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My Lords, it is well known to your Lordships, and the Country, that, in the year 1814, her Majesty, for reasons operating upon leer own mind, and- not by compulsion, as has been insinuated .by my Learned Brothers, thought ! ‘t to. withdraw herself from this country to a loreign land. / Mr. BROUGHAM here made, some remarks ex- Amatory of his own observations on this subject. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL—I beg pardon-- (Cries of " Order, order-!"),----bitt if I am to be interrupted, it will be impossible for me to do justice to 'the task which your Lordships have cast upon me. I am sure I shall receive your Lordships' indulgence— Mr. BROUGHAM—I did not mean to interrupt the Learned Gentleman.—(Cries - of " Order, order.”) Air. BROUGHAM—My Lords, in all Court..-_ (Order, order, go on.) Mr. BROUGHAM was reluctantly silent. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL—My Lords, it was t e i r haPs more my fault than that of my Learned Friend in - "ding to what bad passed. I will not therefore take up "Y further time on this subject. I was stating, my Lords, that in 1814 her Majestywitbdrew herself from this country, f or the purpose of travelling non the Continent, or visits "g oth er countr i es. My -lords, she went in the first in. : 1 , 14 4e to Bru nsw i c k, a n d f r o m thence, after a short stay, ;"e went to Italy; she arrived at Milan on the 9th of October, My Lords, her Majesty, when she quitted this cow)- " c lquitted it with persons about her who were - precisely perso ns as should be about an individual of her exalted d r .'• She was accompanied by indivkduals connected with eAtinsruished famil'es in this kingdom. Among these were I;: r "' N e t h ilOtte Lindsay and Lady Elizabeth Forbes, who were b es i a; a ldS of .Honour, Mr. St. Ledger, who.was. her am wt,„ and Sir William Gerl, and the Hon..Keppel craven, si i — " believe, were attached to her in a similar character. a e was also accompanied by Captain Hesse, as her Equerry, „ 1 , 1 1 1 Dr. Holland, as her Physician, besides other persons 1% ,": 1 °. 1 11 it is unnecessary to enumerate. With this suite her "Jesty arrived at Milan. It Was her intention to have pro l'eded from thence to drat parts of Italy, and to have visited 4P l es• She remaine Milan for a space of three months, iie d e during that period a person was received into her ser -10 wbuse na m e occurs i n the p ream bl e o f th e Bill,- an d pro H e Ke name will as frequently Ancor in the course of these 5 • • f tl name of Bergami, who was re g---a ptrson o phi ti. o 'tn. her service as a courier, or footman, or valet de 1 . tl • I • t the time ha so entered into a" Art s, perso I, a sltajesty's service, was in want of employment, but he bad )I :rn in th e service of Gen. Pino. It does not appear how he ant e recommend e d .to fier Majesty, but he was received .`° her v " suite. ne edhardly remark to your Lordships, upon e distance which in t erpos ed between her Majeity and her courier, or observe that, from the natural course of things, h,e co mmunication between her Majesty and. this man Must I re been mostiunfrequent. It was about 14 or 15 days previ -4s to her Majesty's departure from Milan, that Bersrami en ,‘,r,r(i into the situation I have desctibed. Her Majesty, our si v idt iog Milan, proceeded to Rome, and from thence she ] r ent to Naples, where she arrived on the Sth of. Novel!, 1: r, 1514. At Naiiles, this person had not been in Majesty's service more than three weeks. I beg -u v L ordships' our attention. to this circumstance, bes il ise " you 1311 how material it becomes when you listen t he facts which presently it will be toy melancholi duty I , 3 lio r ,, elat . e. I should hate' stated, that beside the persatis mentioned • as accampanying her ,Majesty front 1 , is count r y, th ere was a l a d w h ose name i s perhaps familiar of Your Lordships —I mean William Austin. Up to the time her Majesty's arrival at Naples, this lad ..wasthe object of p ec uliar attention, and, in fact, was in the habit of, sleep 14tat t he , same room with her Majesty. • The arrangement of terra a s es t.Y's own sleeping apartment devolved' upon one r)f r ib ,,l whose peculiar duty it was to attend to that. branch suit e . ~"„,i ' mestic comfort. Ott the arrival of her Majesty's iNaples it was so orekred that her Majesty's sleeping trial a w " 4 1- at: opposite side of the. House to that of her me nigu °Mettles, among whom was her courier. Ott the first w hich het Majesty's arrival at Naples (the Bth of Nov.), tie nt :I I 'have called your Lordships"attention,this arrange athio t'as continued. - Bergami slept in that part of the hou s e slep t '. ll ad been preparethfor the domestics, and youn g Austin t orte "' her M a j es ty' s apartment. But on the following bie rit '', n gs Nov em b er t h e 9th, th e ser v ant s o f the establish to Ist 'earned with some surprise, because no reason appeared to e n► for the change, that Bergatni was no longer to sleep eeai il at pa r t of the house where he had slept the night pre slt„ but that it was her Majesty's pleasure that he should R>itla room fr o m w hi c h th ere was. a f ree communication tvlii - , l at of h er Majesty, by