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HOUSE OF LORDS, OCTOBER 4.
VEFENCIL—SECOND DAY IN CONTINUATION. 1
[The following are more detailed Reports of the Speeches of
-.Nemrs.Bacesattast and Viluests, than we were enabled, from
the want of time, to lay before oar Readers yesterday :3
Mr. Baonowaa in continuation—
It appeared that this was like all other conspira-
cies—there was little of novelty—little to vary the
oftatold tale—the same contrivance and devices still
appeared,. and •whether lachinto . was or was not a
legitimate creation of Shakspeare, he was at least a
Awls-brother of those witnesses who had appeared
on this occasion. He says—,, I have belied wLadr,
the Princess of this country"-4, Being.9uenchecl of
hope, not longing,
mine Italian brain
'Gan, in your dialler Britain, operate
Most vilely; for my 'vantage, excellent ;
And, to be brief, ray practice so prevailed,
That I returned with similar proof enough
- To make the-noble Leonetti' mad, .
By, wounding his belief in her renown •
With tokens thus and thus; averring notes.
Of chamber-hanging, pictures ; this, her bracelet,
(0, cunning, how I got it'.)" • .
What a similarity of sign and character there appears
between the picture and the Italian witnesses adduced
upon this occasion. But having animadverted upon"
these witnesses, I beg leave my Lords, now to refer
to the treatment experienced by my Illustrious Client;
in other instances, as well as in the present. Now
as.to the matute. of the accusation—the Queen had
been theretofore a person ef the most unimpeachable
character, having been proved to be so, more de-
cidedly than if she had never been charged, if there
is truth in evidence, if there is benefit in acquittal.
So much was she proved so, that when one set of
Alinisters, who admitted her innocence in the fullest
extent, as to the commission of any criminal act,
still thought that she should be reproved for levities,
another set of Ministers, their successors, erased
even that acknowledgment, and recommended that
she should be received by her Sovereign and her fa-
•ther, as the purest Princess that adorned the walks
of public life. Arriving in Italy, she hired a servant
there in a menial capacity, and moved towards Naples;
and here, if the case could be at all supported, we
must believe that she, on the second night of her
arrival, sacrificed all her claims to virtue, and became
more abando ed in an instant than the most vicious
and dept aved of her sex could have done in years.-
-This must be believed, or the whole case must fall
• to the ground, as bc4h 'Majocchi and De Mont swore I
to the tact ; and if they disbelieved this first step in
the evidence, the foundation as it were of their tes-
tirnony, the whole fabric must fall to the ground.—
The Learned Counsel then proceeded to comment. in strong
terms, nn the improbability and contradictions of the evidence
given by Dc Vont, as to the state of the bed-room and bed of
her Royal Highness, on the second night of their arrival at Na-
ples, and the account of her Royal Highness going to the Opera;
and returning at au earlier hour than usual. He would prove
that her Royal Highness did not return from the Opera till a
late hour. At Naples the same witness--she could not lay
when, or whether it was near the end of the same year, but
some time or other during her Majesty's stay et Naples. saw
li:rgami coming out of his room naked, be might say, for he had
n 'thing on but his shirt, and was even without stockings, acrd
gnawing towards the Queen's chamber. Seeing this the did not
:Nitre, but she moved towards Bergami, and Bergami did -not
retire or make any excuse for being seen in such a place and in
such a dress. She mewed, however, but even then Bergami
• did not retire, but passed on to the Queen's room with some-
what more alacrity than a husband would go to the bed of his
wife. Their Lordships would find this in page 251 of the printed
teridence although, indeed, he scarcely thought it necessaryto
refer to ate particulars of the evidence, because he rested for
his defence upon its great and leading features. He begged now
to call their Lordships attention to what was alleged to have
taken place at Catania; and let it be observed here, that there
were two witnesses privy to the circumstance, both of whom
were open to the Attorney-General. Two milks, it was said,
w sae sleeping in the room nett the Queen's, and that they beard
Btrgami's child crying there for the Queen, while her Majesty
mas absent. They must both have beard this if it ever took
place. The Attorney-General might have produced them both,
but not only did he call but one, but he had not even dared to
ask that man whether he bad ever communicated since with his
. companion respecting what they had heard ; but in truth they
never did comfnunicate for the whole thing was a falsehood.
