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tleahts, t 1,340 4 o hate adopted towards ? The absence of that
to asi Ile would repeat, one of the most-fortunate eireutn-
uur c,.t. . s for the Queen that could have taken place. A clam-
,6ll, excited; and, if tie had been kept in this country, not
e Weird would have been said about him.—Here thelearn-
lisZtlsel took the opportunity to defend tire Milan Coio-
au's, The most powerful necessity existed for the in-
quire, those persons who were most admirably qualified,
for taleuts, their integrity, and industry, were selected
I,i,,l'ecasioll. Mr!" Cooke was celebrated for his legal
aud his skill in detecting falsehood ; Colonel
!Sir. 1;1., was a person of equally respectable character ;. and
ilia; well, &nose character qualified him also for the situa-
sim, i(roperated with that Gentleman; and could it be said,
Its si,,ceaose Mr. Powell had been joined in the Commission,
saldssas.as "old riot ave examied witnesses ? His rigt to do so
iiitlisputahble as that of Mr. Vizard. lint, this had been
• r the puramas of inflecting the character of Mr. Powell,
sinistu'lli it was evident' to their Lordships, acted from no
sisi,ederview• It would be recollected, that Rastelli had been
"smith! purpose of shaking his tastimony, whether lie
isst "n ia a conversation with Vassali upon the sub-
•l,l lst his discharge from her Royal Highness's service.—
exa':,,r`asrelli denied. Now, why, when Vassali was under
as,. !lobar, was he not asked a question about this Coq-
lie
~4)a ? Because no such thing had ever taken place.—
ses.ne- 'xt ads erted to the evidence respecting the grotto
him ter as described by Raggazzoni to have been seen by
emor behiud a pilaster. In this lie was to have been
the 6:dieted by Ruggieri, who did it by drawing a plan at
r• instead of bringing a plan from then liot itself. Their
sver "'Ps had seen how be could draw, and therefore they
/ tei eapable of forming their own oinion as to the accuracy
• Plan which he had given in. lie (Ruggieri) had been
led in taking plans of the grotto on the spot ; but none
- vitllsuc!,e was put hi, for the best of all possible reasons, be-
/Ise if they had they would have confirmed the evidence of
This witness left the scaffolding on wls;cli he
the at work, advanced a few yards towards the room where
o,s.'tattles were, and from whence be could see all that he had
aa:,!.,ihell•• As to the bathing in the Brescia, Mr. Hownain had
sisc;`tell that it-was not iiiipossible.to have bathed in that
(lane' ne then called the attention of their Lordships to the
tense Mahumet, which, he said, was one of the mast itide-
v,is
asPertacles that ever appeared. Mr. Hownam had said it
im dance in ridicule of the Doctor, told it was from thence
a erred si . •
he ban h lat it could not have been, indecenseemed thi!t..
was „`',een present mice with her Royal Highness when it
tot „'•;•'"rased; and Vassali had also seen I`,labaniet's dance
• siot:;4l signified it whether they had seen this dance once
Learn" ',air. Granville Sharpe had been called upon by the
one. '"• Counsel, who saw the charge was indeed a desperate
the' I" what had that Gentleman stated? That Inc hail seen
h'ren,lee at Calcutta! It was, to be sure, a very excellent in-
1° draw, from the circumstance of having seen a dance
laugh e"Ila, that
.it must hare been the same iii
so dee'',',•—llut what had the enlightened sir W. who was
trotversed in all curious knowledge, said 'That it was
sats„ture indecent titan the Spanish Bolero ! Why, he (the
Icro.Y-General) had heard and read of this Spanish Bo-
that it was sometimes so indelicate that no decent fe-
alt,i,4,irld be piesent for a 'moment at such an exhibition.
ral di'sliington had, indeed, endeavoured to relieve the gena•
ship, i'igtist excited by the evidence, by assuring their Lord-
doh +at Drury-lane rheatre would treat the Public with the
face; andthus ingeniously endeavoured to'slestroy the effect
eharge which could never he contradicted by evidence.
