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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1820:

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FOLLOWING .GOODS

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LONDON JOURNALS.

tD4IL Y EXTF.ACTS.]

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS.

[Morning Post.]

TRIAL OE' TLIE QUEEN.—The cross-examina-
tion of Mademoiselle Dumont was concluded on
Saturday. The letters of this witness, upon
which it appears the Counsel for the Queen form
their chief grounds of her Majesty's defence,
were read. In these letters she spoke in praise
of the Princess ; and it is observable that her
conduct towards her domestics had always been
generous ; so that it had been ingratitude on the
part of any of them (when they were not called
upon by oath) to speak ill of her. Besides which,
Mademoiselle Dumont had a powerful and not
unnatural motive for panegyrizing the Princess.
Her great anxiety appears to have been for the
welfare of her sister, who continued in the ser-
vice of her Royal Highness. Bergami had in-
formed her that the Princess wished to dismiss
her sister an her account. She begged Bergami
to intercede with her Royal Highness in behalf
of her sister, which he promised to do, advising
her at the same time to write a letter to the
Princess, recommending her sister and asking
pardon of her Royal Highness. At the sugges-
tion of her sister, Mademoiselle Dumont wrote
a letter to her in terms of praise of the Princess,
because she knew it would be intercepted. When
she wrote this letter to her sister, she had deter-
mined to quit Switzerland and come to,England,
having Veen informed that she could be placed
as a governess if she had letters of recommen-
dation. "At the same time (continued she)
being afraid her Royal Highness would dismiss
my sister, I wrote to my sister, and dared not
write freely for fear it would be seen. I said to
my sister, what was read was only to let her
know if she was dismissed there I would find
means of placing her here, and pay her journey.
If I wrote again to her she feared the Princess
would read the letter, and I wished to convince
her Royal Highness I would say nothing against
her, even in England. Iu several private con-
versations, although many questions were put to
me, I avoided saying what took place at the
house. These were my reasons for writing that
letter to my sister." She subsequently added,
that she felt a great degree of attachment to her
Royal Highness for the great kindness she
had exOrienced ; and this, we repeat, was only
a natural and seeming sense of gratitude on her
part. The term, capital of Europe, used in one
of her letters, siie explained to have applied jok-
ingly and in a double sense to Colombier and
Lausanne. Upon the reflections which the wituess
had bestowed upon this letter, the Counsel for the
Queen appeared to lay great stress, and she
was accordingly very rigidly examined, with re-
spect to the time she remained in the House of
Lords before she returned to her home on the
preceding day. She could not swear .as to the
exact time she remained; but whether it were
only a few minutes or two hours, the indulgence
was surely not too much to extend to her after
the long and cross-examination she had underwent,
and the consequent state of exhaustion in which
she must have been. From the House of Lords
she went directly home, and immediately retired
to bed. In her re-examination, she explained
that the cause of her dismissal by the Princess
was her having written, in an intercepted letter,
that her Royal Highness loved Sachi, when she
only meant to say that she regarded him. The
Queen's Counsel, however, objected to her an-
swering the question, whether or not, to her
knowledge, the Queen had ever been in love
with Sachi ; but it subsequently came out, that
Bergami had asserted she had said so. Bergami
had also stated that Sachi had spent a night with
the witness ; but this was false, as could be
proved by her sister, with whom she slept on the
night mentioned. The reason why she went by
the name of Columbier on her first arrival here
was, that she might be private and peaceable. To
a question put by Lord Limerick, respecting the
state of the Princess's bed at Naples, the witness
was compelled to giv,e an answer which, for ob-
vious reasons, we cannot here repeat. What she
said in her letter respecting the Princess being
surrounded by spies, was merely what she had
heard her Royal Highness say, not from any ob-
servation of her own ; and on the whole her ex-
planations seemed to be considered as by no
means unreasonable or irreconcilable with cir-
cumstances. She did not contradict any material
part of her evidence in chief, whilst the most ri-
gid examination only served to confirm her state-
ments relative to the numerous matters of serious
charge.

[Morning Chronicle.]

We do not presume to hazard an opinion on
the result of the Bill of Pains and Penalties, but
impartial observer
two
witnesses for the prosecu-
tionetrhtae appears
principal to
every
have been essentially damaged by their own
t that certainly
admissions and prevarications. The Divorce
Clause of the Bill cannot possibly stand on the
testimony hitherto produced ; and when it is re-
collected that the Earl of Liverpool said, " this
was the least important part of the measure," it
will probably be given up. But five more it-
nesses are arrived from the Continent, among
whom is Monsieur Sacchi. lie is to be brought

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forward, and much stress is laid on his expected
narrative.

