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thought the evidence of eacchli%ognow uswoork_' of
Mach had been mid of the .t.tivnisidsoce woci:a7B,7l,
own,, and it hod been 'roomed that be hod sworn falsely in
his account of the reams for which he Aiwa it. But
there wan nothing at all surprising in the aroma which he
gave of it. He readily admitted that he lad gone by
414re:tot names, and be (Lord Liverpool) thought it very
amoral that having been told at Paris of diaturbarees
*tie* then' exiaLed in BetINMOd Ohm. gwillelk. he
might have attributed them to the erwasioas re which he '
was coming, and adopted snatither name in cooarquento
flir the parpos4 of concealing his peanut The eirldemo of
'Ado Peril, and of that of Tomah; werelintetroVearlinebe.
w: Ns each other, particularly as to the time of C4tlo Porten
twin'? engaged as courier; but be did not think that circus's-
YI Viet actually affected the teetiociay of either, as it was
wry pomade for Yassali to have been mistaken in the
place where he first commenced his service. Bet,
open the statute, although he did not agree with the
Noble Lord opppenite, in his interpretation of the Italian
woad to mean a cattalo, fur he conceived it equally to wan
a Mind of any kind, eve* a roller or spring bliud, yet there
w• re sects doubts hanging about the ease, from the cornea.,
• tory statements in the evidence, that be thought the benefit
Ca- 'tootle doubts ought to be gives to the *ceased, and he would
therefore set aside that part of the ease. He could and
agree io the repmentation which had made of the Queen
having been placed under any peculiar disadvaabages by the
mole of procreating which had been adopted. For ideas-
eayrs
had been given to her far beyond any which she could
have claimed, and to which indeed he had beard strong
...hp-violsr from the highest legal antborilies, as leading to
de feat the Catlge of justice. By those advantages an oppor-
i..;;;ty hail Sewn given her to send, and they knew that she.
t.,4 sent agents to Milan and other places abroad, to seek
out witnesses, to procure evidence, and to mile in•
qs.rie., by which she had been ambled to bring wit-
ios:es if not to repel, yet, he must say, to throw doubt
eot wry circumstances. How then.,did the case stand
with respect to the evidenee ? They bad 'VMS witneases
who depose.' to circumstances of indecent familiarity, out one
of which had beeu contradicted, and against whom charmlera
eau impotation hail been attempted. Some attempt had been
made to "erten their credibility, by the eircum.tance of
their not having mentsoued the things which they spoke of
to any persons till lung afterwards. Bat lie remembered
chit line of them at least, when asked that question, said
be bad asentimeed it the mat day to the floor's son.—
M by, awn, had not the (Actor's son been called to disprove
that rasternerl, ibe factor himself having been examined?—
ii show I.ordahipa looked at the evidence of Geieeppe Galli
and Pincestti who had been ouroutradicted, and whose
diameters remained nointpeacheol, they would find esta.
1.1..hed proofs of the greeters' intleeetteies. The former
of three witnesses, their Lordships would remember, was the
waiter at an inn at relearns, rear Nlilan, and be deposed to
a variety of circumstances of familiarity which. took place
there. He did nut swear to any ciiewrist nice which was
wearers improbable by the previous conduct of the parties ;
hot the circumstances he related were such as world natu-
rally grow out of the manner which they had been proved
u. lo ivy believed to each other before that time. Tb• Noble
Lewd thee proceeded to comment on the Princess's peetsrut.
ittevat its us character', not, as lw said, amoug persons of rank,
u In, might be viewed io the light of proper companious
but among the permits of her own household, her own' see-
Wallis. Their Lordships weenie' also -observe, that there did
apprnr lea be a cousiderable degree of reluctance on the pout
tit the neighbours to let their wives soil d.itogleters attend the
Italia at tie Barons. o Vaasali, when asked if the wife of the
Peetect woe there, said she might have been, but he did nut
r her, sad that his uwu wife or 'lnvent's were never there.
•• As in a Jury boa," said the Noble Lora, " on my oath
betere God, I &Clare my conviction, that if there ever was a
erase of adulterous intercourse poured by clear evidence, it is
the present !"—//beer, hear, hear )—(The cheers qf at
it',,yrtl Duke, in flee gallery, were pirlieularly ardi6le
The Noble Lord then pruceedeel to comutesit on the °Nee.
-tots a hick had 'wee made to the measure as a Bill el Palos
noel Penalties. He saw nothing in the effect of such a 8.11
OA. rent from the effect of any ordioary Divorce Bill.—
Would not any wife of their Lordships, should she uufortu.
to tidy loe come an object of a Bill of Divorce, be as de-
ge 01. deptived of all her rights, privileges, and were-
viitres— would not bee name be as doshououred as degraded
.ctly 1111 the same principle, and 111 the same wsy, as it
wt. proposed to do Ly her Majesty If the guilt of her
Majesty ass satisfactorily proved, lie did not see any hard
sky, any cruelty, any 11,44 ancnntitutiuoal, any tbioog con-
'eery to the practice of Parliament, in passing the Bill br-
im, them. His Lordship now turned his Aeration to the
question of the eapediency of the Bill. He Relit d him.
eel only la those who we e convinced of the Queen's guilt,
yet thought the Bill of Pains sod Penalties uncalled fur ;
for, as to those who thought the guilt not established, they
were hound, in any view 0( the case, to vote against the Bill. '
He asked them to husk at the iarcosvenierwes which wonW

Mese from rejerting the Bill, after the queitiun had been
inungiet fursaid and investigated, after pieties had joined

imoie-as to the facto. If they believed her :Violeta)? guilty,
Nevoid out the fejt ditto of the Hill be ■ triumph of guilt,

under eircuinstan;es lowa (mat to the moral char:atter of the
'country. He emjnied them lo rs fleet utt the consequence.
