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hereafter discussed, when their LordshiPs c
to the consideration of the whole of the to
Bence of the case ; b t he a rehended to
fficient appeared in p 410 . uthorise su w
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putting of this question. ther appeare-d
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Rtatelli's testimsny that 44,4 anti s all ag.,,a,
and an active .agiint of, 'the Milan. Comlnissli,
Raganti came to kaste'lli and desired 1104
go to the Advocate Vilmacarti, the known,:e
avowed agent of the Milan Commission. ' t
he went—the consequence of Raganti's conl'irl,ge
him. What did he do there ? He was eXanOtt
by this person—he made a deposition on 03,,,,
He went before the Milan Commission a dal
two afterwards, *here, he says, he Saw t ci
English Gentlemen and two I-talian amanuenshs
What objection then could be made to prove tsi
this man wis an agent, and an agent of the..,
lan. Commission ? Raganti went to Rastelli i5l.
self, a witnes's and an agent telling hid tO.O,
before the advocate and the Milan Comtnissle,
Rastelli, in consequence of this aPnlication, °at
before Vilmacarti and the Milan Commission/o,
fording, as he thought, sufficient proof of to
agency of Raganti to the Milan Commissioll,oB
let in the question now put. But he entreated of
Lords to look to the necessity there Must be
he
opening a door toithis species of evidence. heat
was able to prove that the agent of an aio
came to a witness, and said, if you will c°,oo
and swear against 'the Queen, I will give ere
such pad such reward,—he apprehended o'o4
was no man preparrl to deny, that it was 111,;)
material to his case, most material to the' edicii
of justice, that he be alloWed to produce 57,,,1
evidence. If he could bring some one for iii
who could state that another had come t° %ad
and told him) that if fie Would swear that he '5
seen Bergami put his hands up the Prinresp
petticoats ;. if he could bring another who 1131',t
great offer made to him, if he ‘vould swear to ''the
he had never seen nor heard of, except fronl
Did
panders of the Milan Com Mission ; if he c°l
0.
skew that it was the agents of the Milan t',l
mission, • those panders of filth and falseli°°ii
who made these proposititms, he enanght it Oilice
be a. most awkward situation in which to eijt
that House as a Court of Legislature to shut °to)
suclr evidence in all respects., so important ~
wards coming to a correct- decision. IVa.i ttlell
any one, judging of the last question" of the 'it;
n
who would say that it was not most material
her Majesty's case to admit this evidence/ i' ho
were able to prove that there was a systel%ei
the north of Italy of going about offering arise,
to all that could be prevailed on' to tell f° et
hoods against her Majesty ? Though he mic'l,,lliv. .
be able to prove' the agency of the Mita; Othe
mission—though he might not be able to '4° to
length of establishing the Milan ,Commissi°'e„.
be the agents of Government, of my Lords Lis,' as
pool and Harrowhy, whom he only rrientioneu.el
his antagonists in that House, and as the Coer':o
of his Learned Friends, yeehe thought he sbl,
go sufficient lengths to show .that the evidel:,'ll,
he had to bring on this point was of a Wirt m'
portant and material nature. ...Time Milan 'llt,l
mission, it was said, was not. now sitting ; till
Colonel Brown was 'Still there, and might be s f,
collecting evidence. Did Raganti go alVut Qcl'
fering money to all whose indigent circuinstaugtil
rendered more open . td seduction, withoutt i,a
employer? ' ,IV3len their Lordships, saw oc
many *ere so empleyed,- they could liceteil
doubt that a conspiracy did exist—that it o;i:id
against the Queen ; but by •whom still reOl!iiii
to be -shewn. They charged a conspiracy ag3,liJ
the Queen ; they meant to prove that itig
exist, although they might not- be: able to b riti,
it home to certain Lords, who were their Pliei
cular _adversaries,. and who now set therosero
up as Judges of the Queen. He looked 11)a
the question of the Noble-Earl (Earl GrePto
one of the highest importance, and one vildilloti
trusted their Lordships would feel it their
to put. 15 ill
Dr. LusniNafrox followed.upthe argunlen,ith
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his Learned Friend. Raganti was charg? ).
being an agent in the business, and he the'ilig
their Lordships ought to bear evidence aS °eel'
acts and .conduct of whatever related to the 00
letting the testimony and bringing the 'wit°,
to the Bar of that House. The Milan o°l%o'
sion did employ Raganti to go and collect cer
nesses, which he attempted by bribery anelesse
ruptiOn, and the consequence 'was, that witilivei'
were brought to that bar to perjure thetoseoch
Was it not, he asked, material to develoP
practices as these ? The depositions of thitefloll
nesses had been all sworn to before the 'owe(
Commission. He did not know by what P-froo
that Commission had been sent et 't aro'
this country to act under a foreign ,
ment, and to adminster oaths; but it 1050' tole
that their falsehoods, so sealed by an oath, eat°
them the more liable to be faithfully adhel4l. tr
when the -witnesses were brought to the 'erg
that House. -Was it to be said that this
ment was not responsible, for the acts done heir
agents because it gave no authority for ta
He did hope this would never be, adrnittevdi
plea. They would be able 'to show their, °
ships that there were throughout. the 1"1-,ee}`,/
the North of Italy, agents without number
01. e
ing out persons who had any -knowledgetes to
transactions, offering them money and hcl er)ore
come before the Milan Commission andj tiler,
themselves there, in order that they roig":etjorl
be bound by some tie to' support that r
here. • „1011/ de
The ATTORNEY-G ENER 1: began his
commenting upon the bold assertions -0(0'0
continually thrown' out front the other slue op°
,t 1
Bar, assertions which were not founi)t-
the evidence. Amongst these assertions iilll
which his Learned Friend had just illaCjoelll'tni
the depositions taken before the Milanteo
sion, had been taken upon oath. Ras 011-1 e
self had said that he had not been to
the witnesses' had given their evideoc'
same effect. vat' to
Dr. LU iiINGTON here interrupted the 1,0 1
• ti " tr.!
Gentleman,. for. the purpose • of interrupt
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a part of the evidence of Raggazont, rfoll
of the printed minutes, which he read 45.