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`. -.tow*, They felt, that in the progress of this
cause they were not to make themselves a party
to the inquiry : but to pursue it according to
their Lordships' instructions, fairly, candidly,'
mid honestly. having said thus much in behalf'
of himself and his Learned Colleagues, the duty.
now devolved upon him of pointing their Lord-
shiPs' attention to Abe leading facts, as disclosed
41 the evidence before them. The difficulty-
- *hie!? to encounter, in performing this
cluti.;* wai as their Lordships must be aware •
s.
greatly ang.mented by the circumstance that, as
14,:ernWs COunsel for the Queen- had yet to
. it answer to the case, he. was left, with-
,any knowledge of any of the arguments with
ttich they meant, to combat. the proviSions of
er of any of the facts upon -which the
Vefence of her 'Majesty the Queen mainly
143.1.61:' All that he, could, therefore,'do in the
verforrnance of .his present duty, was to en-
force upon their "Lordships' attention the manner
in which the case, at, present stood, and hOw
the evidence' adduced.made out and supported
the in the *preamble of -the Bill. He
trolled, that upon reference to that evidence,
which he would nbt now', give their Lordships
the trouble'of reading,' they Would find the pre-
amble mainly sustained. Before he impressed the
leading.facts upon their Lordships' memory, he
ipegged to state, that be should carefully ab-
ttain from either mis-statement or exaggeration.
difqs-wa.s.not to impose on or influence ,by
zany distorted statement ; all that was required
of ilitn..WaS, that he should sum up the evidence
with t.tuth.,and accuracy, and then point out how
it appliedto the charges upon which the Bill was
fontide.d. it were. not expected of him,to in-
car anyAarge of this rnis-statement, still less,
he hoped, was
,it
,expected of him to use the
slightest, expression derogatory from the station
ainetdignity of her Majesty the Queen, No.such
expression should escape.his lips. The Queen
was here on trial before their Lordships ; one
side.' and that the case against her, had only been
heard. He therefore was bound, in strict law,
and so were their Lordships, to consider her Ma-
jesty innocent of those foul charges ascribed to
her, until. they heard her defence. None could
pronounce .her guilty until their Lordships' vere
diet decided and justified that imputation.. He
and his Learned Friends had been charged with
scattering calumnies abroad, and throwing dirt
against the character of the Queen ; but though
this charge had been insidiously disseminated,
he, and those with,liim, .felt guiltless of the irn-
p;itation. They had throughout stated nothing
-r-thich they had reason to believe would not be
se:tigactorily proved. If calumnies had been
uttered they belonged to another. quarter ; that
qtarter alone ought to be called upon to account
fgt. them. When he, and those with him, were
tho..s_ charged with scattering calumnies which he
4orv,scornfully repelled, they felt themselves en-
tiged. to-retort upon the real authors of those ca-
lumnies,—those who charged the Counsel in-
atructed by their Lordships, with being suborners
ofßerjury ; nay, he did not stop even .there, but
wba,charged every -witness who. had appeared at
