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that there is no harm in a man and woman being up in a tent together for siK weeks ; but they are condemned in advance by their friend I'tie Times. He has told his readers, and told them trnly, that the very idea is " filthy"—and so it certainly is so filthy, so indecent, so contrary to ev , ,:ry idea of female modesty, that no woman in i-bliclott, except a prostitute, or a poor wretch unable to pay a shillinga week for a hole to her self,- would be guilty of it. It is a filthy inven ton, hut not it seems of a high fed Italian. And i.at is the excuse offered ? Why that the Queen orn fear of rolihe vs or assassins had been accustom ed ::ever to repose without somebody near her c:ftniber. outside the door, or in another room. i oei- did it happen, that in this ship, where she '.7,.der the protection of the Grand Master and all his Knights, of Prilice William, and the tvio gallant Lieutenants of the Royal Navy of li-.neland—how did it happen, we say, that in this safe and secure situation she, for the -, first time in her life, violated her own rules of propriety, and took the q)ecial Guardian of ter Royal Person ipaide tlle tent, which was., closed down and the lights put out ? And this , co:titinued for tire weeks ! Night after night, for fide weeks together, was the Consort of the Prince Regent of England thus shut up with a Lilo:I - that had been in the common Gaol at Lodi, a disbanded Serjeant of the- French Revo lutionary Army of Italy—Oh, filthy invention ! [ e Times.] Th' CROSi-EXAMINATION of Lieut. TIOWNAM was resumed yesterday, and satly"actoriky con cluded. We apply the descriptive term which we have marked in Italics to the general feeling of the Nation : the conclusion of that Gentle an,an's examination will be found satisfactou to the pre-conceived hope and confident expectation of the British People. The history of .Lieute- Dant Hownam's examination is a singular one : there is nothing like it in the annals of our judi cial proceedings or legislation. We shall endea vour t) explain it by a comparison :—lt may be recollected that Dr. Parr, an excellently learned man, published, many years ago, a Sermon—of the ordinary, or little more than the ordinary length—entitled the " Spital Sermon." But then the notes ! Alas, the notes_! Learned also, and good they were ! But of such a length ! - They contained all the matter that should have been in the Sermon ! Just such as those notes were to the Sermon ha's Lieutenant Ilownam's cross examination become to his examination in chief. The commentary has been converted into the text ! And, miraculous as it mayseem, the whole of the criminatory evidence against the Queen is at the present moment reduced to' this :—that, wandering-, homeless, friendless, and unprotected (nay, worse than unprotected), on the face of the ocean, a man has lain, by night, with his clothes on, upon a couch accessible to all upon deck, and sheltered by the same awning beneath which her Majesty reposed, clothed also. 'lt is night when we write this, and about the same season of - the year as her Majesty returned from the -Holy Land to Italy. The stars are now also " shining in their courses, 7 as they might be then, about midnight ! We are in the midst of a populous city : but have .any of our readers ever known, or felt, the depressing sensation of solitude, of human weakness and destitution, in suaia a situation as ,!rat in which her Majesty Ives placed ? Have they, we say, in such a state, reflected on the fathomless depths below,—on the friends, now far distant, who loved them— or on the world by which they were for gotten ? Have they listened to the howling winds above them,—shuddered at the lash ing of the waves against the sides of the vesael which bore them---and started at intervals, as the helmsman gave his orders for shifting the sails or calling up more hands ? Oh ! the deep, the affecting terrors of such a situation, to a soli tary female bosom! Have any of our readers ever been thus placed, and thus felt ? If so, they will not wonder that a helpless female might (wish--- shall we say ? no, not wish ; her Brunswick heart was not even then appalled to expressing a desire ---but might) be induced to allow sonic man whom she knew, amidst a crew of strangers, to rest near her ? And this is all ! This is the case against the Queen of England, for adultery, at the present day.. COUNTY OF WAnwlcK.