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• who had imposed upon those wins acre employed in the tinier. innate Milne of mak Mg the bad appear a good cause. Tile Solicitor General had conetuiled by telling their Lordships what judgment they es tie to give. two Learned Donk men hail ilms heed placed in two very different Itlidliulli j the one as the very eager Advocate, sad the uther as the allotiolis Juilz.e. The Solicitor (i e . neral had, after giving this direction to their Luidahips, stated that the production of witnesses for her Majtat y could be attended wills nu effect, concluded with a pi Ayer that her ;Majesty might depart tram tins investigation huh credit, and without imputation. It was a sous ee Pi great jtry to Into that this prayer had been ulfere I up. It was, lie believed, the lirst prayer that had ever been made for the Queen by a public officer of the Crust !—(A laugh.) 'There certainly was someihing OnlitiOns in it; and lie trusted it aas the tits[ step for the restoration of her Ma jesty's mane to the Chat eh Service, limn a Inch it had burn must Mimiwily reinuveil. lie congratulated his Learned Friend that the case against which he had so de voutfy prayed had not been proved; and that the wretch whose evidence had been considered so conclusive, had appeared fur the last time befure them. 'file Learned Counsel next referred to the testimony of Himiont, which described her having seen Bergand in the passage near the I's incebs'3 room, in the nig:it. It appeineil from that evidence, as it bad been brought out by Al v. Wll - that the charge of ildnitely was sitting agaiust Damout and Bergatin, as it could be against her Royal Ilighliesis and Berge ; and rruill her declination that she escaped, it was to be presumed, that the plans of Bet gami were directed against Mr, and nut its concert %till her Royal Highness, fur tlicii mutual accommoda tion. The Learisett Counsel next adverted to the two oilier oec.rsioas alien adulterous intercourse was, on the autism ity of that precious witness, hlajorc., imputed to her Royal 11 Bergaini tv..s ill, hut that, it would seam, was nu obstacle to tile enjoyment (1 Sock a paSAUU all 110 - IlesSed this guilty pair. There seas a private passage by which the l'imeess might have gime into les room wool"- irrved by ally one, hut instead of chasing that, she goes through tile room where the servant of the sick man ssatch ing, and where it tire is constantly burunig. She does not steal through this r.m.o once. but twice—lilt tea ice nn one night, but twice, un two different nights. she duet{ so, tau being a person who is observing the utmost cation im the indulgence of iwr etiminal passion. Anxious to asuid every eye, she prefers that passage which is iistiSi certain of exposing her to the observation tole person newly hired lino her service, and a ho, for any 'him; sue loiew, might imam diately publish her shame to the unpin II ow was he to comment on suen it case a this 1 %it bat seeurdy aas there fur human lire, it such evideuce aus to be seri.u u e-ler taitall fur a shiAle moment 1 Tile Learatal Gebtlimau con tinued his review of toe evidence, putmiu out its discre pancies as Inr went mi. At nearly two o'Cluti., Lund LI V Elt POOL tl, that as the Learned Counsel must be nearly exhansttsi, lie ought to have lease to retire. The LORD CHANCELI.OII—" Ce mainly ! Mr. Hell man, ask for w hatevt r time you please, and of you %%fills 10 have until to-morrow inuoniag, I stiould have no ill jteboa." Mr I)east A N said, be auwdavailhimselfit their Lord ships' olive fur halt lot hour. After having been uliserit about forty minutes, Mr. DEtlliN returned and resumed. Alter pursuing Iris line of . lvetsion at considerable length, he said, their Lordships could not adopt u middle course in deciaiug upon this case—there could be 110 comp' °liaise beta. en honour and shame. By a compromise, lit,2 mind would sutler venter tortures than could he indicted on the body, by the judg meat pronounced upon the highest crime. He afield rather see Ins 'loyal :Mistress upon her trial at the 11.tt, /di Anne Boleyn had been, than the victim of iiit iuglorious cum pro anise !