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His Leerned Friend bad mega that Owe was as peoof of 'Mug evidence that most convict her. lie must reenact
Colonel Brows bitting soy. katuriadge of Guth a Aare* the mem fetes to have Infineuvel Ness to &Yews olith.
being likely to be laturght against hiss; bet be really could Lady Lhadaaga Mr. Cr yea, sir W. Gel,, Dr. Holland, sad
lordly conceive it possible that hit Learned Friend elbastld Amoy *atm He moat "owe tint ri,„„, rmist, nF
be ignorant of this pawns which hod bees tarsier, taw at Ni. Limbless end lestieratess towards her Mitiamts they reftme'l
lan lumina hint. which mimeo had been clima•seeil. not Are to call thole witnesses oboe., evideloce roast have Wt..-
west of prouf,but because the ampere surreptitiamly obtains ot hardly wow. lam end Ater fare left them for the defence,
were comideired es not bele( eau, importer.. It was idle preferring to elicit by crioasogrooranstion that millrace
and nsuastrions in Ilse extreme to apply for time tor the par. whieb most bans injarril her if produced in direct teal imony.
pose of printairiug his attendance, whet he knew well couinth Was he to be told that the evidence of those print...l was its •
that be ought to hare been here from the beginning; that material, 'weans, it slid not go to also direct fait•ox the raw:
Ilw conduct of Ise Milan Cornmimuin wroth, moire mme He would wily say, that it was of rhe most 'l'ol importimee.
trephination ; and that from his share in that conduct be bricaase it disproved, ii*Cir as arzontent and iiifeience
should have been piepared, and on the ,put, to ewe IMI disprruve, the esusteore td iiia granods for so-iiirivn of attrls
explanation. Undoubtedly it mold not but be a mailer an intercourse as had born charged It accounted. in the.
of some surprise to them, that after the great body of most wooed way, for the elevadmo of Bergen. Perhaps Ws
evidence which had been ad.hiced fir the defenre, and ought not to go trio minutely into rli the evidence that hol
the king and latc•ured cross-examiustion which his Learned heel, heard fur the defence, though that wsa bit pesticide..
Friend bad applied to all their witnesses, hill toile oil- province. He might go into Use evidence of Slew!, r.r
Hess aligned have been Called to dispraise any part of that Dr. Holland, and of others. too he conceived that they
elitalCsiCe, soil that be aliou Id hive been railed to speak to already dour mire thin sit Ificieut they bail .liewt. Ow ens. •
but tune single fart. Litutettant Ilownam had been • wit- against them to be rodeo to the cute. II •
Hess of the conduct of Bergami and her Royal Highness to. hail dont more than could have been requa..! if it. •
wards each other from the beginning. He had seen him in any Court of Justice w the kingdom, when 11..• v ron•le.r•o•il.
her service as a courier, as an equerry, nod f unity as her ed to give an answer to such anon ila as hoot heel. art ay..l.
Chamberlain, and he staird that daring the whole time against them The other side had cirri stioha.isly avoided he had never koown or uh•erved any part of their con- every Thing that might lead to an oppoition.ls fur cont..-a.
duct to each other which he roneickreil its the least on- diction ; while they had as eagerly a•!zed tr. anti had ilti;
becoming their relative situ:ilium to each other, or in proved every thine that admitted of the posaihrlity of disproof.,
ally oh pee degrading to the rank of her Royal Highness Need he tell their Lordships that the character tot domes
He hail not in any part of his testimony ove.atrained hie witnesses rendered such a course itisuriesaary • But perlaare
memory in speaking to ally Gel, and in staling any mat- be might be expected to say sionethvg of the witnizesi
ter of his belief .he html not merited the amalle,t who bad not been called; and here lie Weal draw hoe tie:
Minn on his credit. Bciug asked as to a commotion tween a prosecutor ands. acensed. A perimeotor was bound
between himself and Captain Briggs on the deck of the to call witnesses 10
Leeialltae, whether he had nut in such conversation whose testimony could throw any light upon the chary...
stated that hr hail gone upon his knees in her Majesty What would be thought of • prosecutor who, taking hold
and with tears in his eyes implored her not to admit Bet- evidence to make up a primer
.facie case which he koew writ
gami to her table ;he said he did slot remember ever to have capable of being reasueed by clearer evidence, should leawo.
