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" S.' • . 1k: . s• . ~,~ :~ S Ater Majesty's stay at . /Ispict sire MwDerpeal timing set of his room naked, he might my, fur he had nothing oo but his shirt, and was even without stockiags, anti movial Sowards lb. Qaeeo's chamber. Seeing this she did not re tire, bat she moved towards Bergami, sad Bergami eliJ not snite or make say latealle for being sees in such • ettliten sad is well • deter' Alifieltlipll; teprineiAlogLeyeis then Bergson did not • retire, but prised sate tb• Quito's room with somewhat mute alacrity than a lumbered would Roils the bed of his wife. Their Lordships surehl hod this a,, page 451 of the printed evideoce, although, 10114 Is" R a tce sy th ou ght it necoaseryAo refer to tbetweiiadarscrt dio. evidence, because he' retied fur his defense avow Its west wad leading featerM. Me'brgued now to sod thirty Lord. *trios' attention to what was alleged to bum taker place at Catania; and let It be observed here, that therm wore two ordinance' privy to the circumstance% lath of whom wen tartar. to the AttorneyGeoeral. Two maim, it was said, -were sleeping in the room seat the genies, and that Ores. heard Bergemi'a child crying' there for the Queens yank her Majesty was absent. They mast bode have heard this if it ever took piece. The Attorney-General might lace produced them both, but not only did be call hot owe, bat lir had toot eve,, dared to ask that man whether be had ever•eotitainninded sinew with his companion respecliog what they had belted ; but in bulb they sever did comma. 'acme. for the whole thing was a falsehood. But Demotic was called' in with another story. He 'ward their Lordships to attend to the particulars of that tale, fur it was eiummpiesard with snore marks of improbability than even the multiplied iuiprobable circumstances sit those on which he hail been flora king. It seem. d that of one of their residences Bergman slept oil the op'ponte side of a court from the Queen's apart tweed while be was well, but he became sick, he was attacked with freer, and there he was bronchi into another room, to which her Majesty might have inure easy access, where he lay ill fur 'some time. Now it was strange enough that the scene of that antler shooed have been laid in that par tiro's, room, and still more so at the time when Ber gs/a war lying ill of a fever. He was stretched on the lied art sickneas ; yet this was the time chimes fur ndes' ca t noes and endearments, in a room besides to which her Majesty's access was most difficult, haste dome, almost im possible, because her two maids slept in the intervening roast. Now the stni y was, that she moved to B•rgaines s the night, awl that having staid too long oue mora ine she was men imaging hack to her spartmetit by the two inside Wae it not odd that her Majesty should encounter ell this difficulty? One simple arrangement would have gut over it all. It required only to place Bergami in tie room r. ei to her own, or to take the roam 'text to his, herself. 'Mt this was in conformity with the uniform tactics oaf her rtlaje.,ty against her own character, peace, comferl, and happiness, fur it appeared that she was constantly under the MS of some spell, and if they were to believe the witnesses against her, die never did one criminal act with. out having strangers present who might turn it to her de wirorsion. And now he was told that he could coheradict this story if it were false by means of Marmite Brain. To this : lie replied, why did not they call that female? She was their witness, became they Partitioned her in their case. They said she saw all Heir. He maintained she was their witness for this crintiaal proceeding, nay, worse than cri minal proceeding, for he would assert that a Bill of Pains aid Penalties *amid not part unless supported by better evi dence would take away life and limb. The prucedume against her Majestyelid not seek to oppress, but to overw helm. That woman was not his witness, Arrange his client stood on her defuse. They we., to prove her potty, and until oche was proved guilty, if jailor still reigned there, she wee slut to be called on for her defence. The same rule world hold if a inign were put oil hie defence for the lowest crime known to our law. lie would suppose a - cage. If a man were accused of highway rubbery or mur der, and put on his trial, and a Ilow•street officer pane. i lig for his reward, ur an accomplice heist ou his own safely, Or a wry eager to ingratiate himself will, his accusers, or any other w linen front the eircuinstauces of his character neces sarily suspected, tainted, impure, were put forward singly to prove that charge, amt suppose there were any ',teed relation of the accused, or any permute wending in. timately connected with him except his wife, whom the law would not allow to be prielticed—suppore, he said, 'Owed were any such individual who wuuld he able to derootunrote the falsehood of the charge, still he maim t•ined dint no man ought to have his life pot in jeep gird) by calls)q that friend or relative as a sinless, if lb. cow reefed wily on the single testiniony of the Bute..freet runner, of the accomplice, or the spy. Friend ship, however street, counexi .... however close, would fur nisi. no reason whatever for au exception, because the law •iat Coedited held, that which was founded in common arose dud jointer, that a defendant was not called ou to make a de. fence nail a neflicient case was established against Win. The Qum* was in a almilar slate; she could nut but suspect the dewiest' of certain persoue—she caned not avoid opening 'bee mead to apprehensions from the motives mid objects of 'ethers—she had been exposed since the that moment, of her ar rival in this country to much per-omit 111 l —she hail bete. par oiled incessantly by ilw fraud and the aria of Cite malicious and revengeful, withuut the same means of tracing and exposing theta to the day which 'nether individual wadi possess. This life to which ale had been expo...al—every thing which she had exprrieuced. halt here need in Italy, was calealmed lir make sorpirion Ilse general, almost on. I im it ate of her naturally unsuspecting breast. One of elw hardest cll.