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tp rest , And she was then actually reposing on this very travelling bed, which, according to .Dumont, appeared the next morning not to have : been slept in. Where, the Learned Counsel would ask, was that servant ? If it were Hiero nymus, why was he not called ? He was-now in this country. He was still fir the service of the Queen, but yet he was not called. Did-- his . Learned Friends dread the same fatal nervous debility would attack that servant that so un fortunately afflicted the unhappy Flynn ; or did they fear that a sudden unaccountable forget fulness might have washed the circumstance' from his recollection, if 'W had ever existed Could any thing be more decisive than this was of the 'truth of what the abuied Dumont had proved ? Could 'any thing more strongly corroborate her statement than Mr. Williams threatening to con tradict her in this most particular point, and then abandoning his threat, not venturing to risk' the cross-examination which such a witness mnst. undergo... Where they found that her Ma jesty had means of contradiction, and dared not to' use them if they'did exist,- the inevitable conclusion was, alit the contradiction could not be made. So far then, from there being any contradiction established on the other side of this point, DuniOnt bad been confirmed. The whole of the charge, as regarding the removal of Wil liam Austin, of Bergami, and the state of the beds on the following morning, was not contra dicted,.but corroborated by the evidence brought before them for the defence. It has been said that Dumont's evidence was the whole foun dation on which the superstructure of thii case 41epencled—that it was a kind of key-stone, which -once cut down or removed, caused the whole case 'to fall in pieces. The Learned Counsel .de- Med this proposition ; because, striking Dumont's evidence from the Journals of the House, still • sufficient remained clearly to establish the charge of adultery. , lt did not signify whether the adul tery commenced on that night or not ; because there were ample proofs of a criminal intercourse existing, long -before Bergami had so many tottours cOnFerred upon , him. The Learned Counsel, however, contended that Dumont- was not contradicted. The next case proved by ilomont was her meeting Bergami in the cor ildor one night, in his- shirt,- walking towards 11er Majesty's room, .tind-)4he Learned Counsel was much surprised at the argument of -Mr. Den man .on that point. He had contended, that this circumstance was rather calculated to excite a suspicion that an adulterous intercourse had taken place between Dumont and Bergami. What were the circumstances stated by Dumont on that 'occasion ? She had stated that, .when retiring from her Majesty's room, on opening the door -she saw .Bergami advancing from the other end of the corridor; She instantly made her escape, as she called it, and when she bad made her escape, :she heard the lock- of the door turn so as to ex clude the interruption of any person. His friends had endeavoured, by observation and argument, to do away the.etfect of this evidence, but still the evidence was too decisive of 'an adulterous intercourse having taken place to be_shaken: lie would next come to. the case of the masked ball, and he thought he might look upon that part of the case as not having received the slightest con.: tradittion. They had heard ortgreat deal of evi ' ,flence produced for the purpose of doing away efect of her Royal Highness's conduct on that occasion, but had it , succeeded ? It was clear that after the Queen had appeared for some time in the dress of a Neapolitan peasant, she retired to a dressing-room with Bergami, where she re mained for nearly three-quarters of an hour. She then did appear in the character of the Genius pt History, which was agreed on all 'ands ; and whatever - Sir, William Gen 'might think of her dress, it was certainly one not of 'the most delicate description. According to his itetion, her dress resembled the attire of Mr. :Ilope's.MinerVa,, or the statue of Cariatidw in the British MuSeum, -Which certainly were at. tired in a thin drapery, the. arms being naked .tip to the shoulders ; and although Sir Wil liam 9ell, merely distinguished his Royal Mis-. tress, as the Genius of history crowning Murat's bust, which, was completed in the same_space of time as a flash of lightning, he asserted that his .optics were sufficiently good to discover the un der dress, and he undertook to swear that the 'dress of the. Neapolitan peasant was under that of the Genius of History Still he admitted that her Majesty was absent,for a long time, that tl)e: ceremony was' one occasioning: much sus ..pTiser by the delay of its perfdrmance, and the Learned Coun s el contended, that the .evidence of aumont was true, when she stated that delay ,was occasioned by- the. alteration of her dress in the dressing-chamber with Bergami. Mr. Cra ven, p. 536 a.tttl 538, said, that he could hardly o,e