnittee : _ _ " Sm—The investigation into her 111... arm's conduct before the louse of Lords, has now been brought to such a point as bas satisfied me of the groundlessness of the opinion which I had, in common with many other persons, formed of her behaviour, and which deterred me, upon her arrival in England, from pay. ig her those marks of respect which were naturally due to her exalted station. 1 have now, therefore, to request that you will take charge of the inclosed Subscription from Lady M. and my- Self, to the Service of Plate intended to be presented to . her Ma. acvnr.-.-1 have the honour to be Sir, he. (Signed) " Wentworth, Oct. 1820. " MILTON." Her MoJerrr sends expressly every e!ay to South Audley-street, to inquire after the health of Alderman WOOO, who has been attacked by a severe bilious f4ver. Such is the anxiety manifested by all her MAJESTY'S Household and foreign fiend,, for the health of au individual who has so greatty distin guished liimsplias the zealous and disinterested friend of her MAJewrv, that they call daily tO make per. tonal inquiries after his heath. We are happy to say tit: Mr. Alderman WOOD. is bekter , though slirn con nets to his roam, THIEEVENIkG STAR. LONDON. • 'THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1820. THE FUNDS. met 07 STOOKS THIS DAY AT 0147 O'CLOCK : Rol Stock 5115;—S per Cent. Reduced 67; 66; 6? 5 per Cent. Cons. 67/68 67};-3; per Cent. 76 4 per Cent. 951-5 per Cent. Navy 1044 104 Lang Annuities 17 7-16 I—lndia Bonds Ws. South Sea Stock 751-11sekequer Bills 41.6/. pre. Cons. forAcceunt 671 69 67; 1. We are happy to announce that letters from Aber deen of the 29th October, announce the safety of the HECLA and GRIPE Discovery ships. The Ellison whaler, from Davis's Straits, spoke these vessels, on their return, in lat. 4S° long. 69*, all well. They had wintered in lat. 75° long. 145°. THE QUEEN. The House of Lords met again this morning.— While waiting the arrival of our messengers from the House, we shall devote a few minutes to the sub ject on which their Lordships ate this day again to deliberate. We need hardly observe, that the feelings of the Public are at this moment in a state of high excite ment, and no small degree of anxiety oxpressed for the result. Were it a common proceeding, such as frequently comes before the " Courts below," there could be but one conviction as to sentence ;• but many, let us hope unjustlf, allege that on this most momentous occasion, the same measures have been and are employed, to influence and gain a majority, as on a Bill for a Canal or for a Turnpike-road; and calculators, acquainted with this peculiar species of arithmetic, have even gone so far as to form an esti mate of the numerical strength of the parties, which gives for its probable result 82 for the Qur.za, 92 for the enemies of her MAJESTY, and 45 doubtful. • These, it is said, are all that can vote on this ques tion, some being abroad, some having been excused attending, and all who did not attend every day of the trial being excluded. We ask, are these all that ought to be excluded ? Have none disqualified themselves, by spreading slanders against the Illustrious Accused while the trial was pending? Mr. DEbMAN seemed to insinuate something of this kind. Have none actually canvassed' for votes against her MAJESTY? We do not affirm that any have— we know our duty too well to ven ture to say so—but, if any have, they ought not merely to be excluded from voting on this question, but to be disqualified for ever sitting again as Judges on any question whatever. Is there any similarity between the present pro ceedings against the QUEEN of ENGLAND and those against Louts XVI. which deprived that Monarch of his life? Startle not, Reader I It is surely impos sible that any proceeding of a British House of Peers can find a parallel in the history of the French Regi cides. 'We would be the last in the world to insinuate the possibility; and the facts which we are about to call to the attention of our Readers, will shew to the conviction of every one, that no similarity whatever ex ists between the Court that tried the K ING of FRANCS, and that aow sitting oq the QUEEN of ENGLAND. In the Trial of Louts, one of his Counsel (flesEze) l said If you will try your KING, I demand of you, where are those established forms to which every subject has an imprescziptible right? Where are the two Juries (lures d'Accusat ion et de Jugement)—that double pledge which the law gives to citizens, as the guarantee of their safety? In a word, I demand all those religious precautions which the law has prescribed, that a citizen, even though guilty, should not be punished but according to its award. —Citizens, I will speak to you with the freedom of a free man : I look amongst you for judges, and 1 see only accusers ! You would decide the fate of Louis, and it is yon who accuse him ! You have already declared your wishes; and_your opinions are sent all over Europe. Louis, then, will be the only French man for whom there exists neither form nor law !" Now, surely, no one will pretend that anything similar to this has taken place in the moc:e of pro ceeding adopted against her MAJESTY : nor will any one say that such language as the following is appli cable to those who are to decide whether the Bill of Pains and Penalties shall be read a second time : " You cannot be Judges, Ministers of the Law, Accusers, Jury of Accusation, Jury for giving Judgment, Grand and Petit Jury, having all, or almost all, of you given an opinion, and some of you having done it with a