The Sun.
London, England, 1820-10-19 00:00:00

FOR THE SUN.

REMARKS ON HElt MAJESTY'S DEFENCE.
OCT. 14, 1820:
,The extravagant • and audacious assertions • of
the advocates for the QuEEN,.and the gross
..mis-
representations and statements of the licentious
and intlarmnatory Press, that the Bill •of Pains
and Penalties is slain' destroyed, demoliShed-,-
that air the Evidence brought forward: in sup-
port of the Charges is corrupt, wicked, and in-
famous the nefarious fact of filenames and cha-
racters'Of the Witnesses, and all concerned .for,
the presecution., being. held up to the indignation:
and violence of the. deluded multitude render it
absolutely necessary toexamine the Eiidence that
has had this extraordinary. effect. However well
disposed. the Witnesses subpcened the partof
the QbErr, Might 'be to speak in favour of her
MA./Est-V.. the generality of them had been but a
very short time in her MAJESTY'S society on the'
Continent, and that soon after BERGAMI'S firstad.
mission into ker familn • beforeall reserve. in. re-,
'sped- to him was laid aside,. and her MAJESTY as
Yet continued to live An respectable society.
They could only say they s•ate nothing impro-
per between her MAJESTY and BERGA1111) and
surely that it is not wonderful in the short time
they were in. the QUEEN'S company. •
Mr. ST. LEGER, the first Witness, Only accompanied her
Royal Highness to - Brunswick, and there left her. He
neither saw nor heard any thing of Bergami, who was not
then in her Royal Highness's service.
Lord Guieneoan's Evidence was favourable in some re-
spects, as to what he did not see, when he was with:her Royal
Highness. But from this Evidence we can collect sufficient
to substantiate much of the preamble of the Bill. We find,
that on his Lordship's first visit to her Royal. Highness, he
had seen Ilergami in the capacity' of a courier, had been wait-
ed upon at table by him in the dregs and livery of a menial
servant. ' On his last 'visit he found this lacquey, asps fellow
`Aqiest, and actually seated at table next to her Royal High-
ness. It also appears from his Lordship's evidence, that be-
fore this time all the English bad deserted her ; no person of
respectability was seen at her Villa, In short, so changed,
so degraded was the society of the Palace, that there was now
djfcrence small, .
" Betwixt the Parlour and the Servants' .
Fur her Royal Highness was not content
.with placing her
Courier at the same table with a Nobleman of the highest
distinction, but must add the additional insult of other-Mem:
hers of ' that Courier's family being also present. Nor must
we forget theike-a,tete on the lake of Como, established• by
his Lordship's evidence.
• Lady Cu iimorre LINDSAY, during the short time she saw,
Abe Princess, also gave the same negative testimony iu her
favour. Indeed the Evidence. of all the Witnesses in this
case is of the same negative nature.. Their statement a what
themselves saw or did not see, can be no contradiction or
refutation of whit others had witnessed. But .On the crosS-
examination of these respectable Witnesses it appeared, that
'Lady Charlotte observed, that the reports of her Royal High-
ness's-conduct were of sech-a 'degrading nature; that it ope-
rated upon her mind in making her wish not to continue in
her service. • And it appeared that she received a letter-from
Lord Guildford, requesting her to quit that service.
In the Evidence of Lord 9LEY4EavLE and Lord -LLANDAFF,
Oleic is nothing material. There is very little material alierin
the Evidence of Mr. 'Kenna. CRAVeist.•He attended his Royal
Highness but a short time, and quitted her at Naples.,--
Bergami had been only lately engaged at. Milan as a tempo-
rary servant in her Royal Highness's family; yet it seems
that so young a man as Mr. Craven already thought it ne-
cessary to give the somewhat premature, though fatherly and
kind cannon to his aged Queen, not to be seen scathing alone
in the garden with Bergami, suggesting that spies were em-
ployed. This seems rather early for such suspicion, as Her-
gami had been so short a time in her service, and not many
months had elapsed since her Itoyal Highness bad left Eng-
land. Mr. Craven says, he hired him just before they left
Milan, otethe recommendation of the Marquess Ghisiliat
He endeavours to prove the gentility of this quondam Corpo,
