Star.
London, England, 1820-10-04 00:00:00

• .
- • ‘ • t . k '4. .
: A
. . til
Ir.°
."
4
. .
. ' C
, - 0 ••-, lIW -.4f ''. :4 ..I.
Aor /ivy • iin 4 0 • I A: gm!.
. ~fir
4r0..40.4C 7V4 4'4
. .
..' . . .
- , ' 3.• .
. •
____......b . . ,
q.c:;•.,:ziou..
40..
A 4,• - -N
411 k ~.1,. •
.r"). • r 4.)
4 , •.
..--..F.02
..v,-4.01.4. -1 '
I "b\ fat. .
. ....
•,..
•.....„ INK. • -.....-'4°--ei ..&e----1
4'
• , _

•• • •'• • • 2

1

P ttic.EStviN =l*N cE.

•
lation, he ordered him away, that he might be removed front
, the sight then. passing before his eyes ! For you will observe
he never says that the Queen desired . him to go away, or that
Ilsgami desired him to do so. The guilty pair themselves ap-
pear not to have cared if all the crew saw them, but exhibited
in the .lieeliterranean what the ancient ocean never -saw, al-
though the Mate could not be allowed to remain in a ship so
unfortunate as to contain two persons who stood by (though
without teaching) each other. lam aware that my Learned
Friends did not believe this; but whether they did or not, bosh
stories cannot be true. There is no way out of it. Either this
account of sending away the Mate is true, or it has been fabri-
cated in order to enhance the price of his own evidence, to lay
the foundation of those advantages which spring from what he
has termed the uncertainty of Royalty. I had intended to have
made some remarks on the motives which led this witness hither,
but I pass that over now to observe upon the manner in which
the witnesses have been brought up. See how well drilled they
have been. I will hold them up as finished specimens of their
kind. Indeed, as they are the best drilled, they ought to be
crack specimens. A great deal of money has been expended,
and they come up'eager to earn the reward which they certainly
are entitled to, and which by possibility they may receive. There
are, however, limits to this act, and by exceeding those limbs,
they have not agreed between themselves when sifted by a
cross-examination: They seem, indeed, to be the lineal de-
scendants of the Doctors of old; for, living constantly together,•
intimate he all respects, sleeping in &game place, breakfasting
to/edicr on the very morning of their examination, still there
is one subject upon which they never entered, and that is the
very subjectnpon which they gave their evidence. But this
forbearance is not peculiar to them. MI the witnesses have
displayed it. "I am not a man,"-says one, "to tell out of doors
what passes here. It is not decent or fitting to do so !"
Did any conversation ever take place about it? Oh, never,
never; ; we agreed not to mention it. This, my Lords, leads
me to make one observation. Amidst the fears to which the
publication of the evidence has given rise, amidst the apprehen-
sions entertained lest this step-should sap the foundation of our
morals, and prove tile grave of all the modesty which still re-
mains in the island, it is a comfort to reflect, that there is one
spot on the earth which has escaped this moral contagion, and
in which this alarming calamity has never, by any mischance,
found an entrance ; and, strange to say, this. favoured spot is no
more nor less tha Cotton-garden. Among the contrivers of
the plot, those who were acquainted with the whole business in
its commencement and progress, among them alone it turns out
that no horror was excited ; that this transaction, so extraordi-
nary in itself, gave rise to no conversation; that it was never
once mentioned that they alone kept themselves free from the
contamination of details so debasing to moral feeling. ' If your
Lordships can prevail upon yourselves to believe this, far be k
from me, by anything I can say to endeavour to remove from
your minds so consolatory and fine an illusion—(.l laugh).—
Your Lordships may believe it if you can, if not, you must be-
lieve something else, and what that is, it is no difficult matter
to conjecture. The course of my observations has now brought
me to persons who, in this case, are of still greater importance
than even the Captain or Mate of the polacre. Your Lordships
will easily perceive that I mean Madame De Mont and Sacchl.
I may be excused for couplihg them together, as they resemble
each other, not only in mental qualification, butl in all the matt.
rial points of their history since first they entered upon their
mission as witnesses. They were both living under the slims
roof in the service of the Queen. il'hey both experienced her
kindness and favours. They were both dismissed from her
service • both, after being dismissed, expressed an anxious wish
to be takep back. Iloth were in this country under similar cir-
cumstances, and nearly. during the same yeriod previous to the
trial. They employed their time and money in similar pursuits.
They took pains, to acquire a knowledge of the English lan-
guage, thereby, no doubt, to open tothenisebres an easy access
to our best writers, to all the stores of our classic literature !A--
(A laugh).—lt should not be forgotten, &Avower, that by this
means, though of course their only object was mental improve-
ment, while a question was put in the course of cross-examina.
don, they were enabled to get ready their answer, or evasion,
while we and your Lordships were waiting for the interpreta-
tion. I will not. attempt to give the character of De Mont-
from any impression that might have been made on my own
mind. I wash merely to remind your Lordships of the descrip-
tion she gave you of herself. lam desirous that you should
take the account from her own lips. She is a person of roman-
tic disposition. No WOMIIb in the world further from anything,
in the slightest degree, bordering on indelicacy. She has quite
a horror of matrimony. No enemy to mankind in the abstract,
but never condescending to friendly and confidential intercourse
with individuals--(4laugh).—Her virtuous hos.ilirt is directed
set the whole sex, but particular persons. Pones entice
pram inimien• She dislikes man in the abstract, bat
Moms not to carry this aversion to Saccbi, whom she deign to
Mani= as an Italian Gentleman.' He, 'however, will- not re.
awn the compliment by allowing her to be a Lady, by' admit-
ting that she went under the name of a Countess. Marriage
die did not like at all ; she loved . sweet liberty better, and, in
pursuit of this =obtain nymph, your Lordships will perceive
ilea what company she got. •Sacchi went to seek her in her
retirement, and brought the Meluctant fair one to appear as a
Idioms upon this occasion. Hoek she acquitted herself, your
lierolships are already aware. Never, I will venture to say,
was there exhibited to the world a more finished and complete
specimen of a waiting-maid. No writer, French or English,
his drawn the character so fully and so much to. the life, as
Miss De Mont herself. There is nothing equal to it in Le
Sege, Moliere, our own Cibber or Congreve. I will not pre-
tend to go over the whole of her evidence. it was put together
is the most ingenious and, apparently, consistent manner.
Until my Learned Friend, Mr. Williams, began his cross-exa-
mination, the caution and circumspection displayed by this ami-
d& Lady would have done honour to a Macbiavel, and she
showed the greatest skill in endeavouring to adjust the cle.
01111111161alleal contained in her letters, and to 'make them con- .
&tent with her evidence. She was not aware that these let-
ters were in existence. No such suspicion entered her mind
during the examination In chief, otherwise you may be NM
she would never have appeared at your Lordship's' liar.—
She would have been shipped off 'like Other witnesses; whom it
was not thought pendent to call forward in support bf 'this BILL
Finding herself pressed by my Learned' Ft iend (Mr. Williams),
in the cross-examination, her only resource was to say that she

