The Sun.
London, England, 1820-11-06 00:00:00

THE MARKETS.

CORN-EXCIILNGE, Nov. supply of
Wheat was rather large this morning from Essex,
besides a considerable quantity which remained
over from last week's arrivals, the sale of which
was exceedingly heavy, and 2s. per quarter
cheaper fmiall descriptions except prime samples,
which obtained last week's prices ; Fine Barley
being scarce, sold ls. per quarter higher than this
day week, but the inferior qualities were dull
sale, and rather cheaper ; Beans are Is. per quar-
ter dearer; the Oat Trade was very dull, at a
decline of ls. per quarter.—la Peas and other
articles there is no alteration.

SMITIIIIELD MARKET, Nov. 6.—Thi3 Market
was exceedingly full of all descriptions of Cattle this morning,
and good meat maintained last week's price, but that of in-
ferior quality was rather lower in price..—The I-Lay Market
remains the same as last week its prim ; Straw and Clover no
alteration.

MR. KEmnr.E.—We are sorry to learn that
this Gentleman has positively resolved never to
appear on the stage again. Re comes here merely
on private business. Mrs. KEMBLE is left at Lau-
sanne ; he coon returns to her, and they are to
proceed to Rome.
We are authorised to state that it is her MA-
JESTY'S intention to go to the House of Lords
to-morrow morning.—Her MAJESTY has fixed
Monday, the 13th instant, for receiving such Ad-
dresses
as may be then, ready for presentation.—
(The Times.)
Yesterday being the anniversary of the Popish
conspiracy, commonly called the Gunpowder
Plot, the Park and Tower guns were . fired on
the occasion. 'The Yeomen of the Guard, and
his MAJESTY'S attendants at Carlton Palace, re-
ceived their customary gratuity of wine, it being
Pitcher day.
A meeting took place on Saturday morning, at
Kensington Gravel Pits, between Lieutenant-
Colonel W-Ls-N, of the Royal Scots, and a Mr.
J—s, in consequence of some offensive observa-
tions of the latter respecting his M-J-Ty. We re-
gret to say that the gallant Colonel was wounded
near the left knee by Mr. J—s' first shot, and the
ball has not yet been extracted. In the second
exchange of shots, Colonel W—'s ball penetrated
the right side of Mr. J—, when the Seconds in-
terfered, and the partses separated.
The entrance to the city of Gloucester is about
to be much improved by a road which *is to take
a direct course from the turnpike at Kingsholm
into Northgate-street, and the Cheltenham road
is to be carried to the eastward of the church,
which will give travellers a fine view of the ca-
thedral.

PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS-SATURDAY.

