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aev, and provieg whether false %witnesses and saborned
testimony hail not been suborned at their Lordships' Bar.
Secondly, the abstraction of Hastelli. Thirdly, the failure
iu procuring Baron (Midi. as a witness for her :%Inii•siy.
Ile (Lot d iiley) any ()tie of these grounds. site.
firient to put visa In the proreedii,gs, bat taken ;dingo.
titer they v.rri• sireststible. Ile, !bet (fore, would cuter
soh Inn pr, it st against all lurUtcr procet
Lent HOLLAND said, ilia! he much approved of the
delivetvil by the Noble and Learned Lot d on the
11•oilisa eh.
'I he LORI) CHANCELLOR then put the question,
that Collsl2l he called in, mid informed that their Lord
ships did not acquiesce in the proposition of a delay. It
was egaried nem. ills.
Counsel having been called in,
The LORD CHANCELLOR slated to them what he

Lad in Vonitihind front the House.
-The Ai-rum:Ey Gs:NEI:AI. then stated to their Lord-
ships, that he %visited to call Capt. Po iggs to the bar.
Captain Briggs called in, and evunined by the Attorney

Genet.'.
Yon stated that you commanded the Leviathan when
lier Royal Highness the Princess Of 11 ales was on board
'l"lst;Totiliinigger Lieut. liownarn on boarn Mal .t.:r
with her Royal liighliess?—t do.
I believe von stated that liergaini was also on board
that ship ?-1 did.
no you recollect baying had any conversation With
Licat. Floweam on the subject of Bergniiii ?—I do.
Was the conversation about being admitted
13 a seat at her Royal Higlinets's tab a?—lt was.
Stale what he said to you on that occasion?-1 observed
to Mr. Hownam, iu the conversation, that Capt. Pechell
told me that Bergami hail waited behind his chair when
the Princess embarked out hoard the Clarinda !dame; anti

I asked him, how it was that he was admitted to her Roy al
Highness's tablet—He replied, that it was so; that he was
sorry that the Princess had admitted him ; that lie had
entreated her Royal Highness on his knees, ;mid with tears
in his eyes, not to admit him to her table, out to no pur-
pose.
Did lie state when this happened?—To the best of my
recollection, he told me it %iiiS the day that Berganti's
situation was changed, the first day that Bergami dined at
her Royal Highness's table.
ATTORNEY GENERAL said, he had no other tines-
lions to ask. _ .

Cr.*, examined by Mr. Brougham.
When this conver.sation happened on board the Leviathan,
where was the ship ?—She was on her passage from Porto
Perrujo to Palermo, in the year Ibls, and the month of
November. We were walking together on deck—we had
occasionally walked together on deck.
You were speaking about Capt. Peelle!! and Bergami,
when Capt. Pechell had wade some objection to sitting
down at table with Bergami /—Yes; his objection was to
Hergami ; he had no objection to sitting down with her
Royal Highness at all.
Oh, I date say n.st—(A laugh). But I understand you to
b.ve billa to Mr. flimflam, th.it Capt Prchell had positively
refused to allow Bergatni to tit down at table with him ?
No; what I said was, that Capt. Pechell had tat we
Bergatui used to stand behind the chair of her Royal
nighties..
Did you make any note of the conversation you say you
bad with !Acid How won whatever.
And you arc now swearing to words which were spoken
five yeurs ago I—l have a pet feet recollection of the con-
♦ersattion. _ .

When did yen flail repeat it to any one ?—I believe 1 have
mentioned it ,several times itt coarse of comet sation,
You have said that tile convers..tion was nits aye in your
ecollection. Can you name ally person to whom yea) men-
tioned it before you wrote the answer to that letter 7-1
mentioned it on several ocemions. I might perhaps name
some persons nhn weir present. I remember of once tn. u-
tiotting it to Sir George Cockburn.

Yoti mean one of the Lords of the Admiralty ?—Yes.

