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Ater Majesty's stay at ./Ispict sire MwDerpeal timing set
of his room naked, he might my, fur he had nothing oo but
his shirt, and was even without stockiags, anti movial
Sowards lb. Qaeeo's chamber. Seeing this she did not re-
tire, bat she moved towards Bergami, sad Bergami
eliJ not snite or make say latealle for being sees in such •
ettliten sad is well • deter' Alifieltlipll; teprineiAlogLeyeis
then Bergson did not • retire, but prised sate tb• Quito's
room with somewhat mute alacrity than a lumbered would
Roils the bed of his wife. Their Lordships surehl hod this
a,, page 451 of the printed evideoce, although, 10114 Is"
Ratcesy thought it necoaseryAo refer to tbetweiiadarscrt dio.
evidence, because he' retied fur his defense avow Its west
wad leading featerM. Me'brgued now to sod thirty Lord.
*trios' attention to what was alleged to bum taker place at
Catania; and let It be observed here, that therm wore two
ordinance' privy to the circumstance% lath of whom wen
tartar. to the AttorneyGeoeral. Two maim, it was said,
-were sleeping in the room seat the genies, and that
Ores. heard Bergemi'a child crying' there for the Queens
yank her Majesty was absent. They mast bode have
heard this if it ever took piece. The Attorney-General might
lace produced them both, but not only did be call hot owe,
bat lir had toot eve,, dared to ask that man whether be had
ever•eotitainninded sinew with his companion respecliog
what they had belted ; but in bulb they sever did comma.
'acme. for the whole thing was a falsehood. But Demotic was
called' in with another story. He 'ward their Lordships to
attend to the particulars of that tale, fur it was eiummpiesard
with snore marks of improbability than even the multiplied
iuiprobable circumstances sit those on which he hail been
flora king. It seem. d that of one of their residences Bergman
slept oil the op'ponte side of a court from the Queen's apart-
tweed while be was well, but he became sick, he was attacked
with freer, and there he was bronchi into another room, to
which her Majesty might have inure easy access, where he
lay ill fur 'some time. Now it was strange enough that the
scene of that antler shooed have been laid in that par-
tiro's, room, and still more so at the time when Ber-
gs/a war lying ill of a fever. He was stretched on the lied
art sickneas ; yet this was the time chimes fur ndes' ca-
t noes and endearments, in a room besides to which her
Majesty's access was most difficult, haste dome, almost im-
possible, because her two maids slept in the intervening
roast. Now the stni y was, that she moved to B•rgaines
s the night, awl that having staid too long oue mora-
ine she was men imaging hack to her spartmetit by the two
inside Wae it not odd that her Majesty should encounter
ell this difficulty? One simple arrangement would have gut
over it all. It required only to place Bergami in tie room
r. ei to her own, or to take the roam 'text to his, herself.
'Mt this was in conformity with the uniform tactics oaf her
rtlaje.,ty against her own character, peace, comferl, and
happiness, fur it appeared that she was constantly under
the MS of some spell, and if they were to believe the
witnesses against her, die never did one criminal act with.
out having strangers present who might turn it to her de-
wirorsion. And now he was told that he could coheradict this
story if it were false by means of Marmite Brain. To this :
lie replied, why did not they call that female? She was
their witness, became they Partitioned her in their case.
They said she saw all Heir. He maintained she was their
witness for this crintiaal proceeding, nay, worse than cri-
minal proceeding, for he would assert that a Bill of Pains
aid Penalties *amid not part unless supported by better evi-
dence would take away life and limb. The prucedume
against her Majestyelid not seek to oppress, but to overw helm.
That woman was not his witness, Arrange his client stood
on her defuse. They we., to prove her potty, and until
oche was proved guilty, if jailor still reigned there, she
wee slut to be called on for her defence. The same rule
world hold if a inign were put oil hie defence for the
lowest crime known to our law. lie would suppose a
-cage. If a man were accused of highway rubbery or mur-
der, and put on his trial, and a Ilow•street officer pane.
i lig for his reward, ur an accomplice heist ou his own safely,
Or a wry eager to ingratiate himself will, his accusers, or any
other w linen front the eircuinstauces of his character neces-
sarily suspected, tainted, impure, were put forward singly
to prove that charge, amt suppose there were any ',teed
relation of the accused, or any permute wending in.
timately connected with him except his wife, whom the
law would not allow to be prielticed—suppore, he said,
'Owed were any such individual who wuuld he able to
derootunrote the falsehood of the charge, still he maim
t•ined dint no man ought to have his life pot in jeep
gird) by calls)q that friend or relative as a sinless, if
lb. cow reefed wily on the single testiniony of the
Bute..freet runner, of the accomplice, or the spy. Friend-
ship, however street, counexi .... however close, would fur-
nisi. no reason whatever for au exception, because the law
•iat Coedited held, that which was founded in common arose
dud jointer, that a defendant was not called ou to make a de.
fence nail a neflicient case was established against Win.
