The Sun. — London, England, 1820-10-04 00:00:00

HOUSE OF LORDS, Oct. 4. THE QUEEN. This morning the LORD CHANCELLOR entered ttte House at ten minutes to ten o'clock, after which prayers were read by the Bishop of Bass -roe, and the call of the House was proceeded With. Excuses were made for the absence of se veral Peens, among whom were the Earls of Scarborough and Buckinghamshire, and the Duke cf Northumberland. There were afterwards iresented at the Bar Copies of all Correspond ence between his Majesty's Government and the Legal Advisers . and Agents of the Queen, re- Fivcting the Money applied for and &chanced to her Majesty at ditterent times. DEFENCE OF FIER MAJESTY. CotnEei were now called in, when the Defence of her Majesty was resumed. Mr. Bnoconaeat said, that with no want of care aakt prep; ration in, this important case, with un !hhited means to bring evidence in support of it, :red with bouudless resources to bring their faculties into play, there was one deft ienev in the Counsel on the other side— at-•!iieLii,:y so remarkable in the balance of evideoce, as must have struck every body who bate glanced over the printed minutes of their Lerdships' Hoth:e. This consisted in the vast cif - proportion of the evidence as it respected the greeter Statt.!, to that while all the Italian States, cven to the least and meanest of all, had been reasacked to furnish materials of accusation against the Queen, the moment their Lordships had crossed the Alps, there was but one solitary name a.s the representative of Switzerland, and only one .deputy from the whole body of the Cerrnanic,States, who had either the courage or the effrontery to appear in the _character of wit nesses at that bar. Not one had been produced from Vienna, not one from Brunswick, the birth place of her Majesty ; and the only one disco iered on this side of the Alps in that direction was a cellar-maid, or an assistant to a cellar man. These latter were the witnesses on whom so much reliance was placed ; and here he begged to recall their Lordships' attention to the evidence' of Barbara Krantz, the cellar-maid, which he . sihould do by referring to her own account of • herself. Now, to go back to her earlier years, it appeared from her own evidence, that from the tender age of 13, she had been a chambermaid at a German Inn. 'Where she had lived after that, it was not in the first instance quite so easy to • discover, but eventually -this impediment was re moved by due attention to the account of Krantz herself, whom it was only necessary to make her own biographer. At one time she had a master, but in all other instances she had lived in Inns, and in no other place, with this solitary exception. Bat she was asked what induced her to give her evidence at that bar, and be begged their Lord ships' attention here ; for it appeared there had beeo no lack of agents. There might, however, be no impropriety in the Minister of Wirtern , berg doing that which would not be considered ;mite so justifiable in a private man, though the t...Arone of that country had . been filled by the P:ncess Royal of England, to which circutn seance, perhaps, the connection might be traced. Ti - ,F_. , se active and unscrupulous agents thought that conduct was justifiable in themselves, which would be thought disgraceful in an individual. 01-7;, , of these agents for instance, the Minister of Grand Duke, who was residing in apartments of I:is own, heard that the Queen was about to ar rive, when he gave them up to her, artfully relin ce_rished them, under the pretence of accommodat ing her It. Highness, and on the very day she left them, he, accordingly, to use Krantz's words, was seen running up and down prying into .beds, alai examining into every hole and corner, in or der to collect some materials for accusation.