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LONDON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 15.
Three o'Glock, p. m.

Tux Defence of the Queen has already developed
even more than the most devoted partizans of her
Majesty could fairly have presumed. It has shewn
• that her Niajesty has not only not been even indis-
Creet, but that not a shadow of levity attaches to her
conduct.

The evidence of Lord Guilford, Sir William Cell,
Lord Landaff, and Mr. Keppel Craven, proves, that
at the very time when the conduct of the Queen is
stated to have been barefacedly suspicious, that
nothing objectionabl.e could attach to her. The
evidence of Sir William Cell completely destroys
the statement of Sacchi respecting the charge of un.
dressing in Berg,ami's presence, and shews that no
undres.sing was necessary, and that there was no
indecency in her dress; the history of Bergami's
introduction to the family of the Queen, is also
completely satisfactory, and from the circumstance of
die Marquis Argniilicrs taking the affectionate
leave which he took of Bergami, it is quite clear th:..t
Bergami could not be of a family or character that

would be unworthy of a scat at the Queen's table :
it appears likewise that his fellow-chamberlain, a
man of rank and an Englishman, did not think it
unworthy of himself to be ranked as chamberlain
with this Bergami; and even supposing that Ber-
g►ami had not been of a good family, and had . been
of a very low extraction, why should not services,
especially of a really faithful kind, which he per-
folioed, entitle him to be raised to a more honourable
,situation, and especially when such rise was under.
stood, ift• ease of good behaviour, to be a part of the
contract Does a Bishop or Peer think it any degra-
dation to sit down at table with his secretary or
steward? No such thin;.• The nick-names of tide
and rank really make men forget themselves, and
many ,a,Baronet or Lord, who has, perhaps, only
obtained-his title by selling his country, forgets that
it is nothing but the breath of a King squandered
upon services which arc a disgrace to the performer,
that gives him the artificial elevation which sets
him above others, ten thousand times better than
himself—

—" My Lord, ' your Highness' are the masks that hide
"Their little beings, and exalt their pride."
When the English attendants of the Queen
left her, was it not It sort of natural right that
Bergarai, who had been in the same rank and
employment of the most respectable of them, should
be entrusted with a confidential situation about the

Princess; and when surrounded by strangers, and
in danger of spies and enemies, was it not natural
that she should have a man nearest to her, in whose
fidelity she could trust? So that, in fact, the great
ground of the Queen's enemies is cut away from
under their feet, viz. the first appearance, at first
sight, of a menial servant raised to a.confidential
situation about the Princess, now Queen Consort.
But there is a much more important fact still now
clear, or at least sufficiently clear to demand inquiry,
from the interruption of the Attorney General
respecting the passport granted to the Queen; not
in the name y lie Queen, but of the Princess, after
the Queen had become Queen Consort. Does nut
this make it plain that the Pope's Court had re-
ceived intimation from the English Court that it
would be disagreeable to the English Government
that the Queen should be acknowicdied us Queen?
Does not this retinal to acknowledge her as Queen,
square with the conduct of the Ministers in avoiding
so long to mention the word Quern as relating to
Queen Caroline' Does not this show that there
was a fixed determination to un-queen her ? At
all events, does not such determination agree
with the encouragement of that evidence resulting
from the Milan commission, which looks now so like
like a conspiracy ? And does not the conduct of the
Pope imply a correspondence with the Foreign-office
of the English Government, and thus bring home
to Lord Castlereagh a reasonable suspicion that he
was a party to the conspiracy ?—We implore the
country now to demand au inquiry into the conduct
of the Foreign-office upon this occasion! and espe-
cially when we see again that the Attorney General
so pertinaciously opposed the introduction of evidence
to contradict the evidence of Majocci respecting the
Baron Orupteda and the pick-lock work, which he
ine.t have remembered, and which he clearly knew,
having orcrcd, at it arrears, " to kill Ompicda tor
his baseness," well might the Queen say out,
" Who! you, Traitor !' after seeing such a hero
appear oil tile stage as all accuser, and astonishment
indeed, must she have felt at the diligent exertions
of her enemies to get such a witness !! !

•- •

THE NATIONAL REGISTER

Since writing the above, a most important fact
has conic to light.—Government nas lent its aid,
to the escape from punishment of one of the lead-
ing witnesses against the Qneen—a witness, who
would, but for the f icndly interference, have cer-
tainly stood in the pillory. Is such rascally conduct
still to have the advantage of ministerial impunity
—or will a general Bill of Indemnity, fir all acts
to a certain period be passed in thvour of Ministers,
us it was to shield their coadjutor, Mr. Edwards, of
Cato-street notoriety.

