The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-09-05 00:00:00

D e you know whets Bergsma slept ?-411e slept on the right hand exactly opposite to my room. D e you know vihere the Princess slept?—She also a lert by the site where Rerganti slept. Ile you remember at any time at the Villa Grande, a f ter the household were retired to bed, seeing Bergausi ? _1 law him one night, aßet midnight, whilst it was in „affably hot, I was at the window of my room ; as I beard a noise by the side of the roons of Bergami I lis tened, I saw Bergami come oat of his relies aid go to the door which led to the room of the Priitetis, and I saw him come out no more. How long slid you remain at the door after yOu went in?—About an hour. Did you see Bergami on any other night ?—Two days a l ter I saw the same thing. At what time was it that you saw Ilergami the second t i me ?—.thent the same hour as the first. How long was he at his window when be lase Ber gami the second time ?—About a quarter of an hour. Whilst he was at the Villa Grande did he see any b e ets saw two. Of whom were the busts ?—I was told that one was h er Royal Highness and the other of Bergami, one was like her Royal Highness, the other like liergami. wh e re did you see them ?—1 saw them in the room of Berzauii at the Villa Oramle. In what month was this t—ln the month of Mr. Did her Itovai Highness go to the Senegallii from Rome?—She Did woo go with her ?—1 did. Was this in the hot season of the year ?—lt was, it was very hot. Hare you ever had occasion at night to open the carriage door in which Bergsmi and the Princess travelled ?—Yes. Did you upon any occasion of that kind remark any thing respecting the positions of the Princess and dergami ?—Yes ; I once, on opening the carriage door, observed them both asleep, and—(The witness here pro ceeded to describe the positions of the Princess and Bergami, but we really cannot pollute our columns by inserting the witness's account. It was of the most indecent description that can possibly be imagined). Was any one else in the carriage at that time except Be gami and the Princess ?—No. Were they asleep at the time ?---Yes. I id you ever observe any thing else ?—I saw her Roial Highness once kiss Bergami's neck. MI they afterwards go to Pesaro ?---They did. Durinz the time they were at Pt s ,ro, did Bergami go away at any time ?----Yes, he went to Bologna and His absent aimat two days. On his return did her Royal Highness go to meet him ?—Yes ; her Royal Highness met hint near the toll-gate. When they met did you 'observe what was done ?-- They left their respectirecarr!ages, embraced and kissed each other. Did they then return to Pesaro ?—Yes. In the same carriage ?—The same carriage. Did Bergami nee to dine with the Princess at Pcsaro ?---I don't knew ; I was seldom present. Do you know where Bergami's mother and brother dined :—When I first entered the Princess's service they dined by themselves. Did any alteration take place afterwards?—l do not know. When you were at Villa 4 l'Este did any person of dis tinction visit her Royal Highness ?—Onre I saw lieneral Pino. Did yogi see any other person ?—I don't remember to hare seen any other person of distinction. Was there a person of the name of Verona in brr ser vice ?-les. What was he?—•A tneuenger. Do you know what he had been before he entered her serv;ce?--I never knew. Did you never Cearliergatui converse with the Prin ces% about him 2-1 don't remember. Cross-examined by Mr. TWA:I:HAIL—You don't un derstand English 1 take it for granted ?—Not at all. How keg have you been in this country I.—About 14 mouths. Where have you lived here:--Partly in London and partly in the country. Did von never go by the name of Saccbini P—At Mi lan they led me Saechini. Were you never ealliql —Yes. Whom did von live with at Stevenage?—how long did you live there.—l never lived there. Where then did you live I—At Aston, four miles from Stevenage. Whom did you live with there ?—With the Rev. Philip Godfrey. Have you seen him in town lately?—.Once. Af er von left the Princess, where did you first go to llve? Milan. Did you go into any other service ?---No. How long have you brert rut of place ?-1 have always been out of place since. Never in any other 'mice since ?---No. When were you first examined at Jlifan 2—ln Nov. MS. Was :hat the first time you told this story ?--No, I had spoken of it at other times. When were you first examined at all? —ln November 1818. Whom had you told it to before that?--To different people. Name one of them ?---11 don't remember the name of one of them. Win" asked you to go to Milan ?—.t messenger from Vimacarti. Whom did yen see with Vimaearti ?.—No one. Did he then examine yen ?--No; not then. WEen did he examine you ?