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Inn Observed by her Majesty's domestics, that the tonfideace
Mid intimacy between her Majesty and Devito! greatly in-
erased ; and that the latter, when he ought to have waited at
table, frequently, and with an eeident view to get rids!!
lof that occupation,. withdrew to his own room. HeiViii
the habit also of accompanying her Majesty in her rides sod
walks. His apartment was again chosen very near that et Mote
Majesty. The observations which had occurred to thus at
Naples, occurred still more frequently at Geom. The bei
appropriated to her Majesty appeared to be rarely slept in; 40
rarefy, that the servant, whose duty it was to make it up, had
very little trouble. Sometimes it seemed to have been a little
discomposed and pressed down to give the semblance of baring
been slept in—sometimes it did not appear to have been at
all touched ; and it was frequently unnecessary to do anything
further than to smooth the counterpane. I have already'
stated, that, as at Naples, Bergami's bed-room was very seer
the room appropriated to her Majesty. Let me ask your Laid-
ships, with reference to this part of the case, what reason can
be assigned, if it were considered necessary by her Majesty that
a male attendant should sleep near her, that one of the Gentle-
men of her suite was not selected for that purpose How did it
happen that Bergami, amenial, not known to hor Majesty above
three weeks, should be rather chosen? How did it happee
that it was found her Majesty did not sleep in her own bed
How did it happen that in Bergami's bed there appeared the
marks of two persons having slept? How did it happen that her
Majesty was repeatedly observed to visit Ekrgami's rootn after
the rest of her household had retired to rest, and to remain there
a considerable time? What person, of her Majesty's rank,
would condescend to visit a courier who bad received an acci-
dental injury, after he had retired to bed? What cause can be
assigned for all these proceedings, but that which I am persuaded
your Lordships will believe must have been the only cause—the
existence of an adulterous and licentious intercourse between the
parties in question? I know that it is incumbett on your Lord-
ships, before you pass the Bill on your Table, to be satisfied, by
reasonable evidence, that such adulterous and licentious inter.
course did actually take place. If the evidence which will be
brought to prove the facts that I have already stated, should not
be sufficient for that purpose, the trite of the allegation will be
pot out of all doubt by the other facts which I have yet to state,
At Genoa,. her Majesty continued the practice which she com-
menced at Naples, of breakfasting with Bergami in her own
apartment, in a retired part of the house, separate from that
which the other and higher members of her suite occupied....
Here it was that some circumstances took place which marked
the power which Bergami was acquiring over her Majesty, in
consequence of the degradation to which she had submitted. I
Than already stated that Berland was a married man. He had
-a daughtee Nebo** name was Vktorine. At Genoa this child
erreebrought to her Majesty's house, and riveived into her fa-
mily. But not only that child—a brother of Bergami's was
liken into her Majesty's service, and subsequently a sister, of
•Iheannerof Famine. who, as it was said. was received into her
Iffis)esty's family for the purpose of taking ate of Bergasors
eldld, for which her Majesty appeared to eutertain a great affec-
tion, and which she had expressed her wish to adopt. Nay
store;—in consequence of the attachment which Bergami was
represented to have for one of his parents, his mother was also
received into her Majesty's service. So that at Genoa there
were introduced into her Majesty's family—Bergami's brother
(es a menial), his sister, his mother, and his child Victorine !
y Lords, how is all this to be -accounted for ? Even when a
domestic his been a long time in the service of any individual,
'be Mods it difficult to effect the introduction into that individual's
holly of so many of his personal connexions-how much more
so "vitro the duration of his service has not exceeded a few
menthe! Bergami entered her Majesty's service In October.—
In the April or May of the following year—in the course of a
'few short months--his mother, his brother, his sister, his child,
are taken into her Majesty's family, for no assignable reason
Let it be alm observed, that the child was not more than two or
three years old. It is natural to suppose that at that tender age
an infant must require the fostering care of her mother. But oo ;
Bergami's wife was not received into her Majesty's household.