— Eat there was one capacity in which this indefa tigable instrument did not think proper to appear. ire had not ventured to come forward to their Lords:lips' bar and face that reprobation which lieeti - inst have met . with, though in reality, he was a most material witness to confirm the cely witness from Carlsruhe, if peradventure be could. Let their Lordships look at the contradictory account that Krantz had gi ven of her motives for corning here. Fi rst of all she pretended she was to have nothing for it, then she adreitted she had made a -bargain to be compensated for her loss of time ; bait she did nut say what she had reason to have expected, if if she had• trade no 'bargain at all, or with what liberality it would have been meted out to her. He bade. their Lordships realm b e'r, if iedeed they could have forgotten it, her evidence on this particular, point. When asked what she bad given to her, or promised her, - Let answer was; " little, little, very little.'! At length, leowever, the secret was wrung out from her 11 asking if the reward w'as to be greater than her wages, when it turned out that it amounted to rebout double the annual sum she received for wages and perquisites in any one year.— , Now he e put it to ,their Lordships would any men of common sense or honesty pretend to say that he believed this woman, who, in the first instance, could not recollect the sum she was to have, but who afterwards had admit ted-that it was tri , in;h greater than her wages ? There were also great equivocations is ,her de tails of the case as to her going to Madame Oldi's room, and whether the Queen was really there e for all that was hroved was, that M. Oldi was not in the room at the time. Why, therefore, he would ask, did not the Ambassador Grimes come forward in such a caae, and why did not others come forward who might have corroborated the teatimony of Krantz ? But it was necessary onca - again to cross the Alps, as-all the rest of the wit- IIeSSCS were mere make-weights employed to fill dip the intervals and hive extent to the scene. °thing was more unlikely than that the cir ahimatantes to which -the greater part of these "vithesses had testified AbOld be permitted.to be seen by mortal eyes, .and even by the lowest of 411 characters. He inifo3 remind their LordshipS of the boat scene, whare eleven men were in the boat, and with the extravagance and folly of which every one mutt have been struck. Why had not some of these men been called to that bar ? The witnesses had said nothing to any one, their lips were hermetically sealed till they came before the Commissioner at Milan, when their tongues were liberated at once. Did they in the long space of ten months, see nobody to talk to? Boatmen, it was well known, were ac customed to tell . stories, in order to amuse passengers. It was very . - e - range then tit* no body should have heard of these transac them, that not even one fellow servant should have mentioned them to another all that time. How many of their Lordships were so restricted and courtly in their intercourse with mankind, as not to have mentioned such things, supposing they had come fairly to their knowledge, and were under no injunction not to mention them ? 01 this he was certain, that he could hardly name one Gentleman in private life, unless enjoined secresy, who would not have made somebody wiser in such a case by conversing with him. Yet these persons in inferior life, no torious in general for communicativeness, had kept it a secret till they got to Milan,' that at one time they saw the Princess of Wales kissing her servant in an open boat, and riding out with him at another time in a manlier not to be men tioned. These and other sights so portentous, so frightful, so dismaying,. so disgusting, were kept profoundly , secret, for the edification of the Milan Commissioners, and not mentioned till the observers got there. Then they could be kept secret no longer, the moment it crossed their imaginations that a reward might be earn ed. Did not their Lordships recollect one of them as he stood at their Bar, did they not re collect his lecherous lip, the prominent expres sion of his nose, his gloating eye, while describ ing scenes of filthiness at their Bar, like the ancient taylor, who gloated through the eye of his needle. lie would declare for himself that he beheld him still, that he never could, and never would forget him, that he at any rate should not escape this perjurer of Trieste, whom he would prove to have sworn most falsely when he deposed that the Queen had slept twice at Trieste. She had slept only one night there, .and went to the Opera, and that was the truth. Let their Lordships look