1.4-I:talii at the Barons were also defended by the Counsel
.1)4'4 Majesty. Where had those balls been given ? At the
iths-i'erganti—nut at the house of her Royal Highness, as
tl:e °ern said, to amuse her domestics, but at the Villa of
t:,reat favour'ite—ard. who were at those halls ?—the worst,
u*' try refuse of society;. and, amongst the rest, the flower
laugh)--the daughter oft he innkeeper of St.
0. Who had been excSudeil from those balls,
lies 1;94 they were for the innocent amusement of the domes-
IfiG:ssnohe who was, ;mice'', very neatly related to Bergami.
'lllOl elghhourliood and the domestics were tube entertained,
to all'attlre disposition of her Royal Highneesto give happiness'
• th 4ruolld her was so remarkable, why had not the wife ()font
,the
14e domestics been present ? The wife of Bergaini was in
tslsleiglihaurbood—why was she excluded front those mist li-
ttmleerres ? No, no; as long as a Royal Princess was to re-
t" long was the unfdrtunate wife of
,Bergarni tS., shutt
,nir.°lli the society of tier tiushand. •" Could the evidence.o.
Terse, 're ever forgotten ? He; upon being asked. athirst the
'aid, tree of a particular female at the halls, in his anxiety,
tin, „sue "as there, but She was not a prostitute. Was lint
of the description t•f persons---of " the flowers of
Nt.t.,..iys" who visited at the villa of Bergami ?
twat t; Ir.ENALIN here said there had heeis nu proof that at
ast 'ore the villa was 7..rganies.l
retie iILATTORNEY-GISNERAL said, that whether. it was his
lit- 1-",ce or not, it bore his name, and was his property,—
;lot, lac' a right also to take as true the disgusting convessa-
hess,)etween Bergami and the Princess at one of these balls,
Oes;‘,4Ale Ile had heard no contradiction to it. It had not been
lesp•ii:' that she played Columbine to Louis Bergam.i's
slite;?Plough the convenient ructin:, of I lownam not
plat." him ID remember what character her Royal Higliaests.
*tic,,-1,,. except that she acted an automaton, or woman tit,tha
,1014,:. UP to any thing- Need he say a word more.sor
lane
the
LaSe-`• He they hastily ran over the scenes describe, on se
tstie,rn the garden at the Villa d'Estes &c..and con-
thitN the evidence of so many witnesses had re-
coutradietion. He believed he had now got
!'ays-ugh the case, as proved on the part of the Bill, and
Jess
riold look to the evidence on the other side, atter
kts,,i'.?eing that Sir W. Gell's powers of vision were very
• it'lideed, as he had been able to see in an instant, that
Islier, Highness had two dresses on, upon an occaSion
this'le was only presented to his sight for one moment.
lltej,,lftswer he would call a flash of lightning, and lie must
its here, that it was equal,•as a thiraele, to that circumstance
4/1 itae,(!videfice for the Bill, which Mr. Denman had called
trids,:tan moment!. He then proceeded to comment on the
‘l'as lice of Lord Llandaff• All tliat Noble Lord had pruned
IV ad nocsnay vistd laies, whose equal in
'he 'e wasl h
beforeaio they rose inie tine morning, and whea
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're surrounded by their family. lint was this to
,
11 as a justification of her Royal Highness's Per-
I"sestnn (a
amnia/ servant to, sleep, night after night, and
Issr,„4“er week, in the sama room with her, and occasionally
dud atarurg the office of her fille de chambre ? Sir W. Gehl
,• Craters were next called ; mid Sir W. Cell said, at-
Iteuy,,ln he was three months at the Villa Brandi with her
I.ly tin Highness, yet he saw nothing improper in her conduct.
