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her Majesty's family slept Separate from that part of the house in which her Majesty slept. This was very material. It was no ins;gnificant point. For what was the whole labour of the bpposi.e. party? What was the labour of the opening speech?— What was the labour of the examination? What was the labour if the re-examination ? What was the labour of the summing up? To prove to their Lordships that opportunities were Studi ously and industriously afforded for the commission of the crime imputed to her Majesty. It was not without reason, therefore, that hlajocchi was asked, if the other persons of the suite sign at a distance ? It was nut without good cause he replied that they were separated. But what castle out on his cross-examina tion ? If their Lordship. would turn to the 76th page of the 31inutes, they would find the following questions acid inswers: You have said that in the house at Naples the ten of the suite of her Royal Highness, except 13ergami slept in another part of the house from her !loyal flightless do not remember (the celebraud Non asi riordo) whether the rest of the family slept . . separate or distant." " 1)o you now mean to say that the rest of the pet sun.; of the suite, excepting 7.:ergami, did not sleep at a distant and separate part of the house?—l remember the posi tion of the bed-rooms of her Royal Highness and Bergami ; but' those of the family Ido not recolleit." Yet, in his original exa mination, 11ajocchi had at once declared that the bed-rooms of the latter were separated! The cross-examination on this point proct tied thus: " Then you do not recollect now, and you will not awear now that the rest of the suite of her Royal Highness did s:.ep apart, at a separate part of the house ?—I remember well where her Royal Highness and Bergand slept, but as to the rest of the family I do not recollect where they slept." He %mild not wast:! their Lordships' time by making a single com ment on this palpable contradiction. He should feel that he r_bused their patience, if he were to attempt to describe the in ference that inevitably flowed from it, and to spew what the an swer Ovtii by this witness in the early part of his examination, Was a wfftil per:2rsion of the truth. But, before he proceeded to ;my furtlL:r details, he begged to call their. .Lordships attention to come circumstances in the.mode of examining the witnesses, which, if they were accidental, he would be the last man in the world to impute to intention. But certainly there were some coincidences so singular, some circumstances so material and so striking, that if they were purely accidental, be must say that it was a most unfavourable turn of the dice, since they always had a tinided operation against her Majesty. IT their Lordships would refer to the evidence of Mademoiselle Ile Mont, as printed in the 501st page of the Minutes, they would find it attempted to be proved, that at Seharnitz, as at other places (for what ground was trodden by her Majesty in which she was not made liable toejmilar imputations ?), the" adulterous intercourse" was carried on; and that to Make the opportui::ty for carrying it on snore complete, her Majesty had gone to bed. The part of the examination of Miss Ds Maat, to which he wished to direct their Lordshipe' attention, was the following : " Who went to bed in that room besides her Royal Highness did anybody?— Myself." " At what time did you go to bed?—Nearly ten o'clock." " .1t what time did her Royal Highness go to bed? —.\t the same hour." " In the same room ? In the same room." .t ad there the examination on that point rested. Nothini more ss as said on the subject ; and it was evidently intended to impress their Lordships the notion that her Majesty had poem bed in the ordinary way. This was strange. had that witness never b. eat previously examined, at Milan or elsewhere? Was the evi dence which she could give alone excluded from that printed do cument with which the Counsel for the bill daily scared these who were in opposition to it ? Did the Attorney-General-know what the witness could prove. that he thus ritomed Awl it the point which he t Mr. Williams) had described? fact, as their Lordships knew, was, that her Majesty on that occasion no more wet to bed in the ordinary way of going to bed than be wale in bed himself at that moment ; for, on the croseezamination of De Mont, it appeared that no pardon of her Majesty's dress had been taken off. In page 324 of the Minutes, their Lordships would find the following questions and answers referring to this eircusestance " Ilad the Princess undressed ?-I.do not recol lect (for this witness had her Icon 4 ricordo also) • she was in bed, but I do nor recollect whether she was unteressed."—e..