at the foolish stories of displaying pictures, and put - ting, on bracelet chains, with other trumpery got up to concert with it, and must they not be lieve that the Italians of the present day were what the Great Master of the Drama had deli neated them in past days, when he employed the same evidence, from precisely the same country, for the very same vile purposes, to work on the too credulous and unsuspicious minds of the people of this land ? Haying now disposed of the characters of those who had so disgracefully figured at their Lordships' bar, he would proceed to the several heads of charges which assumed the shape of indictment, though under the disguise of a Bill of Pains and Penalties. The charge, then, originated at Naples, where the Prin cess of \Vales, if the evidence against her' was to be believed, had first committed a, character which had been proved spot less till then. Spotless, he vyould say, if there were truth in evidence, or benefit in acquit tal. Her Royal Highness had then under gone two searching inquiries, which were fol lowed by two solemn acquittals ; and even the censure for levity was expunged from the record, and she was not only recommended to be received, but was actually received at Court. Having thus come pure out of the fire, by the advice and the recommendation of some noble persons who were now sitting in judgment on her, who had -low accused her, how could they, he would ask, incline to believe the new fabrications of her calumniators ? But her Royal Highness,as he had stated just now, arrived in Italy, where she hired a servant of whom he should have something to say by and by, and within a few short months, it seemed she had consented to her D w degradation,• and from the mistress of the servant she became the mistress of the lover. If, however, their Lordships could not believe the transactions that were stated to have happened on the second night after her arrival there, as sworn to by Majocci and Du mont, the remainder of the story must fall.— the first instance, then, it appeared by their testimony that the Princess went by the most circuitous way and the least safe, to the fatal room. And how, he would ask, was that room prepared on the very first nigh t for the reception of two such persons who de signed to indulge their guilty loves ? - Only one snail iron bedstead, whose dimensions would hardly receive a single person, was deposed as sufficient for their use, and this in a house where every room was provided with -a comfortable bed,and when in that very room there was a larger bed, but which had no she6ts, and was left untouched, and only the little iron bed stead used. It would be remembered that such was the import of the evidence at first, but after wards the witness had recollected that the larger bed was tumbled, and an impression of two , persons in the middle, with stains upon it, but what these stains were she did not know. Was it likely, he would ask their Lordships, that this woman could have for gotten any one material fact, when she was first placed at the bar, knowing that she came over to prove an adultery. This woman, who had vo lunteered to depose that the Queen came home early from the Opera that night all agitation, whereas it would be proved that she had re rnained till the Opera would be over. lie would also shew, that another part of the ceased ewas untrue, for that Austin had long before to sleep in the Queen's room. Another night, but the hour was not stated, the same witness saw Bergami coming cut naked from his room, except his shirt, and making towards the Corridor, where -the Queen's chamber was situated. The witness' , does not start at Bergami in his shirt, neither does Bergami - recede, but he goes on with the knowledge that the witness must have Seen him, with even more alacrity than a husband is ac customed to repair to his tvife. Here the Learned Counsel commented on the scene at Catania, and the circumstances said to have taken place during Bergami's sickness, who was seized with a fever and laid up for some weeks, more as a patient than a lover, and there fore not likely to attract the particular love of the Queen. He added, that her Majesty ought to be forgiven, if the Omptedas and Majocci's had narrowed that confidence in humanity which .was first shaken by the perfidy of the Doug lases ; and he fervently hoped that, not withstanding her sad experience of the ingratitude of mankind, she was not even now nourishing another viper of the same breed in her bosom. Here the Learned Counsel was so much exhausted, that for some moments he was obliged to pause. TO - MORROW, 4,500 nciu.Ts TO BE DRAWN— ALL WILL IIF.