means of a corridor or passage, fe e tr y had been, by her Majesty's express desire, prepared . • t 'ultis tidgty a n • MY. Lords, I need not state to yo u . that such a cm nee was calculated to excite the surprise of those whose 511 7 :_ . was to attend entirely to her Majesty ' s person ; an d , fro i r us, th.t surprise was increased, when they learned ' e r Majesty that she would no longer permit William tlig net i l t Contioue to sleep in her room. Fir. this she ,as- Prop er ? reason, which, if it were her only motive, was ve ry t hoti t .,' hot: subsequent events proved no such prudential that but be fairly ascribed to her Majesty. It Was said . Its„ pe 'r' r still was now arrived at that age when it would lie nu• iiichild,for him to conti nue a practice which had comme nce d 'lle s i t od• My L o rds, I h a v e al t eady stat e d that, f rom 'was „ ua tlon assigned to Bergami, a direct communication arrdPetted between his chamber and that of her Majestss; op titiebelitve I shall be able to satisfy your Lordships that e vening of the 9th of November that intercourse, Prese n t s l3 „charged betw ee n h e r M a j e sty . and BiTgaini by the t i lt Ile ßill, comm ence d, an d. was cont i nue d f rom that time I \ev t l tl itted her s erv i ce . U p on th e even i ng o f th e 9th o f %,4sember her Majesty went to the Opera at Naples, but it e m b e r er red that she returned very early from thence.— maid Person who waited upon her on her 'return was the t er ti 'errant, whose duty it was particularly to attend' to th r l , (l , En :" • My Lords, she was struck with the manners 'gad. P r i ncess, and with the agitation which she mani *der, She hastened to her apartment, and gave strict taurnit,that William Austin should not be admitted fo. her t oo„, t :', 4 w t a 'e r s:ening. She was then observed to go From her Own ! 11 iss, d us that assigned to Bergami. She very soots (114- er "er female attendant, felling her that she had no fur ritt for her services, Toe female servant retired; : 1 9a te n '' , l tlt!itit • those suspicions which the. .circumstances 11;;Lizaii,rieodnutalfil.ned were calculated to excite in the mind of She knew, at the time, that Berganii was in advent, for this was the first night of his having 'evi oo Wage of the - arrangement which had been% cuss to dY nt alle. • It was quite nesss on the part of the prin- Q c llik t "miss her attendants conslyb when her a!)(1 demeatiour were dered, suspicions arose „),;`ti,tt.,,,las impossible to exclude. Dot if iuspicions existed a i te ruling, l a yere they confirmed •by observations made 16, tlior:', ) wing —observations which, if stated to a Jury it , an mtiri, case, mast induce them to cams; to a conclusion 1„, e4 ,2h th at t erous intercourse lard taken place that night he sbn ealted person and this menial ; for jeps tuon the fol- Pt in, rlnl.ritigit was discovered that her Majesty had not o wn Iona) that night. Her bed remained almost s A, Lora, ly 'thr state as on the . preceding evening, and, to " ~ ely bed of the other person, on inspection, seas de apour L ( lt t c,erl - as if two persons had reposed in it, I slated Inlships, that the apartments of her then Royal tii (j r ning f f , i ; e .ve . distant from those of that c her er ' On the riut owing it was observed W"Me from her apartnients at the usual hour. Her "lit ai 4eness% er attendants: never entered her rooms with :Perrinssiott. It was also observed that 13tr •!lin,. _I) inn ) ed in his room later than usual on that e,tuldzeedunlier Royal Highness's recent arrival th e eoun dSu_imlY distinguished Persons,to pay their respects T1,,311t‘ 11 1 ,7.; 11 er; many were disappointed its seeing her, i n vat s not 7 descend from her apartment, so early as usual, 1,,E; had',ecessible on the Kith-November till the morn 'arlv , p ew , assd. I have alteady drawn your Lordships 1,,!1ig the b e : ("13 which had been made by the servants res. slc,ul;efl the _se say on th e, en th merye L is ords, that if the case de 't of facts al not :toy man who can' co. ncloston at which your L6rdships must arrive. But, my Lords, you will perceive by what I have yet to detail that this scandalous, depraved, and licentious intercoorse was carried on without interruption for a very great length of time. The natural effect of such an intercourse was to alter the comparative distance ketween this et-airier, this menial, and the" Royal personage who descended from her Royal dignity sta.far. A freedom was there'fore assumed by Bergami, in a bleb he could under no other circum stances presume to- indulge. It was also observed by the other servants, that a considerable alteration took place in' the demeanor of her Royal Highness towards Bee gami,.