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London, England, 1820-10-17 00:00:00

POLICE.

NAIILBOROCCII PTRTTT.
EXTENSIVE ROBBERIES ON PAWNBROKERS.
Yesterday George Augustus, a young man of decent ap-
pesesuce, was brought up for Beal examination, charged
with various robberies.

ft appealed in evidence that the Prisoner lived as shoprnan
to Mr. Aldous, pawnbroker, of Wnieloar-stem, flielto,, and
was in Ike habit of receiving the different pled7,•s which eerie
beunaht to the bemire, and afterwards *teal then, felon
his master. The office was crowded with pawnbrokers, and
the Pristine,. an, fully committed for total.

Wo'SHIP fiat /T.

ROBBERY BY A YOUNG LADY.
Yesterday Miss Sophia Andrew., a young female of er-
rant appearance sad prepossessing manners, appareni!e
about twenty years uriege, noderwent an.exammatiois before
the silting Magistrate, Robert [Seville, Esq. charged wo►
stealing a morocco casket, routainisig a valuable gull watch,
gold chain and seal, together with other trinkets, the piii-
perty of Mrs. Hester Bayliss, in her dwelline.houie.
Mrs. Bayliss, residing in Hill.street, Finsbury-square,
being sworn, stated, that abort a month ago the Prisoner
came to her house sod made applieatioa to baud Reel lodge
its her family, stating that her friends resided at Pert,
mouth, fium whence she had just arrived by the coach at
the Spread Eagle in Graceebeireb-street, for the purpose
of placing herself Nader the care of Mr. Barnett, a midi-
' cal gentleman io the City-road, as her health vivi im-
paired, having lately been ■Racket with the King's
E►il, and requested to know upon what term. she
would receive her (Pri s .). Alm Bayliss then rueoulted
her husband, and the Prisoner was admitted and tresitol
one of time family ; she continued till Friday, the 6:I, inst.
when she paid up all arrears, which ansuuuted to et, Mud
took her leave, saying she was virile on a visit to a faini4e at
Blarkwater. Next day, on opening a drawer in the parlour
iii which the casket and its cuuteots were deposited, it via
missing, and auspicism fell ou the Prisoner. It was sobs,.
guently discovered that the nous paid to witness by the
Prisoner had been received by her from a pawahroker, its
Bishopsgate Without, at whose house the watch and ap-
pendages had been pledged fur Si. on the morning she
quitted Mrs. Bayliss's house. The trinkets have out yet been
found.
Mr. Robinson, the Pawnbroker, pine:loved the watch and
identified the Prisoner as having pledged it, and was serene
to by the Prosecutor to be his property.
Vann, the °their, traced the prisoner to Northalsele
Cottage, near Hamsworth, iu Hampshire, where he awe-
beaded her on Southey morning. She was fully commuted.

A rivils at Edillblltgh—•
Lord Denalley, Sir M. Nightingale, flirt. M.P., Lidy
NiKbtlogale. the Reverend Mr. Moiteg, the Reverend Mr.
Ulna, and Colonel Bell, of Lung Benton.
Departurra—
he Earl of Fife, Lady Donalley, Chides W. Graham,
William Stott, Esq. and Captain Norton.

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STATE OF THE WHEEL
TWO of .£20,000 TWO) odf
TWO

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Tickets and Shares, warraated undrawn, are on •'lv by
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hill, and oppOslir the Kiug's-mews Caatinj lloilt.
The rebuilding of Exeter theatre has cuto-
meticell, under a contract to he completed lay
Chrisitnus. We understand it will be greatly Na.l
proved, both in convenience and decoration.

On Sunday settnight mine miscreants threw
spirits of vitriol upon the clothes of several feintilet..
as they were leaving Star-lane chapel in Stamford.
Persons will be etuployrtl to watch and detect those
who may practice such an injury
puttislmarnt is transportatton; and certainly it is
not too severe for so diabolical an offence.

