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34(1 I . aev, and provieg whether false %witnesses and saborned testimony hail not been suborned at their Lordships' Bar. Secondly, the abstraction of Hastelli. Thirdly, the failure iu procuring Baron (Midi. as a witness for her :%Inii•siy. Ile (Lot d iiley) any ()tie of these grounds. site. firient to put visa In the proreedii , gs, bat taken ;dingo. titer they v.rri• sireststible. Ile, !bet (fore, would cuter soh Inn pr, it st against all lurUtcr procet Lent HOLLAND said, ilia! he much approved of the delivetvil by the Noble and Learned Lot d on the 11•oilisa eh. 'I he LORI) CHANCELLOR then put the question, that Collsl2l he called in, mid informed that their Lord ships did not acquiesce in the proposition of a delay. It was egaried nem. ills. Counsel having been called in, The LORD CHANCELLOR slated to them what he Lad in Vonitihind front the House. - The Ai - rum:Ey Gs:NEI:AI. then stated to their Lord ships, that he %visited to call Capt. Po iggs to the bar. Captain Briggs called in, and evunined by the Attorney Genet.'. Yon stated that you commanded the Leviathan when lier Royal Highness the Princess Of 11 ales was on board ' l "lst;Totili i nigger Lieut. liownarn on boarn Mal .t.: r with her Royal liighliess?—t do. I believe von stated that liergaini was also on board that ship ?-1 did. no you recollect baying had any conversation With Licat. Floweam on the subject of Bergniiii ?—I do. Was the conversation about being admitted 13 a seat at her Royal Higlinets's tab a?—lt was. Stale what he said to you on that occasion?-1 observed to Mr. Hownam, iu the conversation, that Capt. Pechell told me that Bergami hail waited behind his chair when the Princess embarked out hoard the Clarinda !dame; anti I asked him, how it was that he was admitted to her Roy al Highness's tablet—He replied, that it was so; that he was sorry that the Princess had admitted him ; that lie had entreated her Royal Highness on his knees, ;mid with tears in his eyes, not to admit him to her table, out to no pur pose. Did lie state when this happened?—To the best of my recollection, he told me it %iiiS the day that Berganti's situation was changed, the first day that Bergami dined at her Royal Highness's table. ATTORNEY GENERAL said, he had no other tines lions to ask. _ . Cr.* , examined by Mr. Brougham. When this conver.sation happened on board the Leviathan, where was the ship ?—She was on her passage from Porto Perrujo to Palermo, in the year Ibls, and the month of November. We were walking together on deck—we had occasionally walked together on deck. You were speaking about Capt. Peelle!! and Bergami, when Capt. Pechell had wade some objection to s itti ng down at table with Bergami /—Yes; his objection was to Hergami ; he had no objection to sitting down with her Royal Highness at all. Oh, I date say n.st—(A laugh). But I understand you to b.ve billa to Mr. flimflam, th.it Capt Prchell had positively refused to allow Bergatni to tit down at table with him ? No; what I said was, that Capt. Pechell had tat we Bergatui used to stand behind the chair of her Royal nighties.. Did you make any note of the conversation you say you bad with !Acid How won whatever. And you arc now swearing to words which were spoken five yeurs ago I—l have a pet feet recollection of the con ♦ersattion. _ . When did yen flail repeat it to any one ?—I believe 1 have mentioned it , several times itt coarse of comet sation, You have said that tile convers..tion was nits aye in your ecollection. Can you name ally person to whom yea) men tioned it before you wrote the answer to that letter 7-1 mentioned it on several ocemions. I might perhaps name some persons nhn weir present. I remember of once tn. u tiotting it to Sir George Cockburn. Yoti mean one of the Lords of the Admiralty ?—Yes. Did you begin the conversation about it ?—We were talking; I forget what led to my mentioning it; 1 only recollect the fact of mentioning it. You have had the honour or dining with the King lately —have you not I—Yes, when his Majesty was lately at Portsmouth. Was that since you were last examined in this Home ? Yes, since I was last examined. Capt. Briggs was now ordered to withdraw. The ATIOIRMICY-GENERAL said, as the case now stood, he would not trouhle the House a ith calling any more wit nesses. He hoped the House would indul,,e Capt. Brigs Ay th permission to return to his command at Portsmouth. Mr. BROM!! 104.