tkoix tordahips' TAIT., with being both a calum-
ciatOr and -perjurer. Let thOse, then, who
scattered such calumnies, be called upon to an-
swer them, and not they who were the victims of
them. ft had beewsaid, that the opening state-
meat of his earned Friend the Attorney-Gene-
,ral, had not been subsequently sustained in evi-
-denoe, He beggedleave-to.eontradict that asses-
and would. do so withofit troubling
their Lordships to enter into. much detail of
.04 proof adduced at their Lordships' Bar.
only:ask of -their Lordships to cast
,tkeir recollection over alie major part of the facts
disclosed in evidence,,:.:and;when they aid so, he
should only. appeal to..th,e iMpulse of . their own
honourable feelings at the moment, and ask them
to.say, iftiot only the substance,of the statement
which". it was the painful, task .of his Learned
Fridini to, make, bad riot been fully proved, but,
whether in additipn, nearly the whole A:)f.the de-
, tOta;hadoot beefi made out and supsated by evi-
dence. Before he:
.went further, he- would beg
•,.•
leave to call their Lordships' attention to the na-
ture of the charge set forth in the preanible of
the,Bi3l.. of Pains and Penaltie.S against her Ma-
• jesty the Queen. That preamble began by Stat-
ing:that her Majesty, in the year 1814, had,`,in
I4i4n, engaged, in the capacity of a menial ser-,
want, a man, named Bartolomo l3ergami ; that she
.hati,:imuiediately after that tithe,•committed-dis,
graPPful and unbecoming: familiarities with that
person ; that she had raised him in her household,
and loaded ithal, with horiours.;, that .3he had placed
several mernbersof.,his family in various situations
oflrenournnd rankeabout her persona and that she
bad afiersvardscied on for it considerable period
an adulterottsklatercourse with hint. That was the.
" head andffaut" of the charges against the Queen,
as contained in the preamble of the Bill, and it
wisrhis "duty to ask their Lordships if that charge
bad not been substantially maiie out in: evidence ?
InTerforming this. duty he conceived he.should
acting in a manner most grateful to their Lord-
ships and moat-; nelo-cive to the end in view .by
being as perspicuous as•poSsible : and as he con-
sidered (hit rioNng would tend.more to.that per-
. spicuity .tban tracing her Majesty in all her va-
..--riettg-inovenaents from the time of her first arriv-
- iner at Milan up .to:the present day, he should
-immediately enter, upon that course,-and.steadily
I. follow it up to the conclusion of his task. , !tap-
peares that her Majesty at Milan .took into her
service a person of the,name of Bergamii that she
remained there Zor some time and then proceed..
eA to Lisle.' ft appears that a boy of the name
, of Austin was in the habit of sleeping in her Ma-
jesty's room, that then for the first time she said
• the. boy, was too old,and ds!sired he should ho re-
moved from her room. On the, night, after his
arrival she went to the, Opera. It.will be neces,
spry to attend, to the ,Management of the rooms,
for* is very material. It appears that there was
a communication, by ,a private passage, between
the room of Bergarni 'and the Princess, .:4ne of
Use witnesses'. states, that on the idot. on'whi
lae4 Majesty went to the Opara: "she_ appeared_
ouch agitated; that she Came out alone from

