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had put •IV his eiderior garment and put cm • dressisg gown, sad with there regimenting there was so alteration is either of the dresses which had bees worn by them during the Jay. 3livs Dcsnout had endeuroared to state this' cir covalence in the strudgest krona to their Lordships' minds, the idea of love, individu.da, long used to tudelgenee, strip ping uti their clothing and going isle, the same bed. Bill in croas•examination Himont herself was compelled to prove that there was as much innocence Ra d as m o d ! purity in duo inicreiiiree as if the parties hail been sleeping is se parate 11,1111111, leader separate roofs. He neat emote to what occurred ou hoard the puiacre, and it was with we ssnall as. that he arrived at that part of his subject, because be thought it must be perfectly clear to their Lordship, that there were no re ground. fur believing in the occurrence of an illicit intereasree before that period, than their Lout. ships had fur believing that sits female relatives of their families bad committed adultery, ninety because they had left them in tireurnatances which afforded tiw opportunity for committing it. If the whole scene at Naples had been • disprovtd, if the evidence gives for the proseeution, with respect to alit hail occurred elaeoberei r lhail been isiifouniled and rendered direly outenable, not only being contradicted on facts, but having been also proved to hove sprung from that intern chaiecter of falsehood, which perverts the truth, their lordships would feel no hesitation in concluding that her Royal Niemen went on board the polacre untainted with any suspicion as to her previous couduct. He meant ns far a. the facts adduced by the witnesara had gone, and not i■ regard to the .opposed elevations and advaricemeat of the Indianian! atoned in the Dill, only observing by the way that the r Its, dime of that personage was not enough of it self to pause any thing criminal; or if it were enutigh, it was eionigh Wood adducing any other evidence, and their f.orilahips Mast in that ease have seen irrooployinc themselves most impioperly, most onnecessarily,and most indecently iii the impriry which had hitherto engaged their attention. If there wart• tenth in argument, if their were justice In MA-r -elate. her Royal Highness stepped on board that palitere without the alightest taint of suspicion. He would after wards apply himself to the consideration of what had after wards occurred. Bat if, both befureafter nod that period, there were no plonk from which a fair ' d would draw am in ference of guilt, he called upon their Lordships to say, if, in a case where their beeitaiion ought to be greater, sad the evidence ought to be imsuspected awl onewspichms le pro. portion as the Ferrante* were grievous and alurming, would *lacy, area such item..., inter guilt from the merest possibility of adultery having been committed? For a short time the arrairecnieuta of the cabins and sleeping places is the pia tacit. were t h e same as hail been previously agr►ed on before the smbarkatioin. Coro sornatatices occurred which made it iserrssary Ito alter this arrangement. Some of the animals below became asuresly; Ilse weather was exceerlisigly but ; the smell f below became offeasive ; her Royal Highness was uiduecd to take her station run deck. If her Majesty had inderd keen the blind victim of unlawful passion, would that hare• been the course she +mild have adopted ! Was it to lie heiieved that on account of a trifling inconve iiiciire \VGIII.I have neglected the indulgence of a passion which is is di awribed as irrr q i aa Rile—that sloe would have lift Ilse cojilinerit of him si cure embraces in a place where is eye could have wienessed her dishonest indulgence and I. traii , feir.il Merrell' in the deck—to the neighbuisrhood val I (aptar.•. the steersmen, and the crew—there to sleep— itilcr a Ir.ii too! soy military officer who beard him sviinld he iea.ly to caution their Lordships not to go away will. the Idea that it was a close tent, fitted for such enjoy ments—it was the awnitig of the ship—the sides of it flying 1..t0• ; uo.!rf it wire 1110 lied., at ■ (listener from each l..01(11, the b.trhway having been invariably open. This M A . glut t u,,vral in the examination in chid' of any of the tt1111.,1/i.,, !MI ►xtorted from Maj/If Chi, it having been sup res.-4 hi the first instance fur the purpose of creating an nnpn•s.iou not at all warramod by the truth. They had Immo told that frequently daring the stay the swains had heen 1,1 down siren her Royal Ilighness and Bergson radioed nuttier the tent. If it were possible to suppose this to be ti ue, a list could be inferred front it brit the owashams of her ltoyfl Highness its wishing that her modem shoold eballeuge the oliscrvation of all masikittil by leas urea exhibition of impropriety, this daring mode of ocenirying these beds sluring lire day ! Could is be for purposes of adultery' Dio leg Ow whole of the voyage she had been represented by iiirionit Muslims as having been worn with fatigue— as oxen staid by lieutenant Firmness that it was altar. lute Iv tier-estate', front the perils and inconvenieuee of the