liism
let evidence of Carrington, however, it appeared Sir Wi-
Iloase et„,er slept. during that time in hei- Royal Highness's
uhsss; Pr. Holldnd was as little qualified, from his own
With Ots(t, to give any opinion ; for he said lie was only
Iritsi tenon,
Royal Highness in the performance of Iris profes-
!het
to uties, or occasionally in public. So also with 're-
J°finedSieCard ; he was sent away at Naples, and never after
eeetlea ht" Royal Highness. The Learned Counsel then pro-
atm ni comment oil the evidence of Lieutenant Hownant,
Capt. sll..,his contradictions of declarations made by hint
.to
4' to Rii"ggs, which contradictions, lie said, discredited lum
mesa tither tither parts of his testimony. These were the wit-
coif,d bills Learned Friends had called ; and if their testimony
did si,..e.Jhown to support the Bill, how much more support
the vei-t„"II receive front his Learned Friend not having called •
sworn ,-(lz.sses who were capable of contradicting all the facts
...t°"tradi,,lNlajocclii and Dumont, if. they were cal-able of
..,314.1 has r'• Aruougst these witnesses whom Inct Majesty
'snintesse called, were Marietti, llieronyoms, Schiavini, the
4„4igned Oldi, Louisiergai, and Caara. The reasbn
;Ova: wa"sY :Ir. Del
an l
and Drm. Lushingtonm for not calling
most extraordinary one ; namely, that Inc
subject their nerves to be shaken by a cross-
hey a"ors. Why if they were the witnesses of truth,
/1(41 11%,u,Tm1i(14 conie-,elad in its armour, and would have
..'"unso Ceti' fear from the cross examination of any
Zit
0, nve. Bersami was still her C'hamberlaio, Ma-
;sit 'rh was still l DD
d'Honneur, and they might
s•e been ti ame
ell ; iiistead of which his Learned Friends
t''f-"arale",',l:!:kedcaancieot and modern history to aiseover trios
4 'um, and cora pal isons the most odious, to he applied
els s one concerned in these proceedings. The Crown it-
,spared; comparisons had been made, ins
DI. atrocious tyrant of ancient Rome had been
Wl4
a party. If tl • Queen was iiinocent, this
r nec,s„
ove y to establish her fame she could not
I' Would 7.1! so by hurling darts at the conduct of ot hers.—
. nave been time enough to do that who their
rtli "Pt Sh I
hied ou d have pronounced her guiltless., Tie
se ssbnt as yet pronounced • no verdict ; it was only
s'i'4ted 119(1, by the most base and insidious means, enders-
o'rlete mislead that Public, and to blacken all concerned in
. esuis eeedings, not even sparing their Lordships, who had
,Iv led to • .
• that . g"e an opinion. Of.these persons he would
,itsei, whilst the'. had the Queen their mouths, they had
verii, Purposes in their heari Tl►ar Lordships hail been
t%'len is" by his Learned Friend,s.force6)-
with all that of •
„,,‘lneed
re's•si he was master of, to pause before they pro-
.ft(a)pu.don. 'They had been told that they stood
ea:lnsPrire , that if they now pronounced judgment
„ i° Queen, it would be the last judgment they would
Is. r,;tit",. once. They bad been admonished, that as the
b nom, is of saving the Crown and the Altar, that, guilty
""41 -"t th • • •
a 411,, •
.es %%rte. called on. for an acquittal. He
Conjure them •Lordships to pause before they
i,,_,Therr verdict; and then to follow that course
ops,,ivla",estys ro*iitained forthein so high and hononrable
Wath the world, lie would call on them, as the

best means of protecting the Altar and saving the Crown, to
pronounce a judgm.tnt only on the evidence as it,stood before
them; and if that evidence should. and in his opinion it did, call
for a verdict of guilty, he was convinced they would pronounce
that verdict with firmness. Whether guilty or innocent, they
would pronounce it in a manner satisfactory to their Own con-
sciences ; and following the dictates of that monitor, be that
verdict what it might, sooner or later, it would prove satis-
factory to the country, to the world, and to posterity. A
pause of a few minutes followed ; after which . - •
The SOI.ICITOR - GENERAL addressed their
Lordships, and • proceeded, at Considerable
length, to comment on the evidence for and
against the Bill. The elevation of Bergami in
a few months from the rank and station of a me-
nial 'servant to that of a Baron, a Knight of
Malta, a Sicilian Nobleman, and Chamberlain to
her Royal Highness, was in itself unexplained,
and it remained a proof of extraordinary attach-
ment on the part of her Royal Highness. He
contended, that the evidence of Sir W. Gell,
Mr. Craven, Sicard, and others, went to' prove
that his manners never were those befitting a
rank or station superior to that of a menial. The
introdlction of all 13ergami's relations, except his
wife, into the family, was also; he said, strong
evidence against her Royal Highness. He would
ask, what pretensions had the Countess of Oldi
to the situation of Lady of Honour ? It ap-
peared from the evidence of Sir -William Gell,
that at the time she was introduced to her
Royal Highness she did not speak Italian,
and. the Countess could not speak. French or Eng-
lish. As to her manners, Lord Guildford, when
speaking of them, described her as not particu-
larly' vulgar ; but his Lordship declared himself in-
capable of describing the exact shades of vulgarity.
