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

,iptemem day I 'hick he had observed at the distance of four CZand that without even turning his head to observe it, ~ had from that moment been hermetically sealed, EMT to be opened until he came before the Commission at .Mllaa. Was it to be believed, that a man who had seen the -11Primeess riding, is open day. in the disgusting attitude which oae witness had described, in a manner so frightful, Pompous, and portentous, could have concealed it for a single day ? and yet be conceals it until lie comes before the Milan Commission. Ile would nu w call the attention of their Lordships to the witness at the inn at Trieste. Did their ,I s ordalips. mid the Learned Gentleman, forget—no they could not forget the expression of that mutes countenance— those eyes that nose, that lecherous mouth, from which beeletailed his feel impurtaalties. This man, this perjured witness (said Mr. Brougham) shall not pass unpunished I he *least, is yet here. 1 could drag others to punishment, • bat this fellow obeli Dot escape me. I mill prove by evidence --by the position of she doors of the moms that this man has swore falsely. I will spew that what be has sworn cannot be tree. I will prove that the Queen slept at Trieste but ease night sted wither before nor since ht s she ever crossed' the threshold of the diger. The charge against the Queen at Naples was such as required to be established by a crowd of ,Witeesees. His Leareed friend ought to have supported this part of the charge with peculiar care. The circumstance ~e(the.Queessbehig biased out of the theatre, could nos have been a thing to which only one witness could swear. The hissing of such a person for such a reason, must have been matter of knowledge somealtat more general. All must Alive known it. What had become of Aso Pryson ? lie would tell their Lordships,' she was here. Why had she met been called? He would tell their Lordships—because she MIS not an Italian. Who bad been called to prove the mocks on the bed? ADO Pryson made the beds. Who washed the lines? Why was nut the washer-woman called ? Because those who got up the business were experienced in washer /NO.IM ! In she Douglas plot they called a washer-women, and experience taught them that it was a dangerous reliance. He had another remark to makes lie had heard it said, that lie had proved the falsehood of witnesses in parti cedars which were not important. This came from the lay part of the community; those who were acquainted with the law knew the absurdity of the position. If lie • had to set up an informer, it would be necessary for him to produce evidence to support him in some of the most Important particulars; but, in pulling down a perjured witness, it was quite enough to make him state a false hood, even upon the most unimportant particulars. If this were not the case, what security could there be for the safety of human kind? What chance of escape from the toil of the conspirator? What safeguard against the malignity of a spiteful witness. " Suppose," said Mr. Brougham, " that any one of your Lordship's bad oat with a misfortune, the greatest that could take place, at which your delicacy revolts. and irons which human nature is alien—that a villain charged you wills the corn mission of a crime, the very imputation of which could never be removed—against the main fact uu evidence could be possibly adduced, and you would have to rely upon the cross examinants' of that witness for a refuta tion of the odious charge. An acquittal would be given If that evidence should be found to contradict himself in the slightest particular. I call limns you to extend this sort of justice to the Queen." He was told that the si tuation which Berganii held originally; coin a ared with his, fortune in the Queen's service, was considered a mat ter of suspicion. God forbid that the time should arrive at which all stations except one, were not open to all seen. He would remind their Lordships, that the rapi dity of Bergoines promotion had been greatly over-stated —mid the manner of his promotion was a proof that love was not the cause of it. Dimwit load stated, that three weeks after Bergami's introduction to the service of the Queen he had been admitted to those familiarities which foraged the ground of the charge. How was it at the board?