—Sir CHARLES MOR DAUNT has addressed the Freeholders of this County, announcing his retirement from Parlia ment, on the ground of ill-health. Yesterday his Serene Highness Prince (3-1;$- TAVUS and attendants had an audience of the KING. Signor GIOACIII3IO FELICE and his - son, two -witnesse* for the QUEEN, arrived in town on Wednesday from the Continent. The appointment of which we spoke some days ago has taken place.—Dr. KYLE is now Provost of the University of Dublin.--(Dublin Freeman's Journal.) BIHMINGLIAM MUSICAL FESTIVAL.—The suc cess which has attended this Festival may be judged of from the following statement of the re ceipts :- 11.,ceipts at the Church £3733 2 6 Dilto . 7•A rat re 3551 1 0 Coneet;ons at the Church and Donations 1646 1 84 Received fur Books, about 9060 5 2 Miss STEPHENS proceeded from Birmingham to Liverpool, where she is engaged to sing 9 nights, and made her appearance there on Tuesday evening last, in the part of Adriana, in The Co- Errors. Mr. WALLACK is arrived in Dublin, on a short •envgetnent with Mr. llAttms. licAN's farewell benefit-at Liverpool netted him full two hundred and tifty pounds ; after his per formance of Othello he was loudly called for by the audience, of whom he took leave iu a neat speech which was received with the loudest ap plause. KEAN takes his departure from Liver - pool for America, in the Martha, Captain SKE7OILEY, HOUSE OF LORDS-THIS DAY. •rHE CEEN. Among the Peers who were excused this morn ing were the EarlS of Abingdon and Barrington, and the Duke of Bedford. At twenty minutes past ten the Counsel were called in, when a Noble Lord wished, as the weather was rather cold to day, that not all the windows should be opened. The Earl of Livutpoot.'said, he would submit the expediency of opening the windows on the south side. The Loan CHANCELLOR then directed the Officers td open the windows on the south side of the House, facing the Thames. tviTtiEssEs FOlt 1-IEIIMAJE‘:TY. Guiseppi Gavolini, the master builder at the Villa dNEste, from Milan, was then placed at the Bar,•and his examination was resumed by Mr. '\V illiams, through the medium of the Inter preter. You said that you were employed as a builder at the Villa d'Este ?--Yes, as head master. Wer e you paid as you went along, or was there a bill run up ?—Before her Royal High ness set out on her long journey, I was paid my regular bill at the time, and after her departure we entered into a contract for 75 ; 000 livres. was under the direction of tho architect. (The witness was understood to add, that he had af terwards a demand of 44,500 livres.) Did you or not see Rastelli, when that sum of money was owing to you ?—Yes. Do you remember if any part of the money was paid by Rastelli to you ?—He asked me what was the amount of my _credit as against her Royal Highness, and I told him it was 45,500 livres, deducting what I had received in pa:A. Was there any thing said about your money being paid to you ?—There was. State what that was? The SOLICITOR-GENERAL took objection to this question, Avhich, he observed, was nothing more than a conversation between the witness and Rastelli, the purport of which could not be given in evidence. The LORD CHANCELLOR said, that if the con versation should amount to the offer of money by Rastelli, it would contradict that part of his evidence ; and, therefore, it was for their Lord ships to consider how far the witness should be allowed to go. 'The SOLICITOR-GENERAL persisted in his ob jection. The, witnesses, at least many of them, had already heard of what had passed in that House ; the evidence had been printed'and sent over to'ltaly, where it had been read by persons who might have been induced to come hither in order to give a colouring to particular parts. Mr. WlLLints replied, and thetrinterrogated the witness thus :—Do you recollect at any time Rastelli's offering you money, or holding out any advantage to you, Sze. ? , Here the Earl of LAUDERDALE rose, and ob jected to the receiving of evidence as to conver sation. The Lono CHANCELLOR apprehended, that the question might be put in another shape. What he would say was, that the question ought to be put,—Did the witness know whether Ras tclii had offered him any money for coining here ? This question should be put in the first instance to him, and then after his answer, the question as to advantage might be put next. Examination resumed. Q. Did inistelli otter you any money?