the Opera, went into the Cabinet near Bergami's
room, gave directions about the hop Austin, and
returned shortly. Here the Learned Solicitor
'preyed `the of their Lordships to the
observation of the 'twitness, for
--it was natural that
she should make observations,lier curiosity being
exci`ted.. She d-esicribes the situation of the beds,
that one ha,d the appearance of not being sleptrin
-and the -other had the appearance of being slept
in by two persons. But witness goes farther,and
swears that there were stains' on the bed, of a

character to indicate that an intercourse, such as
is charged, had tali.en place. Can any man after
this doubt that the crime of adultery has been
committed ? He begged to remind their Lord-
ships that -adultery is seldom fully proved, that
it is not committed with open doors, and that in
all the cases which, in his experience, he had
seen,'lte did not recollect a single case distinctly
proved. He would not detain their Lordships by
detailing the occurrences of the first night which
her Royal Highness' passed at Naples ; but the
evidence respecting the second night on which
she -was there clearly shows an adulterous
intercourse between her Royal Highness

and Bergarni. Mademoiselle . Dumont was
on that night going along the corridor, between
the Princess's and Bergarni's., room. She sees
Bergami in' his shirt coming towards her and to-
wards the Princess's room. 'lt was impossible
for her not to know the object of his doing so,
and be did the only thing that a person in her

situation could do—she left the corridor that she

might not be an obstacle to the purposes of Ber-
gat6i, and when she afterwards returned the door
of her Royal Highness's room was closed. He
knew this rested upon the testimony of one wit-
ness, whose credit he should not now speak of,
but of which be should hereafter satisfy their
Lordships. Here the Leanied Solicitor referred
to a passage in the evidence of Mad. Dumont.
In addressing himself generally to the evidence
of Louisa Dumont, the Learned Gentleman re-
marked, that he was aware of the observation
which would be.ruade by the Queen's Counsel :

