The Sun.
London, England, 1820-09-08 00:00:00

Qn board the Ilomida, Captain Pechell
.was deSit'otis of affording every .facility to her
Royal Highness, but there was one circumstance he
wished
rii,lotos izrpiirieeses ohn
6 herbe Royalgied toihtlisigishtnoeils!, tAhersae
officer, he could not sit at the same table
with a man who had but lately beeri a Courier-
it would be " dishonouririff me,". he said, to do so,
Ind he sent a messagelo trial effect to her Royal
bights. At first she treated it 'lightly ; but, my
i Vrels, was that arrangement,made to save Capt.
R~ebliell froth the necessity of keeping up 2 tables?
01 and if it was, Capt. Pechell would have wished
such sacrifice. It could not benefit Captain
for he: had provided' fot Bergami elseWh-,-
ere.- One would have imagined this refusal
Was enough ; hilt, no, her Royal Highness take 4
a day or twb" to consider, refuses to make the sa-
c,r.ificeW requested' by the Captain, and Betgami
flies and associates with her. by do I men-
."
this-? To strew that the-course pursued by
L'er Royal Highness was not that fair, simple,
straightlforward, course which innocence •would
have observed and propriety have suggested. We
proceed
'to Catania, and there' we find the apart-
vueuts changed. Her Royal Highness slept in a
r."rn adjoining that of Dumont, and on the other
Tide of Dumont slept the ConnteSs of Oldi.—
ergami being ill was put in her room. Dur-
t4g the period . Dumont and Lebrun slept be-
ween the' rooms or the Princess and Bergami ;
they left -the room generally at nine o'elock
in the
the morning. Before that they snide no
Observation as to the doors. of the several
rooms-being closed or shut. But one morn-
ing,
about ten o'clock, het Royal Highness
Ids seen to come out of Bergami's room,
With the pillow under het 'arm on which she
1"11.ially slept ;• she sees Dumont, she eyes het,
passes to het': room without saying any
question
to her, contrary to her usual custom: No
grrtion was put on this part of the case by
,1-4 earned Counsel for her Majesty, but your
linr'ships thought' it right to put some queS-
fo--4* You asked Dumont if she were called on
aittend'her Majeity? To which. she answered
I °,' You asked her how long she was
107 t
? For two hours. Did she see her. Royal
11:gutless pass through her room ? No. So
at if her evidence 'be correct, Bergami and the
princess must have been for two hours toge-
ther On that morning. This, it may be said,
4.
aware
on the evidence of. Dumont; and I am
ItWare it is so = but fortified as it is. by all the
Other facts I have stated, facts now in evidence,
think your Lordships cannot doubt of the na-
ture of that intercourse described in the pream-
ble of this Bill. For the purpose, ho.wever, of
t4l, Peaching the testimony of Dumont, two of
ritee of her letters have been read, which are
f
of praises on the many virtues of her Royal
•.Ighness.‘ I have no interest to detract from
ti!lest praises, and knowing the race from which
her Royal Highness has sprung, I can easily be-
Here
however
that she possesses them. But generosity,
exalted, sensibility however amiable,
-4(l.charisty however bountiful, may exist in that
Person who has become the slave of a degrading
z.oljassi"- The history of ,the world shows they
2,3' co-exist
.nor is there any one who knows
various'at
but passions inhabit the human breast,
sharnrani.st lament such virtues should be lost in a
Lortietul and degrading intercourse. Look, my
at ths, at the scenes described at Pesaro—look
on "e miserable intrigue that has
.been carried
ra there,
and you can at once. see the view, cha-,
vi,,cter, and temper in which these letters, were
Bergami came to her while she was
4'l.l',ltmg them, he imposed upon her a relation
11: a tool of his Own ; she puts
.the letter with
f own hands into the Post-office ; and, on the
oh"'ing morning, to the disgrace of everyone
liceerned in the transaction,she finds it in the hands
he Princess. That was not only a breach "of pri-
Nt
e confidence, but an act of perfidious treachery.
th
at lother letter also was opened and altered, and in
th altered state put into the post-office; and
thence reached its destination. Why were those
on ,ejs stopped ? Because the correspondence
tie part of the maid,Brunet was carried on
earlY by the Princess herself. It appears that
t'ulont was attached to the Princess, and k-now-
honßl ho,
v the' letters would be intercepted, and
144: the correspondence was carried on,, she must
Rd known and felt they would of necessity
ththu their' way to her Royal llighness. 'When,
erefore yeur Lordships are. construing those
giverSs yoll mint attend to those circumstances,
nig, as they do the clue to those exaggerated
eraist,s .
001 of her Royal Highness, .and which were
,friY rneapt to conciliate her friendship and good
sai" to the sister of Dumont. , Something is
,Ofd tt4bout her coming over here in the situation
kno„,._governess'; but the moment it would be
dow" at Pesaro, she might think it would draw
sisters the indignation' of the *Princess against her
the sitl: and to avoid this and secure her sister in
itiear:,ittaattii ng on she then filled, she wrote these let-
that her Royal Highness could now
heme-I,llQ.fear she would ever bettay the secrets of
Irer 'toYa 1 Highness's household. Three letters
1), e produced and proved 'by Dumont to have
s"t; only ' two of Which were carefully
s ed by the Learned Gentlemen at the other
s'111:1;. h'Of
mode
• they had their reasons for
of proceeding ; but taking the
explanation
as well as the letters, your Lordships
hatlyst-he satisfied of theteal object for which they
tatieedheen written. Your Lordships have been
app, upon to impeach her testimony, because' it
d at' Variance with the tone of her, letters.
lit 1
cO,ll know..l am addressing persons who will
ca to i
° right and just conclusions,' and who
Writ ell me, fit is not obvious that they were
`
I) ten with the intention of being seen by her
us °)Tal
Ighness ; and if such be the case, to make
• the . her' .
" extr going to impeach testnpony.
avngant in the extreme. Many of the paS-
Les"instilienseas'letters were' expressly deSired to
it rie:trintlunicated to her' Royal Highness,,, 4.04 i
ta,n, ialmost natural- they should have been as
I\;crozie.ixfia€‘ttiliatistiomnaangyi.oof them were? On. the
this, what was ..elicited?,
join that the delicacy of tfie witness pre-
ner mentioning the name of a person