—a. He said if my aecooi.t with her Ito)al Highness was not liquidated, if-I would give it in to him, he would 'contrive to get me paid. What was you to do for Rastelli then ?—He told me to give my account to him, fur there were Englishmen at Milan, and he would see me paid. Did Ita,telli say what the witness was to do after he got his bill paid him ?—lir told me that if t had any thing to say against tier. Royal Highness, as I had heel) a li./11g; time in her service, to tell it to him, and he would endeavour to get me paid. At that time, or at any other, bad you any further conver eat Mit with Rastelli on this subject ? The SOLICI TOR-GENERAL objected to this question being put. Mr. WILLIAMS. in reply, contended, that it was essential to his cause, as it tended to ascertain the activity of Rastelli on the part of the Milan Commissiou lie had denied in that I louse. , (Reference was here made by the Learned Counsel to cariods parts of the evidence.) Now, the witness was about to state, according to what Rastelli conunu nieated to him On the business of the agency, that he of fered sums of money in order to procure the attendance of witnesses here. Supposing - that to be actually the case, he submitted, that on that ground alone such evidence WaS admissible. In addition to this, however, there were se veral other facts to which he wished to refer their Lordships ; facts, magic , of which proved the interference of Rastelli, as furnishing 'direct proof of his collecting witnesses its Italy in support of the Bill. He knew, indeed, that the practice of the courts below hsd differed on This point, but in the pt esent vase, he would humbly submit that the analo;y must fail. The. LORD CHANCEL'IIt, as the witness still confirmed at the fur, put the followilig question to the Counsel for the Queen. Has the witness been asked if he understands a word of English ? Mr. BROUGH AM.—My f ord he has; and he does not un derstand it at all. Mr. WILLIAMS proceeded.—He contended that the man ner in which the witnesses came over must alt•er the credit of their testimony, and therefore that the circumstances of their coming ought to be stated in evidence as- natters most fitting to be submitted to their Lordships 'in so important but involved a case. Here there was no positive prosecutor; he wished the Queen had an os tensible anta g onist ; alid for want of this it would he a gross injury to the Queen to refuse what he contended fort There were, to be sure, Isis Lear ned Friends, the Attorney-General and the Solicitor-General, who appeared for the bill, aLd against her, but he was son y to say, that they were merely the shades of prosecution. It was a most material fact for their Lordships to know how this evidence had ~been got together. Mr. DROUGHANI then. followed in suppott of the argu ment of his Learned Friend, to which he had hitt little to add. If he had known that Rastelli was to he called At first, Iris Learned Friends and himself would have been p repared with evidence to rebut him, by asking Rastrlli at the time if he had not told the present witness such and such thinge• Even in the Courts below, lie believed, the tes litoorlY of the witness might he given, as contradie t"ry f as Rastelli had admitted that he had said such things. Rastelli had denied his agency to the Milan Cont mission, and declared that lie was merely the courier of it ; yet, upon his cr4 ..-examination,he inadvertently let out gni" , enou g h to sliest' his activity in the g ood cause, and accordingly to entitle the Counsel for her Majesty to tning evidence iu re futation of ltastelli's from the witness at the Bar.' Certainly the Milan Commission was no shade, but a substantial anti operative thing felt in all directions. For his part, linked, he ilifTeren from his Learned Friend tespecting his tipittion of the Attorney and Solicitor-General, whom he had de scribed as shades, but in whose persons, lie himself roust Mi te's. he had found no shades. