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

must ask if titere ever was an opening so totally
disproved by the evidence as the opening of
these proceedings had been. He appealed to
every legal man, whether in the course of his
legal practice he had ever witnessed such a.fall-
ing oil. This could not be owing to his Learned
Friends on the other side having been taken by
surprise. This was a circumstance which might,
and did often happen in the course of a hurried
and active practice in the Courts below. It did
sometimes happen there that a Counsel was taken
by surprise, and had scarcely time to read
his brief. But that could not be the case here.

—On the other side, they had had 'their Milan
Commission and their llanoverian Commission, sit-
ting for years to prepare all matters for them.
They had their spies, of all nations ; they had the
depositions of their witnesses, which had been
sworn to at Milan, and again here, for upwards
of six weeks before, them ; and all this, too, at
a time, when there was a total absence of all other
business ; and his Learned Friends were not so
young in business as not to be supposed to have
profited of every moment they had. Yet with all
these advantages, they had entirely failed to make
out a proof of any thing_ like adultery since the
arrival of the Queen at Naples up to the present
period. It was, therefore, with some degree of
confidence that he ' looked -at the other parts
of the accusation against her Majesty. If that
great master of the human heart, Shakespeare,
wanted a villain to asperse and vilify a vir-
tuous wife, an lago, or an lachimo, he always
went to Italy to seek him,
.either to Sicily or
Milan, and there he laid the scene of his plot-
ting ; there he bought his evidence. Shake-
speare, in describing false witnesses, did not use
the fashionable terms of the day, " perjured
witnesses," he spoke in plainer, but not less
forcible language. In describing two witnesses
from Messina, he two Gentlemen, or at
least in the situation of Gentlemen, who had re-
ceived , lOOO ducats for the evidence they gave

to convict an injured woman, he disposes of
them in the following manner:—An Officer of
Justice, in all the official dignity of his place, in-
quires" who be the malefactors ?" The answer
was, " that be I and my partner." The character
who said this was in fact the prosecutor or ac-
cuser; he spoke from ignorance, but was in
truth not very far wrong, for he was a Commis-
sioner. When the same worthy was asked what
the prisoners had done to entitle them being
sent to prison, he replied,—" Marry, Sir, they
have committed false report ; moreover they
have spoken untruths ; secondarily, they are
slanderers ; sixth and lastly, they have belied
a Lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust things;
and to conclude, they are lying knaves." He
asked their Lordships' pardon for this digression,
which, nevertheless he could not think was in-
appropriate, considering the quotation he had
made was from near the end of the last act of
the comedy of " Much ado about Nothing."—
SuppoSing the witnesses in this case to be very
respectable, he must say, that he had never heard
'of any witnesses beine so well paid before. Gor-
gonio, the Captain of ship, of whom by the
way he might say they would never have heard of
his existence, as he would have sunk himself
and his ship too, had not Lieutenant Flynn also
had some -command in the vessel; this man, it
appeared, received 'seven hundred and fifty dol-
lars a month for the use of his ship, the interest
of his money, and all expenses. But then con-
sidering he had a royal cargo, he calculated more
on uncertain profits than any' thing else ; and it
turned out that he looked forward to getting
6000 dollars more ; of which sum he was disap-
pointed by Bergami. This man then came to this
country, and was allowed 1000 dollars a month,
equal to the salary of the first Officers of the
State in his own country, to give that monstrous
evidence which he had given. But independently
of this monthly stipend, he also expressed an ex-
pectation that he should reclaim from the Go-
vernment of this country the 6000 dollars which
he had been disappointed of by Bergami. He
made application for this, and came to this coun-
try for the purpose of enforcing his claim, and
did any one believe that he did not feel that he
would not enforce it successfully, if in his evi-
deuce he did not 'go to the greatest extremity ?
It was idle, after this, to talk of impartiality
in the witnesses. It was almost impossible
to come with an unbiassed mind in a case of
this great importance; and it was therefore the
more necessary that the witnesses should come
with clean hands into Court. But he charged
this man with being a bribed witness, coming
here to add falsehood to atrocity, and to give to
innocent circumstances the appearance of guilt.
Was it to be believed that her Royal Highness
would have gone on deck in open face of day, and
in the view of the whole crew and passengers.of
the vessel, to sit on a sofa, Or on a gun, or In ally
other place or attitude, for the purpose of any
thing like improper intercourse. But what kissing,
what embracing, would not a thousand dollars a
month help a weak,case to ? He repeated, that
having got the frame-work for this case, in the
affability and condescension of her Royal High-
ness, the conspirators set to work to scrape together
such witnesses as Garguillo, and such incidents
as he had sworn to, to make out a case with
which to dupe the Government of this country.
Where was a witness to be found, who, for seven
hundred and fifty or one thousand dollars per
month, would object to add a little fact or two
to the already established incontrovertible Ono
of sleeping under the tent— facts which served to
give the colouring to that leading circumstance,
and turn that Which was most innocent in itself into
-all that suspicion could suggest of guilty conduct,
and all that falsehood and malignity could de-
vise ? He said, that if the fact deposed to by
those bribed, wicked witnesses, was intended co
be the ground-work of suspicion again -..i his
Illustrious Client, all those disgusting, 'indecent
acts sworn to by them, ought to have, been corro-
borated by some of the 22 pers(P-2.1 who walked
the deck, which was the scene 'where they were al-
leged to have taken place. nut, above all, they
ought to have been swom to
b v the steersman,who
.could better than e..ny one have spoken to them.