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twat/A*4. a e%e° tionat wx, ,z.,- , ,-‘ . 0 o. Our Sing, Conictitution, AIM NOW. No. 1,264.—V0t. XIII.] SUNDAY, AUGUST V, 1820. [Paws 9W. PROCEEDINGS AGAINST HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN. -.0.-- HOUSE OF LORDS. MONDAY, AVG. 21. This day the streets leading to the Parliament Rome were throng►d at ten o'clock, to see her Majesty go to the House. The doors of the House of Lords were opened at nine o'clock, and prayers were said. Rtreme.—Lord HOLLAND then addressed the Homo; —6 , Before your Lordships pr dto the hnsiness of the day. I musteall your att►ntion for a few minutes to a sub ject of as Breit magnitude, in my opinion, as the investi gation into the coarlnct of the hie,' individual who is the immediate object of your Lordships' proceedings. The snhjert to which I allude is connected with the tranquil lity. independence, and liberty of all nations." The noble Lord then rap d a wish to know, whether, with res. pert to the memorial which was addressed to the Allied Powers by the Court of Russia, aw l. an answer had been given by our G ment as onght to have been, namely, reprobating the principles it avowed? Also, whether a communication had been made to Spain. statinirsuch answer to have been given, and expressing our congratn lations at the change Which hail taken place. and the prospects which thee, the Spanish people, were likely to obtain ender a free" Government? Re would further ask, what the engagements were which it nonpareil from that paper had been entered into by the Allied Powers, and whether this country was a party to them? Lord LIVERPOOL said, lie knew of no eneneerneete of the kind alluded to by the Noble Lord ; and that if finch existed, this country was no party to them. The communication which had taken place between this conntry and Spain merely went to prove the desire of his Majesty's Ministers to keep np a rood nnderstanding, and to ntaintnin the relations of peace and amity with Spain. and to expreita a hope that the proceedings now going on under the Cortes may lead to a happy adjustment of the affairs, and promote the welfare of the Spanish nation. Lord HOLLAND would not press the anhject further en the noble Lord, after the answer which he had given. He, however, took credit to himself for having put tines. lions which had produced an explanation that must be regarded as highly creditable to his Majesty's Govern ment. -- - emanors "knurlier wan Msaavey.—The House then proceeded to call over the names of the Peers. On the mn•ion of the Lord Chancellor, Counsel was called to the Bar. The ATTORNEY GENERAL then regime(' his a dia. gentling" statement at great length, which we think it unnecessary to follow him in, as we mean to sive the most important parts of the evidence itself. At the emu-M.lon he said, he should now call witnesses in support of his statement. Lord ERSKTNE observed, that lie thonelit it necessnry the viltn %%%%% shonld be within call, as their Lordships tuieht find It necessary to pat questions to them from time to time. The LORD CHANCELLOR ennetirred In thiaopinion, and the witnesses were ordered to be from day to day in attendamee. Lord ElNti wished to know wbother, in a ea.e in which their Lordships were proceeding • judicially, any witness was liable to the same proceeding for perjury, elk In the mnal ennrite? The LORI) CHANCFLLOR eoniti not rive a positive rmininn on the subject. hot thought on general grounds they wonitl he liable to the tame process. Tlie Earl of LIVERPOOL gave an opinion to the same effect. Mr. RROTJOHAM wished to know from the sworn Tn trrpreier, whose name is Marches Spineto, in whose employment he came? The Interpreter amid he wog employed by Mr. Planla to attend, tinder the direction of Mr. Motile. Mr. BROUGHAM then n•lc.'d him, whether he meant Mr. 'Planta, of the Foreign Office, and Mr. Mettle, of the TreasorvP The Interpreter said he (lid. Mr. RROTJGHAM wished to know, whether the wit. resit. %ejewel. had nnelei tone the preparation necessary In his own ensentry, be fore Wine sworn The TARO CHANCELLOR Paid. It was sofffelent that he was •worn lii filo forms required iu our Court• of Justice. The witness was then sworn in the nano, form. On hearing the name of the witness. "Theodore Ma. ityri," her Majesty turned round her head, and Axing her eyes en the witness, she shrieked ont, in n tone of ;treat aneuish and astonishment, " Theodore ! 'Theodore !" and, overpowered 113 her feellnp, Instantly withdrew, supported by her attendants. P.samined...