The Sun.
London, England, 1820-10-04 00:00:00

HOUSE OF LORDS, Oct. 4.

THE QUEEN.
This morning the LORD CHANCELLOR entered
ttte House at ten minutes to ten o'clock, after
which prayers were read by the Bishop of Bass-
-roe, and the call of the House was proceeded
With. Excuses were made for the absence of se-
veral Peens, among whom were the Earls of
Scarborough and Buckinghamshire, and the Duke
cf Northumberland. There were afterwards
iresented at the Bar Copies of all Correspond-
ence between his Majesty's Government and the
Legal Advisers. and Agents of the Queen, re-
Fivcting the Money applied for and &chanced to
her Majesty at ditterent times.
DEFENCE OF FIER MAJESTY.
CotnEei were now called in, when the Defence
of her Majesty was resumed.
Mr. Bnoconaeat said, that with no want of care
aakt prep; ration in, this important case, with un-
!hhited means to bring evidence in support of it,
:red with bouudless resources to bring their
faculties into play, there was one deft-
ienev in the Counsel on the other side—
at-•!iieLii,:y so remarkable in the balance
of evideoce, as must have struck every body who
bate glanced over the printed minutes of their
Lerdships' Hoth:e. This consisted in the vast
cif-proportion of the evidence as it respected the
greeter Statt.!, to that while all the Italian States,
cven to the least and meanest of all, had been
reasacked to furnish materials of accusation
against the Queen, the moment their Lordships
had crossed the Alps, there was but one solitary
name a.s the representative of Switzerland, and
only one .deputy from the whole body of the
Cerrnanic,States, who had either the courage or
the effrontery to appear in the
_character of wit-
nesses at that bar. Not one had been produced
from Vienna, not one from Brunswick, the birth
place of her Majesty ; and the only one disco-
iered on this side of the Alps in that direction
was a cellar-maid, or an assistant to a cellar-
man. These latter were the witnesses on whom
so much reliance was placed ; and here he begged
to recall their Lordships' attention to the evidence'
of Barbara Krantz, the cellar-maid, which he.
sihould do by referring to her own account of •
herself. Now, to go back to her earlier years, it
appeared from her own evidence, that from the
tender age of 13, she had been a chambermaid at
a German Inn. 'Where she had lived after that,
it was not in the first instance quite so easy to
• discover, but eventually -this impediment was re-
moved by due attention to the account of Krantz
herself, whom it was only necessary to make
her own biographer. At one time she had a master,
but in all other instances she had lived in Inns,
and in no other place, with this solitary exception.
Bat she was asked what induced her to give her
evidence at that bar, and be begged their Lord-
ships' attention here ; for it appeared there had
beeo no lack of agents. There might, however,
be no impropriety in the Minister of Wirtern-
, berg doing that which would not be considered
;mite so justifiable in a private man, though the
t...Arone of that country had. been filled by the
P:ncess Royal of England, to which circutn-
seance, perhaps, the connection might be traced.
Ti-,F_.,se active and unscrupulous agents thought
that conduct was justifiable in themselves, which
would be thought disgraceful in an individual.
01-7;,, of these agents for instance, the Minister of
Grand Duke, who was residing in apartments
of I:is own, heard that the Queen was about to ar-
rive, when he gave them up to her, artfully relin-
ce_rished them, under the pretence of accommodat-
ing her It. Highness, and on the very day she left
them, he, accordingly, to use Krantz's words,
was seen running up and down prying into .beds,
alai examining into every hole and corner, in or-
der to collect some materials for accusation.—
Eat there was one capacity in which this indefa-
tigable instrument did not think proper to appear.
ire had not ventured to come forward to their
Lords:lips' bar and face that reprobation which
lieeti-inst have met . with, though in reality, he
was a most material witness to confirm the
cely witness from Carlsruhe, if peradventure
be could. Let their Lordships look at the
contradictory account that Krantz had gi-
ven of her motives for corning here. First
of all she pretended she was to have nothing for
it, then she adreitted she had made a -bargain to
be compensated for her loss of time ; bait she did
nut say what she had reason to have expected, if
if she had• trade no 'bargain at all, or with
what liberality it would have been meted out
to her. He bade. their Lordships realm-
b e'r, if iedeed they could have forgotten it,
her evidence on this particular, point. When
asked what she bad given to her, or promised her,
-Let answer was; " little, little, very little.'! At
length, leowever, the secret was wrung out from
her 11 asking if the reward w'as to be greater than
her wages, when it turned out that it amounted to
rebout double the annual sum she received for
wages and perquisites in any one year.—,
Now hee put it to ,their Lordships would any
men of common sense or honesty pretend
to say that he believed this woman, who,
in the first instance, could not recollect the sum
she was to have, but who afterwards had admit-
ted-that it was tri,in;h greater than her wages ?
There were also great equivocations is
,her de-
tails of the case as to her going to Madame Oldi's
room, and whether the Queen was really there e
for all that was hroved was, that M. Oldi was
not in the room at the time. Why, therefore, he
would ask, did not the Ambassador Grimes come
forward in such a caae, and why did not others
come forward who might have corroborated the
teatimony of Krantz ? But it was necessary onca -
again to cross the Alps, as-all the rest of the wit-
IIeSSCS were mere make-weights employed to fill
dip the intervals and hive extent to the scene.
°thing was more unlikely than that the cir-
ahimatantes to which -the greater part of these
"vithesses had testified AbOld be permitted.to be
seen by mortal eyes, .and even by the lowest of
411 characters. He inifo3 remind their LordshipS
of the boat scene, whare eleven men were in the
boat, and with the extravagance and folly of

