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London, England, 1820-10-30 00:00:00

who had imposed upon those wins acre employed in the
tinier. innate Milne of mak Mg the bad appear a good cause.
Tile Solicitor General had conetuiled by telling their
Lordships what judgment they es tie to give. two
Learned Donk men hail ilms heed placed in two very
different Itlidliulli j the one as the very eager Advocate,
sad the uther as the allotiolis Juilz.e. The Solicitor (ie.
neral had, after giving this direction to their Luidahips,
stated that the production of witnesses for her Majtat y
could be attended wills nu effect, concluded with a pi Ayer
that her ;Majesty might depart tram tins investigation huh
credit, and without imputation. It was a sous ee Pi great
jtry to Into that this prayer had been ulfere I up. It was,
lie believed, the lirst prayer that had ever been made for
the Queen by a public officer of the Crust !—(A laugh.)
'There certainly was someihing OnlitiOns in it; and lie
trusted it aas the tits[ step for the restoration of her Ma-
jesty's mane to the Chat eh Service, limn a Inch it had
burn must Mimiwily reinuveil. lie congratulated his
Learned Friend that the case against which he had so de-
voutfy prayed had not been proved; and that the wretch
whose evidence had been considered so conclusive, had
appeared fur the last time befure them. 'file Learned
Counsel next referred to the testimony of Himiont, which
described her having seen Bergand in the passage near
the I's incebs'3 room, in the nig:it. It appeineil from
that evidence, as it bad been brought out by Al v. Wll-
- that the charge of ildnitely was sitting agaiust
Damout and Bergatin, as it could be against her Royal
Ilighliesis and Berge ; and rruill her declination that
she escaped, it was to be presumed, that the plans of Bet-
gami were directed against Mr, and nut its concert
%till her Royal Highness, fur tlicii mutual accommoda-
tion. The Learisett Counsel next adverted to the two
oilier oec.rsioas alien adulterous intercourse was, on the
autism ity of that precious witness, hlajorc., imputed to her
Royal 11 Bergaini tv..s ill, hut that, it would seam,
was nu obstacle to tile enjoyment (1 Sock a paSAUU all 110 -
IlesSed this guilty pair. There seas a private passage by
which the l'imeess might have gime into les room wool"-
irrved by ally one, hut instead of chasing that, she goes
through tile room where the servant of the sick man ssatch-
ing, and where it tire is constantly burunig. She does not
steal through this r.m.o once. but twice—lilt tea ice nn one
night, but twice, un two different nights. she duet{ so, tau
being a person who is observing the utmost cation im the
indulgence of iwr etiminal passion. Anxious to asuid
every eye, she prefers that passage which is iistiSi certain of
exposing her to the observation tole person newly hired lino
her service, and a ho, for any 'him; sue loiew, might imam-
diately publish her shame to the unpin II ow was he to
comment on suen it case a this 1 %it bat seeurdy aas there
fur human lire, it such evideuce aus to be seri.uu e-ler-
taitall fur a shiAle moment 1 Tile Learatal Gebtlimau con-
tinued his review of toe evidence, putmiu out its discre-
pancies as Inr went mi. At nearly two o'Cluti.,
Lund LI V Elt POOL tl, that as the Learned
Counsel must be nearly exhansttsi, lie ought to have lease to
retire.
The LORD CHANCELI.OII—" Ce mainly ! Mr. Hell-
man, ask for w hatevt r time you please, and of you %%fills 10
have until to-morrow inuoniag, I stiould have no ill jteboa."
Mr I)east A N said, be auwdavailhimselfit their Lord-
ships' olive fur halt lot hour.