— " Di you remember the dress that the Princess was in the habit of wearing at that time 1 Yes."—" Was it not a blue habit trimmed with fur round close up to the neck, with a great deal of fur about it? Yes, there was a great deal of fur here (about the bosom); it was a blue dress." Now If the Attarney-Gene ral knew previously that this was the fact, would it ipt have been more fair to put their Lordships in possession of the real merits of the case in the examination in chief, instead of stop ping short just at the moment when an impression might be made on their Lordships' minds, that her Majesty went to bed is order (for such was the imputation) that Bergand might go to led to her? if this was merely an inadvertence it was cer- Ludy excusable, although it was a singular instance of forget felness, if his earned Friend had in his possession any former examination of the witness on the subject. He would state another and a simil.ir instance. Ile was aware that .their Lord ships' patieuce would give way were he to *adduce all the in s:a:ices which uccu: red in the evidence, but he entreated them, es behalf of his Royal Mistress, themselves to pursue the details of which he was merely giving them a few samples. In page 290 tf the Minutes of Evidence, their Lord.hips would find, with reference to what took place at Aum, the following examination of Mademoiselle De avlont Was there any bed or bedstead placed under the tent ? There were two small beds iii the tent.' " Did juu go to the tent for the purpose of undressing her Royal Highness? Yes."—" Was she undressed as usual 2 - • Yes."-- " Did you leave her uadressed, on up? I left her undressed; and she was lying on her bed."—" Where was Bergami ? Under the acme tent." And so on. When this witness was cross-examined with respect to that occurrence, as printed in the 320th and 321st pages of the Minute., what came out? That crossexatnina tion was as follows :—" Do you or do you not mean to say that you undressed the Princess at Aum? I recollect I Was under the tent of the Princess, but I do not recollect whether 1 un dressed her or not." This, their Lordships would recollect, was the principal witness in support of the Bill ;sthe witness whose examination in chief lasted a day and a Wife the witness who bad been examined at Milan, in England, sworn in this country before she was brought to your Lordships' Bar (a thing unheard of in our civil and criminal law, and demanding the severest re probation), and, under such circumstances; was it quite fair or just to her Majesty, to leave on their Lurdships minds the infer ence that she was undressed on the occasion in question? Who ever of their Lordships would pursue the cross-examination, would find him justified- in the remark,.that it did not appear, from the evidence of Mademoiselle De Moot, that at Aum her :Majesty took off any part of her clothes but ber . ridhsg-dress. Was it quite fair to her Alajesty that this circumstance should be left to be brought to light by such minute circumstances? If the opposite Counsel knew of this fact, and did not 'pursue their examination until it was disclosed, be would say noshing of their intention. With that he had nothing to do. Certain it was, however, that their examination - did stop short at the time that he had described. So, with reference to the masked ball at Na ples,when the same or at least a similar imputationvras thrown out. Their Lordships would find, by reference to page 253 of the Minutes, that after the statement that her Majesty returned from the ball to assume a second character, the examination of Mademoiselle Demont proceeded thus :—" Did she change her dress entirely for that purpose? Yes.—Did you assist her in changing her dress? I did not."—No further examination took place. The allegation, that her Majesty had 0 entirely" changed her dress, although the witness had not been present at the change, was left wholly unexplained. There was not a tittle of proof that her Majesty had changed her dress, or that she had put her second dress over that which she before were. lie should call the attention of their Lordships to the observa tions made by the Solicitor-General, on this point, in his sum ming up. Those observations arose, not exactly out of the exa mination in chief, but were wrought up by the dexterity of the Advocate, aided by somewhat of poetic fancy and fervour.