The Sun.
London, England, 1820-08-24 00:00:00

RTINESS MANI INF.D.

THZATRICAL REGISTER.
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THE SUN.

SOLEM QUIS DICERS FALSUM ALIDE.ITY

LONDON,
THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 18W.

THE QUEEN.

HOUSE OF LORD4-THI3 DAY.

The Loan CIiANCELLOR took his seat at a
quarter to terf, when the Lord Bishop of LLAN-
DAIT read prayers. • The roll of the Peers. was
then called:o4er, When the folloWing were de-
clared to be defatilters':.—Lord ltosS, Lord Wal-
degrave, the Duke of Newcastle, and the Mar-
quess of Exeter. The Marquess Wellesley was
stated to be absent from indisposition.

VicenzOlo was then called in. lie is
short made but rather stout, and has the coun-
tenance of a Scotchman.

Mr. WILLIAMS (her Majesty's Counsel), said
that he wished the witness to declare before he
was sworn, whether there was any form more
binding on his conscience than that of the oath
which was taken in this country. He mentioned
this, becauSelf was well known what influence
superstition had on the human mind, and to what
extent, this influence might be carried.
The Loan CHANCELLOR thought the question
proper, but considered it quite sufficient if the
party swearing declared his or her belief in the
existence of a Supreme Being, and of a future
state of rewards and punishments.
Mr. WI LLIAMs said, this might be true, but
then there might be in Italy certain preliminary
ceremonies, previous to taking an oath, which
rendered it more binding, and such ceremonies
might not be known in this country. It was ab-
solutely necessary, in a case of such importance
as the preseitt to every Member of Society, that
the whole truth and every iota of the truth
should be known.

one.

Mr. BROUGHAM, on the same side, quoted the
case of Omichard v. il3arker, and Lord Mans-
field's celebrated comment upon it, in which that
Learned Judge had dec,lared that it was essential
to the principles of justice that every man should
be, sworn in the way which his co

tated. There had been besides a case at the Old
Bailey where a Chtir ese witness was sworn on
a saucer, which was afterwards broken to pieces.
It is therefore the earnest wish of her Majesty's
Counsel, that -the witness should be asked whe-
ther there were not some ceremonies in his native
country more binding than the oath prescribed
by the form of our law.

The LORD CHANCELLOR and Lord EasKINE
thought this was proper.
Lord GREY suggested that the question ought
to be " Whether is there any form of oath more
binding in Italy than here ?"
The LORD Cir iNCELLOR was about to put the
question, to the House, when it was agreed to
refer it to the judges.--The Judges then re-
tired.

• The Earl of DARNLEY said, that as .the Judges
"had now retited-- to onsult he.had to hope that

Witness was Captain of the polacca, named
" Industry,"• and was hired to convey the Prin-
cess at Messina from Augusta to Creece. At
Augusta the Princess came on board and examin.
ed all the accommodations ; the dining room had
two doors ; one was ordered to be nailed up ; it
was nailed up ; it was on the larboard side ; there
was a. Cabin contiguous to the dining room
which was at first occupied by Dumont and
Brunet ; there was a room in front of the opening
door in which Bergami slept ; there were two
sofas put together where the Princess slept.—
Bergami was two nights in his own cabin ; he
then moved to the dining-room ; his bed was so
placed that the parties in it might or might not
see the Princess ; the Countess of Oldi slept on
the right side of the room ; the dining-room ap-
proximated to the cabin.
The examination of this witness was going on
%hen our Reporter left the House at half past

Her MAJE&TY had not then entered the House,
but was hi her private room. Alderman WOOD
came soon after with a quantity of papers, which
were immediately, communicated to her MAJF.s-
TY, and were the subject of some consultation.

Though we shall ourselves scrupulously con,
tinue to refrain flout any comments upon ,the
evidence advanced, pro or cons on the Trial °Cher
MAJESTY, we shall still submit to our Readers
the opinions of our Competitors, in our Daily Ex-
tracts from the London Journals. But though
we shall not animadvert upon the proceedings in
the Court, we do not feel ourselves under the
necessity of silently observing the conduct of
those Competitors. THEODORE MAJOCCI has
been styled " this creature " by one, " this
wretch" by another, " this fellow" by a third,
and Government has been accused by one more'
daring and shameless than the rest, of having
formed a Conspiracy against THE QUEEN, and
of having suborned all the Witnesses for the
purpose of effecting her destruction. We have
only to Mention the venerable LORD CHAN..
CELLOR, the Head of the Law, and the Earl of
LIVERPOOL, the Head of the Administration, not
to advert to any other Members of the Govern-
ment at present, and to ask the world at large,
whether two more honourable characters can be
found in this or any other country, and whether
it is possible that any temptation that could be
offered to those high, independent, and honour-
able characters, could induce them even in
thought to swerve from the most conscientious
sense of duty to God and to their Country ? We
find that the opinion of the Loan CHANCELLOR,
on the non-application of the process .of -Im-
peachment to the alleged crimes of THE QUEEN,
and the non-existence of any law applicable to the
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jug, experience, and unimpeachable rectitude.
On, this point particularly, as well as oa several
others, the Earl of Ltvgarooz. came forward in
a new light,
and displayed a profound know-
ledge of the Law,
as well as of the general prin-
ciples of the British Constitution, and a due • re,
gard for substantial justice and the honour and
interest of the Country. As to the attack of
The Old Times of yesterday on Lord STEW ART,
attempting to degrade him by asserting that he
is " a man of an extraction as low as that of BER-
GAMI,I it is well answered by The Morning Post
of this day, as our Readers will see by referring
to our Extracts from the London Journals. But
we are glad to find that, as far as our obseria-
tion has extended, the leading article, as it is
_styled, of yesterday's Old Times, was read with ge-
neral indignation and abhorrence, for its vile scur-
rility, its evident• intention. to .mislead the public

mind, and its gross partiality in attemptiDg to re'
present 'IRE QUEEN as having triumphantly ,
blished her innocence already, though only one
witness had been heard, though his evidence had
not closed, and though he might naturally hesitate/
and show a want of memory under the intimida"
tion of a scene so new to him, and before so awr.-
id
a Tribunal, and, wa may add, assailed as he was bl
the pertinacious asperity of a subtle cross-carol'
nation. But it is wasting time to animadvert upon
a Paper which seems to have no principle of ac'
tion but the most sordid self-interest, and the
success of which has long been, and is, 141111
discreditable to the common sense, judgment'
and taste of the Public.

No French Papers have arrived this morning'
•\Ye are, therefore, unable to giveany further de'
tails respecting the Conspiracy.