---About a fortnight afterwards. Whoni did yon see th.n P—Vintacarti, Col. Browne, Mr. Cook, and Mr. Powell. Did tlwy take down what you said in writing ?-- Yes. flow mach have you received since you were courier? —Sixty or weeny Napoleons. How much did you receive of that sons during the time you was in her Royal Highness's service?—Noa ari rice rdo. How lung did you continue u courier?—About nine months. Who hired you for her !loyal Highness?-_I entered into her Royal Hichness's aPrviee, through the good offices of the banker Chiviaoi, Baron —, and - Ber. gang!. Have von been always in good eircu-nstances ?-1 have always been, thank tiod, in easy circumstances. Went you as well dressed u you are low ?—I have al ways hue as well dressed. la the service of what Spanish family did you come over ?-- The ATToRXIIT-011NIRAL objected. sr. B. OUGIIIIIN.---Then to fire else tint, of the Court, it is thse, Or " is it not that you tame over id the service of a Spanish family ?---It is not true. Did you ever say that her Royal Higher* owed you money ?—I said I had a law suit agates' her Royal Highness. Did you then mean to say that you were one of the witnesses against the Queen ?---No. Was this then a double entendre of years ?—1 didn't meant that. The ATTORNST-GINIMAL again objected to the course of cross-examination by Mr. Brougham. Mr. Bacwommit contendetl, he had a right to ask its to expectation, hope, and belief of expectancy in cross examining a witness. The Learned lientleman spoke at mime length in defence of the line he was pursuing. The Loan Cusmcat.t.oa.—The witness has answered the question, and it appears to my, he cannot now be asked this. Mr. BROUGHAM said a few words, when ;the question was allowed to be put. Did you tell this to any one else than M. Marietta, as a domble eateadre ?---Yes, as a doable extent/re. flow long ago was that ?—About two the. Did you not then know that they already knew who you were ?---\o. Question repeated. Who ?-1 was as a witness. Tour name in the first place,! cute scat minue?--Ifes; because 1 had told it to some one before. But not to any of Marietta's family ?---1 bad laid my real name to one of the brothers of Marietta seven or eight months from now. PRICE OF 6TOt•liS Till Sank Stock 11 per Cent. Red. RN S per Ct. Cons. 811 34 per Cent. 4 per Cents. NW b pr Ct. Navy 103 103} Lung Ann. IS 1-lii limp. 3 per Cent. Ann. DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Indio taloa Dittoßonds Yls. Ws. Old Annuities Es. Bills *I. Ss. 4s. p.. Ditto Cosi. (Minium ('on. for ditto 08 Lott. Tickets 111011 WATER AT LONDON RRIDOR TO•11011110W Morning. 10 rain. after I.—Evening, 19 •In. after I. 00t ktatcOman. " TIE BRITISH STATESMAN" IS INCO RRRRRRR D RITB " THIS IIITATEIIIIAX." L 0 ND 0 N : TUISDAT EVEMINC, gRITIMBER 5, IS21). We hair this morning received Paris papers of Friday and Saturday last. From these we find that the information we yesterday obtained respecting the sudden fall in the French Funds was perfectly correct, but we cannot ascertain the cause of this remarkable depression. According to the opinion of some, it bad been owing to the alarm excited by certain mo►ements in consequence of the late conspiracy, which indicated a more serious aspect of affairs than had been pre sented before, while by others it is ascribed to the speculation of the jobbers. (h► the Ist instant, it appears the price of the Five per Cents. were at one time so low as the price we stated, 7rif. 110 r.; but on Saturday the 2d (according to private accounts). a return of confidence took place, and the price roar to 77j. 21/r. The only article of intelligence that appears in the Paris Papers to countenance the unfavourable impres sions that prevailed is the report that M. the Lieut.. General LAURIS rost, was about to set out fur Britain'''. charged with an extraordinary mission. From thit.it was inferred, that the spiritof insurrection which had manifested itself at Brest, was spreading in that quarter ; but the Ouvernment Journals assert, that all has been pacified there. By a private letter frum Madrid, we are informed that the Minister of War, the Marquis de las AMA.. RILLAS, had obtained his discharge. The Boyd Decree, which grants it, announces that his M tntsTl has acceded to it only in consequence of the reiterated requests of this lieneral Officer ; but the friends ot the Constitution, nho found in him but a feeble attachment to the new system, rejoice at Ms retreat. His successor is) not yet known. The Etxt; has already sanctioned many decrees of the Cortes. Every department has much to do ; but that of finance is indeed the corner stone of the edifice. the whole depends upon it. Nothing in the ancient system of finance can stand ; it is necessary to create a new one, and to create .it promptly. Without