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London, England, 1820-10-27 00:00:00

0LJ)713-711-(Till DAY.)

BANK. PROSECUTIONS.—On the sitting of the
Court the following persons were put to the Bar,
charged with.having in their possession, and with
putting off forged notes of the Bank of England,
they well knowing them to be so :—J. Cred-
land, J.S. Heath, arias Thompson, John Matta-
snn„ Thos._ Whitty, Mosts, Bahnister, Reuben
Davy, Robert Greenhill, 'William Badham, John
Moon, Richard Stevens, Wm. Smith, Phillis
Johns, Anne Prince, Anne Clifton, and Rachel
•Herbert., These prisoners all pleaded Guilty to
the minor offence of having notes in their pos-
F session, which subjects them to transportation for
fourteen years ; they were accordingly acquitted
of the capital charge. The folloWing pleaded
Not Guilty vnerally, and will be put on their
trials Air the capital offence :-----LAnne Dean, Susan
Dillon, Eliz. Slater, Eliz. Smith, Eliz. Birne,
and Th4tnas Johnson.
Yesterday fifteen prisoners were tried? three
of whom were . capitally convicted, :
Thornag EatUn, Thomas Hunt, John Hughes, for assaulting
Joel Pilke on the King's highway, and taking from his person
a watch and other articles. N. B. Eaton also capitally con-
victed for a rubbery on the persOn of
,Jatnes Perkins.—Elton
and Hunt also capitally convicted for a robbery on the person
of Mr. Berths, on the highway.

To nispcasE A Aron. —Many means have been
had recourse to for the dispersion of mobs,
and the allaying of popular tumults. In St.
Petersburg, (go travellers say) a fire-en-
gine playing upon them does not always cool
their choler ; but were a few hives of bees thus
employed, their discomfiture would be certain.
The experiment has been tried.. Lesser tells us,
that in 1525, during the confusion occasioned by
a time of war, a mob of peasants assembling at
Hohasteih (in Thuringia), attempted to pilfer the
house- of the Minister of Elende who, having
in vain employed all his eloquence to dissuade
them from their design, ordered his domestics to
fetch his bee-hives, and throw them in the middle
-of this furious mob. The effect was what might
be expected ; they were immediately put to ;Light,
and happy if they escaped unstung.

Bozo-STREET.---Yesterday Mary and Cutherin e
Baker were brought to the Office, and underwent
an examination, before RicuARD ButNIE, Esq. on
an extraordinary charge of throwing a man out of a
‘2-pair of stairs' window of a house in Vine-street,
Chandos-street. 'William Richard, a constable
of the parish of St. Martin's, stated that the ma
was brought to the watch-house yesterday mon
lug, at four o'clock, when he found him to be i
such a wounded, bruised, and injured conditio
that he ordered him to be taken to the workhouse,
wire he remained, yesterday., in such a dangerous
state, that he could not be removed to the office
to give his evidence, and, in consequence, the full
investigation of the business was postponed.

SENTENCE OF THE COURT-MARTIAL ON LIEUTENAM'A
COLONEL FRENCti.
_ ..
13.0.115E-t3UARDS, ocT. xl.. 1820.
At a General Court-Martial; held at the•llorse4
Guards, on. the. 19th SepteMber, 1820, awl continued
by adjournments to the 27. thlof tlie same Month;
tiajotenuetdetclailliat-rCoos1:::1.,:—T. GEORGE'.
FRL.ai 01, of
.the 6th
aragoon• Gttafilss was- arraianed upon the under men-
.
tt.:2l;"ci
il:,:t ::ia".:dddliitte7to,(highly
r: niinp
ir,oepcepi'i
niV,....u,i;til ~,,i9itili
iiiii,
IgiattthaCkesb,acr'ilic-1--
ing her by the name of Nlrs. Frenela, tbouo oat his wife, and con-
his Meals with her, instead of presiding-.
at the riaeSs with the (Milers of his Reginient, and for trarelling id
all marches with her in an Opel) carriage, in the unifortri of the Re-
giment, and-particularly from Manchester to Ilitmingtiam, in the •
year 1815; and from Birmingham to Newcastle-upon-'Tyne, in July
1519, and fur direct disobedience, in Still keeping and inan-
taMing, • her in , the. Barracks after receiving an order in.