She remained apart from her husband. Although she was na-
turally the person best calculated to watch over the health of her
enfant she was not received into her Majesty's family to per-
form that duty. The child alone was received. It was with-
&lienp from maternal affection, and pieced under other super.
intendence. At that period her Majesty, 'although she knew of
Bergane's marriage, represented (what I should have thought
would not have increased that person in her Majesty's !SUMS.
hoc) that the child was Bergami's, not in consequence of that
marriage, but by some other person than his wife. One should
have thought that that circumstance, to a virtuous and delicate
mind, would not increase the estimation in which a menial
courier ought to be held. It was, however' •no defect in her
Majesty's eyes. She consented to receive Ber,,arnrs, child lin.
der the peculiar circumstances of its birth. My ph)tds, her Ma.
jesty remained at Genoa until the I sth of May. She then went
to Milan, leaving Lady Charlotte Carapbell at Genoa. Lady
Charlotte afterwards joined her Majesty at Milan, but finally
quitted her Majesty's service about the end of May, 1815. In
the journey from Genoa -to Milani, Bergand still accompanied
her Majesty in his capacity of courier. I have already stated
that Lady Charlotte Campbell did not accompany her Majesty
in the journey, although she afterwards joined her h‘ajesty at
Milan. In ehe course of the journey- her Majesty's domestics
observed the great distinction shewn by her Majesty to the cos-.
vier Bergami. She offered him refreshments, she treated him
with the most marked attention. All this while he was in
the habit and performed the duty of her Majesty's courier.—
Her Majesty resided in a house in the glace de at Naples,
for two or three months. When Lady Charlotte Campbell
quitted her Majesty's service, her Majesty was left without any
Ludy of rank in her household. My Lords, when we consi-
der the high station which her Majesty then filled as Princess
of Wales—when we consider her Majesty's expectation of
being raised at some future period to the dignity of Queen Con-
, sort—it might have been thought that her Majesty would be
naturally anxious to have about her Royal person Ladles of
I high rank, belonging to the country over which she appeared
destined to reign; or, if that were a difficult matter to accom..l
rplide that at least ser Majesty would have looked out foe
es, to compose her household, of distinction in the country
in which she resided. But, will your Lordships believe that
instead of this, her Majesty received into her household a female
of whom she had never before heard—an uneducated and un-
informed person—a sister of the courier Bergami's He—a
menial servant of her Majesty's—contrived, by the power
which be had acquired over her, to introduce into her Majes-
ty's family another sister, dignified by the title of the Countess
of Oldi, who was received by her Majesty as her only cons.
panion in the travels which her Majesty then contemplated,
At this time, therefore, my Lords, it appears that her Majesty
had received into her amity two sisters, the brother, and the
child of her courier. One of those sisters sat at her Majesty's
table, as her Lady of Honour. liergami himself was her Ma-
jesty's courier. His brother, another menial, I believe also a
courier, dining as Bergami and his other sister dined, at the
table of the ordinary servants. It was at that time itnowi to
the servant who, as I before mentioned, had been introduced
into her Majesty's family by Bergami, at the time of his Weak
that the Countess of Oidi was Bergami's sister. It was net;
however, known to the other servants. Both Brigand and the
Countess were very anxious to conceal the fact. It could not,
'however, be long hidden. The truth became known. The I
Countess of Oldt ewes received by her Majesty not only as her
Lady of Honour, but as the only female who was to occupy
situation which bad beets previously held by Lady Cis
Lindsay, Lady Elizabeth Forbes, •and Lady Charlotte Camp
bell!—Whet inference can your Lordships draw from these
curnstances?—not, by any means, that I ask your Lordships to
decide, in this important case. from inference and suspicion, but
coupled with what occurred before this appointment, and what;
I have to describe as occurring after it, what doubt can exist as
to the cause of her Majesty's conduct? Her Majesty had not
been long at Milan before she commenced her projected tour by
departing for Venice. Bergami still accompanied her Majesty
as courier. In coder to skew your Lordships the contingence
of the degrading familiatiti*hich existed between her Majesty
and this man," proceed to deltail circumstances which occurred
at Venice, in May, or Junee 1815. At that time her Majesty
had bees; joined by Mr. Drummond Burrell, who"..—..
Lord GWYDIR rose to contradict thia_estestjese
On the motion of Lord HOLLAND, Counsel were ordered
to withdraw.
Lord GWYDIR then Stated, that Mr. Drummed Burrell,
had never been in her Majesty's suite.
Counsel having been re-admitted,
The Arroaxes-Gintaaae proceeded as follows:—n I beg m
ape/agile to the Noble'Lor4 and to the House for my mistake.
'lt was Mr. William Burrell who jobed her Majesty. I meant
not the slightest reflection en either Gentleman. I meent no
reflectiorl on Mr. Drummond Burrell; I mean acme on Mr.
William Burrell. I merely state the fact, that Mr. William
!swell was the only English Veittleman who accompanied her

Majesty trete Milan to Verde.. Ido net Impute to that G,n-
ttectaltintimicyteat he entertained thmeajaassliffhtesansit
BeeraoLsuspielon
.tiontbethifineso_ro.