the union of the Sovereign and the functionaries of the people, they declare it will he impossible for them to emerge front the chaos in which they are plunged. From Naples we learn, that on the 13th ult. tlatri three suns of the Duke of CALABRIA were *hewn to the publie, and received with the greate.;t applause. A note from the Minister of War announces, that many battalions of infentry and some other troopsare already embarked for Sicily, and will be followed soon by fresh detachments. From Rome, it appears that the Prince CIMIT/Lf, Envoy Extraordinary from the Court of Naples to England, had arrived, and after resting there a short time, proceeded on his route to London. On the 15th nit. an English vessel had arrived at Livourne from Malta, with Ventral Ncotxv, who would disembark as soon as he had completed the usual quarantine. The evidence given yesterday in the House of Lords, against the Quaan, " was," say her II calm 's perse cutors," in some instances, stronger in its natnre, than any thing furnish/41 even by the evidence previously given." Yes, the odour of it au strong, even to nausea ; and so was the whole of its character. It was too gross to obtain a nooment's credit ; and for tunately for it, its ifortarre is such as to protect it front' the exposure it so well deserves. But, like the evi dence that has born previously given, it attempts a THE STAtESitt. great dial too much, and effects a great deal to, little. Amid Oleg, from a Modest, the evidence to be trues allowing, for the sake bf argument, that the familiarities of the Quarts had been is gross, as open, and is frequent is tie have been represented, and more gross or unguarded condUct cannot be con ceived bt the meet depraved and vulgar minds, how happen, it that with all those oppOrtunitiei for ob servation that are alleged to have been afforded, with all that natural curiosity which the minds of females as well as males, must haie had excited to parstieinquiry, with all Mile additional, Mercenary incentives which must have urged them to discover the ultinixte fact, how happens it they fail in evidence in the " consum mation most devoutly wished i" Let all the circum stances of the case as stated, be but duly Weighed, with the known understanding and subsequent conduct of the Qucast taken into the account, and then let any nuns or any woman of sense refer the question to their experience of mankind, and to the nattier of things, and say, whether the testimony addtieed by the witnesses brought forward, is consistent with their usual experience, or their conscientious belief ? It is said that the evidence for the Bill of Pains and Prue Meals to close to-morrow. Ministers give out that a large party, including some of their principal wit nesses, took fright at Beauvais, and fled on herring a the reception given to those who landed at Doter, and that they have no hopes of being able to produce any of them. It was understood that if the Queen's Counsel insisted on crow-: camining the witnesses ft r the Bill a second time, the Counsel for the t'rowu should not he obliged to stun up the eti.lence till after such cross-examination lint ay have heard that it is intended (perhaps on an understanding that there shall be no future miss-examination) to suns up the evidence for the Bill at present, and that an adjourn ment to November next will then immediately be pro posed, in order to allow time to her Majesty to bring forward her witnesses. It is rumoured him ever, that the Queen's Counsel are satisfied that they can with ease diserove the statements of the witnesses for the prosecution, and dirt redit their evidence ■nd that they mean to demand that there should be no inter ruption in the pro ceilings. Marocut.--As evidence of the character Majocci obtained fur humert . o and returity, while in the service of 11r. Hyatt, at Gloucester, the authority of The Jourstal has been exultingly referred to by the Ministerial prints of London. Without disputing that testimony, we could only beg lease to add the evidence respecting the ci ~duet of Majocci, at Mon rester, as furnished 'ey The H,irlu/ Me reoro. "We have, ourselves," say the Editors, " perused a letter from a gentleman at Gloucester who had seen him, and who states that he was constantly in the habit of speaking in the highest terms of his late Royal Mistress, and that, if she returned to this country before he left it, he intended to wait upon her, not doubting in the least that she would assist him. Taking it for granted, as we are required, that " Majocci's cha racter fur honesty and veracity was unimpeachable at thoactiter." we know bun to receive the declarations he expressed while there but what are we to think of the evidence he has given here ? 