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Haw did you know Colonel Brown ?—fircause I saw him at the Advocate's, and his servant lives near my house at Milan. What wages had you from the Marchese Chesa ?—A livre of Milan a-day, and eating and drinking, and everything comfort able—plenty of perquisites—(A laugh). What wages did the Princess give you 1--Every three months ten Napoleons—that is 10 times twenty francs. Had you your keep there ?—Yes. Everything comfortable?—Eating and drinking—that was all. I supplied myself with everything else. Does the Marchese give you clothes ?—Not as an obligation, but as a present. Did you receive no presents in the Princess's house ?—I never received any, except when I returned from a journey. When ISergami was made a Baron, he gave me two dollars. Were you cook to the Princess?—Yes. Had you no perquisites as cook? —The profits I left to other people whu were with me there, for their pay was small. Did the Baron pay you?—Yes. Did not the Baron overlook the accounts of the house ?—Yes. Interpreter (to Mr. Brougham)—You mean, did he look over the accounts, not did he overlook them—(4 laugh). Was the person very exact, and did he not overlook any ?—I do not know. On board the ship was your business to be on deck, or below cooking?—To work in the kitchen. Where is the kitchen?-0n deck. Where did the Princess's maids sleep ?—I do not know. Where did theronimus sleep ?—That I know, for I some times went into the cabin to look in the glass. His room was in a corner. Here the witness said the rest of the suite slept in different cabins; but there were so many cabins, he could not recollect the particular arrangement. What had you for coming here?-..Nothing but trouble! ( .4 laugh). Dr) you expect any thing ?—I hope to go in a short time to r.) master's service. I have a livre a day from my muter; but I don't know whether lam to have it in my absence. I have r..:t received letters from my daughter, and do not know whether sh.t receives my Money. Examined by the Peers. Lord LIVERPOOL—You said that when Bergami came .1.• of the Princess's bed-room, you looked through the curtains of Berganii's bed, and saw that it had not been slept in. Did it apvar as if nobody had been there?---Yes. Lord FALMOUTH.—Has Mahomet performed the same die before you which he has performed before the Princess? Y - s, he played the same tricks before us many times. The Duke of HAMILTON.—When you saw her Royal liighness come out of her bed-room, was she dressed?—She covered, but not entirely dressed. Lord LAUDERDALE—When Bergami came out of her Poyal Highness s bed-room, what did he say to you?—You ras c.l, what arc you doing here? Go away. Lord PALDIOUTH.—You said, that Bergami looked over the accounts. Had you ever any quarrel with him about those a.:counts?—yea, I h a d. Was that just before you left her Royal Highness's service, or when was it ?—I had seine disputes with hint before, and with his brother after. Did the Princess give you a go( d character ?—No, for I did not ask it. Did you quit her service of 'your own accord, or were you discharged?—There was some quarrel, and they told me I might go away, and I went. Lord GROSVENOR—At what time in the morning was the bed made ?—I cannot say; for there was another servant; she made the bed. It was only by accident I entered the room. , Lord GROSVENOR—Was it your duty, as cook, to bring up the breakfast ?—There were waiters to do that. Was blahomet in any particular employment ?—He had the care of the horses : there was another Turk in the stables, but he did nothing. Lord DARLINGTON -Do you recollect the King and Queen of Sardinia going to the hotel at Turin, to her Royal Bighness.—l do. Lord DARLINGTON.—I wish to know whether Bergami went out with the Princess in the same carriage whoa the King End Queen 'Went airing with her Royal Highness ?....The Queen went with the Princess. Did Bergami attend her Royal Highness 2—Yes, he followed in a carriage, but the King had the arm of the Princess. Lord GROSVENOR.—Were you in the service of the Count Pins when Majocco left the Princess !-.-No. Lord MORTON.—Wu it usual to make up the beds in dif ferent forms, day and night?—l don't know; in my house the beds are made in the morning. About what time did her Royal Highness go to Court About half-past nine or ten. Mr. BILOUGBAXWere you not confined to your room in COD sequence of a hurt you received in a scuillet—Yes. Do you recollect her Royal Highness going to your room, to see whether you were well treated or not?