— This was an injury to her Majesty, as it was, somewhat un :Arty, assuming a fact which had not been proved. Before he q.:itted this subject, he should adduce another instance, and it would be the last which he should adduce. Their Lordships would recollect that the witness had been examined at Milan; she had been ex,:mined by the way; indeed, she had and railtitudinous examinations—civil, military, and officiaL We: front what had t :ken place, one of two things must lave occur red. Either the witness must have given different evidence tore those who furnished bin Learned Iliend's instructions, Or else her Majesty was treated unfairly and unjustly by those who' threw out observations calculated to make an impression against her, which it was afterwards found impossible to support. He would trespass upon the attest ion of their Lordship*, by making one or two further observations on the contradictory, nature of the evidence. Theii• Lordship* would not have for gotten the evidence given by Majocchi. Too much had been said, too many comments had been made, to allow that evi eirece to be easily forgotten ; indeed, while the English language remained, the testimopy of that person would not be forgotten, W lien that witness was first eatuatint4 6 their Lordships did not ' . know that the shores of England had befete been bOnoured at el • she described her Royal Matteis to every thing that was noble, gratified with his presence. Who would have heard that this rears and-beneeelente4Here the Learned Gentktuan r e ad V'S person had been at Gloncester?—Who would have known that rious eetracts from the correspondence of De Mont } — Did those he had been here sod there, over the different parts of these letters mean what they expressed • did she mean to say whet she Reelins,. had it not oome out-by mere accident ? - But for this, *stated, or any thing else? He ebfr. W.) had heard another Majoechi would have passed for one of that newly-imported person say sonsetiolog nearly to the same effect; he bad beard crew of witnesses of which they had seen and heard so much. something nearly of the same description uttered by somebody The chance. discovety was not, however, made until after the in some particular place--a person too of no mean authority—a cross-examioation. Then, and not till then, it was discovered man of classic taste, of elegant composition, worthy to be the that Majoechi had been before in England. This of Itself mos Panegyrist of her Majesty the Queen, whom he described as the not a ground of objection. But had her blejesty.'s Counsel fife, grace, and ornament of the society in which she moved. known this fact in time, they might have made inquiries re- : Did that distinguished person also speak with mental reserve specting him —they might have discovered matters which would tion? No, he (Mr. W.) presumed he did not; he presumed he have served the cause of the Queen and damaged the character . spoke sincerely and truly; it was therefore that he alluded of the witness. But no. Thera the witness stood at the Bar; •to the high authority of his name and to the laboured pa he was examined through the medium of an interpreter ; he negyric he bestowed on her Majesty. With respect to thee was supposed to be as dull as a poet to all that was said chambermaid Be Mont, he would wish to do her justice ' around him in English. Every question, however, he had an op- even against herself. She, was once sincere ; she sinned portunity of understanding and digesting while the Interpreter against her better knowledge and her better nature. She was translating them into Italian. Thus he had an opportunity spoke from the feelings of gratitude and of a imiration—she of evading answers, and of sheltering himself at his leisure. This spoke in strong terms, the meaning of what, she said, she after passed away, the cross-examination passed away; and then by w.trds vainly and foolishly attempted to explain away. Of the surprise (for all the information came by surprise to her Ma- Gentleman to whom he had already alluded, it might be a ques tion with him whether he ought not to have given in evidence, ques jesty's Counsel, they had no regular information on any point), and then, as he said, by surprise it came out that Majocchi had from the mouth of that accomplished person, the sentiments before been in England. It was said that this hie been inad- he had uttered respecting her Majesty ; but when he looked around him be could not see him. To another part of the case vettently omitted. It was somewhat singular, however, that all he would advert with More pleasure than those parts which he the inadvertent omissions and concealments were against the had already touched. He alluded to the just and wise declare case of her Majesty ; they heard of no inadvertencies which made against the other side of the case. There was anot he r h,_ tins of his Honourable and Learned Friend the Solicitor-Gr. stance in the evidence to which he wished to draw the attention neral, which, lest he should mis-quote, he would give his own words, as reported:—" My Lords, the moment the Atter of their Lordships. There was the Captain of the polacre who had