The Sun.
London, England, 1820-10-09 00:00:00

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• not, say to any person, cc that such things were
going on in the hOuse, that no woman of charac-
ter could remain titre." It is, therefore, pos-
sible that she may have said this : she admits that
cc reports were abroad, of so degrading a nature,
as to operate on her mind to make her wish not
to remain longer in the service of the Princess of
Wales," and she says, " she has some idea that
those reports must have been mentioned in the
letter in question." Under these circumstances,.
it would have been highly satisfactory that the
letter could have been found—but the letter is
not forthcoming !!! If Mademoiselle Dumont
bad forgotten a material fact; if she had admitted
that this fact was stated in a letter addressed to
herself; and if she had been a married woman
under circumstances similar to those of Lady Char-
lotte, can any body doubt but that she would have
been most strictly, most severely cross-examined
by the Learned Counsel for her Majesty as to the
manner in which she had disposed of the letter
—Upon the whole, little way has yet been made
in the defence. The principal witnesses speak
only to the few months that her Majesty was at
Naples, while Bergami wore his couriet's dress
and waited at table. At this time ber Majesty
was certainly more guarded in her conduct than
she afterwards became ; she was attended by her
English suite, and visited by persons of respecta-
bility both English and foreign. Lord Guildford
was at Naples only three or four days while the '
Queen was there. He, came with his sister, Lady
Charlotte Lindsay, ,who accompanied her Ma-
jesty from thence to Rome and Civita Vecchia,
where Lord Guildford joined them, and having
waited a few days for the frigate, they sailed
with her Majesty for Leghorn, where they sepa-
rated from the Queen, who proceeded to Genoa;
so that they were only twenty-four days in the
Queen's society in Italy, with the exception of
a short complimentary visit afterwards paid
by his Lordship to the Villa d'Este., Even this
very short tim, however, affords quite as much
matter for forgetfulness as for remembrance, as
we have shewn in another column, under the head
of Non mi ricordo. If such is the case with
persons of the rank and acquirements of these noble
persons, examined as they were with every atten-
tion to.their feelings, how much more mist it be
expected in an ignorant courier like Majocci,
cross examined with the utmost severity, by such
Counsel as those of her Majesty ! Sir Wm. Gel!,
Mr. Craven, their-two servants, and Siccard, all
parted from her Majesty when she left Naples.
The last mentioned witness came to England; the
others did on one or two occasions see her Ma-
jesty for, very short periods of time ; and -the
visits of Lords G lenbervie and Llandaff were also
very short. A vast field is' yet to be traversed.
The rapid rise in the fortunes of all the Bergamis
is to be accounted for, the extraordinary famili-
arities to be explained, the numerous indecencies
to be refuted, the bath scene, the sleeping in the
tent, and the other fi•equent opportunities of cri-
minality to be got over, in some way or other,
which we cannot yet anticipate.