- euractances iu the faie of au individual 'hilted with the per secution and oppres of which her Majesty had been the •rctim, was, that it reduced her to the necessity of beige; ever o 9 her guard, and put bee iu the pliant state of nut know. toe in whom she could place trust ; and even at this mu. ment her Majesty might he harbouring in her bosom another Viper, in the person of that veil individual whom she ass efoilleoged, from the opposite side, to produce in her de teak. She was the sister of the oilier Dentate, who had so catumeisted her Majesty; she hail been placed ablaut bar person by the same false wieners. The sisters lead rev responded together since one of them had quilted the Chteen'a service—nay they corresponded in ciphers, if they were to believe the elder, which lee did not. Bat with all these cir cumstances to justify, nay to prescribe suspicion of thus per • Pon, his Learned Friends on the other side would have them riudure her at the bar. They left their own ease shun Ay trot callieg her, and then they' turned round and cried, Why etio you out call her? But he " who Cahalan! over Greece" fin: every, said, and he woad remind their Lorahhipamf the piesage—m That, instead of all ramparts, outwork.; and fortifications, which the hand of Tea could nips to prolect nations, elle beet serenity was that distrust which velure bud; for time wise pus pose of defeading innocence grafted three and cunning, implanted in ell of human kind."— Ilda feeling was naturally alien to an Unmarred mind, lmt it oar one of the necessary ant:meanie of her Majesty's stem. Tiba to suspect strangers, and foreigners particielarly, miter leer expel inter of Grimm. and Cheepietlas. lie wa•mai a g e d iu bit own mind, sal he had no /limb! that all alto bend him *mild agree, that her Majesty's Conuerl weir end hound to r odace that witness. If he and his Learned Friends ball Seen called upon to deliver their opinions as professional non toher Majesty, it would not be rigid in them to swots's; sus ;belting in hersoind ; he was confident that he might have appealed for a defence to that pen of the ease, to the prince pies which he was then laying before their landslips, and that be might wish safety have lefi it jam where it was. But whatever she might suspect, her Majesty haidoever yet kennel see y thing to the prejudice of tbe sister, and she should there. frtn , be presented before their Lordships, and then there *Auld IW an opportunity of hearing her account at' those tratimetions which had bees its falsely Sold by the other. del he cyanided that this was voluntary on their part, front an over-excess of caution, lea 'my one might 'appose that there was any person ea existence whom they dared nut tall. lo like manner, with tripod to the stilly it the pass. pert at Charaile, Demmit's memory had (alerd in an impor • lent peat lure, eilihrorzb she had been able so tell bow long ' She Itad been awake est PI certain moment three years ago. 'Me should *bed their Lordebipt that tier MONICId the poss. • port hail bent brought hack, the j•enesey coanowered: that Pall gise thing. bad been then pet into the carnage, is which holiness her Majesty mite had helm Mooted shout ea hour hear ; shat during that lime the diteries room-deur had been genre!, closed; that people were eseatioualle pepsin in and out from it and Ilse corridor, hot Demme *sly, but *all the U.sitlemea of her Majesty's mitts is just the same toluner as be; and that her Majesty was !yip' all IM time me her bed in her irseelliag dress. So bested,/ of des seen* at Carlerube, be should spew that if Kress' saw s *wean at 't •' . • all s io the MIN, ski ii•dla se beww.ii it could h.". We* Mr ely, becalms he that tire osilliese wort - home is lb Carts*** wss'ssce, ohs IA Ow Closes et at her illosteletie relative% remained a half there, and than to supper to :vise* Mose :AS etvnytteldMessillif- it bgg nay t, own ; and that Reiland a aiter sod the child Mow, in consequence of the lest baying bees take Hs would lest resided their Lordships of an argument "tarigifght remember bad belt* urged- the othee tisyaemir^ wade with mime persons seemed to carry rauclamere widobk l • than it really evald possess. it had been argued, it this wens, • a plot, if the testimony were a fabrication, if the witness** eases there to swear deliberately to what they knew to his false, how was it that they had not gone tardier ? They sleighs as solely have sworn to much mere, they might eves hem dm. posed to the direct cr I fact, MO yet they hedonist simet • of it, wail uuneuf them had proceeded beyond circulating**, leading to the inference of guilt. But it could be neeesnary fur hint to 'egged to their Lordships, did even is the fabrication of a case two modes migbt be psnieted did. firing considerably in their complexiou, but either teodiag to the same end. The one was that alluded to is the sr- Raiment which lie hid quoted, the other was that which implied to most vows, a n d wiled, a ppeared to have bee% psi. titularly exemplified its this. It was deemed the safest way on , i i liver charge the CUM, not to heighten the celourisg too much ; but, above all, care was taken never to call two wh eelie.