iuy•i. - .,e, that she should be attended by some one able to give her protection, and keep rip her coulikoce ; and what so r o nsiaient with propriety as for her to appoint her own ('hambrii•un to the discharge of that maxims, duly ? It was to evidence that her Royal Highness had her clothes ma .luring Ike whole of the voyage. Not one single instaace hail berm *hewn in which it was possible for her to go to 1..4 without having he► clothes on Osly one Madame* had been giv►n to proof of Hergami having actually blew under Uri trot, and on that occasion both of them were proved to have ti,eis dressed. If he /Mr. Deanna) were ilesposed tit .tainl upon the Isierty of poor, he might declare that llore was none whatever of their having palmed any part of sny night moiler the teat together. Non Ogle wittiest had tstacell did in proving any such fact. Lieutenant 114/1/2111n1 istuattl that hairier( called ow sleek, in conospience of the in curience of a storm, he foiled the Princess •lout to arson.", Brig .mat supporting her lilt we hand and Lieut. I/11 tlie other. He dirt Not mean to dispute the wild. II bail hero priorial somawhere else in the evsdesocr, by Litillynut.t Pylon. that Bergamo might have heels lyiag out • act Ilse la ila under the true ; but the belle 11,1711 withsout lord Hi.:gansi was fires-el. and on that one night ten was nothing like dirt et proof of his having brew ih tic. B. sides, as Lieut. I Iwwisam had said, and it was a 1. nom k tif the greatest importance for their consideration, 'hire was two thystrry, lsu etnieetlMent, we wish to &muise the last evinced in the transactiou. li'lrat dill it amount to Why, that an unprotected female, though thee boldest woman 11i rite party, had a wish to be oat deck, and herause it was proved to have berm absolutely necessary fur her safety, loot consented to have a mail lying tea► her, in, watch oral r nod prrserVe her from danger err satriestal les of any kind ; anti yit tine iinly time when it taw he ever inferred from t eridi ore that ilwy both passed the might Wader lbw trot Ingillser, was that time when those two geatlemen were seen handitig her down the ladder. let the absence of any direct icatimony, they &mood out this evidence from our of the wilt,. sires produced by the Queen, who has admilied that he belie yrs that her Royal Flightless slept tin our he'd under the heist, and Bergami on the other. A horst of is-instants load Leta heard through all the tors ow that admission, and it had beem bailed lay • murmur of xeltation from his I.earned friend the Attorikey-Gewerat, who had at the saute time dirtiiimed front his attention all the other t•irenmalan res of that witaraa's lestiumoy. In what a situaliosi would parties be placed if the Gemmel for the Crown were to be vi ii. red to grintud u one ern proof not adduced by them selves! If, after having attruipted to support a charge by the everts-tact of disgraced witnesses, of discarded stevasts, of persona coming from mu use knew wh►re. to surer to Host which they hail been paid for swearing. and thereby rompe•lling the accused to put in an answer, they were tube allured to test their ease upou a eircumstalace wholly derived from that answer? !Stub •case was wholly without example lathe history of English justice. The belief of Lieutesast HUI/IMM was, ill fact, no evidence, if It were properly put. 'the question might have Inert übjeclt•d to. But was that belief to go against all the other parts of hi• evidence, whriein he lied stated that there was out mystery in the ease a must important observation); that he damsel.* it necessary that site ►hould have a male attentlaut uesr ber,and that ►is belief of the fact was wholly unmixed with any au.picion of ►le vonalleq impropriety; that during the whole time be had to-eii with lot r , esitswiliorg over • period of three years, during .1 I that time acting as private arc sod in that t haracc Ter, tx possessed of all the secrets of use family, Ise had witnessed no one riressaMairee, sin which a belief could be fiausided, that the crime charged Mad ever been committed! Captain Flynn, who micbt sad ought DO have beau called by the• other toile, was called h.y t►en, mid to that circumstance he tholight pertitnlar attention was slue, as some strength twits thereby •forded to their case. He had out bees sum moned by those who might base availed themselves of his teatimes', if any thing in support of the charges could have been derives, from the traametiose of the voyage. Koddierg io fitily, meal wholly suciroweeted with the Queen, either by hopes Or by deparidaace, without brio! called me, knotting only (rune the reports of the papers what was pushier, fie did not Wait to ascertain W SOO dollars • inooth would be paid him, but (sus stalely offered to give hill re' donee to she lust of his reusiketatesom Owe.; >f gellent, an hoonarahle mos might h easected to do. He had before herb examined in a Castel of Justice, and no witi who had ever before been quesliWned c o uld h ave ettu d o himself with a greater degree of respect for the tribunal Itc ; fore which he was examined A more servants wileus hail sees; and their Lordships could not but rename' ber how frequently he had given answers which