• PRlZEs'—Two /:40.001, TWO Z . o.Goo —TWO CIO,ODO IN-I'IIE FlttS C PATE AiINU !'E3—ALL IN STERLING MONEY. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE 0-CLOCS. 3 per Cent. Cons 663 Wl l ,l I Ex. Bilk, id. .... Is. 2s. pr. per ('t. Nary A win. Onitituin du, Imp. S per Cent. Ann. .. 6.51 Cons. for Account India Bonds .... 20s. 2I s. pr. I THE SUN. SOLEAI QUIZ DICERE FALSUit AUDEAT LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBI4R 4, 1820. The awful and melancholy investigation which has so long and so painfully agitated the Nation, and which, no doubt, has strongly excited the at tention of the World in general,was resumed yester day. We:gave an account yesterday of part of the proceedings of the Court, and we give the remain der this day. Never did a more calamitous Inquiry occupy the attention of a Government, and distract the tranquillity of a People, but the conviction that nothing but fair and substantial justice will be the final result, must be consoling and satis factory to the Nation. We feel it to be our duty, as a Public Journalist, to give the opinions of the Writers on both sides, in order to gratify the curiosity and to assist the judgment of our Readers in general on this important subject, but we cannot withhold our reprobation of the freedom with which each Party have delivered those opinions. It is equally wrong to infer in nocence after such heavy accusations, supported by apparently such consistent evidence, as to in fer guilt without hearing the defence. We shall do neither, but calmly wait till the conclusion of the whole, sincerely wishing, rather than hoping, as hope would in some degree be prejudication, that the subject of the inquiry may come out of it with - a full restoration of character.--We have inserted the proceedings of this day, up to the time when we were necessarily obliged to put our Paper to Press. We received this morning the Paris Papers of Sunday last. The Monileur contains a Royal Ordonnance, issued in commemoration of the birth of the Duke of BocanEAux, nominating the tsardinal de la LUZERNE, the Cardinal de 13AussET, the Arbishop of BouaDEAux, and the Abbe de MoNTEsQuiou, Commanders of the Order of Saint Esprit, and also nominating a number of Knights Commanders of the same Order, including the Prince de TALLEYRAND, Six Marshals, the Duke DEcAZES, MM. LUNE, de SERRE, &c.—The following are extracts : " PARIS, OCT. I.—The King received yesterday new`con gratulations on the part of the Princes and Princesses of the blood. The Cardinal de Perhzord paid his respects to the King at noon. I3is Majesty afterwards transacted business with the Duke de Richelieu. "'f 111111) BULLETIN of the Health of her Roy Highoess the Duchess c:e " Her Royal Highness passed the evening well, but about two in the morning she experienced some pains, which ~Ve r , promptly got rid of. Her Ruyal Highness has since slept tranquilly. " His Royal Highness the Dul;c of Bordeaux continues to enjoy the best heal; h. The Prince has tuk•en the hreaA se veral times during the night. " 8 A. M. FOURTH BULLETIN.-30th Sept., 8, r. " Her Royal Hixhnes;" awaked at nine in the morning ; she has passed the day very well. " His floyal Highness the Duke of Boutdeaux continues to take the breast well from his nurse ; he is in the most satis factory state. "Tuesday, a Te Drum will be chaunied in the Metropoli tan Church, in thanhsgiring for the birth of the Doke of Bordeaux. There will also bepublicitjoieinst isr th e Champs Elyses, marriages of poor girls in the Municipalities, hie works, &C. FIVE PI:P. CENTS. Saturday 74 f. 20 c. DEFERRED STOCK. Of the t2d Nlareli, 1817 lO3 f. 70 c. 22d Sept., Im2o 59 f. 65 c." FRANCE.