But Dc Mont was called in with another story. He prayed
their Lordships to attend to the particular of that tale, for it
was encon;assed with more masks of improbability than even
the multiplied improbable circumstances of those on which he
bad iven speaking. It seemed that at one of their residences
Bergami slept on the oppositeuside of a court from the Queen's
• apartment while he was well, but he became sick, he was at-
tacked with fever, and then he was brought into another room,
to which her Majesty might have more easy access, where he
. lay ill for some time. Now it was stratigeenoogh that the scene
of that amour should. have been laid in that particular room, and
still more so at the time when Bergami was lying ill of a fever.
lie was stretched on the bed of sickness: yet this was the time
chosen for mutual earesses and endearments, in a room besides
to which her Majesty's access was most difficult, kzardous, al-
most impossible, because her two maids slept in theintervening
room. Now the story was, that she moved to Bergami's loam
in the night, and that having staid too long one morning, she
was seen passing back to her apartment by the two maids. Wu
it not odd that her Majesty should encounter all this dieculty ?
One simple arrangement would have got over it all. It required
only to place Bergami in the room nest to her own, or to take
Ate room nett to his, herself. But this was in conformity with
• the uniform tactics of her Majesty against her own character,
peace, comfert, and happiness, for it appeared that she was con-
alertly under the influence of some spell, anti.if they were to be-
lieve the witnesses against her, she never did one criminal act
without having strangers present who might turn it to her de-
vruction. And mow he was told that he could contradict this
*spry if it were false by means of Marlette Bronn, sister d?
Mademoiselle De Mont. It bad been asked, why did not
her Majesty's Counsel call the other witness, Nanette, the
sister of De Mont 7—Our answer, continued the Learned Gen-
tleman, is thi*--01, She is your witness, because you opened her
evidence, you votiched for what she would prove, you told what'
she had seen—she Is your witness, because in a criminal pro-
ceeding, in what was worse, at least efahigher nature, as regarded
the exigency for the most pare and perfect evidence, a MU of
Rains and Penalties, you are bound to produce the best evident*
your case admits of. She is your witness; because we are the
-accused, the oppressed party—the party, I say, who is sought
to be oppressed, overcome, and made a victim of; sad you
have no right to put us to bringing forward evideece
which it belonged to you to produces---Me stand on our
defence, and defy you to prove us guilty; and, until
vest make out a case of guilt, by such witnesses as dream-
- stances admit of, you have no right to call upon us fee
a defence: The Learned Gentleman proceeded to observe, that
under the strong feeling of suspicion which a life of persecution
and suffering could not fail to have implanted in the breast of her
Majesty, she did not know in whom to put trust. She might be
harbouring another viper of that brood, one of whom had al-
ready conspired her rain, and mien possibly, is produeine De
Nent's sister, be bringing fotward another grate and be-
trayer to support the cause of her enemies. He was u-
nshed. and no doubt all would agree with him, that he was
dot bound to ea* the lister of De Mont. Ile felt wan&
dent that he might leave the else as it now steed, but he
should not pursue that coarse. She should be piesented before
• their Lordships in order that nape might suspect that there was
one whom he dared no( call. The story told at Chartdtz was
equally inconsistent, with that Whieh had been Mentioned at the
legates places, and all that had °seamed theteaheahl appear be.

