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at her illosteletie relative% remained
a half there, and than to supper to
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own ; and that Reiland a aiter sod the child
Mow, in consequence of the lest baying bees take
Hs would lest resided their Lordships of an argument
"tarigifght remember bad belt* urged- the othee tisyaemir^
wade with mime persons seemed to carry rauclamere widobkl
• than it really evald possess. it had been argued, it this wens,
• a plot, if the testimony were a fabrication, if the witness**
eases there to swear deliberately to what they knew to his
false, how was it that they had not gone tardier ? They sleighs
as solely have sworn to much mere, they might eves hem dm.
posed to the direct cr I fact, MO yet they hedonist simet •
of it, wail uuneuf them had proceeded beyond circulating**,
leading to the inference of guilt. But it could be
neeesnary fur hint to 'egged to their Lordships, did even is
the fabrication of a case two modes migbt be psnieted did.
firing considerably in their complexiou, but either teodiag
to the same end. The one was that alluded to is the sr-
Raiment which lie hid quoted, the other was that which
implied to most vows, and wiled, appeared to have bee% psi.
titularly exemplified its this. It was deemed the safest way
on, i i liver charge the CUM, not to heighten the celourisg too
much ; but, above all, care was taken never to call two wh-
eelie.* to the same fact, but each individual was to depose to
PUMP particular circumstance, sod to give that as moderately,
and us much within the due bounds of probability as pusaible.
At Naples, fur Matinee, Deno:rut only bad bees examined as
to a lint was slated to have these taken place; shy were not
other witnesses milled? %%'hy, but fur this plain reams, that,
when men are plaiting, they, quickly discover that it is dan-
gerous so to do ;• much risk would be incurred by having
one trifocal to prove a fact, mud a secured to confirm it. The
A tearacy.Griseral bad upeued a case at Naples, which ought
to have been proved by a cloud of witnesses. Could it be
auppoeed possible that a Princess, who was well kuuwu to all
the city,amtl who had been accustunied to he seen in the King's
box, sham Id have been biassed out of tbepublic theatre,wideaut
the emu instalMe bring maturities to 'nasty hu ildreds of persona.
in spite of the disguise, which at a masquerade, all knew,
was evident so perfect as to prevent discovery, or eves to
delay it Misled the Mid miming at farthest Why were
nut other witnesses called to prove the state of the beds!
why not to speak to the lined where was Ann Tustin? He
could inform their lordships she was here—lie bad gut that
that fact from a witness in cross esansiutition. Why was
she not called thew That too, he could auswer—it was
heensee she was not an Italian. For the marks—sbe
was the Princess's own waiting woman ; for the bed,
she made it—for the beet, she had the care of it—the could
have peeved the case had it beet capable of proof—she wee
the only person who could prove it; and yet they had out
called her... And why, he would ask, but theauve they
dial not dare to call her ? They were practised in the ens
antiquities. of washerwomen, iu the adulterous plot they
called them ; but here they had omitted so to do. This woo
a witness, heaviest contend, whom it was imperative on them
to call, for she most have proved what Demeans bad swore,
if what Decimal bad sworn were true.
If their Lurdsbips could belies e the witnesses, all hell bees
proved that was ever proved in say ordinary case of
lacy; all that was in general proved on any Bill of Divoice
before their Lorthhips. Nay, he would go still further, he
would say, dint, if Sacchi were to be believed, Sacchi had
proved what would make her Majesty appear even worse,
far were depraved, far more abandoned, than any Messalisis ;
he had proved far more agatis•t her than what even the
Jae-ohms uf Paris, sunk as they WPM to the lowest degree of
basenues, who had covered themselves with indelible, with
overwhelming infamy, had proved seethe Marie Antoinette.
