The National Register. — London, England, 1820-10-09 00:00:00

306 asked whether she had found the letter she *Railed to as received from her brother, the Earl of Gn7.lthrd—slie replied in the negative, adding, that she believed it had been destroyed. John Whitcombe was then sworn, and e%inninetl by Mr. TYNDALL. Whit situation in life du you hold ?,..I am valet to the Hon. Kennel Craven. How long have you held that situation ?...Six years. Were you in the service of Mr. Craven when the l'rincess of Wales went to Naples?...Yes. I was. Do ynu remember. on the first night of your arrival at Naples, where Bergson slept?...No. I tie not. Have you seen the room ?...No. I never saw it. Do you recollect the room where Bergami slept on the second .night ?...Yes. perfectly well. Was there a passage communicating between that room and the room of the Princes* ?...There was a long passage. at one ond of which was the room of her Royal Highness, and at the Other end was the rooms of Bergami. in which room did William Austin sleep ?...In the room next to her Royal Higness. Where did Hterunimus sleep ?...Next to William Austin. Where did Dr. Holland sleep?—Next to Hicrot,imus. Did these three rooms lay on the same side of the passage ?... Yes. Was there a door from the room of Hieronimus that opened in the passage ?...Yes, there was. - Where did the door of Dr. Holland's room open into ?... Into . another passage towards the dining room. Was Dr. Holland's room at the corner of the two passages ?... . it wee. Did the door of Dr. Holland's room open opposite. to the door of Bergarni's mom ?...No. Bergami's room did riot open into that _passage. Dumont slept in a room over that of Dr. Holland. Has :been in that room frequently. late as well as early. Dumont generally invited him to go there. Another female servant of the house was sometimes preset, but has been alone with Dumont in the room very frequently. On some occasions, when thus alone with her, the door was locked and bolted. The SOLICITOR GENERAL here interfered. He said, that she object of this course of examination must be evident to their 4.ord:hipo, and 'cutely no argument was necessary to chew that it Iraq illegttimitate. Mr. DEN man ....My Lords, we will not pursue it. The LORD CHA'NCELLOR....You have pushed it as far as you possibly could.—(A laugh.) Ramllects the masked ball given at Naples. Part of the ser omits were drawled in character; Sicard, Bergarni. and Hiero 'limos, after the Turkish fashion. Saw Sagami. in the latter sort of the evening, in his plain clothes. He was walking about lithe moms. and at times assisting in handing about refreshments. Was at Naples all the time the Princess was there. Bergatni imploded himself towards the Princess in the same way as the rest of the servantr—as they all did. Lord ERSKINE .... Where did you sleep in the Queen's .house at Naples?...ln the room next to the Honourable Keppel Criven's.' After a few words from Lord Holland, the Lord Chancellor. ithd' Lord Liverpool, Aldjocei was called in, and examined by Mr. BROUGHAM. Do you recollect, at the Ruccanelli, having seen William Car rington, the servant of Sir William Gel ?...QuEsTo Now iltr.ollDo !—(l,aughter above and below the Bar.) Do you recollect having seen Sir Wm. Gell's English servant near Rome anywhere?..... QUEST° NON MI RICORDO!" (In a low sigh—General laughter in the House.) Do you remember having seen Sir William Gell's servant any when ?...I have seen lum, I think, at Rome, but not at Ruccanelli. Did you ever tell him that Baron Ompteda had employed any one to get the keys of the Princess at Como, in order to get others made?...QuEsTo NON. Did you ever tell him that if the Princess had not ordered her servants to take no _notice of the conduct ofOmpteda, you your wit would have killed him hke a n0g!...1 never seta any such thing. These things are quite new to me. Did you ever hold any conversation with Sir William Gcll's servant respecting the conduct of Onapteda ?...No, I never spoke sohim about it. William Carrington called in, and his examination resumed by Dr. LUSHINGTON. What did Al ajocei say to you respecting Ompteda ?...He told me that Baron Ompteda, while on a visit to the Princess at Wales, had employed the postillion and chambermaid to procure the keys of her Royal kligliness's room. Did Majocci tell you that Ompteda employed persons to get the • keys ?...Yes to procure the keys of the Princess's room at Come; to get false ones made. Did he tell you that a person in the Princess's family had been se employed and discharged m cunsequence 9... He did. Did 314joccimay, that if Ortipteda had applied (to him, he • would have killed him like a dog s —Yes, he did. Did he say Ompteda had made the servants suspected ?...He did. Did he frequently mention the name of Ompteda ?...He did. Cross examined by the Attorney General. I had this conversation with Majocci in the coach yard of the villa Ruccanelli. No other pers.n was present. Examination by the Peers. Marquis of BUCKINGHAM. Majocci said, that the servants of the Princess were determined, if they met Otnpteda. they would (give hint a good thrashinp,, and kill him, if they could; but that Lieutenant Hewitson had forbid them to hurt him. 