was in the habit of using dinsbk entadret—that it was her usual
practice. Her worthy coadjutor; the Italian Gentleman awl
gallant Dicer, &meld, said the same; he also ivaa.in the habit
erasing double asksidre;. ' Their charactets, so iroaderfolly d-
ualist in ether respects, coincided in this also. They were both
rand of auks esometiet. MO De Mont practised it in bet U.
tem,- mid iiimehi in anversatkrr." I have heard, with no am..l
sesprien, that the windage of this Lady is praised—that her eTi.
deuce ism mode; on the toihds of some persons, a stroagimpres.
sins, nuteleteciuse she admitted some 'facts rather injorions to
isw own clearacter—beeaust she acknowledged- that sh! was
Mined out of the Queen's service—that she was sincere. in some
of the praises beatswed upon her jilustious Mistress, but •not
in all. I beg your Lordships to attend to other parts*t her tes-
tiest:My. Whed • asked, " Were you'le want'of money?" The
lamer woe, i 4 No."—" Whewyen-wtote to Vier sister, did you
soy you were in want of Money?"--of I May say so; but it was
mit tree'''. So that; Oa tennis native, according to her own
necessnt,there was no differeaee'at all her mind between troth
add fahillood. 'This being the' mute, Ireel no small degree of
iisteshiment at the praise given to her candour. 1 nerd not
tell ewe elle, Unless, indeed, a person fit only to be turned
out kto the field among those anithals who are often abused
hi ming theme that her Mgettuousnest in admitting that she
somethnes spoke falsehoods, was. not to be taken al a certain'
elation of truth. Was this so chehnitig h blandishment, that
It melt at own Open• a favouring and credulous ear to all the
'lks this mialskie rierionage Might think proper to tell? liecau •
act* tip its in 'acknowledging !acts which co.ild not be
1101104 trlillelliCtertain' detection, without ruin to heettivn p $
end she came. she was brought to support, Muse ilk esgeddevued
11111* kora*of doinfelettee. add 'entiattNlatin ,Olt,iswert and
Satiable Swiss shepherdess! how candid, bow innocent you ate!
(4 WA. 1 never before knew .anytkeig Ike china as a prod