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treating him as a menial, or one of mean origin, saluted him in
the manlier in which the nobility salute persons of equal rank;
and the French Colonel Oliviers, who knew hOn at Gen. Pino's,
speaks of 1 • in the highest terms. lam not, my Loide, de-
fending Itergiuni, nor hitt necessary thut 1 should do so; but I
cannot advert to the tniur• sr in which lie was introduced to her
Royal Highness, without declaring my lino convict:oa that he
was a person worthy of patronage. ite.ganii esacreu the service
of the Princess in the year 11314, and in the following year he
was promoted from the situation of a courier to that of a page.
I may hie observe, that a C 4,11 !‘r to a rival personage, though
weating a peculiar thesis, is not to be COnatkred as un ordinary
livery servant. At this time Mr. Craven had left her Royal
Highness, on account of a domestic inhibit tune, and Sir Witham
Gelt had also kit her, on account of Isis health. I thertthre do
not know that the Princess could have dune better than binding
a man of honour and fidelity to her service, by conferring on him
those office* and those honours which it is the privilege of royalty
to bestow. And when a royal personage does confer rank and
honours on an individual, he who is thus distinguished becomes
what royalty chooses to make him. I do not blame Capt. !When
fer refusing to sit down at the table with a man who had waited
behind lira chair; but no individual would degrade himself by
yielding respect to those whom royalty delighteth to honour.—
Whom, he would ask their Lordships, could her Majesty have
promoted with so much propriety ? But it appeared that die
virtuous feelings of this illustrious but uofortuuate lady were all
to be turned tato crimes. If lietgatui was promoted to the situ-
ation of chamberlain by his royal ndatress, was it a proof of guilt
that lie was publicly declared to hese, that he should appear in
the proper rank, and introduced to her Itlajtaty's visitors as a
person tilling a situation to which his talents and fidelity entitled
hint ? Then it was said that he had been loaded with honours !
But their Lordships would recollect tuat Italian Baronies were
purchaseable by a few hundred livres; and, in the country,
where they were so easy of suainnieot, they were absolutely
necessary as an appendage to a situation of such importance as
that to which Ilergaini had been raieed.—The Lemma! Counsel
then referred to the evidence in contradiction with the calumnious
statement of that witness, who said he had heard the Princess
and Berginui together under the tent, while he was lying on a
cote in the cabin below. This aoandoned wretch, he said, intro-
duced what he heard as a parallel to what he had seen when lie
was half asleep, and must, if lie lad laid on a sofa at the time,
have gone into another cabin, and taken rise& and brought it to
that which was under the tent whore the Queen lay, for the pur-
pose of lying upon it, to hear what was going forward between
her and litnaniiil The evidence of Pritureo—of Lieut. Flynn
—and of Lieut. Ilownam, gave the lie direct to this abominable
fabrication. The whole of the bath story rested, in short, on the
evidence of Mejocci and Dumont, and it was of a piece with the
whole of the evidence of these persona—a piece of inveatiun as
absurd as it waf incredible. Tie I.earned Gentleman begged
now to direct their attention to tie mitt case of inference which
the Attorney General had suited in his opening, namely, that
when Sacciii urrived in the night Mae with a despatch from
General Pino, lie saw Bergami calling, as the Attorney General
had affirmed, out of the room u her Royal Highness. With-
out baying any thing at presets as to the credibility of this
witness, he would ask, how was the statement of the Attorney
General komc out by the evidoce of Sacciii ? He dots nut
state that he saw Bergami cumin; out of the room of her Royal
Highness; he saw Intii coming sat of a room, but he neither
knows who occupied that loom, tar the zooms beyond it; and,
what is more important, lie Iles not even know where the
room was situate which was oceiiiied by her Royal Highness:—
He (the Learned Counsel) wool. here advert to the letter of
Dumont, insinuating that person woe ready to pay her fur.