which every one mutt have been struck. Why
had not some of these men been called to that
bar ? The witnesses had said nothing to any one,
their lips were hermetically sealed till they came
before the Commissioner at Milan, when their
tongues were liberated at once. Did they in the
long space of ten months, see nobody to talk
to? Boatmen, it was well known, were ac-
customed to tell. stories, in order to amuse
passengers. It was very .-e-range then tit* no-
body should have heard of these transac-
them, that not even one fellow servant should
have mentioned them to another all that time.
How many of their Lordships were so restricted
and courtly in their intercourse with mankind, as
not to have mentioned such things, supposing
they had come fairly to their knowledge, and
were under no injunction not to mention
them ? 01 this he was certain, that he could
hardly name one Gentleman in private life, unless
enjoined secresy, who would not have made
somebody wiser in such a case by conversing
with him. Yet these persons in inferior life, no-
torious in general for communicativeness, had
kept it a secret till they got to Milan,' that at
one time they saw the Princess of Wales kissing
her servant in an open boat, and riding out with
him at another time in a manlier not to be men-
tioned. These and other sights so portentous, so
frightful, so dismaying,. so disgusting, were
kept profoundly , secret, for the edification
of the Milan Commissioners, and not mentioned
till the observers got there. Then they could be
kept secret no longer, the moment it crossed
their imaginations that a reward might be earn-
ed. Did not their Lordships recollect one of
them as he stood at their Bar, did they not re-
collect his lecherous lip, the prominent expres-
sion of his nose, his gloating eye, while describ-
ing scenes of filthiness at their Bar, like
the ancient taylor, who gloated through the eye
of his needle. lie would declare for himself that
he beheld him still, that he never could, and
never would forget him, that he at any rate
should not escape this perjurer of Trieste, whom
he would prove to have sworn most falsely when
he deposed that the Queen had slept twice at
Trieste. She had slept only one night there,
.and went to the Opera, and that was the
truth. Let their Lordships look at the
foolish stories of displaying pictures, and put -
ting, on bracelet chains, with other trumpery
got up to concert with it, and must they not be-
lieve that the Italians of the present day were
what the Great Master of the Drama had deli-
neated them in past days, when he employed the
same evidence, from precisely the same country,
for the very same vile purposes, to work on the
too credulous and unsuspicious minds of the
people of this land ? Haying now disposed of
the characters of those who had so disgracefully
figured at their Lordships' bar, he would proceed
to the several heads of charges which assumed the
shape of indictment, though under the disguise
of a Bill of Pains and Penalties. The charge,
then, originated at Naples, where the Prin-
cess of \Vales, if the evidence against her'
was to be believed, had first committed a,
character which had been proved spot-
less till then. Spotless, he vyould say, if there
were truth in evidence, or benefit in acquit-
tal. Her Royal Highness had then under-
gone two searching inquiries, which were fol-
lowed by two solemn acquittals ; and even
the censure for levity was expunged from
the record, and she was not only recommended
to be received, but was actually received
at Court. Having thus come pure out of
the fire, by the advice and the recommendation
of some noble persons who were now sitting in
judgment on her, who had -low accused her, how
could they, he would ask, incline to believe the
new fabrications of her calumniators ? But her
Royal Highness,as he had stated just now, arrived
in Italy, where she hired a servant of whom he
should have something to say by and by, and
within a few short months, it seemed she had
consented to her D w degradation,• and from the
mistress of the servant she became the mistress
of the lover. If, however, their Lordships could
not believe the transactions that were stated to
have happened on the second night after her
arrival there, as sworn to by Majocci and Du-
mont, the remainder of the story must fall.—
the first instance, then, it appeared by
their testimony that the Princess went by the
most circuitous way and the least safe, to the
fatal room. And how, he would ask, was that
room prepared on the very first night for
the reception of two such persons who de-
signed to indulge their guilty loves ? - Only
one snail iron bedstead, whose dimensions
would hardly receive a single person, was
deposed as sufficient for their use, and this in a
house where every room was provided with -a
comfortable bed,and when in that very room there
was a larger bed, but which had no she6ts, and
was left untouched, and only the little iron bed-
stead used. It would be remembered that such
was the import of the evidence at first, but after-
wards the witness had recollected that the larger
bed was tumbled, and an impression of two ,
persons in the middle, with stains upon it,
but what these stains were she did not
know. Was it likely, he would ask their
Lordships, that this woman could have for-
gotten any one material fact, when she was first
placed at the bar, knowing that she came over
to prove an adultery. This woman, who had vo-
lunteered to depose that the Queen came home
early from the Opera that night all agitation,
whereas it would be proved that she had re-
rnained till the Opera would be over. lie
would also shew, that another part of the
ceased
ewas untrue, for that Austin had
long
before to sleep in the Queen's
room. Another night, but the hour was not
stated, the same witness saw Bergami coming
cut naked from his room, except his shirt, and
making towards the Corridor, where -the Queen's
chamber was situated. The witness', does not
start at Bergami in his shirt, neither does
Bergami - recede, but he goes on with the
knowledge that the witness must have Seen him,