After having been uliserit about forty minutes,
Mr. DEtlliN returned and resumed. Alter pursuing Iris
line of . lvetsion at considerable length, he said, their
Lordships could not adopt u middle course in deciaiug upon
this case—there could be 110 comp' °liaise beta. en honour
and shame. By a compromise, lit,2 mind would sutler venter
tortures than could he indicted on the body, by the judg-
meat pronounced upon the highest crime. He afield rather
see Ins 'loyal :Mistress upon her trial at the 11.tt, /di Anne
Boleyn had been, than the victim of iiit iuglorious cum pro
anise !—lle a ould rather see her ascend the scaffold, and lay
tier bare neck upou the block, than see her leave these shores
the ordect of scorn and pity 1 He culled spud their Lord-
ships to treat thus case as it woeld be treated at tie. Ohl
Harley by sole of tie Judges, who, if he did not &she the
Jury to acquit their prisoner at once, would deserve to be im-
peached at that liar. lie (Mr. D ) called upon, and entreated
them to consider, that the polluted evidence against the Queen
was the evitience discanted servants. lie was not able to find
any ease similar to this in modern history. In the Roman his-
tory lie Mend the case of the Empress Octavia, who was repu-
diated, and became the victim of false evidence. oetavia became
the wile of the worst Mahe Roman Lima:rots. On the day of her
marriage, she was the object of his disgust, and was accused of
cranium intimacy with a slave. Her serv.uas were. nut bribed,
but canii;.elled by torture to swear against leer. Sane wit, tried
and condemned to exile. Tile Roman people believed her inno-
cent, and on her return from banishment received her with feel-
ings at' regard. She became the vhaim of a s.econil conspiracy,
and was banished to an Island in the Aletiiterianean, where /me
bad no alternative left her, but to die, either by puLon, or the
dagger. 'fee unhappy lady submitted to have tier veirr, o:re.netl,
aint she bled to death. Here Mr. Denman quoted tine uri I, oldie
Homan historian lainenung the fate of an tsnr:siAe de-
prived of powerful relations, who, haul they b.en
have prevented the cataattuplie. lice Alayesiy left hits conturi
in sorrow. When she first went abroad, :hie we.:; the vuhint of
rtunaur. and false reports, which were in tlie resells instance to
b.: grappled a ith.—Deprived of her only daughter, site was left.
expreed to the dcrigns of l:er woist cattmes. In that fetal
month, winch blasted the hope of Eaglaud. Nov. ltrt 7, every
nine 1.: the iliatetial witncae a tOr the prusecation were ei..ciairged
from her service. It was then all her secrets trete ent;tental 111 0.
At that time Sacchi and Majacci began to sting their benefactress
and mistress, then the conspiracy against rite 1 aiuc:+s was normal
lit theirsure to e,.rr!ei into Oa-cation. 'f ie
Ceara Lil ',tinsel (lectured that her Maj.sly telt coaddent that
they had sally vindicated her innocence.
our &chid( having arrived, the house adjoinned.
WEaIIEsDAY, tier. e. 3.
This morning the Lord Chancellor took his scat on the Wool-
sack at five
the Bishop 01'136,401. Oil the list of Veers tieing called over.
cxewea true tu:asitted for the Duke of Se.. Albans. We Earl of
Ox.urd, mid Lord t,reaers.
Corth,et were called in tit twenty minutes putt tat o'clock.
Mr. Di, . iIAN then rose, and mutual the aaniming up a
the defence.--`• My Lords. in reltrra-g to the evidence which
luu beer pet' !Lltt:d in support of this I uni multi-10y brinight
to that ithirs ailed whose name Mans so plenum:tit a part ti the
charges that have against her Majesty. Aid cer•
tainly nu perarn ever er.;;;est d.w ally bit.Alitaill walls better
character, w.th a tidier claim to promotion. or better (tattled to
hope to: bt:CC:%.i ama li4:VallUlge. Mt. Qavul slats, teat the
Marquis Ccuriliegliii treated 0.1 a Itunieg in' equality,
and rerA.lmilmtiett lion to her Rival Higlaie, In, 1141 ii.ta idUI4I
w' oil eau: du:) tic: hee arid pittrunage ; that he was
uf. a ft:so:aid:4: wady, which lied stiff:Jai in its .oriones dining
the French le-volution; that he hat: served in the French array.
where he was artnettcd to the iewiety oh personas or raak and
distinction; but that ItOw. luttu./..., :0; lia. AWN).
pelted to accept of a sitwitlun be ow Ilia rank. or his drawers. at,
Wilhaua (sell saaud, th..t ilea Alartituv laws.rtgLit. su is. foal