be Bever could have meant ; as lathe instance when he had hero asked 'f a paper which be produced were a correct copy of tabu it purported to relate, he hail answered, Nu.' But there could nut have been a man who heard him that did not be. lifer he meant to have said * lers.' But bis evidence on polist• of his belief was of the most clear sad convitic keg mature. Ost being asked what was the arrangement of the cabins, and where Rergand slept on the outward voyage, hr had stated that he believed hint he have slept in the dia log room, because although he never saw him in bed, yet when hr bad on . r:16100 10 Ell through that room to her Royal Highness'. cabin, he generally spoke to him from behind the aervs. On ilte voyage home be slated that hr did not know where he Bkpt, breanoir her Royal Highness lying out deck hr had not occasion to pass through the went to her cabin dewing the Night, but that he hail no mason to be lieve that he slept under the tent, because the other bed re. maimed a• he fore. lie had then been asked,' Whet ! was there no a. raneenteni,no distribution of beds fur the homeward voy age %' and ha had answered, ' No, none was necessary ; the ar rangement had before been made, and her Royal Highness had given no directions for any alteration.' His evidence was most distinct as to that point; and when pressed as to his belief—a belief which might have been fronded in *caudal, nod generated by the calumnies which had been circulated, he declined funnier any, mod was perfectly justified iu so doing. Hs bail not forgottels, nor would their Lordships, nor could say man forget, the croswirsaminatiow that wit nese had undergone. He had no wish to speak with dis respect of the Weal sod high attaionaents of his Learned Friend, the Solicitor-General, and in particular of his consummate skill and ability in cross-examination, that most efficient engine fur the discovery of teeth. He delighted in the skill of an advocate displayed in a citisa-exantination; he liked to see truth dragged from her lotting place, and the confession forced from the lips of the reluctant witness, who often, when most be lamed to conceal, gave the surest clue to its discovery. But when a cross-examinatiusi was intended merely to force an honourable man into trifling ieciersistencies, for the purpose of casting a 111,11110 of doubt over the remainder of his evi dence, although he might admire the talent and iugusuity dispieed in conducting it, he had little honour or respect either for the motive* or the consequences of such a cross examination. Captain Flynn had produced a paper, per. fectly immaterial to the case. Supposing that he should be asked certain particulars of the voyage, he had caused his clerk to make an extract of slates and pia( es from his jour nal. On his arrival in Englawl, finding that from the hail writing and worse spelling, it was not fit to he produced in a Court of Justice, he had gut Count Schisvini to write it over again. Any reference to that paper was quite none cessary, was wholly immaterial to the case. His learned Friend, by the powers of his mind and his countenance, which he bad exerted to the utmost, hail betrayed that wit ness into some inconsistencies, which if the paper had been of any importance to the issue, might leave lad to a doubt of the Gabes" of its preparation. Every one knew bow often it occurred, that, in • new situation, a brave man was thiliwn off his guard. The old expression "cabin! areas toiler," had never been more fully exemplified than iu this instance. No man, however, could disbelieve the general result of his evidence; au man could doubt, that instead of being seen kissing us • gun, or under the tent on deck in open day, had any adulterous purpose existed in the mind" of the parties, they would have restrained them 'vivre from those freedoms is the presence of others, which they sight with so much security have indulged in in the cabin below. But indecent exhibitions of another kind had also been charged as occurring on hoard the polsere, indecent exhibitive's of the person to divert the Princess; and here was soother break down in the evidence. What was Bergiidu's evidence on this palest? That Beigaini had played antics be fore the Princess to make her laugh. What had been the lestirnoay of Howassa ? That there wags* Eagliab Consul taunt Tunis, or stone other part of the coast of Africa, came on board 11w polacfe, who was a heavy lusty sort of person, pompous in his manners, and singular in bis attire, and alto gether an object id ridicule; that to excite the mirth of the Princess, Bergasni bad dressed himself iu imitation of this personage, awl with pillows stuffed under his waistcoat, to give greater effect to the representation, had paraded to and fro in mimicry of the affected gravity of his pompoms self. importance. 