writing from Gerietal the Earl of Carltainaton;• as Colonel of the -
said Reg:inent, while stationed at •Netveasiles•upon-Tyne, dated on
••or about the 29t1r Febi nary, 1820, 'directing bind to remove her
therefrom, such conduct tieing a gross and seandalont outrage on
society in general, and particularly to the married officers, and show-
. ing a had example as Commanding,ollaCer to the junior Officers of
ltie'6l.ll,o4.l,zinicnt in.. particular. • . • -:.:.•,.' - - • • '
0,1. ac•.P6r hifirctiTo:i, I,e:"7l;l9rtßii',6:iiiiistr'dio- Avd'Hint Itin,o"o,-
,
lit), Byrne, nand Gilreiv, than was awamtded them be the seine-M.; ~t
a "Regimental Court4lartial, held at Birrningliam Barracks the 17th
Jane, 1819, by ordering them tAr a guard eve, y other day during
their suspension, and further, that they should'Oe confined to their
barrack except when on ditty daring the said period as an additional
punishment.
ad. " For conduct highly unbecoming the Character of an Officer
in having during the last three years, and particularly between the
months 'of August in the year 1817, and June in the year ISIS, While
the regiment was' stationed at Manehester BarraCks,- and also be-
tween the months of June in the year 1818, and July in the yeas' •
1819, while the regiment was stationed at Birminglomi :and also be=
Metal the Months of July 1819, and July-iB2B,While the Regiment
was stationed at Neweastle-,upan-Tyne; openly and publicly dealt
in horses, by keeping in his stables at the respective barracks and
stations of the Regiment divers horses for sale, not only to the Offi-
cers of the-Regiment, hot to divers other persons. arid ilaploying V.r.'!
terinarySurgeon Hayward, of the same regiment; and more particu-
larly between the months of Jinuaryand June 1819, to proceed. from
Birmingham to Gloucestershire, to purchase and procure such
horses for the purpoSe of sale,. and having during the last three years
at the several titnes and places above stated, sold such -horses to
divers purchasers to the great scandal and discredit of the service, and
to the preit dice of good order and military discipline.
4th, " For fraudulent mid unbecoming conduct iii the sale of a
mare to Mr. Hall, before-he was gazetted to a Cornetcy in the re-
giment, in the month of July, 1818. by fixing the price atiifty
pounds, which was agreed to by Mr. Hall ; but afterwards selling.
the same mare to another person, which mare Lieutenant-Colonel.
French-afterwards again took b mck in exchange,and sometime between
the months of August 1818 and March 1819, sold the same mare
again to• Mr. Hall for 601. and charging him about 31. for. feeding..
without informing, Mr. Hall it was the same mare he had origi-
nally sold him for 501. such conduct being unbecoming the character'.
of an Officer arid a Gentleman.
-sth. " For.onjustifiable conduct as Commanding Officer, in ha‘es
ing selected from a lot of remount horses that joined the re:r'iment
at Manchester, on the 27th August, in the year 1817, onebrown.
horse, and selling the- same to .Major' Hartwell, of the re,imenti.
about the Ist September 1817, for thirty guineas, thereby making an
undue profit of five guineas by a troop horse purchased for the public
service at twenty-five guineas, to the great scaudal and discredit of
the service, and unbecoming the character of a Comatanding (Meer-
6th "For having cutout and defaced,,or caused to be cut out.and
defaced the leaves of the troop registers of 'horses, relative to the
years 1811, 1812, 1815, and 1814, and part of the year 1815, without
the knowledge of the Captains, thereby` destroying all evidence -re-
garding the inunense•number of horses that were recommended to
be ea-A.-and trausferred by Lieutenoot-Colonel French during, those
years; • All such conduct being to the prejudice of mood order and
military discipline, and contrary. to his Majesty's Regulations, anci
in breach of the articles of war. '
Upon which Charges the Court came to the following decision.
"-The 'Court, after hearing and considering all that has been
brought forward by the Prosecutor; General the Earl of Carhamp-
ton, in support of the Charges, and by the Prisoner, Lieutenatna
Colonel St. George French, in his Defenze, and,having maturely
deliberated thereupon, are of opinion,---
" As to the First Charge, that Lieutenant-Colonel French is sca
far guilty yhereoras it appears to them that he, Lientenanr-Colonel
French, 'did keep a woman in. the Barracks of the Regiment, whom
he called by the name of Mrs. French, but whom he did not ac-
knowledge as his wife, and that-he appeared occasionally with her in
his uniform on the marches of the Regiment, by which Conduct he
set a bad example tOthe Junior Miters of'the Ifegiment;-4.3ut the
Court at the same time feel themselve called upon to state their opi-
nion, that the retired and quiet habits of life which"- Lieutenant-
Colonel French pursued. with that person, and the care which ap-
pears to have been taken to prevent her obtruding herself' upon the
other inhabitants of the Barracks. have in seine degree comiteracte.i
the tendency which such conduct would have, to injure the feelings
of the married Officers of the Regiment. '
" With respect to the other parts of the Charge, the Prosecutor
haring failed to establish that part of it which imputes to Lieutenant-
Colonel French time disobedience of an order in. writing twin his
Colonel, the Court do acquit -Lieutenant-Colonel Ftench Fit that
and every other part thereof. .
