The Sun.
London, England, 1820-10-26 00:00:00

Illustrious Client had been beserby spies arid 11
tale-bearers. At the balls nothing improper hats
been proved. Her Royal Highness bad some
times come out of a contiguotta apartment in(°
the ball-room, had several times joined in the
(Mice, and then retired to her own apartureat,
She had- done no more than malty Noble
felt themselves at libertir to do in this counts',
in making their tenantry and neighbours
happy by such means. It might have been
supposed that .a poor negro, who had -bee°
described as being less than man, was here Inas;
ter of the revels. Lieutenant Hownam and Colin
Vassali gave in detail precisely the same descrii7
tion of evidence with respect to the character o{
the entertainments given at the Barona, and est"'
blished beyond all reasonable doubt, that there
was nothing in them either improper or indecent.
Not an individual of the female sex was there/
who had not her natural protector or guarai3°
with her. If any toying bad occurred betwee.'t
any of the parties on their/ way home, would I
be just to charge it on the Illustrious Persona:
who had given the entertainment ? Where w°,,,
the proof of any person of distinction basin,
withdrawn from the society of her Royal
re
ness on account of these balls ? It appear
from all that had transpired, that they were a„
i
tended by the same company from first to la6A
Nothing had appeared from what had been state'
of tl-iese entertainments by Hownam, Vassali/
and Ogioni, and the description given of theft
by PalTli made one wish to have been there.
appeared from him, that a ball had been
principally on account of a family of eightee;
children that her Royal Highness was desirq
of seeing altogether. t. was mere trilling to tall:
of these occurrences as affording any ground 1"r
imputation against her Royal Highness; but f?,
that very reason they became important facts
the case for. the Queen, since they spewed los
the most innocent actions of her life were attcolt;
ed to be perverted to her prejudice.
.As Dunt°°s
had said, it was the misfortune of that Illustriou
Lady to-be " constantly beset by spies, to be hated
where she ought to be cherished, to have ever'',
action of her life distorted and misrepresented-,
Not a virtue which she possessed, but .was c°";
trived to .be set in array against her ;
kindness, her affability, her love of children/ -
love almost inseparable from open and gears
rous natures—her desire to make her neighbouri
happy, were all brought against her—sent firs, ,5
to the Green Bag and then transferred to ill
Learned Friend. But it was a fact on whie,
he reflected with proud consolation, that in evetif
instance in which the witnesses to this case,°,,,
artifice and treachery could be .contradicted
other witnesses capable of speaking to the saw"
facts, they had been contradicted in the most 13;
sitive manner—their testimony.bad been entti,
pieces. It still remained to speak of the exhibitlie
by Mahomet. Did their Lordships wish that
should detain them a moment on this disgust''"
part of this most miserable case ?—(A paucii)
—Majocci, who bad not been properly (I'lls '
ed as to the complexion to be given to t"„,e
incident, had uususpectingly %declared that
saw nothing in the dance which made it tiiri
fit to be seen by eitter -man—Or-woman. C°°,,Es
their Lordships believe, that if there
any thing in this exhibition of the abou':
nably filthy description ,represented by the oPece''
ing case of the Attorney-General, it could Poi
escaped the notice of a man of MajocCi's tar'' it,
mind ? Out of the mouth of their own chief
ness, the allegations stood completely refnteaa
But without resting on the testimony of any 112 d
so tainted as Majocci, their Lordships would tri
in the evidence of Mr. Hownam and Count 13;0
sali, that they had perceived nothing indecent of
it, and Mr. Granville Sharpe had seen a dancer,
the same kind performed at Calcutta before Pero
sons of high distinction. Lieutenant Hosvoso,
had told them how this dance-came to be' t\tria,
duced. It appeared from his testimony, that',he
hornet had quarrelled with the Doctor on boar(' ,
polacre about taking his physic, and it had in roof'
sequence been common to call for the dance v,
" Dimwit'? to annoy the Doctor, by svay of a i°r in
He next noticed the extravagance of the mane to
which Bergami had been described as -stealin;
the chamber of the Princess, when frornstbe bethe
of the weather all the doors and windows i°
house were open. Would the House believellto?
a story on the evidence of discarded serve tot
If they did, there was no persbn so exalted, deo
his character might be destroyed by the sla" oaf
that discarded servants might couspire atr;pe
themselves to get up against their masters. tie
Learned Gentleman proceeded to detail per
evidence given by Sacchi as to the ,019,1),,0i
of his 'attendance upon her Royal hightv
in the course of the journey from Rolueibe
Senegaglia. 'Every morning he went up-t°vheit
carriage window to ask what was wanted- ;JO
he is asked who was in the carriage hes"o
Bergami and the Princess, he takes refu!,, De
that want of memory which he knows it" for
his only safeguard against that punishtoe°)ft•
perjury, which he so justly .merits. ne
Denman) asked, was it possible for any IToof
creature, under such circumstances, not t° DI
whether the sister of the party Charged wa en"
his side at the time he was so criminally
it to
ployed ?" That answer alone was sufficic`tie
satisfy him that the whole tale was a fahric'i,eo;
But without trusting to this as a cowl-A(04.10 0:
tation, he would go to the direct contradic" 001,'
the fact by evidence ; and their Lordships ever
see that it was to demonstration clear that "csait,
this 'infamous individual was entitled to .cr lie
he had now for evermore forfeited that tioe%ad
referred their Lordships to' a_ 634, where e
would find the evidence of Carlo Fortil
thßol° to
;
ness, who attended on the journey front .„oloies'
Senegaglia as courier to her Royal 001°
being himself on horseback during the 1. bas'
journey. So far therefore from this Sacc,iity
• ing had an opportunity of drawing the "410)111,
curtains of the carriage in which bar e ud 011
Highness travelled, he did not even atftrica
that occasion. This .witness Fort' was' 93ce
cross-examined as to all the evidence
in page 634 ; and; in the cearse of that