[British Press.]

It is impossible to imagine a purer or more.
exalted character, or one better entitled to uni-
versal reverence and love, than Madame Dumont
has in her confidential letter to her sister drawn
of the Princess of Wales. It will, we.know, be
said, that this letter, although it professes to be
confidential, was meant for the perusal of the
Princess, and to be used by sister Mariette in
her intercessions with her Royal Highness for
obtaining the pardon of the disgraced Dumont.
Admitting the letter then to be all flattery and
falsehood, can there be afforded a stronger proof
of the baseness of the writer's character ? I f she
wrote falsehoods for the purpose of deceiving the
Princess, and inducing her Royal Highness to
admit her again into favour, what assurance is
there that the same woman, would not speak
falsehoods when the same object was contem-
plated, namely, her self-interest ? At all events,
let whichever be true, either her letter or her
deposition must be false and having thus shewn
how lightly she holds the moral obligation of
truth iu a preconsidered statement, but little con-
fidence can be reposed in any testimony pro-
ceeding from her.

[New Times.]

It is difficult to conceive how any trial can be;
brought to a fair issue, if the testimony of every
witness is made the subject of public clamour,
and the proceeding interrupted by premature
shouts of triumph. Above a week ago we were
told by a certain Journal, that the cross-exami-
nation of Majocchi had completely put an end to
the investigation into the Queen's conduct, and
proved her Majesty to be " as white as un-
sunned snows." The same Print now repeats
the same assurance, in relation to the cross-exa-
mination of Mademoiselle Dumont. Fortu-
tately the natural good sense and moderation of
Englishmen and Englishwomen has by this time
prevailed over a momentary agitation, and the
respectable classes of society listen with much
indifference to these unmeaning declamations.
If the evidence of Itajocchi and Mademoiselle
Dumont be shaken in 71101Clial points, we may
be perfectly certain that this circumstance will
not escape the observation of the two Houses of
Parliament ; and, on the other hands we may be
equally sure that the ends of substantial justice
will not be defeated by any of those trifling in-
consistencies, in which even fair witnesses are
sometimes caught by au ingenious cross-exami-
nation. Those who pretend to defend the
Queen's cause by mere clamour and gross quib-
bliug, would seem to insinuate that her Majesty
has no other or better defence. This is using
her rather hardly. The public will naturally con-
clude, that if her innocence is not to be substan-
tiated by simple proofs, and an honest straight
forward course of argument, it is not to be sub-
stantiated at all. The public will give little at-
tention to the abuse of witnesses by one part of
the Press, when it is manifest that the other part
of the Press cannot enter into a defence of the
same witnesses. We have laid down to ourselves
a rule not to interfere with the course of justice,
and therefore it is impossible that we should offer
those explanations which would easily clear the
evidence of Mademoiselle Dumont from all ma-
terial objection.

[Thc Times.]

It is difficult to know what to say upon the
present situation of the inquiry now before the
House of Lords. We cannot place the triumph
of her Majesty in a stronger light than it is
placed by the evidence itself, produced, as it was
intended to be, against her. We must rather
speak, therefore, of the public feeling excited,
than of the causes of excitement, which are suffi.
ciently obvious and strong. A general opinion
now, we find, prevails, that the cause will bey
given up, as rendered desperate by the evidence
of M. the Countess of Columbier : but in this
sentiment the nation, we should apprehend, makes
a more accurate estimate of the resources of her
Majesty's enemies, of their forlorn and destitute
situation, than of their good sense and reasonable-
ness. A persecution carried on for six-zoA-
twenty years may not be given up in a day. The
cause, however, though it should not be imme-
diately, is essentially, decided ; and the people
of England may prepare their minds for some
grand and glorious act of public rejoicing. The
Noble l3runswicker has laid her calumniators
prostrate at her feet. They may there continue
to kick and throw up dirt a while longer, but it
will only fall back upon themselves.

Letters from Genoa, of the 23d of August,
mention the arrival of the King of SARDINIA
in that city, in his way to Lucca, accompanied by
his daughter, whose hand he is about to bestow
on the son of the Ex-King of Rrnuat.t. This
is that Prince of Lucca, selected in the noted
French Project, as the head of the new Monarchy
in South America. Genoa is stated to be per•
fectly tranquil. The wish of the people for a
free Constitution, prompted by the example of
Naples, was, however, manifested by placards
posted up by night. They appeared resolved
to abstain from all acts of violence, but.retained
hopes, founded on the favourable disposition of
the army, of receiving it as a free boon from the
Sovereign.