1 here is a very general expectation that the Divorce Clause will at all events be given up and it is under stood a majority of the Brach of Bishops have de clared, that under all the circumstances of the case, they cannot possibly reconcile this part of the measure with the principles of the Christian Keligiou. In tin- list of the division on the Earl of Ilarrowby's motion, given in our paper of yesterday, Lord Car rington, who voted against it, is, by mistake, stated to have voted for it. Lor.l Hutchinson voted in the majority with the Earl of Li eerpool. Iter Alajesty dispatched a courier yesterday morn ingto _ _ We understand that it is the Queen's narlicular wish that her defence should he proceeded with ion ! niediately after Ministers have closed their ease. Letters from tienua of the 21.1 August, mention the arrival of the King of Sardinia in that city, accom panied by his daughter. whose hand hr is about to bestow on the son of the ex-King of Etruria. This is that Prince ut Lures, selected in the noted French project as the head of the new monarchy in South America. Oesioa is :tiara to be perfectly tranquil. The wish of the people fur a free constitut• ,prompted by the example of Naples, was, however, ntanitested by placards posted up by night. They appeared resolved ta abstain from all acts of violence, but re tained hopes, founded on the more favourable dis position of the army, of receiving it as a free boon from the Sovereign. Advice', have been received from Madrid to the Dith ult. A committee of the Cortes had made a report hostile to the existence of the Jesuits in Spain ; and proposing to sell forthwith their effects fur use of the Junta of Public Credit, and to seise on their li brary, in order to its being placed at the disposal of the Curies. Don Alexander IrDonnel, brother to the Count de l'Abisbal, who headed his regiment of the Imperial Alexander, during the defection of the Conde at deans, in the beginning of the revolution, has petitioned the ' Cortes to be• put upon his trial, be baring been dis nrissed the service fur his conduct on that occasion. The proposition fur introducing juries in judicial pro ceedisigs was read a second time. The Commission of Finance has made a report, recounateuding a law pro p hibiting grand ecclesiastical dignities, councillors of state, and others, from holding two livings or (dikes. In Majorca, in 5 days preceding the 3.1 ult., 21 per sons had died of the pestilential fever, making the total number of deaths 1,1491. The vessel seat to Mexico with the news of the late revolution reached Vera-Crux on the 213th of May, and the deseatehes were instantly fee- Warded to the Viceroy. All was tranquiil in Mexico. The Constitution was pr uclainied in a must enthusiastic manner on the 6th June, in Caracas, La lluira and Puerto Cavell°. In order that the Inquisition may bt the more effectually abolished, the property of that es tablishment had been put up fur sale, beginning with the sumptuous Palace formerly occupied be the !aqui sitor-lieneral in Madrid, the one used by the Tribunal, with secret cells, &c., toghlier with I houses si- Mated in the capital. The proceeds are to he applied to the liquidation of the national debt. The King, on his return from Saredon, was received with the greatest de- ' woourations ()flu!. It was expected that the liameal budget would be laid before the Cortes is the course of the promos osonth. A large portion of vale reales bad been entingaislitu. ORIGINAL POETRY. A NOBLE CONSUI.+ATION Fda THE 000 dr STATE. Seems—Pt. James'e-Streri. SID. Derry Dorms, my old boy, we bare bit It at last; Ewer) hour of the jolt I'm grown Nader. All our other Informers are fairly surpassed By the charming Miss Deride lateaufre. Drafts' Down. Is it so, my dear Sid. then our 11~ well guard: And before we proceed. Itt us powder, In what suitable manner we best cis reward The Blali-bie Double Estiendre. SID. Richt, Richt, Derry ( town, yoa''re a rational matt, Publir money. weirdly may squander, When the Country rrqvires it, then ?peak to Old He'll take care of Miss Double Plat fart. IN aar Down. Sweet Dotwont of my heart is the pride and delight, For in 1 yiNg Vieri•%; nothing bed and her ; And when surly old Hruosa thinks to puzzle her quite, She cuiLes in with her Doable Enke/fee. BOTH. Then to keep her between us we both are agreed, No more (ruin our arms shall she wander, For the row: of the State we must keep up tbe breed; 01 Bicurdes, and Dombk Esitysidres. IM PROM PTI'. ON Tile RN kVINATiON AND C111099-PIANIINATIO,I or A *IT- IBIS urea A lICt%T OCCASION. To the learned Solicitors' questions •• in (Aid:" The answers are forthenetiog. presto; Boa 61 Broughams or Dennis. etandoe the t Ti * b then •• Hewed° non 471NC11N." BETTING AT TATTERSALL'S. &CPT. 4. DONCASTER ST. LEUER. lb to ? agst 'Tramper. 