in all their various brutality'. lit r N:rtje.ty (Instil nut retire
tr. us the bar as an humble individual, td be amalgamated
tth and lost sight of amut.g the 1114441 of society. She
wutsld still be Queen of this country, while in the OPiniOn
Sit so in.ity Of their Lordships her eltaracter was tainted with
came, of the most heinous description. The straight forward
course was the wisest for their Lordships to pursue. If they
it. ,eyed h. r guilty, Hwy would du morally right in going
on with the Biil.—(l/ enr )—He had too muck reliance on the
gond sense of the country to thiuk that there were any cons
'sequences threatened frum passing the pill, either fatal or
Prejudicial...l believe(said the Noble Rad) that the straight
forward course is the wisest. There may be inconveniences
in going on wills this Bill, bast I ant sure, if you believe her
auilly, you are mor illy right us 'plea on with this Bill; and I
atty, that let the constqueuces of it be what they may, I
act), too much uu the good arose of the country to believe
that the Constitution will be in any degree end.intered. My
Lords, I adroit that there is a clamour out of doors, and that
thi• is endeavoured to make a handle for sedition, as indeed
is the ease in every other grievance. •It must e expected in
times like these, but it would be most unjust indent to let it
Operate in the slightest degree against her Majesty. Would
to God I could say that I thought her Majesty bad
nut espoused the cause but can you look at the answers
of some of t hose mid r without seeing that she has ? iVuald
cot the proper line have 'seen fur the Citteeu to adopt, which I
say she probably adopted tit the firAt atisarent, when she •I.
. . .

laded to her ittnoceLee, sod tir..l ,he Miehrd t,. meet her

'accusers, but that she did nut ri.ii to join rer mune witb
'other things. Her aiiiivara now 'Asher show afeutioneut
of guilty than lnuocent. I way thiii out to prejudice you or
the question, but it was after what the Noble
Earl bat said binsself, that I should out allude to it. I ad..
Wert to it only in this was, that, if you behave the Qtletll is
guilty, your not proceeding to this would be Ibe tri.
umph of guilt. The Noble Earl who spoke yesterday bus
Mae a Need/It appeal as So the sheatitia in which she was

placed, and be ;ail, that 1. having brought iu this Mall, 1
ought sot to 'Me.' The Noble Lewd then proceeded to state, 1
**bat be bad looked as to what other perewes bad dune in his
catieition, and boding that they lied itlets” availed thetn•
pelves of the Nichb ge of voting, he should never give hid
op. "I, my Lords (contioued Ire Earl of Liverpool), will
Lot divest myself of my right as a Perr, an my ChßiaCter as
Peer, to reaction my opinion. I Mitre null trust I have
confidence it, my uwo feelings nod jotegrity, and 1 hope die
cutimiy will give me credit fee doing justice. My Lords,
itiolusibwilly we have a most important duty to rrfurue;
si is a decision in II heck, I say, I hope that cveiy person who
•ates will to in(uriiccd neither by Ow, infinence, our qffre.
ii4n—that every person who votes pill vote fruisi the bottom
ul his twill :arum the brat judgment he eau give on the
r, haur.)—My Lords,.! will uut believe hut
1:.41 the world will do jostler, wbaiever that &anion may
lee. 51y Lords, like all utber tribunals, we 'laud before the
Weller tribunal Idl l.tie opinion, sod it is by 50111. act. 113:it
• will be judged; but lam persuaded that if you give an
limiest vote, a twitter it may be, she public will do you
justice. It gives ow great astisfsetlon that this great trial
has lakes place in the presence of the dodges of the land;
hennas it may have put a cheek ou what I may have said.
am emiteut with the verdict j elan give, mud 1 appeal lo
• Ms who knows the inmost watts of use beasts, rim alone


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eke Sean the real meyileria sad lairicaeles of this tae.-1
appeal to him whether the hoarsest I Dow give hi* teed
.that it is fotseded at least I. • geoeirof be iii a
desire of &jag justice io soircy—oofiashiOsidbevit
the Illestrioes Accused with a Mother Maass, 1 the dr. troll ..
cemstaiseets of the rase allsolotely roaoiroasabilk iif a Agee sasses be..
to do justice between her swat the Creww."-.lllwor, Mart) Uri lbs.
Lord Arden—"l base. eLhesitatiois its the vote I shall give, Bergami, in v 5.,..