'lbis was the fonisdalitto on which the story rested of those andel-rut exhibitions, which had been trumped op for the porpoise of bearing out the other scenes of kissing and toying, and lolling in indecent situation. oil board the policed, of which no much hail been said. The plait' and obvious inf eruct which any man world draw was, that if adultery had been the Abject, those were& would have beets rehearsed below and in private, where moue could have setts them, instead of being performed ma the open deck, and ex posed to the übservation of this modest Captain and his blushing mate. This scene of the tent, sin board the polacre, was the last rag of the ease; awl be would ask, if he could show all that had been charged both before and after to be soarer, whether it were shut possible they could believe the crime of Acillesy to have been conossitied ? Could their Lardships, could any man say, that if this were the only feet alleged—that without the scene of the return from the opera-house at Naples—without the uwkcrnt drew at the noteqnerade—without the midnight visit at Charnitz, could any man say, that without tiny of these circumstances to hear it eel, any conclissiost coati' be drawn that adultery had bora committed, front any thing which had been proved to hate occurred on board the polecat? Their Lordships were now trying the first sot+ rt its this realm, in a case in which it was impossible to adopt tiny middle course between ac quittal and dishonour. It must not be "Wel, that berates, the pistsishment involved wan 1101 of the highest degree, that be cause it was ant a situation affecting the life of the ;seemed, they were therefore to form any decision upon any lighter grounds of proof. For loath as he was to appear before their lordships with an expression of feelings of exaggerated sew aliments, be would say that he had rather see Isis Royal Mis tress plradiug at the bar as a criminal fur her life, than ex posed to the ilegredation and disgrace of this wiexampled proceediNg. Ile had rather hand her to the scaffold, and behold her illustrious head on the block, than see her com pelled to quit this land as an outcast, or couileained to live in it an uLjret a pity and scurii—of greater scorn than pity —a condition far inure paitiful to a person of refined and exalted tiding luau nuy death which she cuuld inert, with the heroic constancy 11114 fir AK fur which her family hail been emineutly distinguished. For though he might weep over her fete with tears of esteem and 'egret, as an attached and faithful se. vans, still lie should contemplate her end es infinitely preferable to tying a most unfortunate instance of tkgradatino from rank and honour, and ruined female chit. racier.—(TM last two or three sentences were delivered by Mr. Denmau with great feeling, and towards the close hie voice became nearly choked, from the strength of the rlll4l. 1101111 under which lie hilloured.j—Therefore he would say, that their Lordships might to regard her Majesty in Iles ease, an if they ware trying her fur sit act of high trea son wimnsitted of bonsai the pol•cre. And what would any Judge say, yawl" of all the change■ that hail lore pre (cured that slime had not been disprow d What would any Juke say, but that no charge bad been sustained—that no fart bad twee moved —that lop evidence of adultery exisbil— that the only circumstance even of sospiciosi in tlw case had berg let oust by 1111 e of the 1111.111613 tir the defence, in his belief, that the parties bail slept at the same time under Ilse same tent; hut that there 61111 wa. 'oohing but surmise or the subject, and on sormise only slid at., ea/i -dles-. rest GOON which the remit. st iobr. ace of lobate/7 'veld be drawn He mast say, that any indite who in such a ease did out declare that 40 11C01111116111•1161 be pranottared, ought to he impraelied at their Lordships' bar for a grime derelicliiiii of 111 a duty. Must he now insult their laud shape gilint anise by life t leg to ilw rase of the bath The only evidence by which that hail been attempted to hr sastaimtde was that of Majorcht and of De . The fernier stated it to have heels in one tonne sod thus latter iu *another; but in the evideoce fur the &Gore it had berm proved that both rooms were km small to admit it. But .41a V • 'l4i it pees otherwise, what was mica malisig. ea IMP* pei• ns the tbaireelaim to see it filled with water, sad to tensperatore?:—dad further 'then that sousing bad 'inkameed which had not beeo . dliproved. Pur the pnr. Aims of nuking out a ease fur the prootemtiin ih say Court tof•Jossicr., there never was way witness produced fur the • defence so likely in cross-examination to let out the whole ease as Lieutenant Howson's. He had entered the service 'of the Princess at Genoa, at the time when her passion was mated to be at its greatest beight--he had continued with h er f u r upwards of th e re years, during which every Mug criminal was charged to have been going on—lee must therefore have known if arty thing criminal had ever occurred; hat though they bad endeavoured to prove indecetst exhibitions by the evidence of grooms awl I boatmen, a n d ma son s, nod while-washers, though they bail subjected that 'Fitment to n lung, sad trying, and painful eross-exeisinati 0000 they bad never mere asked his a single question on that point fur which a foundation had been laid by a question in his examination in chief, to which he bad answered that in all that time he never as lay thing to warrant the belief of the slightest degree of is proper intimacy or familiarity between those parties.