The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-11-10 00:00:00

P' TILE QUEEN. HOUSF. OF LORDS.—Tsts Movdma. vie p e ers bating been called over, the Order of the D ar was trail by the Clerk of the House. and the Lord 0 ; 0 011ff pat the question whether the Bill of Pains lei p ena l t i e s should be read a third time? D ia rail of MIBILEY then addressed the House. beg o ne of those be said, who bad supported a motion **Committee in an early stage of these proceedings, ot i a ing as he had and did now, that an inquiry into i b la apelact of the Queen was highly proper, he had li ng for the advancement of this Bill up to the presses time He thought that his Noble Friends at the head e i t h e Government, had been perfectly justified in the snar es they bad taken to prosecute the inquiry, and tim i ar e, whatever might be his opinion of the Bill, lie was am i g os it should be understood, he did not conceive any tw ins attributable to them. They were compelled to tk si a rletrge of their painful duty by the irresistible nay of the case. But in giving his conscientious *aims in the whole of the case, he was compelled to ma , dot he found it impossible to support this Bill on t4qeestiou for its third reading. The Bill, in itself, be w aved to be, he would not say a revolutionary, but . a lyaf an anti-monarchial character; but at present he „ sa ta eelress himself to the charges upon which it irs belied. Those charges had not been established to he an nelhdlee. They embraced a period of six years, „ i d ra t sr one distinct act of adultery had been proved, or attempted to be proved by a credible witness. Fatestive as had been the means for prosecuting this ; v ire, and diligent as, he doubted not, had been the rankles to obtain the evidence, yet he would repeat. eluh the emirs.. of the whole period of six years charged lithe Bill as &continuance of an adulterous intercourse, re one distinct act of adultery had attempted to be p-oved by i credible witness. Unquestionably, he admitted, that hike:lces might be drawn from various farts is seaport of the charge of adultery, but their Lordships woold here observe a very marked distinction. If the period charged *ere a period of six weeks in stead of sit years,he would be disposed to give every weight to the argument established upon inference ; bet when the charge covered so extensive a period as that of six Fran, it oust be obvious that the facility of obtaining proof mast be muttip!ied in the same proportion as the time be had ittentitmetl bore to the period charged by the gill; and it was the essence of this proof, notwith sushi, that facility, which had induced his dissatisfac tin at the er!.lenee, and brought him to the conclusion, that those charges had not been legally established. He thosght it lbs ditty to refer their Lordships to the scene in the polacre, which seemed to form the principal pearl of the charge. It hail been admitted that Dee pen sail the Princess slept under the tent for six weeks, a.J from that cireumstance, the inference of adultery bad been draws. Their Lordship. should feel that in ferences of sa general a nature could not be drawn. The Noble Lord thee proceeded to draw a distinction Ism meta the law as related to adultery in ancient and Ma dare times. tie esiiiied to state Welly to their Load*, the reasons ;flat imiuced him to doubt the commildell of the crime in the polacre. In the first place, it anginal that there teas no secrecy at all observed, that then was free access, awl when their Lordships took into con titleration the varluns circumstances that might have drawn persons there, it teas quite impossible to draw so remote a conclusion, that that place should be se lected, or that the Princess should in that particular point, have deviated from her venal caution, and afforded an opportunity of these presumption.; being drawn. It was a most unconstitutional measure. There was no appearance of state necessity as had been stated. And it was a most impolitic measure, pregnant with all pos sible danger, to tlepose a King or Queen by an es put frau law'. An I if once adopted, where he small as!t, might the evil stop? This was not the age for such a proceeding. We were not to be supposed more wise or more virtuous than any other nation. Their Lordships could not be ignorant of the great advantages the mate muqderive, front the virtues and personal character of the est g Monarch. The