* to the same fact, but each individual was to depose to PUMP particular circumstance, sod to give that as moderately, and us much within the due bounds of probability as pusaible. At Naples, fur Matinee, Deno:rut only bad bees examined as to a lint was slated to have these taken place; shy were not other witnesses milled? %%'hy, but fur this plain reams, that, when men are plaiting, they, quickly discover that it is dan gerous so to do ;• much risk would be incurred by having one tr if o cal to p r ove a fact, mud a secured to confirm it. The A tearacy.Griseral bad upeued a case at Naples, which ought to have been proved by a cloud of witnesses. Could it be auppoeed possible that a Princess, who was well kuuwu to all the city,amtl who had been accustunied to he seen in the King's box, sham Id have been biassed out of tbepublic theatre,wideaut the emu instalMe bring maturities to 'nasty hu ildreds of persona. in spite of the disguise, which at a masquerade, all knew, was evident so perfect as to prevent discovery, or eves to delay it Misled the Mid miming at farthest Why were nut other witnesses called to prove the state of the beds! why not to speak to the lined where was Ann Tustin? He could inform their lordships she was here—lie bad gut that that fact from a witness in cross esansiutition. Why was she not called thew That too, he could auswer—it was heensee she was not an Italian. For the marks—sbe was the Princess's own waiting woman ; for the bed, she made it—for the beet, she had the care of it—the could have peeved the case had it beet capable of proof—she wee the only person who could prove it; and yet they had out called her... And why, he would ask, but theauve they dial not dare to call her ? They were practised in the ens antiquities. of washerwomen, iu the adulterous plot they called them ; but here they had omitted so to do. This woo a witness, heaviest contend, whom it was imperative on them to call, for she most have proved what Demeans bad swore, if what Decimal bad sworn were true. If their Lurdsbips could belies e the witnesses, all hell bees proved that was ever proved in say ordinary case of lacy; all that was in general proved on any Bill of Divoice before their Lorthhips. Nay, he would go still further, he would say, dint, if Sacchi were to be believed, Sacchi had proved what would make her Majesty appear even worse, far were depraved, far more abandoned, than any Messalisis ; he had proved far more agatis•t her than what even the Jae-ohms uf Paris, sunk as they WPM to the lowest degree of basenues, who had covered themselves with indelible, with overwhelming infamy, had proved seethe Marie Antoinette. Rat it was said by the other side, that he insist prove the witnesses to have sworn falsely. No outdid, if may man set up • spy or an informer, or any other witness of suspicious character, to make soy awaited, it was must seethintry to confirm *heir statement lay other good sod unsuspected tea. tissenty ; but the reverse adds was the case in polliug dews the statement of a perjured willies.; all that was required, all that could he required of hies is sorb a case was, to sheer the Mee oo i 66 eucy of that statement, either with itself, or with what the ea:tines' bad said on other occasions; to shew, in fine, some one deviation ream truth, attune one wit. fill faleeltamil iu the testimony of such a witness. It was said, that their Lordsksps might pick and chaise what part of a witness's testimony they would believe, and what part they ninth' not believe; that if they should believe a witness to have spoken to facts which were not within Isis own knowledge, they might reject such part of his evidence, and only believe that which hr might have spoken truly, and which reinaithal usirontritilicted. Bait such • mode uf se. keen; evidence was never before heard uf. Never could any use fact. sworn to by any witness, be believed upon his statement of it, if he were convicted of lying iii other parts of his testimony. How, indeed, could it be other wise? How, in the name of heaven, could any Mall be safe from rusepiracy, if eve, tee persuus were to be believed in swearing to any one fact, who belied themselves Ha all tither rile.' of their testimony? Suppose a conspiracy got up to charge with, aortic boreal crime a man of the most nonellied bonus*, tole whose high • • aid delicacy of feeling were well known, and caused Idea to ehuaider even at the reroute"( idea of such a crime—fall he would, and fall he mud ; and so might stay of their Lordship., if they sere to believe what any inercesary moue drel might choose to affirm un oath merely because it re. mained micontradicted, notwithstanding his shunting, his prevarication, and his lying throughout the rest ed bast exa mine • . Suppose such a plot contrived against the most puce and exalted female character, that chsrarter must he defended by 16e cro.a.esantiustion soul the 'inane of the wit urge's, lay the establiehmeat of some inconsiitency or some violation of truth in their statement". If, as in this case, wit nesses were see produced as that unly one were called un to speak to each fret, it would be impossible to contradict them; but if they wavered, Of they contradicted themselves, if they spoke felted, eves, ow points um 110 way connected with the subject of the charge, any Cutest in this kingdam, silting 10 . 1011eMPS11 11p011 a criminal case, would direct an acquaint. He had heard it said, that Bergman having en tered the service of be Hayed Highness in a subordinate capacity, and being a person of low origin, his smith*. ad. ranee iu her favour, mid his rapid p • her service, - were eireinnmathes is themselves offending strum/ mound 11411110111t10 1 1. Bus mist manner in which this bale had then related was inconsistent with the conin* ssss of his advance. meld, with ally such, motive as had been insiuuated. It hail been awned that in a few clays, within three weeks after his entering into her service, Bergaati had been admitted to psetahe of her heel; and yet, it appeared by the evideuce, that he still remained in the ',amnion of a courier, dining at as *deo* table ; and that eve* oilier he had been once admitted un a j 0111111, ), to dine at the table of the Princes', he still retained the same station of emitter, wearing his livery, and doing all the duties of that Lather up to the period iinmedieteiy preceding the lung voyage; then he wits ad. milted to dine with her sumetimes, and st length he was promoted to the office of Charities lam. This was a slow and-graduated course, nut at nil consistent with the story of 111 t 11 . 