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London, England, 1820-09-02 00:00:00

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1820:

PUBLICATIONS.

This Day was published,

SECOND TOUR of DR. SYNTAX,
111. Vol. 11. A Poem written by the same AUTHOR, with
DESIGNS by the same Artist, THOMAS ROWLANDNON,
Esq.,
.with the some Arrangement of them both, as produced
the original Work with that Title, price 21s. boards.
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Picturesque," and may be 'had of all the-Booksellets in the
United Kingdom.
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Just published, •
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prier 21. Its.

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LVII. REPOSITORY of ARTS, also just publishrd,
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LONDON JOU IiNALS;

[DAILY EX TA.IIC TS.)

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS.

[Morning Post.]
TRIAL OF THE QUEEN.—The cross-examina-
tion of Mademoiselle Dumont commenced yester-
day, and never was any thing of the kind more
tedious or t4esome. The same questions, for the
most part of little or no_ importance, were put
four or six times over, without any variation in
the answers ; and all the ingenuity of Counsel
could not make the witness contradict any of
the statements which bear immediately upon the
matters of serious charge. Vast importance, it
is true, was affected to be attached to the consi-
deration of the progress she had made in acquir-
ing a knowledge of the English language, and
`ivhetlier one or more persons had ever styled her
a Countess ; and much pains were taken to make
her answer questions, which had nothing to do
with the main subject, and to speak to circum-
stances of which she had either no recollection or
no knowledge. The great object is evidently to
impeach the character of the witness, and many
close questions were put to her for this purpose--
with what' effect it is for our Readers to judge.
Upon a letter written by Mademoiselle Dumont
to her sister great stress appears to be laid by
the Queen's Counsel, and it is understood that
this document is to form a material part of the
defence. She was cross-examined as to the lead-
ing passages of it, in which she speaks highly
of her late Royal Mistress, and as if to explain
some. circumstance, says she would surrender half
her life if the Princess could read her heart. The
witness acknowledged that she might have writ-
ten to this effect, 'because she was at the time
attached to the Princess—(a natural and be-
corning sense of gratitude on her part). The
course pursued in this respect was, however,
pronounced to be irregular, and it Ni-as de-
cided by the Judges that her Majesty's Coun-
sel had no right to put questions to the wit-
ness respecting parts of the letter unless the
letter itself was read. Some discussion took place,
and the witness having acknowledged some
letters produced to have been written by her, it
was agreed that they should be read this day,
when the cross-examination will be resumed.
One of the letters states that an invitation had
been given to her, in an unsigned letter,' to come
to England as a Governess, where she would
make a rapid fortune, and that she might draw
upon a Banker for a considerable sum. In re-.
ference to this passage of the pretended letter
alluded to, she was very -mirutely asked whether
she had any promise of recompense or advantage
made to her for giving evidence on the present
occasion ? She distinctly and repeatedly replied
that she had never received any such promise—'
that she did not expect any recompence beyond
die payment of the expense of her journey—and
that she did not believe she should receive any
thing more.

[Morning Chronicle.]

The evidence of Madame Dumont, as our readers
will see Irma the Report, was very much injured by. her cross-
examination. Had it. not been for this circumstance, the case
would probably have. closed with her ; but it will now be
deemed advisable, we presuthe, to adduce additional evidence.
The House of Lords may nut therefore adjourn so soon as was
expected. The effect of the disclosures of Mademoiselle Do-
snout 'sill hardly, Go,wever, be' confined to her own evidence.
The knowledge of the circumstances stated by her in her let-
ters to her sister; that large offers and promises were made to
her for her evidence, that she had received a power of dr..w-
i!ig to any amount, and that she expected high protection and
brilliant fortene from her journey to London, may go far to
throw a discredit on the evidence of all the foreign witnesses.
At all events the Attorney-General must see t bat if he can-
not explain these circumstances satisfactorily, a great de-
of suspicion will necessarily be thrown over his case.
It it is ascertained that large offers of reward have been made
to any one witness in this-case, the natural presumption is,
that offers have also been made to others. The disposition to
make use of such means of obtaining evidence, once proved.
few persons will require that in every instance the actual offer
,of reward should he established. We all know, that to those
who are disposed to purchase evidence, and possess an unli-
mited ability to pay for it, there can be little difficulty, some
countries at least, of obtaining the commodity of which they
are in want. Unfortunately for those who bring forward these
witnesses, the most of them are from a country peculiarly ob-
noxious to the imputation of indifference to truth or false•
• hood ; we saw if this disposition is proved, for we are aware,
that however suspicious appearances are, any opinion on the
subject is vet 'premature ; hut Mademoiselle llninont:sdoeb/e
entendre Was not a happy mode of removing the suspicion.

[Morning Herald.]