-The witinots is a native of lisperlanda, 12 Miles from Lodi. The whines'', who maintained the utmost rnmpostire, tintwlllislanditit the exitantillrokly nrrnrrenee we have ootirool, was then sworn, tt gh the medium of one of the Interpreters, in the nott.il form. 1 EVIDENCE. ttOI.ICITOR-G EN ER. (.—your came—A. Theodore Movocui. SOLICITOR GENERAL—Do you know a person 'lamed &snobbism Bergami 1 Witness-1 do. When did you first know him I—la the house of Marshal Pints. This was in the year of INS or 1814. I knew hies because I was in the same service. Bergami was valet to Gen. Pia). I was postillion. I know bite fell well, fur I lodged in the house of Bergami, where l hired a room.— Bergami was more poor than rich. At that time he was receiving three Imes of Milan a day. I knew nothing of what he held besides that money. I lift Gen. Pine's service before Bergami. I went to Vienna, and entered into the service of Rocca Romanis. I then entered the service of Murat, then King of Napka. I perceived Bergen,' theu.— I entered into the service of her Royal Highness; I per ceived Bergamo then. I saw him for the first tim e in me, M fore Christmas, inn room in Neale*, in the house of the Princes of Wales. He was Courier to her Royal Highness. Bergaiiii told me that he would, befere the Christmas hol hilly*, stake inc a present. Bergami wore livery. He dined at the tattle arctic upper servants. Hieronyinus some. Mmes divided the duty of Bergami about the Prince's. The duty ea, taken by tunes amongst the upper servants. In the moiniug, when they (serried the tray for breakfast, Hie rosiymuu (lien performed the service out alias tura. As in the room of the Pelle e►s and that of Bergami, there was a corridor nod cabinet between them, and on the left was the bed-room of Bergami. There was nothing else. On the other side of the room of Bergami there was a Saloon.— No person slept in the cabinet. The other servants were separated. Bergami met. with enact Went, a kick from a horse, warn the Princess went to Ageism. It was deemed necessary to bring him home. I did mot do so. I waited upon him. The first time I saw the Princess was in presence of Hieronymus ■nd Doctor Holland, who was dressing his fem. At first vinegar was brought. In consequence of this accident I slept in the Cabinet for live or six nights.— I saw somebody pass in the night—there was always a fire in the room. 1 saw her Royal Webers& pass through the corridor to Bergami's room twice during tins time—half an hour past midnight. She staid there about 14 or minutes. She passed on in her return, very softly and ve►y near my bed to see me. I heard only s.mme whispers in Bergaini's room.—Between fifteen and eighteen minutes she remained the second time, and I heard a whispering conver sation. There was a small garden attached to the cabinet, which was for the must part always locked—more often closed than open. Bergami kept the key. I never saw her walk iii the garden. About a month, or forty or forty-five days she remained in Naples. Bergansi attended her. home English left her Royal Highness, MonsieueSicard, Captain Hesse, Equerry, as lie %us said to be, the Chansberlaira, a tall man, I believe his name is Gen; he had two small mus tachios. Ido nut know whether Mr. Keppel Craven was one. Ido not know him by name. A small Lady, rather thin, left her also, hut Ido net recollect ber name. From Naples I went to Rome, sand from thence to Civita Vec chia. We went on board the Clotho's to Lighorn. A lady, tall, rather fat, joined the Princess at deuoa—Lady Char lotte Campbell. The Princes lived in a palace on the road leading to Milan, Between Bergami's room and the Prim. CIFILtill there was a room purposely for trunks and puniness. teaus. In coming out from the Wineries room, th ere w as likewise an reinsure through the cabinet for the penman 'elms, to dergumi's room. At Genoa, Bergami breakfasted in II small room at the top of the g►and saloon. He nod the Princess took breakfast together. I was hired to wait lipids her Royal Highness, and waited upon both. Itibisily else breakfasted there. I knocked at Bergami's di or one might to wake him, to tell him there were people in the room.—lt was half-pus one. Bergand made no ansiser, though I knocked so loud that Bergami must have heard me, if he bad been iii the room. There was a small cabinet in the room adjoining the apartment isi which Peergaini usually break fasted. 