. .
they would say, " these facts are strong, bu
they rest upon the testimony of Dun-tont, and
she is unworthy of credit." To suck an obser-
vationhe would say, " The circumstances.are of
a nature which renders them easily disprOYed if
they are false ;" and this answer he should have
occasion to apply to the evidence oil more occa-
sions than one. He should-now advert ,to the
masqued ball given by the Princess to the then
Sovereign of Naples, Joachim Murat. It appear-
ed that her Royal Highness on that night assum-
ed three different characters. •Pn -her first dress-
ing fora character, she was assisted by her cham-
bermaid, Dumont; that was perfectly natural;
but, on' her Royal Highness retiring to her room
to dress for a second character, it seemed, that of
all persons in the world, her courier was select-
ed"--this same Bergami was selected, to 'dress her
for a character which left part of the person ex-
posed. This circumstance was, of itself, suffi-
cient to warrant any conclusion ; and it was not
a little remarkable, that the Queen's Counsel,
Mr. Williams, who very ably cross-examined the
witness that, spoke to this -fact,--that•Mr. Wil-
liams contented himself with asking whether per-
sons of rank and distinction had not attended'the
masquerade in question. No doubt theydid. It
was no part of the charge against the Queen that
she had given an entertainment to Murat ; but
the charge was that, she had introduced her
courier, Bergami, into her dressink chamber 'on
that. occasion. This Mr. Williams well knew,
and he very prudently and,:tery ably shrunk, as
it were, from the substance of the charge.. But,
then it may be said on the part of the Queen,
that this is not adultery, and that the charge of
adultery must be proved; but to prove the charge,
it is not necessary, he contended, to give direct
evidence of the guilty fact; it was sufficient if
facts were proved which in their appearance, and
in their necessary consequence, inferred the fact to
a man of:plain common sense. To require _positive
proof ,would be. idle, and would defeat
,the- ends,
of justice-in: nine cases out of., ten.' ''o come
the conclusion required, it would beprOper to
look at the of, Bergami, with respectAo.
her Royal Highness. He was her coprier,-
footman) the man who waited.behitid- her cltair
and stood behind her carriage. The tonclusion,
he
.contended, was irresistible.. The 'Learned
Gentle Man then passed on to the•circurns(atice of
B.'s illness occasioned by a kick 'from' a Irorse,
'and submitted that the course taken by the Pri-
ncess .on that occasion was the most prudent, with
the view to a gratification of her • passions with.
Bergami. The Witness who proved her conduct
was Majocci, and it was really amusing to notice
the artifice to which her Counsel were compelled
to resort, in order, if possihle, to shake the
dence of Majoeci. He would here fearlessly de-
clare, that notwithstanding. the cross-examitiat ion
of this man, the .most severe he ever witnessed ;
across-examination too, upon an'evidenc,e, as to
facts, .embracing.in.point of :period, nearly three •
years, and in point of space three quarters of the
globe ; yet the 'Queen's Counsel had not been
able to elicit a single contradiction from him. To
be sure there was the highly 'diverting answer
of Non mi recordo,!' which the Queen's
Counsel had endeavoured to bear repeated
as often as possible, and to that end he
was sure it had , not escped their Lordships,
that the most trifling and unnecessary. ques-
tions had been'put.- The object was, of course,
`to throw a degree of dis,credit upon the, wit-
• nesses, from the circumstance of the idiomatical re-
petition of: the answer. . These were artifices
feces
.fitted fOr offerings, to ordinary understandings
but he (Mr. Solicitor General) knew' be was r7d-
dressing an enlightened and august AsSembly,
and he had no: fear for the consequence of such
miserable attempts. He then took a general re,
.view of Afajo&VieVidenCe,- and contended thal
ids name alone entitled .him, to credit., He was
corroborated in the main circumstances; though,,'
not in all of
...them, and that was all which could.
be reasonably- required in .a -case of this kind.
gut the Queen's Counsel had, cal led*most of iheae
circumstances trifling..;.lle-cOuld not call .it tri-
lling. If he saw a Princess walking arm' in arm