giving evidence against the Princes, and that she was ready to
disclose or conceal all she knew accordingly as the Princess
treated her. This was the constructon his Learned Ftiends oppo-
site must put on that letter; and, that was the case, it was a
threatening letter, and ber Alikiest • spewed her own innocence,
and the consciousness that Dimwit could not with truth speak
one word against her; that she lid not even notice it, much
has endeavour to conciliate her ;ockl opinion, or purchase it
as a guilty person would have don. In regard to die affair at
Charnite, Lieut. Holman states, hat it was necessary to go to
Inspruck for passports, and that brganit and VittlSA:l we, ,t for
them, and returned very late. In . rigid moss ex:unuirtion, the
basis of which his Learned Frientl,no doubt, had from Nimbi
and Dumont, they asked him abouttle time, the snow, &c. but
there was nothing in the evidence d' &Aetna flowitaiu at all con-
tradictory. In introducing the wines Vassali, lie trusted that
it was no reflection on his charectenlist lie had served as a pri-
vate soldier in a Royal Guard of lloiorr, since, on the Continent,
nothing was more common than foi young men of the mutt
respectable families serving as Goads of Honour to Sovereign
Princes. Vassali says lie returned tin Inspruck about two or
three o'clock, that he iunnediatel: tent into the room of her
Royal Highness, whom lie found tnilte bed, featly dressed tier
her journey—that Ileripsmi was intle room, anti that little Vic-
torine was on the seine bed with het loyal Highness. fact
Dumont artfully and wickedly canceled, although she was in I'
the room at the time, and musthave titown it. lie would now
call their attention to the witnessCarrigton, and lie could not do I
so, without noticing, that no saner hd this witness left the Bar
lit their Lordships, to the satisfationit every one who had heard
his teetiniony, titan materials wee Lid for his cross-examination
by the first Lord of the Admiral,: looks were searched, t,nd his
Captain brought to town to be ermined. He eould not coin-
pi:au of this, but seriously tliankd tie Noble Lord fur that ems*
examination; and he would say,liu. is wiiatevar rank in society
Carrington's lot may be cast—nuke made him *gentleman. The '
character of this witness rose high. hum every cross examination,
and his testimony could not be silken. Atter Caarington had
been cross exammed SO frequeulk a paper eas at last produced,
which proved that he bud been led a, inidshrimem on beard
the Puictkrs, and Sir John Berated said lie never parted with
any one with so much ragret, use was a most eseeileat sailor. '
It still nanained to speak ut' the shibition by Alalioniet. Did
their Lordships wish that he shad detain them a moment on
llii• 011ta,llog pal t so; II:is UivaaYbriablc co,o' ?—(it 11,10• e)
Alisjocci, elm had nut ices inperly drilied a. to the cum- 11
plea ion to be gum ell to chi. inc cut, had unsuspectiegly de-
clared that lie saw molting kilns dance olden amide it
unlit to be seen by either Ina or omit:ill, ISO,
testis„ 'Jo time tthtl mi iiy orally so I.lllilCd as Al
th, ir Lordships would had, in t r.bW eiler of Alt • litivtiutin,
rind of Airliraiiville time mina 11
satisfactor) rentitviun uf the oe ut put try lime Anoint!).
