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afetaigartfehireiteAll ; aVr h Let ielleee to Let
▪ nod he, in hie eandersation with M. Marie ti. la a
enbasapidat part of her tentionowy her facility in aekoowleclg.
lot Nat she could so looter csoceal, that she had mode
two contradictory tentementa, and that one wee of coarse
latent with the truth, had called forth the warmest
eulogies on her credibility. She had been asked, " Did
paw say you were its want of money ?'s—" Yes."—" Awl
were roe in want of inessey?"---" No!"—Su that in
point of fleet, anal from bee OWN slwwing, there was nut the
entailed comannew, fn earns salute, between • thing being
true, and her saying it. had yet lilt little penile hail been
bestowed neon her for her adasiminus in this part of her evi-
dence, and that by a person of s.o common sagacity—lie
meant his Learned Psiend the Solicitor-Demerol. But for
his gm. part he could hardly have ventured epee such a
strain of added's, even to any titan so for degraded below
the level of the menuest capacity, as le be only At for fem-
me oil tutu the fields the common completions of the
dullest brute. How then cosh' lie ever leave been pre-
vailed apes to address any lean of common send in 'm-
enage such as dos " True, she has ow a former or, •
,tattoo told lira; beat then see the candour and itagetisions-
Ness with which she tick eowledges it, in ioeiwer to the gees- '
lion. which you have put to her." He should nut. indeed,
have felt meth surmise after this, at any period of weaker
judgment and romantic feeling exchiniing, Poor ince-
moons little shepherdess of the nontestains of Switzer-
lapel, hoe inspects, a liar thou art!" But when lw heard
it gravely put, and strongly urged to peewits sitting as
judges in a case, to believe any shiug that was said by
a ;screen whom they most know to be a liar from his own
ahniring, and that ON the ground of the ingenuousness of that
pentanes ackwowledgment of the fakehood of what he
had before stoical, he canild nut help exclaiming, diet vu
monstrous, 1111 Ulthelittl.or • proposition, roll. 11•11.1111 •il
that he bad ever conceived of what was abused and extrava-
gant. Hut the equivoiones which she had wished them It,
betty' ie ale had de-dried as such, were latterly otrosisidctit
in themselves mad with each other; and as to the cipher by
which the) were to be explained, nothing of the knot could she
•hew in the letters whets celled on as to do; and leer oat shriv-
ing it primed it never to bare existed. ibis species of con.
abet was like any thing rather thew that of a person unilienced
by a seine of truth or jostles. A plaio man followed no
such devious piths, but pursued a straight sod onward
mum confident in right, sad arm in the truth. The fact
was, she hid found her service an agreeable one; she had
heels turned away, and she applied to get bark again and
wae released, and she afterwards fi II into the hands of the
other conspirators. Much had been said ofaitempta to calif m-
mime the allergies; but he would out calumniate her, he
had no wish so to do; he would vie her own ncc 11111 l t
of her• •If. She had n young and tridasutia sister just rising
into hie, for whose welfare she was fondly solicitous, th,t
sister was in the service of the Princess, and there she wish-
ed bee, above/ill thisiga, to remain. Yet more, she had another
sister still younger, not more due 17 years of age, whom site
was ansions to see well pruvieled for; end in ho r entice viten'
to accomplish that end she left no means untried of get "mg
her also into diet house, which if sue liUk of what she had
sworn at this bar were to be believed, she most hare knoviu
to he worse. he would not say than soy palace, bet than
any brotbed Such was her conduct frees her own account.
Bet he did not believe sup badly of her as she hail here re-
presented herself ; be was Inc frurn thinking her so had
as in that ease she must be; he bettered her to have
beau sincere au what she had said in her letters of the
character of the Princess; he believed that die left her
service with relnetunce, and that she wished to gel hack
again, and to get her other sister into the WWI. INSIfiCe ; bat
that the appearanceof those letters had driven her into the
rsakiag of this statement, which served to place he/character
in this moat disgraceful light, rather than meet discredit is
the tale *Lich she had invested since they were written, for
the purposes of dd. case. lie tame NOW more ',arterioles ly
to draw their titivation to the witness Seca', and first
of all he would say comet hing by way of °bins •a, un what
lanai been stated by the other side, fur the purpose of in
creasing the estimation in which the witnesses in this case
were held. it skewed, indeed, how the age was iinerovitig.