— ' His Learned Friesd had reminded him of the embrace soil the loss at 'rcrracina. blajeccht had stated that Sergami :wing about to depart, be had berm seat for from below, wed witnessed his embracing the riflemen nod kissing her. Here, as in many parts of this ease, there was just so muck of fact for the fonsilatioa of such a statement, as generally Wrestle the germ of falsehood to all these witnesses.— Prone the evidence by which Majocchi's lestintowy had been contradicted, it appeared that when they parted ea deck all the crew were witnesses of the transaction, and that instead of her month, or even her check, she bad held her baud fur him to kiss, which he had done, as was usual with all the higher class of her suite whenever they took leave. But there was another kiss also at ailt•Siall, of which ha should much like to know the price. Bergamot had geed. sins, to go to town, a distance of • mils or two from where the Princess resided, to sake a few purchased ; bat that, it seemed, was a journey of too munch importance to be performed without an affectionate leave.takisg; sad Majoechi was again summoned to bear witness to the tenderness of their parting salute. Miss Delmont, too, having probably read what Msjoechi hail stated in his evidesce, thought it would be as well to give it • tittle confirmation; but in that particular her evidence was but of little help, for though ere swore to the kietrisg„ yet she had bees pleased to say that her back being turned, she could not say whether at was vu the mouth or the cheek that this kiss had bees given, of which Ma jucchi had sworn that he was the only witness, at which nose but himself beside the parties had been present. With respect to the evidence of Sacchi, he should have thought that no husband of any feeling woold have permit ted such evidence to he gives epeeist his wife, particularly if he irellected that the more he loaded her character wills profligacy, the more he stigmatised his own, for having left her expoweJ to such depravity. Searching through the History of England he fouled no example of say King , indeed, be knew of no Cluistiau King who had firm divorced his wife, sail afterwards prosecuted her for infidelity. The only email that was at all similar was recorded by the great historian of corrupted Rome. Scarcely bad °clack become the wife of Nero, whets she became the object of his essjust aversios ; he repudiated her, sad received • mistress is her place. Shortly after, a conspiracy was set es fool to accuse her of • criminal cosesexioti with • slave. Her household staves were induced, not by bribes, but by tortures, to give eel deuce against her, awl though the voice of the public pro. nuanced her innocent, her prosecutor persisted in affirms. iag her guilty, mod procured a sentence against her. On her return, she was received by the generous people as a. injured woman; but shortly after a arcood conspiracy was set ow foot, and site was banished to an island of the &fedi terrines., where, by fraud or violence, amend was put to her lila and her stiaerlas together. The words of Tacitus us this event were prophetic--. "Nos alia easel visentima males majore mi. sericordis affeeit. Alessismaat adhec quids= Agrippina, a Tiberie; recestior Julia* 1/101/0/611 ollivenshalse, Claudio pulsar. Bed illis mbar setatis 'dissent : lams shims vies rout, et primmest' 'Realties meliorie olio &nesse re. -cordatiose allevebant. Hale missies nuptiareir dies lees funeris fruit, &doom is dogmas, is qv& whit nisi lactuossm behests. aleph" per vemesein paw, et Matins fratre: tem ancilla Jostle& validiur et Poppsee non nisi I. prettifies' exert' utopia: postresso crimes *mai otitis. gravies.* Her Royal Nighties. left Ibis molar, mad went to the Coe. Linens, while reports and resteers of a most animist ea. turn were abroad; those reports and rumours had sow hap pily, he might my, assented the shape of sobstantive charges. With time charge" they had grappled, lied he trusted they had proved them, to the eatiefaction of their Lordships, to be utterly fain tad grosedless. In the month of Novem ber, 18117—in that mouth, wises the tapes of England were blighted by the death of her Royal Higher:4a the Prime's Charlotte—in that month it so happeued, that all the wit. misses who had appeared against her Majesty were dismissed from her service. Demont, with all her isnportaut secrets; Illajoechi, with his kisses; cad amid and Rasselli with their disgesilllg cargo. In that month this Lady bad WM. tared to dismiss all the four isdivideals who could prove such charges agates' her. Their Lordships would recollect they were discarded servants, and when they asaidered the circuisstaace of a discarded servant been called after a lapse of thug years to prove charges of adultery, its whet a state horns society would be placed if such twisting were to he received without qualification. He *ever could see a wit ness of that descriptioo without recalling to his memory the words of the immortal Ruske, when sprskirg of spies; the worst of the species —domestic spies:—“ In such a state of society, the table and beds are surrourded with bettayers, and all the mesas given by Providence to make life comfort able are converted into snares." Bet how dangerous was such 'widest, where it was not possible to contradict it. It uue of the COllllOll/ of any Noble lord were to be accused of having stalest to the bed of one of her domestics, iu what way could such a charge be contradicted, unless from she character of the testimony, or by some discrepancy 10 the story As to the circumstances sworn to by Sacchi and Niacin, he would quote to their Lordships a passage replete with af, minitie spirit of indignation : he would give it in the oust decent language, because it was that which was least understood:— KfiedifferliOP zo SAW AldWOUin bni TV OV fletiarTlC• That was his isheervatims ors the evidease of Saccbi sad Ru. Seth. But what was Saedii?