fore their Loath* in ihe most satisfactory light. What could
their Lordships of the Miaow" Of {witness who haissel-i
leseed-within half allsoar, a4reestetanest which bad oaserral a,
of three years and walk the was asleep, and cadet not
within three bouts another cireemetanse of great ma Er.
which took plans what she was bread awake ? It vrould
be proved that the moment the punnet lad been procured
and
se,
that place, preparadons were made for deparlaire. Wit,
in an hour and a half the departure took place, all the perei
sem* the service of the Queen, being in the "talent habit of
passing through the Queen's room in the Waked. The
of her Majesty's room was open the whole tin* NA her Ilee.
jesty jiatott the bed in the *ling-habit in which eke always f
travped. At Carlsruhe, it would be proved that the. emus 1
hatPbeen left behind at a musk party on the
hie
sister, the prosecution charged her with guilt, and that h
ie
sister, and child, had gone home; and that Brigade., ill,
had gone to bed. And here, before he should allude to the evi.
deuce of Sacchi, he thought it necessary to advert to what had
escaped from several people, in conversation upon this subject -t
They said, that if this was a plot, the witnesses had not gone as
far as a plot would permit, or indeed require them to deo-,
-Could it be forgotten that the: most effectual way of laying a
plot, was to direct those who were to be the instruments mot
to swear the hard, but to lay, a foundation upon which to foetid
their falafel fabric post don to nature, and to state teem
as moderately, and, ss little calculated to offend, as possible!
Why this pia was got up with all attention to this greet prin.
ciple. Why hell there sot been two witnesses brought to swear
to the same fact at Naples? Because It was a dangerous expe-
riment. Uwe who cadet:tad the business were too clever ma
to know that a croes-esandatation would, in all probability, tend
to show' that one of,the Witnesses was at fatal variance with the
ether- ' The 'chug& melon the Queen at Naples was such as
Zrto be estalibbed by a crowd of witnesses. His Learned
ofeght to have.supeated if Pan rd the charge with
peculiar eare. Thatirevenstaace Queen being kissed out
of the Theatre, could not have been a thing to which only one
witness could swear. The Maier of ach a person for such a
reason, must have been matter of knowledge sanewirtat more
PL
AU nun have bawl) it. ' What had become of Anne
Pryson? He would tel their Lordebips,Bee was here. Why
had she not been called?
...,,He would tell their Lordships-
because she was iota: Italian:: Who' had been called• to prove
the marks as the bed? !Am retain made the beds. Who
washed the than? :: Why MU not the washer-woman called?
Because those who got up the holiness were experienced in
washer-women ! In 'the Douglas Plot they called, a washer-
woman, and expetienee taught them that it was a dangerous
redeece. If the witnesses were to-be believed, the fact of
adultery was proved beyond a possibility of doubt. Indeed,
their Lordships ought not to compel him to contradict such
evidence. If what Majocchi and Sacchi had said were true,
adultery of the worst kind had been proved, and the. Queen
was as bad er worse than Messatina-she was as bad as the
Jacobin?. of Paris, who covered themselves with eternal in-1
famy by attempting to prove the guilt of Marie Antoinette.
He had another remark to make: he had heard it said, that he
bad proved the falsehood of witnesses in particulars which were
not important This came from the lay part of the community ;
those who were acquainted with the law knew the absurdity of
the position. If he had to at up an informer, it would be ne-
cessary for him to produce evidence to support him in some
of the that important particulars ; butt, in pullin him
falsehood, even upon the most unimportant particulars. If
this were not the case, what security could there be for the
safety of human kind? What chance of escape from the toil
of the conspirator? What safeguard against the nlilignity of 1
a spiteful witnesfs. " Suppose, 'said Mr. Brougham," that any '1
one of your Lordship's had met with a misfortune, the greatest
that could take place, at which your delicacy revolts, and from
which human nature is alien-that a villain charged you with the
commission of a crime, the very imputation of which could aver
be removed--against the main fact no evidence could be possibly
adduced, and you would have to rely upon the eross-eumir
nation of that witness for a refutation of the odious charge. An
acquittal would be given if that evidence shoold be found to con-
traclict himself in the slightest particular. I call upon you to
extend this sort of justice to the Queen." He was told that the
situation which Bergami held originally, compared with his for-
tune in the Queen's service, was considered a matter of suspicion.