—The birili of an Heir to the Crown of France was the most fortunate event that could have happened to that Country at the present critical moment. We refer to the Letter from our Paris Correspondent, in our Paper this day, upon whose intelligence our Readers may always de pend, for an account of the delight which this important birth has excited in that Country, and we hope that all, his anticipations will be fully completed. The brief but emphatic speech ad dressed by the Duchess de BERnt, while under the pains of travail, and her anxiety for the event, is highly interesting and honourable to her• cha racter, as it shows that she forgot herself, even in so trying a moment, in her solicitude for the happiness of - her country. The presentiment which persuaded tier, during the whole of her anxious labour, that her issue would be a male, will, no doubt, have a strong influence upon the minds of the People, and, considering its impor tance to the Empirei perhaps induce them to view the event as the benignant result of Divine interposition. SECOND EDITIO SUN-OFFICE, Half -past F our Mr. BROUUeIAM finished about one o'cl°( when Mr. WiLLIAms proceeded to open the P for the QUEEN, by commenting upon the te • 0 1 mony against her, and describing the nature • cif bearings of the evidence which it is propose call in her favour. The Learned Gentleman having near finished at four o'clock, an acli°l ment took place till to-morrow morning• PRIVATE AND A UT HE NTIC CORRESPOND.' c • I,4; 6 PA 11151, Star. 50.—001 d and insensible must be the r 3 . 1 \ 1 ; that did not beat with er , thitsiasni at the birth of an kli:rtki the House of Bourbon! It is the pact ut alliance be t s the the Old and the New thder of things. Burn initlert h f stitution. he will combine the imprescriptable tigh ts 0 tr'' Ilnval Line with those his people, guaranteed. bfroc: Charter, and confirmed li his bring horn under its 4' of, Yrs. iris .11arcelha, l- ' eaven grant 'that, thy• 0 1.16 3,0 1 6" not deplore thy loss! l'he event has caused the.mo il sia•tic joy in all ranks and classes of people ; all lo' iy ot . the Aurora of the happiness. tranquillity, and pros Per a u Frar7ce. By this birth, the Hydra of the Revolution ',5,,ft s roved ; far in France multitudes are Royalist or g ( V 2.1 10 4 ' , , r•.ther from interest than pi inciple, and thousands liaoopi preve..ted from frankly rallying round the Throne. V,pre they had no hope of seeing the dynasty of the flonrhou'A pet noted, and they wished to act with reserve, sr) as tt at i,r Ire oinioxious to any other coder of things, that might l li pr Ity this auspicious (vent, time hopes of the fr bi c d 4 are frustrated, the doubts of the timid :and wavering ro W) 0, and the anklet desires of the loyal arc crowried.";oti!4 Duchess was compelled to hear the pains of maternitlr!'oo the arrival of Witnesses. The first who arrived was M 3 .j! `veer. When her Royol Highness saw him. 9 .!;, ' '•l)tilie of At. UM/ ERA, tilt, Doke of Bout-Int.:Aux tv 3 " - Ili you," so confident was she that it would be a lion, v news of her happy delivery reached the posts of the i",'lo Guard on duty, andbefore 5 o'clocli they hastvoe' l ls Palace, where the new-bore Prince received the first 111,0, of his people. So rages' were those good Citizens to 4C4 as• that many of theiu were half dressed. An intmen ce olii. course of persons crowded to the Thoilleries to see the t which was shown to theut several times, while they to air with raptures of joy. It is in- fact univet sal. •' . • IDICIMIMMICIERISMIN.U.EZMUMMIWI 0 Though the Earl of Liv EllPoo yesterdaY,o,l 04 a satisfactory account of the conduct of C°' ° i ; Baowsa, on his imputed threat to hare the A l . l Act put into effect to remove young from this country, yet The Times of this " 3 1 after having declared that cc LinowNE act u3 ,o obliged the father to explain away the , that had been denounced against the s° ll BROWNE," says ; BROWNE, We suppose, 9) 0 3 / cc now be given up." We refer our Readers io letters on the subject, which we have insertnsl another part of our Paper, and we conceiv e they fully acquit Colonel BROWNE, and that;o attacks against him "must now be given uJJ founded in falsehood and malevolence. DOVER, OCT. fl.