" With respect to the S:eond Charge, the Court are,ofopinion
that Lieut.-Col. French is Guilty ;—But the. Court at the same
appearstime feel
tot o heiimn maintain t
ntli.tai
their duty to statc that Lieutenant Colonel French
have
re
discipline
ledpl ine
into
of thisthe irregularityitegile
ut, whichby Ia i ahiet xsi ou up!
desire
posed might suffer by the slight punishment adjudged by the Regi-
mental Court Martial. :
" With respect to the Third Charge, the Court are of opinion
that Lieutenant Colonel French is Not Guilty. . . .
" With respect to the Fourth Charge,. the Court are 'Of' opinion
that Lieutenant Colonel French is Not Guilty, and they do fully
and honourably acquit him of the same. .
" With respect to the Fifth Charge, the Court are of opinion that
Lieutenant Colonel French is Not Guilty, and they do fully min
honourably acquit him of the same.
" With resvect to the Sixth Charge,, the Court are of opinion that
Lieutenant -Colonel French is Not Guilty, and they du fully :and
honourably acquit him ache s une4
" The Court having thund Lieutenant- Colonel French; Guilty of
part of the First Charge, and being of opinion that his conduct with
reference to that Charge cannot but be considered as 'a breach of
that decorum and propriety which ought so he observed, and. more
particularly by theCommandingoflicer of theltegiment, do adjudge,
that he Ire admonished thereupon.
And having also found Lieutenant Colonel French Guilty of
the Second Charge, they do further adjudge that Lieutenant Colonel
French be reprimanded in such manner as his Royal Highness the
Commander-in-Chiet shall please to direct."
His Majesty haS been pleased to approve and confirtin the finding
and sentence of the Court; but his 'Majesty _commanded that the
promulgation of the Charges and Sentence .should be accompanied
by an expression of his regret, that . General the Earl of Carhamp-
ton should, in reference to the sd, 4th, sth, and 6th C!iarges, have
been induced, from misrepresentations conveyed to liiin,, or from a
misconception of what had reached his knowledge, to withdraw his
confidence -front Lieut.-Colonel French, who appears, from the
result of thiS investigation, .and from the acquittal• pronounced by
the Court on the 3d Charge, and the honourable acquittal.prunouncea
by it on the 4th, sth, and 6th Cbarges, not only to have never for-
feited his claim to the good opinion and confidence of his Colonel,
but to have merited; by du:discharge of his duties, as Commanding
Officer ofi time 6th Dragoon Guards, during a ions, series of year:,
the honourable testimonials which he produced to tire Court.
flit Royal Highness the Conorninaer in Chief directs that the
"foregoing Charges ag,ainSt Lieut. -Colonel French, together' withi the
~ and read at
Finding and Sentence i.of the Court, and his
BMajkesty s_ y ea,ore
.HE N 11. v TOR RENS, Adjutaitt-General.
a, .
thereon,tl the haytsoohtn'altin.ivlbacernyde:tt hids regimenti
.........smaniessinem
oitN:•:::11J4L--sleglieia:rineat.si•sstY9:1ris:'eleiC.CvicneZancler in Chief',

• YELLOW FEVEIt.—At. Cadiz, from the
.9,7 th Sept.
to the 16c ot October, the dead)* have !welt 12 new eases, 77; re •
coveredi 58; total number of patients, 50.—?.icres de la F./Went,
front the 24th to the 26111-•--tlF,tittisi 25 i tvcovervd) 45 i IIeNY
139; utiaklicr ttf pAtients, 279.