The constant arrangement of the beds; so that
Bergami was near her Royal Highness, was also
ti,
a most remarkable and strong fact. 1 was said
this was done to protect her Royal. highness
from danger, but no danger was shown to exist.
The Learned Counsel then proceeded to com-
ment on the various contradictions to be found in
Flynn's evidence, and asked how were these
glaring contradictions to be reconciled ?—" Oh!"
said his Learned Friends, " he was confused by
a long torturing cross-examination, and overcome
by the intense heat of the Court." Why, the
cross-examination had existed only a quarter of
an hour, and the intense heat. of the Court was
borne without 'inconvenience by their Lordships.
.He could explain circumstances in a much more
natural way ; the witness had
,much confused
himseff in a string of falsehoods, from which he
could not recover. His friends had described '
Mr. Flynn as a man of honour and courage ; he
• might be so ; out of this cause he knew nothing
of him, but in it he would say he had suffered him-
self to be warped by the factious spirit which was
abroad. Next came Mr. Hownam, who having at
length acknowledged his belief that Berganni slept
under the tent, his Learned Friends exclaimed,
" Oh ! this is part of our case ; we opened it so ; it
is our evidence." This was a most extraordinary
asSertion, for, in his opening, his Learned Friend
did not -even mention it. Oh ! but said his
Learned Friend, that was an accidental omis-
sion. Yet, though the sleeping under the tent
was a part of the case of his Learned Friends,
Mr. Denman and Dr. Lushington had 'laboured
hard to contradict it. They both contended that
thete was no positive evidence to this fact.—
True ; but they had the evidence of the Countess
of Oldi—why was not the Countess called ? Was
that also an accidental omission ? He supposed it
was, that the Countess had said, "I will serve you
as far as I can, but I cannot swear to a falsehood."
Next, as to the tent being closed or open, the
hatchways down or up. The preponderance of
the evidence was that they were shut. Schia.
vini was the person who ordered the tent to
be closed. Why was not Schiavini.called to
contradict that fact ? His not being called was
confirmatoryef the fact. There was uncontradic-
tory evidence Of an extraordinary occasion sought
for an adulterous intercourse in the sleeping to-
gether under the tent for near six weeks. But,
said his Learned Friends, they were never un-
dressed. True : the evidence of the Captain and
Mate was, that they Sometimes saw her Royal
Highness looking out in the morning in a kind of
morning-gown, and Bergami in a loose Grecian
robe. " Oh!" said his Learned Friend, Mr.
Brougham, " what would become of the popula-
tion of Greece, if its inhabitants were thus to at-
tire themselves for the purpose of enjoying sexual
intercourse." Why, did his Learned Friend
mean to say, that to such a man as Bergami was
described to be, these habiliments would' prove
impenetrable barriers to his approaches? A poet
of our own country, alluding to apparel much
more cumbrous, hooped petticoats, said=
" Ott have we known these seven-fold shields to fail,

Thn;.;;;;:l with thickest silks and hones of whale."