—lle a ould rather see her ascend the scaffold, and lay tier bare neck upou the block, than see her leave these shores the ordect of scorn and pity 1 He culled spud their Lord ships to treat thus case as it woeld be treated at tie. Ohl Harley by sole of tie Judges, who, if he did not &she the Jury to acquit their prisoner at once, would deserve to be im peached at that liar. lie (Mr. D ) called upon, and entreated them to consider, that the polluted evidence against the Queen was the evitience discanted servants. lie was not able to find any ease similar to this in modern history. In the Roman his tory lie Mend the case of the Empress Octavia, who was repu diated, and became the victim of false evidence. oetavia bec a me the wile of the worst Mahe Roman Lima:rots. On the day of her marriage, she was the object of his disgust, and was accused of cranium intimacy with a slave. Her serv.uas were. nut bribed, but canii;.elled by torture to swear against leer. Sane wit, tried and condemned to exile. Tile Roman people believed her inno cent, and on her return from banishment received her with feel ings at' regard. She became the vhaim of a s.econil conspiracy, and was banished to an Island in the Aletiiterianean, where /me bad no alternative left her, but to die, either by puLon, or the dagger. 'fee unhappy lady submitted to have tier veirr, o:re.netl, aint she bled to death. Here Mr. Denman quoted tine uri I, oldie Homan historian lainenung the fate of an tsnr:siAe de prived of powerful relations, who, haul they b.en have prevented the cataattuplie. lice Alayesiy left hits conturi in sorrow. When she first went abroad, :hie we.:; the vuhint of rtunaur. and false reports, which were in tlie resells instance to b.: grappled a ith.—Deprived of her only daughter, site was left. expreed to the dcrigns of l:er woist cattmes. In that fetal month, winch blasted the hope of Eaglaud. Nov. ltrt 7, every nine 1.: the iliatetial witncae a tOr the prusecation were ei..ciairged from her service. It was then all her secrets trete ent;tental 111 0. At that time Sacchi and Majacci began to sting their benefactress and mistress, then the conspiracy against rite 1 aiuc:+s was normal lit theirsure to e,.rr!ei into Oa-cation. 'f ie Ceara Lil ' , tinsel (lectured that her Maj.sly telt coaddent that they had sally vindicated her innocence. our &chid( having arrived, the house adjoinned. WEaIIEsDAY, tier. e. 3. This morning the Lord Chancellor took his scat on the Wool sack at five the Bishop 01'136 , 401. Oil the list of Veers tieing called over. cxewea true tu:asitted for the Duke of Se.. Albans. We Earl of Ox.urd, mid Lord t , reaers. Corth,et were called in tit twenty minutes putt tat o'clock. Mr. Di, . iIAN then rose, and mutual the aaniming up a the defence.--`• My Lords. in reltrra - g to the evidence which luu beer pet' !Lltt:d in support of this I uni multi - 10y brinight to that ithirs ailed whose name Mans so plenum:tit a part ti the charges that have against her Majesty. Aid cer• tainly nu perarn ever er.;;;est d.w ally bit.Alitaill walls better character, w.th a tidier claim to promotion. or better (tattled to hope to: bt:CC:%.i ama li4:VallUlge. Mt. Qavul slats, teat the Marquis Ccuriliegliii treated 0.1 a Itunieg in' equality, and rerA.lmilmtiett lion to her Rival Higlaie, In, 1141 ii.ta idUI4I w' oil eau: du:) tic: hee arid pittrunage ; that he was uf . a ft:so:aid:4: wady, which lied stiff:Jai in its .oriones dining the French le-volution; that he hat: served in the French array. where he was artnettcd to the iewiety oh personas or raak and distinction; but that ItOw. luttu./..., :0; lia. AWN). pelted to accept of a sitwitlun be ow Ilia rank. or his drawers. at, Wilhaua (sell saaud, th..t ilea Alartituv laws.rtgLit. su is. foal THE NATIONAL REGISTER' treatiug him as u menial, or one of mean origin, saluted him in the manlier in which the nobility salute pawns of equal rank; and the French Colonel Oli viera, who knew him at Gen. Pine's, Speaks of him in the highest terms. lum not, my Loads, de. landing Bergaini, nor is it