Rat it was said by the other side, that he insist prove the
witnesses to have sworn falsely. No outdid, if may man set
up • spy or an informer, or any other witness of suspicious
character, to make soy awaited, it was must seethintry to
confirm *heir statement lay other good sod unsuspected tea.
tissenty ; but the reverse adds was the case in polliug dews
the statement of a perjured willies.; all that was required,
all that could he required of hies is sorb a case was, to
sheer the Mee oo i 66 eucy of that statement, either with itself,
or with what the ea:tines' bad said on other occasions; to
shew, in fine, some one deviation ream truth, attune one wit.
fill faleeltamil iu the testimony of such a witness. It was
said, that their Lordsksps might pick and chaise what part
of a witness's testimony they would believe, and what part
they ninth' not believe; that if they should believe a witness
to have spoken to facts which were not within Isis own
knowledge, they might reject such part of his evidence, and
only believe that which hr might have spoken truly, and
which reinaithal usirontritilicted. Bait such • mode uf se.
keen; evidence was never before heard uf. Never could
any use fact. sworn to by any witness, be believed upon his
statement of it, if he were convicted of lying iii other
parts of his testimony. How, indeed, could it be other-
wise? How, in the name of heaven, could any Mall be safe
from rusepiracy, if eve, tee persuus were to be believed in
swearing to any one fact, who belied themselves Ha all tither
rile.' of their testimony? Suppose a conspiracy got up
to charge with, aortic boreal crime a man of the most
nonellied bonus*, tole whose high • • aid delicacy of
feeling were well known, and caused Idea to ehuaider
even at the reroute"( idea of such a crime—fall he
would, and fall he mud ; and so might stay of their
Lordship., if they sere to believe what any inercesary moue-
drel might choose to affirm un oath merely because it re.
mained micontradicted, notwithstanding his shunting, his
prevarication, and his lying throughout the rest ed bast exa-
mine • . Suppose such a plot contrived against the most
puce and exalted female character, that chsrarter must he
defended by 16e cro.a.esantiustion soul the 'inane of the wit-
urge's, lay the establiehmeat of some inconsiitency or some
violation of truth in their statement". If, as in this case, wit-
nesses were see produced as that unly one were called un to
speak to each fret, it would be impossible to contradict
them; but if they wavered, Of they contradicted themselves,
if they spoke felted, eves, ow points um 110 way connected
with the subject of the charge, any Cutest in this kingdam,
silting 10
.1011eMPS11 11p011 a criminal case, would direct an
acquaint. He had heard it said, that Bergman having en-
tered the service of be Hayed Highness in a subordinate
capacity, and being a person of low origin, his smith*. ad.
ranee iu her favour, mid his rapid p • her service,
- were eireinnmathes is themselves offending strum/ mound
11411110111t1011. Bus mist manner in which this bale had then
related was inconsistent with the conin* ssss of his advance.
meld, with ally such, motive as had been insiuuated. It hail
been awned that in a few clays, within three weeks after
his entering into her service, Bergaati had been admitted to
psetahe of her heel; and yet, it appeared by the evideuce,
that he still remained in the ',amnion of a courier, dining
at as *deo* table; and that eve* oilier he had been once
admitted un a j 0111111,), to dine at the table of the Princes',
he still retained the same station of emitter, wearing his
livery, and doing all the duties of that Lather up to the period
iinmedieteiy preceding the lung voyage; then he wits ad.
milted to dine with her sumetimes, and st length he was
promoted to the office of Charities lam. This was a slow
and-graduated course, nut at nil consistent with the story of
111 t 11.10141(41MM at Naples. Let them shew him au installing
of a woman, nut absulutely 111$11111, who had ever acted as
the Prince's was said 10 have dour—who had ever suffered

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adait that abed l so school swill be peeved ;pent bee, yet
that to some charge of imprudence her cow:lnce might still
be Habit. Bat be protested whist this assumptlon. Gent
bad hoes charged but hail sot hem proved, and be fur one
would sever admit that say, even the smallest degree of its-
propetetyked been thews epeeist; sod &there had bees say
circumstance of doubtful character, any thing which savoured
of want of doe reserve, say- thing iacliaing to she appear-
ance of impropriety, he would eyes appeal le defeat* of the
correctness of her isiteotioes to that which etas always ad-
mitted as the ground of sdtejaitss ftwoorable to virtue in
dispute—the parity of her former lift. Aid, so manacled
with that topic, be Doi held Is his heed a dooninest of
inestimable value.—a demisest which be could sot behold
without awskassiag in his bow, souse (Moms of regret at
the aseinscholy recollective that the venerable &inveigle
whose hand had traced it was now so more. But this his
recorded opinion provers bow high was the opinion which
lie entertained of the person whom he thus affectionately
addressed, whom he, who was no inconsiderable judge of the
human heart, knew best of all, sad whom he, of all her
family, must July estimated, most justly appreciated. This
document, which, be would read to them, was a letter from
our late isle and respected Sovereign George 111. to
his daughter-imlaw, the Princess of Wales, sad was dated
" Windsor Castle, November 13, 1804.