ral in the French Army, by representing that the person who
recommended bins expressed a wish that he should be pro-
tooted in,The Princess I service, but it appears the only object
of the application was, that be who had been engaged as a
temporary servant to go to Naples should be continued in the
family.
Sir WILLIAM GELL, who observed "the most marked alien-
lion" of BEFIGAMI towards his Royal Mistress, has an extra-
ordinary recollection of the precise time she retired from the
opera. and the dress she woreiat the Masquerade at Naples,
nearly six years ago, and the elyinges it underwent, in direct
contradiction to the evidence of the Princess's wailing wo-
man. and of her, footman of courier. The rest of Sir Wil-
liam's evidence is all of a 'motive quality, and
.does not in
any degree rebut or refute th t charges brought its support of
the Bill.
The evidence of CAttruNal:ox, Sir William Gell's set-Sant;
although evidently well prepared by her Majesty's legal ad-
visers, and at Brandenhurgh House, was fully exposed on
cross-questioning ; he clearly contradicted himself. or, as the
Queen's Advocates call it, has perjured . himself 4;11 several •
points: especially, he declared, that he had nerved onboard
no other ship of war but the Voictiers. in his:re-examina-•
tion on a subsequentday, however, he amended this account,
and acknowledged that he had served on board three or four
ships, and that he had been pressed. There is something
very mysterious in his account of being rated as a Midship-
man, as he passed from the Poictiera--it' is very certain be
never was a Midshipman, nor acted as such in any ship. But
the great burthen of his evidence is a conversation that pass-
ed between him and Majocci, concerantig the Baron Ompteda,
all recollection of which Majocci denies. Here is oath against
oath—and it remains to he proveil, whether Majocci's oaths
is not-fully as much to berlepended upon as Carrington's..
As to .foxy Wnrrcomae, servant to Mr. Craven, his evi-
dence does not materially contradict the evidence with respect
to the apartments, to which he , was examined, but exposes
himself by his promptness to, say that he used to be invited
into Mademoiselle Dumont's apartments,, and to be locked up
there. If he could prove her conduct to lie as bad as that of
her betters, it could not invalidatie her evidence in respect to
facts so fully corroborated by other evidence.
Smarm; who had been many years in the household of her
Royal Highness, enjoys a .pension of 4001. during her plea
sure, though now no longer in her service. He speaks prin-
cipally of her Majesty's gracious deportment to her servants.
St hat he says respecting the Dresses and the Masquerade is
not very essential. He admits that lie.bad no opportunity of
observing her conduct towards litrganii except during the
short time he was at Naples. He 'admits also that there was
a passage or communication between her Royal Highness's
bed room and Bt.r4.„,nt's, and thus sepports the evidence of
Majecci and Dumont, who both spelte of the .proximity of
✓ooms and facility of communication, which was first adopted
▪ Naples io this early lingo of the intercourse, artd con-
staidly and uniformly existed ever aft, rwards. But this old
and respectable servant was stain sent off, and never sires' tier
Royal Highness again till he cart led net an account of the
death of the King some years afterwards.
Doctor 1-101•LANu wentahn7 not d with
u irt2i,l!tieir Royal Hi6ness in
1814 as her physician, but i
long in her service
after Bergami's introduction, who aIJ ays waited at table as
servant or cuurier while be was with, her Royal Highness
anti never dined at table.—bocter Pollan(' never s:,,e her
Royal Highness except when sent fer, and sae., nothing im-
proper io her conduct towards Bergfoui.
Mr. ABEL: visited her Royal Highness at different times
when Bergami dined at table, lit of course saw no :indecency
of conduct pasti between those iscii
Colonel I. nut t.l,x stated that he knew Berger
Non-commissioned Officer in the Preach Army under the
Viceroy of Italy, and That lie had conducted himself with
propriety, and was private courier to General Pino.
CAnt.o Foam-I had been 'Cabinet Courier to the Viceroy of
Italy. tie was afterwards engaged as cuatiet to the pi incess