been called—that man who would find when he got home. ney-General received instructions to lay before you the evidence —if he did get home—that he had earned more than he could in support of the chlrges contained in the Bill, he, in conjunc have otherwise amassed by a long life of industry—that man tion with me and my other Learned Friends, directed our must anxious attention to collect all the evidence to be at: a iced in had been examined and cross-examined, and not till then was it support of those charges. We weighed and considered all the known who he was, or whether he bad ever before been in dais country. The Learned Counsel proceeded to observe, that materials, and every point of evidence that bore on the ques from the nature of what had come out in the cross-examination tion. We did so without paying any regard to the influence it of that witness, their Lordships would be led tp conclude that might create. We had a duty to fulfil, and we were anxious to he was not altogether an impartial evidence between the 'Go- perform that duty with the utmost fairness and the utmost can vernment on the one hand, and the Queen on the other. Their dour. My Lords, I trust that in pursuing the course which we have pursued, we have faithfully performed our duty. • We are Lordships would perceive how much the odds were, on all oc not to snake ounelvespardes to this inquiry. We act here under casions, against the Queen, and they well knew how much those odds were increased by all the circumstances to which he al- your directions." This, infect, wasthe Queen's case. He heard hided. When on this'Pa' rt of the case, there was another point this language with pleasure; he applauded the declaration—we will to which he had better at once draw the attention of their bring forward all the evidence s:if the case, both for ind against tee • Lordships and be done with it. Pie alluded to the commentary Queen ; but it was with distress and dismay—with surprise and et the Solicitor-General on the dress of the Queen on that me- with regret—that he afterwards saw the Solicitor-General throw Inorable occasion "Alen she went tee the Ball representing the out no less than four challenges to bring forward certain witnesses. Genius of History. In the summing up of the case, the Solid- This was a professional manoeuvre which might be played off at a NW Prins trial, in an *don for goods sold and delivered to tor-General (I mutt refer, to the notes of the Shirt - hand Writer lest I should misrepresent my Learned Friend). My Learned the amount of RS, but it was utterly unworthy in the present Friend stated on that occasion, that " 'her Majesty returned ease. They were asked to call Louis Bergami ;to call Bergansi home purposely to change • her dress, as the witness said, en- and two others. Was that call, he would ask, a fair one? Where dryly. The maid was in the anti-room while the courier was was the fairness which was so much affected? Why did not the in the bed-room, where he remained the whole time while the Attorney-General and his Learned Colleague call the Noble Queen changed her dress." Ile thought, that in summing up a Ladies who surrounded the person of her Majesty? Why did case which the parties said was so strong, so fully proved, his he not call Doctor Holland, and that class of persons to whom Learned Friend might at least have avoided entering into any he made an allusion? What became of the decision of the Ho excesses or exaggerations. To this, too, was added, the perora - nourable and Learned Gentleman? ft sounded in empty speech , tion of his. Learned Friend, in which he expressed his most but it o p erated nothing in practice—" Dues tocent, lituantur." anxious hope that her ,Majesty might come triumphantly out of Did the Honourable and Learned Gentleman deal fairly with all the cbarges againithere It would, however, be seen, that their Lordships in a case of such mighty consideration, in. volving, as it did, consequences the highest and most awful to the whole of this hodehions scene was, from the beginning to the the country, to their Lordships, and to posterity ? In a crime end, a stet - tames assumption , a false statement, a fact totally un true. Thar: Lordships would at once perceive the malignant nal case, were a party in any Court to come forward with a case, and to keep back evidence which might be able to throw light object of the witness, when she endeavoured to make the int un one side or the other, on the charge, the absence of that evi pressien that the Queen had, on that occasion, entirely changed dence would always operate in favour of the accused. In a her dress. This obi endeavoured to do, in order to prejudice the case of her Royal Mistress. He had not yet done with the criminal case, by any effort of professional