THE QUEEN.
[Continuation of Saturday's Proceedings.]
The following is the conclusion of Lord Livxrt-
PO OL'S Speech :
It was said that on board the polacre, when Ber-
gami slept under the tent, the hatchway was always
open. This had not been proved to be the fact;
but, if it were true, it did not appear to him of
much importance. On several occasions How-
nam had stated himself to have gone into the
dining-room at ten or eleven o'clock at night,
not knowing that the tent was closed. It ap-
peared that the tent might be closed without
the knowledge of those who were in the dining-
room. On one occasion Majocci had been
in the dining-room after the tent was closed,
but, generally speaking, none of the people on
board the polacre were to be found there at
that time. He would put it to their Lord-
ships, if they could believe, that in a hot cli-
mate, with a calm sea and fine weather, a per-
sonage in the situation of her Royal Highness
could have allowed a man to sleep with her
beneath the same tent, but for that purpose
which he had supposed. It had been argued,
that the tent was not a place in which it was
likely an adulterous intercourse should be carried
on. But to him it, appeared, that fastened down,
as that tent Iva, proved to have been, by ring-
bolts, and secured as it was, that there never
was a place where the crime of adultery could
be committed with more facility. He would put
the question to their Lorships, whether any man
of moral feelings, who knew what female deli-
cacy was, would believe that any woman would
pass 30 nights under a tent with a man (that man
not being her husband) for any but for one pur-
pose ? Could any woman pass, not a few hours under
peculiar circumstances, but 30 nights, thus en-
closed with a man, without leading to one of
two conclusions, that either the act of adultery
had then been committed, or that it had been
committed so often before, that the desire to re-
peat the offence had been abated. At Aum her
Royal Highness and Bergami still reposed under
the same tent. There were no hatchways there,
and what pretence of want of protection could
there be urged in defence of her Royal High-
ness ? Was it possible to believe that those ar-
rangements (which had been proved) could
have been made but for a criminal purpose ?
Could it be believed that the Princess would so
expose herself but to a man whom she had ad-
mitted to the last degree of intimacy ? Were
there not circumstances- that must strike every
one, that would have made this highly improper ;
and that no woman—he would not say of deli-
cacy arid virtue—but that no woman, unless gross
in the extreme, could suffer to occur in the pre-
sence of any man, which must have been witnessed
at such times? But at Aum it was said that her
Royal Highness had travelled all night, and that
she was tired, fatigued, and exhausted, when she
went to lay down in the tent. This might be so,
but this cut both ways, for he would ask if any
1/34d+at WOlllarl would not hare been still more
reluctant ta• admit a man to her resting place
when she was in such a state of exhaustion ?
He would take his stand on this part of the
case, which remained without contradiction,
and say, that the circumstances proved to have
occurred on board the polacre, and at Aum,
supplied not only a moral conviction, but dis-
tinct judicial proof -that adultery had been there
committed; and he would deny that any other
inference could be rationally drawn from the facts
which had been proved at their Lordships' bar.
If it were true that the Princess and Bergami
went ou board the polacre free from all suspicion,
what had been proved to have subsequently occur-
red, completely established the criminal inter-
course charged in the Bill. But was it the fact,
that her Royal Highness was brought on board
the polacre free from suspicion ? Ile had yester-
terday detained their Lordships, to show that the
circumstances previously known,proved,not only a
suspicious attachment, but an infatuated passion.
He would ask,i f any man could lay his hand upon his
heart and say,that before the case of the polacre was
heard of, he was not satisfied from the evidence,
that the Princess of Wales had been vehemently
in love with Bergami ? This was proved by a
variety of facts ; and if they referred to the de-
cision on their books—to those of the Ecclesias-
tical Courts, and to the proceedings of Parlia-
ment, he thought they must feel that cruel injus-
tice had been committed by those decisions, if
the proofs he had adverted to were not to be
received as conclusive evidence against the
Queen. The two cases of the polacca and
Aum, taken together, in his opinion, left no
doubt that the adultery had been committed.—
He then commented on the entertainments given
in honour of Bergami at various places. When
this was considered, and the fete given in honour
of the day of St. Bartholomew, on board the
polacca, was remembered—when it was seen
that the ship was illuminated, money given to
the crew, and that her Royal Highness the
Princess of Wales was seen walking arm-in-arm
on the deck with Bergami, to cries of—" Long
live the Princess,"—" Long live the garon Ber-
gami,"—who that saw this would believe it pos-
sible that the Princess of Wales, the wife of the
Regent of England, would thus be seen walking
in this sort of pomp with a person to whom she
appeared in the relation of a wife Who that saw
this, and knew that that individual not 12 months
before had been a courier, and had waited be-
hind the chair of her Royal Highness, would be-
lieve it possible that she would have acted such
a part, if she had not been under the influence of
a criminal attachment ? In no other way could
her stooping to such degradations be accounted
for; and if that which had been proved was not
degradation, he was ignorant what ought to be so
called. To the Carisruhe case, he would next
call their Lordships' attention for a few moments.
What 110 been stated to have occurred there, on
fairly balancing the evidence, he believed to be
true. They had all heard the evidence given

by Barbara Kress, and they had had the advan.
tage of observing the manner in which that evi-
dence was given. He would say, it struck him,
that more natural and ingenuous testimony had
never been obtained. She, it would be remem-
bered, had told her story immediately after that
which was the subject of it had happened. It
was, therefore, not like a tale made up long after
the circumstances had taken place. She had
been cross-examined as to the houses in which
she had lived, and she had given the history of
her whole life. There was a person at the Bar
who had very properly made inquiries (on the
part of the defence) as to her character, but not
one word had come out against her; he therefore
considered her to be a fair and an ingenuous wit-
ness, who had told a natural story, and had sworn
but to that which she knew to be true. It had
been attempted to refute the Carlsruhe case, by
accounting for the whole of the time that her
Royal Highness spent at that place. The evi-
dence of Vassali, however, did not contradict
what had been sworn to by Kresse, and he could
not account for the distinct recollection which
Vassali had of all that passed at Carisruhe, when.
he looked at the utter want of memory which he
betrayed on being questioned as to what had
occurred at Munich. He would undertake to
say, that it was morally impossible that her
Royal Highness, having dined at Court, and pass-
ed the greater part of the day there, .should go
home without retiring to her room; and if she
did retire to her room, then he had the most
complete confirmation of the statement of
Kresse that could be supplied in a case of
that kind. This would have great weight with
their Lordships, when they recollected that the
character of Kresse stood wholly unimpeached ;
and in his opinion, in such a case any Judge
would charge the Jury, that the fact was proved.
His Lordship adverted in eloquent, and at the
same time, pointed terms, to the absence of those
witnesses who might have been called to contra.
diet the allegations of others in support of the
Bill. He commented on the contradictions of
' those who had been called, and exposed the
fallacy of those false views with which it had
been attempted to colour incontrovertible and un-
disputed facts. The necessity of Bergami sleep.
lug under the tent on board the polacre, his Lord-
ship treated as utterly impossible.—The evidence
for the Queen, even, had shewn that a landsman
was totally unfit for that station in those emer-
gencies on which a man's presence was supposed
to be necessary ; and, as had been appositely
remarked by the Noble Lord on the cross-bench
(Lord Lauderdale) the size of Bergami (would
rather incommode her Majesty than be of ser-
vice to her, provided her sole object was assistance
from the perils of the sea. It should be also recol-
lected that this ship was totally under the controul
of her Royal Highness, and, in fact, every per.
son on board might be looked on as her servant.
No analogy, therefore, existed between it and a
passage-boat from Helvoetsluys to Harwich, or
an East Indiaman on a homeward voyage ; for,
in fact, on board such a ship, with the tent lashed
down, a more secure place could not have been
conceived for the commission of that crime which
was alleged to have been committed between her
Royal Highness and Bergami, by the preamble
of this Bill. His Lordship would ask whether it

