The National Register. — London, England, 1820-10-01 00:00:00

ASSERTIONS 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 ca'c 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 spared, 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 uttuek, which is the following CONTRAST Between the Attorney Generot's assertions in his opening Speech and the proof's he adduced in support if Mani ASSERTIONS. PROOVS. On the first night of her errs. Do you know what room was val, November theetii,Bergami allotted for Bergami upon the slept in that part of the house first night of his arrival at appropriated to the domestics ; Naples but on the .following morning, I DO NOT KNOW. November the 9th, the servants of the establishment learned with some sutprise. becattse no reason appeared to them at t'be time for the CHANGE. that Bzwami was so longer to sleep in that pert of the house where he MAD slept on the night pees One . of her maid servants,who I found her in her bed room. particularly attended to her bed Were you in the hod room To em. /tapperreg to be present at yourself ? the time of her return from the 1 seue not there, but she sent Opera, for me. She was observed to go from Her Royal Highness crossed her room towards that which the passage. and went into the was Designed to Bergami, and cabinet. to whlrh he had previously himself retired. She knew that at that time Bergorni was in his bed room Do you know where Bergami was at this time? I no NOT KNOW. _ These apartments of her Royal After her Royal igliness had Highnese were at a distance, gone into the cabinet, what did and removed from those which she then do? wale assigned to any part of Ido not know what she did, her saiu. at'r SUE RETURNED IMME DIATELY into the bed room where I was. Where did William Austin sleep that night? Ina small cabinet., where be remained all the tine we were at Naples. Was that cabinet sajoining to the bed room of the Princess? t WAS wear; thcre was a Where did Mr. Hieronymus sleep? ln a room which had &door in a corridor, which wasbefore en: tering the room of her Royal Highness ; the two doors were in the same passage. Upon the following morning What time the next moming it was perceived that her Royal did you see her Royal High- Highness Moot come from her ness ? own room st the sweat hoar. I do not remember precisely. As nearly as you can I=l - Near eleven o'clock, or about eleven o'clock. Was that tats, or about her usual time ? IT WAS NEARLY HER USUAL TIME. HerßoyalHighness remained No proof of this assertion was in these apartments with this even attempted. man, Bergami, until a late hour the frittg morning. Her recent arrival at Naples 'dem. had naturally induced persons to pay that respect to her Royal Highness which her rank de manded; and various persons, upon the 10th of November, called**, her Royal Highness's house, for the purpose in paying her those respects; but, my Lords, her Royal Highness was not • accessible till a late hour upon that morning. •6 My Lords," said the Attorney General, " I say that here, upon these facts, I think nu one can well doubt or hesitate. Upon tue conclusion to which they would arrive upon the case. When I come to narrate to your Lordships the various circumstances which subsequently occurred, your Lordships will have nu doubt, I think, upon your minds, that this was the commencement of that must scandalous, most degrading, and most licenuous inter cour.e, which your Lordsoips will find continued, and increased, fruit the period to which I am now directing your Lonlships' attention." she represented to some of Nil. those about her that Bergaini was not married, that this was a c old he had had by sonic per. a in, and that she was on that account anxious to rec.:ive this child. My Letds, l say this cin:untstanee one should have thought to a virtuous and to a delicate mind, etc. afy Lords,upon that occasion Do you remember whether she visited a place called Varese : you dined at any inn on the she stopped at the int, at Vu ese, rood where ant dined; and it will be I think they stopped at an inn proved to you that upon that at Varne,but I ani not lAA reedy occasion the retired with.ller. sure. ganit to a bed room, and was shut up in that bed room with Lint a considerable time—this, illy Lords, in the day time, at a time when uo apparent riason required the attendance of ller gaana, who was still the courier; but such the tact was, that ►he did retire with print, and was u:rli him in the bed radii fur a considerable period. They next went to the Bow- What apartment was prepared mean 18161. My Lords, the had for her Royal Highness, and in visited that place in her way which she slept on the first from Germany to Italy; and occubion on which she visited upon