10141(41MM at Naples. Let them shew him au installing of a woman, nut absulutely 111$11111, who had ever acted as the Prince's was said 10 have dour—who had ever suffered ...ad by adait that abed l so school swill be peeved ;pent bee, yet that to some charge of imprudence her cow:lnce might still be Habit. Bat be protested whist this assumptlon. Gent bad hoes charged but hail sot hem proved, and be fur one would sever admit that say, even the smallest degree of its propetetyked been thews epeeist; sod &there had bees say circumstance of doubtful character, any thing which savoured of want of doe reserve, say - thing iacliaing to she appear ance of impropriety, he would eyes appeal le defeat* of the correctness of her isiteotioes to that which etas always ad mitted as the ground of sdtejaitss ftwoorable to virtue in dispute—the parity of her former lift. Aid, so manacled with that topic, be Doi held Is his heed a dooninest of inestimable value.—a demisest which be could sot behold without awskassiag in his bow, souse (Moms of regret at the aseinscholy recollective that the venerable &inveigle whose hand had traced it was now so more. But this his recorded opinion provers bow high was the opinion which lie entertained of the person whom he thus affectionately addressed, whom he, who was no inconsiderable judge of the human heart, knew best of all, sad whom he, of all her family, must July estimated, most justly appreciated. This document, which, be would read to them, was a letter from our late isle and respected Sovereign George 111. to his daughter-imlaw, the Princess of Wales, sad was dated " Windsor Castle, November 13, 1804. " My dearest Daughter in-law and Nieee•--Yesterday I and the rest of my family bad as hate/view wills the Prince of Wales at Kew. Care was taken on all Miles to avoid all subjects of altercation or explanation, consequently the conversation was neither isstroctive nor entertaining; but it leaves the Prince of Wales in a situation to slew whe ther his desire to return to his family is only verbal or real, which lime alone can 'hew. lam out idle is soy endeavours to make inquiries that may viable me so cutossonicate auras plan for the advantage of the dear child. You and I with so much reason must juiciest ourselves, and its effeetiog my having the happiness of living with you is ou small in centive to my forming some ides on the subject; but you may depend upon their not being decided upon without your thorough and cordial concurrence—for your authority, as mother, it is my object to support. " Relieve me, at all times, my dearest Daughter.in.law and Niece, your must affectiouste Fattier -jot-law and Uncle, "GEORGE 1:.." That was the language of that great and good son. I might 11.1 w read to your Lordships a knit front his Illos. linos Successor—uot in the same tour, nut iu the same cue. lideute, not in language of the same regard, but yet by so means of any desire harshly to treat her Royal Highness. 1 allude, my Lords, to a leiter which has often been before your Lordships iu other shapes, and it is not uecessary for me to repeat it here. It clearly expressed a desire that her 31 ajeet y weight have come to England; it expressed en opinion that their happiness would be better secured by their bring asunder; and it contained a very plain indication 'hat her euraduct should not be watched with all the scrupulous secant", and wish all the rigour of scrutinizing agency which has brought the preseut Rill of Pains anal Penalties before your Lordaltips.—[The House here indicated a wish that the letter should be read, and Mr. Brenham immediately proceeded to read the letter as fol lows : " MADAM—As Lord Cholmondeley informs me that you wish I would define in writing the trims upon whirl, we are to live, I shall eurleavour to explain myself upon that head with as much clearness and as much propriety as the nature of the subject will admit. Our iuclinatious are nut its our power, nor should either of us be held answerable to the other, because nature has nut made us suitable Meech other. Tfllllllllllll and comfortable society, however, is in our power. Let our intercourse, therefore, be restricted to that ; and I will distinctly subecribe to the condition whirls you required through Lady Cholmoadelry, that even in the event of say accideut happening to my daughter, which I trust Provi. dente win' in its mercy &veil, I shall nut infringe the teams of the restriction, by pruposioc at any period a coarsexioa of a more particular uature. I shall now finally close this disagrernble correepunelence, trusting that as we have cont. pletely explained so each other, the rest of our lives will be past in uniuterruptcd tranquillity. " With great truth mod sincerity, yours, " %Windy/4.omile, April 30, 1796. " GEORGE P." He then proceeded-1 don't, my Lords, call this a letter of license, as it has been denaminated, but I think, at 64%1,4 is such an epistle as to make ia matter of natural wander so every person, that her conduct should ever slier , or ever more, be heard of, especially with much more rigour. Let nit, my bolls, impress on you, al the risk of my reputation, she Iwo grand points on which I rest my case :—First, That they have out proved their case by the proper with which they might have called; and, next, that thewittiesses they have called have, every one of them, been perjured hi their evidence! Now I again ark, is a plot ever to be discovered except by the means of those two principles! New plots have been die covered through the medium of the second, when the first has appeared to fail—when noble persons have ap peared to be brought forward—when permits of a higher description lent themselves to plots—when sin resource ha. scented open, they' have almost providentially escaped from the snare by evidence breaking down where it was not expected to be sifted, or by a weak point being found which no pains had been taken to strencihen. My Lord*, your Lordships must recollect that great iraseace, mid I call it a great passage, because it is the most poetical and just in the sacred writings. When the ancient judges, the elders, had joined themselves to a