trick or dexterity, to keep away such evidence would be considered most disho mating up of the Solicitor-General. On that occasion his nourable—would show a want of all geninnan-like feeling, and lammed Friend said that her Majesty and Bergami remained an a WOW locked in the room together. Gratuitous again. His Learned total apathy to the cause of public justice. In the criminal 11 1 1104 had here also taxed his imagination. He did so•for the justice of this country, the scales should be ever held with an even hand—for his own part, were he employed to conduct a potpie of establishing two facts ; powerful ones, to be sure, but in proportion of their strength they were unfounded. His prosecution for murder, and were he wilfully to withhold a wit- Learned Friend had alluded to the fact of her Majesty's appear- ness, which in justice to the accused he ought to have examined, and were the prisoner found guilty and hanged, he would con ing as the Genius *of History, and also of tier appearing at the Theatre St. Carlos. Toehe former he had before alluded. His alder himself an accessary to the murder of the prisoner. Why then, he would ask, in the present case, a case, he might say, Learned Friend observed, that her Majesty's dress, on that oc of the highest criminal kind, one which , so directly affected the canon, was gross, disgusting, revoeing. He did not exactly re member his Learned Friend's words,but they were to this effect : Queen, why would they depart from the uniform, the mild and —ln the course of the examination, he had questioned her on Marmite practice of English justice, and the true spirit of English this point. Ile had before no means of information on the sub- Lew? They were asked to caU Louis Bergami to contradict, if ject of the charge. He did not now allude to this as a matter he werrable, the evidence of Majocchi, who swore that Basel of complaint, but in order to make their Lordsbips vielant at gine andehe Queen had always breakfasted together; but did last, as they had net been indulgent at first. Much had been the .Learned Gentleman vouch for the fact, that Louis Bargain' glade of the assertion respecting her dress as Genius of History. and Majocchl had always attended? Did it not happen, that Now he would ask any one, whether her Majesty would have Camera sometimes attended instead of Louis Bergamo? Why l so appeared, whether the Neapolitan Court, where females of then if this were so, why call him? he would not have been et the first reek: were present, would have sanctioned such an ap- any use; so that even- here ehts-empty and miserable , ?cameo, fails—the challenge to call Louis Bergami repave; into nothing, pretence? The Learned Counsel, after some further observations, alluded to the story relative to the appearance of her Majesty at even this miserable rule, a rule that might be tolerated in a can the Theatre St. Carlos. There- also his Learned Friend de- where a coutentiort might exist to gain a farthing damages and , scribed her Majesty's dress as grossly indecent, po much so that costs, a rule less to be considered as a rule of law or of justice, . she was hissed by the persons in the Theatre. Now he would than a rule of professional dexterity ; even this had no applicatkm. turn to page '256 of the e li nutes; When the witness was asked Tb.e . appeal to this rule had no force, it fell short, idea. image 'I Was there anything particular in her Royal Highness's dress " sine Wu. Such an appeal as had been made by the Selicitor-Gte (when she went to the Theatre), she answered " Yes, her dress neral•was a shameful extension of a low and contemptible rule cf was very ugly, monstrous." And here it ended. Bu t no. The technical law. Yet og the presumptions derived from such witnesedistinctly stated before this, that her Majesty wore on shifts as these were their Lordships called to legislate, to pass a that occasion a cloak—a very large cloak. Where, then, was the Bill of Pains and Penalties, of which Burke had said, speaking grossness, the indecency, the indelicacy? But their Lordships not of' course of this, but of a precisely similar measure, that unless explained away and rendered imperative by extreme and must perceive what the object was in describing the dress as grossly indecent; and In speaking of the hisses, it was evidently "Y i n neeendefs It wet en act of i n ju stice and tyranny.was' therefore, shamess to state, that there was any analogy be intended to make an impression against her lejeity, not aer tween this and the ordinary criminal proceedings before other tainly by his Learned - Friends, who, he doubted nut, acted' on tribunals. In the case of those proceedings, there were certain their instructions, but by that witness who committed the foul penalties affixed to