• wail* feat oraduelessllp.leeleenisiet tharmessad allaiiMer tiltbabis..Aseeshhams. a,
•Oa .( /liar, kiwi, fiwns fie Oppoill Ifilagraltri Oil' eihrled li' la edit
Lords if this Bill should may it weld casings her N at lid thee hi laid:sie hard chi or.. i 001,9 L
Is rum and infamy—.perhapa to despair. 1 will 'vow the hie oat being pees* had Wooed' him not to Out% sileat
• IRO as fee alit is possillles" We ersiitresi: SU -..1" NI railed Ilieoreallielh
thew to say that he redid leave on kisillajesty'sfigiveramest , rArte„, the Nem, Isle. hall „gouda his „hams Erna•
all the odious and reeesthollfllit7 That mall al" m them 'Utima aid some Noble Lord on the asimielerial side nee to
for heingiog so shagracefel a proceeding before the essiatatry. I address their Lordagyousugtble seemed to be inclined to
(Nees, hear) give way. he ter Braga* were very Wed; cries of
d .Faliwooth—My lAirdi4 if I fell outrilliolliiMithe MI. sr o,ebei, 0rd.... „mowed taw. the Home. mewed wish
dress you before, how mach move must I now feel after Ibis prim a 4.4 cksik„obr, cAsiodkrir mud se Quordous !few-
brilliant display of cherries we love jest beettdl
__Terts, stag fan." The L„ed aumestb, esisesesweed ts speak but is
Lords, however inferior I may feel fey Vilest eeitahillij tn i vain; Lard Barsky then dead *rewords sok its a land
the Noble Lord who has goose belies me, I Eli iiiiikkone yoteea mid, uI sprit, i5.„,,,4„, pad wove lbw lam &shine
ewe is intestines to do that which appears So sg lef tei i. be alkowed to go no." The cowfasiew sow became worst
My Lords, I wish I could think that the qiresisr.fiektllllf than before, bet when it had partially soissided Lord Dow-
er Not Guilty, was the mil, wee there was to de&fi. Thins ley came forward sod mid (as tar ea we sued collect) that Ise
.. 'llk
re
• other cuesiderstions which neigh most fireibly oil asy, had ebseresd Lord Emma. wend limas owl hum his anti;
mind. I win say that I entertain most series; objeettisis he Imbued, L....w0w/ the *wow, iii which he (Lord
Si, the pima parts of this Bill, at least ow amide of iCii p..- &Awe) was placed by usdeopoomo,,, that he should ace, be
girds the divorce rhino,. My Lords, I may be told lilt in shaved ka .—... Here again the rosemino was "weed
the Committee it will be a wore proper time fur me to mike amid lowa cries of " Buldie, ffrekine,"—" Chancellor,
Ibis obj,esion, sat that I might there move to eirsiefie
,thia Chancellor." The Lord Chaecellor then left the Woolsack
elan'. I lost my Lord., I hare heard thud then. arc !I'd.' god weal to the Oppositioit side of the Hotter to address-
" 6". ditheelltee exiting in Penes,' 'lliad'. aftwast Paula( the Lords. He said it was certainly bis duty to pot the
this Hill at all, without the divorce clause ; bit I ate owid. spools., if they Insisted upon it, as to who alma,' speak
MI4 to avoid all misunderstanding, and if the digkelty as sad, ani who last. Ha was poop so spook before as to the
to the passing this Bill without the Divorce clause .word (verse he thought they ought to pursue, bet was isterrepted
be deemed to be imoneetbies 1 shall feel it wy duty to rate by the great coufission which prevailed its the Hose. Ile
against she second reeding of the B 11. My Lords, !soviet then whweeed, that in eimseguoure of what Lord Ershuse
said thus much, I must state, and I Ilwa
si
Ir;i die a* eery had said in the akorisisg, and of the state be was in, that
shortly, way objection. My Lords, I cannot he Normal that they ought first to hear hka—lhor, Afar]
the offence of the Queen, if guilty, is aa offence agiiest the
Lord &tibiae thee proceeded to address the House from
State; but, my Lords, I canuot also be ignorant, limit the Quint
the Weedemit on the Miaiwerial side of the House, which be
is retitled In have all the rights end privileges of a married
a/ My
as *ear as we wield hear, to the followieg effect :
woman ill 11/incognito y. I sus surely right is saying Ara ter
My Lords, after the able speech of my Noble Friend (Earl
high di zed I y cruised deprive ber of those rights Well wn,lay
lands, I will look to the circumstances oft hus case. The Noble Grey), it is not ley "dent'''. leas/ems you at the le"' l' which
I at Get intruded, fee if his arguments have not convinced
Lord below (Lord Liverpool)hisa alluded I. that Act of
you, I ant sere that nothing I can state will." [Here the
Parliament under which her Majesty's offence would have
Noble sod Learned Lard was isterrepled by the large doors
been ti raison, lout for Fume cireenestances which could not
near the Throne being opened fee the admittance of her
bring that offence within the Act ut parliament. Bet the
offence nut bring treason, I repeat again, I cannot forget Meiestyllle,..,Qasee'. Tire,_ Peer. "..". rose,
. and stleuelteed. to
restive the sautes, net it was a raise alarm, mill the doors
that she has the rights or every married woman its this
It would have been agreeable for me. if I could slat as quiet°, as they were opened. Their IlAnitiltiPs then
evusiiry.
sat down amid iremoideraide laughter, and his Lordahip re-
lieve beard firma the Noble Lewd (Liverpool), who mast
ceeded•) 'lbis ease ought to have been considered secordi°- sr
hest informed upon the subject, what his Monona's is, if tt •
to the analogies of the erimitial law, as administered in in.
diffirrelty should appear insuperable. This I know, that I
speak the feelings or many of my Noble Friends in this reties' Courts; but so far had the conduct of it been from an
House—they rill pet for themselves. lam only elisions ifidel" with she Practice of She crimiaat law of Encti""is
that from tinning to end tire was a violation of all law.
my conduct should he clear, intelligible, soil coesisteni.
The Noble Lord thew quoted Home's ob.ereations epees the
My Lords, I du not therefore hesitate to say, that if it
Marquis of Stafford's ease, whisk se s. that historian' said,
should appear impossible to get rid of that difficulty, with
a species of treason unknown to the kW, built upon a
regent to the divuece dense, that I cannot give nay vote
species of truib derived from aceumelative and construe.
f..r the ',cued readiug of the Bill. I hope it may be mu.
gium.d, sed if lam told that it will Ise entirely given up, live eetiteace' It was In"" ''' "It' to say, that the *aisle body
of men should sit as Grand emote and Petit Juror*,
it is say intention to support the secoud reading of the
Judges and Prosecutors. 'rise first thing to be remarked
Bill,
was, bow totally the case, as opened by the Counsel for the
The Earl of Ilarrewby—l am precisely in the same sites.