—Ally Lords, we have not the slightest wish to incommode either Captain Brigs or the service.— (A laugh,) The LORD CHA NC ELLOR said, that Capt. Brigs kid permi.sion solicited. The I.olt l) C/I r.Lt.olt now enquired if the Court. *el fur her Majesty were reaiiy li. pi °reed I Mr. ituouciti A In—" My soy friends Mr. Drunnin, tells me he is n tw ready to go no." Mr. DESSI N rose tuswn up the D. fence at t went minutes pug elcveno'clock'—" My Lords (said the Learned Counsel), if, under such eircu stone. s, it were. pos•i;de for an advocate to disc Ism gm tilt important duties of his situntion without soliciting the indulgence of your Lordships, such circumstances Mote Ilt fUr red in time present rase, hut, mi the (marshy, eenrtiiil lhal 1 should crate a more ample in dulgence than usual. For, flour tiw proCredeup which took place yesterday, when the At torney-kiener.il asked fig time t,, call for COI. Brown, it might haye been suppo-ed that would not h.ive contented •If uith cat ug one solitary it but rui o tlit hire fowl it so ce,sai 1t i call other is ii nears in rebut the evidence that had been piodured, if to rebut it were post dile. But, my Lords, I nit l• • nor plaint that 1 did nut oxploct 10 lie culled on Ibis in•ii Mu; to EOM up the defence ; for, considering the time that has lai.sr.l in in proof , . ill a. easy ion against her Mo s lem; , and likewise is h er defence. I , h . the Qin eo's CIP.IIIIq I , ill6bUill have been extremely mon.% in my slut), If t had nut atten.:e.l dos. ly to the ss hole of his evt , ;r me. I *lli rmte, my l: id., t r teed lo nitrite illy reqtark., MI the witoie or that esidekee— evidence which lilt, 1.6111.4 ed Ille, wi.lell this 6:W4:it'd my friends, wh.eb has mstisited the 'copy: of 'MAI:tool, anti v. hien bas dune snore—fins..iiii-hed all Europe. si Inch h,i. viketi deed interest in this gnat, this moiie.tous proecedisig. Ye", my Lords, all Ec,ope will r.. jail e that tbe defetice of the Queen of En,:land bas Leen triumph...tit* and that rite refuted the foul charges riza:r.t her honour h—l %3611. iuy Lords, t , i proree.l to t:11- 11. w ctilamess, that delMerativa, a.:41 that ati.enee :.11 ptr.otial rating, which wilt best en , ible me to elicit tuc tutu. Dui it was THE NATIONAL REGISTER scarcely to be expected, but that, in the discussions which have taken place, and iii the imerlueutimis that have oe curls d, that some hasty expressima. should not taive CfCl.pl..l as AllVUeatt, whose feelings 111;0 have 10.-I`ll overwli toted ith ti4e impurlituce of file cause 111 is iii( at,, migaaed.— v Learned Friend, Cie Allot Hes -Getter al, yestesda) seemed to think that 1 was ylVS11111!1111:: as verarity, but I must uaequit.utaills d: slave t.tat :anal as 1101 my intent 1 disclaim the slightest imputatioa against persiatial cha racter or his honour. It ins tier: -r 1/era sit to air.. tato a il sior a t, bet I have ielt it acutety. Tit. Llusti haus nt, %hose interests hare been coati le it li, our cal e, has been the victim of the most cruel asperstons, of the most severe and degradina wrotias. This, my Lords we have felt in the hole coin se of the inquiry. lint, whale all per sonality against my Learned Friend opposite, I alaita the right to observe out the a hole of his conduta as an Ads neat c io these proceidinas. It is ins Learned Friend's atisfortuue to be eitaaged iii this prosecution, a 1111,1 - 01 i tine for a i,icit no honours can compensate Into. His cordite has imposed 1111 him the duly of pi oseeut ina the Pall of Pains mid Penalties against the wife of his Sovereign, an Mice watch I would apt have filled for any rank, honours, or +voila!) advaista.;es it nete possible to olatain.—['fire Learned Geutleniais taen !cid the preamble of the Bit:, respcctiug the conduct of the Ch—ett to Hera:lmi, which was said in have brinialit dishonour and disgrace tau the .sovereign, ,and was a scandal to the peo ple of laminal. Ale then proceeded can telly apply myself 111111ebe talle.1:1111011S, and to the nature of the evidence by vi Itielt they have been seaport/al. It is tin:. that lit r gaini was received into the service of her Royal Highness as a menial ; that he received mai ks of favour; and that some of 114 relatimo were taken into her sere ice. We have beep cad that titles were o b tained for him; but no attempt had been made to rove that