—an alteration which convinced those who observed it, -that an improper intercourse existed between' them. A few days after the period to which I have just alluded, her Royal Highness gave her last hail at the house of the then King of Napless. It was a masked hall. Hes' Royal High ness's first assumed character was a Neapolitan peasant. In a short time, however, she returned to the house at which she had dressed, nut to her residence. She - withdrew to a private room to change her dress, and to the surprise of her servants and the attendants belonging to the house, her servant Ber gami was cent for, and retired into the room with her. The character which it had pleased her Royal Highness to assume on that occasion was, the Genius of History, and she was conducted by a Gentleman to the ball in that character. I am instructed to state, that. the dress worn by her Royal High ness on that occasion was of the most indecent and disgusting kind : but the fact most material for your Lordships to bear itt mind is, that this change, where it was necessary for every garment to be taken off, was-made in the presence, arid with the assistance of Bergami, no other person being-present at the time. Let me ask your Lordships what motive could her Majesty have for preferring the services of this man to that of her usual attendants on such an occasion ? Why should she require the assistance of a man, and that man one of her menial servants, in her dressing room,—a man who waited behind tier chair at dinner, and who went before her as her courier, when she travelled from place to place? What, I ask, could her reason be for 'selecting this man on such an occa .i o n, unless for the purposes alleged in the preamble. of the Bill ? But more ; , her Majesty returned a third time front the ball. She then changed her dress to that of a female Tur kish peasant—and who was her companion on this occas'on ? Her courier, her menial servant Bergami ; he accompanied her Majesty, dressed also as a Turkish peasant, to a ball given to Royalty, anti to the first Nobility of the Country. It ap pears, however, that Bergami did not long remain at this hal!: He returned home, apparently dissatisfied with some thing that had oceurred-t.I know not what. Her Majesty came home shortly after, anti endeavoured to prevail on bins to go back to the ball ; site pressed him - , much, hut be de dined going. Her Majesty then returned alone to the ball, but she did not remain long. It was observed by those ser vants whose business it was to be more immediately in attend once on her Majesty, that at whatever hour site rose in the morning, Bergami rose at the sante period ; and also, that her Majesty was in the habit of breakfasting in her apart ments in company with him alone, her suite being in.apart ments at some distance from her's. Notwithstanding this great, familiarity mid preference, the situation of Ber gami-remained the same; he still acted as her courier, her valet da chambre, and continued to wait at table as usual ; in short, he appeared to the English Ladies, who attended her Royal Highness, just hi the sante character as whet) he was first hired. It was only in secret, or at least be fore her Majesty's -immediate attendants, that those familia rities of which I speak were at all visible. Her Majesty was in the habit of occasionally walking on aterrace, and there site was seen various times leaning on Bere ' ami's arm with time greatest familiarity. It happened during her Majesty's resi dence at Naples that Bergami had been injnred by a kick front a horse. He was for some time so ill as to be confined to his room. and your Lordships must perceive how great must be the ascendancy which this matt acquired over her Royal High-,. ness, when I state, that she hired a servant introduced by him as an attendant during his illness. This man slept in a room close to that occupied by Bergami, and had, on three or four occasions, observed her Majesty, after her House hold had retired to rest, go from her own room, with much caution, along the passage to that of Bergami. On each oc casion she remained in the r o om a considerable time. I am instructed to state, and it will appear in evidence. that after her Majesty entered the room, this man could distinctly hear them kissing.—(Here a buz of surprise was beard throughout the house.)-1: am aware, my Les ds, how !liege circum stances, disgusting as they are, 11111 S t. excite feelings of disgust in the minds of your Lordship:. a nd even feelings of prejo dice against Itim.whose painful duty it is to recite them. But, painful as it is, it is still a duty which devolves upon me by your Lordship? order, anti I feel myself hound so to state the facts, that your Lordships may fully understand the nature of the intercoursewhich took place between her Majesty and this individual. I feel assured that \ in doing this, to the best of my ability, I shall .not incur your Lordships censure. Her Ma jesty resided at Naples from November to the March follow ing, and during the whole of that period the intimacy which I have described continued without interruption. I do not wish to avail myself of any rumour- which was afloat at. the time ; but I cannot help remarking on the singularity of the circumstance, that her Majesty on quitting Naples, lost the greater part of her English suite. I shall leave time facts, coupled with the other circumstances of the case, to speak for themselves. So it was, however, that on .her Majesty's lean ing Naples, a great portion of her suite remained _behind. I should here observe, that Mr. St. Leger left her Majesty at Brunswick. Of him, therefore, I do not mean to speak on this occasion. But Lady C. Lindsay and Lady Elizabeth 'Forbes remained at Naples on her Majesty's departure. I beg pardon, Lady Elizabeth