The National Register. — London, England, 1820-10-08 00:00:00

St 6 asked whether she hail found the letter she alleded to :is -received from her brother. the Earl of Guildfortl—she replied in the negative, adding. that she believed it had been ilestniyed. John Whitt:untie .%.te then sworn, and exmninotl by Mr. Te)1D.11.1.. What situation in lifts do you hold ?...I am valet to the Hon. Keppel Craven. How long have you held that situation ?...Six.yearv. Were you in the service of Mr. Craven when the Princess - cf Wales went to Naples7'...Yes, I was. Do you remember. on the first night of your atrival at Naples, where Bergami slept?...No, I do not. have you seen tie room i never saw it. Do y o u recollect the roam whew Itergami slept on the second night:...Yes, parectly well. Was there a passage coimimnicating between that room and the room of the Princess ?...'There was a long passage, at one cud of which was the room of her Royal Ilighbess, and at the other end was lII,' TOO. of Iterganii. In whit •:: room did William Austin sleep ?...In the room next to her Royal ilittness. NY here did Ilieronimus sleep ?...Next to William Austin. Where did Dr. I lolland sleep %—Nest to Ilieroniirms. Ma these three rooms lay oat the same side of the passage ?-. Yes. Was there a door from time room of Hieroniinus that opened in the passage ?...Yes, there was. Where did the door of Dr. Holland's morn open into?...lnto another passage towards the dining room. Was Dr. Holland's room at the corner of the two passages ?... It was. I )id the door of Dr. Holland's morn open opposite to the door of Bergaturs rooni?...No, Berganii s room did not open into that passage. Dumont slept in a room over that of Dr. Holland. Has been in that mot.' frequently, late as well as early. Dumont generally invited him to go there. Another female servant of the house was sometimes preser.t, 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. lie said, that the objeet of this course of examination must be evident to their Lordships, and surely no argument was necessary to thew that it was illegitimitite. Mr. Dtocsrax....My Lords, we will not pursue it. The LORD CHANCELLOR.-.You haves pushed it as far as you possibly could.—(d. laugh.) Recollects the masked ball given at Naples. Part of the set , owns were dressed in character; Sicard, Bergami, and !Hero- ViMUii. after the Turkish fashion. Saw Bergami, in the latter part of die evening, in his plain clothes. He was walking about the rooms, and at times assisting in handing about refreshments. Was at Naples all the time the Princess was there. Bergami conducted himself towards the Princess in the same way as the rest of the servants--ass they all did. Lord ERSIRNE.—Where did you sleep in the Queen's house at hiaples?...ln the room next to the Honourable Keppel Craven's. After a few words from Lord Holland, the Lord Chancellor, and laird Liverpool, 11/o . jon.i was Ladled in, and examined by Mr. BROUGHAM. Do you recollect, at the Ruccanelli, having seen William Car rington. the servant of Sir William Gell ?...Q1;1:1470 NON MI RICORDO !—(Latighter above and below the Bar.) Do you recollect having seen Sir Wm. Gell's English servant near Rome anywhere?...•• QUEST° NON MI RICORDOr (111 a low sigh—General laughter in the House.) Do you remember having seen Sir William Gell's servant any where ?...I have seen him, 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 IIIade?...QUESTO NON. Did you ever tell him that if the Princess had not ordered her servants to take no notice of the conduct of Ompteda. you your self would have killed him like a t10g?...1 never said any such thing. These things are quite new to me. Did you ever hold any conversation with Sir William Gell's servant respecting the conduct of °milted& ?...No, I never spoke tobitn about it. Itrilliam Carrington called in, and his examination resumed by Dr. I. usitinctirow. What did Majocci say to you respecting Ompteda ?...He told me that Baron Ompteda. while on a visit to the Princess of Walsh had employed the pocillion and chambermaid to procure the keys of her Royal Highness's room. Did Majocci tell you that Onnptala employed persons toxin the keys ?...Yes to procure the keys of the Princess's room at Como; to get false ones made. Did he tell you that a person in the Princess's family had been so employed and discharged in consequence/I.—He did. Did Majocci say. that if Ompteda had applied Ito him, he would have kilied him like a dogY—Yes, he did. Did he say Ompteda had made the servants suspecred?...He did. Did he frequently mention the names/ Ompteda ?...He did. Cross examined by the Attorney General. I had this conversation with Majocci in the coach yard of the villa Ruccanelli. Nu other person was present. Examination by the Peers. Marquis of BUCKINGHAM. Majocci said, that the servants of the Princess were determined, if they met Ompteda. they could Wive hint a good thrashing, and kill him, if they could; hut that Lieutenant Hownani had forbid them to hurt . him. was all that Nlejocei said about ktlling Ompteda. .1 , ,1,n .fiteob Sicard, examined.