certain crimes—toenurder, death—to forgery, and abominable falsehood and perjury for the purpose. Their death—to other crimes other punishments. When the facts al-, Lordships Were bound to extend that protecting law to her Majesty, which said that every one was presumed innocent till kited were made out by the evidence of the case, the legal con- 1 the p text bock? Where was' proved. guilty. If ever there was a case where such presump - elusion followed. But where was - i tione-xisted,ie was that now before them. After some allusions the law of the land that fixed anypunishment to the fact{ to the circumstance of all the witnesses being forgetful ouly on now under inquiry, warranted that shameless asaumption of an analogy, with the criminal proceedings in ordinary tribunals, that one 'side of the questioe, he observed, that it would appear resort to the technicalities of the law ? Whether the Bell should that the origin of the whole charge was in fraud and perjury. or should not pass, was the question ? Here the fact and the law, He. war not disposed to take up their time with a minute reca the legal inquiry (if be might 'io pervert language as to call it pitulaeon of the evidence that had been given, but be begged to tripe), and the sentence, were all at issue together on one tit/es teem to their Lordships some instances with regard to De Mones tion, before a tribunal, exceeding in dignity all others in the evidence. ' He would take as a signal instance the attempt she made to amend her memory. Whoa she was first examined, kingdom, but which, as be was bound to say, had departed from she wasquite inefficient ; the second time she was better; the the rules of all other Courts of Justice. Let them hear no more , then, of those fancied analogies, but the whole case should be third she ;wore quite up to the mark. But first he would submitted to the substantial justice of their Lordships. .lle had ask whether the accoent that witness had given was at all to be been somewhat led away by these remarks, from what was entertained—he would ask whether she did not rather furnish properly his business. H protested, therefore, as zealously, evidence against herself by the correspondence between her and e her sister? That correspondence she wished to explain away. though not as eloquently as his Learned Friend, against the ha- Their Lordships heard the long, elaborate explanation she gave ference which was drawn. He took it as undoubted , that the after a night's deliberation. She told their Lordships that her ncla P f°4uctlml of the witnesses for the prosecution, was most clamorous evidence In favour of the Qgeen. But witnesses letters td her sister Were written by way of double entendre—but when did she say so?—after a night's deliberation; after consult- they should have. lheir challenge shofild be answered. Ile her llow begged to be distinctly understood in what he was about to do. humbed mile, from is 141thpi; after holding a s the place in whi checial conference not one he then stood. Their He and his Learned Friend! were not in the same situation as his Learned Friends. They had (pr three years been perfecting Llordildps would recollect that she made no attempt at exerlana their evidence; they had an equitable commission, a :egal cons dos the first day—the first day not a mull was heard from her mission, a military commission; they had examined their wit elmmethe double eaten**, but no sooner did she come down the nesses on oath and without •mitir, in Italy, and by the way, and following day than, in answer to some questions he had put after their arrival in this country. ' to her, she said, I have something to say with respect to those The Earl of LAUDERDALE. rose, and observed, that as litters; I have an explanation to make; and then she entered Mato an explanation, very (earned and very laboured; like ace- the Counsel was proceeding on a new ' topic ' and as the time for rising drew near, it might be advisable to adjourn before he pro re's Orations, it had a beginning, a middle, and an end She would first have their Lordships, believe that she went ceeded further ' The House then adjourned till to-- directly home from their Bar, but she was obliged to admit that she remained two hours in conference above stairs. In pee 353, their Lordships would find what this witness had mid as to the length of time she reelained in the room, and yet in the first instance she would have them believe that she was not in the room at all. Now, with respect to the private marks on the letters, he asked where were those private signs to be found? He would make this general assertion that to any wan of sense, any man of judgment, the explan ation she attempted to make, laboured as it was, was altogether unintel ligible—was altogether incredible