1 have seen the Queen sitting in that room, w Ith Bergami, at breakfast; no other person was at breakfast 'there. Bergarai had a higher authority Brae any of the other set vaults. I have seen her Royal Highs). ss going out to ride on a donkey ; Bergami put his hand round her waist, in put her on the donkey, and ill helping her up, held her by the hand to prevent her from falling. There was an ap parent familiarity kept sap between Bergaiiii and the Prin mess. At Whin her Royal Highness resided liist on her arrival at the house called La Carlene, which was the pro. perty of the family called Borrow°. Before we left Genoa some relations of Bergami were taken into the service of the Princess. Frontier, a woman. o lia, if she had a husband, came without him, and a child about two or three years old, wllO6l. name was called V ictoriite. The bristlier of Bergami, was taken in as a courier by her Royal }lifelines,. At the horse of Burrow° the bed-thambers of the Princess and Bergaiiii were separated only by a wall; there was a staircase between the rooms, and two doors, oar of w Lich was (roselike Winces's bed-cluinsbec, the other from tier• gaini's opened into that staircase. Here Mi. BROUGHAM ►equested that their Lordchips would order. that. if any wPaewes were present besides the peteou under examinatiou, (bey should be ordered to aitlidiaa. The SOLICITOR GENERAL agreed in the propriety of the remark. Mr. IiftOVCIHAM.—a I wish that all whom I may call depart; bet, indeed, I du um know whom I may call. If no other witness than MU is called. ( shall sot sell evidence at all.—(A !stitch.) The LORI) CHANCELLOR observed. that the same mica, a. t i that 'mini, which held id other Courts of Jus tice, should he adopted upon this occasion. The witness thee proceeded. The maim...lee wee a same one. and there 043 a small apartment near it %here Loma Bel= slept. Her Royal Highness esio s i ve d a t Mil an so o r so She that wok a jOuriley to Valk*. Lady Charlotte Campbell had opine nom OMNI 10 Ude. and tanoteed these till rite or six days before the Princess went to Venice. I suppose that Lady Charlotte Campbell's two daughters went with her, foe they were not seen afterwards. I knew a woman called the Countess of Oldi; she was taken into the Princess's service two or three lap after Lady Charlotte Campbell left the service of her Royal Highness. There was a report what the Countess of Oldi was sister to Bergman. It was kept a secret. 1 knew it, and the other servants said so, shortly after she came into the suits of her Royal Highness and went to the table with the Princess. At first the Princess went to the Grand Bretagne hotel at Venice, afterwards she lived in a private home next to it. The bed rooms in which the Ptioeess and Berger slept joined each other; there was onl y a great saloon between them. The doors of their rooms opener( into this saloon. I saw her Royal Highness walk out with Bergami at Milan and at Venice arm ih arm. I saw them twice do so at Milan. at between nine and tan at night. Bergand dined with the Princess when at Genoa. and always afterwards. The Princess sat at the top of the table. and Her. gami sat sometimes on her left hand, sometimes on her right. and sometimes opposite to her. It was when Bergami went to embark with the Princess, at Genoa, that Servant first dined with her. VVe afterwards went to Villa Villain on the Lake of' Como, where the Princess remained six week s. Between the rooms in which her Royal Highness and Bergami slept them were two rooms on one side, and a passage an the other. The rooms where the other servants slept were at a distance from that of Bergami. I made Beripuni's bed. The bed did not always appear as if he had slept in it. At Villa Vallani, and other places, the bed of Bergman appeared in the same tote. Hee Royal Highness had a blue silk ni11 1 3:7 2 n, lined with . ted,, which she wore. I a ft erwards saw i we ar that nts gown constantly in the morning. The rincess rose from UN past ten to eleven o'clock—for the most part she rang the boll for her servants when she rose. Bergatut rose sometimes at the same time as the Princess, and sometimes a quarter of an hour before or after her Royal Highness roes. From Villa Valleal her Royal Highness repaired to Villa d'Este. Mr. BROUGHAM said, he did not think the tat laden by the interpreter was critically conect. Aftet some repetition of this part of the evidence, the variance was declarodito be not of material importance. Upon a call of " Order" from the Hones, the interpreter seemed in some degree alarmed. He then mit. " I hope your Lordships mill. from your extensive knowled ge of the latotuage of Italy. (a laugh), perceive that lam Being ail I can to discharge my duty." Witness