The National Register. — London, England, 1820-10-02 00:00:00

qt a' -a w +►b. , v4 ASSERT lONS AND PROOFS. We have been most seriously attacked because we recently stated " that the Attorney General had disgraced himself by his opening speech," in the business of the Queen, and " that he ought to have opened the cane in a speech which might have been reported in ten lines, and then have proceeded to call his witnesses, by which course the greater part of the indecencies would have been sparA, for we cannot find them elsewhere than in the opening speech of the Learned Gentleman.'? One of our contemporaries has furnished us with an admirable Answer to this attack, which is the following CONTRAST Between the Attorney General's assertions in his of Speeds and the primyi he adduced in support ASSERTIONS. 1.110018. On the tirst night of her arri- Do yon know what mom was val, November thesth, liergami al otterl fur Bergami upon the dept in that part of the house first night of his arrival at appropriated to the domestics ; Naples ? but on the following morning. IDO NOT XNOIII. November the uth, the servants of the establishment learned with some surprise, because no reason appeared to them at the lime for the CHANGE, that Bergami was no lover to sleep in that part of the house where he MAD slept on the night pee. ceding, &c. One of her maid servants.who I found her in her bed room. particularly attended to her bed Were you in the bed room room, happened to be pre•ent at yourself? the time of her return from the .1 was Mai there, but she rent Opera. for me. She was observed to go front Her Royal Highness crossed her room towards that which the passage, and went into the was assigned to Bergami, and cabinet. to which he had previoarly himself retired. ake Awes that at that time Do you know where Bergami Bergman was in his bed room. was at this time ? I DO NOT KNOW. These apartments of her Royal After her Royal Highness had Highness were at a distance, gone into the cabinet, what did and removed front those which she then do? we. e assigned to any part of Ido not know what she did, her State. RUT SUE RETURNED IMME DIATELY into the bed room where I was. Where did William Austin sleep that night? In a small cabinet, where he remained all the time we were at Naples. Was that cabinet adjoining to the bed room of the Princess? It was near; there was a Where did Mr. Hieronymus sleep? in a room which tad adoor in a corridor, which was before en: tering the room of her Royal Highness; the two doors were in the same passage. Upon the following morning What time the next morning it was perceived that her Ro yal did you see her Royal High- Highness did mot come from her nem own room rii the anal hoar. I do not remember precisely. As nearly as you can recol lect ? Near eleven o'clock, or about eleven o'clock. Wu that tater, or about her usual time ? IT WAS NEARLY HER USUAL TIME. HaßoyalHighness remained No proof of this assertion was in these apartments with this even attempted. man, Bergami, until a late hour the following morning. Her recent arrival at Naples Idem. had naturally induced persons to pay that respect to her Royal Highness which her rank de manded; and various persons. upon the tods of November, caned at her Royal Highness's house, for the purpose of paying her those respects; but, my Lords. her Royal Highness was net accessible till a late hour upon that morning. • My Lords," said the Attorney General. " I say that here, upon thee fiats, I think no one can well doubt or hesitate, upon the conclusion to which they would arrive upon the case. When I come to narrate to your Lordships the various circumstances which subsequently occurrel, your Lordships will have no doubt, I think, upon your minds, that this was the commencement of that most scandalous, must degrading, and most licentious inter course, which your Lordships will find continued, and increased. from the period to which I am now direc t ing your L o rd s hip s ' attention." She represented to some of those about her that Bergami was not married, that this was a etild he had l•-ad by some per , sat, and that she was on that account anxious to receive this child. My Lents, I t-ay this cinanustance one should have thought to a virtuous and to a delicate My Lordampon that occasion she, mated a place canal Vixese : she stopped at the inn atVa toe, where she dined; and it will be proved to you that upon that occasion she retired with Iter. gaini to a bed icon], and was shut up in that bed room with him a considerable time—this. my Lords, in the day time, at a time when no apparent reason required the atten dance of Ber. gaini, who was suil the c.,urier; but such the fact was, that she dii retire with him, and was with him in the bed room for a considerable period. They next went to the 8010- What apartment wasprepa re d mean Isles. My Lords, she had for her Royal Highness, and in visited that place in her stay which she slept on the first from Gensfany to Italy; and occasion on which she visited upon that cccaeion, as was na- the liorornean Isles ? Do you remember whether you duud at any inn on the road ? I tinnk they stopped at an inn at Varese,but lam not perfectly . THE NATIONAL REGISTER.I 4 tnral, a large apartment. the The mast ekgant apartment be , t I suppose which the inn that could he tound. a ff o rded, was as s i gne d to her W hen her Royal Highness Royal Highness fiur her bed visited the Boromean Isles upon room. The persons ut the inn the second occasion to eleep, naturally expected that the sante what apartment had been pre