on a terrace with her foOtman, and in habits of
general intimacy with him, he could come to but
one conclusion as ..,to the nature of their inter-
course. BeforeShe_ left NipleThe was reminded
of one remarkable fact, which he had nearly for-

gotten : indeed the facts were so numerous,
thaV
,to, remember,: them all was kmpossibleN
- That •Wki now p*ticvloarl* al 1 u 4AI,
was her Majesty's private visit to the Theatre,
San Carlos. . Was it possible to suppose that
what had been stated with respect to her
visit to the Theatre was an invention. Could
any of their Lordships suppose it to be a
fabrication ?. He thought it impossible . for any

one to come to such a conclusion. What were
the circumstances of that visit ? -She desired to

go to the Theatre in private. The wife of the
heir apparent to 'the Crown of England, at that
time in the exercise of the sovereign power in'this
country, must visit the theatre in private. To'
this he had no objection. She might visit the
Theatre in as much privacy as she pleased, but
couid she choose no respectable persons from her
suite ? Could she select no attendants but her
footman and her chambermaid to accompany.her?

She must, however, go in private, accompanied
by nobody but her footman and her chamber-
maid ; they passed from the House by a back
door in the garden, traversed the terrace, and
went to the Theatre in a hired carriage. There,

in consequence of the reception which she me
with, it appeared that she had made but a very
short stay. Could two constructions be put on
conduct like this ? Could any man believe what
had been stated on this subject to be an inven-
tion ? 'Whatever might be said of the witness Du-
mont, with a view of calling 'her character in
question, could any man go the length of suppos-
ing this tale to be invention altogether ; 'and
if they believed the facts true, to what conclusion
must they necessarily come,as to the intercourse
which subsisted between her Royal Highness and
the Courier ? He had already brought to the
recollection of their Lordships the circumstances
which had occurred at Genoa. When she arrived
there the whole of ,the English persons that had
formed her suite had left her, with the exception
of Dr. Holland:—Sir W. Gell, Mr. Keppel Cra-
ven, Captain Hesse, Lady Elizabeth Forbes,
and Lady Charlotte Lindsay, had all left her
Royal Highness. What were the arrangements
made at Genoa with respect to the bed-rooms ?
It appeared that the Princess's apartment was
separated from. the chamber of Bergami only
by a luggage room; and also that there was
an intimate communication betweln both. Op-
posite the apartment of her Royal Highness was
that of Dumont, her chambermaid. It was
added that the key of .the anti-chamber door was
turned every night, which barred the access of
Dumont. The latter had afterwards • heard
the locked door open, when some person . was
passing from her Royal Highness's room to
Bergami's room. During one whole month, it
was also in evidence, that her Royal Highness's
bed had never been slept in, though it was
tumbled so as to have the appearance of having
been used ; and in consequence the witness Du•-
mont left off making the bed, and only smoothed
the sheets. From this circumstance what con-
clusion could their Lordships form, except that
an adulterous,. intercourse had taken place be-
tween the Princess and her courier ? Another
circumstance. was deserving of remark at Genoa.
There' was a:Small cabin .adjoining the room
where the Princess breakfasted, and it was proved
that Bergami,. breakfasted with her, by the testi-
mony both of Majocci and Dumont. Who waited
in this cabinet near the saloon ? Majocci, it appear-
ed, was the. attendant one day,, hut Louis Ber-
garni; the Courier's brother, on the other. When
their Loidships were told that no reliance
could be placed on the corroborative testimony
of Majocci and Dumont, why was not Louis
Bergand brought forward to disprove it ? He
challenged the Learned Counsel for the'Queen,
and he had other challenges to 'make in a future
stage,_, to call •Lonis Bergami to their Lordships'
bar, and see if his evidence ceuld refute it. Bev-
2garni had obtained suchinfluence with the Queen,
that, it became to every one too apparent.—
"The. first thing-likely to be done by such a per-
son in his situation, when he had obtained an in-
fluence in heribind, was to render that influence
beneficial to 'connexions ; as by acting thus
lie-not Only Wotild benefit them, but'confirtn• his
ascendancy, so as perhaps to render it difficult
to shake it. off. Who, accurding-ly, did Bergami
take occasion to introduce to the Princess's house
at Genoa—his mother,,his sister, his brother,
and even his infant child ;.•histikot the mother of
his child, though the infant was.,only three years
.old, and needed its mother's carei;.,44od when
the Princess. came, • the mother, who happened
to he, in the house, was suddenly sent off.' 4 Was
.this anyTthing like the natural connexion 'Vet
tWe_ll:9•.miql*.ico4;‘heiiervant ? Dumont testi.
frO i4.t she. s'/Oik:.tsa,-Ltibk: after •.a house for the
Princess at 'some di.stNarlOicoss genoa,: because
of its, distance, and beCanse‘:;itr.cwas away from
til6 'English who visited, thlise pats.. From
yoUr Lordships•will have observed, • we pro-
ceed to -Milan, where'. Lady Charlotte Lindsay
had.joined her Royal 'Highness, but that Lady
soon quitted her, and afterwards no English
were left retained in • her 'suite. Even in this
case; could the wife of the Heir Apparent of this
country still.find•,no English Lady, or no foreign.
Lady to attend her ? Who, however, was se-
lected to attendthe Princess ? The person chosen
as her Lady in Waiting was the Countess of Oldi,
who could -neither speak properly in French nor
Italian, was quite'unqualified to occupy the si-
• tuation of.. Lady of Honour, • and therefore
could only be intended. to screen 'the inter-
course that was going on. • These incidental
facts,- let it be repeatect, which cannot be inva-
lidated, are the beSt confirmation of the; whole
case.; and•that individual must be wilfully blind
'whO'persists• in shutting his yes to them. It
will be recollected, • that at Milan her Royal
,Highness wore- a blue silk dress; which Bes•gami
.afArwards'yut on one morniti.- at an: early hour,
makh it 't b 'cl thatout of' her
tge e .earname
bedroom, which was disclosed on the occasion of