" My dearest Daughter in-law and Nieee•--Yesterday
I and the rest of my family bad as hate/view wills the Prince
of Wales at Kew. Care was taken on all Miles to avoid
all subjects of altercation or explanation, consequently the
conversation was neither isstroctive nor entertaining; but
it leaves the Prince of Wales in a situation to slew whe-
ther his desire to return to his family is only verbal or real,
which lime alone can 'hew. lam out idle is soy endeavours
to make inquiries that may viable me so cutossonicate auras
plan for the advantage of the dear child. You and I with
so much reason must juiciest ourselves, and its effeetiog
my having the happiness of living with you is ou small in-
centive to my forming some ides on the subject; but you
may depend upon their not being decided upon without
your thorough and cordial concurrence—for your authority,
as mother, it is my object to support.
" Relieve me, at all times, my dearest Daughter.in.law
and Niece, your must affectiouste Fattier-jot-law and Uncle,
"GEORGE 1:.."
That was the language of that great and good son. I
might 11.1 w read to your Lordships a knit front his Illos.
linos Successor—uot in the same tour, nut iu the same cue.
lideute, not in language of the same regard, but yet by
so means of any desire harshly to treat her Royal
Highness. 1 allude, my Lords, to a leiter which has often
been before your Lordships iu other shapes, and it is not
uecessary for me to repeat it here. It clearly expressed a
desire that her 31 ajeet y weight have come to England;
it expressed en opinion that their happiness would be better
secured by their bring asunder; and it contained a very
plain indication 'hat her euraduct should not be watched
with all the scrupulous secant", and wish all the rigour of
scrutinizing agency which has brought the preseut Rill of
Pains anal Penalties before your Lordaltips.—[The House
here indicated a wish that the letter should be read, and Mr.
Brenham immediately proceeded to read the letter as fol-
lows :
" MADAM—As Lord Cholmondeley informs me that you
wish I would define in writing the trims upon whirl, we are
to live, I shall eurleavour to explain myself upon that head
with as much clearness and as much propriety as the nature
of the subject will admit. Our iuclinatious are nut its our
power, nor should either of us be held answerable to the
other, because nature has nut made us suitable Meech other.
Tfllllllllllll and comfortable society, however, is in our power.
Let our intercourse, therefore, be restricted to that ; and I
will distinctly subecribe to the condition whirls you required
through Lady Cholmoadelry, that even in the event of say
accideut happening to my daughter, which I trust Provi.
dente win' in its mercy &veil, I shall nut infringe the teams
of the restriction, by pruposioc at any period a coarsexioa
of a more particular uature. I shall now finally close this
disagrernble correepunelence, trusting that as we have cont.
pletely explained so each other, the rest of our lives will be
past in uniuterruptcd tranquillity.
" With great truth mod sincerity, yours,
" %Windy/4.omile, April 30, 1796. " GEORGE P."
He then proceeded-1 don't, my Lords, call this a
letter of license, as it has been denaminated, but I
think, at 64%1,4 is such an epistle as to make ia matter of
natural wander so every person, that her conduct should
ever slier, or ever more, be heard of, especially with much
more rigour. Let nit, my bolls, impress on you, al the risk of
my reputation, she Iwo grand points on which I rest
my case :—First, That they have out proved their case by
the proper with which they might have called; and,
next, that thewittiesses they have called have, every one of
them, been perjured hi their evidence! Now I again
ark, is a plot ever to be discovered except by the
means of those two principles! New plots have been die-
covered through the medium of the second, when the
first has appeared to fail—when noble persons have ap-
peared to be brought forward—when permits of a higher
description lent themselves to plots—when sin resource
ha. scented open, they' have almost providentially escaped
from the snare by evidence breaking down where it was not
expected to be sifted, or by a weak point being found which
no pains had been taken to strencihen. My Lord*, your
Lordships must recollect that great iraseace, mid I call it a
great passage, because it is the most poetical and just in
the sacred writings. When the ancient judges, the elders,
had joined themselves to a plan wheel, had appeared to have
succeeded, fur they, as the Srriptuses assert, had hardened
their hearts and turned away their eyes that they noght not
see justice, but that they might do the purposes of an un-
just judgment, hot they were discomfited, and the victim
ass rescued from the grasp by the trifling circumstance of a
contradiction as to the situation of a tamarind tree. Let not
any man blindly call these dorms accidents, for they are the
dispensations of Mat Providence which means that the guilty
shell not triumph ! Such is the case before you, my Luring—
such is the evidence in support of it—evidence that would
be inadeloare to prove a debt—ridiculous to convict for the
least uffeesee--scairdalous if brought forward to support a
charge of the highest nature which the law knows—and
innumerous to ruin the thwarter of an English Queen !
