The National Register.
London, England, 1820-09-04 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER

Ity once, do you mean one 111.1601i?--I only recollect
that one person called me Countrss.
Was float frequently P—l only heard it once.
here ,tvr re you kit lug ut the inne that person called
you Couidess:'—loo I all' street.
lTuh-sleet, SU:I4I-'4IIM ?--- Ves.
Deter e that time you had lived in Oxford street ?—Yes.
How long did yon live there i—A boon three months, as
fill• as I can recollect. Idu lint know precisely.
Duo iug the time you had been t here, nobody called you
Countess, did they ?—I don't recollect that any one did.
I do nat recollect at all.

Will you snt•ar they did not ?—I will not swear to It,
but I do tint tecoVeci it.

Will yon >aear tlo t you did not psss in the house by
t!:e title I,t*Conittess ?—lt was Nr. Cross that placed we
iu that house. Idu not know by what title he announced
me.

1)0 you mean to say you were not called in your pre-
sence, nor In bind you' back, by the title of Countess, in
Oxt'otd•nircct, while you nem living them 3-1 will not
bwcar it, but I do not recollect.

Was it soweilling new to you to he called Countess
don't recollect being called there; ido iecullect, iu
Frith-street, Lot not in Oxford-sit Pet.

Mr. Wiliiants repeated the question.
1 was not called Countess.
Then)on will swear that in Oxford-street you was not
called Countess, in your presence; that you'll swear?—
I'll not swear it ; but I du not recollect it.
It but name did you pass by before—what name were
you called before you went to Oxford-street ?—Colombie.
IWA long were you called Colotubie ?—Stitce I arrived
in England, beginning at Dover.
Did you not twist% er, in °aro' d-street, to the title or
Countess to persons addressing yon ?--I do not recollect.
you swear you did not can't swear it.

As you say you cannot recollect whether yon were
called Countess there ur not, was it nut a novelty to yon
to be called Comivessi—l never was called Countess ex-
cept this one time 1 recollect in Frillostreet.
I understood you have said yesterilny, or the day
before, that ;ou accompanied the Pi incets to Naples ?
Yes.

con now recollect whether the Princess went to the
Opera on the first or second night atter her being at Na-
ples?—On the second night after her arrival at Naples
the Princess told me she a as going to the Opera.
Then it aas on the second 'sight 2 It was.
If I understood you tight, you said there were two beds
in the apartment of the Princess at Naples—a larger and
a smaller bed t —Yee.

The smaller bed was the travelling bed of the Princess.
If I understood yon right, was it, or was it not ?—As far
as I recollect, it was the travelling bed.
The smaller?—Yes.
If I understood you right, you said that the morning
after the Princess arrived at Naples, you perceived the
larger bed had the appearance as if two pet 14011 S had slept
in it—was that so %—1 said the bed looked as if two per-
sons had slept in it. •
Yon gave au account how some of the family slept while
her Royal Highness was at Naples; now I want to know
where Mr. Hieronimus slept i—The door of his room was
in the aasne corridor as the door of her Royal Highness, as
I have already said.
Were the servants of Sir William Cell and of the Hon.
Keppel Craven sleeping in the house at the time ?—I saw
their domestics in the day, but I do not know whether
they slept in the same house or not.
Sir W. Cell and Mr. K. Craven both had servants at
that time?—Eash of theist had one servant.
A 111;111 t ? Y es.

You do not know where either of these servants slept
for any one night during the time her Royal Highness was
at Naples?-1 will not swear it, but Ido not at all recol-
lect.

Do you mean to swear yoi do not recollect any one
night where Mr. Craven's set soot slept at Naples?—At
this moment I do not recollect it at all.

And this you will swear?—At this roomtnt I do not re-
tched it at all.

W here did yon sleep while you were at Naples?—ln a
little apartuient above that of her Royal Highness.
Did you sleep alone in that room?--We had two rooms;
in one I slept, in the other Annette Pt ison slept doting
the tune she was at Naples.
I ask, did you sleep alone in that room ?—I slept alone
in that room.