plan wheel, had appeared to have succeeded, fur they, as the Srriptuses assert, had hardened their hearts and t u rned away their eyes that they noght not see justice, but that they might do the purposes of an un just judgment, hot they were discomfited, and the victim ass rescued from the grasp by the trifling circumstance of a contradiction as to the situation of a tamarind tree. Let not any man blindly call these dorms accidents, for they are the dispensations of Mat Providence which means that the guilty shell not triumph ! Such is the case before you, my Luring — such is the evidence in support of it—evidence that would be inadeloare to prove a debt—ridiculous to convict for the least uffeesee--scairdalous if brought forward to support a charge of the highest nature which the law knows—and innumerous to ruin the thwarter of an English Queen ! %That shall I say then if this is all the case—if this a the species of the proof by which an ex pate facto law is sought to be passed against tide defenceless woman! Al this yi riosi Mr. Brougham proceeded with an eloquent and eireigetic appeal to their Lordships iu the following My lairds, I pray your Lordships to pause! You, my Lords, are standing on the brink of a dreadful precipice; your judgment will go twill to the world. If that judgment is meatus, the Queen, it will be the last and only judgment you will ever pitortmuce! That judgineul, my Lords, sill fail In its "thirst, and it will return with redoubled voile:tee em those who give it ! Save the country, my Lords, fruits the Ilea. . . her guilty paramour to huger oat uronelis, nay almost years , vital volatility of • civil war Save yourselves, my Lord., in her service, is a Illeui•I 'tweedy, after baring gone the from the situation in 'Odell you are mew standing ! liereme leeigihs tow Stich she was stated to have proceeded at Naples. ; that toiletry, of which you are the ornament, hut in which 11)4 was nut the conduct of a woman au greatly so guilt sly 100 can flourish no Imager when severed from the people, amid attached, as the Queen brit been represeuted; this was out the whew the blossom is cut oil' from this root suit stein of the rapld pace with which Love's votaries were promoted, alien I tree! Sieve that reissitry. my Lords ' that you may combine their advancement ass in the lover's power. It wits not true, I to be the ornament of it ! S3ve the Ciow• from denotes; as bad been stated, that Bergami was Of mean origin. His ; and the Aristocracy, which is shakes, as is also the altar tither was possessed of • convidetable pairiniony as the north itself, which never more can stand secure eraida the shocks 44' Italy, but was extravagant; and be, being reduced ie cis. which shall shake its kindred throne! If your judgment cressisnels,bad sold his estate to pay his father's debts, and be against the Queen, it will shake 10 the foundation bees afterwards obliged to enter into service as a means el 11w kindred Throne! You, my Lords, have willed, the Church litehbood • but *till, he was recognized as a rottenness, re. , and Crown hare willed that the Queen shall be laid out of the dared inde ed, slid • geinknion, anti treated as . solemn service, bet She has had the preyersof the people; sod, such. He west into the service of (ieuersl Pinot, by shun my Lords, Ido pour forth my supplications et lie throes he was treated with the respect dos to see of his former of mercy, that mercy may be poured down on these reek, and at abbe table he had dosed whim the Gruenl people in a larger measure thee the merits of their rulers ass Counnsarler se Owl at Aldan. He was isurodreed to deserve; sod I pray, say Lords, that your hearts may tern the Chemberhito of she Queer by se Austrise Nobleman, towards j,estice sod not go therefrom:" end hired lets her Majesty's service without her previous Mr. Bewintkum concluded his chilliest speech shoat clue kiwis kdge, and eves several days before she est hiss. At o'clock, end lesseedietely after withdrew. The latter part die lime of this ietreductiee, his Comer patron represented appeared to create a strong gelatinise lam the House. . ' gr. *.' "" - • • w* ties as a tau Ilitenfirlikilbtlefklait)o;l44 lB to obsold pees. ratter ihaa to his otbisho the eweidag at jesty's oerwieseritb adi bas, drat Mese opperteisity a-diosle party offered, he *AM usest4ll6 .H. bed dwelt.. d two hoots so/ this topic, sot as owe Aids ha empuseiwed et all istersoary to the Marys. area the case, he thee& he had esapleirly /imposed of bag stay is the not ; but her 51 4 0 . 4 ,1! coasted Mein lima submitted to I the child sweat • Ike severest acrothry, Imihisdikerwerlifiiiper * impel dm" been taken ilk *wicker of Iles nsllM iosproppiety is that. weasel. It argot/arid which had been said hy wore, that evils hiw Majesty's Mead. rifest - A.. aea ..~~ '. \ ' 1 li Piiihiill.loM had beta stisooti • II The Lord aliiiillll4lmr WWI Mot dip tft b. woo to do—to tall 'Humana, or whit '» • If ova iatimaated list Mr. Miasma wiiimid twwilksesthsir lordship. The Lord Choseritor—s I iinderstswit,py Lords, that it is the wish of our of her M ajesty ' s h's Covarro woke s record - i *WI ore, that - the evideoce should follow, aid Shea a Caramel emu up that evidence. There is no doubt there are precadmita-foe two addresses, and it is catirely in your dw reeler' whether you will or sot permit a second address. Probably your Lordships will agree with raft is thinking that that disiesellou will be properly eitereiwatby permitting it." Ibis wits agreed to, with cilesof " Hear, hear !" Mr. Williaitts then proceeded. He mold ammo their Luedships that ao man felt more since/Ay the disability he laboured tredve in having to sidearm them after the eloquent speech of his Learned Friend. With him it would he absurd to attempt conipetition—that was not has intention, but kis intention was to gather the weltered remnants, to take up from the angles moil careers of the case that which is some degree hail been left behead by his Hon. aitel Leeward Friend. The first cunsideration fur