was possible for any man, exercising his common
rational faculties, to believe that her Royal High-
ness had slept umder this tent on board the po-
lacre for thirty nights, or any less period which
the Noble Lords on the other side thought fit to

fix. it at, with any other object or view than satis-
fy ing that passion which the inordinate lose she
had conceived for this man, from the very first
period of their acquaintance, dictated ? After
some further observations upon the tent-cohabi-

tation, his Lordship adverted to the consideration
of the Bill as one of Pains and Penalties, and con-

tended, that they were not more severe in their
character than ordinary Divorce Bills. In con-
clusion, his Lordship trusted that every Noble
Lord would give his vote on the present occasion
regardless of popular clamour out of doors, and
regardless of those treasonable incendiaries, who
would seize this or any other occasion, to suit
their own bad and evil designs. Enough of such
persons were already to avail themselves of oppor-
tunities to do mischief. A spirit of that kind was
now abroad ; and his Lordship wished to God he
could say, the Queen had kept herself perfectly
clear from such a party, or their opinions. Un-
fortunately, her answers to those Addresses
which were made to her, were of a character which
must shock themind of every man, who wished for
the safety and domestic tranquillity of his coun-
try. For himself, the Noble Lord could say on
his conscience, before God, that his conduct was
guided on the present occasion by his belief of
what was right ; he believed, whichever way
Peers voted, that the country would properly
appreciate their determination ; and, warning
their Lordships against the consequences which
must result from pronouncing the Queen inno-
cent, while they afforded her " the/triumph of
guilt," he concluded by praying, that God might
direct their hearts to do justice on this occasion
between the Queen, the Public, and the King.

Lord ARDENT wished that the Bill could be
withdrawn, and that some mode of taking the
sense of the House, as to the guilt or innocence
of the Queen, could be taken without involving
her in the penalties of the Bill. On these
grounds he ga‘e his vote against the second read-
ing of the Bill.
Lord FALMOUTH felt much reluctance in ad-
dressing their Lordships, after the display of elo-
quence and talent which he had witnessed ; but,
however inferior he felt himself in ability, lit)
would not yield to any one in an anxious wish to
discharge his duty. The question of guilty or
not guilty, was said to be the only one to decide,;
but with him there were other objections, and be
confessed he had great objections to the penal
part of •the 13i11. He might be told that /the
Committee was the most proper time to move the
rejection of any clause ; but he would now state
what he had great objections against, the divorce
clause ; and if it was intended to pass the Bill in
its present state; he would vote against it. Bo