Forbes remained at Naples: Lady C. Lindsay accompanied. her Majesty, but left her at Leghorn, in March 1 is 15. The persons then left behind at Naples, were Lady C. Forbes, Sir 'William Gehl, the Ho nourable K. Craven, and Captain Hesse. So that of seven English persons, 'who accompanied her Majesty from -En gland, one remained at Brunswick, and four at Naples. It is probable that, at -another stage of these . proceedings, proper reasons will be assigned for the departure of these persons. I cannot help observing on the singularity of their all having left her Majesty's service nearly at the same pe s riod. I cannot help imagining, and I am sure your Lordships tali think that though these persons were unacquainted with the nature of the connexion ex;sting between her Majesty and Bergami, yet that some rumour must have reached them of the visible, familiarity that -gas observed to exist between them. Be the cause what it may, so it was that those per sons left her service. While her 'Majesty resided at Naples. another circumstance occurred, between her 'Majesty and - Pergami, well worthy of your Lordships' attention. There was a kind of public masquerade held at the Theatre Saint Charles, in that. city. Her Majesty thought proper tout- , tend it, not however in the company af Lady C. Lindsay, not in the campany of Lady Elizabeth Forbes, not at= tended by the Gentlemen who were her Chamberlains at that period ; no, her Majesty chose as her .compassion on that occasion her courier Bergami,' and a female servant Made moiselle Dumont. These two were her Majesty's compa nions, and, my Lords, the whole party wore dresses selected by her Majesty. These dresses, if I am rightly instructed, were of a must gross indecent description ; so much so, that on entering the theatre they excited universal attention, and were received with such marked insult and disapprobation, that they were obliged almost immediately to retire.. How do your Lordships suppose her Majesty - went to this theatre ? You will, of course, imagine, that she went in her Royal. carriage, attended by her suite; but no, a common fiacre . was hired, and ir. the dead of night her Majesty and her party had to walk across a garden, at the gate of which the fiacte waited to receive them. Her Majesty having guise as I have de scribed, and perceieing that she was recogniz e d by stetsons in the theatre, immediately withdr e w. So m e cr i t i c i sms were. made yesterday on the preamble of the Bill, and some obser vations as to what was, or what, was not, to be considered in decency of conduct ; but I 'ask your Lordships whether, if - what I have now stated to you be clearly proved in evidence, you 'Will not be decidedly of opinion that the allegations in the preamble of the Bill, now under your Lordships' consi de:ation,lsWill not be fully borne out by the facts—whether these are not offences of a most gross and disgusting nature. ask, nist whether such conduct is befitting h er M a j es ty, b ut whether it is conduct that would be pursued by any woman: pretending to delicacy. And let it here be observed, as no small aggravation of the charge. this Bergami was, at the time. of entering her Majesty's service, a married ma n .. I am aware, at the same time, that it i 3 ilifiicult to aggravate the critic of adultery, but this made it a double adultery. I now repeat what. I fear I shall have to repeat too often, that these acts of familiarity were continued daily and without interrupt ion.— .1 hey were .seen coming from their rooms in the morning at' -the same time. They retired at the same honr in the even-. ing. The servants who usually attended to undresS her Ma jesty,' were dismissed earlier than usual, and it was, slum-, all, observed, that Bergami was the only one of her Majesty's servants who was permitted to enter her bed-chamber at all times, without tapping at the door, or giving any intima tion of his approach. He entered at all times, and wit Inuit giving any notice, when none of the others eared appr oac h. Ii short he went on with this daily assumption of freedom, sunlit at last he became the bird and master of her esta blishment. On quitting Naples her Majesty went towards Has t e, and on the way remained three days at Civita Vecchia., Leaving Lady C. Lindsay at Leghorn, her Ma jesty went to Genoa- At this period she had no English Lady its her suite. At Genoa she was joined by Lady (.% c ai s s o n '', who remained with her instil the May following, • when she left her at Milan. Hier l'slajesty embarked from Genoa on board the Ciorinde, and during the whole of the time that slie was on board, Bergahsi waited upon her at table as usual, hut her servants observed the saute intimacy emitinue without alterationssthe freedoms in which Itergismi itylnlgad increased, and he frequently withdrew,. in order to avoid the menial serf iees s which he- was usually called upon to .perform. While at Genoa he attended her Majesty in ,all her rides and walks, and•had a 'bed-room near that of het Ma jesty, as he had at Naples. It *as :observed here also, that her • Majesty's bed had scarcely ever' been Occupied at night, while that of Bergami bore evident marks of having been-oc cupied by two persons. So frequently was this the case, that