The Sun.
London, England, 1820-10-30 00:00:00

Palace ?—I cannot precisely state; it is little—abont three
minutes' riding in a carriage.
How far is the Margrarioe's Palace from the inn?—Nearer
than that -of t Orand Duke.

The answers given to•these- questions must sa-
tisfy,yoUr Lordships, that it was not only possi-
ble, bat probable, that her Royal Highness might
•go home to the inn between dinner arca Supper.
The evidence of Vassali therefore does not in any
way ,contradict this fact; and your Lordships
have the positive oath of Barbara Kress that it
did take place. The positive testimony of Kress
was not to be shaken by the loose recollections
..of these Gentlemen, and the still looser infer-
ences from them. Holding, then, that the fact
was as Barbara Kress. swore, that the Princess
and Ber•gami were sitting on a bed, he with his
arm round her neck, this was a proof indisputa-
ble, according to Mr. Brougham's own conces-
sion, that an adulterous intercourse must have
existed between them. -;Barbara Kress had de-
posed. to another fact, namely that she had found
in the bed of Bergami a cloak, Which' she after-
wards saw on her Royal Highness. This was a
fact which admitted of abundant contradiction,
l)ut none had been offered. It would be recol-
lected that his Learned Friend had crozs-exa-
mined to that, and the drift of it was td shew
that she had' handed the cloak to a :Tager, a man
which his Learned Friend had described as dres-
Sed in green. They therefore knew that servant.
The Learned Gentleman then read the evidence
as follows :

Was there et. oot any body else in the room at the time you
made it ?—There was nobody in the 'room except a servant in
a green coat, who CA me into the room.

Who was the servant in
,greenl—l cannot tell you this ;
there %vete two of them, but 1 have not observed them
closely; Idu not know to w horn theybelonged.
1-lave you ever seen them before ? Who ? the servants.
Yes ; the servants ?—I never saw them before ; may at
the tbne when the Princess was there, then I saw them run-
ning about.
Have you ever seen them since I—No ; I have, seen none
of them since she left it.

Did they not go away with her as well as come with her ?
Yes, as much as I have seen they-did.

Was one of them a Jager ?•4I do not know this ; one of
them had a green coat, but whether he was a.:lager I•have
not questioned bin).

. -
This, therefore, was a fact, respecting WhiCh
the ether side, if ,it were false, had it in their
power to have contradicted her: They knew all
the servants who were about her Royal Highness,
they must know whether any one of those who
accompanied her at that time was dressed in a
green uniform ; they must also know whether
her Royal Highness had such a cloak ; they
might have called Madame Oldi, and the other
female attendants, to prove to whom thateloak
belonged ; those might have, contradicted this
testimony by better evidence, better than that of
Hownam or Vassali, they might have proved the
cloak not to have belonged to her R. IL, but no-
thing of this had they attempted ; and if . that
cloak was the Princess's what was the inference
which their Lordships would draw from this cir-
cumstance ? How came the cloak in that place
How came the cloak of her Royal, Highness in
the bed of Bergami ? No attempt had been made
on the other-side to disprove tie: fact or to ac-
count for it in any way, and that was of itself
a strong confirmation of the testimony of. Kress
en this point. Another fact she had
.proved
which it was so difficult to allude to without dis-
gusting their Lordships, that if the nature of the
case had not rendered it necessary, he would have
passed it over without any comment—he meant
the. discovery of the stains. He remembered the
manner in which that testimony had ,been given,
and he also remembered the observations or
his Learned Friend, Mr. Denman, who had
ascribed the, blushes of the witness to the ef-
fects of conscious guilt, rather than to her , mo-
desty. But. their Lor.d,ships, he was sure, would
feel that the manner in which she spoke of those
things, the sight of, which must shock the feelings
of any woman of decency, was any thing
,but
that of a waman of bad character. She gave„lier
testimony in the mcst natural manner possible,
and very far from, in, any, degree exaggerating
the circumstances against her Royal Highness.--,-
Her behaviour under examination was most, cre-
ditable to her testimony. She had indeed been
cross-examined as to the several places she . bad
lived in, and the pei.sons whom she had 'served,
but not one of all those .persons, not a human
being acquainted with her former life, had been
called or examined to throw discredit on her,
character. The other side had not been lax in
their exertions, they had, an agent at Carlsrhue;
who had endeavoured in every way to procure
the attendance of the Baron d'Ende ; and would
any man believe that he had so far neglected his
duty to his client,. as not to have exerted .him-
self to the utmost to procure all possible infor-
mation as to the life, conduct, and character of
this witness ? and yet they had failed, and
not a human being had they been able
to kroduce who could say: a syllable
against it.. And here again he had 'to complain
of that Press which was so' scandalously and
infamously abused to the propagation of the most
malicious slanders upon the character of this wit-,
ness, in reports of speeches pretended or said to
have been delivered at public meetings, but
which lie did pot believe were ever spoken, cir-
culating the foulest calumnies respecting her hav-
ing suffered an infamous punishinentat Carlsrhue.
Her character_ was blasted out of that House,
but it remains untarnished within it. Every in-
famous report to her discredit had been,. spread
to excite a feeling in the
.public mind against
her.; every. scandalous rumour that could be in-
vented, to gratify the depraved appetite fors!an-
der of the people, who greedily swallowed any
calumny, however gross, that had been circulated
for the purpose of blackening her character, and
throwing discredit on her testimony. But not a
single attempt had been made in that House, by
evidence of any kind, to impeach the one or in-
validate the other. Here then was a witness
whose character was unimpeached, and whose
credit was unshaken. Anti how had his Learned
Friends attempted to meet this,part of the case ?
Why their Lordships must have laid before them
,a correspondence between the Baron d'Ende and
a clerk of Mr. Vizard, to skew that although he
wished and was anxious to come over,, and that
he did not care about the little property he had
in Hanover, for nothing Wit 4 fever under which