He denied that any person could look at these
facts, and doubt the adulterous intercourse. But
there was a witness who could have contradicted
all these charges if they were false. That in-
dividual, the faithful servant of her Royal High-
ness, accompanied her as far as the shores of
France, but there his courage failed him ; he there
quitted his Royal. Mistress, immed.iately return-
ing in the carriage she had previously travelled
in. Now as to the visit to the Theatre San Car-
los, it was proved, and not contradicted, that her
Royal Highness went to the masquerade at the
Theatre, accompanied only by Bergami, her
courier, and Dumont, her chambermaid. Her
Royal Highness knew she went, and knew who
accompanied her, and if any other persons were
with her, she might have called them to contra-
dict Dumont. As she had not, it was proved
they could not be contradicted ; so as to the
breakfasts at Genoa. Louis Bergami and Ca-
mara were stated to have waited at breakfast ;
then they might have been called on to contradict
Dumont and Majocei ; so, at Venice, respecting
the gold chain. If Majocci could have•been con-
tradicted, some of the company present might have
been called to contradict him. At that time
Bergami was a courier, waiting behind her chair.
She puts a chain round, his' neck, he returns it.
She withdraws to another room, and they part
with a squeeze of the hand. At Belenzona, and
the Devil's Bridge, and other places, Bergami,
in his courier's dress, dines at her Royal High-
ness's table. Was Hieronymus or any other of

her servants admitted to this' honour? Not one,
Hownam was questioned as to this and other
circumstances, and did not deny their existence,
yet he said he never saw any thing in her Royal
Highness's conduct derogatory to her. He was
asked, had he never said the contrary to any
one ? No; never, said he with confidence. But
when Capt. Briggs was mentioned, then he began
to waver, and could not recollect. What credit
could, after this, be given to Mr. Hownain's
neral testimony ? He regretted much that in the
discharge of the important duty she had to per
form he was under the necessity of consuming so
much of their Lordships' time, but he feared the
observations it would still be his duty to make
would detain their Lordships beyond the period
of their sitting this evening.
Lord LIVERPOOL 'then proposed, that as the
lion of adjournment had arrived, and it must
have been apparent to their Lordships that the
Solicitor-General was labouring under severe
indisposition, he should now propose an adjourn-
ment till Monday, when the Solicitor-General
might finish his
,address, and a day be fixed for
the second reading of the Bill.
Lord GREY said no one could oppose the pro-
position of the Noble Lord. He hoped, how-
ever, the postponement in hearing the conclusion
of the Solicitor-General's address would not de-
lay the second reading of the Bill beyond Thurs-
day.

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said, he would not
occupy their Lordships more than two hours on
Monday.
The LORD CHANCELLOR thought the second
reading of the Bill might be fixed for Thursday.
He, from personal motives, arising out of the-im-
portant duties he had to attend to in another
place, in the early part of next week, should have
requested a delay till that time, but he did not
imagine any postponement beyond that day would
be necessary. • _ __ .

Mr. Bno-vaitAm said, he was convinced his
Learned Friends had not intended to make any
observations in the course of their addresses to
their Lordships of anature personally offensive to
him; but that they were instructed to_state what
they had done of their doubts of his receiving
Baron Ompteda's letters only yesterday. Ile
was well persuaded, indeed he knew that it had
been industriously circulated abroad, that [hey had
been in his possession previous to that time. lie
felt it his duty to himself to contradict an asser-
tion, that he could for a moment, so far have forgot-
ten his duty to their Lordships, as a professional
man, as to have been guilty of such an artifice.—
lie did not receive those letters until half past
eleven o'clock yeSterday morning, and, he believr
ed they did not arrive in England before eleven
o'clock on Thursday night, This fact might be
proved by a reference to the. Alien Office, where
the hour of .the messenger's arrival at Dover might
be ascertained. lie hope& this explanation
would be taken as a true statement of facts, and
that those who had dared to circulate a contrary
one would circulate it no farther.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL assured his Learned
Friend be meant nothing personal to him, -and
that he gave him full credit for the statement he
had just made.

Mr. Bnotiounm was satisfied with his Learned
Friend's assura►►ce ; indeed he did not mean to
impute to those who had instructed his Learned
Friend any motives of personal hostility towards
him.—A djourned till Moin