'this was all that Majocci said about ktlling Ompteda. John Jacob Sicard, examined.—He entered the service of the Quech Vi years next February. 11'as born at Anspach. Ile had been ten years before with tlio Marquis of Stafford. lie went into the Queen's service by his present Majesty's orders as cook, lie left lingland with the Princess in August, ISIS—. Recollects her Majesty to have occasion to hire a courier at Milan; and in consequence of Sir W. Gell's directions hired Bergurni. Recollects the house in which he was the first night that they were in Naples. On the 2tl day, arrangements were made respecting the servants' rooms. He (Steen!) appointed the -mom into whith Bergman was removed on the second day. He and the Princess had no communication as to that change. He has observed her Majesty's manners with her screams. It was uncommonly kind even to a Intik, end extended to all. He had occasion to walk with the Princess uaany a time, when she was most condmoending. She has taken his arm when she came to a rising ground, and has put her ann on his, saying—" You understand me," " you agree with me." Recollects a masked ball at Naples. He on that occasion appeared in a dress. He and Hieronymus went as Turks. Her Royal Highness wore a Turkish dress. He is on a pension as long as her Royal High ness chooses to give it. He quitted her service within three or four months. He has 3 or viol. a year depending on her plea sure. lie left her Majesty at Naples, and (lid not again join her till he wentout to tell her of the late King's death. The cross-examination of Mr. Sicatd and his examination by the Lords eontiouul till four o'clock. Nothing material was elicited in his cross examination. Ile was asked by Lord Elkn borough a variety of questions as to Bergatni's manners. Bergami was less chatty than other Italians. Did he seem too much of gentleman for his situation of • courier ?...1 did not °turn c as to that patticular. he did nut refuse to do what he was told. (A laugh.) Sagami 'gals of .snanncrs supertot to the lowa order of saws. P 4. Sicatd explainiAl that the piaation of which Le had awkca, n as hi , . salary continual to The litmus atlioutacd to 314rAtay. • THE NATIONAL REGISTER LIEUT. 110WAVAIT AND B.IIIOW OMPTBDA. (From the Traveller.) We have authority to slate, that toe letters published in the Courier of the 23d, and repeated in the paper of the 25th, on the subject of the affair between the Baron d'Outpteda and Lieut. Hownatn, contain a very imper fect account of the transaction. Some of those levers are not even correctly translated. Count Satirin himself, the Baron Cavaleiti, who acted as Lieutenant Howitant's second, and even the Count Gmtenhoven, the friend of the Baron d'Ompteda, will be able to speak to facts of great importance—of a character totally different from that which is now attempted to be axed to the conduct of the parties; and those statements will be supported by additional documents, not now in England, of the most convincing kind. In the mean time our readers will see, in the Baron trOmpteda's letter, dated the 6th of December, 1816, that he is obliged to quit the country of Milan, while no such► order was issued against Lieutenant Hammitt ; and this is not from any apprehension of a hostile meet ing, because that was already appointed in Switzerland. How does this agree with the supposition that the go vernment regarded the Baron as a calumniated indivi dual, and his aggressor as a wanton disturber of the peaces If the charge preferred by Lieut. Hownaus was false, and he followed up that false charge with an unwar rantable challenge, he should have been ordered to retire from the country, and justice should have been done to the character of his adversary, by a clear and instanta neous declaration in his favour. The following statement will, perhaps, account for the passiveness of the government on the occasion, in Maurice Crede's letter to the Chevalier Tamazea. This statement was made at Como before the Cheva lier 'famines, who had been Prefect of that place, and now holds the same situation in another town, on the ad of November. 18 Iti, the day alter the challenge was sent. It is only necessary to add, that Maurice Crede was brought to Milan by Rastelii, and is now actually in this country among the witnesses collected in support of the Bill of Pains and Penalties.