their Lordships to look to was, who were the patties- in this case? It was with much difficulty that be had been able to find mit by whom hip Royal Client was opposed, mail he had met with nu less difficulty is finding out the nature of the evidence in support of she Rill. Their Lordships had been told, and properly told, that his Majesty was, tower of strength in himself. His Royal Mistress then had out fluty to coniesil against that power, bat against the (1 rrrr motet of the country, which was embodied .agsisist her. Theother side cf the picture presented a complete different armee: it 'Mewed her Majesty Aiwa of her dignittes by the vicilsi. tildes of fulmar, by the Seethe of some who were her early friends, by personas holding offices in the Goverispient, who had bees formerly her most powerful defender*. He would, therefore, call us their Lord-hips to take into their consider ation she power ow use side, and the hopeless and destitute situation of the miser, who was stripped of all protection except of that of the people; if she did nut receive it at their Lordships hands, the people of this country was no wait protection. la aucirut timer, the appeals of i lie people made Rome flourish, and (lust emission was lamiline o n the Senate of that country. It was then with great hioniliatimi that be pressed ibis subject nn their Lordships; fur if there was not something imperative on their minds, besides what had Bern adduced in evidence its support of the Bill, there coold he no doubt but from a sense of justice they must negative it. In Courts below the minds of Judges and of Jell Ws were made up on evidence produced before them—on that alone, oil nut on any previous opinion that they might have formed of the guilt or inuoceuce of the party accused ; and in this case the evidence ought to be Ow only rule and cri terion fur their Lordships to ferns their opinions on. They had no obscure motives to ground their opinions—the evi dence was before them, sod au that they must give their verb diet. lie would draw thew Liedebipe' attention to the dif ficultir s and perplexities that her M sjestywaa under in making her defence, us she bad nut hero told the perimeter arta that she wan charged with, go as to be able to rebut them. Ili a Cowl of Law, and a prisoner put at the Ivor, the accused then would be is, full pentium' of the dower 'gains' him. He had bees told that the iestremeumbility of the charges in au iwilictment did imi give the time or place where the mutter laid in the indictment was committed. He would ask, if murder or a burglary was committed on the Ist of January, would is, fur fancy's sake, be allowed to he set forth its an indictment as having taken place on the Ist of Julie? The close practice of a Crinnual Court would nut allow it—there must lie some specific charge. He *mild iso dertake to say, that in nine hundred rind Moiety-Bine case, out of a tbousami, there were previous bearings before the trial of the accused; sad the witnemes examined in the pre. Bence of the accused, is givieg the benefit of a clue to the twit that they were charged with the crime, and of the witnesses to support the set-mations against them; but not so in this case against her Majesty, they were told that the crime was spread over the space of six years, with out ally detione thee below mentioned. He week/ then put to their Lordships a supposititious case—that of one of his Majesty's subjects being charged with felony, burglary, or murder, on suspicion, sad committed sus prises*, and that on the day of trial the charge weenie supported by evidence which innounted to suspicion, the Learned Judge would 'elute) the Jury that the Prisoner tieing silent, the crime having been charged to be recent, and nut aecuuntiug fur where oe was, was a coufirmation of the evidence against him, as be had the power of exphmatares if he was not guilty. He would ash., would the same Judge give Ike same charge to a Jury where a rrime of six years standing was brought against the accused, on similar evidence? He would pledge himself that he would not, fur lie would say the charge might to have been bruteght sooner. for site wit nesses who might have proved the innocence of the prisoner might have paid the debt of salute, or their memories might have failed them, for large and liberal allowances were always made is Courts of Justice to the suppufted criminal; and were their Lordshtps' House Ilse only tribunal in the country to refuse it ? His Royal Mistress had resettled preliminary petitions to their Lordships, fur something like what was granted is the CourlS below to t very subject, but which their Lordships, in their wisdom, -thought proper to refuse. It might he then said, that when their Lordships granted delay to her Majesty fur the purpose -of preparing her deicer', that it was ex pected that the evidence of her witnesses would be cogout and precise as the delay granted would give her the tipper fatuity of producing them. If this was their Lordships' cum indention in granting that delay, they would be imposing on the Queen what it was impossible to do; for it world occur while human nature existed, that the memory of man would f a il, an d all the diligence of her Majesty and her ad visers would be frustrated. He begged their Lordiltips that they email be vigi lout iii thersamination of theadverse case against his Itoyal Client, if she should fail in rebutting every point that was gives in evidence against her; but he, Standing to his place, did believe, ley the good disposition of Providence, which always had hovered about her Majesty, that she would be able to rt hut every luta of it. Iheir Lordships would also hear in their minds, that the meanest subject in the country had never been placed is the amine siloistioll; if they were charted with crime, there was a pielimitiary t7tlinlivali rrrr before trial, *hick gave them knowledge of the acclimate's' mid their accuser. He would Ming tie it Liodships' attention to the previous part of the silvers. ease. Was it, he would