the servant whose duty it was to make up her Ma jesty's bed daily,, had seldom more to do than to. smooth .down the coverlid, Which now and then appeared to have been pressed down as if to give the appearance of having been slept in. In ltergami's room, on the contrary, every thing bore a different appearance. -- There - the lsed boreevi - dent marks of having been slept in by two persons. On this part of the case I will ask your Lordships what possible rea• son can be assigned for the continual attendance of Bergami upios her Majesty, particutsirly in her apartments ?, If it were necessary that a male attendant should sleep near her Majesty's apartments, had she not the gentlemen of her suite ? Why was her menial servant. a man who had been known to her only three weeks, selected, unless it was for the purpose of this adulterous intercourse ? Had her Majesty not her own bed to sleep in ? Why then was it left unoccupied ? and why did she, as it shall be proved to you, leave her own bed unoccupied, and sleep in his? • I have stated to your Lordships, jhat her Majesty has been seen to visit this man in his bed-room, he being its bed. What, my Lords, a Lady of her exalted rank visit a person in his situation in ills bed-room! Cats it be doubt ' ed that her only object in doing so Was adulterOuS iu ter.:ourse ? I know that it is incumbent on your Lordships . to satisfy yourselves by the most indisputable testimony, that the facts which I have stated shall be fully borne out before . you decide against her Majesty. But if what I have already stated be not sufficient to satisfy your Lordships, you will be convinced beyond a doubt by what is yet to come, of the truth of the charges contained in the Bill. Your Lordships have already seen that' at Naples, as Well as Genoa, the famiharity continued. Her Majesty and Ber g,ami breakfasted in the same apartment. I now come to another circumstance which marks the 'rower this man ob tained over her Majesty.- Bergin'', as I stated, was a mar ried man. He had a daughter named Viotorine. 'This child her Majesty took into her honsehold. His sister, his brother, • and his mother, were also taken into her Majesty's service. I ask your Lordships whether it is possible that any ordinary servant could have such power over her Majesty as to induce her thus to hurthen herself with his whole tautly? A servant too, who had, at that period, only been in her service from . August to the following April. The child was at this period about three years of age. Who do your Lordships suppose was brought ire to take rare of this -child ? Its tender age would require the fostering care of its Mother. The mother, however, was not taken in to attend it. The child was with drawn from the' fostering care of the parent, who must be supposed the person best calculated s limit from 'nature and inclination, to attend to its wants. Her Majesty, though she knew that. Bergami was married, gave out that he was not. She said the child was one that he had had by some, female, and that she was therefore Anxious to take it under royal pro tection. The circumstance of Bergami being an unmarried man, and having had a child, should not have increased the regard of a mistress for her servant. But so it was, that her Majesty received the child into her house. Her Majesty after. having remained at Genoa, until May 15th, returned to Mi lan, leaving Lady C. Campbell. behind. She was afterwards joined at Milan, by that Lady, who remained with her for a short time, but quitted her before the end of the same month. - On her Majesty's journey fr a Genoa to Milan, Bergami, who attended her as tier courier, was observed frC,ptiostly - to'go up to the earriage,•and converse wills her. I must here keep in your L .rdships' recollection, that Lady C. Campbell did not go. this journey with her Ma jesty. In the course of the journey, her Majesty not only frequently conversed with Bergamis hut repeatedly pressed. him to take refreshments, and demonstrated every mark of friendship and attention towards him. Bergami was, during Buis time, babited in his dress of courier, and I , erfornsing every service belonging to that situation. When Lady Charlotte Campbell left her Majesty, she remained without any Lady of rank as her attendant. One would have thong-lit, con sidering the high station of livr Majesty, considering the si tuation which she expected to occupy as Queen Consort intbis country, she \you'd haVe bren anxious to hays continually about her person,some English Ladies of high rank; or at least if she did not chose these, that she would have sought some of similar , rank in her native country, lriunswick, or sotneWhere else on the Continent. But will it be believed, that she re: aired into her house a person totally unknown to her, a wo• , man of vulgar manners, totally uneducated—and this woman was no other than the'tecond sister of this Bergaini; of whom I have already said so Mulch. Such was the influence of this. man over her 1% - lajesty„that she received this sister under . the title of the Countess of Oldi. Thus she ha d the two sisters, the. mother, the brother, and the child of this man its her establishment at the same period; but while one sister sat at her table as a Lady of