Cieuerul. Theis was yet oliCene more, nod he was Italy,-
to say it was Idle lust to stiliClO Ltd to call their Lordslii,a'
utteut ion; it tins the nutiabletat.dbriy a%eircit to hose itch
Liaite by asceei, ots the j.vir v icons Hume to Senegulta
Ttte
d Cumisrl u,w roil, hurt the t v idi nee u: eat to
rails, tilos? 11;tiscrs itluciiream that Stlyelsi had o-
ceJud Ku, al Highness tithe Juuttic, me Sencgidi dad '
.cold not 'windily hose wen bat Ire pr, tended 1.., tit scribe ;
tic et the estilehre of Li, nt..nwnatn, ‘i hneb award th it sic
(Intl:the in 1111 ch her Ride aia (Hie a itil
,pritig Winds, iihich could Uhr iipeutil ca relit Ii sin withitt ;
Hurl I:islly, tome pant 1111 t!LVidelo c of Cos. and
(•;iunt V &nal:, which SA CI,I •COldis oss, ti, y did ibis"( une-
quivocally , the IstatClUclita tij aI lit /Otte and Air. ilutlllaiL
Tim, t •S t est y w4u the costive drstrnetio.i of the
pu,mbh,t) 01 sat chi's itaitbeeti ohm 11,• alleged. And,
if this were a hat he c.t., of the alkali a limos et nleuce
is hat became el the is lone le. of which ....it U u w its. as was
ors the chief iulil.u, t) .v Ifloie%
of the In oteediako, to duinghit.h, he foreibly tetiouriti the

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the act of seeding away " the perjuied valeta Rastelli."—
At nearly two o'clock
The LORD CH ANCELLOR Ingested to Mr. Denman.
whether he ought not to have a little repose. The Leaned
Counsel thanked his Lordship for the indulgence and retitled.
In half au hour Mr. MINICAR returned and resumed the
subject. lie proceeded to enforce open their Lordships the
self.evident fact dint the foulest conspiracy had existed
agaivat the Queen, and that that conspiracy originating, la
one Court, had been patronized nod forwarded in ethers.
—The Learned Counsel then remarked with mach feehug
on the persecution which her Majesty had undergone.-'.
" The death of the Princess Charlotte," said the Learned
Gentleman, " was the signal for the font conspiracy
against her Majesty, and the death of her last friend, ow'
late much severed Sovereign, was not an to her
in a letter of condolence, but by Cardinal donsalvi stripe
ping her of rank and dignity, and giving her a passport,
not as the Queen of England, het as the Point:en Caroline
of Brunswick. The accesssiou of a Sovereign to the
throne of these realm, that pitied which is marked by
the extension of the God-like attribute nicety, the pare
don of the criminal, and the liberation of the captive, wan
no reign of peace to her Majesty, The first oat of the
new reign was the most illegal act ever recorded in the
aunals of England. It was to the Queen of England a
reign of degi edation. Her name was excluded from the
Liturgy. The people were forbidden to pray for her,
but she bad the prayers of millions, What was the pro-
ceeding before the House t It was originally a Bill of
Divorce but in that character it no longer existed. The
feet of six years separation from the husband, wish the
Letter of Licence, wan a complete answer to Divorce.—
It was then a Bill of Pains and Penalties; a Bill to per-
secute an unforinnate oppressed woman. It was at the
pleasure of the House to go on and pass such a Bill," but
I am sure (said Mr. Destines') your honour and feeling will
induce you to do justice to the accused." There were
several individuals whom we have not called in What( of
her Majesty, because we now consider our case proved.
We did not think it consiatent with may principle of justice
to admit that we are bound to go one step further. We
have been told Bergami Wight be called to deny the charge
of adultery. That cannot hr. If any wan guilty of the
charge was examined lie would deny it. I firmly believe
that feeling among mankind in such u case would tuiumph
over morality. It would be fumed better to violate an
oath than betray the victim. From the beginning of the
world, can my Learned Friend shew We when such a
person was called. Looking to the principle of this Bill,
it appeals to me there is nut one part of the evidence
which would warrant your Lordships in calling on me to go
further. I have heard, my Lords, that while we are de-
feuding her Majesty, there are persons, not In a low capa-
city, not of the public press, hut who have seats among
your Lordships, w ho arc industriously circulating jejune's&
reports against the Queen. Could I, my Lords, call WI that
individnal,l would say, " Come lot iii, thou tend slanderer,
and meet sue face in face: if you do not, thou art won*
than the Italian who gives a perjured bit an open testi.