—(See printed Evidence.) He was not, however, summoned to give evidence. Whether he could have said any thing unfavourable to her Majesty, we know not ; but it is wholly certain that he :night, on cross-examination, have disclosed some very disagreeable facts respecting the conduct t.. the Baron d'Onipteda. After such a statement of particulars, made, circulated, and nut contradicted, we shall not wonder if Lieutenant Hownam felt doubtful how far a man of honour should used the party charged in the field; more particularly a. the Count de Coutenhoven, who had previously acted as the friend nf Ompteda, formally announced to the Lieutenant that he, fur the future, should decline to act in that character. Letter of Maurice Crede, charging the Baron d'Omptcda . with attempting to procure false key. " Como, Nov. 3, 1816. " M. Le Chevalier,—'Tis to you that I address myself, Sir, to obtain the greatest of favours, for which I shall be eternally grateful to you. Yesterday I was dismissed from the service of her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, for having paid toy addresses to the chambermaid Annette; this event, that puts tne in the greatest con sternation has awakened in my breast a remorse that has agitat ed me a lung time, and which I feel the neces sity of making you acquainted with, in order that you will be good enough to interest yourself for mite, and cause me to re-enter into the service of her Royal High. mess. " I ought, then, to acknowledge that I merit my dis grace, since I ;lave allowed myself to be seduced by a certain Baron d'Ompteda to beiray the best of mistresses and the most generous of Princesses. " It is a year, or about a mouth before the departure of th. Princess, that this Baron was trying all possible means. through a certain Ambraise Cesati, who used to come to Como, to discover the situation where my mis tress slept, and tried to procure false keys. I persisted some time in toy refusal ; but at last the threats of the Baron, who told me I should be hung if I did :out listen to him—the money that was presented to me, from tune to time, finished by corrupting me - ; mid I have been weak enough to accept this commission, although per suaded that there was no foundation for the itdamotis suspicions of the Baron. "I ought nevertheless to say,.with the same sincerity, that the fault in my conduct with regard to this only consisted in answering the questions of Ompteda those conferences I had with I * , and what 1 was in terrogated as to the situation of the apatitnents of the palace, as also to the persons who fiequetited the Prin cess. " This, Sir, is my confession ; by means of which toy heart is relieved from a weight that oppressed it. 1 ad dress myself to a man estimable by his virtues, and who can feel commiseration for human weaknesses , _ and I supplicate him to obtain my pardon from the Princess, and not to abandon me in this sad moment. " Have pity, Sir, for an nolOrtutiale, who, knowing his fault, will seek to repair it by repentance, hoping thus to return again, through your meals,, to the path of honour. " I put all my confidence in you, Mons. le Chevalier. " I am your very humble servant, (Signed) Mau RICE CRUM " To the Chcval. Tannizea." Censiderable damage was done on Monday and Tuesday in tbe pounds of Brandenburgh House, by a mob of pickpockets awl others, who forced the gates in defiance of the constables, tore up the shrubs, and injured several willows and other trees. In future means we hope will be used to prevent s4ab infamous proceedings, and to bring Ruh de predators to punishment. _ FRENCH PAPERS. PARIS, Oct. S.—The Duchess of Berri and her infant, in the words of the latest bulletin, " leave nothing to be desired." The child enjoys excellent health, and the Princess is rapidly improving._. Congratulations pour into the King, from ever, part of France, on the birth of the young Bourbon. The Cortes of Spain have received addresses front a number of the municipal bodies throughout the kingdom, congratulating them upon the suppression of the seditious movements which threatened the capital on the 7th of last month. It is said that the Political Chief of Murcia has arrested the Superior of a Dominican convent in that city, upon whom were found some proclamations ready printed, exciting the people to a counter-revolution, and apprising them that foreign troops had arrived to rescue the King from his present thraldom. REVOLUTION AT LISBON. Troyteam frois the Perfectas: C Geatte. " Lisbon, Sept. 15. " Loug live King John VIA Live the Royal House of Bragansa I Live our Holy Religion I Live the Cores,who are to make our new Constitution I " Such were the cries which were this