continued—The Masons 'whittled an heard the L. vislhas at Genoa. We went from diem is Peres !Perrino and thence to Palermo. where her Royal Highoes s watt to Court. Wan theses we mended to Maim. Her Royal Highness Oa a home in the neighbourhood of that city., There was a omit between tits Prinens's bed-ream and Beqpni's at Messina. mesa when the Dents d'Heoneur, the shier ef Baronti. dee Clidi t slept. The other. domande IMMO asp in a Meese pert et ibehose. -There was a owarembnion *lmo the Princes's mesa and engami's. through dm Ilene Caen nem's room Ileripted breeldiated with dm Prisms hi.a salting or wall room, between heir Sepal Maim% ma and the pude. They breabfaesed these dean needleet abet ',ldle we Wer• at that plea Iletiaed IWO perndadon Ilmt Priaeas to Messina to purchase nose Wogs he wished for; when her Royal Higheese panted the zeroes, Ilergand took her Royal Highness's hand in his hand. and Mood her lips. [The witness then took hold of the in `a band. and moved his month towards it. the interpreter sense rellnetance. The witness made acacia' awkward motions, and the House was convulsed with laughter. The witness amanuedi—Her Royal Highness remained near Messina for twenty or twenty.five days.— She went from that place to Syracuse by sea. She lived in the neighbourhood of Syracuse—not in the same house sbe had tecupied before. Her Royal Highness's bed-room was above that of Bergami's. There was a staircase communicating be rween them. There was also a passage fmm the Princess's Wont to the dining apartment. I saw Bergami before we went to Syracuse go into her Royal Hghness's room without being dressed. If fdo not mistake, it was at Villa Vi ll ani Bergamt wore the blue silk gown already mentioned, and stockings and drawers under it. Her Royal Highness wan front Syracuse to Tunis, and on board a Kisco' to Catania. Whilst at Tunis. s.te resided some time in the palace of the Bey. Here also there was communication between their bed-rootas, such as took place upon all former occasions. The Princess visited the grotto of the Seven Sleeping Men. Whilst here Bergami dined with the Princess, and they were left together after dinner, the Princess sitting on her travelling bed. with Bergami near her. Hence they proceeded to St. Jean D'Acre. They travelled by night. anti slept In tents by clay. The Princess's tent had a small travelling bed and a sofa to it. Bergami slept nightly under ths Wit as well as her Royal Highness, and after they retired the son was closed. They had a light to undress by, which sonswianos wit. nese wok away, and sometimes Berganu thrust out with hit "Red under the tent. Witness runettbers the Princess used es have a bath in her cabin on board this vessel. First the wilesminet the the water into the bath. then Bergami came down, and with his hand felt the temperatute of the water. He then retuned and handed her Royal Highness down. and the door of the rosin was then shut, leaving her and Bergami together. One one amnion more water R3B required. fitness took it down, and &imams received it at the door of the cabin. Witness could not tell whether the Princess was in the bath or not. Witness recollects their binding again on the coast of Italy. Bergami landed some days before the Princess. Witness remembered the affectionate leave taken of the Queen, when Bergiuni kissed her most passionately. Witness recollected the circumstances attending the return to t he Villa D'F.ste. where they remained six weeks, during witch time the Villa Bergatni. a Baroni, became the property of Der prin. The Queen went to visit this place-..the beds were arranged as usual. Two of three ball.. were only given to the peasantry. From thence they went to Bavaria. On their arrival at Munich, they proceeded to the Golden Stag, where the apart. ments her Royal Highness had before occupied were prepared toe her. but as the sleeping rooms were distant, som e c h ange was neeemary, and ordereilby Bergami in the presence of her Royal Highness. At this period it aas suggested that it would be proper to adjourn. Af sr some conversation upon the subject bet seen statist Noble l.onla, the adjournment was finally ag r eed to. [This wisnese is a tall man, apparently about thirty •ti ve y ears of age. He has a peat quan tity of hair on his head, and a nose fiat from the forehead to within about half an inch of the end of it. yid then it tutu up Suddenly. His eye, are small. end tht re ta a cmstdetabk quantity of flesh about o.lm. Sic ass ael ) \ • A 'A -, k ir, ; ;P, : i l 1:' i' 4 4, ff e . . 4., ; ...‘ ;;.. °7 ;;.V 6‘ V CVY :,:-