qv! dress, so _quick was the ceremony ; but 'be did not recollect that it was at: all indecent. , Sir William Gell, in pages 55, 560 1; and -561., - in . his account of, the occasion, stated .that the company. were, all waiting, in anxious expectation of Ucertoin door opeuing,--itTlid at length open, Ifni( two Neapolitan Ladies appeared, one of ;whom was the Princess of Wales, who rapidly approached the, bust of Murat., and: placed upon it ~a wreath of what appeared to'he olive leaves. And when Sir W. Gell described her dress as . like that of the tvvo•statues alluded to, he stated tbat4l4 the world well knew they were perfect ly'covered. The Attorney-. General had not him seen those statues, as. he confessed ; but from the incormAtion of (idlers; he understood it was ignite otherwise..,_ otherwise- Ire understood,the arms up t o ,the shoulders. were completely bare, aAid-Alte of:. the body, was merely coverelthy a thin draper y. The evidence of PamPilt; then, so far "from. being contradicted by Sir. Wm. Gell and Mr4iliven,:was in fact , conirtned by their si)ealsug,•to ttlAt.delay io the absende of her Ma jesty,jcsoln the,rustsn, which was_so fully accounted , for,by ouvn ot!t. The. remaining facts At Naples ere those of f tbe masquerade at the Theatre , San Carlos, wqc,b . =w#s proved by Dumont,. anclAhat fr"icif Bergami, wailfiing, arm in arm with her on the terrace. Isis , .I;earieci Friends said., tliat . this . part of tim . .6.a.e ,hs.A.corn.pletely; failed ) because the proof did not go so far as the statement in the opening ; butlall. he would ask was, did she go to the Theatfe San Carlos, or did she not ? He could have no opjection to her Majesty en joying the'. amusement of . the Masquerade, or ~even joining < in it; bat his statement %tiis, that she went not accompanied by any of the 11 Ladies of her.suite, .not. accompanied _by Sir 1 William Gell or Mr. Craven, not accompanied by Dr. Holland, although he was there at' the time.—[Mr. Denman, in an under tone, ask ed " how does that appear ?"]—How did it ap pear ? he should presently show that from the evidence of Dr. Holland himself. He was not at all displeased with his Learned -Friend for in terrupting him in what he conceived to be a mis 'statement. On the contrary, he was extremely thankful, and should always be most happy to be corrected if, he wrongly stated any thing; for he was incapable of knowingly stating` any thing incorrectly, indeed he should think himself un worthy of ever having the honour to address their. Lordships,if ever he made a wilful mis- , statement of any circumstance. The charge then was, not that her Majesty went to the masquerade —not that she went in disguise, but that she 'went accompanied, by her menial, Bergami, and her fate de chambre, Dumont, instead of any of the Ladies of her suite. Their Lordships were al ready aware of how. Dumont proved that part, of the case; she described the natare of the dress, and the manner in which her Majesty had gone. And 'yet they were gravely told that there was nothing in this part of the charge, but that her Majesty had gone to a masquerade in u rainy night ! Now, what had Doctor Holland said on this occasion I He admitted, page 611,'that he recollected being one night at the Theatre San Carlos - when the Princess came there.--r -(Mr. Denman here asked what proof there was of its being that particular night ?)—The Attorney-General read the evidence of Dr. Hol 7 land from the Minutes. lle was_asked, " Whe ther he - had ever been at a Masquerade at the Theatre'of San Carlos when her Royal Highness was there ?" Ile answered, " I was." " With whom did her Royal Highness go ?" " I was not aware till - the following morning that her Royal Highness had been tkere." " Did you remain there during the whole, or nearly the whole, of the performance ?" " Only about an hour, as far as I can recollect ; certainly a short time." " Are you to be understood that you do not know with whoM herßopl - Highness went to the theatre• that evening ?" Ido not." But Mr. Denman said, how did it appear that it was at that time that her Majesty so went to . the theatre ? 'lt did not lie with his side to prove that her Majesty went any other night. He . (the At torney-General) begged leave to ask, how.it had appeared that her Royal Highness went on any -- other occasion to a masked ball at ' the theatre of San CarlOg? No such proof had been given, and therefore it was clear that she . had been there on the occasion stated by the witness Dumont, and that Dr. Holland was not aware of that cir cumstance till the following morning. If their Lordships had entertained any doubt on' this subject, had not Dr. Holland removed that doubt ?