— He dined with the serviette, mead it is proved that even at Genoa he had dined with the same °Dempsey. He cos tumed for a length of time in the situation of Courier, and his promotion ((ideally roost with his 'suites. — Where was the wretched Wane woman (a character which the Queen mast be, if the witnesses were lobe bediclied), who would allow her paramour to sit amongst the menials? This was not like the operation of love. Bewail was not a man of low origins. His tether bad bees respectable, bat bad got iotu and the sass sold the estate to pay the father's debts. He was re dated, bat be was a reduced Gentleman. When in Gen. Pies's service, be was recognised as such. and he diem' at the General's table. Duriug the Spaniels campaign, lie was respected and esteemed. The Leaned Counsel stated, that In answer to all the charges insinuated against her Majesty upon former oc casions, he held in kis hand a lIICUIOfiaI ofgreat authority: it was a letter from our late gracious Sovereigu to her Majesty. and was to the following effect : " Windsor Castle, N0v.13, lel4. " My dearest Ifatighternialaw and Niece, " Yesterday 1 and the rest of niy family had an inter view with the Prince of Wales, at Kew. Care was taken on all sides to avoid all subjects of altercation or expla nation, consequently the conversation was neither lusts etc. tier slur entertaining; but it leaves the Prince of Wales in a Situation to skew whether his desire lb return to his fatuity is only vesbal, or real, which time alone eau spew. I am not idle in my endeavours to nuke inquiries that may enable me to cunimunicate some plan fur the advantage of the : dear child you and me with so much rearm' must interest ourselves in affecting, and my having the happineas of living more with you is no small isseen. nee to may Miming some idea on the subject, but you may depend on their belug mot decided upon without your thorough and curdial•concurrenee, for y uur authority as mother it is my object to support. " Believe use at all times, my dearest daughter-in-law and niece, your must affectiunate fotherAn-law and uncle. (Signal) " GEORGE IL" He should now read weenier letter of a very different kind—that which had been written by his present Ma jesty to her, upon the subject of the,separatiun, in w' a eli au assurance was given, that her conduct, after their sepatatiuu should out be paiticularly.attended to. He then read the letter which has ali eddy appeared Indere the Public. upon the question of the separation. Would it Slut be singular that the.cooduct of her Majesty, edit, bad linen twice proved iatiocent, should alter as she advanced in years, and the wore that she was watched? The Learned Gentleman coincided their Lordship. not to deems. from their isconeettun the two grand points on which he rested his defence. The Counsel fur the piu seentiou had nut produced good witnesses,. wee were • within-theta leach, Aiw a, .4“, They, that those vs-teta.rs' MI NATIONAL MISTER they had called, were injured is their characters, aid tainted in their. iv Wester. . _ The Learned Gentians s. then proceeded in a strain of impassioned eloquence, and begged Hair Lordships to pause before they gave judgment against her Majesty.— " If," said he, 4 yuur julluenrnt goes forth against the Queen, it will be the only judgment you ever issued that will be without effect, and recoil on those who pronounce it. I 'moat your Lordships to save your country, which is now so agitated—the Crown, which is now in danger— the Aristocracy. whirls is shaken—and the altar which eau more rest secure, and which will shake its kin dred Throne.—The Queen may be without the solemn services of the Church, but she possesses the hearts and prayers of the people. 1 now, my Lords, will conclude —and I most devoutly pour forth my supplications to the Throne of Mercy, that mercy may be ponied forth on the people, in a larger proportion than the merits of their Rulers have deserved; and that the hearts of sour Lord. ships may be guided by justice !