scandalous ferosimuness I Let us follow the simple, natural, imprescriptible, positive law, which decides, that every accused person shall receive, upon his trial, I all the advantages which the Laws of the country affurd Mau"- 4wech Of LANJIMIALS. As these detestable proceedings relate only to the execrated French Revolution, and do not apply to our happy country, let us turn our eyes from such disgusting anomalies to the regular proceedings in our own Courts of Law, on questions like that now before the Houte of Peers; not to see what are the forms in the Courts below respecting the admission of evidence, for these we have seen have been followed, and: arc now done with—the evidence being closed ; but to see the rules which guide the Judges in giving his sentence,. afse; Qie evidence has been adduced, and the parties hall been heard (by their Counsel); on both sides:--and this is the more necessary as the did& of precedent have tot been so fully quoted in the proceedings as they might have beep. Let us bear tra WILLIAM Scort in respect to the marriage contract, in EVANS v. EIrANS : Marriage is the most solemn engagement which one human being can contract with another. It is a contract formed with a view, not only to the benefit of the parties themselves, but to the benefit of third parties; to the benefit of their common et. spring, and the moral order of civil society. To this oontract is superadded the sancdty of a religious vow, to which Heaven itself is made a party. Mr. EVANS must be told that the oblige- L dens of this contract are not to be relaxed at the pleasure of one party. I may go farther; they are not to be lightly relaxed even at the pleasure of both. Fee, if two persons have pledged themselves at the Altar of Goo, to spend their lives together, for purposes that reach much beyond themselves, it is a doctrine to which the morality of the law gives no coontenance, that they may, by pcivate contract, dissolve the bands of this solemn tie, and throw themselves upon society in the undefined and dan gerous characters of a wife without a husband, and a husband without a wife ! The law of this country, and of every Christian country, does not allow a man to use the language—' I ►ill be separated from my wife,' " &c. And again, in the same case— " Now, one cannot help observing, that taking it to be a cool, deep.bid plan, to be pursued and Carried into effect in a secret way, the scene fur the execution of suck a plan is as unhappily chosen as can be. Everybody knows, that secrecy on beard a ship is a thing not to be thought of. People cooped up in a ship live, and are forced to live, in that state of miserable intimacy, which makes almost everything that is done or said known to every other person : there is, for a time (a very unhappy circum stance it Is), almost a suspension of everything like personal delicacy ; every word and every act is known to almost every body. Now, to suppose that a man hi such a situation should first think of opening a plan of this description, is to suppose that he has nothing like common sense."---. " Surely it is not a sufficient apology in such a case to say, Ike it is a misfortune that it could not be proved because it is a misimlnpe which must have been perfectly known, I appro. bend, to tins petty, at the time when she inserted this article. And I must says tbxt to blacken the records of the Court with an accusation of so gram a nature, %without calling one witness to support it, is taking something of a liberty with the Court, and ii taking a pretty gross one indeed with the person who is the subject of such an accusation."---- " It has been asked, and very properly asked, don't Courts of Justice admit presumptive proof? Do you expect ocular proof in all uses? I take the rule to be this :--If you have a criminal fact ascertained, you may then take presumptive proof to shew who did it ; to fix the criminal, having then an actual corpus Spew me, then, in this case, that a crime has been com mitted, and I shall not be at a loss to fix the criminal : but to take presumptions, in order to swell an equivocal fact—a fact that is absolutely ambiguous in its own nature, into a criminal fact, Is a mode of proceeding of a very different nature, and would, I take it, be an entire misapplication of the doctrine of presumptions. This fact, then, not being a criminal one upon the face of it, and being subject to three or four different inter pretations, all of which are perfectly innocent, I think myself by no means at liberty to say, that I ought, by presumption merely, to make out this fact to be necessarily an act of delinquency. " However, what weighs more with me than all this again, is. what I perpetually resort to in this case, viz, the etidentia eel, the conduct of the parties—that always arises in my mind.— Upon any other supposition than innocence in this case, the con-, duct of every person who appears in the business—the conduct of the party, of the witness, of the agent—in short, the conduct of every body, is the most unnatural that can be devised ; it is directly the contrary of what every rational person in that sort of situation would have pursued. " Standing upon that ground, I trust he will act prudently and generously, for generosity is prudence in such circumstances. lie will do well to remember, that the person he cootaidt with is one over whom victory is painful; that she- is one to whom he is bound by every tie that can fasten the heart of one human being to another; she is the partner of his bed—the mother of his offspring; and, If mistakes have been committed (and griev ous mistakes have been committed most certainly in this suit), she is still that person whose mistakes he is bound to cover, not only from his own notice, but, as far as he can, from that of every other person in the world." • The case here alluded to, Sri War. ScoTT calls— " An history very heavy and formidable in its commencement, whilst it rests in mere allegation, but which grows weaker and more budgrdficant every step as it advances towards proof.