Did you begin the conversation about it ?—We were
talking; I forget what led to my mentioning it; 1 only
recollect the fact of mentioning it.
You have had the honour or dining with the King lately
—have you not I—Yes, when his Majesty was lately at
Portsmouth.
Was that since you were last examined in this Home ?
Yes, since I was last examined.
Capt. Briggs was now ordered to withdraw.
The ATIOIRMICY-GENERAL said, as the case now stood,
he would not trouhle the House a ith calling any more wit-
nesses. He hoped the House would indul,,e Capt. Brigs
Ay th permission to return to his command at Portsmouth.
Mr. BROM!! 104.—Ally Lords, we have not the slightest
wish to incommode either Captain Brigs or the service.—
(A laugh,)
The LORD CHA NC ELLOR said, that Capt. Brigs kid

permi.sion solicited.
The I.olt l) C/I r.Lt.olt now enquired if the Court.
*el fur her Majesty were reaiiy li. pi °reed I
Mr. ituouciti A In—" My soy friends Mr. Drunnin,
tells me he is n tw ready to go no."
Mr. DESSI N rose tuswn up the D. fence at t went
minutes pug elcveno'clock'—" My Lords (said the Learned
Counsel), if, under such eircu stone. s, it were. pos•i;de for
an advocate to disc Ism gm tilt important duties of his situntion
without soliciting the indulgence of your Lordships, such
circumstances Mote Ilt fUr red in time present rase, hut, mi
the (marshy, eenrtiiil lhal 1 should crate a more ample in-
dulgence than usual. For, flour tiw proCredeup which took
place yesterday, when the At torney-kiener.il asked fig time
t,, call for COI. Brown, it might haye been suppo-ed that
would not h.ive contented •If uith cat ug one solitary

it but ruiotlit hire fowl it so ce,sai 1t i call other is ii-
nears in rebut the evidence that had been piodured, if to
rebut it were post dile. But, my Lords, I nit l• • nor plaint
that 1 did nut oxploct 10 lie culled on Ibis in•ii Mu; to EOM up
the defence ; for, considering the time that has lai.sr.l in
in proof,. ill a. easy ion against her Moslem; , and likewise is
her defence. I, h. the Qin eo's CIP.IIIIq I, ill6bUill have been
extremely mon.% in my slut), If t had nut atten.:e.l dos. ly
to the ss hole of his evt,;r me. I *lli rmte, my l: id., t r
teed lo nitrite illy reqtark., MI the witoie or that esidekee—
evidence which lilt, 1.6111.4 ed Ille, wi.lell this 6:W4:it'd my
friends, wh.eb has mstisited the 'copy: of 'MAI:tool, anti v. hien
bas dune snore—fins..iiii-hed all Europe. si Inch h,i. viketi
deed interest in this gnat, this moiie.tous proecedisig.
Ye", my Lords, all Ec,ope will r.. jail e that tbe defetice of
the Queen of En,:land bas Leen triumph...tit* and that rite
refuted the foul charges riza:r.t her honour h—l %3611. iuy
Lords, t,i proree.l to t:11- 11. w ctilamess,
that delMerativa, a.:41 that ati.enee :.11 ptr.otial rating,
which wilt best en,ible me to elicit tuc tutu. Dui it was