day heard in our city, amid the transports of the most lively enthu siasm. These exultations hive calmed the apprehen sions of some timid Portuguese, and the unanimous voice of the nation has extinguished only the spark of civil war. At length we have obtained a just liberty on this day, doubly Memorable, because it is the day of our restoration, and because our regeneration renders tu worthy of the friendship of the European nations, and of our former immortal glory. Ttie fidelity of the Portuguese remaining pure and inviolable towards out august Monarch, his family will unite more closely the bonds which connect the King with the people, who, through the Instrumentality of their Cortes, are about to apply an efficacious remedy for their calamities, and to show themselves worthy of their Monarch. This important event has been carried into effect with perfect order and profound tranquillity. " Towards 5 o'clock in the afternoon, the regiments of the line in garrison, having their respective officeu at their head, rushed out of the barracks, making the air resound with the sacred rivets above mentioned, and formed in the square De Rocio, where they were quickly joined by all the other arms, comprehending artillery, infantry, militia, mariners, &sc. and by a vast multitude of the people of every class. The Matshal de Camp Rezende headed the troops. A message was sent to the most honourable Jule de Pavo (Proctor of the People), to acquaint him that the people required his presence.— He instantly set out in his close carriage, with his secre tary, and drew up the blinds to show himself to the people, who greeted hint with the loudest demonstra tions of homage, by rending the air with their accla mations until his entry into the Governor's Palace. " The people then shouted with one accord, and demanded the installation of the new Provisional Go. vernment, composed of upright, intelligent, and patriotic Men, and after having approved or disapproved of those who were successively proposed to them by Joie de Paco, finally fixed upon the most excellent and most illustrious Principal Freyre, Count St. Payo, Count de Rezende, Count de Panaziel, Lieutenant-Gen. Azedo, and Hermano Rramicamp, the younger. Messengers were instantly despatched in search of the four members chosen, who were in the city, and expresses for Princi pal Freyre and Gen. Azedo, who were then at a short distance from Lisbon. • " Orders were next sent in haste to various military points. The most important were transmitted to the governors of the towers of Bales and Barrie, charging them not to suffer any ship to pas. without an express order of the new Regency, and to fire a royal salute.-- The new Government also ordered Count Barhacina not to make any movement, and to remain with his troops in the position which he occupied until further directly's. Deputies were likewise sent at the some time to the Government of Oporto, and to the army of the North, to apprize them of the revolution which had just been effected in the Government, and to Mille them to act in concert with the new Regency, for the general good of the nation. All this was dune with so omen mittlionity and celerity, that it appeared to have been the result of mature deliberation. In the delirium occasioned by a sudden emancipation from long tyres :ion, which among other nations has produced civil commotion', bloodshed, and death, the Portuguese people. have nut been guilty of any taunt, insult, or outrage upon a single Live his Majesty. Religion, the Cones, the Military, the Nation !' were the only words which have immortalized this memor able scene. " At night the whole city was illuminated as hy magic ; the streets were crowded with people ; the cut!. semis 1111 l tually cougratulated each other, saying, We resume our national dignity; our voices will now resell even to the throne; our representatives will prove them selves an honour to the age: they wil! devise the inew sures of accomplishing the consolidation of our new ixditical existence, and for the equal administratiou of Justice' " The Journal de Paris contains the following par ticulars relative to the birth of tho son of the Duchess of Berfi:— " PARIS, Seri. 19. " Our will arrive every where too late to announce the birth of treT r uke of Bordeaux. The inhabitants of l'arts were awakened by the discharge of cannon all their hearts twat as they *manual, and all leaped_ with joy when they nufflubised the 13th shot. 1 his news, which burst trail every hew. Ow?? tielY mouth, already traverses the neighbouring departments. Stgmu' • rapid as air, carry it to remote quarters, and in a test muni o • , ts the sound of the cannon will have made it echo in the niM iefluebieteet haipletst tU Ilona/aim a Cry of *' rive k