—He entered the service of the (4UCCII )ears next February. Was born at Atsech. Ile had been t e n years bef o r e wi t h t h e M arqu i s o f S tafford. He event into the Queen's service by his present Majesty's orders as cook. Ile left Liigland with the Princess in August, lisle—. %reflects her Jlaoesty to have occasion to hire a courier at Niko); and in ein.secluence of Sir W. Gell's directions hired Bergana. Readlects the house in which he was the first night that they were in Naples. On the ed day. arrangements were made respeciing the servants' rooms, lie (Sicard) appointed the 7001)/ into which lierganti was removed on the second day. He and the Princess lad no connimnicatioe as to that change. He has observed her Maje.ty'e namnets with her servants. It was uncommonly kind even to u fault, and extended to all. He had occasion to walk with the Princess many a time. when she was most condescending. She has taken his unit when she came to a rising ground, and has put her atm on his, saying—•• Yon undersuual me," you agree with nit." Recollects a masked bull at Naples. He on that occasion appeared in a dress. lie Red Hieronymus went as Turks. Her Royal Iliglmess wore a Turkish dress. Ile is on a pension as long as her Royal High ness chooses to give it. He quitted her service within three or four months. fie lies 3 or soot. a year depending on her plea sure. lie left her .Nlejesty at Naples. and tad not again. Julia her till he went out to tell her of the late King's death. The cross-examination of Mr. Sicard and his examination I,y the Lords continued till four o'clock. Nothing material was elicited in hie creo-s exaniination. lie was asked by Lord Ellen butane!' a variety of question s as t o B ergum i' s manners. Bergamo Was )(As chatty than other Italians. I)id lie seem too much of gcntlttran for his situation of c-urier ?...I did not °Lsh tve as to that particular, Ile did not retuse to du what he was told. (A laugh.) Bergami was if iiir.uners superior to the loser order of servants. M. Sicard explained that the pensicn of which lie had spoken, l e as 1 is salary continued to hint. 'lle. !Roes adjourned to 3lvutlay. ' TM - NATIONAL ffrGISTEIt 1.11.1.1 T. 11011 - 41',131 .IND BARON UMPTED.4. (From the Tramller.) •Wc base anthority to atiie, that tile letters published in the Gamier -of the 23d, and repeated in the paper of the 'lsth, on the subject of the affair between the Baron d'Ompteda and Lieut. Hownani, contain a very imper fect account of the transaction. Some of those letters arc tint even correctly liaoslated. Count Saurin himself, the Baron Cavalil i, who acted as Lientenant H owns ill's second, and even the Coma Coutenhoven, the friend of the it iron il'Ompteda, will be able to speak to facts of _rest importance—of a character totally different from That which is now attempted to be affixed 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 nine our readers will see, in the Baron crOmpteda's letter, dated the 6th of December, 181(1, that he is obliged to quit the country of Milan, while no such order was issued against Lieutenant Hownain ; and this is not Irma any apprehension of a hostile meet ing, because that was already appointed in Switzerland. How does this agree with the supposition that the go. verninent regarded the Baron as a calumniated indivi dual, and his aggressor as a wanton disturber of the peace? lithe charge preferred by Lieut. Hownam was false, and he followed up that false charge with an (lunar rantable challenge, he should have been ordered to retire from the country, and justice sl Id have beets 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 out the occasion, in Maurice Crede's letter to the Chevalier Tamazea. This statement was made at Como befitre the Cheva lier Tamazea, who had been Prefect of that place, and now holds the same situation in another town, on he 31 of November, 1816, the day after the challenge was sent. It is only necessary to add, that Maurice Crede was brought to Milan by Rastelli, and is now actually in this country among the witnesses collected in support of the Bill of Prins and Penalties.—(See printed Evidence.) He was not, however, su ttttt toned to give evidence. Whether he could have said any thing unfavourable to her Majesty, we know not; but it is wholly certain that he might, on cross-examination, have disclosed some very disagreeable facts respecting the conduct of the Baron d'Ompteda. After such a statement of particulars, made, circulated, and not contradicted, we shall not wonder if Lieutenant llownam felt doubtful how far a man of honour should meet the party charged in the field; more particularly as the Count de Coutenhoven, who had previously acted as the friend of Oinie.eda, formally announced to the Lieutenant that he, for the future, should decline to act in that character. Letter of Maurice Crede, charging the Baron d'Ompleda with attempting to procure false kqs. " Como, Nov. 3, 1816. " M. Le Chevalier,—Tis to you that 1 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 any addresses to the chambermaid Annette; this event, that puts me in the greatest coo. sternatiota, has awakened in my breast a remorse that has agitated ane a long time, and which I feel the neces sity of making you acquainted with, in order that you wall be good enough to interest yourself for late, and min me to re-enter into the service of her Royal High. ness. " 1 ought, then, to acknowledge that I merit my dis grace, since 1 have allowed myself to be sednced by a certain Baron d'Ompteda to betray the best of mistresses and the most generous of Princesses. " It is a year, or about a mouth before the departure of the Princess, that this. Baron was trying all possible means, through a certain Antbraise Cesati, who used to conic to Como, to discover the situation where my mis tress slept, and tried to procure fake keys. I persisted a • • •in my refusal ; but at last the threats of the Baron, who told me I should be hung if 1 did nut listen to hint—the money that was prtsented to me, from time to time, finished by corrupting ate; and I have been weak enough to accept this commission, although per suaded that there was no foundation for the infamous suspicions of the Baron. "I ought nevertheless