Noble and Learned Lord conchal saying, that he felt it his duty to vote against a Bill t at was preg nant with such incalculable danger to the State. Lord 50.4 PAS then rose and said, he should be most hippy if hr c0.:14 agree with the Noble and Learned Lord who had just sat Clown. But the circumstances of the case compelled him to think otherwise. Many of the Noble Lords who voted against the second reading of the Bill expressed an opinion that the charges had been proved. That circumetanca was calculated to rise strung suspicions. lie Ilia not mean to say that there teat missal roof, but there were circumstances of e• strong a nature, that inferences of a criminal 110,1'cm:rill alight legally be drawn. Hs felt himself obliged to snake a few observations on the evidence, and he mast beg the indulgence of the House. He should dwell particularly on that evidence that induced him to form Are opinions. lie then called their Lordships atter,- tion to the scene at t'arishrue. Ile described the posl - of the rooms where the Princess and Bergami slept. lilies, circinustanres hail been sworn to by a person, n ho, according to the opinion of a Noble Marquests(Lans dot; lie). who certainly was not favourable to the Bilk, use: retitled to credit. However, he qualified the Agree .0 credit, by saving she was compelled to cone, hen.— A • al:prated from her evitiesice, that the Princess slept is NO. 103 the adjoining room, No 11, well a graillir room. ileragatui slept in the met room, 12, and therei i' . 46 a communication betwen those rooms with the iiaing-room. Pamir:teed that there bad been a large bed, a broad bed, whiels roast have been pat there h. the /directions of the Princess.—He thought a.ohing oetil.l be &Integer titan evidence of a 14011100 Lein un a bed with a man, and that man with 11:• arms round her neck. Iris Lordship theta read the 'moat part of the evidence of Krauts, sad 'roils Wien. shat etotld hr stronger? Tu his under. standing, nothing. It might be week but be amid totweive nothing more strong. lie pitied the feelisgs of the treason when she had been obliged to stead at that bar awl Bite et ideate of snub a satire. Ms THE ST, Lordship then commented generally upon the subjects connected with the case at Carlsruhe. He did not mean to cuter into a justificaron of Baron (Janata or any other persons, hut 1 e had' seen nothing improper in the manner in whit h th. witness had been brought to thls country. With teep•ct to the money she was to have received, he himstlf had cause to lament that in the law proceedings of this country there was no bringing witnesses to give evidence with out heavy expenses. lie denied an assertion of the Nursing niroxicle, that Le had heard the evidence for the prosecution and nut for the defence. He appealed to their Lordships whether the assertion was not positively false.—(Hear, hear.)—lie had been absent only from the examinations of Flynn and Hownam ; and he was present at the whole of the summing up for the defence- His Lordship then commented upon the evidence rela tive to the favours conferred by her Majesty upon Bee gaud, while he still wore a courier's livery. It had been described as a sort of uniform. .1 courier wear a uniform! Why it was as likely that he wore a royal diadem. Doctor Holland's evidence had supported De 'wont in her statement respecting the Theatre San Car los. He next alluded to the evidence of Lady Charlotte Lindsay, respecting the bottle, and said he was not urging these things as proofs of adultery, but as being strongly corroborative of the other facts sworn to. He then adverted to the circumstance of the introslnc lion into the house of her Royal Highness of all the mew hers of Bergami's family except his wife. His Lord ship proceeded at considerable length to read and com ment upon the whole of the evidence, and urging in support of the charges against the Queen, the argu ments urged by the Solicitor, but without their original force. Had the Noble Lord been audible and distinct (though he was neither one thing nor the other) we should have found it impossible to collect any thing more than the suns total of his speech, which was in terupted by loud (lies of Question! Question!! and other marks of impatience. Earl FORTESCUE followed Lord Somers, but ;n a very enfeebled tune of voice. He expressed leis regret at not being under the necessity of differing in opinion from his Noble Friend near