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tatted up a servant to shut it, which meant would ptere,
that he S.:VI her Majesty lying on the travelling bed. But, my
Lords, where is the proof of this?—where is the evidence of
that servant?—where is Hieronymus, if he were the man ?
No doubt, my Lords, we shall be told that the terror and alarm
in,pired by the cross-examination of lieutenant Flynn had so
operated on his mind as to deter him from undergoing a similar
trial. When I'am charged, my Lords, with not having proved
the whole of my opening case, I think I am entitled to ask my
I.:anted Friends why they have not p roved, not attempted toproVe
tozirs ? N% hat stronger testimony could they have brought forward
in favour of her Majesty than that which they thus tend:red, if
they duvet have ventur. d to produce it at your Lordships' bar?
And, my Lords, when yon find that her Majesty has the means
of contradicting, if she cot.ld, what has been sworn by the wit-
nesses for the Bill, and does not use these means, is not the
conclusion inevitable that the contradiction could not be esta-
blished, and that to have offered counter-testimony, would only
have been to subject the witnesses to some unfortunate expo-
sure of defect of memory, or weakness of nerves? Well then,
my Lords, as to the first eight at Naples, I think I am warrant-
ed in saying that De Mont stands either confirmed in all her
testimony, or not contradicted when she might have been
so it she had apoken falsely. In substance and effect her
evidence stands unshaken. But, my Lords, mark bow is.
geniously my Learned Friends argue this part of the case.—
If, say they, we disprove this first case which is charged,
then the whole superstructure of the accusation falls to the
ground; it is the keystone, on removing which the whole
fabric tumoles down. I deny, my Lords, that this is the fact.—
hven if your Lordships were to think that in this part of the
case we had faded, the failure does not touch at al.' the remain,-
der of the case. Whether the adultery was committed on that
night, or on some subsequent night, matters not at all. There is
ample testimony, there ate ample grounds, to justify your Lord-
ships in coming to the conclusion, that the adulterous intercourse
took place, f not a, Naples, at all events long before Bergami at-
tained his unmerited elevation.
" My Lords—We now come to the second case, the
meeting on the corridor. De Mont swears that she nut
Ifergand approaching the room of her Royal Highness in a
state of undress. My Lords, I cannot help expressing my
astonishment at the manner in which my Learned Friend, Mr.
Denman, ensooetered this part of the case. lie said that this
incident rather excited a saipicion of an illicit intercourse be-
twevu Ilergen.i and Lk :Mont. The fact is, my Learned
Friends did net kuuw how to deal with this part of the case;
tett y telt that if it stood uncontradicted, it would be a strong
evi•lence of guilt against the Queen ; and they endeavoured by
comments and observations to male up for the want of solid testi-
n coj the contrary. My Lords—the masked ball. A great deal
hero said w do away the effect of 1)e Mont's evidence on this
heed. But have my Learned Friends succeeded, of not? When
your Lordship,[ examine critically and calmly the evidence they
have produced, you will be satisfied that it does not furnish
the_slighteet contradiction to the testimony of De Alma." The
Learned Counsel here read the evidence which 1)e Moot
had
given on this subject—" That her Royal Highness did appear in
the character or the Genius of History is undoubted; and that
514 did appear iu a dress which, whatever Sir William GeU
may think, I believe your Lordships will agree with me, is not
one of the most delicate, is equally certain." The Learned
Counsel proceeded to make some remarks on Sir William Gell's
description of this dress, in the course of which he observed,
that• though he had not himself seen either the statue of
Blinerva at Mr. Hope's, or the Ceriatidz at the British Mu-
seum, he understood that Sir William GeU's reference to
thoir was most unfortunate. " But," continued he, " the Int-
p.)rtant fact which your Lordships find established on that oc-
casion is this, that the Queen retired to change her dress into
that of 'the Genius of History; that she was attended by Ber-
gami; and that they remained a considerable time together.