A discussion arose yesterday among the Lords
as to the mode in which•the Queen's Counsel had questioned
the witness respecting the letters, and the Lord Chancellor,
with the sanction of the House, put the following questions
tothe Judges:—

1. Whether in the Courts below, a party in cross•exa-
❑tination should be allowed to ask questions as to the con-
tents of a letter, without first spewing that letter to the
witness ?

hether, in the Courts below, if two lines of a letter
'only Were shown, a witness should be questioned as to hav-
ing written that letter ?"
The Judges, after consultation, answered both propositions
in the negative. Mr. Williams was !him proceeding with his
cross examination'of the witness, wheh another Question of
evidence was started, and referred to the Judges. It was—
{f Whether the witness would be examined in the Courts he-
low as to the contents of a paper which the witness admitted
to be his or it,r hand-writing, and in what stage the letters
should be given in—now, or in the case for the defence ?"
The Judges put a negative upon both; hut-, under the pe-
culiar circumstances, they might be pot in on the cross-ex-
amination, if a Sri ilicient reason wereshown by Compel. The
result was, that Mr. Brougham and his 'colleagues declined
making their election as to the time of putting in the letters
until this morning.

• ['New Times.]
The Times states, that besides the Ten Thou-
sand pounds lately advanced to her Majesty, she some months
ag„ had an equal sum" supplied from the Treasury. Here
tie„ are Twenty Thousand Pounds paid •to a person who was
lately described as a poor female without pecuniary ruein

EPRICE SEVENPENCE.

of defence. We of course presume that the whole of these
Twenty Thousand Pounds go in necessary Law Ex-
pvnces ; but if we COUld conceive it possible for either
party to bribe Witnesses ; if we thought that Italians
could be hired for a gain( a a-piece to swear any thing;
in short, if we could credit, as against the Queen, a
thousandth part of the infamous slanders which the infa-
mous Journal above-nientioued has lavished upon the most
hrruourable men in the kingdom, what an abundant harvest
of per ury should we not expect front so large a supply of mo-
ney ! We, however, take it fur granted that the whole Twenty
Thousand Pounds has been applied, under the strict control
of her Majesty's great Law Officers, to the necessary ex-
penses of her defence, and to no other object. Still it
would be gratifying to the public to see sonic account of
the arproprimion. Even the MoncheAter SlS'erefs' Com-
mittee put forth a statement of the mode in which the sums
levied on popular gullibility were applied : and we had the
satrsfaction of seeing how large a part of it went into the
porkets of the respectable Gect:emsn who bad earned it by
their great zeal it, the public cause. in the present instance,
the publication 'could be the more.advisable, inasmuch as it
would clear away certain doubts which bad began to be toter-
taineol as to the source front whence,Cobbett, The Times, and
the other seditio,us papers, were paid. We, for our part, never
entertained the least suspicion that her Majesty had de-
scended to hire these writers. There is probably some other,
fund, to which they, as well as, the Placard Manufacturers
look for campensat ; but it would he as well that we should
see it clearly proved, in figures, that no part of the Twenty
Thousand Pounds went that way. If any thing, could make
its suspect au unfairness in the mode of applying the money:
in question, it would be the extraordinary soreness evinced
by The Times at the disclosure of. a fact which there surely
could be no honest reason for keeping secret. The motive
for such a publication it says, " was unhandsome"—" was
malignant.' Strange that this patriotic Journal should wish
to conceal from the People how the People's money is spent

[The Times.]

Ohe ! jam satis est ? Well we suppose the
second conspiracy against the Queen—more filthy than the
first—is decided by the cross;examination of yesterday We
do not apprehend it can now be persevered in any longer..
Oh, Madame Dtlitiont,Countess Colombia, you have decidedly
settled your employers! We confess, for our own parts, that
though we were convinced the day before yesterday, what kind
of woman she was, yef we could not have conceited she had
been so bad as she was yesterday proved to be. If any indepen-
dent-minded man entertains any doubt of the innocence of the
Queen. and of the foulness of the conspiracy against her, let
him read .the for-ever-memorable cross-examination of yes-
terday; and the n, if be is not convinced, his mind, we wilt
say, possesses some other quality besides independence—it
must be a little distracted or crazed. Even those who possess
no claini to independence, we suppose., can hardly now
slander on any longer. The cause is ended ; but it is still
remarkable, and cannot fail of hieing considered so by pos-
terity, that in the midst of these perjuries and bri-
be, ies, no one has had the hardiness to swear to any
adultery; it is also singular that this
td,i.lr7tMaadettmeof or lll ioiselle Dinmont, Countess of Co-
lombia, who node her Majesty's bed for three years, ab-
stained from swearing to any of those appearances front
which a sexual intercourse might have been inferred. A Ger-
man chambermaid was, therefore, brought to swear that there
were such in a bed in which a fi how had slept alone fur we
know nut how long. Did the inventor of this notable proof
of adultery never read the inquiry made of Pope Gregory by
King Ethelberi's missionary, mentioned in Home.