and absurd. So conspicuous, indeed, was the testimony of this woman—so characteristic die nature of her double entendre, that in the next new ceenedy; this celebrated chatuber-maid could not be passed over if the author shoull have anything like the wit which she evinced. It would be trifling to argue on this woman's testimony, which, in itself, had no sense, anti could not either be supported on the one band, or refuted on the other by any argument whatever He would not pursue the evidence at any length, he merely took a show view of it as he passed, leaving to their Lordships the more important duty to eater. as no doubt they would, into more mi butt details; their Lordships had a grave and high duty to per form, andthey were bound, as no doubt they would, to look very closely into the evidence before them. lie would,with their Lord ships leaf', call their attention to the letters of De Mont, iti which (this day.) The Observer of Sunday will of necessity be Two Sheets ; and, as no Advertisements will be inserted on that day, nearly the- whole. Forty Folio Columns will be devoted to the QuEsses Business, of which Mr. BRouonass's Speech alone will make upwards : of Seventeen of the Observer Columns. . • Thursday, a Cabinet Counsel was held at, the Fir 'reign-office, which was_ attended by all the Cabinei Minsters in town. Yesterday morning, as the Earl of BALCARRA4 was driving his gig to the House of Lords, hew' Thrown from it on the pavement: the carriage wai broken, and lilt Lordship. considerably hurt. The 51st, Regiment, which forsorne time Past havil been doing duty" at WOolwich, Deptford; &c. yesterday, removed to. Hounslow, Isleworth, add Itingston (Head-quarters). Several baggage wag: Bons, very heavily laden, passed through 'the City from Bow; • A. • W • Ifl ~. \~ CATHOLIC MEE?'ING TO ADDRESS THE QUEEN. Yesterday evening there was a Meeting of Ca tholics held at the Crown and Anchor, Strand, for the purpose of considering an Address to the QUEEN. At half-past six o'clock the Rev. RICHARD HAYES was called to the Chair. He began by stating his opinion, that this was a glorious day for the Catholics of England ; it was a day in which their principles would be vindicated on the ground of loyalty itself, as they had now stept forward in behalf of an injured, persecuted female—a female whose life had been con spired against in 1806, and whose brother and father had fallen in the field of battle. The Catholics of England knew how to feel for her situation. Like her they had laboured under unmerited sufferings and persecution, and they therefiwe knew well how duly to sympathize with her. As Catholics, the persons present were peculiarly called upon to express their opinion, in conformity with their religious principle. The Italian witnesses, it was said, wete unworthy of belief, because they were Roman Catholics, and were therefore - at liberty to swear anything. The whole Catholic Body were thus calumniated on account of these infamous_witnesses: The religious opinions of the Catholics repelled such charges. That Body scorned to have it said, that persons so base as these Italians belonged to their Society. From a personal resiience in Italy, he knew well whence such impure witnesses were brought. He had hea,ul so much in Rome about the Queen, as to convince him that all the charges against her were of English growth, and had been transplanted to Milan, whence they had at last been brOught to the beautiful soil of Cotton garden, there to be under the care of that Ministerial gardener the Attorney-General. Polluted, then, as such characters were, it was too bad to charge the whole Catholic Body as corrupt and base. Such a charge only required to be mentioned to be refuted. Mr. DONNE came 'forward to move a series of Re solutions. He had but little to add, he said, after the able statement they had just heard ft om the Chairman. It had been objected, that the present was an improper time for holding such a Meeting as the present. From that opinion he totally dissented, because he thought it was their duty to come for ward peculiarly now in favour of a persecuted fe male. He concluded, amidst much applause, by pro posing the Resolutions. After several speeches from different Gentlemen, the Resolutions were put and agreed to unanimously, as was also an Address to her MAJESTY. Thanks being voted to the Chairman, the Meeting, which was respectably and numerously attended, was adjourned. A numerous Meeting of the Liberty of Saffron• hill, Hatton-garden, and Ely-rents, in the Parish of St. Andrew, Holborn, took place yesterday, at the Workhouse. After several spirited and appropriate speeches by Mr. HALLIDAY, Mr. HA EMU, MT.PRATT, Mr. HAMMOND, and other Gentlemen, a series cf Resolutions were passed, strongly