Qoaforbid that the time. should arrive at which all stations,
except one, were not open to all men. He would raided their
Lordships, that the rapidity of Bergami's promotion had been
greatly over-stated; and the manner of his promotion was a
proof that love was nos the cause of it. De Moot had stated,
that three weeks after Bergarai's introduction to the service of
the Queen he had been admitted to those familiarities which
formed the ground of the charge. How was it at the board ?
fledined with the servants, and it is proved that even at Genoa
he had dined with the same company. He continued for a
length of time in the situation of Courier, end his promotion.
gradually rose with his services.. Where was the wretched in-
sane woman (a character which the Queen must be, if Axe wit.
penes wire to be believed), Who would allow her paramour to
sit amongst the menials? This was not like the operation of.
love. Bergami was not a man of low origin. His father
' had been respectable, but bad got into difficulties, and the
_ollst sold the estate to pity the father's debts. Pk was re-
1411Pid, but he was a reduced Gentleman. When in General
TINA service, he war recognized as such, and he dined at the
unreels table. During the Spanish Campaign, be was re-
, erected and esteemed ; he was encouraged by those who knew
his former pretensions, and he was proposed to the Queen's
Chamberlain as Copier, and received without the Queen's
-knowledge. The Austrian Noble. by whom he had been intro-
duced, expressed a hope that he would be promoted. Tor he was
a faithful servant. The Learned Counsel stated, that in answer
to all the charges insinuated against her Majesty upon former
occasions, be held in his hand a memorial of great authority :
it was a letter from our late graeloui Sivereign to her Majesty,
and was to the following effect : .
" Windsor Castle, November 13, 1804.
" My dearest Daughter-1011w and Niece,
" Yesterday I and the rest of my family had an interview
with the Prince of Woes, at Kew. Care was taken on all sides
to avoid all subjects of altercation or explanation, consequently
the conversation was neither instructive nor-entertaining; but
it leaves the Prince of Wales in a situation to shew whether his
desire to retinal to his family is only verbal, or real-Eche diffe-
rence, observed Mr. Brougham, between verbal and real, was
a difference which George 111. never koew];--which time alone
can thew. lam not idle in my endeavours to make inquiries
that may enable me to communicate some pima for the advantage
of the dear child for whom you and I with so much reason idea
interest ourselves ; and its effecting my having the happiness of
living with you is no data inceptive to my forming some idea
on the object : but you may depend upon their not being de-
cided upon without your thorough and cordial concurrence ;
for your authority asinothee it is my object to support.
" Believe me at all times, my dearest daughter-in-law and
niece, your most affectionate father-in-kw and uncle,
• (Signed) " GEORGE R."
This was the opinion of that good man, of a man mot ignorant
of life, and no Mean judge of human character, of the fitness of
bee Majesty for the-care of his grand-daughter. Me might now
read another kola from the Ilhastriousinseeessor of George 111.
it was not written in the same teas-it was not 'indicative of the
same regret, but it was by no mem larked's of want of. COD-
Meow, or of a vela to impose trammels en her to whom it was
addressed. It expressed, indesdot desire to live separate, and
it contained a plain indication thither moduct, at least, would
not be watched with the rigeronsvigilenee of scrutinizin agency
on which this case west fourided-{ibed, mod !).-The
Lea
Causal hers read the letter :
a 'Windsor Castle, April 30, 1796. -1,
4 lianas--As Lord Chobnesdeley informs me that you
wish 1 would define, hs.writirtg, the terms apse which we aro
to live, I shall endeavour to 'gib Mod( %Poo that !mod wilt
as much clearness and with as imial repeat, os shr news .or
the subject Will admit. Our imillipsicus_ ere net in oar power,
nor should either of us be held orsereniblo to tho other, brmorill
Nature has not made us suitable to each other. TrantedMirl
and somtenable society is, however, hi our power; let our lis. 1
tercouree, therefor% be restricted to that,sed I will dietteetty sob.l
tribe to the audition which you sreqtdrod"--(a time mbliels,
said Mr. B. site never required, nor even alluded tp]-6 theme.