t .. . st=t,

ts -n otignoiant, that if the Qaten; was-gdilty,
it -waoan•offetice against the State ,:;.latit the Queen
raist have the rights-of every 'martled Woman.—
He would gladly have heard from the Noble Earl
(Liverpool) or some ether Peer, who were best .
informed, how the diffietdties of passing the
Bill without the divoisbe Manse were to be got
rid of. If it was intended to pass the ditnite '
chose, be would oppose the second reading of
"the Bill. • •
The Earl of HARR:SW*Ir said, that iiihntigh he
was one of etre Veers who 'voted Or this inqteiry,:
and had ief course consented to • the Divertbe
-claose 'in the Bill, yet, if it came to be a .ques-
tion in the Committee, he would vote against that
,Clause—be would 'vote against that enactment
which went to dice her,lVlajetty..
Tin Earl of I*AUDERDALE rose to explain; as
aome allusion, Ire conceived, had been made to
him, he would observe, that .should the Bill go
into a Committee, he Would wish to be heard
:against the Divorce clause.
!Lord ELLENBOROUGII.—S4 :My Lorait,
been a Member 4 the Secret Committee, I de-
•cided that an inquiry into the conduct of the
Queen was necessary, and that this was the best
mode of proceeding. .11aving voted for the first:
reading of the Bill, and being new of opinion
that it would be highly detrimental and inju-
rious to the public interest to proceed :farther,
I wish to state the reasons for my opinion.—
The Noble and Learned Lord on the Wool-
sack bag said, no one 'can vote for the Bill
who is not convinced that the adulterous inter-
course has been proved; and I will add, that it is
it o t necessary to believe Me Queen innocent to
justify any Peer in voting against the Bill. The
Noble and Learned Lord has. said, Be just and
fear not ;' I will add, Be politic ,as well as
just!' The setter= inquiry iota the conduct of
the Queen has taken place, and we,are now ar-
rived at that point in which it becomes. our duty
to .adopt such measures as, considering the evi-
dence that has been produced, may be most jest
to the parties, and most conducive to public mo—
rals and public safety.. When I voted for an in-
quiry into the conduct of the Queen, I certainly
expected that her guilt would have been proved
so ',evident, 'so clear, so incontestible, that it
would be impossible not to vote for the Bill. I
also thought that public opinion would change,
and That the public voice would call upon us to
pass this Bill. I cannot declare the Queen inno-
cent; but I cannot consent to say she is guilty !
Several :allegations -against the Queen have been
proved ,whilst several of them have not been proved,
and I 'cannot conscientiously give my vote for the,
Bill when a great pact of the.evidence has failed. I
must also declare thatl fee 4 great unwillingness in
pessingany Bill against which thereis in the public
raind-a great and almost universal objection. I
certain:lTT:egret this feeling in the public mind..
This is -a great question of public morals and of
national character, -one that was. calculated to
arriirnpres.gion on the public mind, by fixing
infamy -on .gtfilt. But, considering the situation
in which The Queen otando with the Public, to
pass this Bill would be deemed -an act.ef such
cioiericuthat it would not produce the necessary
effect, hut-a reaction. I vote against the Bill, be-
eatese I think it would be injurious in its cease-
iluence; hut I must, at the same time, observe,
that we should .not suffer the conduct of her Ma-
jesty, as :proved 'at your Lordships' Bar, to pass ,
-without severe censure. A Queen of England is
exalted -above all the rest of her sex. We
saeither .require= talents tier exertions from her;
but the 'is required to be a model of female sir-
toe '!• But there is no man of any -party, who has
heard the evidence, but must, come to this opi-
nion, that the Queen is one of the last women ~
in the 'country whom a man of honour would
wish 'his wife in the least to resemble, or his
'daughters to imitate.—(Hear, hear ! from the
Duke of Clarence.)—But although we do not
pass -this Bill, another .means of expressing our
opinion remains to its. Nothing is more natu-
Tal • than to address The Crown against public
Functionaries ; and I think an Address, stating
fairly your Lordships' reasons for not proceeding
in this Bill,from the evidence of the.Q,ueen's wit-
itesses,and the natural inferences which are to be
drawn from the whole case, it appears to me that
the-Queen has acted most derogatory to her high
station,inconsistent with femal virtue, and that
she has excited indelible suspicion upon her
bonenr. Were this declaration embodied in
an Address of this House to his Majesty, your
Lordships would do every thing that is Te-
aired of you as to public morals or national
character. There is also a mode of restrain-
ing public Functionaries; and., although the
Queen might not be degraded from 'her rani, yet
her power might be -restrained, by limiting her
resources. The intimacy that existed between
Ler Royal illighness and Bergami was, indeed,
"the roost deserving of the deepest censure.
Other -Princesses might have -been attached to a
Lancaster,- to a Mortimer, or to an Essex ; but,
good -Heavens!, what a difference was there be
tween a persou'uf rank and education, and the
base wretch :with Whnm 'her Royal Ilighaess had
been associated !--(llear, hear 1)..