deprecating the present proceedings against her MAJESTY. As her 'lAJE,szy is much occupied at present, no Addresses are to be received until Wednesday next, when the following are appointed to be presented Wandsworth Stockton-on-Tees Croydon Letter-press Printers Oxford Newbury (Ladies) St. he's (Females) St. Ann's, Limehouse Ditto (Males) And seve ral others. • _ Answer of the Qum/ to the Address of the Church wardens, Overseers, and other Inhabitants of the Pa rish of St. Saviour, Son thwark : a I feel peculiar satisfaction in receiving this loyal and affec - tionite Address front the Churchwardens, Overseers, and other Inhibitants of the PArish of St. Saviour, in the Borough of „Southwark. _ _ _ "Though I have no regard for any interest that is separated from the public welfare, and consequently disdain all connexio r with any faction, yet it has been said that faction has marked me for its own. It might have been affirmed, with much more truth, tb it persecution has marked me for its own. Persecution has harassed me with every species of malevolent vexation and of inquisitorial torture for nearly a quarter of a century. If my 1 honour and my life have been preserved amidst so many perils as those to which I have been exposed from spies, traitors, and . perfidious emissaries of every description, the cause must be ascribed, no; to the defect of vigilance, or to any relaxation of effort in my enemies, but to the inherent strength of integrity, and to the invisible protection of the Amman. lii. gracious Pawns:met has perpetually attended me in all my wanderings, has watched over my pillow in all my sorrows and care, and been my constant shield in all my perils and adversities. " It will never be forgotten, that on the very day on which the remains of his late revered Majesty, my guardian and my friend, were committed to the silent tomb, perjury, in the hi deous form of a discarded servant, passed those precincts where the sceptre of righteousness ought to have been raised for the protection of truth. About the same time my name was omit ted in the Liturgy, and I was held up to the country as an ob ject of abomination for fictitious crimes. _ ' 4 It is gratifying to me, and it is a proud reflection to the country, that of all the numerous witnesses who have deposed anything prejudicial to my character, not one has been an Rue lishoutn. When, in the history of these proceedings, the cha racter of the country is hereafter the object of impartial scrutiny, this circumstance will form a bright incident in the annals of England. b " All the falsehood which has been produced against me has been of foreign extraction. It is a species of commodity In which I trust the English will never trade; and I feel assured that they will ever consider truth as too precious to be sold, and perjury as too detestable to be purchased." Her MAissry's Answer to the Address from the Parishioners of St. Pancras, Middlesex— " I accept, with unfeigned satisfaction, this loyal and afiec donate Address from the Inhabitants of the Parish of fit. Pan cras and its vicinity. " I feel that my interest is completely identified with that of the People; and that there is reciprocity both in our friend ships and our enmities. Those who are labouring to polite niy honour, are, in the same act, tarnishing the national glory, in its judicialeisa;neter. - Those w ho are solicitous to deprive me of my dignities, have ever shewa themselves ready so embrace any opportunity of stripping the Nation of its rights. Those who are eager to degrade the Queen, have never nsanifested any re pugnance in abridging the Liberties of the People. .. Where any country le , governed by a Faction; it must be governed mere for the benefit of a few, than for the interests of all. Under the Government of a Faction, the common good I. a prey to the rapaeity_ of individuals. The Vulture aid the Cormorant penetrate into the Treasury, where redo* disin terestedness ought to preside ; and Into the sanctuary where gen.. Ate piety ought to dwelt, " Under a just and beneficent Governmen as h es good nor evil is partially dispensed : therels an 4mual Of bent:. fits, and a similarly equal phrtic4pation of barthees vie calamities-. there is nothing exclusive !—The blessings of a wise" Adminis tration are impartially scattered, as the dew of Heaven is equally diffused. .. " A Bill of Pains and Penalties is so uncoratitotloual in its principle, so tyrannical in Its nature, arid ato trajast, in its ope rations, that I mat the present is the last attempt elf dr tied that will-be made on the Liberties of Engliphosen. If I s h ou ld be the means of putting an end for ever to such an arbitrary individual tight, I dlativepower, and such an Mee hrfasioa of should not have lived in vain... N \\ ~: I 'I .