ask, quite a novelty in human stature, that persons would wish to isisolt those who have fallen room power? Was it ouly ill asicient times that I the people would put Cleve down because Caries friends hail lift him' In that ease of ancient times, the accuser of Closer was known ; but in this vase he was kept 1 in the back ground, fur tip to the present moment it was not 1 11101.11 who the accuser of his illustrious Mt/mess or the ill. farmer was. Could it be altogether unknown to their lord. ships, that there were persons it, the world who, for the sake s of ,newer, ur some usher reason not nee y to mention, did think that the ruing sun should lw looked at. This I certainly mei have but,, the opinion of the Hulas* Commis. I skitters; and it could nil be denied that the witnesses who supported the reifies-se caw were not to go unrewarded—it louts) be me loiter denied that the Cover 00000 ent was. con. crested in the prosecution attic Queen as it was proved by I the orients of the it Lordships' proceedings In this Case. i flume then were there enterprising and very lesions persons I engaged in the busitiralsk, well-concerted, and gimlets, ern. plii)ment of getting witnesses together. NOW he begged Ithem to bear its mind that it was out only in human Imitate that low people, iii obscure slatimet, should lie easily per. 'nailed to assist in bringing dowse !redefine, miil trampling epee the areatuess and cbarecter of their superiors, when it could he done with security; but in this ease especially it had !weal Made manifest by the declarations of the wituesses, that the arts of the seems bail been seconded by the arm of power, mid by the i n * fluence of States, a n d that when force and persunsi 111 l would out avail, so little doubt remained i that other means were u‘eil.that he would even pot it its their I Lordships to say what those rises were, and if they were 1 such as to give credit to the testimony. Had the Inquiry us the part of the defence been conducted with forgrifislars• us I to that subject? Had they suffered that clam of the errand ! notices to he neglected' And yet what had been the result? Sire the effect of the admissions made by the Capiaits sail Mate had been •known earwig 1161411,110 t one witness would acktiowledge to having received or expected any pay at all. This circumstance wan mere conilissaalury of the sabre. ~- "6. • ; gent oviaeole Ness were due Alas received by the int eve. paid tritons. Not as wallow bad escaped the itioriey. la every isatareit hod they beer hood rod chasoreme for ample ration upon that subject. Had it been Elven? sad why h.J it horn withheld? There mat be remetherg il4 that pert of the ease which world rot beer publicity. Throughert the whole of this caw. which he cloinied the right of treatsne as lhteaarwL M► twrw«l•Friutd.yMnity. to treat or freely as he wuold in souther Court en stilton tir Roods avid sad delowerrit. He wjwhl•pnet tdataajoritatice to the conduct of °mother aide, to which he would call their Luedattlpti . attention_ ir very extroordtwary wpptirotton-hael• • hems made, by the Allemseidikeiftwl hw Rase. 'Hang ever ent rillir t ig a i l lw it le""el" tu i l ei he rier C Had u la tir t i el :h Ts a la t eirriirs t i rie rV e lw i t i .o we l ea ldheee e h s a w yr t ei fr ilrilw e e ad ie ePl4"l" i s o e i c al rc t s. o . the ease. This had aist bees slum ; amennt was ...de of dhe Mad. Me moth' ash Haiwidgetber dist application had . been fitsauled i• Art, or tstarlkse H was out rather but. Meant in iniweiummindise, in sosidtmuded sammelaw, that the cam might he anewgibeeet by al latter apsdlentsuis of those means which lie had berm niennimine Their Lind. ships had seen Ilse Scatty crew which had already been call. rtl together. Was it v. ry watch to Iran after the tamoiesce whirl ilwy had of the meads molopprmatara of Hum people, that perhaps it was felt by them rho mad fiw the matenets. taus, that Urn were men whose connieners veariable, sod that there mem places wham thee... l wo, was eger , easily attainable than in others, though there were Its fact few where the mine means would not mud. 8. ea t,,,. there were oilier eimices—the knee ladee neat of Foreign Ambassadors, the authority of SIAS*/ 1.11 alliance with this comity, to say nulling of the Start Malmo", end many tesoesces which had been Hoot, availabk in the cutseeniug au& rimaducting of this g 1... rims rapine. II was not, however, on mormosv or the ebauces of probability, or en daubtful remarks deduce.' tore hittory and human experience, that he ecteeluded those means had b. es used. It was ow the mmeriesee which they bail id the witnemes themselves, who, Maar they boned the *Sett of aekitnertrdgitig the truth as tat their rgiwooser, front the instances cat theCsptsin and Mete v refeeed moll farther 'fanatical —it was upon this, mot ad which their Lordirlitio C witaesnit with resao co to the paymeut of the wocienee, Mr whatever chancier it might have been, that he chef.. leased the other side with liming the means sad op. pa/duel'', sod having meorthinly implied the Funds of eorrilpliou to the estaldishment of their ease. He w i s h e d t o awakes, their AlletaiUllll to the tier, Shit the Omen, areorirlitig to the maraca of man who bed Men dis charged by Is Nis behavi 41 its • enamor so openly petilligei.. as to make herself • most esusemoiesit meek of resentment fur those whose weelignlty she wee Haws itijodiciaissty aeon.. lug. And yet she is described as having mud that site k o ew herself to lie sarrumided by spies. IN OM* /0".