necessary that I should do so; but I cannot advert to the manner in which he v. as introduced to her Royal liialmev, without declaring my firm convictioa that he was a person woi thy of patronaae. entered the service of the Princes., in tile year Dili, end in the following year he was promoted hunt the situation of a courier to that of a pege. I may here observe, that a courier to a roval personage, though wearing a peculiar dress, It out to be considered as un urtlinary livery servant. At this time Mr. Craven had left her Royal Ilialiress, en account do domestic inisfot torte, add Sir Wiliam bell had :tow kit her, oil account of his health. I theretine do not know that the Princess could have done better than binding a mat of honour and fidelity to her service, by conferring on him those ollicea and those leoncurs which it is the privilege of royalty to bestow. And when a royal personage does confer rank and honours on an individual, lie who is 'Ails what royalty chooses to make him. I do nut blame Capt. Pechell for refusing to hit down at the table with a man who had waited behind his chair; but no individual wuuld degrade himself by yielding respect to those whom royalty delight:eh to honour.— Whom, lie would ask their Loot...hips, could her :Majesty have promoted with so much propriety ? But it appealed that the virtuous feelings of this fittest/kiwi but unfortunate lady were all to be turned into crimes. If Ileigueti was promoted to the situ- num' of chamberlain by Ina royal 'Lista:as, was it a proof of guilt that he was publicly declared to be :al, that lie eltottld appear in the proper rank, and introduced to her Alajesty's visitors as a person tilling a :inanition to which his talents and fidelity entitled hint ? Then it was said that lie had been loaded with hunuurs ! Rut their Lordships would recollect that Italian Baronies were purchascable by a tew hundred livres ; arid, in the country, where they were so easy of au:element. they were absolutely necessary as an appendage to a situation t shich importance as that to which Bergarni had been raised.—The teamed Counsel then referred to the evidence in contradiction with the udumnious statemene of that witless, who said lie had heard the Princess used Bergami toge th er under the tent, while lie was lying on a sofa in the cabin below. abantleired wretch, be said, intro. duced what he heard as a purallel to what lie hied seen when he was I.ult whew, and must, if he lad laid on a sofa at the time, have gone into another cabin, and tek_ii a sofa and brought it to that winch was under the tent where the queen lay, for the pur• pose ("flying upon it, to hear whet was going forward between her and Berg:tun/ The evidence of Puturho—of Lieut. Flynn —and of Lieut. llownum, gave the lie direct to this abominable lubrication. The whole of the built story rested, in short, on the evidence of Majocci and Dumont, and it was of a piece with the whole of the evidence of these persons--a piece of ir.vention absual its it wal incredible. The Learned Gentleman begged now to direct their attention fir the neat case of interence w melt the Attorney General had stated in his opening, namely, that when Saceiti arrived in the eight time with a despatch hunt General into, he saw Reagan); tanning, as the Attorney General had affirmed, out vf the room of her Royal Highness. With. out saying any thing at present its to the credibility of this witness, he would ask, how was the etatement of the Attorney General Lorne out by the evidence of Sacchi *ie lie does not saute that he saw Bergand coming out of the room of her Royal Highness; he saw hen coming out of a room, but he neither knows who occupied that woe', nor the rooms beyond it; and, what is mote Inipol rant, he does rut even know where the loom was situate wl. - it was occupied by her Royal Ilialiness.