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London, England, 1820-10-25 00:00:00

was itniirisoned,atia fell a victim to her feethlgs. It
came too late to render amends to an innocent fa-
mily; but he trusted that it had not come too late to
convince their Lordships that c-Onspiracy was
by no means unknown to 'England, and might be
successful fora time. This seemed a very pe-
culiar case; but it was known -to all the profes-
sors of laW that there were conspirators by -pro-
fession----men who, for liVe shillings, would swear
themselves worth any -stun that might be required,
to-bail persons who would accept of their ser-
vices. Another case' of - great notoriety had re-
cently • occurred in .:regard to- a fictitious bank-
ruptcy.' He alluded to the case of Cohen, in
which debts, credits, and circumstances, were fa-
bricated with equal fraud and ingenuity. A si-
milar case occurred, in which he was himself con-
cerned ; and about -a ye'ar and a half ago a ficti-
tious firm contrived to carry on depredations upon
the Public to an enormous amount. All these
things \ had recently happened in England ;
and •• if he might be :• allowed to go further
back,- their Lordships would remember the no-
torious conspiracy of Elizabeth Canning, who
Contrived a tissue of systematic falsehood for a
• purpose of her own. Was the gunpowder plot
to-be regarded as a romance ;or Titus- Oates,
the hero.- of a •novel? It was known that at a
particular time King- James IL, when Duke of
York, was- anxious to get clear of his marriage
with the daughter of the Earl of Clarendon ; and
Grammont related the plausible manner in
which three noblemen contrived to accumulate

presUmptions of adultery agaiu.st the ill-treated
lady, and in which a fourth Went so far as to
prove the grant of the last Ifavoar to himself.
There had been persons found to gratify
Princes in all ages, when they had condescend-
ed to indulge the lowest passions in the highest
places.--The case of Anne Boleyn was too
well known to be dwelt upon. Evidence
was then offered of the guilt of that un-

happy lady with her own brother, which
had been since entirely discredited—evidence
which, however, was infinitely more respectable
than that which had been offered against her pre-
sent Majesty. But they had au instance of a
conspiracy still more fecent---that of 1806, which
it was impossible to forget. In the former con-
spiracy of 1806 their Lordships would find in the
Minutes of the Privy Council who sat upon that
case, a verdict of acquittal• upon an individual,
against whom there was no charge. He referred
to the words in the minute, " suborned tradu-
cers," and contended, that if no suspicion had
been excited, the Counsel would not have no-
ticed those expressions. They did not deny that
there were no traducers, although they denied
the application of the words. But if any one
wished to get up a conspiracy, in casting his eyes
about to find where he should fix the scene of it,
where could he establish his regards with greater
hope of security than upon Italy—where assassins
were to be hired, and an oath had its price--
where instruments of fraud and violence were
to be purchased at all prices ? It was impos-
sible to say with truth, that any individuals
brought from such a quarter could be admitted
as unsuspected witnesses in any English Court of
Justice, when aspersions were to be cast on the
character of any party. He ought, perhaps, to
observe that in the course of the opening of this
case, another count was laid with respect to what
happened at Livoilia, which the subsequent evi-
dence not only failed to prove, but actually dis-
proved. Every circumstance was laid out in the
most favourable point of view. Bergami was the
only person who had free access to her Majesty's
chamber—the bed evidently chewed the following
morning that her Majesty had not lain alone,bear-
ing marks of two persons having slept there. In
ordinary-cases, that fact alone would be sufficient
proof of adultery having been committed. He knew
his Learned Friend did not cast• imputations at
random. How then came he to make the charge
at all 2 Why, he was instructed so to do by Dumont
—he was instructed so to do on the strength of
what Dumont had sworn before the Milan Com-
mission ; but which she dared not repeat when
brought into open Court, and called upon so-
lemnly to speak nothing but the truth, and in a
situation to be contradicted if she departed from
that injunction. Then, he hoped, they were to
hear no more about adultery ; for which there
was not an atom of evidence. The crime of adul-
tery was charged again at Lugano ; and, as in the
other parts of the case, no evidence was brought
to attempt the proof of it. And here he must
.complain of the conduct of his Learned Friends
on the other side ; for notwithstanding their as-
sertion, he must say that he did not believe that
there wag any witness from Lugano who could
prove the fact of adultery. He did not doubt
that his Learned Friends were instructed to make
this charge ; but before they brought it, they
ought to have made more accurate, and more
extensive inquiries than they had done. He
repeated that he did not believe that any think
against her Majesty could be brought from Lu-
gano.; but it served very well to satisfy those
who were ready to believe any thing, however
absurd, or however gross against her Majesty, to
call out, " Oh, more evidence could have been
adduced,had there but been time for it allowed."
It appeared that they were driven back on the
27th of June, and they had not been able to
bring them here by the 7th of September., It
was really too much to believe. lie was con-
vinced that his Learned Friend could not by
possibility bring a single witness more than he
had brought. He felt himself here called upon to
little heat into which
offer some excuse for any
his Learned Friends near him, or himself, might
have been betrayed in the course of these proceed-
ings. If they had been guilty of uttering ally invec-
'rives or declarations• in their addresses to their
Lordships, their excuse was, that
they had been
taken by surprise by some one of the many extraor-
dinary parts of this proceeding, and the nature of
these, as well as the frequency of their occur-
rence, he apprehended would be an adequate
apology for all their transgressions of this de-
scription. This had been the case yesterday,
when they were certainly taken by surprise.—
To return, however, to the case before him, he