as a

of Wales. He accompanied her from Rum` to Sinigaglia on
horseback as courier, and says Saccbi went forward in a car-
riage before, denying that Satehi rode as courier on that Jour-
ney. He says that the'Conoless of Oldi, Bergami, and the
Child Victurine, travelled this journey iu the carriage with
her Royal Highness`Until the Countess of Oldi was taken ill
at Loretto, and went into the second carriage, aniMadame
1)11mont took her seat in the carriage of her Royal Highness.
On the journey from Milan to Rollie he said Saccbi was ",
chef tisat could notcantintte :fa ride on horseback* a"
went in a carriage. On crossquestiouing,theevidence of Carlo
Forti became very confused, and in parts conttadictory, but
on the whole it directly contradicts the evidence of Sacchi as
to !isling ors horse Lack• as courier. ' It remains to be proved
which of their evidence is to bedcpenJed oa. He also gives
a full accountof the family of Bergami, si‘hich had exclusively•
and wholly occupied her Royal Highness's Household.
Lieutenant FLYNw's-eVidence was announced as one that
would he highly favourable to her ttoyal Highness,. that would
overset all the malevdlent evidence. against tier. .otr his ex-
' tuninntion in 'chief he asserted every thing most favourable
and ruundly ; hut, after a long cross- questimling, his fallacy
upon many points became So self-evident that he fainted, and
his evidencewas 'rejected by both aides, and even by his
own Counsel.
Much. also was expected from Lieutenant HowNaat, the son
of an ofd Pag-e:to her Royal Highness, to whom the Urine-
nafirowed .`eery thing, and toi -die examination its chief he
gifevesn intrepid evidence in her favour; but on a long cross-
ouestianiug, Ins evidence proved, iu many respects, as un-
favourable to his.ratrtiness as that of Lieutenant
One has actually admitted with may be virtually and directly
inferred !rhos the testimony of the other, that her Royal High-
ness arid Bergami slept regularly every night, by themselves;
in the same Tent, in darkness, during the long voyage front
Jaffa to Syraceise, and as Lieutenaot Holston:1 was tire only
person in any degree respectable that. wa.: left in her Majes-
ty's Household, we regret to and our idea of the criminality
of her Majesty is So far from being diMinished or removed by
his testimony, that-the strongest possible presumittive evi-
dence of an uninterrupted adulterous intercourse having cab-
sisted•for inure than two.months on hoard the pulacca, is
strengthened and confirmed. indeed' we waysay established,
by it.
There seems, to be a'great lack of witnesses when 1s r.Gam4-
yiLLaSsfaitee was brotight forward' to say thathe had seen a
certain dance in the East Indies, which is by no means prov-
ed to be the same as that with which Mabowet amused her
Royal Highness. Of one thing we are, certain, that if cor-
rectly represented in the House of Lords by Theodore, the
grossly indecent • and lascivious motions of the brittal
Malannet could-afford amusement but to the most depraved
minds, and were such as no virtuouslemale could have con-
templated but with horror and disgust.- •
The Fxamination .of SAx'riNo Guuotaut, the factor, and
Gant:oust, the mason,- as to Maui and k.ve and the
leaves, is not material. The attempt is to provethat the per-
sons employed could not see Arians and Fie in the Grotto
when they were at work ou the Cornices 'in the Octagon-
room, at the Villa d'Este; but it appeared on the former exa-
mination that they descended from their scaffold when they
heard voices in or near the Giotto. The rest of their evidence
' did not refer to the Charges against her Majesty.
