The Sun.
London, England, 1820-10-06 00:00:00

PARLIAMENT,

HOUSE OF LORDS-YESTERDAY.

THE QUEEN'S DEFENCE.
[After the introductory proceedings of their
Lordships were concluded, the Counsel were or-
tiered to be called in ; on which the Attorney-
General, the Solicitor-General, the Advocate-
General, Mr. Brougham, Mr. Denman, Dr. Lush-
ington, and Mr. Williams, entered, and bowing to
the House took their seats.]
Mr. WILLI t3IS immediately resumed his ad-
dress to the Ilouse. The course he had been
pursuing towards the close of his address yester-
day, had been directed to the circumstance of
the Counsel in support of the Bill not Wiling all
those witnesses which it might have'been natu-
rally expected that they would call"; and whom
f they had called, her Majesty the Queen would
not have been driven to call evidence at all.
--Whe observations the Leaped Counsel had made
on That part of the case, w uld "receive the
strongest confirmation from *le difficulties to
hich the Queen was exposed. lie begged fo
commence what he had to offer this day, by a
statement of some facts painfully illustrative of
those difficulties. Their Lordships would recol-
tort that the witness, Barbara Kress, had stated
that on one occasion at Carisruhe she saw the
Princess and Bergami on a bed, adding a'de-
scription of the position in which their arms were
with respect to each Other. Of course' nothing
could be so natural as that her Majesty, as fast
as the case against her was developed in evidence,
should make every possible inquiry on the Con.
Client, to see how far the witnesses could be
contradicted. Her Majesty recollected, that
daring her stay at this place, she had been con-
scantly attended by a Chamberlain of the Grand
Duke of Baden, to whom that occupation was
specifically assigned. It would be a waste of
time for the Learned Counsel, as he thought, to
urge to their Lordships, the great importance of
that evidence which this person must be enabled
to give on an occasion like the present. It would
be a frivolous trifling with commonsense, to press
on the consideration of the House, that as this
person had been in constant attendance on
her Royal Highness, his testimony respecting her
conduct would be of the highest import. He
Was in close attendance on her person, by
special appointment, during her, Royal high-
ness's visit at that place ; and feeling the great
importance of his testimony, her Majesty was
desirous, as far as possible, to be armed against
the case in support of the Bill. Accordingly,
her Majesty, with her own hand, wrote a letter,
and sent it by a special messenger, of the most
respectable sort, to procure the attendance of the
witness in question. That letter, however,
did not obtain the production of that witness.
Her Majesty then wrote another letter, with hey
own hand, and sent it by another messenger—one
the Learned Counsel believed, to the Cham-
berlain, and the other to the Grand Duke. Three
letters were therefore written by the Queen, and
sent by special messengers, to procure the
attendance of this witness. It, however, appeared
that the Chamberlain himself was willing to
"come; but declared with tears in his eyes, that
~he had received express orders to the contrary
from the Grand Duke ; and accordingly, as
might be expected, he had not arrived. With
respect to the witnesses on the other side, the
Learned Counsel would remind their Lordships,
that by the interference of two Ministers and two
Ambassadors, one woman had been partly com-
. pelled to arrive, and this was the sort of opera-
`;lions that were carried on, and the species of
compulsive influence which was exerted all one
way. It would further appear, that her Ma-
jesty had at Radstadt seen a place which she was
desirous to occupy. No intention was expressed
by the Grand Duke to the contrary. The very
seine Chamberlain had, on that occasion, pro-
ceeded even to the length of purchasing new fur-
niture for this residence, when it was signified to
her -Majesty, that her inhabiting this place would
not be agreeable. This might have been another
reason for keeping back this Chamberlain, who
would have been so important a witness for her
Majesty. Again, her Majesty conceiving it de-
sirable that the conduct and character of Ber-
gami, while in the service of General Piuo,
should be ascertained, application was made to
that Officer to come to this country. He
also, the Learned Counsel believed, expressed
his willingness to come ; but an intimation
was given to him from the Austrian Govern-
ment, in whose service he now is, that if he did
come to this country he was not to come in his
uniform. So st!' ige an injunction excited the
gallant General's suspicious that it was thereby
intended he should lose his commission if he
obeyed the summons. He made inquiries. whe-
ther that was the signification intended to be
conveyed, but to those inquiries lie had received
no answer. Accordingly, General Pino had not
come, and would not come. These were some
of the hardships and difficulties under which her
Majesty laboured ; and, while compulsion was
exerted towards the witnesses on the other side,
for forcing their attendance on the House, a
milar degree of influence was manifested, to pre-
veimt,the attendance of some of those witnesses
necessary to the Queen's defence. There were
some physicians and lawyers too, the latter of
whom probably would be expected to have an
eye to the things that are, of whom it was impos-
sible to know until they came, how far their tes-
timon y might be considered necessary, but they
also were absent from the restraint of some such
indications of the wish of persons in power, as of-
ten plainly showed, that by No, they meant Aye,
and by Aye, No l He had thought it necessary
to make these observations to their Lordships,
although, in so doing, he had turned out of the
course which he had intended to pursue, as they
Feemed to him to place in a stronger light the
powerful and triumphant argument which his
Learned Friend had founded on their not calling
the proper witnesses. He begged now to make