—Yes; she and the Baron came ; they came when I was half asleep, and Bergand said to me "the Princess is come to see you." Was this more than once ?—Once. By day or night ?—By clay. Were you in bed at the time ?—I was. Did the Princess and Bergami come together'—Yet. ?rumination of Captain Pechell, by the Arroao.rr-Gurnaar.. 'the witness being swan, said his name was Sound George Mabel!, and that he was Post Captain in the Royal Navy. In March, 1815, did you command a frigate called the Clo rit:de?-1 did. Were you at Civita Vecchia in that month ?—I was. Mil you receive her Royal Highness on board the Clorinde is that month?—l did. By whom was she accompanied ?—By Lady Charlotte Lind say, du; Hon. Mr. North, Madame Falconet and her daughters, several servants. li:•.•.ougst those servants did you see a man named Bergami? —I did. E what capacity did Bergami go on board the Clorinde L. that of a menia servant. V. - tre you in the habit of dining with the Princess?—Yes, slle was entertained at my table. Did Bergami wait at dinner ?—He did. Ltd he wait as another servant ?—lle did. Where did you convey her Royal Highness ?—To Genoa. In the course of the voyage to Genoa did you touch at Leg 12Jrn?—yes. Dl.l any one quit the ship at Leghorn ?—Yes, Lady Char lry.te Lindsay and her two daughters, and Mr. Nurth. Was there a boy named Austin on board 7—Yes. In ISIG, did her Royal Highness go on board the Leviathan ? --In November of that year, she embarked on board the Levia than, at Genoa. Did you see her Royal Highness when she came to the shore it her carriage to embark did. Who accompanied her?—The Countess of Oldi and Bergami, P. , : an irfatt ; I am not certain whether ary oth:r rersoc was with her. Did you go in the Cioriade from Genoa to Skil)? f—Toe. Had you dkeetions to go to Sicily to receive Ler Royal lag& seas /—Yes. At what time did you arrive in Sicily?—On the 7th December. Had you any communication from her Royal Highness at Bleuina A--Yea. What was it ?—On the morning after my arrival at Messina, Captain Briggs informed me that her Royal Highness expressed some uneasiness at the prospect of keeping a table on board the ship. I told Capt. Briggs to say to her Royal Highness, that I was ready to do every thing in my power to make her Royal High ness comfortable, but I requested that her Royal Highness would make a sacrifice, as I could not, consistently with my duty as an Officer, admit to my table her servant Bergami, who, though now admitted to her company, had been her menial ser vant. Capt. Briggs came to me afterwards, and said he had had a conference with her Majesty, and that he believed there would be so difficulty in coming to an accommodation ; but the Princess required a day to consider upon the subject. The Leviathan sailed next day. In the morning I waited on her Royal High ness to know her determination. She declined seeing me, but de sired Mr. Henman to mention to me that my request could not be acceded to, and that her Royal Highness would provide a table for herself.—Left under examination. New York Papers arrived this morning to the 30th July. A letter from Washington, dated 29th of July, says—Al Mr. Grah.uu, our Minister at Rio de Janeiro, arrived in this city with his family, after a abort pauage. The state of Mr. Gra hsm's health is the sole cause of his return to the United States." Yesterday the Duke of WELLINGTON entertained, for the first time since their arrival in this country, the Duke and Duchess DECAZES, and the Duke de FRIAS, with a grand dinner at Apsley House, upon which occasion the superb service of plate, which his Grace received from the King of PORTUGAL, was displayed. Among the distinguished persons invited to meet their Excellencies, there were present— Prince and Princess Esterhazy, Prince Lichtenstein, the Duke of Montrose, the Earl of Harrewby, the Earl of iVest moreland, the Ear l of Chatham. Earl Bathurst, the Earl of Liverpool, the Lord Chancellor. Count and Countess Lieven, Baron Fagel, Count Liasengen, the Marquis of Camden, the Earl of Clanwilliam, Lord Melville, &c. After dinner the Duke had an evening party. Yesterday, the Marquis and Marchioness of STAF FORD entertained a select party of distinguished Per sonages at Stafford House, Cleveland-row. Yesterday, the Marquis of BUCKINGHAM enter tained a select party of Peers with a grand dinner, at his house in Pall-mall. Yesterday, the Earl of WI NCHELSEA gave a grand dinner, at his house in South -street, Park-lane, to a large party of distinguished