him (Lord tirenville), but an attentive consideration of this ease had brought him to doubt much of the evidence ; and even if that doubt were not in the way, he should oppose the present Bill upon principle. Ile considered it unconstitutional, and most mischievous as a precedent ; and he trusted their Lordships would pause before they gave their sanction to a proceeding which appeared to be a step towards bringing the monarchy into danger. There was now almost an equal number of voices Calling for the Lord Chancellor and the Duke of Bed ford, who both rose together. The Noble and Learned Lord gave way to the Noble Duke. The Duke of BEDFORD then proceeded to address! their Lordships. Unwilling as he was at all times to trouble their Lordships. he had more reason to feel so on the present occasion, when so much talent had been displayed on either side of the question under' discussion. But the proceeding before their Lordships was so important, as well in its Integre as Its con- 1 sequences, that he felt he should not discharge his duty as a Peer, if he were to suffer this Bill to go to a division, without offering his very humble opinion upon It. With respect to the evidence which had been adduced in support of the charge against her Majesty, he tould not but express his surprise that the Noble Lord at the head of his Majesty's Councils should pass his opinion of her guilt upon the evidence of such witnesses as Majocchi and Demosit.—(Hear, hear, hear.) His surprise was not less when lie beard the Noble Lord on the Cross Bench (Lord Somers,) in treating upon the evidence, fall into so palpable an error (unintentional' no doubt) as to assert that the evidence of Demont had I been confirmed by that of Dr. Holland with respect to the ball at Naples. If that Noble Lord would give him self the trouble to read that part of the evidence again, he would find that her evidence was at least not confirm ed by that of Doctor Holland; for the testimony of the Doctor went very considerably to contradict her. It was not necessary for him to go into details on the evidence. It had been so ably commented on by the Learned Counsel, on both sides, and so ably treated by the Noble Lords, who spoke on both sides, that it was quite unnecessary for him to fatigue their Lordships.— But there were some circumstances, that he could not pass. There were innumerable instances to be found is History, of Princesses and Princes, who had descended to familiarities with their dependents. Nor, were our j own times barren of incidents of this sort. The Noble Duke then alluded to Lord Bacon's account of Queen' Elisabeth. He said, that she had continued, and car ried on these familiarities, to so late a period, se sot to become her years.—(llear, hear. hear.) —If she had been persecuted. her steps followed, and beset with spies, what would become of the boasted glory of her illustrious teign.—(Loud cheers.)—But there was one most remarkable circumstar...e in that proceeding. For three long years, not a shadow of proof, from 1817, 1 not a shadow of suspicion had been adduced against the Queen.—(llear, hear !)—Looking at the whole of the case, he would lay his hand on his heart, and most corowientionalv say—Nor Going, ox my Honore. The LORI) CHANCELLOR next rose to address their Lordships. He had stated at a former period, that it was quite impossible that any one could vote for the second reading of that Bill,who was not convinced of the guilt of the Queen, and sonvinced on legal evidence, and when be said legal evidence, he meant , l e g al p reens ' ' . tion. Ile had taken the liberty, and be hoped, their Lord ships would excuse that !amity, that if their Lordehips had been convinced, on legal evidence,' that the sub stantial charges in the preamble, had been preyed, it would be competent for them to charge in the committee, wind they thought had not been proved. He looked himself as a co-juror. with all the others. and he I C: stated, what be now repented, that should any circuits. stance occur to the last moment, that should duce him to change Isis opinion on the gent or innocence of the Queen. that he should feel himself entitled so vote against the third mailing of Bill! It was not his intention to soy eon mat on the police of the measure. The simple vino to which be would confine himself, was. their lessilabips, or had they not been convinced. oil legal evidence, that the guilt was established ? (To be continued in a Second Belliion.) ,TESMAN. ORIGINAL POETR Y. THE fiLIiNDEHER. " Come forth, thou sidnderer, d shew thy bloat'd crest, And let mankind deaote thee es Its pest; Thiel( not a banner shall disguise Thy hideous form from Truth's inquiring eye.: The poet,feariess dere, the task essay, To drag thee forward to the light of day : Call all thy •fees by their proper name, Thus hurl thee writhing to the gulph of shame. Shall /tack oppression with his tyrant band. Drive fratk and manhood from my native land? Or lives there yet an !NJ( RID Qtean to right One British heart beyond thy power to fright. Noise high the ja►elins.let your Jade es strike, I dare their dungeons as I hate thy like. Hate thee aid all the °once lusted band. Whom public feeling, public villains brand; Whom false to all their Country, God aau Ling. In base alliance poisons truth's pure spring. From whom corruption flows like oceans' tide. That mad Ambition in his *sr pony rid, ; The lustful despot of indignant earth, The giant Demos who makes war on worth. The hell•born monster who his country sold, Hibernia's curse, whose heart Is bloodless cold: Whose smile's deceit—the Vampire of the Isle; The foe of Freedom—the elect of guile. These are thy friends—for these thy slanders tell, And be like these consigned to earthly " Come forth thou slanderer"—Dauwas's eye of bra )lath struck tbee dumb, and palsied loose desire. Why &might, sit the bold reproach to hear, Can truth strike Dunces dead with fear I Or did thy Father's spirit gliding by In form niejestic—dumn the horrid lie' From earth's dull tomb his canonizing bones, Indignant burst theircemetery stones ; ills hoary locks, his eyeless form was there. And all thy mind Kbs horror and despair. " Come forth thou slanderer"--is thy heart of steel ? A mother's wrongs shall teach thee yet to feel. Can you forget a poor and beggar'd ". tl', talents sat 'd from creditors' rebuke' Whate'er the public gave, I freely lent, Of black ingratitude I never dreamt ; Neer thought lay DAVONTIR . IIIOSOR was in danger, Or son, for Interest, wetted wed a stranger. Neer thought when life's gay prime shou'd one, be o'er. You'd drive me, poor and friendless, from your door. Who cou'd have thought a mother's claims forgot, In foreign climes my bones unhears'd shou'd rot: Or if in earth's cold bosom laid to rest, Some pitying stranger gave the sad request. Who will believe when my poor spirit. fled, • FAltszt rub'd the SANCTI to of the dead. Is there a vice can sensual man degrade. Let my poor children mourn the debt unpaid. " Conte forth thou Slanderer." let sag trill display. Thy foul Intentions to the light of day. " Come forth thou Slanderer," dastard, whisp'rlng lye', Come forth thou venal wretch of hose desire. Come With obscenity.—eome rank disgust, ('owe ignorance, fully, hatred, lust : Come one, come all—for all are here eombin'd. The men: eoparteers of a hellish mind. Wretch, ISI thought the name but hang In doubt, In spite of Prudence I you'd give It out ; And trumpet-tongued to earth's remotest space, I'd make thy title current for disgrace, TIU shame and won should find one resting Owe. ('AROLCS CANDIDCS. .411L.1N COMMISSION. The following statet uent tan lately given of the rise and progress of the Milan Cotentission. I. In Oct Art-, Ittl7, certain documents were trams witted from the Foreign Office (Lord Castlereagh's) which documents contained charges against the (been then Princess of Wales, and were the fruit of the Is briars of Count Munster, Lord Stewart, and a lien ore' 'ion Agency. 2. A report having been made on these papers, the Milan Commission was established—the Lord Chancel lor and the Earl of Liverpool confirming, if not select- I ing the appointment of the Commissioners. The Cont mission was placed :a communication with the office of Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Tbe Commis sion did not reach Milan till 1818, and all its reports , were made known to the Earl of Liverpool as well as • the Lord Chancellor ; it was not till June or July, 1819, that the Milan Commission made its final report, which was then referred to the Cabinet. 