Inryper , I have no doubt he was utterly ignorant of It. When I
miationed Mr. Drummond Burrell, I committed an inadver_
teat error, for m
which, lam sure, the Noble Lord will etre
soo—e, e meg* csale—At Venice, thy, my Lords, on one oc.
when aft her Majesty's sietoodasts Withdrew after dinner,
and left her Majesty alone with &rimed, who had been waiting
at table, ft was observed by cue of the servants at the !wee
where her Majesty resided, that her Majesty took a gold ctia
and presented it to Bergami, round whose neck she placed it.
A peat aptramme• of familiarity ennui. Bergami Pla7r-. nr
withdrew e chain from Ms own person, and threw it over her
Majesty, on wake her Majesty replaced it round his wk.—
hess,Whyseeethdoe
appeZredesei
to mzei
ofhe.meentwh ilizessysergathis•and;Tstoseulskiilia
jorviheadtihi,eta;imearpeasedmrope:rial;farnsaiatduil:itZe,
Wit Milierredeor further distinction. dhfat"incutrsionu.P°nl him,
cit it to connin the
'other parts of this narrative, and to rrcve the kind of Lurie
course which subsisted. Her Majesty removed, after a short
time, from Venice to a house called the Villa de l'Ami. Soon
after, Mr. William Burrell quitted her Majesty. It had been
observed by her Majesty's servants, that as her Majesty's
lash establishment from time to time quitted her, until rcve
that she had not a single member of it left, her Majerty co--
reserveshe
pinaihdehriianst.erclolurseey
ewenithiseliched.rg,attht_it.
andudct
at the Villa de l'Ami, her Majesty presented Bergand with a
blue silk bed-gown, which he wore as a morning gown. In the
in the herself
at tewntiitohn less
: which
Villa de l'Ami, the same arrangement as before took place with
respect to the rooms. liergane's room was near that of htr
Majesty, and there was a free communication between them.—
It was also observed, that Bergami was still allowed to go iyo
her alajesty's bed-room, without having been sent for, and :a
enter it without ceremony or notice, and that he alone had tit..:
privilege. In adverting to those familiarities which her 3lajts:l
extended to others of her servants, I by no means wish to c 0..-
shier them in the light of Imputations, but when taken fn con-
junction with this licentious attachment, I say the fact of her
being seen playing at games with bee other servants, goes to
skew how her sense of character had been lowered. In August,
1115, she visited Mount Gothard, the courier, Bergami, still her
wired with jlergami to a bedroom, and was there
companion. On that occasion, she dined at the inn at Varese,
swhhuetreop
thewith him for a considerable time. What could her
Majesty want with her courier in a bed-room during the daf
time? After dinner they went to Madona it Monte, where
they slept, and next day went to the Boremeo Islands. Mau
her Majesty on a threw: occasion visited these Islands, on her
way front Germany to Italy, the bad stopped at the same inn;
and. as was correspondent with the dignity of her rank and
station. the best bedzchamber In the inn was iprovided. TVs
room had, however, no communication with any other.--
On she second visit tills area:messes* wits altered. Her Majesty
declined having **bed- room in which she slept on her first visit,
and selected an inferior more tom s g with motive
which other room was assigned to Bergami. What reason was
there, I ask, for that change of arrangement? What could her
lajesty want with her courier sleeping in a chamber so near to
hers ? The mem is obvious, that the arrangement of the room
was made for the purpose of the access, which access was news-
ier, to enable them to carry on that adulterous latercourse set
forth in the preamble of the Bill. They next Bopped at Schur:M.
The familiarity between her Majesty and her courier bad now
attained to such a height, that be not only felt himself evaded
to higher rank in her Majeety's service, but to be received at Lee
Itlaiesty's table. Except breakfasting with bet Majesty in pri-
vate, peter before this period was it yentas,* openly to receive
a courier, in his dress as a courier, at the sable of her Majority.
Did this accord with the dignity of a Princess, destined to be
the Queen Consort of this kingdom? If suck were the media,
of this menial—if his fidelity and his services wet, so highly
estimated by her Majesty as to recommend his advancement,
would it not be more appropriate with b Majesty's dignity and
character to advance him In the first *once, before she admit-
ted hint to the honours of her table? what con we attribute
such a want of the respect due to her own station and rank ?