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TIM QVESIV•4 VEFENCIt. .

peespkist has bees jest published.- entitled
" Bemires fens due Defame qi the Prioress if
Woke. drama by Lord Mdss," fie. It ma nia.
also s reinspect ef the former conspiracy, esint-
pared with tke present proceedings against her Me-
jeqty. The &Sewing is as estract
" Both the preoret Adosioistration and the former
wee are without the sanction of eine single law for
their conduct.
" 15 the first attempt a positive feet was swore
to ; bet as that admitted of and received aspositive
a contradictioue whereby the parties were over-
whelmed with confosion awl disgrace, they now
more cautiously go upon presumptive evidence, to
which ally noble prosecutor. juryman. or judge, rusty
attach exactas what weight be pleases. As an *dale
terous intercourse with every gentleman of her se-
quaintitice was foetid to be too great an outrege
upon probability to meet with any credit in 1806,
it is tisought more prudent in 1810 to 1 the
•cherge to one indivotloal. Bat they have not ad-
hered throughout to the plan of confining malice
tv.thin the bettor's of credibility; far they bring a
tinnier of Italians of the lowest descriptiou, to
'Ws:4f that her Royal Highness's conduct has. bees
eticli a coutinued course of gruel, indecent, abats-
stoned licentiousness, as the consusonevt prostitute
could scarcely he in lured to exhibit. if hired by
Me whole cost of the Milan Cmionission; and this
they endeavour to prove agionst a woman who is
afeswohed by one of these very persecutors, as 'the
gore,. the life. soil ornament of 'society !'
" In opening the case, the Attorney-Gekeral
said, the Qaeeu was charged with one of the most
%viols nfferscee ageiust the hove of God—that of
an adulterous intercourse.
" When it was stated by Mr. Brougham. that
adol.ery was equally it crime hi a min or woman,
(us learned oppoment expressed his utter surprise,
that such au idea could have been entertained for
a ;nutrient. Whatever may be the event of these
procetslttige in the defence of morality and deco-
sum, our minds have been enlightened upon two
points—lona the King. we have learned. • mait's
matrimonial vow is absolved, as soon as he takes a
doilike to his wife; and his learned and pint' legal
adviser has taught us, that there is one divine law
for men, and another for women.
" One conclusive proof, in the mind of the
Attorney-General. that adultery must hare token
place is, that the daughter of Bergaini, a child of
three years old, cried when her Majesty was with-
drawn. and her aunt, the Courtesy of Oldie in
vain attempted to pacify her: and soother equally
conclusive proof is, that her Nl.jesty eisited
Roman Catholic places of worship with Bergatiii !
" The Attorney-General also state., that her
IM:ejelay ass srea to go into Berganti's room, stud
that they were heard to he kissing each other.
" How unfortunate that the Learned Gentleman
should begin with a falsehood ! His withers posi-
tively swore, that he heard nothing but whispering.
If die Attorney-General invented this falsehood, tei
epithet of contempt is equal to his malice; and. if
Theodore Majocchi swore to such a circumstance
ill his former without its bring true, he
ought to have beets immediately committed to Nee-
gete. as au example to the rest of Ins Cotton-garden
foetid*.
" The Attorney-General began with one false-
Food, and elided with another. It is evident, from
les speech, that lie was perfectly censeiaue his in.
strut:6oos did not enable hint to make out a probi-
ble story ; even supposing his witiies-to should hare
learned their lessoli• so correctly, us to swear exactly
secording to their former deposition', he knew that
toe testimony of Ilse lowed class of Italians would
11,t be credited upon po;iits where lie could hr ii 4
fo:waril Etiglish ladies and gentlemen of rank and
easnieter. mid refused to do so. Ile therefore
roundly asserted, that the facts took place when her
'Majesty was in retirement, and surrounded only by
her servants; where°• he had previously stated, that
Ler Mejeaty was at Naples for shoot six months,
dering which time she was attended by two English
lathea and four English gentlemen. Ile stated,
that the Princess arrived at Napies on the Bth of
November, 1814 ; that on the 9th, this most scan.
&lons, degrading, and licentious intercouse began,
which would be found to continue and increase up
to very nearly the period when be was addressing
the Peers; that the Princes, stud Berpini retired
to bed at the same time, and got up at the same
time, and breakfasted together ; that they walked
arm in arm together upon a terrace in front of the
house in the day time, and in the evenings they ap-
peared together at one 'ionised ball, given by her
Royal Highitets to the King of Naples, and at an•
other at the theatre, at both which the conduct of
hit Royal Highness was so disgraceful as to shock
the Neepolitane.
" If tile Attorney-General can persuade a majo.
city of the House of boils that the Queen could
. conduct herself in the shameless, profligate, and
obandoued mariner that he described, for aia
suonths, without its cowing to the knoeledge of
two Ladies and four Geialeinen, or even of their
servants, who resided with her ail the tune—if he
can induce the majerity of the Peers to believe Ode,
it will be a complete monopoly of all the faith its
the kiiigdoin.
" The Learned Gentleman cannot say that the
Queen was upon her guard before the English
Ladies and Gentlemen of her suite, for in his ex-
cessive zeal for the cause of his 'warless employer.,
he expressly declared, that her mind ass so far de-
praved us to render her careless, nut Duly of deco-
rum. but even of all sense of decency.
"To give the smallest shade of probability to
his statement, the Learned Gentleman was obliged •
to assume that her Royal Highness was absolutely
infatuated by her unfortunate passion for Hui-Kann
( is he pleased to imagine) ; that it had takt-ri entire
poii•ew.ion of her mind, and given Into a eumplote
ascendancy over her. Is giving the character el
her Royal Highness, the Attorney General must
surely have bad the deposition of Lely Douglas
lodore hint ; the coeteistv of the rooster green bag
must have got mixed owl those.of the preseto one.
II.: states her Alejeety to be addicted to habits of
the grossest sensuelity ; to lie lost to all seine of
shrine stud decency ; to be utterly regastitees of
siociety, or any thing that did not centre ut tins one
point. Now, how do the facts brought forward by
himself bear out all this? The witucvsee prove,
that at ass solvasiced period of this disgusting his.
tory, she bad sort even given Bergaiut the entire