they were obtained by her inliu catc.:, No other proof was given, out that her Royal High ness had confereed tan Bergami au Order, with:it she Itcd created, it was said, without lawful au.liority. This, nay Lords, I deny, for several of the Nobility in France, with out any Sovereign authority whatever, have created Orders; •and there is an instance of three Italian merchants, brothers, It tying instituted an Order. I treat this subject seriously, because it has been treated seriously in the Bill. Kit, my Lords, I think, if a Princess goes a visit to the holy sepul chre, and is pleased with the same, does what Dukes of Bourbon and Dukes or Orleans have done in former time— raised statue memorial of the event in the ere mina of an Order of Knighthood, there is cistaittly not himg criminal in it /—Princes are fond of toys, tometimis et - mania huildinas, and at other times creating (alders. The Princess of Ve aka did both, she put wings to the Villa d' Este, and made it a Palace, which did no discredit to her taste, theugh it nas not a l'avilion !—The only que.aion to be decided Was, Whether the adulterous intercourse charged in the 'treatable of the Bill had taken place, and lit such a manner as bring dishonour on his Majesty, and discredit on the people of Eitgland ? He winuld refer to the At t orites-General's open ing speech, as the case be aus called upon to answer; he would observe on every one of his statements, and on the evidence by which it had been attempted to smtport those statements. Tan first count set forth in the indictment, or first overt act, was vi hat passed at Naples the Mak after the arrival of her Rosal flialmess there; and certainly the statement made by the Attorticy-tieneral, on this ;mita was one calculated to make an imps, ssiou. lie said that. on fortni•r occnsiors, the ludo ideal who mini churtitd us the paramour of her Royal Highness hail slept at a distance from her, but that, tut that night, she disked he might be near her; that the boy Austin, who hid hitherto slept in the bed-room of her Royal Highness wits 111:1t night removed ton ditaance—that she returned ratty (tom the Opera ; that she did not occupy her on a hod, hat that the other Fed had the mai ks of two petsons having slept in it ; that next morning the Princess could nut be seen at her meal hour by persons is ho had called upon her, — Such was the statement of the charge made by the Attar. ney-Comeral, and such the facts tram which, if proved in evidence, only one conclusion could have been &awe.— But it' roue of these farts prove true—if the bed-rooms are changed without the knowledge of her Royal High ness; if it is considered unsafe that she should sleep too near the garden, and that a bed is prepared for Ili...gaud in the cabinet ; if her Royal highness's Chamberlain re monstrates with her that Austin was getting ton old to sleep in her bed-room; if it is proved that she returned from the Opera very lute, and not early, that instead of going secretly to her chamber she was accompatiit ti by Sir Wm. Gehl; that she ruse next inurnitig at her usual hour, and that no persons called on her !loyal Highness, and that nothing took place to indicate that any tiling re markable had passed between her and Bergami, then the impression must be very different indeed. lie felt also, lie must incur the hazard of being tedious to be distinct, butt he must refer to the Alienates for each distinct tact, anal he would convince their Lordships, that the Naples charge was not only not proved, but completely negatived. Si caul negatives the charge of changiag the retain, and shows, that it was his own act in placing Beigioni 111 the cabinet. Mr. Craven states, that he had represented to her Royal Highness that %Voltam Austin should not con tinue to sleep in her room ; and Cart ington swot e, that h e mad p i e s tott,ly Made a Ilea 1;4 A11 , 41:1 tit oti.er r , 11.11115, Mr. Clasen and Sir William Gell state, that tiwy ed with her ILtt.yllll Highness very late at the 010'14. And 1 . 1011. the testimony of De Mont heist:lf you wail fiat!, that she Was nut there accidentally, but was sent fur lay liei alajesty, as if in order to see all that took place ; and lastly, Sir W. Gill states, that he accompanied her je..ty to file I'oolo. All the charges in the opening speech to the Naples busitieset, 1 . 