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL on the other side -observed, that Rastelli as a Courier was untrn ✓ed with mecessary powers, and he apprehended that her Majesty's Counsel were um entitled to bring evidence a g ainst him, since itas'elb had owned to his agency so far as his bein g eti trusted with " I .'s , fszes to individuals from the Milan Commission, and I bat they ou g ht to have put their q uestions to Ras• The Report which prevailed yesterday at the west end of the town, stating that His MAJESTY was disposed to send a Alesgage to the House of Lords, suggesting the propriety of putting a stop to the present dangerous and disgustinn- Inquiry, has, we are assured, become more confi dently dently in circulation this day. TILE REvEsuc.—Our Readers will recollect, that on the 18th of last month we expressed our satisfaction on being able to announce from au thority the promising state of THE REVENUE, and that " the produce of the present Quarter materially exceeded that of the Correspondent Quarter of last yer-r." We inserted yesterday an Abstract of an Official Document recently issued. This day we give a more enlarged statement on this interesting subject, which we had-not room to insert yesterday. On a similar occasion we expressed our wish that Government would not partially communicate Official Docu ments so important and interesting to the Peo ple to particular Newspapers, but to the London Journals iu general, as none of them, however hostile to Ministers, would not readily circulate information so gratifying to the Country at large. We heartily wish that our Competitors would adopt, our exa►rple, and not give from themselves any opinion ou the conduct of THE QUEEN, and the Dvidence on either side, till the whole of the Proceedings are ended, as it is absolutely impos sible to form a correct or probable judgment till that period. It is sufficient' if they admit the observations of their Correspondents, with out implicating their own character. The Addressers in general, by the aspersions which they have thrown upon Government, are amenable to the law, to say nothing of their folly in presuming that Him MAJESTY is innocent, notwithstanding such heavy charges against her, with all the circumstances that pre ceded those charges, and that have transpired during t►he afflictive investigation. After all, the high and august Court will decide upon their own conviction of the merits of the case. Whatever their decision may be, it will be founded on libe ral and impartial justice, and will certainly be confirmed by the opinion of the People of this Country and of all mankind. Extract of a Letter from Virginia, Sept. 7. " Captain Jo ROAN, of the schooner &lig:grid, whO arrived here on Saturday from St. Bartholomew's, states that the brig eresisiihle, tinder the command of Commodore 11 ~,lANIEI4 under she Ventzuelian flag, bad derived at the Fiveqslaricts about th e fit h August, having captured a fleet of Gve sail, consisting of a ship, three brigs, and a schooner. One of the brigs \vas heavily armed, mid acted as convoy. The cap ture was male off Madeira ; the fleet was from the liavan nah, lommi to Spain, and the action lasted shoot an hour and a quArter. The brig (as convoy) had 35,000 doubloons on board, and Commodore DANT eis landed them at St. Bar tholomew's. Capt..lonnvN saw the fleet at the Five. Islands, ,yid bad lime conversation with Captain Peoiut.s." SECOND EDITIOS, SUN-OFFICE, Half -past Fil%' lIOUSE OF LORDS, OcT. 13.. 4 The discussions continued till near fiveo'o°- c i It appeared that RASTELLI had quitted the C°l3// try ; and it appears also, that he had li e ' sent out of the Country by Mr. 1 3 ° 1111 ' one of the Agents for the Bill ; it wal ength determined to examine that Gentle' man upon the subject.