Love, throughceitain strainers well refin'd,
4‘ Corrects the sense, and•Charins all womankind
But• l3ergami .was the associate, and probably
the friend,. of Majocci and other persons who had
appeared at that bar ; and of them their Lord-,
ships could form no justestimate. The conduct of,
the Queen Was, lndoed, such, that the feelings:
of the Reuse should be very strongly expressed
.upon the subject. Upon the conduct of mis-
.tresses to their servants depended one of the
most powerful -securities of domestic happiness.
It tad been said, that it was due to the Queen
to prcriounce her Guilty or Not .Guilty, if she
were not guilty of acts degrading to the dignity
of 'the Throne and her own character, the right
was her's to have a verdict of acquittal ; but if,
on the contrary, she had committed herself, and
there was no question of the truth of the imputa-
tion, how could it be asserted, that she had a
claim to a similar 'verdict in the-present-state
of the country, no legislative measure should, in
this opinion, be resorted to.—(Bear.)—lt 4fit.Q•

nished hltn InUch. to heat that there was an
idea of modifying the Bill. What modification
could take place ? How toad the qiiestiein of
divorce be modified? Theta,, with regard to
the -preamble. If their Lordships struck away
the charge of degradation, what woad re--
main ? And how could that exist without
sistirtg in the measure of divorce ? That measure
was decidedly the most inexpedient that could
be devised. Their Lordships, he trusted, woad,
maintain the character which they now possess-
, ed, which was such, that no roan en existence
could desire to refer "his case to a bay of men
better 'qualified, and intending to -give a more
impartial decishm. The Public had waited
quietly for the investigation:: lie hoP*4 they
would not so far ',Combat with the public feeling
as toir&d- that -Bill. Thongs he thought that
Parliament should not be upon all occasions
swayed by public opinion, Itxt OtrAsainly was of
'opinion that there should exist upottth49ccasion
teoittridende of feeling.-----(ilear, hear !)--Hoer
long was this itiost subject to appear be=
fore the Public ? How long were the very
worst of isa&sions, to the administered to, and all
that was valuable -society to be subjected
to danger?—(aear, hear I)—He was willing to-ad-
mit that Ministers were justified in institutiagthe
inquiry. They were justified by the evidence
which wa's Srought before. them; but, at the
satire time, he Iveuld not have them proceed to
any taistbievous way of shewing their justifica-
tion. Every one, knew that the Bill never could
pass into a law.---(lteary hear .:)—and it .was
scarcely proper to read it a second time, for the
,purpose 4?-f 'expressitg an epinion which might as
effectuality be expressed in another way.. " I
give my 'vote ,against the second reading -of the
Bill," -said Lord Ellenborough, cf but at the
same time, must say, that the Howse ought net
to separate without expressing a strong o:pinion
as to her Majesty's conduct, fouuded upon the
untouched Darts of the evidence." •
Tire Part ief Asnatnerox thought that, he the
evidence what-it might, the House ought not to
pass a 13i11-ef Pains and Penalties after- the offer
of 50,0001. a year to 'her Majesty to stay abroad.
This Bill was evillently nothing more than one
to degrade her, because she 'had ,exercised her
undoubted right of -corning into this country. We
lived in very -perilous times, and Bills of Pains
and Penalties were too dangerous precedents to
follow. If this Rill passed, they would be doing
a very great injustice to certain Illustrious Per-
sonages, who would by that measure be thrown
farther back-from the succession. _ _ _

Lord ERMINE and some other Noble Lord
=roe at once, and considerable confasion pre-
Yai led.
Lord DiRNLEY nose to traen, and moved itat
Lord Erskine be first heard.

The LORD CHANCELLOR said,the House should
decide which sh•onld be heard, first ; but he
thought the ill health of his Noble and Learned •
Friend should 'entitle to the considera-
tion of the House.--(Hear!)
Lord ERSKINE said, that he bad stood the risk
yesterday of •increasing his severe indisposition
by coining down to the Iteuse to deliver his opi-
nion, and he just arrived as his Noble Friend
(Grey) had commenced his eloquent and power-`
fill speech. 'He wished them to look at the
evidence as if his Majesty had been entitled to
damages in a Court of Law.
[Here there was an unusual stir in the House,
on the supposition,which proved erroneous,that the
Queen was entering the House, on account of the
opening of the King's state door at the right of,
the Throne.]
Lord ERSKINE continued.--The case was to'be,.
considered according to the analogies of Courts.
of Law. But how different had it really been
in this case. Here had been a viejation of all:
law ; it was monstrous to say that the same -body,
could sit 'as grand and petit jurors, judges, and
prosecutors. Bergami was not, as described by
the Counsel against -the Queen,a low., contempt-.
ible creature ; he had been in the service of a
man of rank in the army, by whom he • was re-
spected, though certainly he was low in rank to
the Princess. But <he insisted that she was the
victim of• a conspiracy, and that spies had been
sent from this country to watch her actions.
She also said that 'she had employed Bergami to
protect her ; but she had been refused to be al-
lowed to go into evidence to prose the existence
of this •conspiracy.. However, Pomi has
proved the existence of a conspiracy against
the unfortunate -defendant. He had proved
that witnesses had been suborned., or -attempted
to be so; by telling them, that if they could say;
any thing against her they would be well paid by
gentlemen at Milan. They had even' stolen the
papers of her -agent. He was surprised to find
that Dumont's evidence stood uncontradicted ins
this cause, in the opinion of the Noble Earl (Li-
verpool). She had written a letter to her sister
never to depart from the paths of virtue., and that
the should continue with the -best woman that,
ever existed. She denied, however, that she
had -ever spoken in praise of the Queen ; and.
then she was confronted with 'Madame
who declared she had said, that all that had'
been said of the Princess was calumny, and that
she was surrounded by spies. Such a witness as
this (so contradicted) in a Court of Law, would
be no witness at all. His Lordship then
proceeded to comment on the testimony of,
Dumont as to the transactions which took place'
on the evening her Royal Highness went to the
opera at Naples, in every part of which she wasj
contradicted by Sir William Gell, and other wit-
nesses of unimpeaChable veracity.. With respect
to the testimony of Flynn, he contended that the.
different accounts given by that witness of a
written document not connected with the cause,
would not affect his testimony in other respects;
and Hownam's testimony remained uniwpeached.
In fact, the case before them was by no means
made out; a dark cloud of doubt hung over it :
and would their Lordships, under such circum-
stances, pass this Bill ? The first witness who
was called was contradicted, and not only con,
tradicted, but was proved to have declared the
accused too 14 iunocent of the charges which were