said ao ;be had Inver, in point of fort, done such a thing, it to chance whether that evidence 'Weld he produced i e
and he therefore thought he could not have said it. Now he stett He knew not with what face has Learned Fs lend
believed that it could not have beets said by Me. Illownem, could call opus, them for any other witnesses, when they hail
becaime there was nu previous arrangement that Bergson already produced some which he ought to have called to
should dove at bee Royal Highness's table. The first nose support his case. It sr es new to Englosb jostiet• that a wit-
it occurred was on the journey to flt. Goiliard, when it was news on a ernse-examias for the defence should famish
occasioord solely by the nature of the accommodation which inference of farts wlitell admotteol of clear proof in the 11.4,
the ion at which it look place afforded, sod it was Not instance, and which matht have been proved by the prance.:.
twill long after that it became any thing like a regular for if be had faded ihose other trimester' whom he ki.var
course of proceeding; and Lieut. Nutritin, from the very weer acquainted with those farts. Not only did they take,
nature of his situation, depending in aurae degree On the the chance of the unfavorable inferences whirh might he so
pleasure and bounty of her Royal Highness, at whose sole drawn, lint they took the chime of the frailty of the wet.
will be held his place in her mote, emit.' not possibly have nees's memory running over the long spice of six year,;
'colored upon any remonstrance, no opportunity mold have they ran the rid' of that weaker's or nerve which a crort.
Iwo afforded bins of expressing a single woo, or repreeenla- examine.' weight induce; they stood exposed to danger
lion on the subject. He did not mean to say that Capt. Briggs from Hew impreasions introduced into the mind from nevi •
bail not spoken the trod) as far as his memory served him events, and of that petty triumph which was sound. J whin.
but be had stated this conversation to bare occurred on the ever soy thing like a slip might have orcurreiloinder all those
quarterdeck—now it had always been sapyweed th.t such citeuesstaeces MI likely to °erasion one. Nit only bad they
',overeat ions at those occurred in momenta of familiar inter- done all this, but they had game a step fu. Om; they had
course w.re held sacred to the place, and it must mach aut. sot only 'hewn that the witnesses for the pros. cutiiiii were
poise every man that Captain Briggs shinild have repeated not entitled to may credit in a Court of Justice, but they
any thing which had passed "such" occmion• limsneingo bed *hewn that such means had hero resorted to in or.
oe be did, the confideetial situation of Lieutenant Hansom, der I„ procure them; such bribery employed 11-I,r
sad his familiarity with every occurrence of her Royal was before recorded in a Court of Justice. If the upi-
ilighnest's household, it was not unnatural that he should Mons of the Learned Doctor. of Millais and &shwas
ester into conversation with him on lupine connected with (the purchase of which was not discovered till long ri
It, and on circumstances respecting which be must had been discredited by posterity on account of the mCai,s
have known him to be fully informed; hut he thlisthl it ra- which hail been employed to obtain them, bow much midi'
credits( strange that Cantatas Briggs el Id ever have divide. that testimony to be discredited which had been colleen,: try
ed any part of such private commitoicaliona, fur in say the
hbraisbelestYa from
al oadli*Stuaerddi n7otViiiireeat,''hawilhogreinntoscc"led to giro
hee"
least it amounted to violation of roof-Ocoee. But Loris.
Nasal Hownatn bad *wino he did not remember to hare evidence on a thug, affecting the life and homer of their
said so. mid he (Mr. Denman) firolle believed he hid "ot • ' mutters and benefactress, and of those so brought forward
It was not unlikely that in the course of conversation lie they had the past declarations aunt. of the principal ; th. y
.eight have referred to the occasion when Mr KelsOct had her just encomiums on the character of ter Royal Slice
Ciampi foiled it necessary to Citation lire Majesty, at tress, from which it was apparent. that she knew the chargost
Naples, in conseq f spies, afraid her roodoel should which she had now come forward to prove was totally fa!-e.
be niiiconstrsied, and Lieutenant Hownam might have They had hem told dial the conduct of the Queen had raised
wished her Majesty not to have admitted Bergami to her inference's against her. He 041 ready to abide by that lest.
table, fearful lest her enemies shontd misrepresent it. lie Was it possible that her Majesty could have turned off -err,
believed Lieutenant Hownam might have mid to Captain wants capable of proving such charge., could have afar r.
