The Sun.
London, England, 1820-10-25 00:00:00

PROCEEDINGS OF THIS DAY.

This _morning- the Loan CHANCELTA3I3, entered
the House within four minutes of ten o'clock,
upon which prayers were read as usual, when the
customary call was.proceeded with. Several of
the Peers were absent, and Counsel were called
in at twenty minutes past ten. After a short
pause, allowing; time for their Lordships to settle
in their, places, •
Mr. DENKA_N• resumed. his summing-up in de-
fence of. her Majesty.—The Learned -Counsel
said, that he was now naturally brought, by the
circumstances of the case, to state that event, so
intimately connected with an individual who en-
tered the service of her Royal Highness at Milan,
and upon .whom the whole of the charges with
reference to that Illustrious. Personage must ne-
cessarily turn. The name of that individual, so
conspicuous in the preamble of the Bill; so often
brought before their Lordships, and so trumpeted
from one end of Europe to the other, it was al-
most unnecessary for him to mention. From the
evidence it appeared, that this person entered
her Royal Highness's service in October 1814,
and he would venture to assert, without fear of
contradiction, that no individual had ever enter-
ed a service with fairer or better prospects. Ile
might, in proof of this, refer their Lordships to
the evidence of Mr. Keppel Craven, who.on his
oath had stated, -that the Marquis who r*ecom,
mended:him as a Courier to -her Royal Highness
had ,hiMself not only treated Bergami on a foot-
ing of equality, but always saluted him when
they happened to meet, as a military officer. The
-family of that individual were originally of no
common rank, nor destitute of fortune to sup-
port their conditiorr in life, and this individual
had himself seen much better days ; but the
eventful year of 181.4, which was rendered me-
morable by the influence of the French Revolu-
tion in foreign parts; had changed the fortune of
this person. Ile had only to refer them to page
547 of their Minutes, where they would find
that the Nobleman he mentioned had always
treated Bergami with the highest distinc-
tion, though compelled by adverse circumstances
to seek a lower state or employment. Ho:
could assure their Lordships that in saving this
he was not defending the character of Bergami,
except as a person who had been received into
the service of her Royal Highness on a good re-
commendation, and his conduct was so proper,
that in the course of the following twelve months
he had the gratification to be promoted in her
service. The Learned Counsel, however, on
the other side, objected that he wore livery at.
fir/A7 lie trusted that, in alluding to this, he
shou!il experience the liberality of their Lord-
ships, vri.w,, of all other men, must be aware that
the livery a Royal Courier was not like any
other livery, ze..kd could never be supposed to
disgrace any indi6Jual by whom it was worn.
:It was equally true, niso, that Bergatni was first
promoted from the emp!ovment of a Courier to
the situation of a Page, and then to the dignity

of ,Chamberlain, by her Royal Highness. He
would not deny, iu stating these circumstances,
that it was desirable her Royal Highness should
have selected some person of high rank to have
filled so important a part ; but he trusted they
would consider her situation at the tune, and the
difficulty, if not the impossibility, of her pro-
curing a person fitted to it. Was it to be sup-
posed that any Englishman of rank would have
entered into her service in the same capacity at
that period, and run the risk of incurring the
displeasure of his Court at home ? Of those per-
sons of consideration who had remained in her
Royal Highness's suite, their Lordships would
observe that Mr. Keppel Craven had left her
service on account of his desire to visit
his mother, and that Sir William Gell, when
informed of the long travels, on which the
Princess was prepared to set out, was not inclin-
ed to accompany her. Such were the circum-
stances in which she found it necessary to select
some person, not only to attend, but to protect
her ; and he would, therefore, put it to the can-
dour of their Lordships, if her Royal Highness,
so situated, could have done better than confer
on au individual, who was originally of some
rank, who had acquired some character as a mili-
tary man, and who had proved his fidelity in her
service, to promote him to a higher rank, while
not passing over any one of her suite who merited
the same favour ?

