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43)Lalp nail rtie tIT " .OGe- trr ~- -- Our Mug, timuititution, anb Kabui. No. 1,273.—V0L. XIII.] Smptriall Varliament. HOUSE OF LORDS. TUESDAY, OCT. 3, Tbls day the House met, pursuant to its adjournment. At ten o'clock prayers having been read, the roll was called over, when excuses from 15 Peers were allowed, and three declared absent without excuse. Lord LIVERPOOL then rose, and at considerable length unsuccessfully attempted to clear Colonel Brown from the charge of having threatened tike Alien Act 11 11; should Input in force against Signor Ma outlier, who is now resident in London as the Q ent, if be did not desist from exerting himself of her Majesty. Lord DARNLEY afterwards moved for an account of alLthe expenses of the Queen's prosecution. The motion was, however, postponed.—Counsel were then called - in. TUE DEFENCE. Mr. BROUGHAM immediately commenced the defence of her Majesty.—The time had now arrived, he said, when it became his duty to enter upon the defence of his royal client, and it was with feelings of great embarrassment he stood at the bar of that august assembly to perform the important duties that now devolved upon hint. It mu not from any apprehension that their Lordships wood" . .. refine to him the necessary indulgence. for he had °flee- times experienced the indulgence of their Lordship; it was not from the novelty of the proceedings, calculated as they were to perplex and to agitate, for the mind of van became gradually reconciled to the strangest things. It was not from the magnitude of the undertaking iu witch he was engaged, for h was borne up by the con viction of the justice of (beaus which he had to advo cate; a conviction u uhi t'ail mankind joined. It was pot from the operation of those circumstances that he -4elt embarrassment. hat it Was by the force of ghat co/eviction that he was oppressed; it was by the fear of *hewing his onworthiners to enter upon a 'object of inch awful im portance that he was now agitated; and while others might tremble for a gaily client, or be clipped or chilled by the indifference, or dismayed by the hostility of public opinion, be knew he had nothing to apprehend but the feeble discharge of his own duty, and the consequences to which that might lead in the opinions of the millions of his countrymen who bad their eyes fixed upon him as to the charges against his illustrious client. He felt so troubled under those impressions, that he could hardly compose his spirits to the discharge of the duties he had to perform. It was with great sincerity he now exp d a hope, that in the course of the proceedings so unexampled, his character for loyalty would not stiller in the opinion of their Lord ships. The Princess Caroline Amelia of Brunswick arrived in this country in the year 1793, the niece of the Soverrign,and the intended consort of the heir apparent, and with a distinct title, at no very great distance, to the throne. But it was not his intention to atlnde to the in terval between that period and the year hill. He rejoiced that the faithful discharge of his duty did nut require, at this moment, any reference to that period. The attempt to prove his royal client criminal did not require recrimination—did not require that a whisper should be made against her illustrious husband. His ditty prescribed to I ' at the present moment silence upon that subject. lint their Lordships might be assured that but fur the conviction of the expediency of observing that aiknce, his lips should not be closed upon that important topic. In postponing what lie could say upon that sub ject, he felt confident that lie was waving a right ; but it should not be supposed, that be , an‘e he ab.teiurd from *taking such a statement, he would not, if lie felt it ne cessary to du so upon a future state of tl•e proceedings. He was actuated by that feeling which he knew prevailed universally at the bar—to de-charge his dilly without 1(101011g to the consequences. He had once before taken leave to assure their Lordships, that an adverate knew but one person in the world, that ;Pelson Isis client—that it was his duty to serve that client with all expedient means, to protect I at all hazard and cost to others and to biwsrli , and not to regard the pains and injuries, :111(1 even destruction of others, in the performance of that must sacred of ditties. The advocate must lu fact go oil feckless of all consequences, even if amongst those con sequences should be the confusi 111 l and embarrassment of the nation. He felt that if lie acre to proceed by reel i ruination, if lie were