We have thus taken a view of the evidence of
all the persons who have hitherto been brought
forward iu defence of her MAJESTY to overset the
charges against her and can ;my fair, candid,
and honest man, say, that, instead'of destroying
and demolishing all the evidence brought against
. her, it has not absolutely confirmedsand establish-
ed the material parts of. it. We are aware
that till all the defence was. heard it was de-
sirable to- mid condemnation, - but the . spirit.
of condemnation whiclr has • prevailed so en-
tirely on the, other side, forces us to snake -ob-
servations which otherwise might have been.
avoided. We way ask whether the evidence
has justified her conduct in any one respect? It
seems 130 W, that there is no matter of real conse-
quence to controvert, unless it should be thought
necessary still farther to attack the testimony of
DuAtoNT, MA3occi, and SACCIII. One Courier
swears, in direct opposition to the evidence of
another Courier, that the other did not ride as
Courier with her Royal Highness on a partiCular.
occasion. And Sir W. GELL'S servant swears
that,ll.4..roccx held a particular conversation with
him on the subject of Baron ODIPTEDA, which
MAJOOM positively- denied.. But supposing all
these witnesses quite out of - the question, is the
Adulterous intercourse' disproved ? Is it not ad-
mitted---is it not proved on the cross-examination
of Lieutenants VLYNN and HowNAm, as well as
by the Captain and Mate of the polacca ? But if
that -is-not sufficient to satisfy and convince the
most incredulous, we have still
.unrefuted the
clear, sensible, simple, and irresistible evidence
of BARBARA KRANTZ, or KRESS, a witness cer-
tainly very_ unwilling to' appear at their Lord-
ships' Bar, which -seemed' to satisfy' every ose
that had heard it. She swore that bringing wa-
ter to RERG AUX'S' bed-room, 1.352R0AM1 was in bed,
the Princess -sitting on the -bed, and his arm
round her neck ; and that, on her coming in, the
Princess jumped up. Nor is it necessary to 4411
about the number of days the. waiter, PIETItO
Cucisi, states her Royal Highness to have pass-
ed at Trieste. It cannot be expected that a
waiter should, after the lapSe of several years,
have any-exact recollection of the number of days
that every passenger has resided at the hotel, but
he speaks decisively to the fact that he.sawßEtto.tolt
come out of the Princess's room. at eight o'clock
in the morning in his dressing gown and drawers,
and that BEItGAMI'S bed had not been occupied
during the night. Is not the preamble of the Bill
completely proved ? Does it not appear , from
the evidence for the defence that the household
of the QUEEX consisted entirely of the family of
BEttcrAmt, all from low situations„ and that her
.house. vas filled with them, his mother, his sis-
ters, his brothers, his cousins, and his. child, and
that the .wife of PERGAMI (the most proper to
take care of the child) was the only person ex-
cluded ? And that every English person, except
Lieutenant HowsAm, had long been dismissed,
or laud deserted her MAJESTY, and that all re-
spectable society had dune the same.
There is'no -cireumstance in this extraordinary
business more disgusting than the impudek at-
tempt to represent in language the most intla.m-
matory every 'thing that has been brought for-
ward ; all the proceedings within the House, and
all the investigation that led to it as a wicked
.onspiracy, and the fruits of the most groSs and
.scandalous subornations of perjury, which the
assentors no more believe themselves .than• they
can do in the • innocence of the QUEEN.
If any thing further was wanting to render this