4;1 to the glottal ; nor is the in terfet mice of the haughty conduct of Bergaini, winch would have followed the adulterous intricutirse, at all proved ; on the conttary, Mr. CIAV1:11 States 11111110 have been always obedient and re-pet:Bat, whether as Courier er Chitinhe atm. Now as to the mate of the beds : l)ii moot had said that no one slept in the travelling bed, and that the other appeared derauged and tumbled, and this, nut for one 14111, but fur two months. Now, if an adel let otis intercourse had taken place, the little bed woitid have been slept in, if tautly to veil the connexion. Ala dutiuisolh, Dinnuut,hn her ci oss.examittation, said there was withaig that tiadicattal that (no persons had slept in the heal; but afterward s,no lii titbit tar fuurt it tiny of her CXa111111,411,/11, 10 answer to a 1140.111111 put by a N ob;e Loa it, coastileting, perhaps, the glory aelpiiied lay ISal'lllll4 IreAbl! .11... r lit t Mutts evidence, and demons of a similar kuttur Damao stated a fact which ma um: conk! beheve, that (lwee were stains ',inside the bed, but site modestly d site did not know what they wile, as she laid Mesa a 41 ell aiy sneli before! Ii was there the ura4inaliil mom ; toper to fix the trines on h, r mistress. liut, admitting all Duatoat said to Le (toe, so far a 3 'elute I to facts of vi Lica she :shoe Cecil lurc R ~..~~ ~~ 9 • %lb. **4 • MI knowledge, yet, when she was refuted in every fact the (mold be knowil to ti ,thee, it was inipessitile to believe her in any. Surely no case had ever failed so completely in et idt i.ce as tin=t charge again , t her Royal Ilia:Mesa which related to her conduct at Naples? The numerous wititesses whirl' had been called, the mourning charges which hail been mado, and the indefatigable efforts to 'violet those charges available hail, it was impossible but in ;tercets e, prod uerd an impression upon their Lord , hips' minds %shifts it would he ditfiettlt to remove. Here the Lraisteil Coniesel quoted a piasage from the Quarterly Rev:eve, attic!), lie said, was extrenwly applicable to the C. W' It was the comparison of an edifice to a reputation ; and it descri'red the almost Insurmountable difficulty of repelling the 'aim ies of either; asserting, that nothing shot of a tiiiracolons demonstration could operate in rr_ pairing the assanits upon a tenta!o's elimacter. Unfoi to. Ha w ) . th e Queen's case toroligly exemplified the hulk or the Roman utaxim—" Collimitilando semper Hat." infamous calumnies vented agaimit lit r had proiltire , l their I tree ts ; and Omagh the tribunal briber Ishirh she appeared should decide that they wele has.' lahri ealionS—y et thry would leave ptiiii•litnent and suffering bel • I, nod a set of feeliogs would be raised to the !neje dice at the aroused, which neither time nor circumstances could ever efface. The Learned Counsel then adverted to that part of the statent.nit agai list livr Alajestv, which accii,eil her of having coition , fed adultery, and havilig contitim2d in an adoiturous intereonree with Bergau'i. Although this story .had beets In :st. completely refitted, still an impresdos) remained which he could not regard *silicon the utmost horror. The , turn of the masked ball, is also gismo as very strong presumptive proof of g' It. (ti that there could exist on doubt, if the de criber tell, the truth, for it aas said, that her Iteval flightless had retired fur a considerable time to her room with Iterganti, and in his pre.ettee exchanged the dress she a ore, for one of the most indecent description. But, that a woman wider such circinti,tunces, should have retired front the loin. unobserved was utterly impossible; and if •he had to retire for the purpose of indulging iu indecent familia rities with a man, it wan not till probable that she would have thoug,lit of placing, her female attendant it) an adj.-m -it.; room to witees, her depravity. Ihintotit herself hail declared that nobody but her-eif was ti.ere, aith the exception of the two %shout .be thonglit primer to accii.e. The ttory thea was lseyimil the poss,bility of confirmatioli; and thi:•, upon the evidence of this abatidored ii Lilian, the Learned Contisel for the 11.11 had looked upon one of the !mit desperate charges as establi.lied. To expect that it became the duty of her Majesty's Counsel to cross examine such a witness more closely, was abitird. A permit like this, who was determined to give false evidence —began with a determination to use the most ingenious arts of deceirtiou, and the more eager was the it:fl oa after truth, the noire skill was called into practice to b attle the fruitless speculation. It was not likely that, after a digestion of the neces sary plan for the iniopoitous deriatiens room troth, a stooly of three years could have disqualified the tsetse %0n0.