that OCC44ICD, as was We. the berorrican lrles ? THE NATIONAL REGISTEII.I turd, a large apartment, the The most elegant apartment bea I suppose which the inn that could he wand. afforded. was assigned to her W hen her Royal Highness Royal Highness for her bed visited the Boromaran Isles upon ! recut. The persons at the inn the second occasion to sleep, naturally expected that the same what apartment bad been pre apartment would be occupied by pared tot her ? her Royal Highness on this I do not remember what occasion ; but, my Lords, that apartment had been prepared room hat. no communication for the Princess. with any other room in which Do you remember in what a peron could sleep ; and it apartment the Princess slept? is remarkable that on this Y second visit, when she was Did you, upon the second I accompanied by the courier occasion. see the apartment in Bergatni. she alters the or- which the Princess slept the first rangenient of the room; she time? declines to occupy that which Ye-i• she had occupied upon her first In what apartment did the visit, and she selects another Princess sleep the second time ? and inf•rior apartuient, but In an apartment remote froth which other and inferior apart- the former apartment. meet immediately coniniuni- Do you know where Bergami cated with the room which was slept? assigned as the sleeping room of Near the apartment of her Berganu. Royal Ifighness. Was the apartment in which her Royal Iforness slept, at the Boromean Isles, prepared for her before her arrival or after • 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 communication between diet apartment and the room in which Bergami slept? I do not recollect. It was observed that Berganti 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 jocci or Dc Mont. of requiring the assistance of any of her female servants, for the purpose of retiring to her bed, that after they had 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, widiait calling either (for she had at that time two titles de chantbre) to undress her. She became very regard• less of her person, fitc. My Lords, I should state to your Lordships. that when she first visited Catania, as waanatu • reel. the nobility of that country A blank, my Lords. paid her those attentions which ' were demanded 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.,l think, when the evidence Highness stop and sleep at comes before your Lonlships, L ugano ? you will be satisfied of that Yes upon our return. which the facts of the cue 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 shout the position of the several bed-rooms. But as this Lugano story has made a considerable sensation, let us examine in detail how it stands. Then (Sept. 6) the Attorney. Genera stated to the house, that certain persons resident at Lu gano, who were intended to be produced as witnesses, had set out in order to give their evi dence; that they had advanced as tar 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 scluence 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 Na. procced,had returned to Lugano; that, this deposition being re. ceived in this country. persons were immediately despatched, in the hope of overtaking them before they had reached their home, but that they had reached their homes before they could be overtaken; that on Monday last (Sept. sl) letters had been received from Lucerne. near to the residence of these witue.Nies, im which it was stated that they had altered their determination, Nit. and were shout, on the fallowing day, the 29th of August, to set out for England, for the wpose of giving evidence; that, as Nil. their arrival might theretine be expected in a very few days, he begged to ask of tiwir Lords hips an adjourninent, to pen»it that evidence, which he conceived to be important, to be laid before the House. ("Such en application was never made in a court of aw, either in support of a criminal prosecution or on any other occasion.— i It is not unusual to request the postponement of a trial before its conimennement, to the absence of a material witness, but such request is constantly founded on affidavits, stating solid remili for delay, and vouching on oath the conscience of the deponent to the materiality of the witness. We believe, teo, 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 inquiting into the truth ofthe statemoat : and, at all events, we arc sure that the advrese counsel would not in ordinary cases, have been taken by surprise by rceeivingthe 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 Attorney-General was as much deluded in making it, as with repect to the other facts above enumerated. The application was withdrawn on the day after it was made, en the alleged ground that letters from