Personages, among whom were— The Duke of Ruthad, the Earl of Aylesbury, Earl of Vero lam, Lord Sidney, Lord Arden, the Earl of Shaftesbury, Lord Aberdeen, and Lord Amherst. Yesterday, the Earl and Countess of DERBY gave another grand dinner, at their house in Grosvenor square, to a large party of distinguished Personages, among whom were— The Marquis of Lansdown, Earl of Fortesene, Lord and Lady Ossulams, Earl of Darlington, Earl Grey, Lord and Lady King. Yesterday, Viscount and Viscountess GRANVILLE gave a grand dinner at their house in Bruton-street, Berkeley-square, to- - The Duke of Devonshire Earl and Countess Cowper, Lord Granville Somerset, Mr. Wilmot, Mr. E. Montague, ace. The Will of the late Mr. WEST, President of the Royal Academy, was proved in Doctors' Commons on the Isth inst. The effects are sworn under three hundred pounds only ! The whole of the real and Tersonal estate is given to his two sons RAPHAEL AMAR WEST and BENJAMIN WEST, who are also executors. It is dated the 20th July, 1319. On the 10th instant, their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of CUMBERLAND left Berlin for Strelitz, to take up their residence there for the sum mer season, in a house belonging to the Duchess.— Letters were received a few days since by the Royal Family, which state, that their Royal Highnesses and the young Prince are in the enjoyment of most ex cellent health. Monday night some thieves broke into the bed chamber of his Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUGH, at his house in Privy-gardens, and stole a cash-box, which contained £2OO in Bank notes. The room is situated at the back of the house, next the Thames, and his Grace had occasion to take some notes out of the same box about seven o'clock in the evening. At eleven o'clock he went to bed, when the window shutters were securely fastened ; but the robbery was not discovered till the next morning. Whea the Queen was passing by Carlton Palace, on Tuesday last, a Clergyman, who had just come to town from Bristol, was robbed of his gold watch, chain, and three seals.—The same morning, Mr. G. one of the Magistrates of Shadwell Office, was robbed, near the House of Commons, of his gold witch.— The same morning, a Mr. MAJOR was robbed of his watch, in St. James's-square. One of the fellows was secured, and recognized by another Gentleman, as having robbed him of a silk handkerchief. He was given in custody of a Police Officer. The present proceedings against her MAJICTY re cal to our mind a circumstance which happened a few years ago at Wigan, in Lancashire. A poor man, who was very obnoxious to the wealthier part of the population of that town, was tried at the Quarter Sessions for a misdemeanour. After hearing evidence on both sides, and also a very learned and impartial summing up from the Chairman, the Jury were or dered to withdraw to consider of their verdict. After a quarter of an hour's consultation they returned, and the Foreman (a fat substantial Burgher) said, 46 Ned Guilty, if he'll leave Town." The Artisans of Sheffield have paid to Lord FITZ.. WILLIAM a very extraordinary tribute of respect, but as honourable to them as well merited by him. They have, by individual contributions of one penny each, defrayed the expense of a superb silver vase, which was on Friday last formally presented to the Noble Earl, at Wentworth House, as a mark of the esteem of the donors, and their approbation of his Lordship's conduct during the twenty years he held the offices of Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum, from which the present Ministers dismissed him. The vase was presented by Mr. PRIOR, the artisan by whom it was made, accompanied with an address, to which Lord FirzwiLLtAtd, who was much affected by the present, made a very feeling reply. Letters from Italy state, that serious disturb ances had broken out at Bologna amongst the Stu 'dents of the University of that city, who had fought amongst themselves with poniards. The disorders had only been put down by the interference of the Austrian troops. GERMAN PAPERS. We received last night the Algeteeine leitung to the 16th inst. the Autrian 06server to the 12th, and other German Papers. The following are extracts : HANOVER, AUGUST 2. I . Several witnesses ha ve passed through this city, who are to give evidence before the House of Lords respecting the conduct of the Queen of England, during her last visit to Germany. Letters received by the English here from their friends at home, do not speak with the same confidence