Every night?—Yes, every night.
And that you will now swear i—Yes, I slept every night
in my own room alone.
The whole night ?—The whole night in my room.
And a:ont: atone; cyst), night and the whole
night alone...

if 1 recollect right, you said, that one night you saw
Bergami coming out ut his own room in st state all uudreas
while you were at Naide?—YetE.
That was at Naples?—Yes, Eat Na
%Vele you twice at Naples with the Princess i—We
were once at Naples,und once iu the Gull• ut Naples, but
we did not land.

But you only once iu Naples?—Only once.
Theo you saw Bei gami come oat ot Ms room undressed?
—Yes.

i6itre were yon standing? in what posi!ion. I mean,
when you saw lierganti •at that thin ?—I was standing at
the door which cause out ut toe town of her Royal MO-

Wes it that door of the Princess's room which opeutil
into the corridos ?—yes.
I ant now speaking of the sante corridor to which I be.
fore alluded?-1 wal standing at the door of the corridor
tsbirli cattle out ut the touili of the Pi iticess._

Was l;crganti•s room at the Inn ;lel' end of the corridor
to that tit i which came out ut the l'llllCebb'b rMUm?—
Ni t 111111 e at the bottom.
Nearly at the other I 1,(1 of the passage?--Rather near
to the end ut the paAsage than on the other side.

Was there nut a staircase between the Pi ineess's room
and uf llerganu, and by which yon went into your
own apartment r—lt was in this position—alit re was the
loom of the Pi incess; and then a little catrinet, which led
to a *tan ea,c, by which L went to my opal talent.
Had Pulltr bel )4711111 or you 4 light at the time
HUI g;111$1 he,' 41141,1.
Had you any i—No was on the point of !ping.
Comte wheat ?-1 was going out; I was at the dour of
her ktuysi Ifigliness's apes (went.
%k lien you made )41111 escape (turn where you were
standing at the fluor ul rue Prunes', did you go water

to where liergami was standing?—l made some steps Is
the corridor %hick led out.

I ask you again, did yon not, in trying to escape, go
nearer to where Bergami was ?—No answer.
I ask )on, did you go nearer, aye or no ?—The witness
still hesitating.
Mr. Williams—l ask yon again, whether or not, when
you made your escape, vs you have desoribed several
times, you did not get nearer to Bergann in so doing
The witness said at last, Yes! . .

llid Itetga.•ti come forward, or run back into the room?
I raw Mr. Bergson over against me, coming toward■ me.
Then he kept coming nearer lo you, to meet you ?—I
did not see that, became I went out precipitately.
Hon do you know, then, that became towards you ?
Because I saw him coming In a direction towards me.
I believe you have said that the King of Naples lent a
palace to the Princess ; was not it so ?—`ft s.
I sun going to speak now of that night when the Princess
acted the past of the Genius 61 History. 1 ask you whe-
ther the King and Queen of Naples were not thes e ?—I
saw the King of Naples in the room, bot not the Queen ;
she was indisposed, and obliged to leave the room at an
earls hour.
Was there not a considerable number of the Neapolitan
Nobility and Gentry there ?—I saw a great number of
Ladies and Gentlemen in the room.

%Viten the }lancets was dressed lip as the Genies of
History, did site go into the room where the Neapolitan.,
were only saw the Princess go down. I was stand.
ing at the head of the staircase. 1 know nothing further.
Was it towards the room where the Neapolitan nobility
were assetidded that the Princess went ?—lies.

Have you any (lonia whatever that the Princess did go
on that occasion to appear before that assembly be-
lieve the Princess was going to appear among them.
I wish now to call yone attention to the journey yon
took by laid to Jerusalem. Did not the Princes* travel
on thaqoceasion on horseback ?—Yest that is to say, as tar
as I can recollect it was on an use.