liriggs, that to prevent Bergami dotting at her Majesty's wards continued that low and degrading attachment will.*
table, and to deprive her commies of inch • fact Si. mitre- was Orford, and yet afterwards challenge the inmost m dice
gement, that if be could have prevented Bergami dialog at of her enemies! It was owe of the distinguishing cliarseter-
. her Majesty's table, he should have had no ohjertiow to have Wm, of that engrossing passion to which her Majesiy was
gone upon his knees and implored her with tears an Mures said to be the slave, that it induced • denims' dto every tons
nut to persist in her intent' . Such an expressive was not „were,'" of commie,—
an unnatural result of the 'amours which might have been
" Not Cesar's Empress would she deign to prove."
in circulation. and of which they had indeed iatidira.
tally heard in the evidence of Lady Charlotte Liudsay ; If she had become the mistress of her servant, wools) she not
and when they were told that those rumours were drawn have bees. ready to hide her shame in the retirement which
into • reason why, for the sake of her own character, it was offered her Would she out have been anxious to re-
had been thought mortals y that that Lady should leave treat to her villa at Cam, or Penen,to possess that 'uxorious
think enjoyment, the means for which able was premed to accept
the service of her Royal Hightleas, he could not but
that they, had great reason to complain of the manner in Would also not, after !using all that makes life desirable,
which that circumstance had been introdstreil. It was, in. have preferred that course rather than come to this country
deed, too winch that her Majesty's enemies shosild be allow. solely In repel an attack upon her character' Look at her
ed first of all to spread oath ealnOilei abroad, amid afterwards
The death
cooradthuact so
l asidbilghbaity.,oifiebeede
d.niamgtieltesns,
apnri,illethc.: of
prosecutor.
to avail themselves of them in evidence, as proofs of' guilt
against her Majesty. Baying touched upon every part of her last protector (whose name alone had latterly bee., her
the evidence which bore upon the case, he would guard), was not aunounced its the 'hope of decent condo:o,-
104 m, that if there were left in England such • thing meals hat it was anoonnced by • forestalled decision of Ihe
Parliament of Eugland, by the Cardinal Gonsatvi. who
as common reason, coattail/It jiltilife, common sense,
stripped her by anticipatiors of that title which belonred ii
or common lounaraly, Ibis Bell was at an end—it was
not possible that it *World pass. Bemuse to say, as was her, and designated her in the passport granted to her ur
'Meted 111 the preamble, that ber Majesty had conducted "Candineof England " She was Mid by au announcement in
the Gentelle that the first transaction of that new era, when
herself ill nmanner no licentious, ills indecent, and au dis-
gusting, as to bring the Royal Family into scandal and con- even the gaols were opened, when felon' received pardon.
tempt .0 the eyes of all Europe, was to sin against the and all savoured of grace and beaignity, that the Aral set o;'
oaths of all the respectable, unimpeached, and unshaken that new taiga tam the most illegal and mischievous record-
witnesses who had lweu beard for She defence. It ed in the monarchy of England. It was the first act of what
was evident dist Lady ehailotte Lindley' who had the was to be to her a reign of derradatiom and diallowour. Ex-
mast ample means of judging, siolwilloalaiiding she had eluded front the Urn gy, and the prayers of tbe people farbid-
been lei by the rumours In quit her service, acquitted, in drat to be pot up in ber beholf, she had been amply comp.:tr-
eated by theidexpression of those heartfelt feelinga which arose
her OWN mind, her Royal Highness of all the charges irn•
in their bosoms its her favour, and wiliest the exercise of that
pules! to her, and which had been so iodustrionsly circu-
lated. All the other person. too who had trews enumerated unjust and illegal power which had been exerted against
by his Learwed Friend, to the number, be believed, of her. Considering this as aum of Divorce, the fact if thee
letter of license was a tintheieot answer in that point of
about a dozen gentkmen, who wet.. described as ha,
view—but as a Bill of Pains and Penalties, toe keew •ef-
ine been divorced from her society by the scandalous
it were their Lordship' pleasure it might socceed—tot he
reports around them, meat have seen enough to disable
was certain that their honour and feeling would never per-
and to fortis their own judgment oa her coaduct,
mit it. There were certain witnesses which they Wight have:
and was it to be supposed that they would have allowed any
called on the detente, bet which they had abstained from
lady of character to have entered into a honor where such
doing, simply because their case was frilly proved, and thsy
scenes were going tau, without cauti 111 l ing her against the