as formerly of the peaceable issue of this famous trial. The deci sion in the Upper House, they say, does not seem doubtful, but its reception in England, and the exe cution of any sentence are not so certain; the pru dent and collected conduct of the Queen since her re turn gains her, they say, important suffrages, and the women in particular espouse her cause. The principal inhabitants are now gone to the watering places, but the labouring classes are employed in the Royal Palaces, as the Duke of Cambridge is ex pected back this summer, and we have not given up the hope of seeing the King. VIENNA, AUGUST 9. There is much talk here of a confidential circular of a powerful Monarch in the North, addressed to all the Sovereigns who signed the Holy Alliance, to in duce them to prepare their contingents of troops, for the purpose of opposing the revolutionary measures of demagogues in the South of Europe. VIENNA, AUGUST 12. From one of our Correspondents at Leghorn we have received the following particulars of the dread ful events at Palermo, as related by an eye-witness who left that city on the 19th. When this traveller departed, the Military, after three days' massacre, had been entirely overpowered ; several hundreds lay dead on the streets, the rest were imprisoned in the dungeon of the galley slaves, before which the same sentinels kept guard who had been confined there only a few days before. Cannon, loaded with grape shot, are planted before the prison to fire on the im prisoned soldiers at the first signal. Three or four thousand inhabitants of Palermo likewise lay dead on the streets. The Government, if such it can be called, was in the hands of the ♦arious Directors of Trade, who commanded the armed populace, and formed a kind of Senate, whose despotic orders were summarily esecuted by the mob under its influence. The gene ral cry was, " Independence, and eternal separation from Naples r but those who first set up this cry had already disappeared from the stage, or, if any one of them shewed himself, he was immediately the victim of popular fury. The heads of the Princes Cattolica and Villa Franca (the last Minister during the Sicilian Parliament, and both the most zealous revolutionists in the country) were fixed upon poles in the middle of the city, and their bodies quartered and exposed in four different streets. Many other persons, among whom are men tioned the Commander of the Port, and, as some affirm, Prince Palermcrand Prince Couto, have like wise been murdered; the victims of private revenge ate innumerable. For the mere attempt to conceal three or four of ficers, a man was shot, and his body nailed to the door of his own house. A great many houses were plundered, or the furniture thrown into the street and burnt. To increase these horrors, provisions were becoming scarce, as nothing was brotight to market in the general confusion, while thousands of armed peasants kept pouring into the city on all sides. It was generally believed, that in case of fa mine the soldiers in the prisons would be left to starve. An embargo was laid on all vessels in the harbour of Palermo, and the oars of all the row-boats taken away. The crews of many of those vessels were thrown into prison. As far as was known, the rest of the Island was tranquil, but the wish for independence and separa tion from Naples was general. Messina alone seemed inclined to adopt the Constitution, if the seat of Go vernment were removed from Palermo to Messina. Accounts from Palermo of the 20th are more con solatory. The Archbishop proceeded through the streets with the Cross, and exhorted the people to humanity and tranquillity. It was hoped that the latter would be gradually restored. We were yesterday favoured with the perusal of e file of Buenos Ayres Papers up to the 18th May, a few days later than those we had previously received. The one of the 17th contains two Proclamations from the Chili Government, dated the 14th April, ad dressed to the inhabitants of the River Plate and Pro vince of Cuyo, describing the intended project of CARRERA to create a re-actioa in Chili, and warning 1 them not to aid or countenance it. . A lettter from Constantinople, dated July 15th, says, "The news which announced a Treaty of Peace to have been concluded between Ali Pacha and the Ottoman Government, has not been confirmed. The contrary is equally uncertain. Rumour has gained ground that the Pacha of Scutari, who advances with a considerable army against Ali, his succeeded in routing a body of his troops, under the command of one of his nephews. It is also reported that a victory has been obtained over Veli Pacha, one of the sons of Ali, and his palace at Lepanto burnt.