Did you Irarr•l yourself in some kind of carriage?—
Yes.

_
Did not your sister attend on the Princess in that jonr-
ney ?—My sister was always un horseback near the
Princess.
During that journey, did' the Princess rest by day sad
travel by night?—Yes.
When you stopped at Anm, do you or do you not mean
to say that you undressed the Prioress on that occasion ?
—I recollect I was under'thk tint of the Princess, but I
do not recollect whether I nndrossed her once.
no you mean to say that the Princess was undressed at
all wider the tent on that occasion ?—Wben I left the
Princess she was in a white bed-gown.
Do you mean to say the Princess was undressed at
all?—She had pulled otf her upper dress.
Was her dress any way altered, except by having the
exterior habiliments taken off ?—I do not i ecollect.

When that exterior habiliment was taken off. did not
the Princess put on a night-gown, or bed•gown, fur the
purpose of reposing on the sofa?—When I left her, she
was in a white petticoat. I do not know what she /lid
after I left leer. _ _ _

Do you rember the dress she was in the habit of wear-
ing at that time?—Yes.
Was it not a blue habit, trimmed with fur. which went
close round the neck—was there not a great deal of far
about itY—Yes, there was a great deal of fur ■bout it.
and it was a blue dress. _

Do you know a person of the name of Oropteds I—l
had known him.

Has lie visited the Princess more than once while yon
were in the service P—Yes.

How many times have you known Onipteda visit the
Princess while you were there P-1 leave seen him at dlr. e
different places.
Upon one occasion his visit was for three or four days.
Were his other visits of as long duration think not.-
1 only remember seeing him that once fur some days.
Were his other visits only for a day or two t—They
were of shorter duration. _

Yon do not recollect precisely the dnration of the other
two visits e—l have only seen him in the house.
Was nut the complaint respecting Ompteda relating to
his cuuduct while in the house of thc Priucessf-1 du nut
recollect what was the complaint.
Did not you take considei able part in the•cowplaint
No, none.
Did yon not write a challenge 7--(A laugh.)
Did you Hot write a letter for Mr. fissional f—l do not
recollect.
Did lie not desire you to write a letter for him to Omp-
teda! —1 do not recollect any thilig about it.
A letter was belie produced, and slim% n to witnese.
Did you not write that letter 1-1 t is not exactly lile
my waiting.
Is it your hand wiitingf—l cannot say exactly whether
it is or ion.

Was it nut in November, 18P1 that you quitted the service
of the Priuert.s ?-1
Of coupie ut that time you knew nil you have been de-
posing to fur these two da)s past t—ies.
Since the time you quitted, or were discharged from the
service of the Princess, did you represent the Pi incess to
be o person of a insist excellent description Y-1. do nut

yuu swear teal you never repro ented that you would
uillingly surrender up half your life for the Priutesy if she
could let.%e yuu the other hult nuay have taut that, but
I do Out reet•hent. _

llave you never said nor written, nor represented (reading
the leiter lust .hewn to the u dues', " If the Prince's
could rend my !wart, she %mild be convinced of the infinite
respect, or the unlimited uttachmunt, and of toe perfect
nflec t I coact-tail) for her august peisun t
having %Illicit several tunes to my sister, but 1 don't letusio-
ber the contents of them.

Du you remember writing to 'our sister, as follows, or to
the following tolled :—'• You can't thmk, 51artonne, what
a noire my little journal lids niatle. It h..s bet it, it I moy
use the cit p, ersiuti, Smatc lied all. E% ea) one tr.ol Cis
Mamittie l'itultzet begged me to let tier roof) it lo Loo,:iooe.
All the Eoglisti is leo were there wantcti to ,re it tome-
dewily ?"—lt is impossible l eau i Lculiet uti 1 w.ule t`i my

Do )nu remember writing In that elect?— Will inn rwear
that 3 have mot Wi 111,11 to that i-1 erUitol I.lt •yr 10
that of %luirii I ant not gaite mire.
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