—Thit Countess Or n' suite arrived this morning in the Delight Pa 9s %i vessel from Boulogne, after a tedious voyaecij `22 hours. The Countess on landing procei 4 to the Ship Inn, whence about twelve she set off for London. The reception of witnesses here yesterday, so be/bro . :l6.'ly P . Xl 5 trayed in the liberal Papers, is far, v e ry far the truth. The few that attended them (at tP c to about 9.00) were composed of persons of or lowest description, who are deterrnined pose every thing emanating from the 1111 :`'` f 2 , authorities. When we hear of " persons of spectubility" joining in the procession, asi' t tJ been exultingly styled, it is impossible li t ? contradict such assertions, and set the sobi e ; i t its true and perfect state. Such persons (Y the spectability were composed of the lowest 01. 0 ( low ; the good sense of the respectable 1' 3 ; 1 .00 our community teaches them to keep aloof 'A, expressing sentiments disgraceful to the ter of Englishmen. They will never atteol prejudge a question so deeply affecting tl' e , tion at large. 1 will leave it to the 6 0°. ba - your Readers to determine whether such ( 741/ called a procession. IP' Another Letter, same date.—Arrived MILTON, with dispatches for the Foreign otm re and two foreign couriers ; Ids° Mr. CA ar,o with dispatches for the QUEEN Countess of 01. DI and thirteen other Wit 9 i OR the part of her MA.IrST t : they set London about noon. Arrived the Lord packet with nearly 15(1 passengers ; also 3 „ , ,j;:f sian messenger, with dispatches fur his Count LIEF. N. THE LATE. T11031.1,S II A RELIS, we yesterday etve an Accwitit of the 1 tenth •of this 1- ' le r v ; man, talien from a "fouling . 'Paper, we considt r it as"i ti speet .to his memory to add something from tairscl“s ' io 1 0 knew him very earls. in 1, fe, :not Continued wiili Ifin i f yi h e ' interrupted friendship. . Fie was }torn pith great " 31 t u rd r i:t gacity, and a long interettorite a ill the world iall'y e rwr iatlgnictit and lit,owledge of mankind, insomuch that ; of a have assisted in the riminigenient ~ 1 a C oun t r y As We l ;A ctl i c r , Theatre.—He brca Me (MC Of I lit P 1,151 irt f,t'S COVei'tt'ol Theatre. in conjunction with the late Gyn. CoOlgt4f UTHERIOII), a t;untleman who moved in the fashionstepti, sirs of his day, and Mr. Ir'owEi.t., o• t lir most celeb r t g li e Yf e 'y tors his time. They the too towentent 041'4 17t is, hut in a short tililt• :1111,t. ;aniong then ) o , tt P ended in a separation; I f.s..:u is an.: Iti-rityarna l) t it side, and Coi,MAN and Pow r t.l, on the other. M' ~juo t Font), an elegant anti atVotit p I i•sl,rd Gen' tent3o, tart} on of the property, /Wit fro: vva, s t er, while.; or sa .1 t Lisbon, his hot se tool; Iriv,lit,atid ht:ll:rew himself 00' butsvlOd on what probably tie eon:lotted as an ea rth hank , of proved to he a It e,41, of stories, vi•vervil with gra ss or iPti-ote'ol tie was hilled on the spot. ,lit. PowELL retained the Thr titre till his death, and it t lien devolve d proportions 011 his I tl - 0,1);t11::(11(TS. The tP_ t „for hers Nh• Fl • (nis retaiiird, the P ti h!ic need lint u` coo dl'o. ell tifthe spiiit, rind w i t !, w hich he 1 , 10 ,11 d IA the concerti as long as h s health wuuld permit' then poi chased Iwo t weltt 11%4 the property. or svil ; ic .' p rocil'otti the Propt 'lel or. Nil. HAN aktMys, tiC e , 4l ,;opir t irt4 the 1,,,5t Perhomers that the lit itish the Public ate indebted to hint fur sonic of their Iv° otc cV o f favourites of both sr s; es. Ile was 41(0 lit"" 41 ( I :d r aCt ii lte le dnuuatic (iCnitn., and introduced the fir`t• r: e ior •tagr coltht A do' r tittEntn‘s 11. e In private-life d o . ii b P o ligent, itistr v e . Ir e was stored circl el e ,111• dotes, and mingled with the :mist re4p,c1311,'e,,,,,0rt°1:00 often as t lie concern% of t 'rhea! re would a ffora ork ec tio':„Ag He was a kind master, :I steads- tricot!, and ati,rl"iodkftl.;ott Parent. As a draniatic and theatrical Critic, rturiooo- 555 strand and cornet. He was in early Oft: a Jilt iler;l the flute, sod song with isnallected taste• A s -, at Staxe highly indebted to him for the jittlg t " ' , i (l ~,Cle° , l4l ' l the liberality with which his ma , t management sv' • for the talents, dramatic and th,atrickl, tutu action and always zealously ilentectett. --- Prititcd by J B. CA !TA I RI, II ?, ii ~~ 'V Pt Vie, ►e% for dem *4 4 04, " 'SI ...., a nd ley , 1 3$ teti r ey