PARLIAMENT,

HOUSE OF tORDS---YESTERDAY:

THE QUEEN'S DEFENCE:

The following• is the conclusion of Dr. Ltrsx-
rsGsroN_'S Speech in defence of her MA \J ESTY
Where would he the safety. of , any _ inan
-Vilere one, two, three, four or five- of the charges
preferred, !beitig ihewai to rest-on perjury, it
should. be saisi, go on -to seventh and eighth,
and yonlaVve a verdict ? By the wisdom
and-goodness of Providence Men were enabled to
detect conspiracies, by dragging to light hidden
circumstances and nstives.aetaiating- the parties;
brit it not given to',ittan lofollow beyond the
bounds of necessity -,aryd to elucidate every, parti-
cular. They could only tlis.prove general charges
by fixing upon thOse poims whiCh lay open, to
contradiction. Upon, the present occasion Ow
burden. of the proof lay-upon the prosecutor,- and
there was not one of their Lordships,' who was
ever so little cognizatit of the laW,bukt knew that
the plaintiff, in, every rase, was bound to esta-,
biiibi his case by unquestionable proof.. That
principle should ever be held .inssicred retnem-
, brante, which required. t vat he . who. sought to
fake 4.iiay the life or kon nir of another should.,
snalse good the charge he.p-eferreds by the most
uns-nspected and onsuspectable evidence.Ve could
nOt be a.lloWed to limit him Self when.he set him
self op in the odious character of au accuser,
and Say," $o far will I go and no further." He
must make out the whole of the charges. The
failure of the accuser to dtl this was the
jus-
titiivation of the accused. Never since.. the
dirk ages, had it been put upon the accused
to prove innocence, where the accuser failed
toestablisbguilt—never since those times when
the accused was subjected to the ordeal of
walking over the burning ploughshares, had. a
defendant
.been called upon to.prove innocence,
where. the accuser had failed in the first instance.
He came now to the first head of the case against
her Majesty, as stated by his Learned •rriend,
the Attorney-General—the conduct of the Queen
towards Bergami. His Learned Friend had Com-
mented with considerable ingenuity on the prin-
ciples of human nature, and said he would shew
from the conduct Of the Queen, that guilt was a
necessary inference s and then, said he, "
prove that intercourSes of great familiarity had
taken place, which .Only could have arisen from
the last favour having been granted, and that the
conduct of Bergami was observed to be presump-
tuous -and overbearing, the natural consequence
of that familiarity which had taken plaCe." He
(Dr. Loshington) undertook to prove from the
evidence given, that' no part of what the -Attor-
ney-General had so stated was made out, but the
direct contrary. He then proceeded to examine
the evidence. Foremost they had that memor-
able witness Majocci, and what did he swear ?
That " Bergami had more authority than the
Other persons of the household ;"----that there was
",rather a familiarity between her Royal High-
ness and Bergami." Good God! what a phrase
after such an opening of the case—there was
" ratites •a familiarity" between them---What
a phrase from so chosen a -witness ; from
one who had been so nurtured to the task
of ruining his Royal Mistress; from one
whom he might call' the elite of the prosecu-
tion !—What an answer to give, when they consi-
deted that the Attorney-General .put all his ques=
tiens so ingeniously, that the witness could in no
instance help understanding fully how much was
expected from him, and how far he was hired
to gO. After all this, what a sum total of evi-
denco !—." Thera was rather a
.familiarity be-
tween them!"—They came next to the evidence
Of.Madernoiselle Dumont. She says that, on no.
one occasion, they were " very faMiliar ;" and
that, on another, she " made no observations."
Their Lordships would perhaps agree with him,
that if ever there was a witness more likely or
More disposed than another to observe any thing
which might operate to the prejudice of her Ma-
jesty, it was this woman. in fact, except in the
evidence Of the two masons, who were working
at the Villa d'Este, most admirable judges truly
of the conduct which a Queen ought to observe
towards her ,chaniberlain„ and who. swore that
they walked together, like two friends, like hus-
band and wife, their Lordships would not find
in tho whole body of the evidence, one single
assertion of this existing familiarity. But -he
would now turn to the other side of the evi-
dence. He had there to present to their:Lord-
ships twelve witnesses, whose testimony went
not only over the whole period of the imputed
criminality, but it extended to the time of her
last departure from Rome. He would make no
con parisoos,; he *mild not so far dishonour the
respectable names he was about to quote, as to
compare theis credibility with that of the wit-
nesses for the prosecution. What, then, did the
first of these witnesses, (Lord Guildford) swear ?