Honour, the other lived with the servants:. The brother, who was also, 1 believe, a cou rier, the mother, and Bergami lived with the servants also. In May, 1815, this sister, who was received as her Majesty's companion, filled the smile situation which was formerly held by the Ladies Forbes, Lindsay, told Campbell. I ask your Lordships what inference is to be drawn from the whole of this? Will your, Lordships doubt for a moment, when you hear these coppltd with the (otter facts which I have detailed to you, that the allegations in the preamble are fully borne out by the facts ? Her - Majesty slid not reside long at Milan. She set ont for Venice. Up to this period I hate shown your Lordships the continued familiarity which existed between her Majesty and Bergami. I now come to a circumstance, which will more fully establish that fact. I have already slated the periods at which her Ma jesty was quitted by both her male and female English at tendants. On her journey to Venice she was aceonipanied by the Hon. o.'llarrell.--(Here there "was an exclamation front some Noble Lossi,'whose name we could not catch.)—l beg pardon of a he Noble Lord and of the Muse. I have unin tentionally mistaken the name of the ;Gentleman; he to whom I allude is• Mr. William Borrell, not Mr. Drummond Bur rell.--(Altair, there was an observation, but from what part of the House was not heard.)—l have to apologise to your Lordships, for the mistake into which I have fallen. The Noble Lord must pet ceive that I meant• nothing udensives in mentioffing the name of - Mr. Drummond Burrell. Neither do I mean any thing offensive in mentioning the name of Mr. tr. Burrell. I arts only stating the fact. I mention this Gen tleman in order to show that he was t he only English attend ant who accompanied her Majesty to Venice. I have not the slightest doubt that at that period Mr. W. Burrell was totally ignorant of her Majesty's connection with Bergami. I never meant an insinuation against his character.—(Cries of " Gu ofi.")—Your Lordships, 1 ant sure, will excuse use, and will believ e that I could have no intention of injuring the charac ter of either of the Gentlemen whose names I have Mentioned. • —(Cries of " go on, go on," in a more solicitous tone.)—l was about to state to your Lordships a fact which occurred at Venice. On one occasion tier Majesty, who resided in a hotel inthareity, wa s l e f t a ft er di nner a l one with Bergarni, who had stood behind her chair as usual. She was observed by a stir rant of the hotel to take a gold chain and place it round tter ganii's.neck.. Much familiarity then took 'dace. lie tools the chain frons his neck, and placed it round the neck of her Ma - .1 , 6 1 y, and sh e i n return again put it on his. This toying was continu e d f or scone ti me . Why ' my Lords, do I meut ion this .fact? I mention it in order to show the increasing familiarity and growing influeace which this man was daily acq'tiring over her Majesty's mind. After her Majesty's return to Milan, Sir. Burnell quitted her Majesty's service'at the Villa Vellani. As the English quitted her service, there, ap peared less reserve in her attention to Bergami. There she gave him a blue silk gown, which he afterwards wore in the mornings, and his room was as usua l near her Ma jesty's. But though her Majesty had so tar demeaned lier- • se lf, I.do not, impute it to her as a - c r i me . Sh e " p l aye d at gaIIICS with servants, w hi c h o f itself might not be of much consequences:- but under all the circumstances of the case must prove the fall of her character resulting from her in-. e i tuated attackmetit to Bergami. do August - ISIS, she visited -Mount St. Got bard, Bergami still in lieu service : thence she' proceeded to Vannes, where she dined at an inn, and after di nn er she retiredlo a bed-roam with him, root rentai:oed tacked up fur a considerable length of ti me . There was no Apparent cause for snch retirement with Bergami, hut' sech• was the fact. After this they scent to NI adorns it !!lotto, where s!,ey slept, anti next day - they journeyed to the Borromen Islands. Her Majesty bad• the best; apartment assigned for her use, at the inn to which they then repaired. It. was naturally thought that this was that which . her Majesty would choose to occupy. But that room haul no communica tion •vith the sleeping room of Bergami, and it was remarked that she declined taking this, which• she had formerly occu pied when she visited the same place, and preferred an in- I si s ° , apartment, which communicated with the bedchamber of her favourite Bergami. This conditct is not a little sin gular; what reason is there that Bergami• should always sleep in the room near her Majesty? Such however was the fact. What motive could 'she have for desiring thato he Ai rangement, just described, should take place; what but this, t h a t it favoured the adUlterons intercourse, which 's - he was then !,,.ping up with Bergami, and which without such an arrangement would be more exposed to observation and et s covery.? Her Majesty next went toßatman - a, where Bet - garni ; -now - entitled to a higher rank, was admitted toyer Majesty's table. He (the Attorney-General) did not know, that he .bad aspired to that .honour before; but at