He remembered well that but a few years dote the mere cir-
cumstance of a man bolding a commission in the Freuth
army ender Botiaparte, end having bees raised by him
from the ranks, was considered sofficient in itself to esta-
blish the sorthleeenesa of that man's character. Bet now
that very circumstance, as affecting this witness, hail been
adduced, by ibex too who had swallowed VOINWe after vo-
lume of what hail been written tie enforce the doctrine he
bail snorted ta for the purpose of exalting his character,
and elainsittg inr him a higher degree of ereeilhileiy. For
his own part, he did not ISMS to contend that there was
any thing 10 derogate from the character of the witness,
in the were circumstance of lass having entered as an
Italian soldier into the !trench luny, and of his batiste so
conducted himself as to induce his Commander to raisejlint
fcum the rank of a private ?wroth hussar, and to give bins
on the field of battle a pair of colours or a commission ;
but he certaiuly most be allowed to say, that he could not
consider it as the ihest po.ible evidence aft Isla being a sin-
cere end plain-elealing man or a respectable witness. This
%milli, who hint passed by three or fear different name.,
who h tying d the Penmen as a courier, at the lowest
rate of wage's far a valet, arts now moving in the character
of • gentleman of considerable fortune, with a servant to
attend him, had in the enlarge of his evidence dealt a little iu
elow6lo erelreedre.—(A Me first instance of it to
which be should allude wan the CirCI1111•11111re of his poising
tore CuOlit, which he hail at first denied, and afterwards ac.
knowledeed. There was here some little want of connexion
between the truth slid lair statement. lie (Me. B.) would there-
fore cull it a deold —.* 111. e—rt. The next was concerning
the money in his name at a banker's at Lausanne. lie was
asked," flow notch money stood in Isis name at the banker's,"
He aietwered, " Fifty Luatia."—" Had he any more its his
tome ?"—ts No."—ss Did he never say that hr bail ?" Any
honed 'tan would have felt indignant at the inapidation
conveyed its thus question, sod wooll have given it a pod.
tine &ilia,. to reset ve his character trout the stein of false-
hood ; bid he, after sorest enuivueation, haul replied, that
•• He did not r-member." Here was a second double refuel-
tire. AnoCier instance of this species equiracree he had
given theta, was no follows:—" 1):d you ever coy that your
coodnet was liable. to the charge of ingratitude t. a generous
beiddactrees ?"-0 No." Afterwards, spun being ihewn some
letters nod irked if they were his hanitarri lug, he said "Yea."
Their Lordships would ate there letters. arid would lied that
lie had therein expressed hininelflo dint effect. Now lie would
ask, whether any mss could think that in giving such an an-
ewer as this *dittos had given, lie hail humidly nett
hintaelf foam • couvictiva of I'4lm-114,0d, heeaute he had nut
said so, but -hail made a representation, to that effect in
wo king) came an accident, which he wutild
call an interposition of Providence in favour of inno-
cence, which was shear, in the special care of Provi-
*ore ; and that accident hail completely easefunniled,
ard lard hare the falsehood ulna witness. He was asked
why he had rhauged his name at Paris before ite came over
here? and he ownwered because of the tenni!t that had
Irimpened, alluding to the treatment of the wile..pa at
Diner— (erectile% that a whole twelvemonth hod elapsed
between the two circumstance*. The period of Ina being
at Paris and ch engine his name, he lad sist;tl to be in July
11119, and the tintottli at Dover slid ins take place until July
182% This was wale of those providential circumainnces by
whirls every reatispirecy awes alone to he slefest•d, and het for
which their Lordoblpir militia ell become the victims of such

•n nue .Immoernie.r It was ioilved no trivial slit., nu
.lefale.tion of memory, but a coolant' deliberate
lowed, and in Ina op ' a ruflicient test far trying thee-I--
dot of Sleettt ...et Did you ever go by the name• of %Mut
befnre yon came to England Y'—`n Yes, I tuol; that name in
Weis ''—`` At whit time was it '—" Fusor,or fise days be-
fore I am out far England—in the month of July last yesr."
44 What was your motive far taking that name at dist Gnu•
in Kiris'''—" As I knew that I was known in I. 1111 l lon
by my own name, I wished to shelter ntyw•lf from tarun•
seutt:nees, in cunietpleure of a tumult winch bad happen-
ed."—" What hunnit hml happened Is. induce you to change
your name °"—" I wits wartw.l that the witnesses against
the gneen would run a rl.k, if they wcse known."—" Uad
you Men teed that they actually had gnu any risk r—“ They
load not run any risk yet.. "You have stated that you chang-
ed your name Its that of Mani in consequence of the tumult
that hid happened; what du you mean by that atatinwentr—
Their Lor.lahirs world bear in mind that no tanatilt heal