That he " Saw nothing particular in the mariner
of the Queen towards Bergami"—" nothing in the
conduct of Bergami towards the Queen but what
wasrespeetful." Lord Glenbervie, in like manner
stated,lhat he saw" nothing like disrespect" in 13er-
garni's behaviour to the Queen. Lady C. Lindsay,
awitneis Whose testimony was given in the fairest
and most honourable manner, and who, he could
not help saying, Was harshly treated on the oppo-
site side, says that Bergami conducted himself in
all things towards the Queen 44 as a -person in
his situation ought naturally to do." 'Their 'Lord-
ships would observe, too, that this Lady, was with
Iser Majesty in
.I.larch and April, 1815, when the
.adultermisintercourse; (if it took place at all),'
must have been in the days of its first enjoyment
and eO-avagance. Could their Lordships. be-
lieve that 'Lady Charlotte Lind Say was a person
, so destitute,of all Ordinary powers of observation,
.asto allow any circumstances calculated to justify
the suspicion of such an intercourse to pass unno-
ticed ? Could their Lordsliips believe this, who
saw the talent which this. Lady exhibited -when
under examination at their bar ? The same Lady

VWOre farther, that " the Queen behavred towards
Bergami 'al a mistress should towards hey ser-
vant;". that 'she .'shewed " the lame
to war& Bergami as she' id. to SiCard and edsherie"
Lord Istandaff said, he 'saW nothing improper in
the ooncitict of the Qiteen." nothing to reflect
disgr'aCe on the • chiracter of the country.". II e
would next call their attention to the evidence of
the Hort.-KeppelCraven, the Chanibei.lain of her
Royal Highness; He saw " no impropei 'eons
duct" in her Royal Highness-, " no degrading
familiarity ;".and " no. sort of impropriety of
conduct," either when Bergami -stock' behind the
chair of her: Royal Highness as a servant; or after-
wards when he sat as a finest at the.sanie
Sir W. Gel!, another of her Majesty's Chamber-
lairiSs declared that he saw " nothing im-
proper in the conduct of the parties ;" • and that
Bergami acted as " a person in his situation
ought.to do." To this witness another question
was puti such as he verily believed never. was
put any Court of Justice befOre, to ascers
taro the guilt or innocence of an accused party. —L
.He did.not complain of the question, for he felt,
throughout the whole of this inquiry, that, only.
giVe h'►iu honest witness, one who had a cha-
racter to loSe, and he cared not what they might
ask him. The question to which-he had alluded
was this," Did you observe any thing in the
demeanour, manner, or conversation of her Ma-
jesty which-could induce volt as a man of the
world to enterta'n an idea that an atitiltermis
tercourse subsisted between the Queen and Ber-
gami ?" He-called upon their Lordships to look
at the severe ordeal to.which the conduct of 11.1.`s
Illustrious Client was subjected. If, iii the whole
course of the time that Sir William Gell had an
opportunity of -witnessing the conduct of the
Queen, one single-act of iudiicretion, one loose
expression, had. escaped her Majesty in the wan-
tonness of joy,.or in the 'innocence of overflowing
gaiety-if there was •One, wordsone action, one
loOk,-Which could for a moment fill the mind ,of
this ";man of the world" with only a suspicion
that an improper intercourse subsisted, it was to
be brought forwardras an e,videnceof guilt on the
part of her Majesty. Not by facts was she sought
to be convicted, but by possibilities ; not by evi-•
hence of what- did actually pass, but by suspi-
cions of vOnst might have passed—suspicions ex--
cited by -such indications as might have been ga-
thered in the confidence of unrestrained intimacy.
To have one's COndtiet so tried, was, indeed, se-
vere ; but to have it by Stich a test acquitted,was
indeed a triumph, which the purest might enrVy.!
What was the answer of Sir,Wm. Gell to this
searching question ? "• I never 'did !" What
could' his Learned Friend say to sdch testimony
as that? They would say, for it had been said,
" Oh, these were individuals of high rank and
character. The Queen was on her guard before
them !" Suppose for a,moment the fact were so,
but he would now introduce to their Lordships a
witness of a different description, that they might
see how the
.comparatively low were supported
by the high in rank. There was the evidence of .
Sicard, a. man who had been upwards of twenty
years in the Queen's, service, and who was placed
there by his .Majesty I. lie swore that ‘_A the
Queen's manner, of treating her servants was on-
-commonly 'kind, almost to a fault,' that " Ber-
garni's conduct was., always molt proper;" and
that he was positive that in his presence " no Uns•
due familiarity or impropriety ". ever took place
between the. Princess and Bergami. He beg.
ged to call the attention of the House to the me-
lancholy situation her Majesty had been placed
in—a situation in which all the kindness- of
her nature had been turned' against her lib,
pour and her peace, and made a matter of accu-
sation. She had forgiven the ruffian Crede for
plotting against her, yet the very disposition
which had led her to doithis, was now construed
into a proof of guilt. To that disposition he
could speak of his own knowledge. Day after
day it had beets his painful task to harass the
Queen with nauseous inquiries on matters con-
nected with these proceedings, but at all times
he had found on her part the same condescen-
sion and the same regard for the feelings of each
other, for,which the witnesses he had just men-
tioned had given her credit. Dr. Holland had
spoken' tb the conduct of her Royal Highness as
being most proper, and. he had never remarked
any thing suspicious in her deportment towards
Bergami, whose manners were always unpresum-
ing and respectful. Mr. Mills stated, that he
saw 'the Queen and Bergami together frequently,
and never observed the smallest impropriety 'of
conduct, or, any thing that was in the slightest
degree derogatory- to the character Of 'her Ma-
jesty. If that criminal intimacy, which was
charged by the Bill, had ever existed, would not
Bergami have been seen, at some period or
another, presuming upon that criminal intimacy,
and departing froth that respectful line Of con-
duct which those Gentlemen had invariably wit-
nessed ? But nothing "of'the kind bad: been-gee/Y.