Bill, had filled. It now appeared that Itergaini was not, as
tine as that in which the Noble Lunt who has last addressed
low stand., because, although I have been ae of the per. had bees %Hired by them. • low emotenpuble ereitur.;
he hod been is the service of a man of rank in the army
1111111 olio concurred with my Noble Friend is introdecing '
before entering that of her Majesty, by wham lie had been
nisi (input, I am perfectly ready to declare, without enter.
treated with marks of consideration, and from the whole
Mg into the motive, of that opinion, that if that elm's. Is
persisted in, I must vote sealant the Hill. of the evidence lie had been a person of respectability,
though certaiuly low in rank compared with her Majesty.
lord Lauderdale said, he should certainly oppose the
divorce clause in the Committee. Bet it had been stated on esquestionable testinsisay, that he
appearance and nianiiers of a pancreas. He hail
Loral Elleolsorough.—Though he was one of the Secret leet the
Committee who recommended on inquiry into the conduct employed as the attendaut on She lady, and continued
of the Queen, he was still of opinion that Si. read the re. in Ilse Novice mid promoted for the purpose of protecting
her. The Defendasit in the cam before their Lordships
rent Bill a second time would be highly isteapedient sad
stated, that die Ind been made the victim of a conspiracy
Js trieurntal to the public interest.—()lsar, hear.)—He
agaiest her peace and honour; that a plot had been planned
wished slit ir Lordships to proceed nu further with the fill.
and executed against bey, and spies sent from this country
The Noble Lord un the Woolsack hail told them, yi Be just
sod fear not." lie begged leave to add," lk politic as just." i" watch °°ll '^i°4'°°'lrne her assts..; but she had been re-
evidence of the exi.tence of this
to
It was sail, a modifieaiiou of this Bill could take place—
fused prrmisinn to go in
an opinion iia which be did not agree. Their Lordships did conspiracy. The eensssraraelt of proving a conspiracy fur
the prosecution la an inferior Conn, 'would be se excite a
right, iii hi. view, by inenteitiag au Moony into the cooduct
very strong soipicion, if not to obt•io • verdict against the
of her Muj-sty—that inquiry had now arrived to the present
„
important point, and their Lordship' thereby evinced their Prosecutor from the fiery. But here the conspiracy had
bees brought home le the tweets of the Commission; sod
regard for pedalo morale and the maintenance of the public
interest. When he 'voted fur the first reading of this Bill, he very strong evidence given of its existence and operation.
His Lordship hen referred to the testimmay of Pomi, which
expected guilt would have been so irresistibly proved t hat
proved -the sulsornatiosi or attempt to submit wigwam's, by
it coehl not leave a doubt on any rationaT miud. But from
telling them that if they haul any thine to say ag*inst her
all that had been proved be could not declare the Queen to
Ire iminerai_hs
was
mi. molt to
say
she was guilty, Royal Highness, they would be well paid by gentlemen •t
Milan—to the fact in evidence of Fawner-an teatime. taken
though he considered her guilt to be mainly proved. Se-
the Queeu's papers from Allman, contrary to every princi•
rend material allegations wire still disproved, and their
pie of justice and honour, and fb the communicates.° made
Lordships could mut ow suspicious evidence proceed to pass
by Rastelli to the head col kman, that if lie could depose
the preeent Bill, the more so as it was against the 'boost
any thing against her Royal Illighowes, be would take it 011
universe! feeling of the public—(llear, bar.)—He lament.
sub
the
existence of that feeling—he "sought it rnainbid in himself to say that be should then be paid hi. demand on
her of 43,000 livers. her creditor', lie continued, lead
&Anshan ; and if it still continued to remain the same, he
been told they should be paid their debli, if they would lend
should conceive it as Ilse most disgraceful triumph of false-
their aid its relining her, had been pretend in four or five in.
howl over truth. The object of passing this Hill would be It
stances. He felt confident that there had been a system in
In affix a mark of iufamy on the tbieen; but lie reined its
operation ill suborn witnesses. He knew nut how to nal-
conorouences would be to excite a treater •Mlesece in public
mate the extent of it, but sure be was, it excluded all posit.
feeling, to produce a re.action, and in place of creating a
bility of doing justice to the Illworions Deresilmit In what
strong sense of moral feeling throughout the country, lo in.
manlier hail the material charge of adultery at Naples failed!
dace the very reverse. He should therefore vote against the
~seennd readiug of the Bill. But while he did this, he felt But this cast had been stated on the authority of a woman who
was a wittiest. throng% every branch of the case. Thin wittiest.
their Lordships would be deserting their duty if they sepa.
haul been discharged (ruin her Majesty', service at the same
rated weifemo et gly fel/Minn: the combed of her Majesty.
time with a person of the name of &meld, with whom she ap.
A Queen was nut required to be a woman of extraordinary
eiedowniente, lent else was required to be of pure and virtuous Petered to have formed a eery close and confident familiarity.
C1.1141.61(1. In these essential tramlines the Queen failed. The Sicchi again appeared to have barn a friend of Alajocclii.
That woman stated herself on oath to have been a wham of
Queen of Eeigland was one of the last women wh ass
the most horrid aboneinalienis committed by her Alisterse,
honourable luau could wish lo see associate with his wife, ur
not only acts of adultery, Ina of healed? depravity and M.
sal an exanoble to hi• daughter. She was wholly unfit to
ferny; she swore that this unfortunate Lady demeaned lire-
hold the situation of Quern.--(ffeur, bur)—There 111111,
self towards the Imputed adulterer with unexampled alone.
however, .mode of dealing with the conduct of the Queue's,
tee, of vice. But possessiso a knowledge of all this, after
marking their Lordships' censure of it, without having
meow.e to a Bill of Pains and pe„oliet ; he meat" by an being discharged herself, she wrote a letter to her sister, •
Address to the Crown-11 cautriel'"g her IllajcalY in the girl of 17, in which she desired her nol to marry, but to re-
exercise of her rights—by If • g her income, and thereby main under the roof of the best woman in the world. It was
said that that was not much to her discredit. But what fol.
re duce her to a private station. Oilier Princesses, it was
said, were attached to pertains inferior to them, but what a lowed? She was asked whether she heel ever made any dc-
dal', rvelec in the sitnat• of Essex stud a menial see easel— ciliation of the Queen's inelocence ? She denied it ; she de.
o Love, through certain strainers well refined, Hied having ever used soy expression to her praise; she sat
• CO/recta the sewer, and charms all buncin kind." then confroisted with that woman from Murge, Aladame
But where were the strainers its the case of to Queen? The Martini, who eteied this Denten:l had declared to her that
conduct of she given excited his unutterable disgust—told all she reports of the Prisiceel's 'Ols. !memoir, were es.
be would state it, it was, is his vice, infamous and base. himni" invested hey bee enemies; that she lead been
Unice all air cireumattucts, however, he thought that Par. always surrounded by spies ; that her most alinement
noniron rhumb] nut enact a measure contrary to the general and were itita.intavretvde sod that ,it 2.1" itur''thle
feeler; of the cottony. How twig *abatis Ililelilnil to be ilefore Ale any woman to be Illlife.nlrill0111; Will martini nail fur.