to approach that branch of the case, lie should seem to their Lordships to be justifying, when he pleaded Not Guilty—to he palliating 'venues and intro- Plielies, the least of %Lich lie. denied to exist; for lie would say that it was false and foul in those who pretended the °beet vusice of their awry towards God to forget it towards Man. It vas scandalous in those to assert that iinpsuptietica were admitted to be proved against the Quern. He denied it. He %timid Auw that the evidelire, so tar from proving that, ;noted the reverse. One thing lie would admit, and the enemies of his client might take the toll benefit of the aelunisiuu, Ile granted that ills client left this country and Went to Italy, and sheet she ass misled with prison-, chiefly fen eigners. While the Chi en was enjoying the tueiety of theft Lurdanips and MONDAY, OCTOBER 9, 18!t0. their families, he granted that she moved in a mate choice and dignified company. She was charged with basing associated sometimes with the nobility of Italy, and some times obit the commonalty. But who brought that charge against her Others might have brought it, but surely their Lordships should not. They were the last persons who Amid !solve presumed to do so, for they presumed to judge her, and they were the witnesses who were to vin dicate her. While she was in this comitrv, she courteously opened her doors to their Lordships' families, and gra ciously condescended to receive them. As long as it suited particulars views and interest, her doors were crowded; but when other views and interests interfered —when the lust of power stud place broke In—her doors .were opened in vain, and she watecompelled to the alter. native of submitting to the neglect, or leaving a country to which she had been treated contemptuously. Site adopted the latter as the most tolerable of the evils. Ia the midst of all Move afflicting circumstances sloe hid one %option t—the unolioninislted love and dutiful respect of titer beloved timighter!—An event was about to take place, at which all England were looking with anxiety— the projected alliance. Europe had heard it announced. Tile only person to whom it was not announced was the mother of the bride; and all that had been done to deserve this neglect was the establishment, by the evidence against her, that she wan not guilty. A prospect now appeared of giving additional stability to the royal family. 'The whole of the period passed withotit any communication between the daughter and the mother; and, if the Prin cess's •wn feelings had prompted her to open one, it would only have subjected her to a snuggle between power and authority on the one hand, and affection and duty on the other. When that event occurred which ipienged all England into the most heartfelt grief, and ben all Europe sympathized in that event, it was coin , ehmficated to every Conrt with which we had an alliance, and to many with which we had nu alliance. The person, of all the world, who had the; deepest interest In that me lancholy event, whose feelings were most overwhelmed by it, was left to be stunned and overwheisned still more, by learning it accidentally! She learnt it from a courier who was going with intelligence to that most faithful ally the Pupa! But if the Princess bad not heard it, she Would soon have felt it; for the death of the Priiicess Charlotte announced to the afflicted mother, the Milan Commission, and the commencement of proceedings against her. It has been the lot of the Princess of Wales to lose her surest stay and best protection when dangers most thickened around her, and scarcely one of her de fenders was left; andit has been the signal for new per secution. Mr. Pitt was her early defender; he died in 1806, and a very few weeks after. the enquiry into the low than new attacks were made upon her. Mr. Whit bread then undertook her defence; and when that catas trophe happened, which was deplored by all ranks and parties, then commenced the distant grumbling of the storm, for it did not dare to approach her Royal High ness, as the Princess Charlotte was then living—and men worship the rising anti 1 Bnt no sootier was the daughter dead, than the Milan Commission commenced its pro ceedings against the mother. Aunt the day—the very day —which sew the venerable remains of a revered Sovereign consigned to the tomb—that Sovereign, who, front her first arrival in this country, had been her constant and steady defender, that same sun ushered the ring-leader of the perjured witnesses into the palace of his successor. The learned gentleman, after expressing his regret that leer Majesty had not in him the able defender by which she had formerly been supported, proceeded to direct the attention of their Lordships to the opening speech of the Atturnry-General, and to chew how it had faded in being supported by evidence.