—and if the, qnestion still remained unde cided, why were not:Sir W. Gen and Mr: Kep pel Craven e ) xarnined . to the point . For the best of all possible reasons,. because they knew no thing on the subject. Her Royal Highness went but upon one occasion, and then in company, not with any of . the Gentlemen or Ladies of her suite, but with her inferior domestics, Dumont 'and Bergami, the latter having been in her ser vice but three or four mouths, Why did-she not choose for her companion Hieronymus,. or Sic card, or any other of her servants, who, from long experience, was entitled to her confidence ? Why select a 'man who had been but. a few months in her service, and but a few days - before had been a courier,44titongh, after his arrival at Naples, he had been raised to the rank of foot man? Could their Lordships draw:any other in ference, thin that it was because an adulterous intercourse had commenced_ between her Royal Highness -, and this Bergaini at Naples, and had been continued from thence till she arrived at . St. Omer's ? He had grounds for' stating that she went unknown to tier suite ; because it appeared, according to Dr. Holland,that it was not known till the folloWing morning. It was not for hiM to ask, whether it was to that night in particular that all this evidence, referred. No other night had been assigned, and it was therefore confirmed; Dumont next stated, itn page 255; that she had seen Ber-, gami and her Royal Highness walking artn infirm upon a terrace in the garden of her Royal High ness at Naples. How had this hen attempt ed to be disproved ? By the most extraordinary evidence that lie had . ever heard a. , Sir William Gell and Mr. Craven were called to contradict it. The former Gentleman, in pa'ges 557 and 559, states that he saw her Majesty walking ou the terrace, with Bergathi attending behineher. But the most important evidence was that given by Mr, Craven, page 540 ; he said he saw her Royal .Highness in the garden, with Bergami near her. He knew there was a spy at that time at Naples, from informatiOn he bad received from England, and he thought it necessary to caution her R9yal Highness against appearances on that account. So that because he saw her Royal Highness in broad dhy-light walking on the ter race at Naples, with "Bergami behind' her, he is so-sensible;"sO alive ftO'the inipropriety of the circumstance, that he ,assumes the character;of . tnonitor;• and 'adVisei his' 'Royal. Mistress to. be: cautions as to walking in the situation in which he had . seen 'her! At - the same time he declares he :saw nothing improper in' this CondUct. And , yet he Wild; saw an impropriety in William Anstin's ifeePing in her Majesty's moth, .saw., none : ut 'another: time iii her walking rather too near her servant. But it was, in fact, betause site was w`alkwg With Bergami, that necessity'' Of caution'. had Occurred to him. If it had been 'with' any Other, would • he . •have' intimated: the impropriety ? There was' no impropriety inn her Majesty having a servant atteiiehtPlif her walking; ltut sus 'incton only attached to thail man. Ir there was no impropriety, where was the necessity for this caution, unless there were some suspicion lurking in his mind that the intimacy which , subsisted-be tween his Royal Mistress and Bergami was of a nature to excite attention ? There must have ex isted some. indications in the manners of Bergami to excite this suspicion ;, for even at that time'tise had been distinguished by noid Laudaff. And how was it that Bergami attracted the notice of the Noble Earl, or of Mr. Craven in the garden, unless something had come to his own knowledge respecting the occurrence at the Theatre of San Carlos, or from - the common rumours which the conduct of her Royal Highness had excited in the neighbourhood ? The Learned Counsel next ad verted-to the evidence of Majocci,applying to the time when Bergami was confined to his bed from the kick of a horse, and when that witness de scribed the stolen interviews of her-Royal High ness at that time to the room of the invalid. On this subject it had been said that there was ano ther passage by which her Royal Highness might have obtained access to Bergami's room without going through the Cabinet in which Majocci was placed. But how did this stand ? Was not that other passage the common cor ridor into which the doors of Dr. Holland, Hie ronymus, and William Austin opened ; and was there not a much greater chance of her being observed there than by passing through the room of a man who had been placed in the house by Bergami himself ? Whether an adulterous intercourse took place at that time or not, was immaterial to his case—because no woman of de licacy, who had not had such an intercourse with a man, would have gone and visited him in hisbed, and remained shut up with him in his room for a quarter of an hour. The evidence of MajocCi, in this respect, was decisive, that an adulterous in tercourse had taken place between her Royal Highness and Bergami. As to the fact of her Royal Highness having been in the room at the same time with Dr. Rolland, it would be recol lected that Dr. Holland, who had been call ed to contradict that fact, (page 618), had not sworn positively to the contrary, simply saying, that if the circumstance had taken place, it was without