The Sun.
London, England, 1820-09-02 00:00:00

PARLIAMENT:

HOUSE OF LORDS, FRIDAY, SEPT. 1.

THE QUEEN.

The Gross-Examipation of MADAME DUMONT
‘
continued by Mr., Ve ILLIAms.
• Q. 1 wish now to call your attention to the
~_ journey you' 'took by /and to Jerusalem. -Did
not the Princess travel on that occasion on horse-
back i—A. Yes ; that is to' say, as far as I can
!ecoil,..ct, it was on'an ass.
Did .ou travel yourself in some kind of car-

rialte ?—Yes.
AlOnf.; with the Countess Oldi ?—Yes.
Dia you not travel afterthe Princess ?—Some-
-tune.; before, sometimes lifter.' •
On that journey did you not continue to
attend on the Countess Oldi?—tdid not wait on
the Countess of Oldi. •
Did you not continue to be with her was
alwa.Vs in the same palanquiti with her. ,/
Did not your, sister attend QII the Princess in
that journey ?-I‘l3, sister was always on horse-
back near'ilte Princess.-
\''‘ as not your,siSter during that journey con-
stantly near the Princess ?—When we stopped, I
was frequently near her.
. During that journey, did the Princess rest by
day and travel during the night ?---Yes.
.°'!,,Vhen you stopped at Aum, do you, or do you
rot, mean to say that you undressed the Princess
-On that occasion ?—I recollect I was
_under the
tent of the Princess, but I do not recollect whe-
ther I undressed her or not.
Do you mean to say that the Princess was 'un-
dressed at all under the tent, on that occasion'?—
When I left the Princess, she was in a white bed-
•
sown.
Do you mean "to say that the ,Princess was un-
dressed at all ?—She had pulled-off her upper
dress.

Do you mean by that dress, the dress in which
the Princess was travelling ?—Yes, the gown or
robe which was. open.
Do you mean anything more than the outer
gown, of whatever description ?—I do not recol-
tect if it was any thing more.
* Then the dress was as it had been all the night
she had been travelling, except as-to that exte=
rior dress, or whatever it was ?it was a white
petticoat below.
• Was Tier dress any way altered, except by
having thd exteriOr.habilirnents taken off ?—I do
not recollect.
When that exterior habiliment was taken-off,
did not the Princess put on a night-gown, or bed-
gown, for the purpose of. reposing on the sofa ?
W-fien I left her, she was in a nhite petticoat.
1' .do not know what she did after I left her.
Did she stop on her journey to Jerusalem ano-
ther night ?—'Fes. ;
Did you attend her Royal Highness on that
o;:cesion ?—I helped her to dress.
want to know whether, on that second oc-
casion When she stopped in travelling, she was
undressed did tot see her when we arrived;
I only saw her when she rose in the evening.
On that occhsion, in 'the evening, was she dres-
sed or undressed ?—When I entered her room
sire was dressed in a white petticoat,' as I have
:titeady said. ' •
", Mr. KERSTERN, the Queen's Interpreter, said,
the translation- of , theword, signifying a part of
her Royal Highness's dress, was " robe."
When the Princess-was About to start*, had she
any thing'rtiore to .do to her dress than to put
on:the exterior habiliMent which you before Men-
tioned ?--I do not think that she had any thing
else to put on.
You hive said, I think, that you took ship at
Tunis when you were' going to Jerusalem ?
We went on in thetsame vesser in which we came.
From Tunis ?--Y es. '
I'behieve the crew -consisted of two or three
-On& twenty persons altogether belieie there-

abort ts. • • •
—Then there were, besides the crew, ten or a
• dozen who belonged to •the suite of her Royal

• • -
.Do you
.remember taking a harper on board at
Tunis ?—Yes.
A Jew ?—Yes.
-On that occasion, we are told, the cabin of the
vessel, at the extremity.of it, was occupied
the Princess and the Countess of Oldi ?—There
were two cabins; one for the Princess, another
e6r the Countess of Oldi.
Wliere did you sleep a cabin near the
dinino. cabin. • •
• ,Did-your cabin open into the dining cabin?,—
It opened into the passage...
W,hat,.passacre :—The• passage which runs all
along, the vessel..
'Where had'llieronymns slept during the voy7:
age --He slept in another cabin, in the same di-.
rection as mine ; it was the last on that side of
the ship.•
4-suppose that any of the crew who were at
went to' sleep in the hold ?-1 don't
know where they went.• •
I)c.' -you know. where the harper slept during
thp voyage ?—I do not remember exactly.where
hey slept ; but it was, • I think, near the table
• where we dined : I do not recollect exactly.
tyhat distance was that from the place where
you slept the other end of the vessel.
Ydn, I suppose, slept in.your own bed every
night ?—While..we were travelling or afterwards?
Airing the whole voyage from Tunis
that ,when her. Royal; Highness .slept on •the
-024, I slept. one night in her cabin and one iu
my -own. , , , ' • • •
NYou mean alternately ?—Yes.
And the harper slept in a different part of the
ship,-did be ?-1-, do not Ipow where he slept,
biit I ;believe .he slept near trio. dining table.
Did-yonnot sal, a little while ago, tlatitiVas in
a different part of the shipt-.--;l'saidit was'in the
eextremity..lll a 'cabin which was below. ' T do
nut rutatt.the part of the vessel above 'but below.
Do you mean to •swearithat the' ew Harper
slept every night in that place during that voy-