— lie (the Learned Counsel) would here advert to die letter of lattiaunt, insinuating that persons woe ready to pay her for giving evidence riaainA the Preacesa, and that she was really to tilszause or conceal all she knew, acemalingly us the Princess treated tier. Tlas was the construction his Learned Friends Opp°. Sit.: must put on that lettei; and, if that was the ease, it h as dire:denim; letter, and her Aiiijesty eliewed her own innocence, anti the cenecioustiess that Dumont could not with truth speak one word against her; that she did not even notice it, much less endeavour to conciliate licr good opinion, or purchase it as a guilty person would have dune. In regard to toe affair at Charnite, Lieut. I lownam state,, that it was necessary to go to Ihspruck for pa sports, and that Bergamo aid went for them, and icon:lied very late. In ti rigid ratios-examination, the basis of whiten his Learned Friend, no doubt, had blunt &tech'. and Dumont, they asked him about the time, the snow, dc. but there was nothing in die evaleuce of l.ieut. Ilownain at all eon. tradxtuf y. In introducing die witness N'assali, tie trusted that it was no reflection on his character that he hail served as a pri vate soldier in it Royal Guard to Honour, since, on the Continent, nothing was more cotillion than tar young men of tile ,meat respectable families serving as Guards of Ilunour to Sovereign Princes. Vassali says he returned from Inspruck about two or three o'clock, hug he i 11111 l ediately went into the room of het Royal Highness, whom he found un the best, ready dressed fur her journey—that Bergaini was in the room, and that little Vic • 'seine was un the same bed wi th her Royal highness. This feet . Dumont artfully and wickedly cencealeil, although she was in the mein at that time, unit must have known it. lie would now call thew atteautin to the witaese Carrinaton, and he could not du so, without r.a.leing, that ;:u sooner hail this vatneas left the Bai uf their Lordships, to the satisfaction of evety one who hail Ileum his testimony, than mateteals were laid for Ins croareexamination by the list I.ord Of the Admit ally ; books were aearelied, and his Captain brought to town to be exarained. lie viand but coin- plain of this, but thanked the Noble Lend fur that cross examination; auto lie would say, that in whatever rank iii euciety Cal Ling:tie'. tot :nay he caat— baton: made him agentionan. The claire& ter of tills WitilZ,s new lealier num every e, oss ex:animate:l 1 and his testimony could nut be shaken. Auer Cawington haat been crass t;idiliilled so frequently, a paper was at last piodutwel, whieht proved that lie fiat oceit rated as midshipman use board the Poirticis, and Sir John Bereeloal said he never paled ail any use with regret, es la: woe a moat excellent senor. It still remeineu to speeds inf the exhibition by alalioniet. Did their Loulships wish that he should detain them it moment on tin, m a tes:lag pas t iti thus 1110:4 ensemble caw I—(., p iaw) Majuta 4 vt tea had not been pou ff e') dialed as to tile (Ado. ides ion to be gist ii to this ii.chlr, mt, had tilhUsiseellegly de sidled that he saw nothing w ties dance 111111Cli lo.tiie ii Ovid to be secil by egret shah ur ‘lllOll./11. fiat calalma lesiiii, od the 4bl:01011) of una 111011 so limited as Mailbet - i, ta‘ a I«ndsutps would h... 1, in the evidence of Nls. Duo ~um, of C it V te•salt, mid tot Mr. (irativ Ole :ill/trite, Lie 140:1 sdlisr.tC(ol4 retlitalithi of the raise as pot lo) the Attune.). Getteriel. Tacit: was act trite case a, mid he %11:., ploy to say it was the last lu winch nc had to cull tacit l.unisiiiri t.ttclit:uu it ohs tlie notable instate es y eves red to base to. ell owed': by tier eau, tl.l the 110111 to Seuegelia L muse read, N.va the ev silence 01 Colo Flats, pap r. a Weil slowed that Saechi had pro. ceded tier 11,9 at (I %hues, tre the jourtita le beitegalia, atm riend hot powahla Hose Well what Ile ;a, tended tu deses ibe neat the es Idenee uY Lit•llt. 11,/it Wail:, a intcb pAUVed thi.rl 111 c tours:we in nth to Sell Ittl)al ii.iallis,ll/41: Nils 0.11, haul lie hi cord a out Le opeued eireat Irma or, halo ; .i. 1,1 1; 6 411 . , 1:111,e pia, la 01 I.le es idea; e of (;40/. 