by Mr. Mills, thotigl he had had opportunities
of observing their conduct down to the 'present
year. Lieutenant Hownam also never observed.
any impropriety or indecency in the conduct of
the Queen towards him. All the other witnesses
had deposed to the same effect : the last of these,
Vassali, had,been staying with her Majesty up to
her arrival at St. Omer's,and had never witnessed
the smallest impropriety. He' trusted he had
fully established "the proposition with'which he
had set out, that the conduct of the Queen and
of this person had been perfectly consistent with
their respective situations. The next statement
of the Attorney-General was, that the Quessns.
having formed this degrading attachment, and be-
ing conscious of the infamy and disgrace which
Would attend its indulgence, by different ingenious
contrivances parted with her English srlite. It
was his object to show that each and every one
Of these charges Were unfounded. Let their
LOrdships see how the last fact stood. He then
Went through the various causes which had
caused the English persons of her suite to
quit the service of her Royal Highness. Colo-
pel 'St. Leger had left on account of the state of
his health, 'but in 1-819 had prepared to meet her
Majesty at Dover, and subsequently paid his

dutiful respects to his 11 o J al Mistress .tadS, C.
Lindsay h*d quitted 6.r Royal in cOnSe
luence of previous 'arrangements. Her Royal
Highness had sent t 6 Lady C. Lindsay to rejoin
her in 1817, at a tine;. when according to his
Learned Friend, she was spending It?r days and
ilhslas in the indulgence of a guilty Tassicin—itt
erCe7sseswhich he, belleYe,d- nAltarhal existence
Tut in the prurient imaginations of those with.
Whom these charges had originated—at such a
time it should seem she had sent for Lidy Char-
lotte Lindsay, that she might come and bear tes-
timony to her misconduct. It had been attempt-
, ed by all possible means to get out of Lady C.
Lindsay, that she had at some time or other in
the course of her life expressed an opinion dero-
gatory to the Queen. It was worthy of the pro-
secutors in this case to act such a part. His
Learned Friend had bYett obliged by his instruc-
tions, to attempt the violation 'of the sacred con-
fidence which ought to stibsist between man and
wife. For his Learned Friend from the bottom
of his soul he felt commiseration, but he felt in=
dignation, he felt dteStation for him who cotild
work upon the indigence of the hunand, to blast
the reputation of his wife,.and damn the honour
of his Queen. And what came of this exantina-
tion after all ?--Why it appeared that Lady C.
Lindsay had never witnessed the least impropriety
in the conduct of her Royal Highness, but she had
heard reports to her prejudice. Sir Wikiam
Gel) had left her Majesty on account of his health
at Naples, and Dr. Holland had quitted her
service to go to England. So much for the man-
' ner in which the Queen had got rid of the En-
glish part of the suite. It wasjhen stated, that
the Queen, forgetful of In had kept up
no acquaintance with people of rank, but had as-
sociated with low people. Now it had been
proved by Dr. Holland and others, that she had
been visited by all the Nobility--;that there was
hardly a Court in Europ.! or in Africa, to which
she did not go, and eve .y where, as Lieutenant
Howtsam had described it, her conduct was ma-
jesty and grace, and she had been received with
all the honours due to her exalted rank. He
had• forgotten that there was one exception. At
k the, Court of .Vienna her Majesty was not re-
ceived. At that Court my Lord Stewart was
Ambassador: At'that Co at the brother of Lord
Castlereagh, one of the p..osecutors in this case,
resided. And what was my Lord Stewart be-
side ? He was the foster father of Majocci, the
principal dealer in perjury. This was the reason
which prevented her Majesty's reception at the
Court of Vienna. The Learned Counsel then
went over the evidence of Mr. Craven and Sir
W. Gell, relative to the recommendation of Ber-
gami, and his appointment as courier.--He then
explained and defended the promotion of Ber-
gami; and contended that there was nothing im-
proper in the preference shewn for him by her
Majesty. He was only promoted to those
offices which became vacant, some of her.
