The Sun.
London, England, 1820-10-11 00:00:00

LONDON JOURNALS.

[DAILY EXTRACTS.]

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS.

[New Times.]

The fainting awry] of Lieutenant FLYNN will
remain on record like the memorable scream of
her Majesty, as a very remarkable feature in the
remarkable proceeding which now occupies public
attention. We did not think it advisable yester-
day to make the least remark on Mr. Flynn's exa-
mination of the preceding day ; though we must
say, that from its complexion we were fully pre-
.pared for the sort of termination to which it af-
terwards led. The particular incident which
peoduced so dramatic an effect, we of course
could not anticipate. We could not conceive
that a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy of England
would reduce himself to the melancholy situ:aim/A
in which Mr. Flynn yesterday appeared before
the House of Lords. It must be remembered
that on Monday Lieut. Flynn desired to refresh
his memory by looking at certain memoranda:
and this, after some debate, was allowed, on the
ground thus stated by the Lord CHANCELLOR
from Phillips's Law of Evidence—" To assist
his memory a witness may use a written entry in
a book or a memorandum, or a copy of a memo-
randum, such entry or memorandum having been
made at the time when the fact occurred or imme-
diately afterwards." Several questions were
then asked bim as to what his memoranda were
and when made. Among others the following
question and answer occurred—it being admitted
that the papers in the witness's hand were no
originals :

Then you mean to say that those copies were
made in Sicily ?—No, on my voyage on board a
ship."
Yesterday morning the cross-examination was
resumed ; and after many questions relative to
the person who wrote the originals and the copies,
and the language in which they were written, the
Solicitor-General came to the following point:—

44 Did you not tell me it was written in Ita-
lian ?—(After a pause.)—Yes.
" And now you tell me it was written partly
in Italian and partly in English ?"
" On this question being propounded to the
witness (says a Cotetnporary), he appeared to-
tally stupified and incapable of giving an answer.
He stared vacantly for a few seconds, and then
by some extraordinary and fortuitous impulse,
ainted away! The gentlemen near him caught
him before he fell to the ground, and conveyed
him out of the House. The effect produced by
this accident w:l,s extremely peculiar. The Peers
seemed astonished, the Counsel gazed at each
other, as Lost in surprise," &c. &c.

[The Tunes.]
Yesterday's PROCEEDINGS ID the LORDS were
less animated, but equally satisfactory with those
of the antecedent days. Lieutenant Flynn, and
Carrington, Sir William Gell's servant, were
cross-examined ; and Lieutenant Hownam under-
went a part of his examination in chief. With
respect to Mr. Flynn, we may observe, that it

would be hard to expect from every brave man
that he should also be an accurate speaker and a
correct thinker; but an unusual obscurity of
thought or expression prevailed in this Gentle-
man's evidence, both in his direct and cross-exa-
minations. it was, however, gratifying to find,
that, wherever a precise idea could not be got
from him, it was not only favourable to her Ma-
jesty, but at once explicative and confirmatory
of his first examination. Of the severity with
which he was cross-examined a notion may be
formed when we tell the public, that even on by-
questions, such as the position and size of the
binnacle, the manner of keeping the log, the
time and place of making his extracts, &c. &c.,
no less than four hours were spent ; and the poor
man, unused to such a situation, and but little
habituated, from his habits of life, to a sulphu-
reously hot room, fainted away. Yet, even from
undergoing such an ordeal, nothing whatever af-
fecting his first evidence could be extracted ; and
the filthy invention of the high-fed Italian, that
her Majesty and Bergami slept within sight of each
other, remains perfectly refuted. Indeed the refu-
tation was never revived or touched upon yesterday.
We must add, that two facts of high importance
were distinctly sworn to by Lieut. Flynn : Ist.
That he never saw Bergami under the tent, on
the deck of the polacca, any one night during
the voyage from Jaffa to Sicily ; 2d. That it
would have been impossible to get the Queen's
bathing-tub into her Majesty's bed-room below,
the sofa coming too near the door to admit more
than half the tub within that particular cabin.
Carrington's cross-examination was more than
gratifying ; it was triumphant, not only as af-
fecting the Queen's case, but as establishing also
his own honest conduct and unblemished charac-
ter through life, " even from his boyish days."
The House was evidently affected as well as de-
Ilighted by this man's examination. Lieutenant
Hownam was then called, and continued under
examinatio, till four o'clock.

The examination at Bow-street, on Monday,
on the fabrication of seditious bills, took an un-
expected turn. Mr. Pearson demanded and ob-
tained warrants for the author of bills of this na-
ture, some of which were published two years
ago, the criminality of which attached to that
person whom one of the Bow-street Justices has
suffered to escape. 'l'h? prosecution for so old