his knowledge. They had the positive testimony of Majocci on one hand, and the equi vocal testimony of _Dr. Holland on the other ; . and as it appeared that her Majesey was in the habit of visiting her servants, the probability was that she did so on this occasion, as Alajocci had sworn. If the rest of the case were true, it was perfectly probable that her Royal Highness was on that occasion so far carried away by her pas sion as to be induced to visit Bergami. He be lieved he had now gone through the whole of the facts which had occurred at Naples, and answer ed, to the best of his ability, the comments made on that part of the case by his Learned Friends. At Naples it was, that by an extraordinary coin cidence it happened that all her Royal Highness's English suite left her, except Sir W. Gell. From Naples her Royal Highness went to Civita Vec chia, and from thence toGenoa, and here he would call their Lordships' attention to the evidence of Lady C. Lindsay, with respect to what took place on the journey from' Rome to Civita Vec chia. It was said yesterday by Dr. Lashington, that all the facts of improper familiarity which had been alleged against her Majesty had fallen at their feet. When his Learned Friend said so he had forgotten what Lady Charlotte Lindsay has said in her cross-examination, at pages 519 and 5'20. You will find that at Naples Bergami was selected by her Royal Highness to wait upon her in her house and iu her walks. Those who had previously performed the dirties of wait ing upon her, were dismissed from that particu lar service, and if the Princess dines in her bed room with Lady Charlotte Lindsay—if the Prin cess walks in the garden with Lady Charlotte Lindsay—extraordinary as it may appear, Ber ganii attends her. Her courier, whose conduct she could have had no such opportunity of ob serving, as to ascertain whether she could pro perly substitute another for him, was her con stant attendant. When asked about the fact, that Bergami rode up to the carriage, and ad dressed the Queen with the expression a boire, Lady Charlotte Lindsay avoids the direct question, and says she believed Bergami did not come until called by her Royal High ness ; but she had no reason for .thinking so, but that it was more natural that he should wait till he received the order. Her Ladyship has,, on this occasion, given proof of that sort of tenderness of recollection which has been ascribed to Theodore Majocci; but she recollects Bergami getting the bottle out of the carriage from her Royal Highness, who was there. •I ask, is not this an improper liberty ? Did any other of the suite ride up to the carriage under such circumstances ? No, it was Bergami alone that approached the carriage with such familiarity ; and he never could have presumed to do so, if he had not considered himself entitled to use little ceremony, in consideration of the criminal inti macy that existed. Their Lordships would con sider that this fact was spoken to by a reluctant witness—by Lady Charlotte Lindsay—the only English Lady that remained in the Princess's suite ; in fact the only Lady of any nation who had not disappeared from the service—the only Lady who been. called to advocate the character of her Royal Highness, for the 24 days that she was under the controul of the Illustrious De fendant, and who had at the conclusion of that period withdrawn from the service at the instance of brother, in consequence of reports preju dicial to her Majesty. It has, my Lords, said the Learned Gentleman, been said by Mr. Brougham rand Mr. Denman, that nothing was more natural, than that Bergami should intro duee his relations and friends to a service with which he had himself ,so much cause to be sa tisfied. Your Lordships will recollect how Mr. :llowriam drew back when he was questioned ,as to Faustina and the child Victorine. It was .after some hesitation that he said they were in the family. This introduction, it will be recollected, k had riot taken place after the attack upon- her Ifighne - ssii,..hou;e it Genoa, .upon which occasion, "by 114 bye, Majocci hid performed the Al' best servicesi to her Royal Highness ac r e —if any services were at all renderev taken place before that period, when A t 0 ( have been nerapologTuyon the groon,'" os d tion. But then, his apology , had a° . '" l ., discerned by four individuals to 0 had been intrauced.- I call 1.11 3 °1' I c o still:4 to look at tihat occurred at Gei't Bergami waited at table, when fl in bervie dined With her Royal Hig4 would be Seen in the evidence of Pi nam, at page 259; that iffe'r tha t highly distinguished favourite nev er I table. But before I quit Genoa, call your Lordships' attention to ill'i very important nature sworn to hi lt pages 258 and 259 ; and by Majocci :h. From the concurrent testimony of t nesses, it appears that at Genoa Dato° l3 b , that her Royal Highness's bed had . ,l lot o in ; site replies, that the bed " w as - t , not slept in." She was asked the sitaa 1 .. bed-room occupied by herself,and she reffi it was by the side of that of her Boyalcop: "Was the door between the room al you and the bed-room of her Royal so open. at night, or how ?