•" The Learned Gentleman than sat down, having evl. dently made a powerful impression on the House. Mier a pause of ten minutes, Mr. Williams presented himself, and the Lord Chancellor inquiring his object ? Mr. Denman said, his Learned Brother wished to address their Lordships. The LORD CHANCELLOR said, he understood that Mr. Williams oinked to address a second speech la the House; this was not customary; the usual course being for one Counsel to speak at the opening of a case or defence, and for another to sum tip. It certainly rested with their Lordships to gram the indulgence, and in a case like this, which was of an extraordinary nature, and of such par amount importance, he thought it would he desirable that Mr. Williams should be permitted to address their Lord ships. Mr. WILLIAMS then.rose, apologising for his inability to follow his royal friend, or to do justice to his royal mistress, in a discussion which had nevertheless been, by his !canned friend, torn to pieces, and laid quivering and trembling before their Lordships. He then proceeded to comment on the difficulties under which his illustrious client came to the defence—difliculties which, he con- tended, were never experienced in any other case— which were french, with unmixed evil, without the slightest apparent benefit. He wislvd their Lordships to consider who were the parties in this case. It was no itrunetersalquestion. It was Isis ditty to speak dutifully and reapecihilly of the iLkag—a statue which, in itself, was said to be a tower of ',tree/ph—aid yet it was a name iss (rout of the Bill of Pains and Penalties. It could, how ever, now uo longer be doubted, that on one side of this ease there was the Government of the pantry, involving rank, power, wealth, and influence, not only in this coun try, but also in threw States from whence the witnesses had bee. brought. On the other hand, was a Qoeen, by the treatment she had received, shorn of her beams—a Queen, by the vicissitudes of fete—by the Circumstances of fortune—and by the death of individuals,. who haJ been deprived of her most active and able defenders.—The learned goutleman then enumerated the difficulties nuder which the Queen laboured in basing been deuied a list of witnesses; unacquainted with time, except that it spread over a petted of six years; ignorant a all the circum stance!, escept when they came to he 4i/dulled in evidence. He called upon their Lordships .respectfully, bat firmly and boldly, to pursue that secret and unbending rule observed in the administration of justice in the Comets below, which was to judge from the evidence adduced in the cense, and not to suffer any previous opinion, or any extraneous circumstances, to intioence their judgment. — The I d gentleman insisted that the whole of the evi dence skewed that the Government were patties to the prosecution of her Majesty, and that undue influence and endue power had been exerted is A u ro o e o n a ring i ctreene to swear away the ehataoler of the ismulry had not, on the part of her Majesty's adviser% bees coo ducted with foegetfuluess ; of this fast there was not a • simile witness whom they had sot asked whether he hod received any thing, et promise of way thing for the deuce he was to give f Rut after the answers gives by the Captain and Mate on this point, the rentalhing wit nesses, having doubtless been property tutored la the interim, had cauUously and obstinately withheld all infer minim' on the subject. Why, if the Counsel for the Bill could have vindicated themselves frees the suspicion of having employed improper means in the procuration of evidence, did they not produce some of the agents of the Milan Comtnissien, who conk' have told every thing about it f Why did they nut, for Maumee, predate Mr. Powell? Were they afraid that lie would &hew, if examined, what money had been unsparingly and largely remitted—(Mr. Powell, who was sitting beside the Attorney General, rhouk his head)—that the means, the opportunity, the funds of corruption, were all amply Its twitted —The learned Counsel now begged to du eel the attention of their Lordships tea point of great importance, which had isorbetit adverted to by his learned friend the litiortsey General the Queen. It appeared, bons the esistettee of Mallemoiselle Disment, that her Majesty thought and believed that she wits environed and beset by spies, who were sure to report di she did to her enemies, and to give the worst possible complexion to every thing that admitted of misconstruction. And yet, with this convic tion, was her Majesty so incautious, so open, so regardless of all appearances, as the case for the prosecution spry tented ! This was another, in addition to the many rea spris stated by his learned friemd, her Majestfs Attorney