Ike emontry t how lung was the public bosoms. to he neglect. ilier stated, that she had flown into a paresion at the supper-
ed, the fulicaons of Gave...stored to be suspended, the public 8111011 oilier Misilias being a woman of Mit:icor. Now, he
mend aaii.iied, and the b.„l p,..„ ''' I, i hr. ed to g., i her asked, whether a woman who contradicted herself so grossly,
st repo' h ? Tu pot au cud to these things, need cm the ground could for Illle nunncut be held entitled to credit
,its a Cutest
of the extreme inexpediency of a Bull eut Pains and Penaliies, I of Jost ice?—No ! a witness after tench a eneetrailiciion would
be should vote against Ike Bill being uow re ad ase carted he no oilmen at all. His Lordship then contrasted De.
tone. What he would propose was, that a stroug adorns aanal'a desire:idiot) of the trausaciions the night of toe
should lit permuted Si, 1111 Majesty, declaring the conviction I alleged commencement or the adulterous intercourse at
on the undid of the Humor of the improper and disgraceful Naelesorith that of Sir William tiell and Mr. Craven, which
cutedelet of the lams°. These was a mode of restraining the was contrary to lons in almost every particular. After
exercise of tont:limas which you any nut nook, it iireesiary this, he thought that she charge of solultery on that urea.
to destroy; Hors was a mode of restraining ilie Quyeas its Mon ought to tee giceu up ; and if .0 material a part of this
She ,a,,,iyp of her prerogatives, sod by Louth.: her sh; wilmess's testimouy wear abasedonorl, be conceived that, by
105.n0r..... tie could not siii,m,„ that imy body could oink, the roles of evidence, she was to he considers:el as leaving
or believe, that Ibis Rill would ~-,.r be a law. He abauld rendered herself wholly dieriaslifird Ana isioanopenvet.
vote :IA:lion the serum' reading of the Bill. les support of this opinion, tie Lordship quoted a cast. of a
(At the conclii.ion of the Noble Lord's speech some court). conspiracy tried al the old Bailey in whirls he had been en-
sitm prevailed in the House and below ine bar, when the rieedas Conine!, but eve beard it two itadislinelly to under.
Luke of Clareucc, naming forward from the Gatlery, and
. take reporting the particulars of it. Such a winiess as De-
siguificantly pointing with his finger, callril out in a hole ter • min" .wad for iiiiiiiii.g, aid standing ion nothing she could
emphasis and I, "()rare below ire liar -.; receive no confirm...tun. With respect to the testimony of
Loll Ashburton, (non the gallery at the opposition aide : Flynn, he colitended that the different secouta• given by
of the House, adelreseed ilielr Lordships against the hill. ; that tait"e•" of • "'Tilt"' PaPeal "hid' iu the end tuned
Let the evidence be what it might, they were :ghoul to retail 1 Out 10 be met cly a rollectiou of elates, having DO connexion
ao export facto iv% woliiri, it, hew was a moat abi,cli„„. i with the main points of his evidence, could not are rt his
testimony in other respects; and Iloonain's testimony re.
dee procesnieut, Which lie compared to be in the nature of a i
Pope's-8011. T.cbuicany the Bell was introduced to deprive . "lamed nattaPeutlical• His Lordship then adverted 10
: Slip .i
the Quecu of her right ; practically it was for coming over Alajocchee custradictiou of himself, in 'tali'', at
here, refusing 50,0001. to comproluite her honour, and fur that there was not, used afterwards confessing that them
the 4 nefilUU of her moues' rights, coming to the shores of • was another passage to Bergami's room from the Pis- i
Great Britain. Besides the Bill affected interesis, which ctm'°
besides the Pauage through his, at t" °me
ought to he held u sacred as those of the king himself--be the, as he alleged, pommel through it at night. The
was( the jetenit, of thole wbn were Den neareit the House ought to have known soeacthiag of the wag igl
•

L werethree waitresses upset. Were they thee is the meta
Ferriettiewraitiiree ettrtW teatlitaler of 110 etNisr rele:
mares, as if these three had hews istsMistod ? etvlialiPf
not. Whet Gargiulo and Palermo were fend in such mass
piny, could they with any justice be mime es atmsaling Orme
frees all snsniciera ? Untie ease were i• • Cowl oir)ilesiorr
sad three of the witnesses bed hems detected is givespg, fah.
leatimony, as they had hes.* here, the depuritions laid her
fore the Grand Jury would he called fur mid examined.
Bat here they were in • situation where they meld net
learn • whet mimed at the original camostation of the
wintertime., because the prisons* Wore shims they had
been examined had not been called. Colonel Browse
ought to have twee the flint witness examined, is (oder to
skew hew fle evidence for (lie Rill had &eel uhftlued, het
:Cmionel Browse was not even within the teeth of auy call of
their LordsMpa. Powell, Mahal' of heing escalators' before
sr Secret Committee, tonere to have been phrett at their Lords'
ships' bar, Mid called on to pre an arc 000000 t of the manner
in which these examinations had been liked Vilnameati
ought also to have been there, and their Lordships should'
have bad the original derisitinns before them to canalised'
them with the evidence given by the witnesses helium the Honor.