—Mr. PowELY. .state' 0 1 1 that he had recommended RASTELLI to Foreign Office, to be sent as a courier to Ital,ll' to inform the families of the Witnesses that the latter were perfectly safe, the most er aggerated reports baying been circulated tilere of their having been exposed to personal &ger el and injury in this Country. Rl' STELL I bad b e sent off the Thursday or Friday after the I% journment of the House, with a strictinjaa cti° o( to return to this Country, on or before the 33 o' October, and he (Mr. POWELL) had still a c° fident expectation that RASTELLI would spee.- return. It was then proposed to put a question t° QUEEN'S Counsel, as to whether in conseque nce of the absence of RASTELLI,they wished th e Cn° ° to be postponed, but the LORD CHANCEL observing that they could not decide u pon dial question to-night in any reasonable time, an d being then near five o'clock, the House $ ourned till to-morrow morning. LORD CASTLEREAGH'S LATE V1511(1 En Passant, to CHELMSFORD. [1 , 11.01t A CORRESPONDENT.] Amidst the many violent and inflamu3B - of the Demagogues of the present cls' r : it affords us sincere pleasure to find the good se lls j of Englishmen is not extinct, even though urg e on to acts of hostility towards Government of flf such men as HUNT, WOOLER, and COBBETT. therefore, with feelings of peculiar satisfacn f A give a brief account of the reception which V ie CASTLEREAGU experienced (on his return to V ti o don from the Marquis of HERTFORD'S at loyal county town of Chelmsford, in P s 'o Lord andLadyCAsTLEREAon reached theSara c . e d Head Inn about nine o'clock on Sunday eve, f3l eir and no sooner was it known that this ch 9 e il guished Nobleman had arrived, than the bo p struck up a merry peal of welcome. On 'Jr day morning, prior to his departure, a DeP:de , Lion from the Town waited on his Lordship, ll , l ", by J. CRABBE, Esq., the worthy resident 1‘ 13 ; 0 # trate, and accompanied by about fifty of the PO respectable inhabitants, including the Ito Members of the Pitt and Waterloo ‘ ll id Among the distinguished Gentle Men asser. s "44 on this occasion we noticed J. 0. Parker,,vp , C. G. Parker, Esq., T. F. Gepp and G. S. TT , Esqrs., Dr. John Badely and Brother, i: . goi Child, Esq., and many distinguished Gentle:l l P His Lordship received the Deputation wi tP usual urbanity and the utmost politeness , D tie when arrived at the top of the room, Mr. G r eat began to state, in a neat and appropriate sg e ti f "That he felt himself peculiarly happy in 0 1 1° 0 0 ing to his Lordship, that, as the organ of this P a , Town, he was fully authorised to offer their gratulations on the arrival of one of his Mai ° 0, most distinguished Ministers, and to assn ea Os Lordship of attachment to his Majesty, ° i t e the approval of the measures of Governme n ae His Lordship replied, " that nothing c aul ole more satisfactory to his feelings than the An ledge that the measures of his Majesty's '" 0 ters met the approbation of the loyal O W , he st Chelmsford ; and it afforded him the to gratification to be thus personally introdu c f se po such a distinguished company as the PI je st): nor would lie fail to communicate to his Iw p o 'efe the assurance he had now received of the g,e, attachment to his person and Governmen t. nt 0 04 1 When his Lordship had finished this P t or acknowledgment of his approbation , he, e° ta e into a desultory conversation with many toF ic g ' Gentlemen assembled, and, among severa l . c or his Lordship hinted that measures were I t/ . ol d templation which it was hoped would alu e . l a j° e. the situation of our Agriculturists and i' 3 of o are While his Lordship's carriage was Prettive! t w e a band was provided, and played " GOC IS King :" and on his Lordship's departui;'oe whole of the Deputation surrounded hi s o bi . (now joined by a great multitude), and Ba nine cheers at parting. Extract of a Letter from I,isi,on qf Me qtstgli‘;cidi "An business is at a stand, owiu ,, to the g reat ; e .j ° t/ „ we have no!hing but continual feasting, and a.