It is to be imputed to the strength of that infuriated attachment
which had so unfortunately overpowered every other considera-
tion in her Majesty's mind. It may be said these are foreign
manners, but I can :lever be brought to believe that your .Lard_
ships, or indeed any honourable mind, sanction tea
valiancy as allowable between the Princess of Wales arid her
menial servant. Was it ever Sneered, 1 will not say amongst
the higher classes of British society, but evert amongst the
middling class, that the menial employed should sit at the same
table with the master or mistress who employed him. Yip Id-
eate life, if amongst the middling classes of societz dumb an mode
tion would be highly indecorous, bow much more Improper must
it be considered between the Prini-ess of Wales and her menial
servant ? How can it be acconnmd for, unless by the criminal
attachment. the effect of which was uniformly to throw down
all distinctions—to place the highest in rank, when once under its
Influence, on the same level with the lowest ? On that occasion
her M..jesty visited Lugano, where yeti will find drcisive evi-
dence of an adulteroui intercourse, as well as in other plum On her return from this tear she established herself at Deste,
near Como. Hell their rooms were only divided by a small
cabinet; their apartments, however, were cut off from all corn-
numicatiosr with those of all the other servants. in the and the Princess usually retired at night, and rose at
the same hour in the morning. -And here he was advanced to
the dignity of her Majesty's Chamberlain, when he always dined
at her table, together with his sheet, the dame d'honneur. She
remained at fleste tin November, 1115, and then embarked on
board the Leviathan on the 15th of that mouth. The ben
apartments were allotted to her Majesty. The cabins conti-
guous to each other were prepared .for her Majesty
;Etc :dnathemselvesng o
a board, a t
all h the time;ss s
had banu and
been
female attendants. The best arrangements were made for her
accmcchawilunPdtefi oanticmherthillajguesggi
dune was to be undone; the arrangement was altered, and the
room next to her Majesty's was appropriated to Bergaml. Her
Majesty remained on board till the 26th of November, having
Waked Elba in her tour, and she reached Palermo on
hat day.
She walked arm in arm on the deck with and made
those alterations in the cabins which I have alßerZtated, At
Palermo her Majesty went to Court, accompanied by &rpm:,
in a magnificent hussar dress. From thence she went to Me -
sine, she remained till the 6th of Jaouary, 11116. On her
arrival there the bed-rooms were arranged as in the other places I have mentioned ?On this occasion, however, their roams being
separated by that in which the Countess of Oldi. his sister, slept, it was here observed, that her Majesty and Bergand inbred
earlier than the others to rest, and that she seldom required
that female assistance which Ladies of her rank usually de-
manded on such occasion. She caned /*sand her friends'
. her dear.' played with him familiarly, so that, in fact no
doubt remains, or could remain, so their Lordships' mieds,
but that an adulterous intercourse ahem could justify the at-
tentious,nr account foe the fad at her majesty. get the Min of January, her Malik! kih Messina, and embarked
in the Meath Clarindes th• vend Which had previously car-
ried her Mejesty from Ovita Veal& as Game At that time
Bergami was her menial, but be was sow her Chamberlain
The Himourable Officer who commanded the ship, kit It
wo .
ul be devadkg him, if he sat at the mate table with one who had
formerly served him, sod he remonstrated on the subject with
her Meanly, whose conduct 'hewed how tz she felt the •
force of his objection. Had he obtained the he then held
by worthy means, would Oct the Princess have enswered this re-
nsonstrance by saying, he had associated
with her Majest, and mold trot therefore disgrace Capt. Pecbel by
sitting at they same
ofshi ysosuhreconeadaytuet, anadheenothigoa
jesm4 board?
If
table. If this failed, would not her Majesty have said, You
Lending me, and the country that employs you; I shall
year vtelseserPeßuret report
Ws advancement were a proof of his merits, and his merits
abbe, would not this, cr something like it, have been the con-
duct of her Majesty ? No such thing, however, took place.--
She took a day or two to consider what she eliZeld do. and in
the end declined the table and society of Captain Pecbel foe that of her paramour. She, indeed, observed, that Captain Bstrrs
had made no objection to Bergami; but there was this differ-
la the two cases, that the latter was totally umemminted wke the previous menial condition of Bergand. Her Majest,
11 would thus appear, consented to be insulted by am Englisyh csoesje, who, however, had done no more than he felt to be.
bk duty. From Messina, her Majesty went to Syracuse, where
sks remained WI the 50th bf that month, and then proceeded to
Catania. At first Bergand's bed-room waa at a distance from
ber'sbut the same change here took place as on every other
occasion where any interruption could take place in their re
cret communications. There th de ainadve, sitting yes
one night later than usual at their ls, saw Bergames doer open, and the Princess cooling out in such a coaditios, as eou:d
leave no doubt of her having gassed the eight his met