danger to which her reputation moat be expoeed The lady did "t thud' it C""1"Ideal with the pistipks of id•liet,
herself also would, ua her return, have felt !refuel( hound to to proceed oar step further, ate to load their Lordships'
make known the toothily, which had forbad her to associate inioutes with espesfleous matter. He had heard much of
with a female so nearly allied to the highest members of the challenges snit defiance,, and it bad been said that Berganat
State; and the immediate comerissence of such a., announce- might be called t'' their locilshiPi hit to give his testi-
mony. Burt if no instance had ever been beard of, that the
meat should have heeu to call home the guilty object of sueb
individual charged as the adnlterer, had bees called to thy-
charges, cud not to have suffered tier to continue one mo-
ment longer in the punnet of hr r criminal enjoyments. All prove the adultery, he thought it too Intact. that they should
the people of rank who were 'mown to have frequented her Lit told for the first time that he might be called with that
view. There was a case or there was near. If there wowsieriety, Lord Lauilaff and others, must have been known to
be in possession of some isformation at least (01 the subject. no case it was nut secretary to tall this artiness ; but if
Captains Briggs and Nebel' too must have heard of the re- there were a taw, dust he world say, 110 man would heliette
the adulterer upon his oath—five be believed the universal
ports; and Lieutenants ',yen and Howilana could out, by
feeling of saisokonst would 341 lac overcome the 11334', of
any possibility, have been supposed igionant of what they
were living in the midst of. If, therefore, the British ('sat- morals, that perjury in such • case would be eiderrall
veitial crime in cooriparisor with Ilse breatia, fittlaregl •
mammal believed is the existence of :illy foundation for
those reports, why had they not applied to some at least, of of 'list Pecttlidc nature. Could he Lea. toed send= •I••
those Gentlemen Why had hey tint ermined Capone* hint one *Aiwa, iastauce, from the begiiihing
Briggs and !Nebel' Why had noimilantertants Flynn and to the present time, where such a witness had baes
If too such instaace teemed, arid as iromberiess case,:
Howiiani been called on, who mustkiiiir been able to
have occurred where It could bare beta done, such
scan bate those rismours, or must have diaproved their purport
is /010? He could not believe that at that time any honest "'me was a Proof that it was rtottilled tea principle tors
deeply routed in the heart of man so Its art at nought in thelmpresinun bad been received of their trod). He was con-
vinced, isitle..l, that obey had been wholly disbelieved, mad present titan. He had beard of this diireicace between or
Cotten of grace and favour and • Queen of right. After.
that they bud only derived counteuarice (rum that want uf
twenty-six years of peraeciation and contumely, her gaj.csiv
discretion which had betrayed her into the track of the blood-
Amd had been taught to feel tbc ditierence between a •.a•ioaood
hounds at Milan, abut hail thirsted fur her flesh 'set inn
choice and affection and a toisband id taw and know
what could be said of the cold and unrelentisig a. artily of
bran severed by that after all the tics of affection bail dot
permitting such charge. lu aluniher over a period of sat
yeart —a-hail/ea which were confined not to operatic fact., at't of the troattairal, it was alstl puaaible to exact flans tb
wife the most testi regard to Ida martial riglits—the Mont
but iiivolving a long aeries of traonictioria, mining out
of a gradually establlabed intimacy hetet:en the part', • F s"uP"lnut $55"110" 5" eves. the appearance of "le c"tnin•
They hail been told that all the persona whoa had been allotted What then (C 104111341 to wairaut thew Luritehips in pewee;
that Ball Not a 'wale tittle of o 'ounce eatMalua d —all bad
to would he called as witticisms., and he most presume that
his Learned Friend, who had coucladeol with a prayer that bruit ruittcatticted iu the en-aler branch.", cud it was
slur might here a meting over her which Inc (Mr. thought immaterial to otos., It litho Ilia ilanallief rarnifi-
Deanna) thought likely to be granted much speedier than catiwie. lie liad 1331 la That romoura abroad
be hid heard with alarm, that aquae weans not excluded.
he bid board, refrained fropi prmloring them in
teomitheitt to the object of his payers cued „mikes. from their I.nrfhitops' august anarnahly, were daily rtecalating
He must presume that he thought Lords Gritted and "large* against her Majesty of the owelllirlOng Datum—
' Glelahervie (the latter haviag offered the genies of hie Lady Theo Lordships knew that if one of a Jary mete puserso.4
to attend upon ber mijmy) mad not be veiled witbooy of any keel/ledge in the caun the Counsel wonbt be paii•
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