maitegenteet of her household.. Upon fits
charge,
chew, .her three years service. Theodl.elllejecciii
«BA There was Bergson. he commended ; there
atm Schimiei, he commended ; it wee impossible
for me to keel, which was setscrew." Sethi' Um-
rimed situation its the household of her Royal
Highneis. during the tune to which the evidence
kris reference. proved nothing more with respect to
him than it did respecting Schiavini. When her
Majesty was insulted in the face of the world by
leasing her name oat of the liturgy. by which act
her condecnuatina and penishineut were made to
precede. not only the trial. bet even en serum-
tion, when this outrageous insult took place. did
Berg:tine* influence prevent her from seeking re.
doss ? Did it induce tier to remain with him in
Italy ? Could all the intrigues with futeign courts
isnow such imperilment, in her way as to prevent
her Irons coming to England ? Could all the
money, all the power, and all the threats of Admi-
nistration. drive her Majesty back into his arms to
pursue her adulterous intercourse? Could all
their quibbling sophistry iodine this woman, whom
describe us lost to sill sense of shame, could
all their outs and contrivances induce her to re.
hit:push use single point of that respect which
was doe to her situation in life ? How dors
the character given by the Attortiry-General of her
Alajesty corrtspond with his own description of her
conduct ? Is it probable, is it in nature, that a
woman devoted to the grossest and most brutal
stiosuality should encounter perils by land and
perils by water. and endure hardships and privations
of all kinds in journeys and voyages, to Pee those
parts of the world that are most famous its history ?
flow dues the A ttoriley-Geriersl's descriptions of her
Majcs.y accord with that givrtt by Mr. Canniiig-..
• the I,;race, the life, the orionnent of society ?'
How relies it resemble the picture painted by the
united talents of the late Mr. l'erceval sod the pre-
sent Lord Chancellor ? They describ-d her an a
woman deserted, persecuted, and insulted, but of
unsullied chastity, etitiowel and supported by a
coinage and fortitude that have rarely been
equ.illed, but never surpassed ; amiable, beim-
vulent, georrous, !literal, patient of suffering,
rind turgivittg of injuries. And this is the
woman 1p reit, by the will of Providence, of
her lathir, her brother, her mother, and her
wily child, and deserted by her husband upon the
avowed ground of his own caprice ; this is the
woman wino it is now attempted to crush by arbi-
trary power, stimulated into action by a combina-
tion of deadly passions; and, to the everlasting Ms-
grace of the Etightili nadir, those mete are foremost
in the rank of her oppressors, who know, mid have
op;,tily di-edit-est, that she has been and would be
p:rsrcuted by insatiable hatred and malice, which
wouid spurn the control of fairness arid justice.
To ascertain the degree of credit which is due to
the respective %inflows. many things must be taken
into conshlr-rsiion.