most nefarious misrepresentation of the advo.
cates and abettors„of the QUEEN more odious
and detestable in the eyes of all the well.
disposed part of the community, it would lib
supplied by the treasonable and seditioto Anr
savers to the. Addresses of the stupid/ silly,
deluded •multittitle.- And we may add last,
not least, the unparalleled attempt to put an
end to the Inquiry in its present stage so
peremptorily demanded and fOtr-ed on by her
MAJEsTY/ an Inquiry -which every individual in
the Nation; was most anxious to avert, ex•
cept her MAJESTY'S Advisers and Abettors.- It
is impossible to drop the business where it now
is. It would disgrace the character 'of the Na-
tion—it would disgrace the Legislature—it would
debase the most respectable Court of Judicature,
which, if any demerit attaches to it, has already
yielded'too much on the present odious 'occasion.
France'was lost by weak and timid concession -
and Want of firmness, and through 'the same alotta•
can the United Kin dom be Tinned. * *

LONDON. JOURNALS.

[154 I L EXTRACTS.}

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS..

[Morning Post]
Tiix govsN.---Notwithstanding ,the opinion
expressed by. the Judges, that the questions pro-
posed to be put respecting the conduct -of Vimi-
carti and. Riganti could not be allowed, unless,
the agency of those individuals had been pre-
viously proved,. the Attorney-General, from .a
desire to allow all possible latitude to the -ac-
cused, yesterday gave up the point in dispute, on
an understanding that he. should be at !iberty to
brio; new witnesses to rebut any evidence which
might now be produced. The Earl of Liver-
pool also-. expressed hiinself desirous that the
fullest inquiry should take place into the acts of
Vimicarti and Rigauti, and the Rouse having
admitted their agency as established, ordered the
examination of-Point:lli to proceed:

[The Times.]
The first business of yesterday was to receive
the opinions of the Judges on the question sub-
•mitted to -them the day before; tliese were to a
certain degree indecisive, the case being new.
The evidence vas therefore admitted, by which .
it was proved that the 'witness was bribed by
Virnicarti td. steal letters from his master's office
relating to the Queen. The witnesswas ill-paid,
and had a tender conscience ; the first of these
circumstances might perhaps produve the se-
cond ; and, to dive deeper into the matter, the
pay might be bad because the information relat-
ing .to an innocent woman was, of necessity, un-
important. The witness seemed. to allow that he
had been a knave, but thought Brown a greater;
however that may be, Brown, at least, waslwtter
paid. Far be it from us to say that a man may
not be really and sincerely affected by thecon-
sciousness of his deviation from an honourable
course ; the witness of whom we are speaking,
Pomarti, may 'be a proof of it. We should hail
with, acclaim a similar change of
.heart and man-
ners in Brown.

[New Times.]
The QUEEN'S COUNSEL are endettiouring for
the
present to run away from the strong points in the
case against them, in order to raise a clamour on
the stale' grounds of
.subornation and conspi-
racy ; but they will be fdrced , to' come hack
bye and bye to the polacca scene, and the va-
rious other instances of approximation between
the Queen and her Courier. It strikes us
that there can be no satisfactory proof
of her Majesty's innocence, but by calling
Bergami as a Witness. If he is not a par-
ticeps criminis, why should he not appear ? Are
they af`rald that he will fame aumy under the" sul-
_ phureous-ly hot" work of a cross7examination ?
They are pledged to cm:tradict Barbara Kress.
They are pledged to produce Marlette iDentont
to contradict her sister.. We think it right to re-
' mind the .Learned Counsel of a few of these par-
ticulars, lest they ihould conclude their defence
with a Won mi r4cord.o.

plc.rning Chronicle.]
Our R.eaders vri ill, see from our Report of the
Proceedings of 'yegterday in the noise of Lords,
that the great object for Which her
,Majesty!A
Counsel contended,, has been gained,. and that ,
the House haVe s,greed 'to receive evidence with
respect to the toilduct of:Vithicarti andßagauti.
It had been ast;urned, that according to the
ptactice o+! the Codas below such evidence was
inadmissible blit it would rather. :a? pear front
the answer of the• Judges to the question pro-
posed by Lord Erskine, that the practice of the
',Courts by no means warranted. this Assumption.
But whatever might lie the praCtice of the Courts
.11 ordinary cases, bet Ween private indivi;luals,
the exklusion of the evidence in question .would,
here have been unjust in the extrme. This is
an anomalous and extraordinary case in every
reSpect, The prosecuting party bursts upon ns
in•every possible shape, and. an active agency
has appeared, which can be legally connected with
no party the, House of Lords can acknowlege.
The King of Hanover, for instance, can be no
party in this business ; but who can,suppose the
king of Hanover to be insensible, to 'any thing
that concerns the King of. England ? We have
accordingly seen the .agents of the King of
Hanover busily employed in compelling witnesses
to come to this country.