The National Register.
London, England, 1820-10-08 00:00:00

SUNDAY, OCTOBER a, 18RO.

their families, he granted that she moved in a more choice
and dignified company. She was charged with having
associated sometimes with the nobility of Italy, and some-
times with the commonalty. Bet who brought that charge
against her? Others might hare brought it, but surely
their Lordships should not. They were the last persons
who should have presumed to do so, for they presumed to
judge her, and they were the witnesses who were to vie.
dicate her. While she was in this country, she courteously
opened her doors to their Lordships' families, and gra-
ciously condescended to receive them. As lea; as it
limited particulars views and interests, her doors were
crowded; bet when other views and interests interfered
—.when the lust of power and place broke in—•her doors
were opened In vain, and she was compelled to the alter-
native of submitting to the neglect, or leaving a country
in which she bad been treated contemptuously. She
adopted the latter as the most tolerable of the evils. In
the midst of till those afflicting circumstances she had one
support—the undiminished love and dutiful respect of
that beloved daughter!—Au event was about to take
place, at which all England were looking with anxiety—
Ibe projected alliance. Europe had heard it announced.
The only person to whom it was not announced was the
mother of the bride; and all tbat had been done to deserve
this neglect was the establishment, by the evidence against
her, that she was hot guilty. A prospect now appeared
of giving additional stability I. the royal family. The
whole of the period passed without any comninnication
between the daughter and the mother; and, if the Prin•
cam's own feelings had prompted her to open one, it
would only have subjected her to a struggle between
power and authority on the one hand, and affection and
duty on the other. When that event occurred which
plunged all England into the most heartfelt grief, and
when all Europe sympathised in that event, it was com-
municated to every Court with which we had an alliance,
and to many with which we had no alliance. The person,
of all the world, who had the; deepest interest in that me-
lancholy event, whose feelings were mat whelated by
it, was left to be shinned and overwlreitned still wore, by
learning it accidentally I She learnt It from a courier
who was going with Intelligence to that most faithful ally
the Pope! lint if the Princess had not heard it, she
would soon have felt it; for the death of the Princess
Charlotte announced to the afflicted mother, the Milan
Commission, and the commencement of proceedings
against her. It has beets the lot of the Princess of Wales
to lose her surest stay and best protection when dangers
most thickened around her, and scarcely one of her de-
fenders was left; and it has been the signal for new per-
secution. Mr. Pitt was her early defender; be died in
MO, and a very few weeks after, the enquiry into the
low than new attacks were made upon her. Mr. Whit-
bread then undertook her defence; and when that catas-
trophe happened, which was deplored by all ranks and
parties, then commenced the distant grnmbling of the
storm, fen it did not dare to approach her Royal High•
ness, as the Princess Charlotte was then living—and men
worship the rising sun! But no sooner was the daughter
dead, than the Milan Commission commenced its pro-
ceedings against the mother. And the day—the very day
—which saw the venerable remains of a revered Sovereign
consigned to the tomb—that Sovereign, who, from her
first arrival in this country, had been her constant and
steady defender, that same sun ushered the ring-leader of
the perjured witnesses into the palace of his successor.
The learned gentleman, after expressing his regret that
her Majesty had not In him the able defender by which
she had formerly been supported, proceeded to direct the
attention of their Lordships to the opening speech of the
Attorney. General, and to chew how it had failed in being
supported by evidence.—The Attorney-General's speech
was not a hasty production; it was from a transcript
which he had before him, and he would leave their Lord-
ships to judge how that transcript had been prepared.
He gave his leurned friend credit for his sincerity, when
he declared that, conscientiously, he would not state any-
thing but what he most sincerely believed himself able to
prove by evidence. He bad told their Lordships what he
had got from the mouths of his witnesses, but who were
driven from their assertions in the course of their exami-
nation. He would now select a few examples of the
assertions of the Attorney-General, and the evidence of
one or two of the leading witnesses, which aottlil sliest
the value of that evidence. The learned gentleman het
said, in his opening speech, that he would bring evidence
to prove the improper conduct of the Queen almost up to
the present time. But whet is the fact ? Why, that the
evidence conies np to the present time, all but about three
yeats—an equal period with that respecting which any
evidence is given. He bad told their Lordships, that the
guilty intercourse so long wished for, had commenced at
Naples. Now. if this tails in proof, it not only threw a
stigma on that part of the evidence, but on the whole.—
The learned gentleman said, he would prove by marks in
the bed of Bergami, that two persons slept in it ; that the
Queen went into liZrgami's roots in the night; and that,
nest morning, she was not seengsutil a late hour, and was
not at home to any person that called. Now, every one
of these assertions not only failed, but were negatived
by the very witnesses to support them. Dumont
staled, that she did not know where the Queen went
when she left her own room; that she did not know
where Bergami was at the time; and that, next morning,
the Quern was sip as usual. Nor was there the slightest
evidence odered to prove that any person had called
upon her 'loyal Highness. It was tree, that &wither the
AitutuerGetieral nor the Solicitor-Geberal had gained
their iiiforusaiion respecting foreign manneis Item a
residence abroad. Thus had they 'heti n that they korw no•
thiog lit Italy. They had told their Lord,bupr that her Sta-
jebty %tai, black-balled at the Casino at Shim!, arid that to hr
blot k-balled at the Casino %oohs tutu toe hest tot characters.