Lady Cholostiodeley, that, even in the event of any ankle*
peeing to my diutester, which I trust Peones= hi les mercy
ieven, I &A ant infringe the terase of the restrietien, by
ins at period' a eenaliitua lot s snore *tinder seta". I
shall newsay hay doss Me dicosteesbis earresPeedenee,
that, as wit bane insepheity isphised eareares to oath
the rest ewer dm will be meals inisitereupted tranvia* ,
a I aga, "Wm, with klubtray tineerely yogi*
( o GEORGE, 111.".
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of dcausaol; it has -Mod ; ill, he r, such s letter as

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I again jou, evenet the riskof repetition, to dis-
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iiiet
ppossiblepossiblethat a plot can be 3iscoverate except by issems
two principles? There are instances in which plow lewe
arsidifosecwerard—hiseredft"thmh:pehVnirinthenslilediulliabwolvtnall.ese alias:hove%
for a impure plans, the victim has provideatiellY email"
rdttiron chileaPzitPkiirtiethahewvmheepsecol!ires
from the by the operation of the second principle ;by the
bevy idea
wnceeakbrepoaltiAdoingwenxpowtdre, it
wherewas notno epxrepgrtedatiotno bheadsifbteeedi!
made to elude detection. Your. Lops will recollect that
passage in the Sacred Writings, in whit-lithe conspiracy of the
Elders against the virtuous Susanna, ft described in language at
once eloquent and poetical. The hearts of the Elders were
turned away from Hicavaar to dosthe purposes of unjust judgment.
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artir herby!'ciuc.
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false by the banker's Clerk.
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balittdethnintareportanor
tzer withhighe .:eltlfis'imeretsplaandtolinancethueytuain
yeaffecrbpodarithicoueflarsth
cre-
dit of the witnesses. These circumstances are not accidental.
Men rashly and blindly call them accidents; but they are the
dispensations of that Pairnoznea who wills not that the guilty
should triumph, and who succours innocence oppressed. Such
L the use now before us. Such is the evidence in support of
this prosecution—inadmissible to prove a debt—impotent to de-
privation of civil right—ridiculous to conflict of the least offence—
scandalous, if brought forward in support of a charge of the
highest nature, the object of which is no less than to ruin the
honour of an English Queen. What shall I say, then, if all this
ii the case—if this is the specks of proof by which an act of ju•
dick' legislation, an er pet facto law is sought to be passed
against this defenceless woman?--
At this period Mr. Brougham proceeded with an eloquent and
energetic appeal to their Lordships in the following terms :
" My Lords, I pray your Lordships to pause ! You, my
Lords, are standing one the brink of a dreadful precipice ; your'
Judgment will go forth to the World: If that Judgment is against
the Queen, it will be the last and °Ali, judgment you will ever
pronounce! That Judgment, my Lords, will fail in its object,
and it will return with redoubled violence on those who give it !
Save the Country, my Lords, from the heaviest calamity of a
Civil War! Save yourselves, my Lords, from the situation in
whisk you are now standing ! Rescue that Country, of which
you 'mike ornament, but in which you can flourish no longer
when severed from the People, and when the blossom is cut off
from the root -and stem of the tree ! Save that Country, my
Lords, that you may continue to he the ornament of it ! Save
the Crown from demons.; and the Aristocracy, which is shaken,
. .
as is also the Altar itself, which never mote can stand secure
amidst the shocks which shall shake its kindred 'Yhirsoe ! If your
Judgment be against the Queen, it will shake to the foundadoe
the kindred Throne ! You, my Lords, have willed, the Church 1
and Crown have willed that the Queen shall be laid out of the 1
solemn Service, but she has bad the prayers of the People; suds'
my Lards, I do pour forth my supplications at the Timone of
AI =CY, that mercy may be poured down on these People in a
larger measure than the merits of their Rulers deserve; and I.
pray, my Lords, that your heart's may turn towards Justice and
not go therefrom !"
