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treatiug him as u menial, or one of mean origin, saluted him in
the manlier in which the nobility salute pawns of equal rank;
and the French Colonel Oli viera, who knew him at Gen. Pine's,
Speaks of him in the highest terms. lum not, my Loads, de.
landing Bergaini, nor is it necessary that I should do so; but I
cannot advert to the manner in which he v. as introduced to her
Royal liialmev, without declaring my firm convictioa that he
was a person woi thy of patronaae. entered the service
of the Princes., in tile year Dili, end in the following year he
was promoted hunt the situation of a courier to that of a pege.
I may here observe, that a courier to a roval personage, though
wearing a peculiar dress, It out to be considered as un urtlinary
livery servant. At this time Mr. Craven had left her Royal
Ilialiress, en account do domestic inisfot torte, add Sir Wiliam
bell had :tow kit her, oil account of his health. I theretine do
not know that the Princess could have done better than binding
a mat of honour and fidelity to her service, by conferring on him
those ollicea and those leoncurs which it is the privilege of royalty
to bestow. And when a royal personage does confer rank and
honours on an individual, lie who is 'Ails
what royalty chooses to make him. I do nut blame Capt. Pechell
for refusing to hit down at the table with a man who had waited
behind his chair; but no individual wuuld degrade himself by
yielding respect to those whom royalty delight:eh to honour.—
Whom, lie would ask their Loot...hips, could her :Majesty have
promoted with so much propriety ? But it appealed that the
virtuous feelings of this fittest/kiwi but unfortunate lady were all
to be turned into crimes. If Ileigueti was promoted to the situ-
num' of chamberlain by Ina royal 'Lista:as, was it a proof of guilt
that he was publicly declared to be :al, that lie eltottld appear in
the proper rank, and introduced to her Alajesty's visitors as a
person tilling a :inanition to which his talents and fidelity entitled
hint ? Then it was said that lie had been loaded with hunuurs !
Rut their Lordships would recollect that Italian Baronies were
purchascable by a tew hundred livres ; arid, in the country,
where they were so easy of au:element. they were absolutely
necessary as an appendage to a situation t shich importance as
that to which Bergarni had been raised.—The teamed Counsel
then referred to the evidence in contradiction with the udumnious
statemene of that witless, who said lie had heard the Princess
used Bergami together under the tent, while lie was lying on a
sofa in the cabin below. abantleired wretch, be said, intro.
duced what he heard as a purallel to what lie hied seen when he
was I.ult whew, and must, if he lad laid on a sofa at the time,
have gone into another cabin, and tek_ii a sofa and brought it to
that winch was under the tent where the queen lay, for the pur•
pose ("flying upon it, to hear whet was going forward between
her and Berg:tun/ The evidence of Puturho—of Lieut. Flynn
—and of Lieut. llownum, gave the lie direct to this abominable
lubrication. The whole of the built story rested, in short, on the
evidence of Majocci and Dumont, and it was of a piece with the
whole of the evidence of these persons--a piece of ir.vention
absual its it wal incredible. The Learned Gentleman begged
now to direct their attention fir the neat case of interence w melt
the Attorney General had stated in his opening, namely, that
when Saceiti arrived in the eight time with a despatch hunt
General into, he saw Reagan); tanning, as the Attorney General
had affirmed, out vf the room of her Royal Highness. With.
out saying any thing at present its to the credibility of this
witness, he would ask, how was the etatement of the Attorney
General Lorne out by the evidence of Sacchi *ie lie does not
saute that he saw Bergand coming out of the room of her Royal
Highness; he saw hen coming out of a room, but he neither
knows who occupied that woe', nor the rooms beyond it; and,
what is mote Inipol rant, he does rut even know where the
loom was situate wl. -it was occupied by her Royal Ilialiness.—
lie (the Learned Counsel) would here advert to die letter of
lattiaunt, insinuating that persons woe ready to pay her for
giving evidence riaainA the Preacesa, and that she was really to
tilszause or conceal all she knew, acemalingly us the Princess
treated tier. Tlas was the construction his Learned Friends Opp°.