I3ellan aorta, he, being still her courier, was admitted ttia.dilia with het in his courier's dress, and from that „periiid he believed it would be found that this person had constantly sat at her Majesty's table. Did this, be would asits with the dignity of a Princess of England ? If the merits and fidelity of Bergami entitled .him to such coramon distinction ; would it nut, he. would ask, have been more, proper and decoroesto have promoted him to some Ilig,hea station before he was admitted to her table? Bat no. the fatuated .passion which had taken possession of her then Royal Highness could not wait fi;iathis, and the favouritewas admitted to dine with he r even in the dress of a menial ser vant, Be could . not think that under any circumstances such a familiarity. Was allowable between an individual o,f this description, and a person of her Majesty's high rank.— In the middle ranks of life was it common familiarly to admit to the family table those who were in the habit of perform • ipg the menial services of the house ?. If then this was not common in the middle and lower ranks of life, how was it to be accomtted for in the case of her Majesty, but by ascr(l3- lug it to that fatal passion which had made her forgetful of, her honour and her adignity ? Such a passion broke down all the barriers which divided the different classes: of so ciety—it placed the lowest and most vulgar on a level with, the highest, and such persons claimed (as they had a right .to, du under such circumstances, and with those who acted such a part) to be treated as equals. They next visited Lugano, and decisive proofs of the adulterous intercourse carried on at that place would be offered. As at other places, care was taken that the chamber of the Courier Bergami should be . I near to that of her Majesty, and without going into the dis gusting particulars, lie thought their Lordships would-be .sa tisfied of the criminal intercourse there carried on between the parties. s On her return sh e es t a bli s h e d h e rself near, Como at the Villa d'Este ' and here she seems to have first thought that it would be better to give him an osten sible rank wore commensurate with his actual authturityan, her estelisbment : he was accordingly raised to the dignity of Chamberlain. She then went again to Genoa, and on the 15th of November embarked on board his Majesty's ship the Leviathan, its which • the cabin apartments bad beets previously arranged with a becoming regard to the privacy and seclusion of her sex under such circumstances. It bad' been thought that it would he agreeable to ber Majesty to have her female attendants as near to her person as possible. Two cabins had therefore been fitted up, one fur her Majesty and her Lady of Honour, and one for her afijesty's female servants. But on her Majesty's going On board, this arrange. went was altered by her directions, and the romp intended for her female attendants was appropriated to the use of Beta Het Majesty remained on board front the 15th to the 26th of November. Ls,tbe course of this tour she visited Elba, where, however, she did not slay but a day or two, and thence returned to Palermo, which place she reached: on the 4601 of November. While on board the ship, Bergami, acting as her Chamberlain, continued ,to dine at her table; but he was careful to avoid a repetition' of those familiarities which had before been noticed, 'and which indicated the criminal intercourse which had beets carried on, and which was no doubt continued. She, however, still treated him with considerable familiarity —often walking arm its arm with him on the deck : and in :other respects using great freedom towards. Isins. At Palermo, her Majesty went to Court accompanied byfrlerga mi, in a magnificent Hussar dress... From thence .she went to. Messina, where she remained till the 6th January 1816. On her arrival there, the bed rooms were arranged as in the other places I have mentioned—on this occasion, however, their rooms being separated by that; in which the .Countess of Oldi a his sister, slept. It .. was here observed, that her Majesty and Bergand ; .retired earlier than the others to rest, and' that she seldom required that fe male assistance wbiah ladies of ber rank usually' de manded, on. such occasions. The dour of the apartment of the Countess of Oldi had beets constantly lucked after her Majesty and Bergami retired; but one 'of the servants had been Dear enough to the apartment in which Majesty slept, to hear that Berganii. was there. Elere. she had been seen in her night-dress passing through Bergamrs. bed-room repeatedly. It w a s o b serve d tts,st "Bergami and the Princess frequently retired atan early hour, and that he was called uport to attend her to bee bed•raone, instead of her female servants. She would do without their assistance, and would frequently not be seen again till the following morning. Their intim:try continued, and she became more careless of her •person, and was frequently heard to accost him by the most endearing titles, calling him her ".friend" and her " heart," and other expressions that could alone he justified , or .warranted ley that adulterous intercourse alleged to have been carried on between them. On the 6th January her Majesty left Met . sins, and embarked in the frigate Clorinde, the vessel which, s had previously carried her Majesty from Civita Vecchia to Genoa.