Majesty's suite quittiag her service ; and he
was not proinotetf to the .office of Chamber-
lain, until there 'swat 410 probability of get-
ting an English Nobleman to fill the office ; since
to be in favonr *rids the Queen, was to ,be in dis-
grace at home ; and to passes her patronage, was
tp forfeit all hopes,of it here: :With respect to
.Bergami sleeping near her Majesty,eirctimstances
rendered this extremely necessary. From the
day she reached Naples 'she was 'beset with spies,
and assailed, he vfrottld not say by whom, but her
personal safety was endangered ; it was then that
she required some protection ; and who could be
selected more properly than that individual whose
fidelity and courage had been proved ? Their
Lordships had been to!d that Bergatni was omni-
potent in his controul over her Majesty ; but no
one atone of evidence was produced in support of
the assertion. If the Queen had been under the
influence of the guilty passion that had been re-
presented, Bergami would indeed have command-
ed her as a slave at his feet r.he would have had
no mercy, for favouritesseldona have much mercy,
or much compassion : and, pursuing their own in-
terest, they forgot all the world beside. He
would have owned no duty but that of Command ;
he would not have suffered the Queen to quit the
luxurious clime of Italy, to go on a perilous ad-
venture to Jerusalem. Their Lordships must
judge of human individuals by the laws of human
nature ; they must look at the probabilities of the
case ; and, taken as a whole (and so it must be),
never Was` anything so improbable. I would ask,
(said Dr. L.), where is the individual whose life
is so spotless, whose character is so pure, that he
would have the courage to go back for six years,
and say, " examine every action and thought of
my life, and there is not onethat can be tortured
to thy disadvantage ?" If there is one individual
who-dares to say so, I deem him less honest, less
candid, than the ordinary class of mankind.—
Armed with assertions so little substantiated,
the Attorney-General at length opened the first
grand scene of the intercourse, Commencing at
Naples. The Learned Counsel then proceeded to
show hOw the evidence to that intercourse had
not only been contradicted by the most unim-
peachable testimony, but it,had failed of itself.
The whole scene had been disproved beyond the
possibility of doubt, as completely as the journey
to Senegaglia or the affair at Trieste. He coin-
Metited,on the absurdity of supposing that her
Majesty, if she were indeed so completely de-
voted to the gratification of her passions, with
Bergami, would place William Austin in such a
situation as that he must haye opportunities of de-
tecting her and her paramour. She had the dis-
posal of her own house, and could it be fora mo-
ment suspected that, when she.was about to cele-
brate what had been described as the hymeneal
rites, she•wOuld place a boy 13 years of age, Who
had been, up to that period, in the habit ofsleep-
ing in her room, in the apartment next to that in
which she was to sleep ? The story of Dumont
as to what had passed at Naples was refuted.--
The adulterous intercourse charged to have taken
place on the second night after the arrival of the
Queen at Naples was disproved. Whether it was
suppoSed to have taken place on the night her
;Majesty went to the Opera, or on that when she
went to the Concert, the witness was contradict-

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• •
ed, as she had stated. her lqajesty to have the
home early, while it appeared that frarao,
Opera, where she was accompanied by Sir is
Gell, she had not retiirned till one o'clochaiti
the morning, and from :the Concert bile. iie
iiiknot return before half-pas!-- e:leven, wheP 11,
'esVaS atkeaaded b Mr. Crave He- now C uts
tPligt“itteNtion .e., their LAlT'selis to. Dna' i
dS °
-statement as tohe
the arrangement of the -,--. s •
Naples. It would be observed, that the 'qtiot
tor-General had no mercy on his witnesses;
itif
he whipped and sptirred them, until they °her
to their lull career. At first, Dumont, in I,al
examination, said that the large bed in he'r Itcedity.
Highness's roomi was without sheets,and aPP er
ed to have been occupied by more than one Pad
son ; . and three (lays afterwards came in the i,
dition of the stains on the , sheets ! New, i'l„r•
was true that- the Queen had occupied the it".es,
bed, she must have done so* under the rrn'seee
traordinary circumstances. Could such hay
the force of her passion, that, though at th.,,irdt
of 46, she would sleep for four mouths olittoa,
the-blankets ? It was proved,'that Berganii lo
ca,
for a week of. that time, been confined to his,. 'a
in conseqUence of the kick of a horse, anti ,F•
the large bed had during that period, t.t''pe
pearAnce of being slept in by two persons: . to
SOlicitor-General knew that the best witaes7o4;
be called upon to prove this part of the Cl''e„jg,
Dtimont. He knew that the maker of the oe
a person now in this country, could not tielor
to the circtimstances to the truth of whiclz't 011
moat had sworn. He %*as determined to resor,
the prinut Ode evidlence; and to reject tio•
which could be, of no service to the prosecn-c'i,
He then adverted id the evidence of M,,,,1
where he stated that the Queen had P',,,i,
through his room to the apartment of fierg4ljier
It would be riCallected that there was afin- to
passage from. Ler IloYai sight ass's ree'. c.
that of Bergamil besides that ttfrotigh 313-I:s4
• ci's ; and was it proisaMe, that Asolett there
Il ,'
not the most distant probability of tni.;eting, ,e'l;
person in the other passage, she conid lia%!-ecinl*,ho
to expose herself to the observation of e 1,, ell
was on the watch for hssr ? And tits liaPPe'm 1
twice. If there had been no Other passaget,dt iftP,'
roomof Bergami than that whiCh it is s"i ,etr
1.
had chosen, then it might have been belio
buttas the case stood it was beyond all cret
t lc!
tity. It had been stated in evidence thalili',.