General, to chew the utter improbability at life story winch the .wituemes lied attempted to Stump up. The learned gentleman next proceeded to expose, at some length, the annoy gross,.coutradietioas in the evidence of Majocchi sod &melte ; and adverting to the various im portant CIIVIIIII4%2IICeS which were extracted in the co oss exa DDD tt anon of these witnesses, but concealed on their examination in chief, he observed, that the tact of that concealment, when the witnesses knew not that they would afterwards have an opportunity of mentiouine thee'. &hewed of itself that they were forsworn, and had nut intended to speak the whole truth as solemnly bound by their oaths.— the learned Counsel then proceeded to spew the cuutrast betweeu the statements that came out in evidence, and those erhicte had tallest fount the lips of , the Attorney Genet& ; and particularly dwelt upon the testimony of Mademoiselle Dumont, who had, he said, I been guilty of the must MeJUI ss ss aisle and atrocious false hoods—atrocious, Intense they were dangerous to a inighiy people. The memory lOC stela witness resembled that uritlajocehi, who was renowned for recollecting all tot one sitiv—tor ali estraordinars,nwpstal, au impossible mentury. Ile Coiled neon their t o rdshoesooes.skenee,the outcs beim tilt tn..ort,n, fists Uwe, seremelsa.s 4111 C• 1t.% et, Us in fact, make particular comments epee evidence. ier die purpose of beating down that which bad *Medi easnesite led fele 4 se; but he begged their Lordships' atteitien the 'panegyric upon the Queen by Dement. That ho looked upon as au effesiun of the genuine sentiments of that witness, note itlistantling her own ef f orts to give the lie to her owe declarations. When he looked to diet eulogium. he could not help thinking of an eulogises pieced upon I.er Msjraty by another character of much higher authority, who called her the pride and grace of life. and who, when he did so, gave an opinion the result of obser vation and of a relined and accomplished en/ed.—The learned gentleman then commented, in strong lonia, on the challenge which had been thrown one by the Solicitor General, to bring forward certain witnesses. The chal lenge, he said, should be mat, and witnesses, good and sufficient witnesses, should be brought forward fa 4s. fence of the Queeu. Four o'clock bailee arrived, the Honer adjourned. THIRD DAY OF THIS. DEFENdE. nictliiiilMY..ooT. C. The LORD-CHANCELLOff took hisses& on the Mottigettek at five minutes been. task Prayets wars rued by the Bishop of inistol, and dismal eallpil over. Foam.* ./tu,A2gping.—The LORD CHANCIELLOB wits aboin to direct Coma to be oiled 10. 'heist Lord HOLLANCtseee.—viiia Leedibip mid. Old lane Pp' cad* with the repast( Winn al the day, h e Weed to put some quations to the Noble Lipd opposite (Lord Live:pod) ,wilt respect to the present state of one Vortign iteladella Flan papers which had been laid beim Parliament. there ammo* reason to conclude that the five greet powered Europited__,_JlF__. some compact among themselves , amend pat colY all/ /NM et tedging the internal affairs of mbar maims, but of han - fie infraction of cAltain principles, which Mess pumas were is lay down as the telly ones aim mime to servo. menogine fliolt=o i r na tbat was in ip from Amide sod bpi, dim something et eliw *JIM bad Odom OM. sod leffistiow Ow am He wished *MAIN, knew hem the Noels LordAmpowe, who any comursoisitits had been made em the eubjmx of these ausuesmate by Aiwa*? The rims en which be paruculsrly wished to hose idomehoOt from the Noble Leeds wspe. whether Mellows of raa. bui camamicamd to his ibrjosty's Ministers the Mica • mat me (owning ohm - Empire? His Lamle* f t= Wto the Edda Imal mumps% is state whether heal lately taloa *mil the South of Italy, by is al/ .flf.lion• of amity, between Una mummy mid his mown !WO Els Imetlabwoosuludad ley ppeaj a ousii hops that Ms Noble Lord at lbw WA et • aM illig oWs Gemming& mold be able mews sa/104 1 , Se r. • Homo that Ws maw was no pay to any may have boon Emped, hostile to the Wmatien e = " nedMis. , Lord LIVEIUVOL said, Miss wale were suompekals aim* to by this Noble Lod, on which ha wank! not. ososimedy with his pal& duty. _give all the explanation almireL Wisco in % Petis Lad had on a formes ns es sommu pm a }mho _char to theassent, as so Mitoses of 4111141111119116 with4Wits. As led explicidy that,is Osage