—The P rine „" .1 locked•it every night when I went Ocaltest Learned Counsel then adverted to th ir , e t eA of Dumont respecting the fact that P e o f her Royal Highness were in the hah i , t bs ti, fasting together at Genoa, and said, 'et, tradiction could be given to the evid et : o 6 her Royal Highness, it might have h e , 0 1 ( this place with great effect ; for Lotwobib• and Camera were said to have waited a t ,, t st' those occasions when Majocci did °"l.iti they had • not called either of those 'I), There might have existed a conspira c l e j Mad. Dumont and Majocci, who deP ° , s no fact; but if it was false, why then lino persons, who were still in her Roy al e th service, been brought forward to pr o hood ? The non-production of th0 5 ,,, e he was a confirmation of the statement. 1113 be no contradiction to this, or it NVOUi d a called ; for her Majesty's Counsel ba. do , that they could contradict every iad! ci co l! where it was of a nature to admit of t; tion. The judgment of the C ou nsel ot well exercised on this occasion io ;$ either of these two persons, who fora) t, the suite at the time her Majesty Was form, of breakfasting with her courier, 1 "T distinguished himself in any waS., gl e alone, in his opinion, proved all ao,'„,al had been statedof the habits of her IT e it . ness with Bergami. -He called upoo t l e t ships to look to-what had taken pla ce . t h where her Royal Highness was left o i ls English female attendant, where there " tie Lady Charlotte Lindsay, Lady Charia b , bell, nor Lady Elizabeth Forbes. W ° , 7 4 I appeared two days after the departurW Campbell ? Who, but the Countess v j f• gami's sister! Had she been introdociejle u poll het introduction : Was there any t `j, ),' ditable in the introduction ? If not. l '''', " relationship been concealed for a ti rl i, e i i had not her Majesty declared that ' ll 'l' English femaleattendants, she was e°, l !o take those who ' presented theins eil i or Learned Counsel then proceeded to'° i, the conduct of her Royal Highness 51' 'tier, pointment of her dame d'honneur. ~ o°' applied to any Italian Lady of ra n k s to Madame Falconet ; but had sel :s Countess of Oldi, whose brother °." ' courier in her Royal Highness's servic e ' C/ lationship between Bergami and th e g er; was most studiously concealed frow it il Doctor Holland, who had been eig-ver!ti Venice,' and dined with this Lady 0 p i g did not -know - of their relationsh i P; o o Countess spoke Italian, and what '-. o d Lordships have heard. Doctor I . l° lja tii'l in the French language, which sh e ° 4 understand, and therefore he had 11.ttei sation with her. This fact, he sill' confidence, marked most strongly if o i course that had taken place. Her 1 - 1 ,0 ) 1 . e g t' conscious of this, was ashamed of st a g Holland, that the Countess of Ol'i o teP sister of Bergami. She was not thus 0 - f t4 to Lord Guildford. Was it not all ira t liq that the sister of Bergami, who was l' () se il l spoil the fortunes of her brother, Wa s i JP ; the only dame d'honneur of her RO' r ee l ' when formerly she had no less than th f o l io sister of Bergami dined at the table ° to 5/ 0 cess, while another sister lived with t ,ffieWi as the nurse of the child Victorine• f t i e‘r of Bergami was taken into the house ', di al?' Highness ; and he surrounded her W' t ttil'e l of his own family. Before he quiti.hir ! 1 , 1 d the case, he would call their lior" e ' t ill' e 'i fr tion to a fact which in the order o' , W e i: . in here, and a fact which had n eith e s ' s o''''P comment nor observation, and still l' a ' e jt ° t l swer from the other side. Ile OIL' a ge l'ill! had occurred at the inn at Venice, riic h :.l, the testimony of Giuseppe Bianclil,,4l tilis,e 0° clot been' attempted. to imp ch• 1 nea• ,I, , e , though Mr. Denman had gone thro°ol i ,',i' =Se with so much minuteness, had b a ll t f v,'" touched. Indeed he.might say that Ild'',01( occurred from Genoa till her ha d l i `i,C 4 embarked on board the polacrel ttio t4d 4 untouched. His Learned F all these faCts were too immateria l pit 'al #t r i el ltls . 1 to Undoubtedly they' were iminateri e 1 ,i la b Y' to handle, because no answer coo c 00 0 o ' them. Bianchi might have been a be e { by a host of w itn e ss e s, if there I°l s s to r , e' r' i contradiction to mßke. This w itne, 5 4 be t ," whilst they were at dinner, page 'f` ;be ' } l bered a jeweller coming, of Iv ll ° ol Ile W . 411 purchased a gold Venetian chain; l i e a''' 0 ed, was it before or after dinn er . d.tioefr,l " the jeweller came at - the - end or 0 1 p f ll/ 3 ha h t er b 3 Q l. o 7 .lo .o tt e re Ci o ; all thecompany were aOout to get t ie,. n m e • s r s ." the H n e t w oo e k nt th o i i s i .t c o ha s i ti n ite ofi t . put it on that- of Beigariall the n . 9 '. LLI lit iu the dress of one waiting bcbin 1 -