—be was one who mime as • soldier sad • Geollestaii, and be probed his claim to those honourable names by twain to betray his benefactress. Whet moral diatincliou was &ere, he would ask, between a man who came to betray au intimate • casaidemee as being iutrushd with such secrets betokened, sad be who would fabricate them ? He knew that when once the witness was placed at their bar, and the Sacred Velminse put in his band, he was bunud to disclose every partiealar within his know ledge. But why did foe arose there ?--tio summons was sent him ; no su b was served us him—bet there be was, a vuluotary wifeless, who fur base and sordid purposes was equally ready to fabricate sod swear to charges against his Royal Mistress. The petite+, of all domestic trai tors—the first apostate from Christianity came to betray his toaster, by telling the truth against him, and yet the ex certifier*, of mankind hail followed him for the deed. When those four indivithsals were discharged, of whom Sacchi was one, the conspiracy was funned; and if her !Majesty hail bean residing abroad, with the full approbation soil in inessesioun of Abe conlideuce of her /loyal Consort; if no Milan Commission had ever existed, that conspiracy was then formed in thcsr own hearts. There were some moments in which the most abandoned natures acted f better im pulse, and Lou otiosely Loris. Dimwit had disqualified her self as • witness against her klajenty, by pootiotereing the highest, the must t:lorpieut posegyric which servant ever Wade on • mistress. That character remained on their Lord. ships' animates. It was a happy circumstance that that very pereos, who hod been prevailed opens to reuse there by the r.uasiuus of her paramour &weld, should have en previously dininalibed herself. Her letters stiU resosioed, and were most powerful testimony % that writing in Which she had humbly Intruded her gracious mistress to rehire into her service that sister fur wham she felt so much interest, still related. Ht would ask if it were passible fur tier lb have wished In place that btlorsd•ister in a situation whicho from three years experience abe must have known the dative LON DON, WEDNESDAY, Oftelitt 25. Mb. Our confidence in the justice of the House of Lords has not been deceived; their Lordships yea. terday morning unanimously refused the motive of the ATTORNEY•GENERAL. Colonel Barnett and his character are, therefore, left to shift for them. *elves ; but as the ex-commissioner, no doubt, shares the anxiety of his learned friend to relieve his character from the imputations which the ATTORNEY-GENERAL conceives to have been cast upon it, we sincerely hope that a proper opportu. ' nity rill soon be afforded him of vindicating his reputation —at the bar of the Old Bailey. In the serious difficulties, however. which might arise from a situation at once so novel and so embarrass. ing, it is possible that he may enjoy the consolation of sliming his society and his dangers with a cer. trio Gentleman who had been the friend and part tier of his prosperity. Then. too, will he prove the tinerrity of the ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S professions of friendship and esteem, and will enjoy the advan tages that may be derived from the turbulent eh.. queen@ of his !nosed Mend. Titus, sweet are the uses of adversity." It is likely, however, that its his situation he will require the full enjoyment of every solace which friendship cau offer. The charges to which he will probably have to answer are of the most serious in dart class of offences—no less than that he had sought to suborn witnesses against the Consort of his Sovereign—the QUEEN of these realms—sod a member by blood as well ea marriage of the Royal Family of England. The Lords laving thus rejected the application of the Arroneeo-Grosast. to postpone the con. siileratiou of this cue for an indefinite period, re quired the Counsel fur the Bill to bring forward their witnesses to rebut the Queer's defence. To a solitary instance, however, in the deposition of only one witness did they apply thentselvei. They re• called Captain liaocs, of the Letiashow, and trs. mined him respecting the particulars of a certain conversatiou which lie had held with Lieutenant Howssit on the deck of the Levialhate during the passage of this ship to Palermo. It will be recol lected that Lieutenant HOWNAN was in his cross examivation inked whether lie had ever in conversa tion with Captain BM US informed him that " he had implored the Princess of WALES on hi. knees, and with tears in his eyes. not to suffer Benoust to sit at her table r To this Mr. Howsast replied. that he recollected uo such conversation, and that in fact he had never made such a request of her Royal Highness. Caplan' Batons, however, swears positively to the etstirksatiosi„ mod declares that he has u very distinct recollection of it. This circuto. 