with even more alacrity than a husband is ac-
customed to repair to his tvife.
Here the Learned Counsel commented on the
scene at Catania, and the circumstances said to
have taken place during Bergami's sickness, who
was seized with a fever and laid up for some
weeks, more as a patient than a lover, and there-
fore not likely to attract the particular love of
the Queen. He added, that her Majesty ought
to be forgiven, if the Omptedas and Majocci's
had narrowed that confidence in humanity which
.was first shaken by the perfidy of the Doug-
lases ; and he fervently hoped that, not-
withstanding her sad experience of the
ingratitude of mankind, she was not even
now nourishing another viper of the same
breed in her bosom. Here the Learned
Counsel was so much exhausted, that for some
moments he was obliged to pause.

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THE SUN.

SOLEAI QUIZ DICERE FALSUit AUDEAT

LONDON,
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBI4R 4, 1820.

The awful and melancholy investigation which
has so long and so painfully agitated the Nation,
and which, no doubt, has strongly excited the at-
tention of the World in general,was resumed yester-
day. We:gave an account yesterday of part of the
proceedings of the Court, and we give the remain-
der this day. Never did a more calamitous Inquiry
occupy the attention of a Government, and distract
the tranquillity of a People, but the conviction
that nothing but fair and substantial justice will
be the final result, must be consoling and satis-
factory to the Nation. We feel it to be our duty,
as a Public Journalist, to give the opinions of
the Writers on both sides, in order to gratify
the curiosity and to assist the judgment of our
Readers in general on this important subject,
but we cannot withhold our reprobation of the
freedom with which each Party have delivered
those opinions. It is equally wrong to infer in-
nocence after such heavy accusations, supported
by apparently such consistent evidence, as to in-
fer guilt without hearing the defence. We shall
do neither, but calmly wait till the conclusion of
the whole, sincerely wishing, rather than hoping,
as hope would in some degree be prejudication,
that the subject of the inquiry may come out of
it with-a full restoration of character.--We have
inserted the proceedings of this day, up to the
time when we were necessarily obliged to put
our Paper to Press.

We received this morning the Paris Papers of
Sunday last. The Monileur contains a Royal
Ordonnance, issued in commemoration of the
birth of the Duke of BocanEAux, nominating
the tsardinal de la LUZERNE, the Cardinal de
13AussET, the Arbishop of BouaDEAux, and the
Abbe de MoNTEsQuiou, Commanders of the
Order of Saint Esprit, and also nominating a
number of Knights Commanders of the same
Order, including the Prince de TALLEYRAND,
Six Marshals, the Duke DEcAZES, MM. LUNE, de
SERRE, &c.—The following are extracts :

" PARIS, OCT. I.—The King received yesterday new`con-
gratulations on the part of the Princes and Princesses of the
blood. The Cardinal de Perhzord paid his respects to the
King at noon. I3is Majesty afterwards transacted business
with the Duke de Richelieu.

"'f 111111) BULLETIN of the Health of her Roy Highoess

the Duchess c:e

" Her Royal Highness passed the evening well, but about
two in the morning she experienced some pains, which ~Ver,
promptly got rid of. Her Ruyal Highness has since slept
tranquilly.
" His Royal Highness the Dul;c of Bordeaux continues to
enjoy the best heal; h. The Prince has tuk•en the hreaA se-
veral times during the night.

" 8 A. M.
FOURTH BULLETIN.-30th Sept., 8, r.

" Her Royal Hixhnes;" awaked at nine in the morning ;
she has passed the day very well.
" His floyal Highness the Duke of Boutdeaux continues to
take the breast well from his nurse ; he is in the most satis-
factory state.
"Tuesday, a Te Drum will be chaunied in the Metropoli-
tan Church, in thanhsgiring for the birth of the Doke of
Bordeaux. There will also bepublicitjoieinst isrthe Champs
Elyses, marriages of poor girls in the Municipalities, hie-
works, &C.