- t ou pt Governmeot Paper, which was at 19 per cent. disc-00 ha ;f t now at 27 per cent. discount. Lord BEitatra n° a rievd 9 - Q, f; i ic k: LOO : inted I , y .1. D. CAP,STAIItS, of 17 .:a Irnowd.str, et, Uneen-square• an d publisheu 11'4 ;414 1 SCHIPI'S. of N. 7, Suiltll Nit.lton-,treet, O f. (11Fce, No. 112. strand where Ad" •itiscrner. t s i, — l - qs, frott-•1,1;..i ) .ess.r4. tells when he was under his examination at their Lordships bar. Nothing in the shape of - agency on his part by authority of the Milan Commission could he supported, while in I cality he wa: natty their courier. If even his overtures were proved to have been made by authority of the Milan Commission, it could not at present he received as matter of evidence by the House. It was competent for his Learned Friends for the Defence, to have put questions to individuals, as to the conduct of Rastelli, when these individuals were under examination at the bar,- and it was competent for them to have put similar questions to Rastelli himself ; but as the Learned Counsel bad not pursued that course, it was most exitraordinary in them to turn routed and say they would produce evidence to conversations now, when they had been granted time for attaining their object its another way. Every sort of indulgence had been granted to her Majesty, whose Counsel had required their own time, which was acceded to them, and had brought up their own witnesses. He there fore must object most decidedly to the course now taken by them. Mr. BROUGHAM, as well as we could understand him, inti mated a wish to re-examine Rastelli, in like manner as M3jneci bad been. A question was here put as to conversations with the wit ness respecting what Rastelli was to do with the witnesses Lord ERSKINE said it was in evidence, that Rastelli had ititermeddled. It was necessary, in such circumstances, that their Lordships should have all the light they pos sibly could; and he much regretted, that at this period of the inquiry, they were still so much in the dark respect ing the Milan' Commission. which bad been the origin mist focus of all that had transpires' at their liar. When he, therefore, should come to decide and give his vote, he should want the widener of Mr. Cooke, Mr. Powell, &c. But the proper time for admitting that evidence was gone by, and the question was, whether their Lordships would at pre sent .vield to the Counsel and call back Majocci and Itastelle, or allow the witness at the Bar to go on. Their decision would much influence any vote he should give, and he certainly had no faith its the business as matters now stood. 'l he Earl of LIVERPOOL did not rise to remark on the ob servations of the Noble and Learned Lord. What he wished declare was, that he had not the least objection, to at any time their Lordships should think fit. to have the very head of the Milan Commission,whom he believed to he a most respectable mail, examined most thoroughly on the subject of it. The LORD CHANCELLOR was clearly of opinion, that, after what hail been said on the subject of the Milan Commis sion, their Lordships would not he acting with the feeling which became them, nor dispense justice to eit her side, if they did not afford the members of that Commission an opportu nity of justifying their conduct to their counfry and the world. The Earl of CARNARVON was, we understood, in favour of the. witness being heard,—and we left the Earl of Do ;smut; ststosa on his legs. ERRATA in Yesterday's SUN. —After "The Duke of-Clarence and the Nary," " The Lord Lieutenant of the County," should have followed in the list of Toasts given at the Pe tersfield Dinner on Tuesday last. And fur " pour classes," read " pourer classes." PRICE OF sTocKs THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. 8 per Cent. Red. BED[} 3 per Cent. Cons 671k,ii 3i per Cent. 7 4 per Cents s per Ct. 'Nary Ann lO3:Hi Bank Lung Ann... 174 7-Itiths Imp. 3 per Cent. Ann. esi India Bonds 255. 235. 2bs. pr. South Sea Stock 741 Ex. Bills, 2d. 4s. ss. pr. Cons. for November HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning, 29 minutes after 6. I Evening, 2 inmates after 7 THE SUN. SOLEM CICIIS DICERS FALSUM ALTDE4T:' LONDON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1820. -, i,, t i t6l:l;. E ,l' A• LLINI ( 37 . 11 , 20, 0001 , C " I ..)tt , "Pithla , N.P4 A. 114 ,a 1 . t e i oi! ! ' lll 4 in < W . "Y, P u ii e iti e kip, 1•444,°.! • so t, As ql ?V is • t 4' th, W.,t1 1 144 FIN; 1 1 , t , •N„,