which but takes pima is the *seia ebbe el that Goesemenitat. lent PK any m Ye•aelmiems slit this essairy. But the issolisimipeasi die istok M Italy, were of .0 OMMIOISINI Ain the revoletimaia Spain. There wma divides bemoan tbs two branch. of the Sicilian Monarsho Shed, bad NA aopiesad in the Bevolation which had bear affsetad at Naples. He would not now enquire what the minim for the di 'msaszotts en , nor how it might effect the ultimata result ;it n state that the fast that divisionm isting. had bear by his Mejesty's fferamment a goad reason for dehediegfer the present any rceingeitien of the Mc existingEo g at vt:Naplee. On Ms amoral gusationt be had no in sedeo ahm witinut Oats up sloe sten which be every onitutty, woke amain teriewegaras. had to to alb the intased alibi at Mbitummtebo•loe part e llSE: of his Muisty's-Gosenameat to betegeos with the smaisms alathes mattbat it wow no petty Wised:. to my ealysgemmt of whiled or dsemise moit latanhoome. Laud MO.LEED olamosok Met dm liabloimelbett amity to ellihtmlmtbst ? mmitsbed aimed the eolosims A.L.h...aimior d mu* Inalhmelbouty disatualn.widek 11611=4 bt tat F bin. •of spisi atedummi lluu t l in al M .of aim P Lood•LIVERFOOL mid. that bat ith was mil booms that s t i cz dessoe.of ems bility, for ebreactee sod had bass Ins Majerty respram 's Minister at Naples (Sir Wm. AVettelh• That {isolimma was still at Naples. His Lordship would not, howswee, moosel that no new letters of credence had been at asp to his to the existing Government. Loud HOLLAND wailed to know, whether he might under stand. that if the two branches of the Sicilian Moearchy had con curred in the Revolution. his Majesty's Government would have thought it incumbent on them to send out new letters of credence? Lord LIVPHPOOL had no difficulty in saying. that if mach had been the ease. new letters of credence would have been seat out. Ile thought it right to add. that the existing Government of Naples was in the same situation as tne British Government in this aspect—it had not, as yet, sent any new letters of cre dence here. Earl GREY said. he had heard the explanation of the Noble Lord with LOticerfli and regret. lie would admit that the unfor tunate division between Naplui and Sicily did constitute a material difference from the unanimous proceedings in eitia#l. but he did nut conceive those differences such as to make it necessary to suspend that amicable intercourse which had subsisted between this country and the Government of Nipples. lie did not wish Ministers to be fettered as to their future *in duct. when new events and circumstances might arise,but he now conceived the Noble Earl at the head of the Administration had • jied himself to this House and to Europe. that we had no tion. either now or hereafter_ to interfere with the internal of other countries. Me hoped this declination would he received by tie Courts of Europe. that we not only disapproval of the conduct of Austria. but also that we were no parts * zo that unprincipled glance. which had been formal for the purpose ut' reprawing the rising _liberties of independent States. the Earl of LIVEIIPOUL begged that he might not be misunderstood; and he would again repeat, that it was not the policy of this country at this time, or under the present vicuna mamass to interfere with the ;dans of the Two Sicilies; and that we were no party, direct or indirect, to the interference ut ony other Powers. COLONEL BROWN. The Marquis of LANSHOWN begged to call the attention of their Lordships. to the Cormspinitience that had been laid befote the House respecting the mid= of Colonel 11 own. He confessed that the COffesputidellee never satisfied hum, as he had. at the time he read it, a letter nova a gentleman of what's. veracity he did not elitertain the slight:SA doubt, which threw much additional light on the cubjvct.—The Noble Nlurquis then read from M. M ' arian one dated the e 16th, the other the of September. lie said it was impossible to consider t he . conduct of Col. liru6,ll as a mare of friendshix, to a persoti ~f bum he had no knowledge, and who was rtsi mg h. another country, and this done by un agent for the opium": party. it was ran robsible foe alll4ll like M. :%Itt:iciti, living teak/ ail ateoluteand deseetie Govertuncert. havie."; a ::en:tt.m_s...ido...tessli by a petaori to aunt...tie; Fran auot4c.r cc as •y ..Ith that ta.