We have sof zaurtaaid that we consider the impo
the present proceeding in the House of Lords, pa-
ramount to any other, but a mental reservation may
be allowed us in case any thing of extraordinary and
unexpected consequence present itself. This has
been the case, and we refer our readers to our report
of Bow-street proceedings for the particulars. Those
who are inimical to the Administration boldly assert
that it was wished to push the people into a state of
phrcnzv to authorize the introduction of a perfectly
despotic and military government. We hope, fin
the honour of our Governors, for the credit of hu-
manity, and for the sale of the best interests of our
country, that the lie direct will be given to such
assertions, not only by the disavowal of any share in
such infamous, rascally, villanous plans, but that the
verity of such declarations may be supported by a
lively movement towards the apprehension of the
WEALTIIY MISCREANTS, who have thus endeavoured
to drive a distressed people to deveration.
With respect to the man detected, and suffered to
escape on the present occasion, we have some im-
portant information : we believe his real name is
not Franklin, but Reicher; and that he is that
person against whom a naval officer of Great Bri-
tain, and High-Admiral of the Navy of Hayti,
obtained damages in a case of adultery. It was
one of the most infionous causes that ever came
before the Court, fiddler being lx,th the agent of
the husband and the seducer of the wife; and the
money transmitted to England by that husband,
suffering a transfer from its rightful owner, as well
as the affections of the lady.

French papers of Tuesday arrived at a late hour
last night. They contain no domestic news of any
importance, and their ibreign intelligence is not of a
much later date than what has arrived from other
quarters. The fUllowing is an extract from the
constitutional journal of the two Sicilies :
" The Duke of Gallo, the Sicilian Ambassador.
who was obliged to stop short at Ciageufurt on his
way to the Court of Vienna, complained to Met.
ternich on the subject, and received from that Minis-
ter the following answer: After a revolution which
has overturned the fbandation of the social edifice,
and menaces at once the safety of thrones, the sta-
bility of established constitutions, and the tranquil-
lity of nations, his Majesty the Emperor would act
inconsistently with the principles which have inva-
riably guided him, if he recognized the mission of
the Duke of Gallo.' The Emperor of Russia, the
same journal mentions, has refused to receive the
Prince Cimitele, the Constitutional Ambassador of
Naples. 'lt appears, then,' adds the Neapolitan
journalist, that our political relbrm will be the
principal object of deliberation for the Congress to
meet at Troppau. Let us hope that more accurate
notions may enlighten the Allied Sovereigns than
at present appear to guide them."' •

SHIP NEWS.
NEWHAVEN, 0.T.: ll.—Put in here for shelter the Renown
transport. from lie.l4;oland for Deptford.
HARWICH, OCT. 12.—The Scout, revenue cutter, has sent in
two boats, with 307 tubs of spirits; they were cast otf from a
lugger to the westward, while in vita-c; and the Eagle coact has
brought in one boat, with 70 tuns--theta were no hands on
board.
NORTH SHIELDS, OCT. 10.—A bottom of a ship, about
IGn ton-, that was found sunk in the Narrows, has been weighed,
and Laid upon tie Point, !war the Beacon.
'llie Prince of Wales, Excise cutter, B. Oliver, Esq. Com-
mander, brought into Leith on W4xlncsday a galliot, called the
Elizabeth Frederick, bound from Christian Sound to Sligo, with
a cargo of battens, iisc. The Prince of %Vales boarded her in
Scrabster Roads, under suspicimts circimistunet,; and, c.fter
runnnaging, found of tol..acco, which is cow lodgLd in
the Kiog's warehouse.

At Leith there has been preaching on board a !hip of
Goo tomi, iying in St-con.l Doek, and the coogrt•gat ions
IA eft? cue I time (inwards of 41)0 pvratins. At (Sreenock,
a sloop of war, formerly used as .1 Uluctle SCIIOOI, is now
converted into a " 5C.111,111.6 Chapel," and a Sunday
Evening's School or sea buts ; anti from the attendance
on D:v::te N'llornip, !del WWI the activity of the Com-
mittee of. the " Greenock Seaman's Friend Society,"
there is every reason to hope that the noble end of the
general efforts how roJklaig, VIZ. to iotprove religion
among seamen, will be, there, very eminently successful.

Thursday se'imight a detachment of the 90th
regiment embarked at Plymouth on board a trans-
port, and next day sailed for the Mediterruneau.—
The remainder of the corps will be embarked for
the same destination as soon as trausporta arrive for
that purpose.