• Majesty went in an indecent dress ,to the ' tot-;
querade. lie spoke. of this, because the At of
i ney-General had declared that the indignationot,.
I the- people compelled her to a speedy reto,
And what had been proved ? Why, tlot sl'epl
peared in an ugly red dress, and was surf-winch-it
by masks. He was then justified in sayihg, will
during the Queen's residence at Naples there his
. not the shadow of a charge ag,ainst het'--t n,tseat
• quitted Naples unspotted. He felt cooat'tio
that their ,Lordships would not couple with
at'
future charges, to which lie should draw the," J!,
tention, those refuted accusations. Ile On, the
ready passed through the great foundatioves to.
plot-----the evidence of imputed guilt. His L'ejav
ed Friend (the Attorney-General) had cal° tit'
ed, that if Ire could chew the symptoms of a" of
. tacliment between Bergarni and the Qleeutot
Nales, every thing fax:tumble to the case ljjrd
follow. But he (Doctor Lushinelon) inlP'i`.‘ol.
their Lordships, for the;sake of truth, to o'll'o
. him through the remainder of the evidence's n't',,rs',
dome to a decision after an impartial consi`-the
tion of all the circumstances. owe
1,:3,1
Learned Counsel, on the suggestion of the, fte
of LIVERPOOL, withdrew-fora short tinge. 't3e. ,01;
an absence of about half an hour, he r''>
ed to the Il•ar, and resumed his speech') %lid
• According,to the law of the land, ally oVii:,..ri,
had condticted hitwelt in, the way that 44
sots
had, would be deemed guilty of perjorY,,r.P
rendered utterly incapable of ever giVingale'
deuce in a Court of Law for the time to c:051
Their Lordships must judge of that witnieco
as wellas of Dumont, Sacchi, and Rastelli, the
the conviction left on their own minds frrlj to
evidence altogether. It was atever vet gi'c'''e'
t •;
man to detect perjury in all its ramiticatloiie
and, therefore, when it was once detected in ji4
or two instances, the impression of perjarY Iro oi
to be marked upon the whole of what 01 . °OO
the• lips of the, person so detected. He '''oo'
take a specimen of Majocci's evidence, 11'01 to
description he gave of her Majesty's c!510
the Seven Steeples at Jerusalem, which siresfs'
.the polacre to make. In pages 02 an.l '23/ or'
jocci said that her Royal Ilig-hness slept „ear
rounded with a high wall, and 13er.40"i 10
her alone. Lieutenant Ilownatn, in page„s col
and 733, on this subject deposed, that her n all
Highness had all her suite ronnd her; 11'100
dined together under the portico of a?tholl'
mosque, and lay down near each other 7"-`l. `l
ord'
ceremony as, to place afterwards. Let their:ie Of
ships look at the palpable contradiction 'te' io`
a statement; which was intended to bear " 015
ference that his Illustrious Client was enores
very occasion indulging in those guilty Plc:).114-0
which were charged against her. The sall,!-Ie Or
the case precisely with respect to the 130 0)
Ephesus,- which furnished another spec,iilletatA
Majocci's talent for misrepres•entation. Ile at *
in that case, -page 22, that Bergami sleP ,hilst
little distance froM her Royal Highness, ''''t• the
the rest-of the suite slept in another part e„alie',
house. Now bear how it was stated, by a„" . 00'
witness, p. 710 :—"Bergami's bed Nona ',Yell
near that of her Royal Highness ; there Collie
four rooms to pass, and a flight of steps t°lchen
to it from the Princess's chamber." t pet
they found evidence like this, they '341; Wit
only to discredit this single mistaterne" ' that
every partictilar of evidence corning frool 'OC'
ai
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peron. ilut almost in every instance 0f At the
ci's testimony the same might be proved. ow
Borotheo he stated that there was a secret coed/
case between the chambers of the parties `4cts lii"
but it turned out that, in fact, so far frog), Ito the
lug a secret staircase, it was one which lentioislf
bed-room of Lieut. Hownam, and!was 1) ,r sar
frequented by the servants. He should 'l° Ma-
One word with respect to the tent on land' tent,
joccio;ears, that he heard Whispering in the

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