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scarcely to be expected, but that, in the discussions which
have taken place, and iii the imerlueutimis that have oe-
curls d, that some hasty expressima. should not taive CfCl.pl..l
as AllVUeatt, whose feelings 111;0 have 10.-I`ll overwli toted
ith ti4e impurlituce of file cause 111 is iii( at,, migaaed.—
v Learned Friend, Cie Allot Hes -Getter al, yestesda)
seemed to think that 1 was ylVS11111!1111:: as verarity, but I
must uaequit.utaills d: slave t.tat :anal as 1101 my intent
1 disclaim the slightest imputatioa against persiatial cha-
racter or his honour. It ins tier: -r 1/era sit to air.. tato
ailsiorat, bet I have ielt it acutety. Tit. Llusti haus nt,
%hose interests hare been coati le it li, our cal e, has been the
victim of the most cruel asperstons, of the most severe and
degradina wrotias. This, my Lords we have felt in the
hole coin se of the inquiry. lint, whale all per-
sonality against my Learned Friend opposite, I alaita the
right to observe out the a hole of his conduta as an Ads neat c
io these proceidinas. It is ins Learned Friend's atisfortuue
to be eitaaged iii this prosecution, a 1111,1-01 i tine for a i,icit no
honours can compensate Into. His cordite has imposed 1111 him
the duly of pi oseeut ina the Pall of Pains mid Penalties against
the wife of his Sovereign, an Mice watch I would apt have
filled for any rank, honours, or +voila!) advaista.;es it nete
possible to olatain.—['fire Learned Geutleniais taen !cid
the preamble of the Bit:, respcctiug the conduct of the
Ch—ett to Hera:lmi, which was said in have brinialit dishonour
and disgrace tau the .sovereign, ,and was a scandal to the peo-
ple of laminal. Ale then proceeded can telly apply
myself 111111ebe talle.1:1111011S, and to the nature of the evidence
by vi Itielt they have been seaport/al. It is tin:. that lit r-
gaini was received into the service of her Royal Highness as
a menial ; that he received mai ks of favour; and that some
of 114 relatimo were taken into her sere ice. We have beep
cad that titles were obtained for him; but no attempt had
been made to rove that they were obtained by her
inliu-
catc.:, No other proof was given, out that her Royal High-
ness had confereed tan Bergami au Order, with:it she Itcd
created, it was said, without lawful au.liority. This, nay
Lords, I deny, for several of the Nobility in France, with-
out any Sovereign authority whatever, have created Orders;
•and there is an instance of three Italian merchants, brothers,
It tying instituted an Order. I treat this subject seriously,
because it has been treated seriously in the Bill. Kit, my
Lords, I think, if a Princess goes a visit to the holy sepul-
chre, and is pleased with the same, does what Dukes of
Bourbon and Dukes or Orleans have done in former time—
raised statue memorial of the event in the ere mina of an
Order of Knighthood, there is cistaittly not himg criminal in
it /—Princes are fond of toys, tometimis et-mania huildinas,
and at other times creating (alders. The Princess of Ve aka
did both, she put wings to the Villa d' Este, and made it a
Palace, which did no discredit to her taste, theugh it nas
not a l'avilion !—The only que.aion to be decided Was,
Whether the adulterous intercourse charged in the 'treatable
of the Bill had taken place, and lit such a manner as bring
dishonour on his Majesty, and discredit on the people of
Eitgland ? He winuld refer to the At t orites-General's open-
ing speech, as the case be aus called upon to answer; he
would observe on every one of his statements, and on the
evidence by which it had been attempted to smtport those
statements. Tan first count set forth in the indictment, or
first overt act, was vi hat passed at Naples the Mak after the
arrival of her Rosal flialmess there; and certainly the
statement made by the Attorticy-tieneral, on this ;mita was
one calculated to make an imps, ssiou. lie said that.
on fortni•r occnsiors, the ludo ideal who mini churtitd us
the paramour of her Royal Highness hail slept at a distance
from her, but that, tut that night, she disked he might
be near her; that the boy Austin, who hid hitherto slept
in the bed-room of her Royal Highness wits 111:1t night
removed ton ditaance—that she returned ratty (tom the
Opera ; that she did not occupy her on a hod, hat that the
other Fed had the mai ks of two petsons having slept in
it ; that next morning the Princess could nut be seen at
her meal hour by persons is ho had called upon her,—
Such was the statement of the charge made by the Attar.
ney-Comeral, and such the facts tram which, if proved in
evidence, only one conclusion could have been &awe.—
But it' roue of these farts prove true—if the bed-rooms
are changed without the knowledge of her Royal High-
ness; if it is considered unsafe that she should sleep too
near the garden, and that a bed is prepared for Ili...gaud
in the cabinet ; if her Royal highness's Chamberlain re-
monstrates with her that Austin was getting ton old to
sleep in her bed-room; if it is proved that she returned
from the Opera very lute, and not early, that instead of
going secretly to her chamber she was accompatiit ti by
Sir Wm. Gehl; that she ruse next inurnitig at her usual
hour, and that no persons called on her !loyal Highness,
and that nothing took place to indicate that any tiling re-
markable had passed between her and Bergami, then the
impression must be very different indeed. lie felt also, lie
must incur the hazard of being tedious to be distinct, butt