apartment would be occupied by pared for her ? her Royal Ilighnes, on this I do nut remember what occasion; but. my Lords, that apartment had been prepared room hat. no communintion for the Princess. . . . with any other room in which Do you remember in what a person could sleep ; and it apartment the Princess slept? is remarkable that on this Yes. second visit, when she was Did yOu, upon the second accompanied by the courier occasion, see the apartment in liergaini, be alters the sr- which the Princess Slept the first ran h sement of the room; site time? declines to occupy that which Yes. she had occupied upon her first In what apartment did the visit. and she selects another Princess sleep the second time ? and inferior apartment, but In an apartment remote from which other and inferior apart- the former apartment. ment immediately commune- Do you know where Bergami cated with the room which was slept ? assigned as the sleeping room of Near the apartment of her Bergamt. Royal Highness. Was the -- in which Asa 1..,4 apartment her Royal Highness slept,at the Roromean Isles, prepared for her betbre her arrival or oiler • wards ? As far as I can remember, it was prepared after her arrival. What kind of apartment was it in which her Royal Highness slept ? A large room. Do you remember whether there was any amimunication between that apartment and the room in which Bergami slept? I do not recollect. It was observed that Bergami and the then Princess, her pre. sent Majesty, frequently retired at Messina, at a very early Not a shadow of' proof for all hour in the evening, to their this assertion, even from Ma own rooms; and that, instead Joel or He Mont. of requiring the assistance of any of her female servants, for the purpoee of retiring to her bed, that after they hats so left the other part of the house and retired to their rooms, that they were not seen again from that period till the following morn ing, and that no assistance was required, on he part of her fe male servants, to her Majesty previous to her retiring to her bed. Frequently she would retire, without calling either (for she had at that time two lilies de chambre) to undress her. She became very regard• less of tier person, &c. My Lords, I should state to your Lordships, that when sh, first visited Catania, as wasnatu. ral, the nobility of that country A blank, ray Leeds. paid her those attentions which weredemanded by her high rank: but it was observed, that after a short time, she, who was careless of any other society but that of her paramour, became less and less visited, and rarely seen in the company of the nobility of that country. Your Lordships will find that On the journey to which you upon the visit to Lugano, at have been asked, did her Royal least. I think, when the evidence Highness stop and sleep at comes befine your Lordship, L ugano ? you will be satisfied of that Yes, upon our return. which the facts of the cave will have left no doubt upon your Lordships' mind had previously existed—namely, that an adul terous intercourse actually took place between those parties. Not a word even about the position of the several bed-moms. But as this I.ugano story has made a considerable sensation, let us examine in detail how it stands. Then (Sept. 6) the Attorney. General stated to the house, that certain persons resident at Lu gano, who were intendea to be produced as witnesses, had set out in order to give their evi dence; that they had advanced as far as Beauvais. when reports Nil. and rumours had reached them, that certain persons who had come here for the purpose of giving evidence had been ex tremely ill treated at Dover; that they were alarmed, and in con sequence of the apprehensions they entertained, they went be. before the Magistrates at Beau vais on the 27th of July, and made a deposition to that effect, and, not thinking it prudent to Nil. proceed,had returned to Lugano; that, this deposition being re. ceived in this country. persons were immediately despatched. in the hope of overtaking than before they had reached their house, but that they had r; ached their homes before they could be overtaken ; that on Monday last (Sept. 4) letters had been received front Lucerne, near to the residence of these wituesses, in which it was stated that they had altered their determination, sil. and were:bout,on the fallowing d , the 29th of August, to sea out for England, for the purpose of giving evidence; that, as Nil. their arrival might therefore be expected in a very few days, he begged to 4,.1( of their Lordship s an adjournment, to permit th at evidence, which he conceived to be important, to be laid before the Mouse. *Such an application was never made in a court of aw, either in support or u criminal prosecution or on any other occasion.