. . • • • , _ ,
brought against her;
_second witnesS-, Du-
mont, was abandoned; and Sacchi was giVen
up, and his testiinoay as to what passed on the
journey to Senegaglia acknowledged to be false.
And when Gargiulo and Paturzo were found
in such company, could they be taken as Standing
clear from all suspicion ? Another extraordinary
tiraunstance in this case was that of the .exami-
nation before the Milan Commission. Mr. Powell,
instead - of being examined before the Secret
COminittee oughtto have been examined at the
Bar, and 'called on to give an account of the
manna ieWhich those examinations were taken.
Vilmarcati, °telt abo to have been here ; and
their Lordships should have had the original de-
positions before t'h'em Another. .circumstance
had been urged by Coartset against her Ma-
jesty ; it was said when Captain Pechell refused
to sit- at -table with Bergarni why di not
her Royal Highness remonstrate with the Go-
vernment atilome on the conduct of tais Officer
What remonstrance could this unhappy, unforttneste, perse-
cuted, fianished; air (Owned' woman make with the Govern-
ment iffeffser which she-suffered all these bardships—bardships
which watt vtiettbanging over her, 'since, -even here, she coesid
snot obtain' thiten'aviinnesses eteeetamery to 'her defence, although
'flick witnesses, as was proved by the conduct of Baton
were 'meet anxious tome over on ber behalf ? Tbe
Nolle Lord then eicticeeded'to eulogize his Majesty, whose
heart, he said, we 'known to-Isiins and who, be was seestivinc-
ad, would be the last man on earth to countenance injustice
or oppression wfiere his jestitenent was allOweel to exercise
itself. He would to -any thing sei promote the 4neppiness of
that Illustriatte teediesiderel, except to desert his duty. All his
prejudices lay annistet side. He had never seen her Majesty
but•once, and that was sin atablic ;. yet his conscience, Criss
sense of justice, called On him mow ao decide in her favour.—
There certainly acre cases affording grounds for presump-
tion, which, if made out, he could not resist. If it were prov-
ed that a married woman went to amen's bed room, amid re-
mained there for some time: that seas a cast • on whicb to
found presumption. If a man was seen going to a married
woman's bed-reom, that also would furnish grounds fur pre. '
snroptions but neither of these cases were proved here, or
their Loilktrips woutilsoot 'have itound him opposing the Bill.
The Noble Lord again adverted so the letters of Dumont, aril
said no Judge, in a case of adultery, would have received the •
evidence of a woman, as to the act of adultery, who •had; at
,period snbsequent to the date of the accusation, given the
accused iamb a character, both by written and -verbal delara-
tion, as Dutzweet bad given to her Royal Highness. He next
adverted to the sending away Rastelli, and the reason assigned
(or doing so by Mr. Powell in his letter to Col.l3rownosamely,
that he might ise•cg use to Col. li. Instead of Rest el li 'Ming sent
away, -Colonel Perown eing4st to have begat here to have •ex-
;lensed his own cendatt in this transaction. Another cis-
cumetance of the first, importance 'for their Lordships' consi-
deration was, what might be 'tile fate ofthis Bill, should it be
sent to the Commons, surrounded, as he was certain the
House would be, by the people. Their Lordships had no
right to pass a Bill against the sense of the people, and tape-'
• cially in this case, in evhich the King head disclaimed -being
any party, mad, there ore, their 'Lordships alone could be the
prosecutors. in such case I lie .53-ouse of Commons would .be
obliged to reject the Bill, as the whole people of England
had entered a noti prosequi against it. The Noble Lord then
proceeded tO -comment on the evidence relative to the trans-
adieus on -board The polacre, and contended that, at most,
they only afforded gronad for suspicion, but were no
proof of guilt. he evidence of Majocci and of Onmomt
had already beeo well characterised, and he must any
• that, in his opinions- Gargiulo and taturzo were not to be
taken as unsuspected witnesses, when the improbability ot
their stories, and the sums they received fur telling those stos,
rice, were fairly considered. Out of 16 evert acts, there was
only Otte proved, *Veil accos ding to I be,opinion 'of -those who
supported the zat, -namely., that laid on board the pulacre;
and this, too, in a case stepported by a system of fraud and
conspiracy, -of ethic!) no man-could see the 4aeginning, the
• middle, or the end. If the eltteen was en adulteress, where
was the necessity of false witnesses to ;prove it ? The facts
could easily :have been established. He cams down to the
1-louse oppressed by ill Stealth, but be e.ouiti not have :ins-
charged his conscience if be had not ensue down to say " Not
content" to the second reading of the Bills and to state his
reasons for doing so.
Lord DE IRINSTANVILLE was anxious to state his sen-
timents shortly to their 1.-ohlships. Reasons had been urged
against their passing this Bill, and one in particular was, the
fear, that if they did, the Commons would reject it. Why