'luxe casual fail to produce an evil impresdion and to weaken the credit doe to Flawttua's testimisny: Upon this point, however, we must in candour ress :.Galls-11AV. lA,Agt, mark, that it is ivideWrtrom the esoliet of Noir eritleudi, that his niiiid'Sitisit directed during erom-exaMnation upon this incident, nut to ploy conversations lie might have hod 'twat, ciwiek, 181141011 on hoard the Leisiailian at pea, but ton abort cenversation he had held with 'him at ilditsmotith anite liar colllßlCllCeillrlit of 3iiisrnt proceed ings. Tor abet, denies retoliect of the converiation imputed, he adds, that Captain 1/Ittnns would not even speak with him up the subject, but declined• all conversation.. Now in the testimony given by Cantina Botoos.yeeterilay, he informs the Muse that Hostnai had gone to him at Portsmouth, *nice she commencement fT : theie proceedings, and had inquired of Inge ther any alterations had been made in tire Le. viathan when the Princess of *ate* *rut on board, fur that he (Lieutenant tiosittass) did • not recollect them. Captain Batons expressed his surprise at Howitase's defect of memory, sod brought such circumstances to his mind as etieviored him that alterations had been nude, and even in Mr: flowx st's presence. Lieutenant HOWN the:: endeavoured to enter more deeply into conversa tion with Captain Batons, relative to the proceed ings against the QUeee, but the Captain declined to indulge him. This last circumstance concurring almost literally with what fell from HOWnAM, would induce a Suppositiou that, in the agitation and confusion of mind which must be felt in a great degree by one who for the first time under:. goes a strict cro•ii-etlimination in a Court of Jus tice, end which must be increased considerably by the awful character of the tribunal before which he chanced to undergo this probation, Lieutenant Ho*Nall might have beets revolving the last cen, venation with Captain Bitcos at Portsmouth, and never directed a thought towards the desultory dialogues held so long before, when he and Capt. Bosons were sled to take their Morning's walk on the pm-ter-deck of the Leviathan. From Captain evidence we collect the further assurance that Lieutenant HOWIAlles memory is oat at/te nacious as that of the gallant Captain ; far it Derma that the former had actually forgotten that any alterations had been made on board the Levia than, although it was afterwards brought to his recollection that they had been made even irs his own presence. There is nothing, perhaps, so little regarded, and consequently so little under stood by the generality of olankindi as the power or capability of the human memory. When an cident is yet recent, we couceive our knowledge of its circumstances so perfect is to defy the in fluence of time, and thus in prospect we consider forgetfulness impossible; and when in a content. pletive mood we look back upon the events of our passed lives, recollections crowd upon us so thickle that we have no space to reflect open how many may be absent. The absent are as if they had never been, and thus the retrospect is no less fal lacious in enabling us to form an estimate of the power of memory. But let some circumstance arise in the conversation of friends, 'and we Mon dii cover how quickly, even in private and Family affairs, our recollections became imperfect and ob 'cure. Events hourly occur in our presence of which we take no note, and the impression which they might have mode upon the mind is as quickly erased u the mark of an infant', finger on the send of the sea. But how shall we venture to excuse forget fulness in one party, and impute criminality to an.. other, for alleging an equal defect of memory ? The difference must depend upon the nature of the Sub jects to which their testimony respectively refers, and the apparent connexion necessarily subsisting between the parts recollected and the parts mid , to be forgotten. Much also must depend Open the moral character of the witnesses, and a knowledge of the motives by which they may be supposed se verally to be influenced. Our reuders.may apply these remarks to the witnesses for the prose cation and the defence, as they may conceive them 'to' be appropriate. ' With this very minute exception, the Counsel fee the Bill have left the evidence adduced in•be half of the QUEEN untouched, and snch being the case, no doubt can now Vise respectiug the result of the inquiry. Mr. DENMAN commenced to mut up the evidence for the defence about tall-past eleven o'clock, and with the exception of half-an hour's indulgence., he continued to comment upon the testimony brought forward fur the charge and the defence reopertively, until four o'clock, when the House adjourned. This speech will of nurse• he read with deep interest. To our minds it brings conviction