The Qum* was in a almilar slate; she could nut but suspect
the dewiest' of certain persoue—she caned not avoid opening
'bee mead to apprehensions from the motives mid objects of
'ethers—she had been exposed since the that moment, of her ar-
rival in this country to much per-omit 111 l —she hail bete. par-
oiled incessantly by ilw fraud and the aria of Cite malicious and
revengeful, withuut the same means of tracing and exposing
theta to the day which 'nether individual wadi possess.
This life to which ale had been expo...al—every thing which
she had exprrieuced. halt here need in Italy, was calealmed
lir make sorpirion Ilse general, almost on. I imitate of
her naturally unsuspecting breast. One of elw hardest cll.-
euractances iu the faie of au individual 'hilted with the per-
secution and oppres of which her Majesty had been the
•rctim, was, that it reduced her to the necessity of beige; ever
o 9 her guard, and put bee iu the pliant state of nut know.
toe in whom she could place trust ; and even at this mu.
ment her Majesty might he harbouring in her bosom another
Viper, in the person of that veil individual whom she ass
efoilleoged, from the opposite side, to produce in her de-
teak. She was the sister of the oilier Dentate, who had so
catumeisted her Majesty; she hail been placed ablaut
bar person by the same false wieners. The sisters lead rev-
responded together since one of them had quilted the Chteen'a
service—nay they corresponded in ciphers, if they were to
believe the elder, which lee did not. Bat with all these cir-
cumstances to justify, nay to prescribe suspicion of thus per-
• Pon, his Learned Friends on the other side would have them
riudure her at the bar. They left their own ease shun Ay
trot callieg her, and then they' turned round and cried, Why
etio you out call her? But he " who Cahalan! over Greece"
fin: every, said, and he woad remind their Lorahhipamf the
piesage—m That, instead of all ramparts, outwork.; and
fortifications, which the hand of Tea could nips to prolect
nations, elle beet serenity was that distrust which velure
bud; for time wise pus pose of defeading innocence grafted
three and cunning, implanted in ell of human kind."—
Ilda feeling was naturally alien to an Unmarred mind, lmt it
oar one of the necessary ant:meanie of her Majesty's stem.
Tiba to suspect strangers, and foreigners particielarly, miter
leer expel inter of Grimm. and Cheepietlas. lie wa•maiaged iu
bit own mind, sal he had no /limb! that all alto bend him
*mild agree, that her Majesty's Conuerl weir end hound to
rodace that witness. If he and his Learned Friends ball
Seen called upon to deliver their opinions as professional non
toher Majesty, it would not be rigid in them to swots's; sus-
;belting in hersoind ; he was confident that he might have
appealed for a defence to that pen of the ease, to the prince-
pies which he was then laying before their landslips, and
that be might wish safety have lefi it jam where it was. But
whatever she might suspect, her Majesty haidoever yet kennel
see y thing to the prejudice of tbe sister, and she should there.
frtn, be presented before their Lordships, and then there
*Auld IW an opportunity of hearing her account at' those
tratimetions which had bees its falsely Sold by the other.
del he cyanided that this was voluntary on their part,
front an over-excess of caution, lea 'my one might 'appose
that there was any person ea existence whom they dared nut
tall. lo like manner, with tripod to the stilly it the pass.
pert at Charaile, Demmit's memory had (alerd in an impor-
• lent peat lure, eilihrorzb she had been able so tell bow long
' She Itad been awake est PI certain moment three years ago.
'Me should *bed their Lordebipt that tier MONICId the poss.
• port hail bent brought hack, the j•enesey coanowered: that
Pall gise thing. bad been then pet into the carnage, is which
holiness her Majesty mite had helm Mooted shout ea hour
hear ; shat during that lime the diteries room-deur had
been genre!, closed; that people were eseatioualle pepsin
in and out from it and Ilse corridor, hot Demme *sly, but
*all the U.sitlemea of her Majesty's mitts is just the same
toluner as be; and that her Majesty was !yip' all IM time
me her bed in her irseelliag dress. So bested,/ of des seen*
at Carlerube, be should spew that if Kress' saw s *wean at