should they suppose, when the Commons had heard the evi•
deuce, as their Lordslsips had done, that they would nut past .
the Bill? At present 'neither the House of Commons, nor'the
Public, knew mole of the evidence than what appeared in the
garbled statements contained its theNewspepers. With 'respect ,
to the case itself; and the circumstances of suspicion ear-
rounding it, he would not pass over the rapid advance-
ment of Bergatui and -his family, who all of them, with
the exception of his wife: had twee taken into her Rmal
Highness's household. The Noble Lurd theta proceed-
, ed to comnseut on the evidence of Majooci, Dunioet,
and the other witnesses, in support of the Bill, and to
! contrast it -with the evidence on the other side, and con-
tended, that there was no contradiction to be ((nand to
Mejucci's testimony as to material facts. He also took occa-
sion to advert to 'the speeches-0f Counsel, and censured the
comparison which had been drawnsbetween these proceedings
and some recorded in time history of ancient Rome, under the
Emperor Nero; and concluded by declaring thathe considered
the case -made out., and niustconecientiously say Cugtent to
the second reading of Etre Bill.
• Lord MANNERS, in atone almost wholly inaudible below
the bar, proceeded to address their Lordships. After advert-
ing to the evidence of Mr. Crnvest,frato which it appeared, he
said, that even when at Naples her Royal Highness was
cautioned to he' guarded in her conduct towards Bergami,
observed her Royal Highness neglected that caution, as she did
also the advice amid intreisties of Mr. Howuans afterwards.
Had suit her Royal Highnesses better judgment been °biome.-
ed by en extraordinary attachment to Bergatni, would she
thus havecouducted herself ? The Noble Lord then proceeded
to comment on the testimony of the several witnesses, and
declared that, vonecientiously„ he could entertain no doubt.
Hail there been the least rosin fur doubt, • be would not have
supported this Bill ; but be declared that in the whole course
'of his experionee he had never beard a case more clearly
made out. Time doubtful wittses-oes fur the Bill, even allow-
ing the fuHeet. _weight tis the 'objections urged against thc-res.,
had not beenso fully- discredited as. to dispose of-their testi-
mony altogether.- 'Hwy might have been discredited if they .
had riot been, to a certain extent, the witnesses of truth, by
calling -the Countess of Sehiavirli, and the other wit-,
'lessee 'named; but he believed these persons knew toe lunch.
He was-of opinion, that the Princess of Wales, by her con.:
duct, had wholly disqualified herself from sitting on the
throne.as Queen of this great country. He was decidedly of
opinion that their Lordships had no.conrse lett but to proceed
to the second reading.
The Duke of NESVI.ASTLE had not been present during the
whole of these proceedings, belt had read the evidence with
the greatest care, and considered himself as capable of judg-
ing :es those who had been present.-14e not only considered
the charge against her Majesty as suade Omit,"bta hat she had
acted so as to degrade Awl disgrace herself.: Re was con- •
scientiously prepared to volefor the full penalties of this Bill,
including the divorce clause, and considered there should be
no rest desire clauses preventing the High 'Parties contracting
a new marriage.
'lie Marquess of LANSDOWN was not sorry the _Noble
Duke had had precedence of bins. The Noble Diike had ac-,
knowledged lie hail end heard the eridencetket bealeclared
himself fully prepared conscientiously to vote forthe-Bill and,
its full ,penaltices.—(Hear, bear.)-11 this doctrine was to be ,
allowed, there would be an end ;to all the boasted advan-
tages of 'Trial by Jury in this eotentry.: The Noble Mar-
quess then; in strong ianguage, oensured the 'alpinism and
doctrine laid down by the Noble Duke, •ottd asked, if such
doctriteeVßS to 'be received, what would become of the (Alice-
. tion of a Noble Lord (De Donstsanville), that the Public
could nut judge of the ease, not having beard the 'evidence.
Haring made these observations, he should 'anew proceed to
continent-on the Bill and the evidence in its-support, and in
doing this ha should be :careful to. confine himself not to
touch on the topics on which his Noble Friend (Grey )ImA-com-
mented, lest be should lessen the effect of tire-eloquence of
his Noble 'Friend on their Lordships' minds. The Noble
Maretsesillsen proceeded 'to comment on the course of :pro-
' ceedings which had been adopted against her Majesty, as one
attended With-considerable hardships towuds tier. A Noble
Lord said'yesterday, that public opinion never acted so pow-
erfully as when it was-not attended to by time Legislature, and
that if theirLordshipssletiredtoinive thoirdecieione respected
they must pay eau e -astern ion te t he opiiiion so expressed, and
give the Public a satisfactory reason for their decisions. He
fully agreed in the opinion so delivered by the Noble Lewd; and
with that impression-on his mind, he now looked for a reason
ter gassing this Bill which should Fore satisfactory to the