" 1-z. Boole' comparing their examinations
with the ccos--exarnitiain.iis, reference should he
had to their fwiaer depusitious. In the Delicate
Investigivitio, us it was r alled, the principal witness
was cteariy convicted of grosi frlselintaf, by only
comparing o .e with the other.
The elfilLilte ahuuld be compared with
the statement of the A:torney-Gentral ; if they do
not cotirt%pOtill, it will prose either that the wit-
ne:ores air unworthy of creslit, or that oppreSlioti,
aad co: jus.ice, are the objects of the prosecution.
" 3dl). The. evil; tier of the differeut wittiesses
shwil:.l I.e conitraic.l with each other.. . . .

'6 4thiy. It should he tin; tii red, whether the minds
Of the witiitsses are iiilliseticed by any improper

" sttulv. W:uether they hive been paid or pro.
miseJ u:•.re 1:13:4 u re.,>,nr,l.l:e cotopeissation for
Cum 104. of tutte, or whet'o••r ilecustrury utlvaotargto
have I,ertu hel,l out to them.

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6' btnly. NV he:her the managers of the rooted-
tiun li.ate brought foraind tie most respectable
witt:ess-s that eauld give testituoity to tlit facts
alleged.
•• 7t,de whether the witnesses had made their
ii&irmat known to ;my one before the Milan
C tais,atlit a,as in operation, and large rums were
either paid or promised to illly one who could 111.•
vent and would liWtUr to all beastly latUrV.
" As au excit•c fur bringing forward this prosecu-
tion or persecution, this Bill of PAris and Penalties,
Loid Liverpool drclarcd that it was forced upon
illutlttrr , that they did nit seek for grounds °lac-
chiltion ngaiast I:ie Queen, hot ti st charg.s agaimit
her were pressed upon them, not from one quarter
alone, hut front ail quarters. Now, of all the evi-
dence which bah been brought forward, which part
of it appears to have heat voluntarily pressed
uttuis lt:r.• .misters? Nut one single particle !
'fliete N not a anegle witness that ever Mild al word
against the Princess, till they were sought out and
questioned by the agents of the prosecution. illany
of them had fur years spoken of l'er Itoyal High-
ne.i its the most enthusia•tlr terms of admiration
and respect. Ministers have not hers able to
produce one single wittiest in cnotirmatton of
the sl4ntl•rs, winch they declared had been forced
Mann them by versio; of every desctiption, nod
Irmo all eurtitus tie W011(1. la there aity example
in the history of the world of so much money
belts; much industry eser.ed-rso
much roultocal influence used to procure eviiieoce ?
and lifer all n N theredib!..! upon the fare of it.
" Lord Eldon's remit k'. upon the former pro-
creditigs, may be made with still grelter justice
uputi the present occasion.
'• If th-re hail been one-hailf, or even one-twee.
tieth past of the iitilustry employed to remove
suspicions. which was cxeriell to raise them,
thete would never have txisted a uects•ity for
this cowardly mid nial•ga sot attack against an
unprotected Inn ;le ; the coast-Novice of witch has
Wife lily I) tit to hold tip the tiation to contempt in
face of the whole world, and to ilistutli its ire:Null-
lily id the Iry centre. 11'hat Cie ultimate effect
may be, the wisest matt alive cannot ttistteipate.
Tile proceedings carry eviiletwe of a to.,
spancy, and nut only so, but they' ale manifestly a
contintrai•n; of that *tray conspiracy which wa• so
clearly elettaued and es.puseil by the lair Alr. l'er-
CcVallllll I,Old Eadoll In 1806.

•• The Atturney-G-areal stated, shit he should
be able to wove ilist the intercourse with Bergarni
begirt on the pth of November, 1814, sod coutioued
till he quitted her ►lhrjesty''s service, but he did not
bring a singe witness to the trans:tenons of the hist
two wr three years,. The Learned Gentleman might

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