Sit.: must put on that lettei; and, if that was the ease, it has
dire:denim; letter, and her Aiiijesty eliewed her own innocence,
anti the cenecioustiess that Dumont could not with truth speak
one word against her; that she did not even notice it, much
less endeavour to conciliate licr good opinion, or purchase it
as a guilty person would have dune. In regard to toe affair at
Charnite, Lieut. I lownam state,, that it was necessary to go to
Ihspruck for pa sports, and that Bergamo aid went for
them, and icon:lied very late. In ti rigid ratios-examination, the
basis of whiten his Learned Friend, no doubt, had blunt &tech'.
and Dumont, they asked him about the time, the snow, dc. but
there was nothing in die evaleuce of l.ieut. Ilownain at all eon.
tradxtuf y. In introducing die witness N'assali, tie trusted that
it was no reflection on his character that he hail served as a pri-
vate soldier in it Royal Guard to Honour, since, on the Continent,
nothing was more cotillion than tar young men of tile ,meat
respectable families serving as Guards of Ilunour to Sovereign
Princes. Vassali says he returned from Inspruck about two or
three o'clock, hug he i 11111 l ediately went into the room of het
Royal Highness, whom he found un the best, ready dressed fur
her journey—that Bergaini was in the room, and that little Vic •
'seine was un the same bed with her Royal highness. This feet .
Dumont artfully and wickedly cencealeil, although she was in
the mein at that time, unit must have known it. lie would now
call thew atteautin to the witaese Carrinaton, and he could not du
so, without r.a.leing, that ;:u sooner hail this vatneas left the Bai
uf their Lordships, to the satisfaction of evety one who hail Ileum
his testimony, than mateteals were laid for Ins croareexamination
by the list I.ord Of the Admit ally ; books were aearelied, and his
Captain brought to town to be exarained. lie viand but coin-
plain of this, but thanked the Noble Lend fur that cross
examination; auto lie would say, that in whatever rank iii euciety
Cal Ling:tie'. tot :nay he caat— baton: made him agentionan. The
claire& ter of tills WitilZ,s new lealier num every e, oss ex:animate:l 1
and his testimony could nut be shaken. Auer Cawington haat
been crass t;idiliilled so frequently, a paper was at last piodutwel,
whieht proved that lie fiat oceit rated as midshipman use board
the Poirticis, and Sir John Bereeloal said he never paled ail
any use with regret, es la: woe a moat excellent senor.
It still remeineu to speeds inf the exhibition by alalioniet. Did
their Loulships wish that he should detain them it moment on
tin, mates:lag pas t iti thus 1110:4 ensemble caw I—(., p iaw)
Majuta 4 vt tea had not been pouffe') dialed as to tile (Ado.
ides ion to be gist ii to this ii.chlr, mt, had tilhUsiseellegly de-
sidled that he saw nothing w ties dance 111111Cli lo.tiie ii
Ovid to be secil by egret shah ur ‘lllOll./11. fiat calalma
lesiiii, od the 4bl:01011) of una 111011 so limited as Mailbet-i,
ta‘ a I«ndsutps would h... 1, in the evidence of Nls. Duo ~um,
of C it V te•salt, mid tot Mr. (irativ Ole :ill/trite, Lie 140:1
sdlisr.tC(ol4 retlitalithi of the raise as pot lo) the Attune.).
Getteriel. Tacit: was act trite case a, mid he %11:., ploy
to say it was the last lu winch nc had to cull tacit l.unisiiiri
t.ttclit:uu it ohs tlie notable instate es y eves red to base to. ell
owed': by tier eau, tl.l the 110111 to Seuegelia
L muse read, N.va the ev silence 01 Colo
Flats, pap r. a Weil slowed that Saechi had pro.
ceded tier 11,9 at (I %hues, tre the jourtita le beitegalia, atm
riend hot powahla Hose Well what Ile ;a, tended tu deses ibe
neat the es Idenee uY Lit•llt. 11,/it Wail:, a intcb pAUVed thi.rl 111 c
tours:we in nth to Sell Ittl)al ii.iallis,ll/41: Nils 0.11, haul
lie hi cord a out Le opeued eireat Irma or, halo ;
.i. 1,1 1;6411., 1:111,e pia, la 01 I.le es idea; eof (;40/. 011beca emu
Calm( 1 is tiler. weal la/ COOIIIIII, us Itb y dal boot
:ilia , A:z1VIle.:181a te and Mr. Ilti w Mew.
wear to the eta ire 1.1.b11-..C1:04 ui It..
pa:bal./111, ..1 hay lire seed 011 1 lie “0,
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MAN 1114. CIPCIIAILII,OI-1 ) air. Deem its cuidinued hn lushes,
ul toe yotuaweetis,a iss atria he CelbalUtti the

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the act of sending away " the pea juted villain Kedah"—
Al nearly two o'clock:
The LORD CHAACELLOR sugegted to Mr. Denman,
whether tie ought not to have a little repose. The Learned
Colonel thaiiked his Lordship for the indulgence and seined.
