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to be given by those who have been pursuing a
systematical course for years, and who have
power and influence in their possession.. Not-
withstanding all that, my Lords, I will now
come to the points, and I can do it more shortly
by reference to particular branches of thk case.
I will endeavour taicrasitipw,.shortly as, *ca by,
allusion to the different branches of the case, and
I will tell what I, believe I shall prove. .First in
order, I choose to take it, because I believe, and
indeed my Learned Friend informs me that he did
not himself largely and amply discuss in his ex-
amination and inquiry, the case in the polacca.—
That was a case which my Learned Friend went
over in consequence of this arrangement.—First
of all he took a general view of the case,
and then he came to examine the particular evi-
dence of the witnesses, and he in fact overlooked
that part. My Lords, as far as our case goes, if
we had been called on to select any, we would
have selected and chosen that point as the very
best and most pleasing for comment upon. Mr.
Brougham accidentally omitted it yesterday, and
he merely stated this, that it might not be sup-
posed that he fought shy of that point. There is
no part of the case, my Lords, I have more de-
sire to grapple with, and I will now come to it.
On that subject, no part of the examination more
assuredly took up more tirlie, none was more
pressed or observed upon than the bath. That
your Lordships know is proved by Majocci in
page 94. You have that perfectly in your me-
mories, and it is only necessary for me to state,
that he made the bath to be taken into the cabi-
net of the Queen, and that Bergami and the
Queen were inside, and that he was on the
outside. Now Dumont's evidence does not con-
firm that, because she in one instance speaks
according to her memory of the bath being
in the dininz-room, and in the other she knows
nothing. The Learned Gentleman then pro-
ceeded to state that he would call witnesses to
prove that the bath was nothing more or less than
a tub, and that he would likewise prove it could
not be taken into the apartment where Majocci
had represented it to have been, as that apart-
ment, with the other things which were there,
could not possibly have contained. it. He should
prove what Paturzo had said_ as to Bergami's be- ,
ing able to see the Princess out of his bed when
she was sleeping in her's, to be totally false, and
that they could do no such thing. He proceeded
to state that he would bring evidence to prove
the reason of Bergami's being removed to another
bed-room. The truth was, that the change which
had taken place in the situation of Bergami's bed
was accomplished without her Mdjesty's know-
ledge, and in consequence of a surgeon having
been taken on board at Tunis. With regard to
sleeping in the tent, he Would prove that the
steersman was all night not a greater distance
from it than half a yard, and if there had been
any noises he must have heard them. He would
prove that an officer who had the charge of the
vessel at night used to go by her orders to the
tent to inform her of the state of the weather, and
where the ship was ; and that when he did so, he
used to lift up the awning under which her Ma-
jesty was sleeping, and that he generally found
her lying on a couch with here clothes on. He
believed he should prove that the hold of the
vessel was always open. He should prove
that, after some untoward accident happened,
and after some attempts of surprise had been
made, the•gueen always thought it necessary
to have somebody to-guard her while sleeping.
Bat even with a fraction of all this evidence, what
became of the evidence of Dumont and Majocci ?
It must have occurred to every one as rather sin-
gular, that not one out of all the other twenty-two
persons, said to be on board this vessel, was
called. That notable steersman, why was he not
called, who could have given such ample confir-
mation of what Majocci,a discarded servant, had
stated ? The very night, the Opera night, when,
if any part of what had been stated was to he be-
lieved, there could be no question might to be
imputed the commencement of the adulterous in-
tercourse, he would bring proof positive in con-
tradiction of all that had• been advanced. Ac-
cording to Dumont, her Majesty came early from
the Opera on that occasion, appearing much agi-
tated. As that was only a description of what
another person appeared to be suffering, by the
expression of the face, when no one too was pre-
sent to observe, she might safely venture upon
that assertion—there she might swear in perfect
security. Fortunately for the purposes of justice,
and for the safety of the Queen, that night was a
most remarkable night. At the Opera, on that
evening, was the then. King of Naples, attended
by all his Court. The Queen was in a state-box
numerously attended by the appropriate attend-
ants of her rank ; and well did they remember
the circumstance, from the length of time which
they had to stand ; for the amusement of the
Opera did not suffice to beguile.the ennui of per-
forming that
,ceremony, which they were under
the necessity of observing very rigidly, in conse-
quence of the presence of the Neapolitan Court.
They would prove that her Majesty did not quit
the Opera until the whole was over, at about one
o'clock in the morning of that same Opera night.
So much for the earliness of her retiring. Her
•Majesty had no bed that night to. sleep in. She
slept in none, it appeared, neither on that
night, nor on any other, during the whole
period of her stay at Naples ; for the small
one was not slept in ; the large bed had no
linen on it, and, in short, Dumont, through-
out the whole house, could find no bed for her
Majesty to repose in. We, however, said the
Learned Gentleman, can supply Dumont's want
of memory in that particular, and we shall be
able to shew, that the Queen had a bed that
night ; for it was not only remarkable on account
of the ceremony of standing observed by her at-
tendants. These remarkable concomitants can-
not occur on all occasions ; but it so happened,
that night, that there was a violent storm of
wind, which blew open the casement of her Ma-
jesty's room ; and we' shall call a witness, who
was called by her Majesty, disturbed by the ac-
cident of the casement, to shut the window.—
This witness could prove that the Queen was in