— One of the children of Veli, it is said, has perished in the flames. Nevertheless, this intelligence is only founded upon hearsay, as the Government does not let us know what passes in that country. We can only speak with confidence of the continual sending of troops, and of artillery and munitions of war to the camp of Pelwah Baba Pacha, near Salonica.— The forces sent out by the Governor of this city, have taken, without resistance, many villages within the jurisdiction of All. A fleet sailed in the month of June to combat on sea the rebellious Pacha. It has been joined by several vessels of war. The squadron now consists of twelve vessels besides gun-boats and galleys. The feast of Buram began on the 11th of July. Nothing is yet known concerning a change of Ministers. They speak of an important nomination in the Pachaliks, that of Pascho Bei, who owes this distinction to an attempt to assassinate him made by Ali Pacha. Lord strangford remains to the end of the year. The state of health in Constantinople is, not very encouraging. The plague makes fresh pro gress iu the Capital and its environs." MADRID, AUGUST 10. A very interesting discussion occupied the Cortes (luting three consecutive Sittings. The Marquis de Castellar, Captain of the Guards, had arrested M. Aguilera, an Officer of the Guards, who had pub lished a writing against his superior Officers, an act which is forbidden by the Military Ordinances which the Cortes have put in force. M. Aguilera addressed a complaint to the Cortes, and the Committee who were appointed to examine it, proposed that the Mar quis de Castellar should be prosecuted before the I Tribunals as a violator of the Constitution and of the Liberty of the Press. Upon this question the discussion took place, and it was at length carried in the affirmative, by 104 votes against 47—the Cortes thus declaring that the soldiers might henceforth publish what they pleased respecting their Chiefs. The telegraph at the Horse Guards communicates to the KING, at his retreat in Windsor Great Park, the proceedings in the House of Lords, every half hour. As his MAJESTY receives his information only from his own servants, it is possible that he is not made acquainted with the agitation that prevails in the country. The proceedings in the House of Lords will have the salutary effect of making the Noble Peers early risers. It is a new thing for most of them to break fast at nine o'clock in the morning. A few days ago a melancholy accident happened in Leeds. As Mr. JOSEPH JACKSON, a promising young man, the son of Mr. ROBERT JACKSON, a cloth-dresser, was adjusting one of the straps on a machine at his father sgig-mill, in the Leylands, his arm was caught by the strap, and in , a moment he was drawn into the revolving machine, 'which could not be stopped till it had mangled, his limbs in a manner too shocking for description. When extri cated from his dreadful situation, some faint signs of life still remained ; but in two hours after he had been conveyed to the house of his agonized parents, he breathed his last. A Gentleman, who lately travelled through the greater part of the Southern Counties of England, has made the remark, that in every town and village where he stopped, he heard of the Bill cf Pains al d Penalties, and found the QUEEN the universal topc, even amongst the lowest of the labouring classes. A short time ago, a person with a bag of salt on an ass, under the plea of the animal's being tired, and its being late in the night, begged permission to leave the salt at a grocer and baker's at Bingham, Lincolnshire; this being perceived by a splenetic neighbour, he gave information to the Excise Of ficer, who, as the salt was not accompanied with a permit, seized it. The case came on a few days ago, before the Magistrates, at the instance of the Board of Excise, and the tradesman, who very foolishly suffered judgment to go by default, was fined'one hundred guineas ! ! As it was a very general opinion among the inhabitants of Bingham, that the baker had not any intention of defrauding any one, many hundreds of them, of both sexes, assembled on Sa turday evening last, and placing an effigy of the in• former, together with a bag of salt, on an ass, pa raded him through the town; and after a severe flagellation, he was hanged and burnt in the market place, amidst the most uproarious eclat! COPPER MlNK.