3. These are the known facts ; no doubt some other I correspondent nil! be able to give us positive informa -1 tion as to the nature of the instructions given to the i Milan Commission, and whether they were actually signed by the Lord Chancellor and the Earl of Liver ! pool. Much imputation has been cast upon Mr. Vice / Chancellor Leach, but most noijestly, for it appears from the above facts that lie was (though acting as Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall) only the Agent or Deputy of the Lord Chancellor of Lugland. Yesterday the Duke of Clarence, the Ditches' of Ulotestor, and the Princess Autrusta, visited the King. The Karl of Liverpool and Viscount Sithuouth had audiences of his Majesty. Prince Leopold eame to town yesterday, about 12 o'clock, f.om Claremont: soon after his Royal Highness walked to the King's Palace, to pay his duty to his Majesty. His Royal Highness returned to Claremont in the evening. From the confusion which prevailed in the House on Wednesday, we did not hear the following remark of the kart of Thanet, which oe puhish front a morning Par"' The Karl of Thanet declared his entire anqualiftesi conviction of the innocence of the Queen, in the hove l of saving whom f the foul confederacy which sought her destruction he should vote for the Divorce Clause. Many years ago Judge Buller presided at the Wis.! ehester Assizes, when, a prisoner being on trial for a' capital offence, the Judge desired the Jury to consider their verdict. They turned round to do so, excepting ' one raw-boned countryman, who amused himself with looking about the Court. Judge Wilke said, do not you consult with your hrother jurymen ?"—He answered, " I shall do as they do, my Lord." U this the upright Judge ordered the officers re take thetftllete net of Mr box, which they did sismewbat unceremosioasly, and pie him out of id , Coml. The Jude then, turning to the prisoner. coarandahliel I him on hawing escaped with his life for that time, the law respiring that be should be tried by a pawl a It, I and there were only II WIWI illfoots: SPORTING INntI,LICrINTE , NEIVNIARKET NOVEMBER MEETING, THILAISDAT, 5.,. 0. 1810. 111 r .1. Shelley's Ivanhoe, Set. 71b. beat Mr. not:36lll'a Sardoais, 7st ?lb. T. Y. C. 100gs.—Eten betting. Ku eepstakes of Itlas such. 13. Mt. tdasy's Hartureide, Ist. 101 b. • 1 Mr. BOUterle4 Arbutus, itit.4lb • I Mt. W. Mentt's Lounger, 7st. Sib. Mr. Crockfurd's Sultan, Sal 6t04 oa Barmecide-6 to * apt Arbutus-4 to 1 mist Louugrr. HIGH COeRT UP JUSTICI.9It r EDINOUROIS, NOV. --- i.' 7l - I VTflefillty, George Nis/tit, shoemaker, and Thome 'Eyrie, painter, were convicted of housebreaking and theft, in breaking into the t 6.int ing.honee of :4r. Peter Cathi, , wood-utereltAnr, at South Bush, forcing open lockfao places, and stealing tberegrom various property,and sentenced to transport ation for life. William Forbes, from Aberdeen, was then put to the bar, and charged with forging various documents svitli intent to defraud Bre Bank of Scotland. The panel pleaded Utility, sad the Jury immediately declared their verdict in terms of his confession. After a suitable a'- monition from Lord Billies. the Lord Justice Clerk sea- tented him to seven yens transportation. The panel received kis sentelsee very respectfully, sal appeared perfectly sensible to its leniency. GRIERNOCIII AIIPRAY. This morning a crowded auditory assembled to hear the trial of the soldiers implicated in the dreenock out rages and murder formerly detailed la Tar STATESMAN. The indictment setting forth these details is necessa rily very long, and the reading of it occupied the tinee of the Court until 11 o'clock. The prisoners, Joseph Heck, John Lempsy, Robert Surrage, Michael Chasten, Joseph Elliot, and Patrick Lynch, privates of the 13th regiment, were then severally eneattoned by the Court as to their pleas, and they each pleaded—Not Guilty. The examination of witnesses is now going on. Pint a e Dater-Lsme.--In another put of our paper we have stated such particulars respecting the progress of this calamity as could be collected roue after its occurrence. About 7 o'clock in the evening the dames had bees suppressed, bat the materials which had previously caught Ere wets only covered and concealed by rubbish that had fallen ou them, sal at 10 o'clock the fire horst forth anew. It was again subdued, mid `about 3 o'clock in the towing again revived. when at length it was finally extinguished. The damage done on this melancholy occasion is very large. By far the greatest part of Mr. Glazier's stock-of deals and timber, to which he had recently made a considerable addition, exceedieg. it Is said, the amount of his insurance, is totally destroyed. The