Rtgenti ought toe to have been here. la short, every Along
was wanting which was necessary to do justice to this
tumor Lady—whir had none to protect her ; against erbium
every power irin in array; Whose husband was in a siettatidu
Mal he could not (were thls an ordmary case) chew his face
against her! Another circumstance had bees urged toyeeentsel
isgaitest her Majesty. It was said, when Captain 'When refits.
eel to sit at table with Bergaisii—why did not her Royal High.
WHIP remonstrate with the Goverument at biome he eundoet•
asf Mil officer? What remonstrance could this unhappy,
anfertunate, persecuted, banished, and descried worn on
woke with the Government imiler which she suffered all
these • hardships—hardships whirl) were swill haisgmg over
her, since, even here, she could out obtain those wit
maim necessary to her defense, althongh those wit.
nemass, as was proved by the conduct of linron oFF.tole,
were wit Sexiaitle to come over on her itelialf?—Why
had Baron D.F.nde mid that his heart beat to rome over, if he •
kali nothing to depose iu her Majesty's Itehal.? Why should
he express any morrow at being refits. d leiter to rum., if Ise
were not runecions that he could by his own knorderiee have
backed the charge of the existence of a conspiracy? The
case had begun in corruption; lad beer. caroled on liy
perjury; asset, if it triumphed, would he the triumph of foal
injustice and cruelty. Really he could not more calmly to
the decisiou of the .04.564 m—he felt WO strongly to he aid*
to treat it dispassionately. slur Majesty hail done nothing
—nothing which there was e•itlesoce lo aupport—a Inch could
jestify a Airy in brining in a verdict against her.—
The principal witnesses were •Il discharged /W111.1111(1, and
all discharged within three moistlal of one another. During
the lime they were under tier Majesty no charge was heard
agaiust her, nor till one of the witstesaes had come neer to
Ibis country, that very woman who had earnestly petitioned
to be taken back into her situation! Sir W.Scutt, wlwn a
ease was attempted to he supported before him by witnesses.
who proved to be pe,jureil, lost that temper for shiest he
was so remarkable, and instantly sent it out of (7rourt.
Notwithatanilootr that scoundrel (Strati, we premium) bad
sworn that the Quer., exposed herself in a manner to disgrace
the MAI abandoised,she but been treated by all the Sovereigns
whose Courts she had visited as if she were as virtuous as auy
of their own wives.-The Noble Earl (Liverpool), in giving Isis
vide on this Bill, was to be considered ail a responsilde pro-
accutor, became to the question solely in the en:erecter of a
Judge. The Noble Lot .I then adverted to the term; of
friendship on which he had stood with his Slajesty, whose
heart, he raid, was kaftans is 1111111, sad who, he was COM.
winced, would be the last man on earth to cotintenaure
is-
jn.tuce or oppression where his judgment was allowed i.
exercise itself. With the King he basil load ties of connexion
as iutintate as any one who now herd him; the time
was wiles there was nothing in his Majesty's power to give,
whirls he would sot hare given at his reiptest ; and, though
political circumstances bad canard Isis removal (tom a high
Inner an use Govoristneist, he had sin reason to be.
here that there was any alteration in his Majesty's dis-
position .owarils him. If the Kisses life were in peril,
he would- risk his sawn to save it ; he would do any thing,
fur his 314jesiv but desert his slaty, or cumpromitte his
principles, which he emiortveil he would be doing, were he to
give his cultural to the present Bill —( Near.)—" I la ire (said
the Noble lord) as strong a; . •nri as any mass; taut, were
I lief on in that cliental; niteremirse which bas been imputed
to the Queen, and were as much in love wills a suntan
as the Peiuress was said to lie in love with I could
not have sought the gratifica • (dotty proton at the shrine
of our Saviour; and yet the (toren had been charged with
doing this. I never saw MIS unfortunate Ps Mersa in my
life, except Dare, and that in n politic place; mail what iu.
(crest can I have in *dew-sting her cause, when all the feel-
ings and inclinations of fitesidship draw the other way ."
The law of England was in all its blanches a law of
*sedum and reason, and therefore sometimes allowed
presumptive to supply the place of positive proof. There
certainly were prellaalpilVe cases affsodsug ground fur
couviction. which, if made out, he could tent resist. If
it were pruned that a monied woman went to a man'.
bed-room and rentained there for some time, obit was.a case
on which le found presumption. If a mall was seen guilts;
to • married ersoniait's bd.sornu, that also would furnish
grounds fur presto:option; but neither of those eases were
proved herr, sir their Loodships souls! not have found him
opposing the Rill. Demont's account of the adultery al Ca.
faith was altogether improbable. Her Majesty,. she woolsl
have it believed, went from leer own to Bergitrois bed, which
had 11(1 sheets, iusiessl of causing Weigand to come info
her bed, where she might enjoy her rest arid Measlier together.
What reason was there for crediting such stories? The
Quern Weal into his bed.romn, which coutaiuesl a small iii-
eutivenieut travelling bed, leaving her nuts large, comae).
Mons, and well.furstislo at bed. On Ilia heal their: wire iso
sheet., use that she incurred Hui risk of detection 111 come at
a great suit positive itteouvimienre, when she 'night have so
much 111.111: comforials'y have gratified her rropemities by
shitting Remain' to hay(' come 1.1 her own Outwit:a.. Then
there were stains tin the quids! Was site dressed or suidrees-
col ? If dressed, there could leave remained ow stains on the
outside of the bed; if isitdresseil, there was no human pro-
bability of her baring lam smott the outside of the bed.
clothe+. But argument was uselsts. It was in.i °Risible to
restore the credibility of that willies/ Demoted; and if the
aline character attached lit all the oilier witnesses, if inapt-
rion surrounded their testimony 4111 every title, was it possi-
ble for their Lordship,. to hook' Num them as witnesses pos-
sessed of sufficient parity to resister their evidence available
in any case? The Noble Pail said, that they were to throw
aside all the witnesses, except those who were unimpeach.