011beca emu Calm( 1 is tiler. weal la/ COOIIIIII, us Itb y dal boot :ilia , A:z1VIle.:181a te and Mr. Ilti w Mew. wear to the eta ire 1.1.b11 - ..C1:04 ui It.. pa:bal . /111, ..1 hay lire seed 011 1 lie “0, rre I.a Is.), al, .1' i 0: w 111/10 11 , till, r , ildt of se Me eeeu 55 1511 as cats MAN 1114. CIPCIIAILII , OI-1 ) air. Deem its cuidinued hn lushes, ul toe yotuaweetis, a iss atria he CelbalUtti the 847 the act of sending away " the pea juted villain Kedah" — Al nearly two o'clock: The LORD CHAACELLOR sugegted to Mr. Denman, whether tie ought not to have a little repose. The Learned Colonel thaiiked his Lordship for the indulgence and seined. Lt half an hour Mr. Des sr.s N returned and regained the st.thjeci. Ile proceeded to eialorce upon their Lordships the selt•evidtin fact that the foole.t conspiracy laid existed aguited the Qaeen, and that that conspiracy originating in one Court, had hero pats (((( izeil nod lore:aided in others. —The Leareed Counsel theta remarked a Oh much feeling On the pad secirtion wWelt her 'Majesty had uitilergone.— " The death of the Princess Chas 10th.," said the Learned Gentleman, " was the signal for the fool conspiracy agailast her itlajesty, and the death of her last friend, one late ranch level ed Soviet elan, aas not announced to lire in a letter of condolence, but by Cardinal tionsalvi ip ping her of sank 81111 dignity, and giving her a passport, not as the Queen of fmglaild, but as the Princess Caroline of Brunsia Ick. The accesssion of a Sovereign to the throne of these 'calms, that period which is Disliked by the extension of the Gott-like attribute mercy, the par don of the crania:al, and the Ithetalion of the captive, was tau reign of peace to her Majesty, The first sat of the new ra. ago aas the must illegai set ever recorded in the annals of Eti4latid. It was to the Queen of England a reign or dens edation. Her ovine was excluded trout the Latin gy. The people sseie tot bidden to pray for her, but the had the prayers or miiliwis, What was the pro ceeding helm e the Home? It sag migivally a Bill of Divot a ; 1;;;; in that character it no longer existed. The fact of six years separation from the husband, wish the Letter of lacesice, a ass a complete answer to Di %once. — it a Bill of Pains and Penalties; a Bill to per secute oil ithfortnisale oppressed woman. It was at the I•lcasuie of the I louse to go us, and pass suet' a Bill," lint I am sore (said Mr. Deonami) pool humour and ti cling will induce you to do justice to slit accused." There were several individmils whom we have not called in behalf of her Majesty, because we how consider our case proved. We dial slot thiiik it t olisistent atilt any principle of justice to admit that we as e bound to go one step thither. Wo have been told Bea gaini *night be called to deny the charge of adultery. 'ghat cannot be. If any man guilty of the charge was examiued he would deny it. I firmly believe that feeling among mankind iii such a case wouol t riumph over torn alhy. It would be found better to violate au oath than ha:hay the victim. From the beginning of the world, can my Learned Friend spew me when such a prison was called. Looking to the principle of this Ball, it appeals to nie thine is slut one part of the evidence which would wan - rout your Lordships in calling on use to go further. I have beard, my Lords, that whim we are tie fending her Majesty, there are persons, not lu a low capa city, not of the public press, but who have Scats among yogis . Lordships, who are industriously circulating injurious reports against the Queen. Could I, my Lords, call oat that intlividual,l a ould say," Come forth, thou font slanderer, and meet me face to lace : if you do not, thou art worse than tlai• Italian who gives a peijused hat an open testi. mony, elide thou pottiest shy int ections calumnies into the calla of thy brother Judges, and plunge into the bresst of soyal victim a poisoned stiletto, its the semblance of the 'wind of justice!' Were it possible that any of the Blood Halal could do this, I wottial say that lie 1 . ,4,1 du:se Dime to degrade Inman-If from the saicees•ion of the t. roan Mali my royal guOrtress would have done, had eyes) , charge been proved against her. Nly Lords, the whole Remo utili pc). potation of England