Lt half an hour Mr. Des sr.s N returned and regained the
st.thjeci. Ile proceeded to eialorce upon their Lordships the
selt•evidtin fact that the foole.t conspiracy laid existed
aguited the Qaeen, and that that conspiracy originating in
one Court, had hero pats (((( izeil nod lore:aided in others.
—The Leareed Counsel theta remarked a Oh much feeling
On the pad secirtion wWelt her 'Majesty had uitilergone.—
" The death of the Princess Chas 10th.," said the Learned
Gentleman, " was the signal for the fool conspiracy
agailast her itlajesty, and the death of her last friend, one
late ranch leveled Soviet elan, aas not announced to lire
in a letter of condolence, but by Cardinal tionsalvi ip-
ping her of sank 81111 dignity, and giving her a passport,
not as the Queen of fmglaild, but as the Princess Caroline
of Brunsia Ick. The accesssion of a Sovereign to the
throne of these 'calms, that period which is Disliked by
the extension of the Gott-like attribute mercy, the par-
don of the crania:al, and the Ithetalion of the captive, was
tau reign of peace to her Majesty, The first sat of the
new ra. ago aas the must illegai set ever recorded in the
annals of Eti4latid. It was to the Queen of England a
reign or dens edation. Her ovine was excluded trout the
Latin gy. The people sseie tot bidden to pray for her,
but the had the prayers or miiliwis, What was the pro-
ceeding helm e the Home? It sag migivally a Bill of
Divot a ; 1;;;; in that character it no longer existed. The
fact of six years separation from the husband, wish the
Letter of lacesice, a ass a complete answer to Di %once.—
it a Bill of Pains and Penalties; a Bill to per-
secute oil ithfortnisale oppressed woman. It was at the
I•lcasuie of the I louse to go us, and pass suet' a Bill," lint
I am sore (said Mr. Deonami) pool humour and ti cling will
induce you to do justice to slit accused." There were
several individmils whom we have not called in behalf of
her Majesty, because we how consider our case proved.
We dial slot thiiik it t olisistent atilt any principle of justice
to admit that we as e bound to go one step thither. Wo
have been told Bea gaini *night be called to deny the charge
of adultery. 'ghat cannot be. If any man guilty of the
charge was examiued he would deny it. I firmly believe
that feeling among mankind iii such a case wouol triumph
over torn alhy. It would be found better to violate au
oath than ha:hay the victim. From the beginning of the
world, can my Learned Friend spew me when such a
prison was called. Looking to the principle of this Ball,
it appeals to nie thine is slut one part of the evidence
which would wan-rout your Lordships in calling on use to go
further. I have beard, my Lords, that whim we are tie-
fending her Majesty, there are persons, not lu a low capa-
city, not of the public press, but who have Scats among
yogis. Lordships, who are industriously circulating injurious
reports against the Queen. Could I, my Lords, call oat that
intlividual,l a ould say," Come forth, thou font slanderer,
and meet me face to lace : if you do not, thou art worse
than tlai• Italian who gives a peijused hat an open testi.
mony, elide thou pottiest shy int ections calumnies into the
calla of thy brother Judges, and plunge into the bresst of
soyal victim a poisoned stiletto, its the semblance of the
'wind of justice!' Were it possible that any of the Blood
Halal could do this, I wottial say that lie 1.,4,1 du:se Dime to
degrade Inman-If from the saicees•ion of the t. roan Mali my
royal guOrtress would have done, had eyes), charge been
proved against her. Nly Lords, the whole Remo utili pc).
potation of England is in favour of her Majesty ; and
nothiug wwild he hailed with such universal joy as your
Lordshipa protionticing a searing of Not Guilty ! Daring
the whole of these po.ceediogs, her Majesty's Counsel
have had the primal giatiliC4:loll ill fighling the battle of
Nlotality, of Christiauity, and of Public Justice; and
although I cannot cutups re myself to that tam ha in the
cause, who has fought so nobly ; yet 1, perhaps, may cluing
the I ler mein of having disellargcil a Sew tune 4riutvii
at the champions of this degraded Bill. This, my Lords,
is the higheat ti dittoed on earth—it can only- be lutes edcd
by that where all the world shall be judged, anal the si -
creto of all heal is laid open. I iiiveke )1,111, say Lou sis,
thertihre to imitate the justice of that uclavikessce of that
high and gamed audios ity, who said to the a Mean brought
b fore hint, " It no accuser conic tot %said, ncuher vsui L
ri lenin Thee—go in peace and sin :au mute!"