—About six months ago, a labourer employed in cutting a drain on the farm of Eurick, in Galloway, the property of Mr. MURRAY, of Brough ton, discovered apparently a rich vein of copper ore. A short time afterwards the mine v. as let to a Com pany in Cornwall, who lately commenced working with great spirit, and last week shipped a cargo of ore (upwards of 40 tons) on board the sloop Samson, for Llanelly, Carmarthenshire. Rm.= Oran House.—laut night Free and Easy was per. formed before the new Piece, Patent Shasens. The latter en tertainment is a witty attempt to repay the Drury-Lane Ma nager some of his offence to the dignity of this minor Theatre, as the late Froprle.or of the Olympic has termed it. It opens with an Address delivered ,by Miss KELLY, en costume as the Comic Muse t its object is to contrast the advantages of small , Theatres with the difficulties to which the larger ones subject the finer efforts of acting. Then follows Haimer, as the dis tressed Manager of a Summer Theatre, discussing, with happy ruefulness, the emptiness of the boxes, and the famine of the Company. He is assailed by different performers for an at count, if not of his receipts, of his low spirits ; and he answers them all by a lamentation that a Summer Theatre is not a Winter Theatre, where a winter season has now included a summer. He is visited by the Chorus, dressed as Alatheath's gang, and leads them with a parody of their song : " Hark ! I hear no sound of coaches, The Devil a one approaches," Sm. He then falls asleep, talking of the good old times when players could keep themselves out of gaol, and dozes away, pronouncing the name of GARRICK The scene draws, and exhibits Garrick standing betweep Tragedy and Comedy, u in RaesioLes's picture. Garrick descends and awakens the Ma nager, who deer homage to the illustrious shade. But when he has time to remover his speech, he expresses his surprise that Garrick looks so tall. The part is played by WAIDICH. The words may applied—" Why, I thought you tragedy chaps always ran short." This, which produced much clapping, was answered by " Th ey now run as long—as Wig cast I" Garrick proceeds to detail the contiivances neeessary to popularity. It may be presumed that they are not without reference to the present disputations. 0 Take all oppertanitks of presenting yourself as a speechmaker before the House." " But how shall I find occasion?" " 06, nothing easier; send a check-taker to whistle among the gods, and then come forward, entreating the Gentlemen in the two-shilling gallery to suffer you to address the Gentlemen in the one ; teach the audience criti cism; patronise them, ate.; put your performances till puffing falls sick under you; put in your playbills a call for your trades• mans' accounts when they are not due, that they may not be paid when they are; stand at your pit-door, with • stop-watch, and check the time of every arrival ffateod your winter into summer, and triumph in the results of your experiment to the dependents on the Summer Theatre. (It was mentioned that those were 173 families.) Print your great actor's name in great characters. If you are poor, ridicule others as being poor ; and if you are deep, lay hard upon them for cunning, Ike." All this was received with alternate hieing and applause, as the friends of either Theatre happened to be peculiarly touched. The last scene introduced an assemblage of the characters of English Opera bearing banners with the names of the principal performances, and finally joining in chorus. The piece is a mere burlesque; but, for one of its rapid preparation, it implies industry and ingenuity. Coax-Excnaner, Accuse. 25.—Some quantity of Wheat re mained over from Wednesday's market, for which there was scarcely any demand this morning; but, although the sales were heavy, the prices obtained for fine samples were the same as on Monday, but there were no buyers for ordinary qualities. The arrival of Oats having been large this week, and considerable quantities expected from abroad, has caused almost a stagnation in the trade, although lower prices w. re asked. Barley, B eans , and Peas, were heavy, at Monday's prices. MARICKt, AUGUST 25.—Beef, 45. Od. to 55. Od. per stone ofelbs.; Hutton, 45. Od. to he. Od. Veal, 4s. 6d. to ss. 10.1. Pork, ss.od. to 64.0.1. Lamb, 55.0 d. to 5L.10d.--Cattle at Market Beasts, 520 ; Calves, 260; Sheep and Lambe, 11,7 SO ; rigs, 1,11 J.— Hay, 31.105. to 41. 4s. Clover, SI. Os. t 11, Is. Straw, u. 124. to 14 16s. , .