is in favour of her Majesty ; and nothiug wwild he hailed with such universal joy as your Lordshipa protionticing a searing of Not Guilty ! Daring the whole of these po.ceediogs, her Majesty's Counsel have had the primal giatiliC4:loll ill fighling the battle of Nlotality, of Christiauity, and of Public Justice; and although I cannot cutups re myself to that tam ha in the cause, who has fought so nobly ; yet 1, perhaps, may cluing the I ler mein of having disellargcil a Sew tune 4riutvii at the champions of this degraded Bill. This, my Lords, is the higheat ti dittoed on earth—it can only - be lutes edcd by that where all the world shall be judged, anal the si - creto of all heal is laid open. I iiiveke )1,111, say Lou sis, thertihre to imitate the justice of that uclavikessce of that high and gamed audios ity, who said to the a Mean brought b fore hint, " It no accuser conic tot %said, ncuher vsui L ri lenin Thee—go in peace and sin :au mute!" The Learned Gentleman's; sprt eh appeared to make a great inipress.on on slush Lordships. Ale. Blunt:neat ai , phtsl tor leave that 1)1. Litshirgiiiii shun d be pet untied to address their Leardsaips to ono ro healiz emitted, the limns! a *woe :at 4 o's k. T WENTY lIST DAY OF l'IlL DEFENCE. 1 11c itsllaY, OCT. 26. The House met this onomag at the tiaral boar, and the usual preliminaries were ;;one throssAsi in the uatinary Counsel were called in at 'so miuutes past ten o'cit.ek. Dr. Luso' SiiToN addressed their Lordslays—" .sly Loral., if 1 11:U1 ben kit to nsy own eiseretion, eta: to tallow the dictates of my own Is:multi nut now has: to address y oar Loruslops. But in the dischargit of thy (hay to toy thu.h.utis client, 1 ter. th.legatea, by nay Leatned friends, who nook this case so noport.tnt, and sic cs,cnsi•.v, after till hisir nonce facts yet remain to be stiasal. Your Lordships lowa feel that nay task is not an easy on:, and that I conic to the peaforin. :wee, autiouritied wididitti..alites beyond a.l theaeure. !Suss. soy Lords, I have one co.iseaudon, a emismation tiro, in the Jittigs. Silent oh «limy hiends, this ewe stands en a foutehoton so Siva and saute, th:sl ever the truth:lent of an uu3kii;;;; cannot injure it. I have also tile consolation let leer that toe mum this caas is actutilized, Lae more. will the ammeence tat nip fiDul client appear. 1 will. so the course of toy attaire:s to your Lm.l• ships, avoid repetition, where repetition can be avuaLo; out your Lordships Must fed, that, wen: 1 ;pitied with the wuoe puss's-awl elutiu.lsee, sly obscreatior.s can have no ea:4;ot, except taken into cola: idenition whit the eiscout..!ai.s..:a that mare already taken place. It IN:C011W:i more immediately thy duty to make she Or two oisservations oil the subject of the chaoge an this lull. 1 have. in the whole of my proftssiotaal life, been eugaigssl in cases of Diiii.c;; but there are etteUlll3ialleeS 111 ta,C impart:Weaned :a the records tai past Liraes, and, 1 (lon( God, withteat an exam • pie in the pres.ait age. It i. not, my Lords, that the tributiai is lieW. VC that the titivation:in is Impact:Led ni the cause; last there are other CilVailistalieZ:, withers a par.thel in the page ,if imtory. I will first notice the age of the party' au:eased. :ma 1 :Minn to your Lordships, that have Is Lot tata.a, in modern Or ice cornier Disab, Villa: a tills/WO boui.ot to L 41,11. C ucelasuig her tat aualita y ill Z'ss. Ii .4 at CllCtill:St4;h:4: best tieseiviog the mulct SerlOss• cm...i.kral.oo —4 woe seistrated from lit: sass:v.lA, scan:ety inas e ; a 611401: J:ty a ets 111• m After hit: 1.11121 . 1il.44.11i: is sotigf.t to be cl.wykt.t tat n.e aheuf 511; when lite/C is :t .I:alallt;k: t .ea wiser, toe pa. that loud tiled together, is. a u.vioce hetng sougn , maser; Ise Lisa ati:111111l1 the El6e. oh 45. this suers wsi. , suaniscr lis husisatid 01 tine 1.41 Da•y ears a:palatial than w le—scisvaleci by his as it ate alit, D . , in • cis Is coase, sepalased not its consequeuee 1114: UiLaC,s6llll.l4:. tat dls woe. th of g the oicath of bus i ncs,ar staving trguttki bet characta, Ina wpm. • r • - _.■• OP= • , • -.. ~.