15 to agst Mr . Loftas's Woodbine. 10 to spat ('troller. 10 to I agst Arbutus. 12 to I asst St. Patrick. 13 to 1 apt Marquis of Eteter's e. The Athenian. 20 to I agst e. out of Altisidora. 20 to I a4st Reposed'. 90 to ! asst Ungar. TO THE EDIFOR OF THE .!.*PATE.SII.I.V. Sta,-1 cannot resist the &tire at the present period of the Trial to obtrude a few words. When we Pre a woman assailed with every species of abuse. her character blackened with every tieing filthy and re volting,--when her servants are t•rielit and tempted to I spy, to calumniate and revile---when malignity, arm• ! with power, proceeds to work under colour of lan, and seemingly resolved upon a woman's destruction-- n hen this woman is to be held up as the beacon of inbuiy, and this woman is a Queen, renowned for generosity, frankness, and honour—.-pitied for r sorrows and persecutions, and the object of admiration for her courage and sagacity.-1 would ask, where is the heart that would not beat fur her secs ire, and the tongue that would not plead in her cause. If we lu at the Trial it is unprecedented in the 41111311 of on: history; and if it is examined with attention it is levery thing but fair, and in fact every thing hut legal. It is a law made after the commissional& crime. con demning that which did not before exist; and no called for by any exigency of the State, the only ces; that would allow a Bill of Pains and Penalties. The suc cession stands undisputed. and wohing could result, even if the charges were true, to endanger its security. Besides, if it has been laid down as an axiom iu a'l just governments, that the legislative shoulJ not in terfere with the executive part, in the Queen's per secution, this principle is trampled upon, and our Constitution is degenerating into desk otism. If it is the part of a despot to legislate, to execute, and punish. the principle is now at active work, and it ought to excite the utmost alarm. Ex rtions have been nobly made, (and I hope three exertions will be c4ntinuel‘ to stop the Bill in all its stages : and these exertions ought to increase, when it is considered the fair fabric of our Constitutiori has been in part demolished by the enactment of some recent an.l shameful laws. But, Mr. Editor, I will p. to ptove, that there is as much hypocrisy in the prise:it proceedings, as there is that of illegutity and despotism. If, as Ministers say, it were not tit that a Queen, implicated in these crimes, should be reinstated in her privileges, and placed at the head of her sex, I would ask, in reply, if there was any fear that these charges could not be followed home, by absolute proof of guilt, (which has not yet been done) why not conceal them ? Then the example could not base injured, and the ast,rals of the nation would have remained untarnished. If it is answered, provided the body of the people did not know them, the Court knew them, then, why, in the: face of the Court, offer her 5..,0001. e•year to live with her alledged paramour? Ibe Queeu uas well aware of the insidiousness of this offer, and there fore she rejected it with disdain ; and not only reject ed it, but defies her enemies to their teeth to do their worst. Now mark, Mr. Editor, after this noble dis play of becoming pride and dignified anger on her part, arising from conscious rectitude, they not only agreed to cancel the charges and regard them as fals but repeated the offer of the same sum, with also an in. trodnction as accredited Queen to some Foreign Court. as if she who was nut tit for an English Couto on al coast of the fiagitionsitess of her manners, should be fit for any other a fine compliment by the bye, to the morality and honour of ano:her nation. I his also the Queen refused; she set too high valorem' her honour to barter it away ; she- had too much penetration not to see this tissue of inconsistency. And now we are to be inundated with filth and obscenity, to be censs pellet' to listen to tergiversation and slander, to see adultery attempted to be infe•red from frinksiess and familiarity, and our pur-es drained to pay for d po sitions, if not slanderously false, yet voaationsly trivial. In fact the public are now pretty well aware that the proceeding's have not been entered into from any . gard to public morals and national honour. 'I hi have commenced, they have con:inued. and the end :a yet to be seen, merely to gratify the malice and pri vale pique of one or more individuals. Anil/sus. tit., nation is made to suffer in its morals, in bfitalf ug which the party who persecute cry so honeetably and religion—aye, religion, that stalking horse o f . tyranny and dppression—.ls outraged II ilte pr, sence and by the co-operation of it... who are paid s 1 very , veil-÷r its nipper,. TUE FRIEND OF JUITICE, . 1 P' f Ii II