he must refer to the Alienates for each distinct tact, anal
he would convince their Lordships, that the Naples charge
was not only not proved, but completely negatived. Si-
caul negatives the charge of changiag the retain, and
shows, that it was his own act in placing Beigioni 111 the
cabinet. Mr. Craven states, that he had represented to
her Royal Highness that %Voltam Austin should not con-
tinue to sleep in her room ; and Cart ington swot e, that
he mad pi es tott,ly Made a Ilea 1;4 A11,41:1 tit oti.er r,11.11115,
Mr. Clasen and Sir William Gell state, that tiwy
ed with her ILtt.yllll Highness very late at the 010'14. And
1.1011. the testimony of De Mont heist:lf you wail fiat!, that
she Was nut there accidentally, but was sent fur lay liei
alajesty, as if in order to see all that took place ; and
lastly, Sir W. Gill states, that he accompanied her
je..ty to file I'oolo. All the charges in the opening speech
to the Naples busitieset, 1.4;1 to the glottal ; nor is the in-
terfet mice of the haughty conduct of Bergaini, winch
would have followed the adulterous intricutirse, at all
proved ; on the conttary, Mr. CIAV1:11 States 11111110 have
been always obedient and re-pet:Bat, whether as Courier
er Chitinhe atm. Now as to the mate of the beds : l)ii-
moot had said that no one slept in the travelling bed, and
that the other appeared derauged and tumbled, and this,
nut for one 14111, but fur two months. Now, if an adel-
let otis intercourse had taken place, the little bed woitid
have been slept in, if tautly to veil the connexion. Ala-
dutiuisolh, Dinnuut,hn her ci oss.examittation, said there
was withaig that tiadicattal that (no persons had slept in
the heal; but afterward s,no lii titbit tar fuurt it tiny of her
CXa111111,411,/11, 10 answer to a 1140.111111 put by a N ob;e Loa it,
coastileting, perhaps, the glory aelpiiied lay ISal'lllll4
IreAbl! .11... r lit t Mutts evidence, and demons of a similar
kuttur Damao stated a fact which ma um: conk! beheve,
that (lwee were stains ',inside the bed, but site modestly
d site did not know what they wile, as she laid Mesa a
41 ell aiy sneli before! Ii was there the ura4inaliil
mom ; toper to fix the trines on h, r
mistress. liut, admitting all Duatoat said to Le (toe, so
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knowledge, yet, when she was refuted in every fact the
(mold be knowil to ti ,thee, it was inipessitile to believe
her in any. Surely no case had ever failed so completely
in et idt i.ce as tin=t charge again,t her Royal Ilia:Mesa
which related to her conduct at Naples? The numerous
wititesses whirl' had been called, the mourning charges
which hail been mado, and the indefatigable efforts to
'violet those charges available hail, it was impossible but
in ;tercets e, prod uerd an impression upon their Lord,hips'
minds %shifts it would he ditfiettlt to remove. Here the
Lraisteil Coniesel quoted a piasage from the Quarterly
Rev:eve, attic!), lie said, was extrenwly applicable to the
C. W' It was the comparison of an edifice to a reputation ;
and it descri'red the almost Insurmountable difficulty of
repelling the 'aim ies of either; asserting, that nothing
shot of a tiiiracolons demonstration could operate in rr_
pairing the assanits upon a tenta!o's elimacter. Unfoi to.
Haw). the Queen's case toroligly exemplified the hulk or
the Roman utaxim—" Collimitilando semper Hat."
infamous calumnies vented agaimit lit r had proiltire,l
their I tree ts ; and Omagh the tribunal briber Ishirh she
appeared should decide that they wele has.' lahri-
ealionS—y et thry would leave ptiiii•litnent and suffering
bel • I, nod a set of feeliogs would be raised to the !neje-
dice at the aroused, which neither time nor circumstances
could ever efface.
The Learned Counsel then adverted to that part of the
statent.nit agai list livr Alajestv, which accii,eil her of
having coition, fed adultery, and havilig contitim2d in an
adoiturous intereonree with Bergau'i. Although this story
.had beets In :st. completely refitted, still an impresdos)
remained which he could not regard *silicon the utmost
horror. The ,turn of the masked ball, is also gismo as
very strong presumptive proof of g' It. (ti that there
could exist on doubt, if the de criber tell, the truth, for
it aas said, that her Iteval flightless had retired fur a
considerable time to her room with Iterganti, and in his
pre.ettee exchanged the dress she a ore, for one of the
most indecent description. But, that a woman wider
such circinti,tunces, should have retired front the loin.
unobserved was utterly impossible; and if •he had
to retire for the purpose of indulging iu indecent familia-
rities with a man, it wan not till probable that she would
have thoug,lit of placing, her female attendant it) an adj.-m-
-it.; room to witees, her depravity. Ihintotit herself hail
declared that nobody but her-eif was ti.ere, aith the
exception of the two %shout .be thonglit primer to accii.e.
The ttory thea was lseyimil the poss,bility of confirmatioli;
and thi:•, upon the evidence of this abatidored ii Lilian,
the Learned Contisel for the 11.11 had looked upon one of
the !mit desperate charges as establi.lied. To expect that
it became the duty of her Majesty's Counsel to cross-
examine such a witness more closely, was abitird. A
permit like this, who was determined to give false evidence
—began with a determination to use the most ingenious
arts of deceirtiou, and the more eager was the it:fl oa
after truth, the noire skill was called into practice to battle