— Comparing the charge and the proof, I think it, then, my duty to discharge the debt which the justice of this Court owes to the character of (the Quw) by declaring, that upon the most careful and the most conscientious investigation of it, this pro secution, so far as it respects these facts, is unadvisedly and unwarrantably broUght." • HOUSE OF LORDS, NOVEMBER 2. PROCEEDINGS OF THIS DAY. TRIAL OF HER MAJESTY. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool sack a few minutes befote ten o'clock. Prayers were read by the Bishop of Bristol, after which the list was called over. Lord GAGE moved that the standing order of the House, relative to the method of voting, should be read. This being done. Lord HOLLAND said, the regular mode of proceeding was for the names to be called over at the table, when each Peer rises and answers to his name, and declares his vote, Content or Non Content, standing up and uncovered ; the Lord Chancel lor then declares how be conceives the question has been decided, and if any Peer is dissatisfied, the House may then be divided. The Order of the Day was then moved. The LORD CHANCELLOR.—" My Lords, the question now about to be discussed by your Lordships, notwithstanding all that has been said on the subject, is, whether this Bell shall or shall not be read a second time ? I conceive, according to the ordinary practice of the House, this is the only point for your Lordship? consideration. In the ordinary course of pro ceeding on Bills somewhat resembling this—l mean Bills of Divorce—proof of the allegation contained in the Bill is first made, and if the individual occupying the woolsack is of °pi- Won that the facts have been proved, and other Lords are of a contrary opinion, then a debate arises upon it. Upon looking into the precedents .of your Lordship? house, you may be assured, beyond all doubt, that although the pream ble of the Bill be proved before the second reading, it is corn petent for the House to amend the preanibil,"and that has been done in many, very many cases. The House, if it deems it expedient, may even introduce a new preamble; but it is my opinion, that no alt ration of the preamble, or the allegations, can be made, unless for the purpose of mitigating them. In addressing your Lordships on this subject, I can assure you, with the utmost sincerity, that nothing whatever would in duce me to trouble you, did I not feel that I could not at all avokt it, without a dereliction of my public duty. would not ova 44.0 any part in this e►quiry did not a bi:ust of impel me; end I declare to 0.. I Jo it with the utmost pia and reluctance. I say no onan can vote for this Bill unless Le thinks the substantial parts of the preamble proved ; and mole* I think the adulterous intercourse has bens proved, I cannot, candendousii, give my vote for it. In giving my opinion, I shall not deem it necessary to examine the evidence merlin dr. mil. My duty is net to soot tip, bet only to state are "info. We are all Judge,. an Jurors, am, An not proceed on the prin. el* of summing up the evidence, but for communicadne to each other our opinions, and discussing the same. Muth has been said on the subject of a Bill of Pains and Pena. ties, and it has been often repeated that they can only be justified when the safety of the country requires that they should be resorted to. nut not to go further. back than the Resolu tion, them have been since that period several Bills of Pai n . ; and Penaltks, where no such necessity existed. I have stated more than once, in the course of these proceedings, that a Bid! of Pains and Penalties, if properly conducted, is more favourable —(1 do not make any observation on its constitutional or moue *Wisdoml character)—is more favourable to the accused. I mc.. , if it is proceeded in according to the rides of law and evidence . In proceeding by Impeachment, the House of Commons de. fides on eeparte evidence, and one single vote can decide whe. they an Impeachment shall take place or not : and if the House so decide, If has no remedy in itself. In a Bill of Paint and Penalties, examinations take place on both sides of the question, and in both Houses, so that an error committed one day, may be rectified the next. But it has bees; said we are submitting the judgment of this House to that of the House of Commons; this is the case in all Bills of Divorce. It bad been made another cause of complaint, that her Majesty had not been furnished with a specification of the charges, and a fist of the witnesses. But bow could the charges, se a list of the witnesses, be more effectually furnished, than by producing them at the bar, and then postponing the defence till such period as the defendant herself chose ? lie admitted, as he had before, IN the case of lintel, admitted, that great advantages are to be gained by an immediate cross-examination of witnesses; bet these were far more than counterbalanced by the immensity of advantage given to the defendant by such postponement of the defence. The House were also bound to keep in mind that impoe taut principle of