•Itle and introverted. Theo they mast rest noon Flynn
and Hownaat alone : if nut, where was the material evidence
which they would trust us besides? that then iminestately
upon that the Noble Earl quoted the rwideure of Demossi,
with ;camel to what passed at Catania. IVhat ! was De-
silent come to life nen lie Monett Shit her perjortea
had laid her for ever low-161 her wickedness bad made an
mid of lies :

" Time was, tbnt when the brains were oat the man would
die;
But now they ruse, with twenty mortal gashes ou their
herds—
The lent a death to nature."

He would ask the legal Lords, or nay of the Judges, if this
were tile practice of Westminster Hall—if it were possible,
after the crcJibilily of x witness had been generally de-
stroyed, to entertain hii or l.er exalt nee upon persica.
Isr parts He had esijuystll more experience of that pese-
thee than most of them. Ile was draw*, towards the chug of
an unuseially lung life, and lie was NO dy to inaiatabs, Sat
such was sewer the pa-attire of the oeSisitial law of &silo&
After lie evideott of Demons,: to WU iie gess.,
aud hp. letterr,
triie tiers -6,11 C
k

rtioittoto to the prat 1, it tram kopsomiliin, by Rimy rein
of law, to fairytale tier laselasooy for am Wilmot. &side',
Deassil was elm+, roanieeteil with Uneven; they boil ben,
dinationril lovelier fur • 'smiler weave*. They hod been wen
is anjostetion afterwards. Nobody proteoilal to bon,.
Satelti •' Ito was droll nod boned, Jo conleinte, on well as It,
nonfat. The aotoooto triad. dory hot giver, snit in which Ifiey
Imo a_ . .

egeitsWitohlaielliier firigraand
reedit So their testiosusy whets eitellleesed by usher allbserve..
This, he tramie egoist repro. it, was not tar. law al Eng.
hi" mpearimmprimispievinfircior iseedwiterybelisee.
mossier Ifekt Ned- nestroewthe *Were MIMI* Bele the mine
witness had decimal the istemewoce of the party•its rrypol I„
the seVitetthreta the Chat oriole Wok *post the htuldluf the
lestosemy of roe atkoedrav ptijdred telattloy. With grant
respect fur Ihh &SW mesh farestersed, he HMI set so the
opposite arguer/etas aelreheUttuess coseitP he so whose. rt
ail fit tlib, proof of the churl. His tartish* feberedloi in
argue some the emir or Itattelli, Whites reawifest moray tit
estboirwiwg- eraderaire, together' oath Ills reeyeterineweeralovali
and the evidrote whet* lead bees levee nemesis, thee re.
nsosul, ourrteriell, earner) She whole museention. nee,.
(tweeds* it •witiald• be isepasseillie fav hoes who say mei
hunestlr and essiseimmiwiasey is presumes/le dm firm au
adulteress, eiverpe ewe sassahictearp treeless:use* to be pro-
- dueed in ate Consasitsee. His- Irsetbeep thee eemiatoot tot
the siecessatyufpaprog owe ASISSIMas to tiaapiaisa of the
proptiowebiet msbyeet, hot eras se defecrierlrheaad Whirr Use
her, that Cc° of his seeteseetu wyre there ernimerimeditel.
susilentood him to say, that if sire port, eeiliserled
!loose, as he MSS Cfll4lo that they would do is the event-of
flee Sit pitisiteg, their Lordiblpi world beevenpelict to attend
to then, in Mann' way. It was neither sew ROT disgrace fel for
rileliainSlll lo ruYe ila condhefoe greet aid trying occasions
by seamy oiiirerwririois of Mb elreettereoree of pablre feeling
and opiates*. 111 very will rewirosbereci wiser a Noble Long
opposite had ledroduci if an Inultiectientable Bill to regulate
the admilaisfrafioll of public Worship in Ditarat ingehapels •,
ibis_
se raessure woe the cause of great excitement. out of
doors: The Howie was surrounded with pelitiouers, loads
of their parch-sweat were laid epos the Auer of the House.
The eunraereeseere was, that the Hill was witratraits* by the
?Subic Lord himself. Surely it wars said the business of the
Hower to paean Bill against 040pin...sus of the people al.
Most universally expreseeef ; and far whose adrsutage acre
they to pan it Nut the Mica's ? lie was declared lo hare
uo interest in the result. Who were the proeracuture.
Nut the Coe. %Vito then was to gait by the penaltie...
Tkere Hoist be a nal moat injury, and a great enshroud patty
to complain, and ask for retires,. Where was this party
The whole country stood in opposition to the 11.11. It we.
nut a division of the higher a lasses against the lower; it
was a point upon which almost all were aga-ee el. They sect
consider what would become of the (till is the House .f
COIMMOIIS. If that Hemet did really re prevent the woo.,
the Kill would he throws oat, for all the people were ega:ii-t
the Bill. Hs Lordship weal on toe: racers. the particulars re.
biting to the polacre, and the tent wt the desk Let shear
Loodships suppose the case of a single moon of advanced
years, having a housekeeper abuse hoshand could seldom
bows the nalsoe of his avaratious, be present orate her. Sup.
pose the Gentleman and the housekeeper slept in rinnti• ...-
permed by a this. partition, for months together, uo sue else
being near them; wotild the JosAges ray Bed henna.* they
were iu bed near each either, and bad the opportunity of
siening, that the husband of the housekeeper world have
good grounds fur an action on a charge of criminal ester-
course? Certainly they would nut. It was impressible to
substitute the infereure of guilt made from the mere cep.
