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The Lord, in an early part of his speech,
observes, that the " facilities afforded for the pro-
curing of evidence in support of the case were, it
must be admitted, greater than had been enjoyed
in procuring evidence to answer the Bill." lie
also says, 16 it could not be denied that corrupt
endeavours lied been made to bring over wit.
nrsses against the accused, by some putties who
hid acted indirectly in annum.' of the Bill."
He also declares himself silting ss t• lay aside
all the suspicious and tainted evidence," to re-
ject from their consideration al all that MAJOCCHI
and DEHONT deposed ;" and yet, with all these
candid admissions upon the one hand, and exten-
sive rejection, on the other, the Noble Lord yet
concludes that sufficient evidence remains to con-
vict the QUEEN ! It is hence most evident 'ba
the LORD CHANCELLOR proceeds upon a principle
universally disclaimed in every Court of Lew in
England, that a prosecutor having brought forward
one integrel and connected charge, compounded
and fronted of various minute particulars, and
attempted to be sustained by witnesses, shall,
after a failure of proof in the greater number of
these various particulars, and after several of his
witnesses 'have been convicted of perjury, be vet
pe •tied to go over his case, and select id his
discretion so much of his dismembered charge
as may suit his convenience, and strive to patch
it up with so much of the evidence as he
conceives to remain untainted, and then exhi-
bit his new-formed structure for the approval of
the Court and the sanction of the Jury ! The
LORD CHANCELLOR, ait he has frequently re-
minded the Honec in the course of these proceed-
ings, has long ceased to be familiar with the lime.
lice at Nisi Price, auld the Courts of Criminal
Jurisprudence. This circumstance fully accounts
fur his mode of treatieg this case. Had the expe-
rience of the Noble Lord been acquired in the
practice of common law, he would have felt that a
case tainted, as he admits the present measure
against the QUEEN to be, by favour mud partiality
in the procuring of witnesses for the prosecution...
by the exercise of bribery on the part of the agents
supporting the Bill—and by such conduct on the
part of the two most important witnesses for the
prosecution, whether perjury or otherwise, which
has induced him to lay their testimony out of his
eousideretion—he would have felt that such a case,
so tainted, could never in the ordinary Courts of
Lew rest fur an instant before a Jury of twelve
honest and intelligent Englishmen. But even
were his Lordship sitting as • Judge in Equity,
what would he say to a case which be found to be
so deeply impregnated with bribery and perjury ?
Would he tyke the trouble of nicely ascertaining
what parts of this tainted evidence were by possibi-
lity deserving of credit ? or if he were to discern
the traces of a powerful conspiracy- framed for
the purpose of overwhelming some unprotected
individual, would he not suspect every part and
fragment of a dismembered case, and, in the honest
indignation of his heart, hand the parties over to
the ATTORNEY-GENERAL for prosecution and
punishment ? Alas ! that any circumstances should
arise to cast a momentary shade over a mind so
generally enlightened by truth and justice !
The LORD CHANCELLOR proceeds to comment
upon the circumstance of the QUEEN'. having pass-
ed many nights under the awning on board the
polacre, BEROAME being under it also, and infers
that no female could have so conducted herself
without raising • violent presumption of her crimi-
nality. We have so often already expressed our
opinions upon this point, that we shall not now
repeat them. We shall only remark, that guilt
is naturally timid and reserved, while innocekce
is unsuspecting and bold, and that if the QuEEN
had really formed that unhappy attachment for
Beanamt which is imputed to her, it is utterly
impossible to believe that she would have given it
such publicity as the inference drawn from the use of
this awning must imply. lied she been guilty, she
would have preferred the privscy of her cabin, with
all the inconveniences arising from offensive smells

and heat, to this blazoning of• her crme in the pre.
settee of sailors. But, in fact, the Princess was
unconscious of a guilty thought, and she acted
without that stole roserve of manlier which too often
receives unmeritedty the hon.►urs due to virtue.
Upon this circumstance, with the reposing of the
Princess under the tent at Aunt in company with
BURCIAIif, and BEIWAIII'S rapid elevation, the
LORD CHANCF.I.I.OR- principally relies as offering
proofs of the QUEEN'S guilt. The sleeping under
the tent at Awn is mentioned in MAJOCCIII'S tew
timony, and therefore, according to the LORD
CIIANcaLLOR's adtnission, ought not to enter
into the consideration of the !louse; but at all
events it is in evidence that at Atom, though
BERGAMI did repose under the tent with her Royal
flightless, others also were admitted at the same
lime to the Caine honour.

The promotion of BERGAMI is a question upon
which, paalibly, no two instals will exactly agree ;
but this we think is clew, that if the cireune,tanee
stood by itself in an isolated shape, no inference of
criminality could be derived from it. But allow.
ing it to be mixed up. as it ought to be. with the
whale hotly of the charge, it inust share the fate of
every other mewher of that Amer, auetas 4 nonlife
incident, which is brouglit only to give elfrettothe
move prominent aliegations, folios, the smolt of
the opinion of the Lords respecting the greater

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