lire having begun in a loft in the interior of his pre mises, and the wind blowing from the eastward, the front of his and the other houses inDeury-lane escapes( without much injury. The back parts of six or eight houses in Duke's-csiart, which adjoins his timber-yard, are materially damaged, and one or two in that court almost entirely guued. The direction of the flames was towards Martletteort, Bow-street. and there two houses have bees completely destroyed. The whole number of bosses destroyed, or materially damaged. we understand, are twelve; but as most of them were occupied by many persons, it is eakulated that not less than fifty or sixty families have suffered from the calamity. Several oufortanate individuals have lost their little all. Many depredation were committed on the occasion. and some pick-pockets were seized and taken to Bow-street-office, and committed. The con course of spectators that rushed in all directions to the spot, at the instant the blase appeared was, front ti.e po pulousness of the immediate neighbourhood, and the multitude of people who were on foot in every part of the town, beyond all precedent or description. The Vo lume of flame that arose from the inflammable materials of the timber-yard. illeminated the atmosphere to such • wide extent as to interest the whole metropolis. 'll l s inhabitants of the eastern parts having heard con fusedly that the fire was in Drury Lane or Covent Barden, fixed the spots according to their fancies. Many ran from a considerable distance to have an immediate view, believing it was at Drury Lain Theatre, and not a few confounded Coeent with Cotton Barden. Almost all the evening the streets were thronged with crowds proceeding to, or returning from, the neighbourhood of the scene. Amidst the great con fusion that prevailed, we are happy to learn, notwith standing contrary reports, that no life was lust, nor any personal accident happened. The cense of the calamity is still unknowa. The workmates had not long left the premises. when Mr. Glazier, sitting at tea, in his count ing-house in the yard, perceived an extraordinary light in an elevated work-shop ; and proceeding to the spot, and opening the door, the flame, as if of many sacks of shavings, instantly burst forth. A NoNLI ACT or CII•RITT.—A benefaction, as singular u noble, was mails on Sunday last, to the Belfast Charitable Society. In r collection in Dr. Hannah's Meeting-house for that parent institution. two bank-post bills of 500 f. each, p to the Treasurer, were found in one of the receiving plates. They were attached to a short note, purporting the. it bad been the intention of the donor to have left an equal sum posthumously. but that from the pressure of the times it was thought proper to militant+. it now. With a delicacy of feeling in harmony with the extraordinary liberality of the act, it was added iu the note that understanding there ass an insufficiency of bed clothes fur the inmates, the writer would be gra tified if a portios of the sum were applied to remedy this defect. Cons-Exceseor, Nov. 10.—We had a good supply of Wheat from Suffolk, this morning, as well as a con siderable quantity . from Essex, which remained over from Monday's arrival, but the demand contioning ex ceedingly heavy, in consequesre of the reductiou in the prices of Flour, very few sales were made, although the finest qualities are Spa. per snorter. cheaper than on Monday. Barley is Is. per quarter lower, having a to ler.hly.large arrival, to-day, from Suffolk. The arri vals of Oats, from the Bailie, this week, have been very abundant, which article met heavy sale, at a decline of full Is. per quarter. In Seams and Peas, no alte ration. 8311THTIRLD M4RKIIT. Nov. 10.--This market was 'applied with all kind of cattle this morning ; but few purchasers is cosseqiience ; the market was very dull, and Monday's prices were with dillicnity obtained. (10 sink the Offal per Stow of nitre.) Reef .... is. Od. to is. OATTLA AT MAIEIT Marten.. 4a. W. to M. led. Bolds Vest kr. ed. w lea. 0-1. Calves perk kr. 04. to Ss. Od. Sheep sad Lagos, s.our Lamb.... M. Od. 01 - ed. elge • RAT MASSIIT.—This market remains is price as per last Monday. Straw and Clover so *hermit,* is prices. wee see rtnaw era tear. Hay .„.. B. tee. to N. *wow ft. lye... to 111. Clever .. 11. Us us at NIL . . 4 . ' ' 1 t , ? i. , . Fl s t . ( ti • g i 1 i I S ' i 1 I li ( . i 1 . 1 I ) ! 7.: k