the fruitless speculation.
It was not likely that, after a digestion of the neces-
sary plan for the iniopoitous deriatiens room troth, a stooly
of three years could have disqualified the tsetse %0n0.%
from the power and inclination of adding falsehood to
falsehood; and if a further cross•exanoination had tato it
place, nothing could be expected less than au adolitiom to
the first statement, for the purpme of adding to the ge-
neral effect of her testimony. An anecdote came to hi;
recollection which Lore 'open this point. He had lova:
a eirellittstanre, which he communicated to a friend, who
too k the opportunity to make smote adolitimis of a Yet.,
extraordinary nature. Wilco some son-prise Was
ed at th- additions, his friend said, lee certainly had it
.tight to know the matter better than his (Mr. Denman's)
infarinant, because he hut t.ot only given the intelligence
to that informant, lint had actitaily made the story!—(A
lauch.) Damont was the fahricator of this story, ::nil of
coarse she moist have been better Repainted with the
particulars than the Attotory-Gtmeral, who had rereis ell
it at second hand, and she craild embellish it, for the
amusement or set vice of those to whom sloe looked for
The more facts it appeared necessasy for
her to draw info action, the more copiously she drew from
the soarers of her polluted invention. True indeed it
was, as Sir t% iniam bell believed it be, That her Majesty
a multitude of enemies. The Learned Counsel then
alluded to the assei (ion of Dumont, that llergatiii had
retained from the masquerade apparently mortified,
that her Royal Highness had in vain endeavonreil to e-
vail upon him to return. This part of the evidmice Rai,
he said, completely overturned Icy the testinuolv, th..t
Bergsma had been, on the very ni,dit on which this vie•
elllllitalleP load taken place, employed in uaiting
with
the other attendants Nom time Princess's guests. lie Ow"
called their Lordship's attention to that part of the evi.
deuce of Dumont, ahich describe:l the shiners twee
walking arm in arm with Beruttoi in the earth to, and
compared it with the statement of the Counsel fur ilia
13111, Nho Ictil said that her Royal Highness had repeat-
edly degraded herself by Ihus associating with her me-
nial% Tins, he said, proved that they had not only lo
contend against the vilest descriptions, boot to deal unit
a wilnclis whose principal at Wire uas II) engraft fel:whom!
upon :Inds—the most ;la egerOles sort Or enemy ?—II was
Dtionort that hail placed them null its at in to;ctlier. Tat,
fret was true that they were in the garden. Her 119)41
Highness found it olecessaly to have Bergami hi the gat,
Ilea, to give diretions to the workmen, with whose
language she was unacquainted. ‘Vliat did Sir Robeit
6ei I sits ft—That they vivre in the gat dee, as tirs!ru" ail I
servant ; that lie regretted it, as he load heard that Old
had enclitics, aoid that the gaiden was ope o to the view
of all. 'thus, this matter tinned out to be the history of
a Lady walkiumg iii her garden, with her set vant heidad
her, employed to give directions to these who wile
engaged in working. CJoiti any inisrepiesentation to,
tame di eadful ? Yet, this is the evidence of one of those
who were cusisideied the must efficient props of the vast
Clinic. His Learned I 1 lends had declared that they
had
no anxiety open thti.. stohject, tint that which arose trout
their anxiety to perform their duty, Ile had, at the ci
melvemelit of this easo, soppo,ell that the Whoks
pre-
%t :ink) be eimohicoe.l, as far as regarded big
I..earsoo d Fricools, with the oiliao•I .e,•, aa.l ti" 11c%
attitude of the cautiict,w pica was st such ;.s JoNtilleu
nu expectation oh that kind. ouuld be at d to ti.c
1 ist. Bat w 'oat was the fact ? llow it al t..c promise been
tailfil:i d ? Tice most siarviog at;ormy tit it ever appeased
berme all indignant Jill y, to Milani a recioutpence for WI
assault committed Iy,un hill Sell, het er exl jailed tome
management or that, 1,1.1 -)••,. bell-;1)ed
on
t:.e part of the C.owu. lie I .01 ill.t Li.uu, theAMM*.
Guilt ral. If the cause which load been s.o. julo hi 4 Ilan. al.*
was ant it good One, he could not help it. W.:s
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