he was suffering would prevent him, which they
-said was only an excuse, for that no fever of the
sort existed—he was restrained from appearing
here by the fear or the intideuce of some person
whom it was never attempted te,pame, although
it was well known and ackwowledged that this
GOvernment lrol4one all...in'their por to get,
him to com a. ovt r, Ms tiwtti's 'ow n. Caav'eThTit n tsak AA
given him the necessary permission. But he'could
not but suspect that his Learned Friends had no
wish for the Baron d'Ende. His evidence, he
.cotrld not but think, would not have availed them
in this case. His memory, indeed, could not
have been more particular than that of Vassali.
' Again, they had asked him why he did not call
Grimm, a person upon whose character' his
Learned Friend, Mr. Brougham, had indulged in
an unfounded and slanderous attack, although
he knew that he could not be called, because he
could give no evidence on this point, for Kress
herself had sworn that she did not know him,
and he was not in the inn at the 'time. The cha-
racter of Kress then remained unimpeached, she
had sworn to facts within her own knowledge, and
which might, if untrue, have been contradicted,
but that had not been attempted. At Turin ano-
ther fact had b,;en sworn to by a witness, and no
attempt was made to impeach his credit. He
had sworn to facts, to which no contradiction had
been given ; and' if their Lordships were
not to believe a witness under such circum-
stances, then no testimony that could be given
would ever avail in any case. The Learned
Gentleman then read from the minutes the evi-
dence of Francisco di Rollo, who swore that
when returning from the chamber of the dame
d'honneur, whither he had been to carry some-
thing, between nine and ten in the morning, he
had to pass through Bergami's bed-room, and saw
him come out of the Princess's chamber, dressed
only, in a loose - dressing-gown and drawers,
and go to his -own bed, of which he drew
open the curtains, and the bed did not seem to
have been slept in ; that Bergami, on seeing
him, called him a scoundrel, and asked what
brought him there ; he immediately- went away.
This wa,s a fact which might have been contra-
dicted ; the dame d'honneur might have been call-
ed to disprove it. His Learned Friends had
argued most eloquently that the contradiction
was most material, even on the least important
circumstances of a case, and yet here was one
proof of those habits which were found to recur
through the whole of this case, and they had not
called any evidence to contradict it, He should
now shortly advert to the circumstances at
Trieste, the testimony of the cook and waiter
at that place, and the triumphant manner in
which his Learned Friends had, as they thought,
destroyed the evidence of that witness., The
main evidence, as to the situation of the rooms,
was not controverted ; but much had been
said as to the time of her Royal Highness's
stay. To contradict the witness- they had the
most extraordinary proof, which had been offered
bY_Titr. Hownam. It was the letter which Mr.
Hownam stated he had written to his wife, dated
the 18th of April. But did it follow that, be-
cause this letter was dated on the ISth, it was
written on the 18th, and on no other day ? Vas-
sali, too, swore that her Royal Highness remain-
ed olka day and a half ; Vassali, of whose ex.,
cejlen,tonemory the affair at Carlsrhue affords
such 'memorable proof ! This was the triumphant
'Contrad.l•ation ; but it seemed the triumph want-
ed a. little, propping ',up ; for . his Learned
Friend, with an adroitness (for he could call
it nothing else) peculiar to himself, and for
the exercise of which the present case had
given him so many opportunities, attempted to
read a Gazette which he well, know could not
be received in evidence, for the purpose of sup-
porting the testimony of Mr. Hownam as to the
time. If the triumph was so complete, where
was the necessity for adding. to it by irre-
gular evidence ? Was it necessary, observed the
Learned Counsel, to offer any comment upon such
a piece of no-evidence as this? Why had his
Learned- Friend had recourse to it, if heeled re-
lied so firmly as he pretended on the excellent
memories of Vassali and Howman ? But why, in-
stead of taking any rains 'at all about a mat-
ter of such comparative unimportance as the
length of time 'her Royal Highness stopped At
Trieste, why had they not rather produced wit-
nesses to contradict cuchi, if he could be contra-
dicted, as to the situation of the rooms in the inn,
the doors, and the -hangings ? The Queen had
doubtless had her emissaries at Trieste, as well
as elsewhere ; and if the facts that Cuchi de-
posed to were not true, there could have been no
difficulty in procuring witnesses to refute them.
When, therefore, not a single witness had been
produced to strew that Cuchi was mistaken in the
main facts of his statement, was he not entitled
to hold that that statement wai fully established?
—His Learned Friend (Mr. Brougham) had left
this part of the case with a threat, that this wit-
ness, Cuchi, should be brought to justice. Such
-threats were easily thrown out ; the object of
them could not be mistaken. The present was
not the time nor the place for discussing this
topic; but while it was before him, he should
just take the liberty of reminding his Learned
Friends that there were others who might stand
an equal chance of punishment with the cook of
Trieste: Others had tripped in their evidence ;
and whether they were Italian or English it was ,
not at present necessary to mention. He now
came to another part of the case, upon which very
much indeed had been said, it was the evidence of
Vassali ; and here he must confess, that he was a
little .surprised at the sarcasm of his Learned
Friend, Mr. Brougham, when speaking of Sacchi.
His Learned Friend had said something in the
shape of a reflection upon the Counsel of his (the
Learned Attorney's) side, for the terms in which
they had spoken of Sacchi. The observation of
his Learned Friend meant to imply, that he (the
Learned Attorney) and his friends had repre-
sented Sacchi as being more entitled to credit
from the cir,,amstance of his having served in the
army of Buonaparte. His Learned Friend said,
" There stras a time when it would not have been
proper to pronounce the name of that man with-