The Learned Gentleman's; sprt eh appeared to make a
great inipress.on on slush Lordships.
Ale. Blunt:neat ai,phtsl tor leave that 1)1. Litshirgiiiii
shun d be pet untied to address their Leardsaips to ono ro
healiz emitted, the limns! a *woe :at 4 o's k.
T WENTY lIST DAY OF l'IlL DEFENCE.
1 11c itsllaY, OCT. 26.
The House met this onomag at the tiaral boar, and the usual
preliminaries were ;;one throssAsi in the uatinary
Counsel were called in at 'so miuutes past ten o'cit.ek.
Dr. Luso' SiiToN addressed their Lordslays—" .sly Loral.,
if 111:U1 ben kit to nsy own eiseretion, eta: to tallow the dictates
of my own Is:multi nut now has: to address y oar
Loruslops. But in the dischargit of thy (hay to toy thu.h.utis
client, 1 ter. th.legatea, by nay Leatned friends, who nook this
case so noport.tnt, and sic cs,cnsi•.v, after till hisir
nonce facts yet remain to be stiasal. Your Lordships lowa feel
that nay task is not an easy on:, and that I conic to the peaforin.
:wee, autiouritied wididitti..alites beyond a.l theaeure. !Suss. soy
Lords, I have one co.iseaudon, a emismation tiro, in the Jittigs.
Silent oh «limy hiends, this ewe stands en a foutehoton so Siva
and saute, th:sl ever the truth:lent of an uu3kii;;;;
cannot injure it. I have also tile consolation let leer that toe mum
this caas is actutilized, Lae more. will the ammeence tat nip fiDul
client appear. 1 will. so the course of toy attaire:s to your Lm.l•
ships, avoid repetition, where repetition can be avuaLo; out your
Lordships Must fed, that, wen: 1 ;pitied with the wuoe puss's-awl
elutiu.lsee, sly obscreatior.s can have no ea:4;ot, except taken
into cola: idenition whit the eiscout..!ai.s..:a that mare already taken
place. It IN:C011W:i more immediately thy duty to make she Or
two oisservations oil the subject of the chaoge an this lull. 1 have.
in the whole of my proftssiotaal life, been eugaigssl in cases of
Diiii.c;; but there are etteUlll3ialleeS 111 ta,C impart:Weaned
:a the records tai past Liraes, and, 1 (lon( God, withteat an exam •
pie in the pres.ait age. It i. not, my Lords, that the tributiai is
lieW. VC that the titivation:in is Impact:Led ni the cause; last
there are other CilVailistalieZ:, withers a par.thel in the page ,if
imtory. I will first notice the age of the party' au:eased. :ma 1
:Minn to your Lordships, that have Is Lot tata.a, in
modern Or ice cornier Disab, Villa: a tills/WO boui.ot to L 41,11. C
ucelasuig her tat aualita y ill Z'ss. Ii .4 at
CllCtill:St4;h:4: best tieseiviog the mulct SerlOss• cm...i.kral.oo —4
woe seistrated from lit: sass:v.lA, scan:ety inase; a 611401: J:ty
a ets 111• m After hit: 1.11121.1il.44.11i: is sotigf.t to be cl.wykt.t tat n.e
aheuf 511; when lite/C is :t .I:alallt;k: t.ea wiser, toe
pa. that loud tiled together, is. a u.vioce hetng sougn , maser;
Ise Lisa ati:111111l1 the El6e. oh 45. this suers wsi., suaniscr
lis husisatid 01 tine 1.41 Da•years a:palatial
than w le—scisvaleci by his as it ate alit, D., in • cis Is coase,
sepalased not its consequeuee 1114: UiLaC,s6llll.l4:. tat dls woe. th of
g the oicath of busincs,ar staving trguttki bet characta, Ina wpm.

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