—'the Attorney-General's speech was not a hasty production; it was from a transcript which he had before him, and he would leave their Lord ships to judge how that transcript had been prepared. He gave his teamed tiiend credit tor his sincerity, when he declared that, eonscientiously, he omild not state any thing but what he most sincerely believed himself able to prove by evidence. He had told their Lordships what lie had got from the months of his e itnesses, but who were (Iris en front their assertions in the course of their exami nation. He would now select a few examines uf the asset lions of the Attorney-General, and the evidence of one or two of the leading witnesses, which would bile* the valet. of that evidence. The learned gentlemen ham said, in his opening speech, that he Wlllllll bring et idencc to prove the improper conduct of the. Queen almost up to (be present time. But what is tee fact ? Why, that the es Writer conies Up to the present time, all but about thi v e years—an equal petiod with that respective which any evidence is given. lie had told then Lot dships, that the guilty intercourse an long wished for, had cu 111111 l 'need et Naples. Now, if this !attain ;noel, it nut only threw a stigma on that part of the evidence, butt ou the Whole.— The lea:lied gentlentati acid , he would prove by marks in the bed of lit ugenii, that two persons slept in it ; that the Queen went tutu lieu room in the night ; and that, next morning, she was not seen tuttil a late hour, and nos not at biome to any person that celled. Now, evely one of these assertions not only failed, but acme negatived by the Vely aittll'!ala to support them. Dumont that she del loot knew where the Qn.en at lit when slue lea her ewe Arum; that she did hut know where ilelgami vs Ls at the time; and that, Ito st nw vitag, the Quern was up its usual. Nur was their the slightest evidence toll.teJ to prove that any peo.on had called open her loyal Highness. It was tulle, that tit Sitter the Anus siey•(s et ral our the Sailicitut-Gei.ei at hail gains d then iutinmatiuu respecting foreign 111.11111e1 bout a residence &timid. Thus had they sliest ;1:::t the) kit w tie • thine of Italy. They had told their Lin it.hips that ti! r hut hi.lsii,.,l at the C.isinu at Niilaii. and that 10 be 1:0141.k•bAlltil at II«. (Avon.° snail turn lUt 1,;.t vt dens:cies.. r PRICE Sid. They had forgot that other persons, n eluding she ninnies Col. Brown, had also been black-balled there. The Attorney. General had asked, with powerful emphasis, and becoming horror, who ever heard of a Royal Urincess-.the wife of the heir apparent—going to a masked ball in disguise? (Much laughing.) Why did she not go in her own state coach, with all her retinue and attendants, instead of going be a carriage without even the royal anus on it. and passing through a back dour in the garden? lie (Mr. Brougham) wondered die Learned Gentleman did not add that she committed the aggravated crime of going to a mitequerade in is domino I— (L tuehitig). It was not from a knowledge of Murat's Court, but flan Dumont mid klajocchi that they gained their left*. ;nation, but those o itnesses, when under examittation, had firs tunately recollected what warn false and forgot what was true. The Attorney-General had said, that he was in sti ucted to state that the Princess hail gone to the theatre in a dress so very indecent, that she was homed from it by the audience. The witness to support this assertion, said that the Priticese was its sit ugly 41reol, in disguise. Mee strange as it might appear to his I.earned Friends, permits at masquerades generally wished to conceal theinselvest—A laugh.) The Attorney-General had stated, that at Messi n a Ber„,• , ..tini was locked in the same room with the Princess at night, and that voices were heard; but Guttered. called to prove this, denied it. The Attorney-General bad said, that Majocelsi heard the Princess in Bergami'v room, sad that they were kissing each other; but Majocchi only' says they were whispering. In the same opening speech, he had stated that Sacchi one night, not finding &roma in his room, wrist to look fur lino, and saw him come out of the Princess's room, undressed . and further. that Bergand, being confused, said he had gone into the room to see his child, who had been crying, and beeged Sacchi not to mem. lion it. Succlii is brought forward, hut he denies it as strongly as possible, by saying he does not recollect anything of the circumstance; and yet this wits not for want of exa mination, for the Solicitor-6E911.ml had exansinid him very closely. The next was the s andalous scene at the Boniest, which the Attunwy-General lied painted more like a brothel than a palace ; but there was no evidence to support it.