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throwing the window up. Another circumstatO,'
deserved attention. When at Venice, her Royal
Highness took up her lodgings at the Hotel d'Ary
gleterre, and here the occurrences whiih toolt
place served to confirm phtfacile. Accorisling to
the practice in those parts after crenner aieweller
came kNto exhrel attrotive stares, wh~ll the
ert.p-AhasZotilti. erlthatqavhia,lingle/ing af',
ter the company departed, she put upon the neck
of Bergami, who squeezed her hand, and they-re:
tired together. And who, let it be remarkeol
was the witness of this scene ? Why the tiriof
witness, whose testimony. went to confirm .that
the preceding ones, who had lived for fourteell
.years in the family at least;. and if only this e'rr'
cumstance was not contradicted, it would be
possible to reTieve her Royal Highness froill
the imputations cast upon her in the preamble.'
of the Bill. Now, from Milan the Princess
next proceeded‘to Bellenzoria, where exactly the
same arrangements and familiarities were 013,
served. On the visit to General Pino's
was stated Bergami went into the Princess's bed
room; and no cross-examination was attempted
Lore
with regard to' this point, except by their Lor‘v
ships, who found the intercourse of nearly thr
same character of the. rest of the story. But ber
Royal Ilighness.now proceeded to the Villa VII'
lani, where the same. things as before were oh"
served to take place, and where, .according to
the evidence of Majocti, the Princess's bed Nrss
not slept in. They now reached Villa d'Este'
and here he wished to direct their Lordships' ati"
tention to the situation of the apartments, will°
was precisely the same as in other cases, there
being here also a private passage to Bergarni!
room; and when her Royal Highness was lei`
on retiring by Dumont, the latter was locked out,
while Bergami's chamber still renfained in conevir
nication with the inner rooms. Upon her Fete
from their Grecian tour, it. appeared that tl'e
Princess had changedher room, there being 13l
communication with the apartment of Beret°
A new opening or door was. also made, and MI;
ing the whole timeof her residence, facilities 0°
existing were prepared with a particular vied
They must, in estimating this extraordinary Cat
consider the circumstances attogether,—how t'",
parties conducted themselves towards each otbeg;.
what familiarities passed, whether they behave,
like man and wife, and so on ; and then co
elude, from all this, whether such facilities 31'1
freedoms were not indicative of an adulte.:ls
intercourse. Let them take even all the fac.
spoken to between the Princess and Berganii,°i;
occurring at the Villa d'Este, upon the test
many of a body of witnesses, not contradict'i)
nor disproved ,by any one,—see her
Highness and the courier arm in arm, wal;
ing alone—the Princess pulling the courier,
the flap of his coat, when getting up, and rnalije;
him sit down—embracing together—and if Oct,
transactions were testified of two persons ill o,
dinary life, he was confident that no Jury,
Court, would refuse to come to the-conclao°l
that an adulterous intercourse hid taken pwe,
between them. Not to rest the matter heal
however, there were other things which clic/1:f;
admit of a doubt ; yet to save their Lordsll,„`r:
both . fatigue and time, he should select sort
given points as, a specimen of the whole. Tbet,-,
Lordships must remember what was testified,o,
the witness who had been employed in repairl:e
the grotto at the Villa d'Este. Witness said
distinctly heard persons in a room adjoinillg,,p
it, talking anti laughing; when he went rol;0,
to ascertain what was passing, there he
vered two figures of Adam and Eve, having me'd
leaves before them, which fig-leaves. the
and Bergami were putting aside, and
the while: After such a frolic as this, '°'`
was to be inferred he would leave it to c°o:
most sense to decide. In illustration of this/ ro,
would refer once more to the letter once Pre
duced on a trial before Sir William Scott, l'so
held that no woman who had not committedo
adulterous act, in such circumstances, voo
.d,
have written so to any man. Let their
ships here recall to recollection the staterob,p
of Galdini, who accidentally went ups stairs, sviil4
he found Bergami and the Princess both sit set
on a sofa with her neck uncovered. In anloil
case, through opposite doors, the Princess
Bergami were seen embracing each other. e‘,
trusted their Lordships had not forgotten tlieo#
currence at the lake of Rettozia, where the Pe rep
bathed, and in which there
~was a canoe, {roil'
Beigami and the Princess were seen issuillgtied'
the water and getting into it. So strong,
did he consider the testimony that had rec,eati
been adduced at their Lordships' bar, °foci
e
was beating the air, and nothing more, to r 00
by anticipation the arguments to be employe
the other side. If, therefore, this evidence
dii
not ultimately beat down, if it was 1143 t
proved, if it was not essentially weakevegeli
many parts,' it was, in his opinion, the Ft!)
that in, similar cases had eve been adduce tint
Court of Justice. But, hastening to clired
stances more marked and peculiar, he wis 10`
recall their Lordships' recollection to whit,stiet:
taken place in Sicily. The parties in cPl„`"
had embarked on board his .Majesty'3 rent
Leviathan, for Messina, when an arranfitis:
`'was
made by Captain Briggs, such as a oic'
-Naval Officer would: naturally make, b
-the females of her Royal Highness's ,suiterj...o ;
placed in the cabins next her, and the rneipec,
distance from her. What was the consetliboaP(
Her Royal Highness, when she came °0
did not approve of the distribution 10.'r,001(
'Capt. Briggs ; she altered it, by placing 13,eto so,t'o
-cabin next her own. He did not intennoAlt
that by this alteration of cabins it was inteouro
pursue an adulterous course, but there 14'0 e ,re,t,
tb '
.by night, in the Princess's cabin, ant,
'mity to that of Bergami might have W."' where,
'The parties next proceeded to Palernl°,,‘,l3ogt,
as also at Messina, the same relative joie VIII
merit of apartments was adopted ; and '1 01)t
ter place her Royal Highness called Dlnl.l,4,lt,drcii,
Sleep, wh'en in bed, and passed in her
through. Eergami's room. Again, let th- e
. ships lookat _the parting scene.between2i; i°
cess Bergami, on his asking leas'