- - At that time Bergami was her menial, but he - Wila flow her Chamberlain. That ship was still commanded by the same honourable persists who commanded it when she sailed in• it before. Their Lordships would observe, that whets her Ma jesty first went on - board the' Clorinde, she was aliended by Bergami, as a menial servant. On ibis occasion he washer Majesty's Chamberlain, and was to dine at the Maine table with het. That honourable Officer felt that it would be degrading to the British service, for Isins to sit at the same table with Bergami, after seeing him in the situation which he had formerly filled. He, therefore, its tbe most respectful terms, intimated to her Majesty by Captain Pechell, that he was ordered to receive her un board his ship, to convey her wherever she pleased to go; and to provide suitable accommodation fur her and her-suite; but he requested her to spare a British Officer the disgrace and scandal of sitting at the same table with one, who but a wort time before had been on hoard his ship as a menial servant. Every English- Man must applaud the conduct of this officer-aevery English man would du the same. The conduct of her Majesty proved how leverely she had felt its propriety. If there had been nothing imp oper in her conduct—if, as they would pro bably hear, the fidelity and services of Bergami entitled him to the distinction conferred upon him, would she not have been disposed to say, " Ito not object to sit at the Mine tickle with a man of his merit ; I' feel it no degradation to myself to sit at the saute table, and I anist therefore tea any British Officer, whoever he may ise, that it can he no degradation to lints ?" This was the language her Ma jesty wolud have held had she been inaocent—she wonlit have done more—she would have said, ti You have offered an, insult to the Princess of Wales, and to the country to Which she belongs;. and I will complain to that country which has provided a ship of war to carry me front place to 0130, of your conduct. I will not go un board your shipasow ; btfit I will camplain to your Commanding Officer of this conduct, and you shall'make me reparation." Tills would - Isgve berti the language she would bare held, had she not been con scious of guilt—had she not . bee& conscious of carryingaitl a criminal .intercourse with Bergami, and a complaint. sialatd have been made to the Cetrimanding Officer. Far froth doing this, she had taken twoalays• to consider what course she would pursue, and she had expostulated with Captaia observing that Captain Beigg, of: the Iseriathara had n o t objected to sit at the same table with Berganii.— That' Officer, however, had said, " I never knew that Bee g:oni had been in such a situation ; he had never waited be hind my chair." Capta',. Peehell- himself had been waited upon by Bergami, %Oleo her :Majesty went on board his ship befure. Her Majesty had delayed coming - to a 'resblutiOn on this subject for a day or two, and that-delay to his (th :Wm ney-Geninars) mind, proved that she was operated - upon by the fatal attachment that she had' formed, • and that she wanted resolution to give up the society of her favourite, even for a day or two. She filially decided , th submittiog to what, if innocent, she ought to have re garded as' an insult from tin English Captain, and eta harked au board-Captain Pechell's ship , • refusing to dine with him, and dining -at a separate table with Bergrifiii and the Countess of Oldi. Frans Messina she sailed tb ,Syracuse, where she remained four or Jive days. Here' the same arrangement was made with respect to the bed rooms which had been made at other places. The house which she occupied had three rooms on a fluor, and the aparatent Of ttre Queen was not imm e diately adjoining that .flestined for Berganti: There was however a private staircase which led to it, and a door opened !ruin it iuto the dining-I'omo. 'fl 0111111g-I'6OM door was locked'every night, and thus the cims mumeation between the two chambers by means of the pri :tate staircase was left open to the parties. Oa the 30t1t January, 1816, her • Majesty Went to Catania. There 'at first :Berganti's bed room was at a distance from her's— but the same change Isere tiaik• place as on every ottie's occasion where - any interruption could take place in their secret counnuoicatmus. But to get fruits hec Majesty's chamber to that of Bergami, it was . necessary to pass through one that :was appropriated to the female servatuta The Queen - and Bergami usually retired before the servants : to bed, and the latter were rutted in the morning before her Majesty made her appearance, ati that there were but few op- , port thaties.for observiaa her con d u ct. One morning, -baw l' ever; these servants, having remained lonaer in their limns than usual, saw, not 'tir their surprise (for other then:in stances made them pretty welt acquainted with' "the intercourse then carried `on), her Majesty coming. Out of Bi:rgatni's room. From her making her appearance therelit thattime of the morning, it was clear that she - ghost bate passed the night _in his apartin9l2.• That !high.