-- In Naples and Sicily, their Lordships had beets told that the coilduct of the Queen had shocked all the Nobility, and that none doubted of her improper connection with a menial, but of this there was no proof.—With respect to visiting with the Nubility, he would admit that the Prioress had, froth motive which he would not pretend to inquire into, been treated with the same neglect anti abandonment, as some per. was had, from motives which he well knew, treated her l with here. But abets the Attorney-Geueral stated her Royal Highness to have been abandoned by the whole of her English suite. be bad forgot that Lady Charlotte Lindsay joined her at Naples. Was it inn singulat, said the Learned Gentlemen, that this Lady should have joined the Prince.' if there was one atom of 'lath in the scandalous stoner of her misconduct? Wu, it to br believed that this Ludy and her own *maws, should nut mix with the Neapolitau domestics of her Royal Higlnvese. and hear something of those irides , cericies that were so notorioue ? or was it to be supposed that these Italians concealed all they knew until they were safely lodged in Cotton-garden? But the Princess had been united iii some places Stith the saner respect at here she had been received by several Aeries, Nieces—by the legitimate Prince of Baden—by the still more legittn-tte Stuarts of Sardinia—the legitimate heirs, as diitiegmehed from the heirs inheriting on the principles of liberty and by the will of the people. Another Prince, who he doubt.d nut would contend in Israel of ancestry with the Stuarts or the Boar.' buns, the Bey of Tunis had received her Royal Highness with honours becoming her rank. The Learned Geutleman must now solicit the iodulgence of their Loorbliips while lie looted more parrots ly to the case thus opened and not pi used by the Attoine)-General.-11 as it not it marvellous thing that the evidence should have fallen, not only so far short of the case as stated in the Attorney.Generare opening, but short even of any foundation for the charge agniest his illustrious client We. there ever a charge of climbed conversation brought forward under such amulets, or supported by such wanes:4.e? The very two persons. who, of all others, must know most of the faience claire, it—the valet of the man, and the eititin,4-womaii of the Lady—were here in the array of testimony for the prioecuti 111 l ordhuiry cases, to h eve even our such *sleev e is thou„ht decisive; but itt. fordo% to the form of proceeding its ordinary Vitra, it is rare indeed Ilint the body I.l , Vallt, either of the defendant its the nettleo of damages, or at lime Lady, can be procured, Its no case pettier:, that ever berme occurred, were tun such ma iraesses smiled its support of the change.—Cousider too the imputed conduct .of the parties against whom the charge is brmight. ft the evidence for the protecutiou is to be te lieved, they had Hung milr all res.iiiil to decency, all trammels of restreita, all ordinary prudeme; they had given stay to their passion as it they 'sere in the he y -day of y nut hie! toed. and were united by such tits as made the Sedulgent e of it a conduct of her Itoyal Highness began. r. l'el ell al, her lino, 'unwed, and able detelider, was no sootier laid Irine and not a vice. They sought no colic,alment—t hey iuther courted observation. Ana yet wish till ohs, omit of circunitipectien on the putt of the Iwo stud with I%4ll4ft:es vs ho, of all ether-, a.m., must likely to iota 'dish guilt, :guilt there had beets, was it tot mat e. Ilona, indeed, that the Count( I tor the pioscention had out been able to piece more that' Use lea insulated facts Item which they lad pretended by intetence to make out the charge against her Alajesty ? Ls slating that there had been 110 aticatet at elisieralinent on the pert of Ale accosted, be had gtersaiy nether elated the e ase ; •Tee. it the evident', tot , tire. ploseetrituir eves to be b. lies. it, they bud, ',wend of (eking every 'accent imi to pt. vein, taken corny ;et:cannon to elisille ilien oat, tection Essay E a st of the case Was% !tlbirl'l to 111 obses veinal i rvacuv in propel tion as at.eiin,insl aid alioeiens 55511 Its Le rumibtt it 11, I• 011 ti.litoll vale limit be ge,,l rain lee story tit lout sliati.c tit at 1.11