to say, with the same sincerity, that the fault in any conduct with regard to this only consisted in answering the questions of Onipteda in those Coll fer eructs I had with him, and when 1 was ill tcrrogated as to the situation of the apartments of the palace, as also to the persona who fiequented the Prot- CeSIL "This, Sir, is my confession; by means of which my heart is rilieved from a weight that oppressed it. 1 ad dress 111 a man evimehle by Ills virtues, and who COI kel commiseration for human weaknesses, and 1 supplicate 111111 to obtain my pardon Irony the Princess, and not to abandon me in this sad moment. " Have pity, Sir, for au unfortunate, who, knowing his fault, will seek to repair it by repentance, hoping thus to return agant, turough your weans , to the path of honour. " I pat all my confidence in you, Mons. le Chevalier. " 1 4111 your Very humble servant, " MAURICE CREDE. " To the Cheval. Tainazea." Considerable damage was done on Monday and Tuesday in the grounds of 13rasnlenburgh House, by a mob of pickpockets awl others, who forced the gates iu 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 such infamous proceedings, and to bring sialt de predators to punishment. . FRENCH PAPERS. ..Nams. PA Rl9, Oct. 3.—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 every 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 apprizing them that foreign troops had arrived to rescue the King from his present thraldom. REVOLUTION AT LISBON. Treskstatiox fs ens the Purtxgreae Official Gairtte. " Lisbon, Sept. 15. " Long live King John Vl.l Live the Royal House of Braganza! Live our Holy Religion I Live the Cortes, who are to make our new Constitution 1 " Such were the cries which were this day heard in our city, amid the transports of the most lively enthu siasm. These exultatioits have calmed the apprehen sinus of some timid Portuguese, and the unanimous voice of the nation 11.13 extinguished only the spark of civil war. At length we have obtained a just liberty ou this day, doubly memorable, because it is the day of our restoration, and because our regeneration renders us worthy of the friendship of the European nations, and of our former immortal glory. The fidelity of the Portuguese remaining pure and inviolable towards our august Monarch, his family will unite more closely the bonds which connect the King with the people, who, through the instrumentality of their Corms, 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 officers at their head, rushed out of the barracks, making the air resound with the sacred Muak above mentioned, and formed in the square De Rocio, where they were quickly joined by all the other arms, eomprehendtng artillery, infantry, militia, mariners, Inc. and by a vast multitude of the people of every class. The Marshal de Camp Rezende headed the troops. A message was sent to the most honourable Juin 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 him with the loudest demonstra tions of homage, by rending the air with their acela ' orations 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 Jinx de Pavo, finally fixed upon the most excellent and most illustrious Principal Freyre, Count St. Payo, Count de Rezeride, Count de Panaziel, Lieutenant-Gen. Azedo, and Herman() Rraancamp, the younger. Messengers were instantly slespatched 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 front Lisbon. " Orders were next sent in haste to various military points. The most important were transmitted to the governors of the towers of Balm and 13arria, charging them not to .sullvr any ship to pass without au express order of the new Regency, and to fire a royal salute. — The new Govertiment also ordered Count Hirhaeina not to make any movement, and to remain with his troops in the position which he occupied until further directions. Deputies were likewise sent at the same time to the Govertainent 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 invite them to act in concert with 014! new Regency, for the general good of the nation. All this was done with sit much unanimity and celerity, that it appeared to hate been the.result of mature deliberation. Lt the delirium occasioned by a sudden emancipation from long oppry!,- siott, which among other nations has produced civil Commotions, bloodshed, and death, the Portug,uete people have not been guilty of any taunt, insult, or outrage upon a single individual. ' Live his Nlajesty, Religion, the Cortes, the Military, the Nation l' were the oudly words which have immortalized this memo'. a ble scene. " At night the whole city was illuminated as by magic ; the streets were crowded with people ; the cm zens mutually congratulated each other, saying, ' resume our national dignity ; our voices will now rcacii even to the throne; our representatives will prove theist saves an honour to the age: they will devise the mea sures of accomplishing the consolidation of our new political existence, and fur the equal administration ‘A . justice' " The Journal de Paris contains the fallowiag ticulars relative to the birth of the son of the Duchess nf " surr. 19. " Our paper will arrive every where tuu late to annottnc; the birth of the Dukc of Bordeaux. The inhabitants of Paris were awakened by the discharge of cannon all their hearts beat :is they counted, and all lca;ied with joy when they numbered the 13th shut. This newt., which burst trom every luairt, front every mouth, already tntversta neighhouring dedepartments.rapid as air, warty it to remote quarter'', and in a few moonlit,. the 4culid of the cannot, wlll have made it echo in the ino:t. stqueacred linikt,; all France Itasca a cry of " ('Lie k Ryi •• •• •