• cesld she feel otherwise ? Could she have forgotten 1906 ? Cuidd she be igmeraut. futilely imoorsost of what was Weir big at home with reapret to herself? Was it morible then with that knowledge * which she moist have had. that • Lady et her quality meld al OW same tom: be se senseless to her cottduct before twenty-Iwo Merge wit news tau board • ship, as to ansmoder her character at dis cretin's to the malice of her eneneim? Illeuther iustaites to which he called strittina, was is Majtsetle's evidence as to the Miamian of dr aputmems is Replied. There was a MUM cabinet between the herLeouras of the Prioress and tsettaini. Majuecloi was to sleep here is minselacnce of Screens 's Moro; he was furnished with It, and light, art if he took any rapist, it must have beta un • seta in this very cabinet. At tint Majoecki could nut remember that there was any other passage. He also fearleady assertedk that the rest of the emir dein separate. On caussamisama lion it appeared that he did not resseasher where dee rest of the suite slept, and as to the passage hug the *My can, it Isiened oat that there was emery passage from the room at the Princess through which sloe might have gust into /regime's room, wittiest nay one 'canvass of it or even perceiving her. Now except it were raeitstanerf that she wished to give &Him( Notice in the mean placed allsjutchrs position, he challeaged the wit or tugeusity of maw to paint out any Ming an improbable, so 1:410- irony to the law of reason, so prover*e to common snot, eV the adoption of a passage which must Mead to exposure, sod votbieg eke, when there was another free FANS every unite d'. Mitch could hinder the most seer., leCilwalislorweat of the imputed pompom , . it' their 'Amdahl's were to du that in this cave whirls week' he dose is • similar case by the Judges amid juries of the land, Slat was, to "Mug ism lb. question their expeeiestee sf hems. arlfain, mid the istiluelace of common sense (and why were they so poseepad of it if they did o u t oii Ruth as ocreeims itmereise it with vigour'. they world tiuot it isopossihle Se believe so asoosstropos • la hriest• .In Nlajneciirs matemeal of that affair is Ilse nano's, there was as mach of self-cnedessitation titterer was displayed. He was aware that kis diseuaree must be WIMP, Iso them. They had been jot listeutag iv all that was magoilleitat iw exhibition, attractive in elorpienre, or important Sat reason ing ; yet he was compelled to hallow can the imamate* of defective and cuatratltctory testlimmy. He again reasiudeil them of the nhour in the A tontey•Geweral's opeisine speech, to chew the purposed cotangen, of the sleeping chembers. Ha wished them also to best in Mad the instances a , Noe tat eicordo, - which were recorded in the evidence sta to this point, especially by Majorcbi. II would, indeed, be a write of their time to travel over the aestivate' involved is those instances, where the coact...duo was unavualabily deduct Vit from the very substance of the testisnoity, that the wits/esters felt that they had a purpose to serve, whirls was (cas trated in their cromexamination. Some of the details of evidence skewed • niamier in putting She wiestious, lo which, if it had been accidental, he weubl have imputed ▪ wrong motive. Bat if so, it was Indeed naftarna nate that every turn of the di: should run sexiest the Hams. He referred them to the evidence of Dem tut, re apectius the resit to Chariton It was imposed that the Queeu had goo, to bed, and that certain cireponstancis took place after. Let their Lotddsips look •t page NH of the evidence, and they would bad that there was MU pouf of bee Majesty, then Pricers., having been smarmed ; and Nether, it was plain that she had on at this tam the very drem which the wore in ibe day, sad a hick was thickly covered with fur. He would lake another fastener au the soma, aubject, be did on lb. behalf of his Royal Mistress implore their Lord_ ships to take what he was only giving in the shape of ex ample, sod follow it up is detail. At Amu the *1161r145 wadi asked, " Did yeti go into the teat to assist her Royal High. mese ?"—" Yee."—Agaiu at page 321 of the evidence—their Lordaltips would permit him to pursue the 'Lathier', to see whether Demont's evidence went se far as to say dr %Meth on that OCCIISIGOI was malemmadooebe was asked, " Did yew undress the (Amen at all ?"—" I was wader the tad, bet do nut recollect if I tiodremed her or nut This, it must he remembered, was that favourite wines', that acme, that in telligeut chambermaid, whose examioatim in chief task up • day and • half, mid who was examond on oath before that, just after her arrival in England ,• and if so examined was it fair or just to her Majesty that it should be left in uncertainty, or rather that it should be left to be inferred that the Princess was MA that occasion itoollres.ed! He was sway to politic the matter, but if their Lordships would tura to page 321 they would see enough to justif y the rAmark that it did Out appear on the ',Aimee of Dement that die Primes* had dune mon than takeoff her riding•laabit or tram I- Iwg-den:. Hr their Lordship.' exeme fur the reptiitiint of eitltauie circumstance*, but On minute caretirmiances the y mita rely, as the isavarying onevallem of time had pluard greater circumstances not of their inspeetion; but for that her Majesty would nut now have to be defended at their Lordships' bar. He mast beg their Lordships to excuse the phrase, but. on the behalf 01 his Royal Mistress be mast demand their patient attention to what in any other case nicest appear trivial and nuinspottant. In Demisuf's first examination, bad shy stated that circumstance or not nut, she laud (le avoid an odious nwitosyllable, and to use a phrase of her usra,) committed a " dottfite enteedre." Re ferring to page 4113 of the evidence, their Lordships would 1114 d the saute subject renewed, and with the intention of furnishing au inference of the same cast. Here be came to the masquerade given by Joachim, Kiug of Naples. The witness as asked," Did she change her dress ?".."Yes.".." Did you assist in (Imaging her dress r —"I did not." In fact she knew nothing about it, for she vow nut la the room, accord iug to her owe account, aid that allegation of the chugs of dream was meant to cuuvey the idea of a total and reline change of dress; best upon that au further explanation was gives in the canalisation in chief. It was left upon the an swer W the question, which wae not only a keding, it vu a ."'""„'""'F*:, .Y,._ ..~ ■ I ~...., .- • •