Milan had arrived, conveying intelligence that the witnesses could not arrive so soon is was expected. But no man of common sense would believe that any one important witness ww, likely to have come at all. Look at the dates; look at the time of preparation, the means employed, the opportuni ties possessed. Tile riot at Dover w - so convenient a circum stance, that one is tempted to suspect some persons concerned in the prosecution of having excited it. This " tumult" made Sacelii change his name a full twelvemonth before it occurred, and it compels the men of Lugano to change their route, oiler 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 I'aolos and Guiseppes) by fear of their own government; sad this, too, when there was time more than sufficient to travel twice from Lugano to London, and back again No man who looks at the character of the evidence produced, will believe that any thing material has been withheld. But, in the mom time, the promoters of the prosecution have the credit of being pre. vented by accident alone, from establishing un t facts by additional testimony. Let the thinking pert of the community sae how far they are entitled to this credit from the Attorney. General's opening speech, by comparing ins assertions in ether respects with his proofs. FROM TUSB DAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. BANKRUPTS. W. Forster. Strand, silversmith. Solicitor, Mr. Popkin, Dean Street, Soho. Bucklersbury, carpet manufacturer. Sols. Messrs: Walker and Co., Old Jewry. G. and J. Tunnieliff, Stone, Staffordshire, grocers. Sol. Mr. Wheeler, Castle Street, Holborn. J. Anderson, London, mariner. Sol. Mr. Collins, Great Knight Rider Street, Doctors' Commons. It. Castley, Friday Street, Cheapside, warehouseman. Sol. Mr. Wilde, College Hill. J. and S. Waldie, Dalston, Cumberland, manufacturers. lid. Mr. Clennell, Staples Inn. DIVIDENDS. Oct. 28, J. Perkins. Tiverton, Devon. timber merchant—Vl, J. Hirst, Tower Street, cotton broker -2S, J. Dewar, Stamford, upholsterer-17, I'. Leigh, Winekun, Cheshire, farmer —19, S. Woods, Harantine, Southampton. grocer -48, J. S. Voysey, Hatcliff Highway, grocer.-25. J. Coates, Worcester, woollen draper—ls, J. Gandy, Liverpool, metchant-23, D. Crickett, Haughana, Kent, timber merchant. CERTIFICATES to be granted Oct. 17. P. Boltlien, Norton Falgate, hosier—C. Dunkin, Hoeselydown, lighterman—J. Seaulefield, S.uldleworth, Yorkshire, woollen cord manufaeturer—H. and M. Daniels, Bury Street, St. Mary Axe, merchants—E. Jones, Great Sutton Street, Clerkenwell, coal mtercliant—W. 11. Browne, Bristol, broker—F. Downing, Huddersfield, grocer. 711 E KI NG. COWES, SCIT. 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. AII o'clock were seen in the harbour and roadstead the Royal squadron and the different vessels of the yacht' club, inter mixed with about 30 row boats, 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 Gwen. 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 immediately a salute of 21 guns was given from each of the frigates, and from the mac, and many of the smaller vessels. As the barge proceeded towards the shore, the boats followed in•the train. His Majesty, between Sir Charles and Sir E. Paget, tbllowed by a numerous suite, after landing, walked slowly to the beautiful marine villa, of which he has recently become the purchaser. His Majesty, af►er 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. FAMILY OF THE LATE Mn. RAE.—Applieation having been made to Mrs. Siddons, fur her profes sional aid at the benefit for the widow and family of the late lamented Mr. Rae, she has returned the following answer, which is as creditable to her regard ler the profession, as it does honour to the feelings of the heart : star—t should with the greatest pleasure embrace those means which you propose, to pay my tribute of respect to the memory of poor Mr. Rae, Roil to evince my sympathy for the unhappy family who have suffered so great and irre parable a Ins► j but, upwards or sixty years old, it is not t he supposed that I can be exempted from the natural intir• tunicsattendant on such an advanced age, and be assured. Sir, that it is my iin.hrlity, and not my inclination, which le:ids 111 C to decline what it would give me the greatest pleasure to accede to. With the sincerest wishes for the success of your benevolent efforts on this melancholy event— " 1 have me honour to be, Sir, " Your most obedient servant, " Sandbeck Park, Sept. 2S. " S. till/DONS. . _ Within the lust fortnight the reservoir, near Kendal, has b een com pl ete ly Jet off; to repair 5011 W breakage that took place a few months ago; and 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, ;tune of the trout weighing three pounds and a half.' 314