molly, while thole pourest thy infectious ealnumies into the
ears of thy brother Judges, and plunge into the breast et*
a royal victim a poisoned stiletto, iii the semblance of the
sword of justice!" Were it possible that any oldie Bided
Royal could do this, I would say that he had dune mere to
degrade himself from the successiun of the try wit than sky
royal mistress would have dune, had every charge been
proved against her. My Lords, the whole generous po-
pulation of England is in filvour of her Majesty; and
nothing would be hailed with such universal joy as your
Lordships pronouncing a verdict of Not Guilty! During
the whole of these proceedings, her Majesty's Couswel
have had the proud gratificatiou of fighting tire battle 'of
Morality, of Christianity, and of Public Justice; and
although I cannot compare myself to that warrior iu the
cause, who has fought so nobly ; yet I, perhaps, way claim
the humbler merit of havisig discharged a few loose arrows
at the champions of this degraded Bill. This, my Lords,
is the highest tribunal on earth—it can oily be exceeded
by that where all the world shall be judged, and the se.
wets of all hearts laid open. I insider you, my Lords,
therefore to imitate the justice of that beueliceuee of that
high and sacred aathosity, who said to the woulau brought
before bins, "If uu accuser come rot ward, neither will II
cuudelau thee—go in peace and sin no more I"
The Learned tielitlernen'e speech appeared to make a
great impression on their Lordships.
Mr. BROUGHAM applied fur leave that Dr. LUSllingtell
should be permitted to address their Lordships tomorrow,
winch being granted, the House a ~proirriel at 4 o'clock.
TWENTY-FIRST DAY OF TBE DEFENCE.
TUUMSDAY, Oct. l'fb.
The House met this mottling at the usual hour, and the usual
preliminaries were gone througra in the ordinary farm.
Counsel wete called in at 20 minutaiyaset.kni o'clock.
Lesiunoaos addressed their ettahipra—•• My Lordly
if I had been lett to my own discretion, and to follow the dictates
of my own wishes, I should not now have arisen to address your
Lordships. But in the discharge of my duty to my dimness&
client, 1 am delegated, by my Learned Frienus, who think titil
case so important, and so extenaire, that, after all their exeryissu.
some facts yet remain to be stated. Vuur Lordships man feet
that my task is not an easy one, and that I conic to the perfirenie
ante, sultana:ldol with difficulties beyond all meaeute. But, any
Lords, I have one coneolation, a consolations that, in the jiidg-
talent of all my friends, this case stands on a fourAtion rat thin
end senate, that even the treatment of an unskilful Advocate
cannot Injure it. I have also the consolation to feel that the mote
this ease as scrutinized, the more will the innocence of my royal
client appear. 1 will, in the course of my &althea, to your Lord-
ships, avoid repetition, where repetition can be avoided; but your
Lordships must feej, that, were I gifted with the must powerful
chepssace, my observations can have no inapt, wept taken
into consideration with the circumstances that have already takes
' place. It becomes more immediately my duty to make one or
two observations on the subject of the charge in this bal. I have
in the whole of my paufesiaoual life, been engaged to caves of
Divo.ce ; but there are circumstances in this case unprecedenurd
in the records of past times, and, 1 thank God, without 411 exam-
ple in the present age. It is not. my Lords, that the tribunal is
new, or that the Government is imp!ieated in the cause; but
there are other &cum:minces witheut a
the
iu the page of
history. I wall first notice the age of the party accused, and I
affirm to your Lonlalips, that there is nut a single instance. in
modern or in former times, where a husband sought to itivoree
his wife, by accusing her of :adultery at the age of SO. It is a
tarcutestanee well ilea:tying the must ;wraith oonederetion—a
wile secant' ed from her husband, 'scarcely ir.ing single day
with hen after tier marriage...she is caught to be tin OT CCU at tiar
age of 50 ; when there a:4 not a singie instance even where the
parties had used toaaather. Ma divorce beuag sought, where use
aft Net ;UMW(' tit. age, of 45. But there was, another point.
't 'husband of tha Lady accuse!, has been it years separated
from his wife—se; areted by his own act mid by hits yon wince—
sepavatel not in consequeuce or themisconduct Of I.a wife' or of
, the breath of susplewn having tainted her character, but sopa.