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called ; and there was a woman now in England,
who could have spoken:to facts of great iniport-,
ance but ...,Who hatt':also : been kept baCk,
anxious as' phis Lear, d -Fr ends were that.
the whele'truth, Withqtit the least reservation,
should. come before their Lordships. Now, with
respect to Majocci, he could
.not forget under,
what circumstances he had denied all knowled
of the name of Ompteda. He.had most strongly
denied that he knew the name. To oppose his,
•
''evidence, he would call their
.LordshiPs'' atten-'
Lion to that of the •witness Carrington, and he
could not do this, without first noticing the diffe-
rent circumstrances in. libich the .parties in this
proceeding were placed, and the diflidulties under
which the.Que.en laboured, notwithstanding all
that had been said of the advantages she had re-
ceived. .The V.-itness Carrington.no sooney.had
left the Bar-of their Lordships, to the satisfac-
tion of every one who had heard'his testimony,
than-materials were laid .for his cross-examina-
tion by-the first Lord of the Admiralty ; books
were searched, and his Captain brought'to town
to be examined. He would not complain of this,
but if it were not irregular he would seriously,
tlink the. Noble Lord for that cross-examination;
and he would say, that in wheteVer rank: in so-
ciety Carrington's lot might be cast—nature made
litim a Gentleman. The.character of this wituesS'
roSe.higher froni every cross-examination e and his
testimonycould not be shaken. The Learned
Gentleman then proceeded to sheiv how the', eyi-'
dence_Of this witness overturned the testimony of
Majecci, as to Baron Ompteda, at whose con,
duct lte (Majocci) felt so indignant, that he
said, if he met him, he would kill him like
a dog The result of the cross-examination
was mbst satisfactory. When it closed, a pa-
per was put in; which proved that he had ac-
tually. :teen rated as' midshipman on bOard the
,Poictiers, and Sir John Beresferd said, ,he
never parted with any one with so much regret,
as he was a most excellent sailor. He Could
not but notice .how differently situated the
'Counsel for the Queen were' to their opponents.
Her Majesty's Counselltad no Admiralty books
to refer to—no Means .of getting witnesses' to
Come, or of compelling the production of a single
paper. They could get no Foreign Courts cerer
inOnionSly to legalize papers—they could obtain
from ,Foreign Powers nothing but unceremonions
refusals. to bring. over their witnesses. He 'would
not condo-an foreign witnesses, but it was a great
disadvantage to the defence, that they had to
meet persons of whose character and conduct in
they 'were eh titelY ignorant, and of whom they
knewliothing till-they were placed at tie
,bar
against her., And yet, fortunately for her Ma-
jesty, every witness against her had been confut-
ed out of hiS Own mouth by his contradictory
testimony ; for Dumont and Majocci, notwith-
-standing.the'eVidence they had (riven at the bar
of 'that lIouse;:- had acknowledged that the
PrineeSs was surrounded by persons anxious :to
betray, and who distorted every-action of her
life. At Carlsruhe, it appeared that not fewer
than thi•ec Ministers had been employed to get
'evidence 44-Inst- the Princess. One of them
lieeeiVed her Royal Highness at the inn, and
up his apartments to her ; but no
soon6i. h'ati. 'she 'quitted them, than he Was seen
runieng front room to room-to get some charge
'against her ROyal Highness.' He thought
be; had caught' her in a trap,' and with the
aid of Barbara Kress, Would complete her. ruin.
IreS4 haksWern that in going into the room of
the PrinceSs with some water, about seven, o'etock
in the 'evetVing, she' saw the 'Princess sitting on
to bed 'With Beegami, and her arm round 'his
; btit 'from her cross-examination,it appear-
ed that she' did not know whether it was the
Princess or Countess Oldi who was on the bed.
He '4'ent at considerable length into the evidence
'Kress, and centended, that the inference to be
'drawn' from what she had said was, that a broader
bed had been placed in the room apprepriated
.to *her ROyal 'Highness, by order of her courier.
She had Stated that the courier arrived, and then
the broader bed had been introduced. It .was,.
'however, possible, that 'this had been don'e by
Order of Mr. Grimm, who ruight think that he
Could more easily make out ie case of adultery
by means
.of a broader bed. Ile proceeded to
argue from the. evidence of Kress, that it was
riot certain the Princess was the, person she had
seen with Bergail:li, and if there was any truth
at all in her story, it was probable that the Coun-
tess of Oldi, and not the Princess, was 'the' in-
dividual seen: seated on the bed. The decla-
ratiens of this witness must show very clearly the
nature of the
.praCtices against her Royal High-
ness. Her compensation was,,nhe said, very little
indeed ; but those who, 'Were 'uncertain or- the
conipensation they were to receive, knew well the
scale of pa M,ent tipbn which they were to cal-
culate, and that they could not expect a consider
rabic sum, except they wer€ detetinined to swear
qUite up to the mark. The Learned Cotinsel
then paSsed on, aftey a few observations upon
`the circumstance of the finding a cloak in her
Reyal Ilighness's bed, whicli Kress afterward's
saw upon Bergami, to that part of the testi-;
potty
.which related to the stains in the bed.. The
period at Which those stains were said to have
been 'seen was.net at all stated ; and the cross-
examination of Kress completely disproved her
former assertions. She had said the stains were
.NoiitC.: now this could be while she deScribed
the-m to be inaistate of humidity he could not
.
enderstand: Asked if she;. a married woman,
knew xhat they came froth', she replied that site
*liad..nOt examined them ; and after Wards she had
t'!iellinpudence-tei-say, when a shriller question ,vas
Put---yon Will )inrdon me, lint 11' have not/theught
of it. If 'she had not thought on thiS subject, why
kid She Veen brought
.here at such an expence to
the 00' Ple of 'this country to depose against theft-
Queen ? Did this declaration'arise from her mo-
desty? Was she urea her cross'-examination
sited for the firsttime with a fit of modesty ? No,
her agitation and her- blushes were caused by a
iioi.y,different.fee. ling,
.I.rv. the 'struggles' of expir-
ing tiutt, siie-bad:saug-ht to withdraw herself
from the perjury, but that she was perjured was
proped by the evidoxe which had been brought.