He (Mr. Dsteaue.s) trusted their Lordships would not for-
get, that it formed one of the distinct privileges of Royalty,
so to prefer persons of even an inferior rank in life ; nor that
from the time he was so preferred, that person was entitled
to take that precedence which Royalty had assigned him. It
was not for him, therefore, to inquire why Captain Nelsen
thought it became him not to sit down to dinner with Bergaun ,
when seated at the same table with her Royal Highness, since
the Royal favour could at any time elevate the person on whom
its distinctions were conferred. But it had been proved by the
evidence of M. Sicard, that it was necessary, when her Royal
Highness was at Naples, to have a guard placed near her,
accordingly, it was arranged that Bergami should be
placed in the Cabinet wink!) adjoined the garden of the
house, and this arrangement was made without the know-
ledge of her Royal Highness. If, iu that capacity, it was
proved that Bergami had discharged his duty faithfully, he
was entitled to promotion on the part of her Royal High-
ness, for nobody could doubt Irons the evidence before the
House, that her Royal Highness was then surrounded
by spies, and in personal danger. What was more like-
ly, Heels, after the departure of Sicard, than that her
Royal [highness would be more exposed than ever, if Ber-
gatui had not been promoted in his place ? If he were
asked fur a reason why Bergami WM{ promoted as Chamber-
lain of the Household, it should be observed, that lee had
hien accustomed to keep accounts, and he would appeal to
their Lordships themselves, whether, to get rid of the trouble
of keeping such accounts, and knowing that they would he
faithfully kept by-another, was not of itself a sufficient rea-
son to promote an honourable mass to that important post?
With respect to Sicard, he was obliged to return to England
on his own concerns; and, besides, he bad become quite
unfit to fill the situation. In talking of his successor
it should be recollected, they were still speaking of a person
who had generally hilt) a high character in his military sta-
tion, and who was recommended by a, Noble Marquis. Nur
mast it lie forgotten that when nergausi thus entered .on his
duty, he bud to encounter a host of enemies, who fancied
they were capable of occupying the same post ; and their
Lordships would find, owing to jealousy and impatience, that
there was not one discarded servant of tier Royal Highness's
who neglected to complain of Bergacai's elevation, and sup-
posed they ought to have been. promoted to the same rank.—
But, he would ask their Lordships, if there was any other per-
son whom her Royal Highness could have so properly pro-
moted from among her suite ? It was among her virtues
that she loved talents, rewarded merit, and .:Isupathized with
persons of lower rank ; and, as it often happened to such
minds, evert her virtues were turned into vices. 'lbis was pre-
cisely the case with regard to the child Victorine, who was
thrown in her Royal Highness's way at Genoa, the fact being,
that she never knew the child, otherwise than as a natural
child, and accordingly took it under her protecting care. An
allegation of the same description, as their Lordships might
recollect, with respect to another childos'ae made against her
Royal Highness, as far back as the year 1,906, when an inquiry
took place. He would admit, that such an inquiry was proper at
that time, because circumstances then created suspicion on ac-
count of the extreme youth of the child, but in this instance,
such an ;tiltgallon was inure than improbable—it was utterly
impossible. After the promotion of Bergami to his distin-
guished post, it was necessary that Isis appearance should
correspond with the high station he filled. What indeed
would the accusers of hes Itoyal Highness have said, if instead
of his being ostensibly brought forward, he load still retained
the livery of a Courier, skulked into the kitchen with the ser-
vants, and stole about at midnight to gratify a criminal pas-
sion !—What further would have been said it tier Royal High-
ness had nut informed Captain Pechell of the distinctions
to which Bergami had been advanced by her, and permitted
lulu to wait behind tier chair, while contriving to enjoy
sonic stolen hours of lust in any Gans, but not before the
English. Bergami had therefore now become the Baron
Franchino in order to give consequence to his commands;
but their Lordships were not to suppose, they could not sup-'
pose, that this title at all resembled those Baronies which
were derived from their ancestors at Runnymede ; sucln titles
were purchased for a trifle, and abroad it was a deroga-
tion of rank not to possess them. When, therefore, her
Royal Highness had advanced Ber,ami to so high a
situations, it was necessary that he should acquire a title of
some kind ; and their Lm.dships were aware that such titles
were not held in very high estimation in foreign countries.
Evens since the examination of messes had commenced
at their bar, there was scarcely one of his Learned Friends
who had not received letters from Italy in which the
writers had designated them as lords, and even Isis excel-
lent friend, Mr. Vixard, had been desired, by one of the wit-
nesses who would voluntarily. have come forward on be-
half of the Queen, to procure lodgings as near as pos
sible to his Lorelehip's palace.-:—(Laughter.)—As to the alle-
gation with erespect to Bergami's having got Its family to
wait on her Royal Higtincss, he conceived that it belonged
to the Maiirc d' Hotel to select those persons who were to
compose the Princess's suite, and there was nothing more
natural than that such an officer should endeavour to serve
his own relations, but there was in reality no mystery in
this matter, and be himself was willing to declare that,
ins Isis opinion, her Royal Iliglsness's favour had justly, fair-
ly, prudently, and properly been extended to Bergami, and,
he would add, that there was nothing more proper than the ad-
vancement of that individual, on whom alone Ilse charge
of criminality was built. The Learned Counsel then
tauched on the scene of the polacca, and contended, that even
tit r evidence of Nlajocci did not prove that Bergami was
under the tent. Adverting to what had been urged by
'the Learned Counsel for the Bill, he chewed that Du-
mont had deposed to the same arrangesnent bolts homewards
and outwards. It wee absolutely tot, much to inter from
seeing Bergami hand her Royal -Highness down the hatch-
way that Ise slept every night tinder the tent. Notts:nig
was more natural, he would admit, than that a female
should attend her on • deck whin the weather was fair, but
not in tempests aunt danger. This indeed was substantiated
by the evidence of Lieutenant Flynn.—(Left Speaking )

SUN-OFFICE, Haff-past Four.
Mr. DENMAN finished at four o'clock, when

the House Adjourned till to-morrow morning.—

Dr. LUSHINGTON is also to be beard on the part

of the QUEEN, and afterwards the ATTORNEY

and SOLICITOR-GENERAL in reply.

From MO LONDON GAZETTE of Oct. 24.

BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED.

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merchant, from Oct. 28, to Nov. I I, at ten, at Guildhall.

BAN KRUPTi.
Edmund Hauxwell,,Dewsbury, Yorkshire, spirit-merchant.
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William Ulph, Norwich, bombasin-manufacturer.
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