— It is not unusual to request the postponement of a trial before its cominebnement, for the absence of a material witness , hut buck request is constantly founded on affidavits, stating solid resent for delay, and vouching on oath the conscience of the deponent to` the materiality of the witness. We believe, too, that in a similar case, the courts below would expect such notice to be given of the intended application as might give the opposite party an opportunity for inquiring into the truth of the statement; and, at all events, we arc sure that the advrese counsel would not in ordinary eases, have been taken by surprise by receivingthe first intimation of such a request, at the moment of preferring it to the court. We believe the whole statement to be unfounded, and that the Attomey•General was as touch deluded in making it, as with respect to the other facts above enumerated. The application was withdrawn on the day after it was made, on the alleged ground that letters front Milan had arrived, conveying intelligence that the witnesses could not arrive so soon as was expected. But no man of common sense would believe that any one important witness was likely to have come at all. Look at the dates; look at the time of preparation, the means employed, the opportuni ties possessed. The riot at Dover was so convenient s dream.. stance, that one is tempted to suspect some persons concerned in the prosecution of having excited it. This " tumult" made Sacchi change his name a full twelvemonth before it occurred, and it compels the men of Lugano to change their route, after it is known to have subsided. But if this fear operated at first, would it not have been counteracted (as in the case of so many Pardus and Guiseppes) by fear of their own government; and this, too, when there was time more than sufficient to travel twice from Lugano to London, and back again 1 No man who looks at the character of the evidence produced, will believe that any thing material has been withheld. But, in the mean time, the promoters of the prosecution have the credit of being pre. vented by accident alone, front establishing important facts by additional testimony. Let the thinking part of the community sec how far they are entitled to this credit from the Attorney- General's opening speech, by comparing his assertions in other respects with his prooli. FROM TUSE air NIGHT'S GAZETTE. BANKRUPTS. W. Forster, Strand, silversmith. Solicitor, Mr. Popkin, Dean Street, Soho. R. Shirley, Bucklersbury, carpet manufacturer. Sols. Messrs. Walker and Co., Old Jewry. G. and .1. Tunnieliff, Stone, Staffordshire, grocers. Sol. Mr. Wheeler, Castle Street, llolborn. J. Anderson. London, mariner. SoL Mr. Collins, Great Knight Rider Street, Doctors' Commons. R. Castley, Friday Street, Cheapbtde, warehouseman. Sol. Mr. Wilde, College Dill. J. and S. Wakite. Dulston, Cumberland, manufacturers. Sol. Mr. Clennell, Staples DIVIDENDS. _ _ Oct. 2R, J. Perkins, Tiverton, Devon, timber merchant-2R, J. Hirst, Tower Street, Dutton broker-28, J. Dewar, Stamford, upholsterer-17, P. Leigh, %Vinchum, Cheshire, farmer-Ig, S. Woods, ['Aventine, Southampton. grocer-28, J. S. Voysey, Ratcliff Highway, groce---25, J. Coates, Worcester, woollen draper-18, J. Gandy, Liverpool, ineichant-2.7, D. Crickett, Haugham, Kent, timber merchant. CERTIFICATES to be granted Oct. 17. P. Boullen, Norton Falgate.lio.ier—C. Dunkin, Horselydown, lighterman—J. Scholelield, Sadilleworth, Yorkshire, woollen cord manufacturer—H. and M. Daniels, Bury Street. St. Mary Axe, merchants—E. Jones, Great Sutton Street, Clerkenwell, coal merchant—W. H. Browne, Bristol, broker—F. Dowsing, Huddersfield, grocer. 7HE KING. COWES, SEPT. B.—His Majesty having signified his intention of landing this morning, the best pre parations the time would admit were made to give proper effect to the scene. All o'clock were sixn in the harbour and roadstead the Royal squadron and the different vessels of the yacht club, inter mixed with about 30 row beats, with their respective flags on their prows, the whole forming two parallel lines from the Royal George to the shore. The houses and gardens, together with the parade, were crowded to excess. At twelve o'clock a signal-gun from one of the accompanyin ,, frigates announced his Majesty's having quitted the ship for the royal barge, and innuedi itely a salute of 21 guns was given from each of the frigates, and from the castle, and many of the smaller veneis. As the barge proceeded towards the shore, the boats followed in the train. His Majesty, between Sir Charles and Sir E. Paget, followed by a numerous suite, after landing, walked slowly to the beautiful marine villa, of which he has recently become the purchaser. His Majesty, lifter remaining about .20 minutes, then walked back again the same way to the barge, and the like ceremony as before was observed in reconducting him to the yacht. The ships manned their yards, and the royal salute was repeated. FARILT OF THE LATE MR. RA E.—Application having been made to Airs. Siddons, for her profes sional uid at the benefit for the widow and family of the late lamented Mr. Hate, she has returned the following answer, which is as creditable to her regard for the profession, us it does honour to the feelings of the heart : Si should with the greatest pleasure embrace those ineatis IA hlek you propose, to pay my tribute of respect to Ilan memory of I Mr. Rae, nod to evince soy sympathy fur the unhappy family who have suffered sAI great and irre parable a lie ; but, upwards of sixty years old, it is nut t be. supposed that I can be exempted from the natural ink nwirs attendaut on such an advanced age, and be assured, Sir, that it is my liability, and not my inclination, vehi , h leads Me to decline what it would give me the greatest pleasure to accede to. With the sincerest wishes for the mecum, of your benevolent elloi is ou flits mrlanchuly event— " I hove the honour to he, Sir, " Your most obedient servant, " Saadbeck Park, Sept. 23. " S. SIDL)ONS.' Within the hist fortnight the reservoir, near Kendal, has been completely let off, to repair some breakage that took place a few months ago; anti the extraordinary quantity of upwards of four hun. dred weight of trout was taken, with as many eels, and the most part of them sold in the market there, some of the trout weighing three pounds and a half.' 314