Minty of its performance fur the shied legal proof of the
act. If they were to resort to presumptious, the most
',unable must he preferred. It was Miceli to conceive that
there collid be any enjoyment in the iuil teem eof an leuron•
isitercuni use in a but climate, and surrounded will) such Cir-
cumstances as had been described in the pulacre. It w.•
difficult to cusecenre bow this passion could exist amidst the
perils or being swamped by the shipprog ora sea, or Ihe
Suchleu interruption of the officers soil crew. Hr aid mot
Gad is the ciscumstatrceorßeigami having slept sender the
tent any eatisfectury substitute for lerst testirnuey of ass
set of adultery committed and proved. Bel elevation
had brim resealed to as another proof. But this, though I.e
should allow it to be saspictous, like the offser of the teed,
was no molded an act .of adultery. A. to the aegument
Thal the act was difficult to prove on account of the privacy
of its perpetratioa; this did nut alter the lave of the case.
Adultery was like every other coin e tutututtird in secrecy ;
but the law could nut dispense with the proofs sit the set of
gull any merle than in rams of rolaury or of murder. Nee
I Lard.hip complained, that he and iris frirerds SO sooner
ridded themselves of the perils of one discredited witness,
them they wese involved in the contradictions of tootle..
A. to Nlejocirlo's evidence, or that of soy other otters., he
would unly sas, that all the teethe...Hy taken together could
not have the effect of one art of adultery fully and fairly
proved. After the speech of has Noble Friend (Earl Grey:,
he could nut &brisk it necessary to go into particular derail.
of evidence. It would be arguing against day-light at 1104/1.•
tide, to attempt to coatraelici the arve wends of that ritereS.
He would remark, however, upon the witness Gaiethlo, that,
ruining over beer, SS lee lied admitted, wiles a vi use of sestet-
meet on hi. mord against the Pr Mcrae and Bergen°, :rod
with the fear of out aceuning the 6,000 dullares, which be
sought to obt•in from the fioversimeut, be could not be
considered as am treauspeettil withers, though lie raid net
been driectly cuotradected. lii, evidence sa to the ;mem i-
ons lx-haviour of the Princess and [Scream, was eubjer i to
one very reasuuable suspicion. It was out probable that,
after enjoying au adulterers intercutose dyeing the nighr„
they would engage in shameful dalliance during the day.
time before the crew and pas gingers. Besides these particu-
lar considerations, there was one general circumstance elects
pervaded the race; clouds hung over the evidence, and the
ageuey which had produced it, so that Irene of .11.1. Loth.
ships could see their way au inch before them. He word.'
say notion of the conduct of the Secret Committee. They
must have had very Jakarta proofs laid before them from
those which the evideuce at the bar contained. be I,ra-
ce-citing, were altogether objectionable:—..examiaatious
takru by an irrespousible commission and agency le yood
sea ; the incompatible functions Wineh their Lordahip%
were exercising; the Hilt, iu short, was a violation
of the conet.tut . His Lordship resorted the. presunsp-
tom of the Attorney-General in saying, That be holed
the indulgeuce granted to the Quern would nut le:
held as a precede'st in a future trial. There had been
no
indulgence giber'. There had been allowance.,
were emoted merely to compensate the wain of those rights
which had beret withheld, and lu which every other accused
person was mantled by Hie laws of Eitel...M. After souse
spirited remarks on the foulness and incredibility erf the evi-
dence against the laaree, his Lordship again recurred to the
isidueece which public opinion uught to hair, and would
bare upou thus question. Le virtually the Parliament must
be overpowered by the influence of that opinion if the
Bill were to pass that House. He icsirde.l that if the Mile-
cenciesbf the Queen in the polseee tusk place before the
passengers and the chute of the crew, some of the crew
should have been called. Though they were scattered over
all the shores of the Alediterr they uught to have liven
collected and bronglit over. There was sufficiert power and
influence iu the IGuveroitient to have secured the appeatate •
of every wee of ilk-tn. As it was, a cluud hung over the
retch-tete of Gargiulo sod bee nephew. Toe other witnesses
were not only suspected but destuuneed and set aside. To
what purpume were the I:uunsel for her Majesty required to
bring forward witnesses of rroth to disprove perjured Sr.
suspected witnesses of she accusation ? If the Queen were
really godly, why were (abet- wituesses recoted to at all
Sixteen act. of adultery had been deposed tee or were to be
inferred glom the erieleure, and nut our of them was sip.
purled by pure awl respectable teatimany—most of them
clearly disproved. Ou the face of the bill her .Majesty was
charged with the of poi adulterous iutereouese,
'meriting over six years of time, and a great many
counters. All the acts pluvial were comprised in three year.
of that tense, and sworn to by the awaaest mad must pul-
listed lestimeay ; and though w the traterse of that time she
had visited and been received at most of the (Darts of
Europe, nu witness of rank or of coedit had gives evidence
of any criminal act Kama her. His Lordship, after apolo-
gizing for the defect of health and strength wader *hick be
laboured, mad *Bich •he feared bad made his address more
tedious to their Lordships than it would have otherwise

ie. It wool Ilan* limes yorsosegell tvieleit throe- wltieemere bad been, ire& Treat W illb
or fres& Ihe 1111 there strowg bows tbaresieesl of the bed szei, t. W elbe. I
Moe% be edlestalterel 0116114: be wet fales—arbahoewriey HAIL • twediteditresf Ms 1
with tb• weal ' Mew reel ? did they ?mow thew *by awe sot prejered, .
fear ewes," be billoresd,""lirtbiltelllddietripliew, *Aft bad lianas Wit bid mot bad tee mos swam of room.
beat regretted that they botrolsittd. TIC !debt, ditelesty them? Tlie first wirer., called heal Neu cow.
thew real to the stress ior the elevotioss of treditied—she wood was mot .air emotrodirted, but
semi, he wheels he amateorki there was mottelog imp's. was proved to have declared she Here* imevreet of
the oda_ a weeks,. as the Coosteesefr the selowiew-ageiost bor. Waschi woo. obeerterwok.terl-tbe
aimir *ivy of w►.i reseed cma the jostracy from Rowe to
100 blid:asehdard the er_
dither atidr; mid filwayysitia termed to he so &demisted falsehood. Here thee