%That shall I say then if this is all the case—if this a the
species of the proof by which an ex pate facto law is sought
to be passed against tide defenceless woman!
Al this yi riosi Mr. Brougham proceeded with an eloquent
and eireigetic appeal to their Lordships iu the following
My lairds, I pray your Lordships to pause! You,
my Lords, are standing on the brink of a dreadful precipice;
your judgment will go twill to the world. If that judgment
is meatus, the Queen, it will be the last and only judgment you
will ever pitortmuce! That judgineul, my Lords, sill fail In
its "thirst, and it will return with redoubled voile:tee em those
who give it ! Save the country, my Lords, fruits the Ilea.
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her guilty paramour to huger oat uronelis, nay almost years , vital volatility of • civil war Save yourselves, my Lord.,
in her service, is a Illeui•I 'tweedy, after baring gone the from the situation in 'Odell you are mew standing ! liereme
leeigihs tow Stich she was stated to have proceeded at Naples. ; that toiletry, of which you are the ornament, hut in which
11)4 was nut the conduct of a woman au greatly so guilt sly 100 can flourish no Imager when severed from the people, amid
attached, as the Queen brit been represeuted; this was out the whew the blossom is cut oil' from this root suit stein of the
rapld pace with which Love's votaries were promoted, alien I tree! Sieve that reissitry. my Lords' that you may combine
their advancement ass in the lover's power. It wits not true, I to be the ornament of it ! S3ve the Ciow• from denotes;
as bad been stated, that Bergami was Of mean origin. His ; and the Aristocracy, which is shakes, as is also the altar
tither was possessed of • convidetable pairiniony as the north itself, which never more can stand secure eraida the shocks
44' Italy, but was extravagant; and be, being reduced ie cis. which shall shake its kindred throne! If your judgment
cressisnels,bad sold his estate to pay his father's debts, and be against the Queen, it will shake 10 the foundation
bees afterwards obliged to enter into service as a means el 11w kindred Throne! You, my Lords, have willed, the Church
litehbood • but *till, he was recognized as a rottenness, re. , and Crown hare willed that the Queen shall be laid out of the
dared indeed, slid • geinknion, anti treated as . solemn service, bet She has had the preyersof the people; sod,
such. He west into the service of (ieuersl Pinot, by shun my Lords, Ido pour forth my supplications et lie throes
he was treated with the respect dos to see of his former of mercy, that mercy may be poured down on these
reek, and at abbe table he had dosed whim the Gruenl people in a larger measure thee the merits of their rulers
ass Counnsarler se Owl at Aldan. He was isurodreed to deserve; sod I pray, say Lords, that your hearts may tern
the Chemberhito of she Queer by se Austrise Nobleman, towards j,estice sod not go therefrom:"
end hired lets her Majesty's service without her previous Mr. Bewintkum concluded his chilliest speech shoat clue
kiwis kdge, and eves several days before she est hiss. At o'clock, end lesseedietely after withdrew. The latter part
die lime of this ietreductiee, his Comer patron represented appeared to create a strong gelatinise lam the House.

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to obsold pees. ratter ihaa to his otbisho
the eweidag at jesty's oerwieseritb adi bas, drat Mese opperteisity
a-diosle party offered, he *AM usest4ll6 .H. bed dwelt..
d two hoots so/ this topic, sot as owe Aids ha empuseiwed et all istersoary
to the Marys. area the case, he thee& he had esapleirly /imposed of
bag stay is the not ; but her 5140.4,1! coasted Mein lima submitted to
I the child sweat • Ike severest acrothry, Imihisdikerwerlifiiiper * impel dm"
been taken ilk *wicker of Iles nsllM iosproppiety is that. weasel. It
argot/arid which had been said hy wore, that evils hiw Majesty's Mead. rifest