% from the power and inclination of adding falsehood to falsehood; and if a further cross•exanoination had tato it place, nothing could be expected less than au adolitiom to the first statement, for the purpme of adding to the ge neral effect of her testimony. An anecdote came to hi; recollection which Lore 'open this point. He had lova: a eirellittstanre, which he communicated to a friend, who too k the opportunity to make smote adolitimis of a Yet . , extraordinary nature. Wilco some son - prise Was ed at th- additions, his friend said, lee certainly had it .tight to know the matter better than his (Mr. Denman's) infarinant, because he hut t.ot only given the intelligence to that informant, lint had actitaily made the story!—(A lauch.) Damont was the fahricator of this story, ::nil of coarse she moist have been better Repainted with the particulars than the Attotory-Gtmeral, who had rereis ell it at second hand, and she craild embellish it, for the amusement or set vice of those to whom sloe looked for The more facts it appeared necessasy for her to draw info action, the more copiously she drew from the soarers of her polluted invention. True indeed it was, as Sir t% iniam bell believed it be, That her Majesty a multitude of enemies. The Learned Counsel then alluded to the assei (ion of Dumont, that llergatiii had retained from the masquerade apparently mortified, that her Royal Highness had in vain endeavonreil to e vail upon him to return. This part of the evidmice Rai, he said, completely overturned Icy the testinuolv, th..t Bergsma had been, on the very ni , dit on which this vie• elllllitalleP load taken place, employed in uaiting with the other attendants Nom time Princess's guests. lie Ow" called their Lordship's attention to that part of the evi. deuce of Dumont, ahich describe:l the shiners twee walking arm in arm with Beruttoi in the earth to, and compared it with the statement of the Counsel fur ilia 13111, Nho Ictil said that her Royal Highness had repeat edly degraded herself by Ihus associating with her me nial% Tins, he said, proved that they had not only lo contend against the vilest descriptions, boot to deal unit a wilnclis whose principal at Wire uas II) engraft fel:whom! upon :Inds—the most ;la egerOles sort Or enemy ?—II was Dtionort that hail placed them null its at in to;ctlier. Tat , fret was true that they were in the garden. Her 119 ) 41 Highness found it olecessaly to have Bergami hi the gat , Ilea, to give diretions to the workmen, with whose language she was unacquainted. ‘Vliat did Sir Robeit 6ei I sits ft—That they vivre in the gat dee, as tirs!ru" ail I servant ; that lie regretted it, as he load heard that Old had enclitics, aoid that the gaiden was ope o to the view of all. 'thus, this matter tinned out to be the history of a Lady walkiumg iii her garden, with her set vant heidad her, employed to give directions to these who wile engaged in wor king. CJoiti any inisrepiesentation to, tame di eadful ? Yet, this is the evidence of one of those who were cusisideied the must efficient props of the vast Clinic. His Learned I 1 lends had declared that they had no anxiety open thti.. stohject, tint that which arose trout their anxiety to perform their duty, Ile had, at the ci melvemelit of this easo, soppo,ell that the Whoks pre %t :ink) be eimohicoe.l, as far as regarded b ig I..earsoo d Fricools, with the oiliao•I .e,•, aa.l ti " 11c % attitude of the cautiict,w pica was st such ;.s J oNtilleu nu expectation oh that kind. ouuld be at d to ti.c 1 ist. Bat w 'oat was the fact ? llow it al t..c promise been tailfil:i d ? Tice most siarviog at;ormy tit it ever appeased berme all indignant Jill y, to Milani a recioutpence for WI assault committed Iy,un hill Sell, het er exl jailed tome management or that, 1 , 1.1 -)••,. bell-;1)ed on t:.e part of the C.owu. lie I . 01 ill.t Li.uu , t h e AMM*. Guilt ral. If the cause which load been s .o. julo hi 4 Ilan . al . * was ant it good One, he could not help it. W.:s ' tuitzabh: a caresses who weft deserving of t xecratiou, •m: :a I '1 ~~ .