iu fevuur of the innocence of his Illustrious Client. It was genertilly senerstowd at Rio Janeiro, when lewd 11 taasroaD sailed, that Ye bad oa buard the 3forigech gurney equal to Itifyslof., and a considerable quantity of dismuntl4, inn-noted to pay the Portuguese tratups. .7hg igus Janeiro Gazelles are tilled with proutatioas in licuour of the btrth•day. The folimeing are the extracts from the Tritfle Moserrer of •pril, 11817, allotted to by Mr. Brow'lkon ybarr.lay :- 44 1111111111, A NUL 16 " The Priuers• of Wales the wife of Ws Royal WWI the Prince. Retest of , Eingl•o4 l . Pesattell rents the Higher Germany, arrived iu this city yeateiday about maid. day. la the ',cutout our sew grand theatre, where the *m alted Princess sweat to the crawl spectacle of • mar Opera., war, in honour. of her Royal Higbee's, bsilliaattly Woes*. sated." . . to • subsequent autrabcr of the same paper, dated the 19th of the same moods, is the following articlac: ! --" Her Ro)al Highness the Primes of Wales left this city the 18th taf ibis moods, at lee o'clock is the ctesti•e, fur her eilehigisi. fel conicity Mildews ea the Lake of Couto." agg if me fee Dew le klbelditad ? Such a rescission wised Imo hatily of human mature, and Iberdisse he Would' 'My the' written toed al the verhel lestlesony of beartiat wet that whir% alight to he believed 1 1 teirleiedsbitet 'meld readied tire ernifirrestory temintorty of that elderly person sa ho was mansard yesterday, whelcd area by the papers the testimony which Deana bad given, and was filled with indignation at the iliffrrence with the scenario she had before rim. What was more natural spa treeing that eamainstiou (whir* to the disgrace of Eng. laud had found its way iota all the paper. of the citilis•d world) than that she should come forward to state the me emml• *ditch Delmont had formerly given? That letter of Demand wee a complete acquittal of heir Majesty ; tubs knew every oLing, ail haul said nothiusg hat. what re flected the highest ironour on her Majesty. With retard to the burn, td the beds, and every ruttier fat, she was in Ertl paiemiott. But hip Learned Friends nu the other mite say, tVe will thew that she is to be believed eme ' and that at that time she was is a course of Carload, andafeettitt what slue nether felt nor believed." When a wituee• was to set against herself, it was useful to consider what se . ducentents she had then to speak falsely, and whet au* to speak truth. And again, he would repeat, the letter of Drama must Iv. behead. Had her Royal Highest haw seaward two years ago, where could she have looted fa mildest* which would have merest au acquittal with a much success as f that very individual who was now the principal witness against her' Whatever parte of the case had bees attempted to be proved, they had refuted, and if the Counsel for her Majesty, takieg the de4row into their soda hands, had uoi called to their Lordships' bar semetriteesate which they might have called, it must be Wasted,. tadetire to guard front the possible marque:sores oftreachery,from the possible conseinences of alarm seder a crosi.exa &La 10111 at their Lordslii pa' bar (ri situation in which he aver amid desire to place a female). Itilloomiced by those motives they bad refesieed from calti.R the sister of Deasoet (Marietli), sad seder the circumstances be trusted they would steed el card to all mankind. Had it been as ordiaaramete they would have felt themselves justified in anew Open the Judge at the chore of the ease for the Prosecutor, to direct • verdict of acquittal; but the extraordinary nature of the ease hail induced them to go on. They had pro ceeded, and were now the more justified in ceiling for that acquittal (after the satisfactory evacuee they bad gives) which they would have been entitled to have asked fur bad they called nu evideeee at all ; but there was ho ea to the ingenuity of man, sad be seticipated that ' his Learned Friend, the Attoreey•Gateral, would ask why be bad Not called Marietti i or the Coates. Oldi. Bet if they had due • so, they mig ht have sea • triumph similar to that which bad been Mobilised over poor Lieut. Flynn, who, becsu.e lie required to look at am unimportant paper fur an immaterial fart, had hems involved Man appa rent trivial discrepsney. Bet the fact was, he had sot stated the paper to be hie hard-weilieg; his Leaned lead pet the guanine to hum a ffirmativelyjassis ming that he bad said it, and then the witness's memory not serving hies, he replied, " If 1 did say so, 1 was in such • situation that 1 kaew sot what I said ;" and ou that the Government Fiats bad held up that officer, is his Majesty's service, as • mau who bad saved himself sad the case by the mat coeteroptible memo. Looking to that, he thought that her Majesty's Counsel had only exercised sound discretion in eel calling nervous females to the ordeal of a cras-examisiation at their Lordships' bar. Bat they *add, autwithstanding their releariece, have beta compelled to do it, had a fact released ueseetradieted. The Lord Chseeelloe said it was ma past four o'clock, ctrl the House immediately adjouteed tomorrow mere- hislipata, of lag rogr./ THE URITISH PRESS. rd rA or 40 hu II h. d. 11. rr N CP*