British jurisprudence, that, in every ease of sens ation, that accusation was no proof of guilt; that the party may be lament, and ought to be held to be innocent, until clearly proved to be guilty. Their Lordships would, therefore, dismiss every prepossession from their minds, and judge of the case sok ly from the evidence before them. Ile admitted that there might have been—that their Lordships might lake it u his opiniou that there had beeu—a much greater facility in the product tion of witnesses for the prosecution than in support of the de fence. Of that circumstance the accused party ought, of course, to have the benefit. He admitted also that there might have been corrupt endeavours to procure evidence, and that was another circumstance of which the accosed ought doubtless to have the benefit, not only as regarded the witnesses who were the objects of that corruption, but as regarded others, on whoa& it might throw a reasonable suspicion. He had, in farming his own opinion, given all these considerations their full weight.— The way in which their Lordships should look at the questions was this :—Whether, laying aside all testimony that could be sus. petted, and taking together the evidence which was unsuspected ea the part of the prosecution, and the testimony in answer, wish the negative evidence, or want of evidence, which might have been produced—does it or does It not support the allegation of an adulterous intercourse having existed between her Majesty and Bergand ?He had so put the case to himself, and fir spree to him—he was sorry to say it, but he could drew no whet conclusion, than that—thee hod hem on adulterous insineuree between her Majesty and Bergson. (Strong maths of sit throughout the House). His Lordship did not care although the wltiole evidence of Majocchi and De Mont were discarded; he would only ask their Lordships to accompany Mtn while be took a short survey of the circumstances attending her *Majes ty's voyage to the Holy Land. Who went on board the Poise. ea with her Majesty ? Echiavini, Hownam, Flynn, Austin, Countess of Oldi, kr,. If the simple issue which their Lord ships had to say war, whether her Majesty and &nand had slept under the same owning or tent, could any man have a doubt as to the result of the evidence? In the first place their Lordships had the evidence of Gupta) the captaiNand Puerto the mate of the vessel. No other observation had been made on the evidence of these persons, except that they had been paid a large sum of money as a compensation for coming here. Is his opinion that was a matter of Rutz or no coosequeay. There was no compulsitory process to bring ;hem to this country; and it was well known that fauvism witnesses were .never to be procured unless ilberelly paid. Wow, wIPMsiPt the fact of the sleeping under the tent to ho proved by these witnesses, could their Lordship; possibly believe that, if any of the numerous persons who slept below could have proved the reverse, that they would net have been produced ? Could their Lordships believe that, if Bergami had slept below during the period when it was alleged he slept under the test with her Majesty, it would not have been incontrovertatlly established ? The fact, however, of sleeping under the tent was one thing,, and the existence of an adulterous intercourse another. In coming to a conclusion on this point, their Lordships would look to other circumstances—to the fact of the contiguity of the be is at almost every place whcie her Majesty . so journ ( 1 .43 the extraordinary circumstance of the eleva tion of Bergami, and all his family--and partieuhrly to the introduction of Bergand's sister, the Countess of Oldi, as her sole Lady of Honour. They were always to keep in mind, that ocular evidence of the adulterous connection was not to be looked for; it was enough that there were such cit.- ffinststances as led, in every reasonable mind, to the inference of guilt. The Noble and Learned Lord proceeded to animad vert with acuteness on the evidence of Lientestanto Flynn and Hownam, as contrasted with the evidence for the prosecu tion, as to the circumstances on board the polacca. Why had not Schiavini been called? He it was wbo gave the orders to Oarguilo and Puerto; and- if they could be con tradicted, he was the man to do it. Could there be found in the evidence the slightest trace of necessitg? But, sup posing there had at any time existed a, necessity, what was the meaning of having the tent shut of at different periods of the day, and when the weather was calm—when there was net a breeze? Where was the necessity of having the tent closed then, with the Queen and Bergami inside? Now, let their Lordships look to those wbo had been called to contradict this part of the evidence, and form a fair and rational comparison. Let their Lordships look to the communication between_ the awning on the deck and the place—to the uneontradicted clezee of the Captain upon that point—as to whether it wits open or shut. Why bad not the persons who had slept di rectly below the place been called to deny that fact? In Eases of this nature, where the act had not been seen, an inference must be drawn from a combination of the &cum staneei. Now, U their Lordships would look to the case at Aum, making what allowance they pleased fur the necessity en board the polacca, what necessity existed for the regulation at Aum? What possibly could be the necessity for the istrode:- don of a person into the tent, inclosed by soothes tent, in the latter of which Theodore Aiajocchi and another servant ,lent I :6-