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P. The tCuble tord then toota review 'ettiVe
both fur- and against the Bill. He ' particularly V
olloliciv.t
the transaction sworn to by Dumont, as taking 1,„
"ie
Catania, viz. of seeing her Royal Highness come frost -0,
gatiet reforn With a pillow under her arm. He should
fi
tainly have been better satisfied if the Countess al ,
and Brun had been called to contradict this eviiio4l;
but. at the sortie time, it should be recollected tb114.0
date was affixed to the transaction, and that it oval 11,7
ported only by Dumont's testimony, who contradioteclS
self as to the ditto of the Princess. The case at Obag;l
he considered as folly refuted by the evidence of Vassa
others. est() the drtss of the Princess, and the -continual
ing and repassing of persons to and from bee room. PPiJse 0
as to the scenes on board the lielacca, and at Aues,lll7.7a.
say, that to his mind Lieutenant Hownam was the etafiE"4o
nen of truth, and their Lordship's woukl recollect
his examination in chief by Mr. Tyndall he was asked, to
you do not know, who do, yon believe slept antler A 001
tent ?" He was about to answer, when he wasstOOPe."
the geonnd of the irregularity of questioning a otativesi ter
examination ios chief as to, bis belief. To hist is ,rf
tautly appeared that Howitatu was elisions to answer ev7,l
question, and to distinguiSh between actual knowledge $44
belief. Whilst 'he said this, however,- and declared 4°, .tifr
oat think a proof ot guilt wasauade out, he wished vltarld
bt understood as not meaning to say no blame .31
s,
to her Royal Highness for placing herself in such a ii 0..
lion of doubt and suspense as she .had done, a situation,
becoming her rank and station. But though she ha',l
-her conduct afforded room for suspicion and doubt, 4*.,e;‘,
was no actual proof of guilt ; the witnesses against her w`ti,,
all persons taken from amongst her enemies, and their troil
taony oughtio ke looked at with the gitat est:caution. tos
witnesses who really proved any thittg of a velinioal ea 04
against her Royal Highness, in her connection with Befeny
were Dumont and Majocci. All that they prowed Berme
amounted to suspicion. Dumont $
had the care of her ftlo
Highness's linen; why had she not been examined as to 4
a
state of her body linen, nod any such marks or appeara'''‘,l!
upon it as Would have left no room fur doubt or utscertaitt;ot
It being near half-past four, a Noble Lord, whorls ive•cer /..
not distinguish, interrupttdahe.Nob!e Mai guess for the r
pest. of suggesting an adjournment. There were .cries of
.
'OTt, go on;" " adjoern, adjourn," and the Marquess of
down expressed his willingness to go on, if the House ci51,!:..4
come this day to a vete upon the Bill ; hut, in this Tcl".
lit was ent+rely at the disposal of the House.
The Lott) 40HANCELI.011. 'said, that several Lords 1
intimated to him the hardship that would accrue to tlico3o
they were prevented from delivering their sentiments,
Noose coming to a Tote this day, and he tiles:dole urbed
propriety of sot *coming too hasty -decision. . Of°
Unilet these -circumstances a .forthei postponeopeit-4,
agreed to, and t:he House adjourned till Monday (this) a"'
Mg; at teu o'clock.