Mr. Ilsoucuate concluded his impressive speech about one
o'clock, and immediately after withdrew. The impressive so-
'enmity of his last appeal, and the sensation which it appeared
to produce in the House, can only be appreciated by those who
witnessed and felt the effects of his overpowering eloquence.
' After a pause of some minutes, Mr. -WILLIAM presented him-
self to the attention of their Lordships.
The LORD CHANCELLOR observed, that before Mr.
Williams began, he wished to be informed whether it was with
the intention of addressing a second speech to the Lordships 7
The rule was to hear but one Counsel at the opening of the de-
fence. There were, however, precedents that left it entirely at
the discretion of their Lordshipsr-4 discretion which be thought
would be well exercised in granting the permission.
Mal WILLIAMS then cams forward to the Bar, and proceeded
In comment on the difficulties under which his Illustrious Client
came to the defence--dithculties which, he contended, were
never • experienced in any other case • and which were fraught
with unmixed evil, without the slightest apparent - benefit--
11e wished their Lordships to coosider who were the parties in
thisease. It was no immaterial vacation. It was his duty to
speak dutifully and regretfully of the King—a name which, in
itself, was said to be a tower of streagth--;and yet it was a name
In front of the Bill of Pains and Penalties. It could, however,
now no longer be doubted, that on one side of this case there
was.the Government of the country, involving rank, power,
wealth, and influence, not only la this country, but also in
these States from whence the witnesses had been brought.
On the other hand, was a Queen, by the treatment she had re-
ceived, shorn of her beams—a Queen, by the vicissitudes of fate
—by the circumstances of fortune—and by the death of indivi-
dials, who had been deprived a her most active and able defen-
der. The Learned Gentleman then enumerated the difficul-
ties under which the Queen laboured in having been denied
a Met of witnesses; unacquainted with time, except that it
speed over a period of six years; ignorant of all the cir-
cernstances, except
.when they came to be detailed-in evidence.
A true sense of justice hound them imperatively to give to the
accused, under such circumstances, if not support, .at least the
benefits of a strict impartiality. Such was the sentiment, they
had the authority.of Cicero for knowing, actuated a wise people
and enlightened judges—" Nulkereat sapreatissiini• headraes mei
Sum rem illeinjudicalest, Ito quersqtram eadere la jadiela, set needs
egerserii sine us eiljechrs sidereser. . . . Scarper Ns hoc &Idaho
name mognis ocearsereruas yaks: et medal miasmas, et mpipem
et easitum is patent's twespiderstesjardices +adamant I" Hetet
r=d, that the opirnon of the people of -Rome and wise
coincided. It. continued—" Nola aceskriter in judiciast
iallenifoes (feral, nen aim orgeress *Session, test oactsritatene ex-
=Ads semen gratis& Vaned Lee mania ad salutes is-
m; ad Ipeattospotelaines, ad asseifhtni onimaniseertios : in
periods ma din pewee deism, rejasiliesitar." It was by acting
ender
egabi i sane of duty, that la threpresent unequal conflict'their pe could alone digitise kipardal and equal jusdce:
ife upon their hardships respeetfully, let firmly and
"boldiS,, to pursue that-sacred and dakeeding rule observed in the
adlinnistration of junks in the Coanibakar, whkkeras to judge
from the evidence atiftisesdis tie eaugoonod net to suffer any pre-
elous opiaion, or any extramentedeolinitances, to influence their
judgment. The Learned Cientleoses Misted that the whole com-
plexities of the evidence dievredthsk the Government were patties
to the prosecution of her Majesty, and that Dadse influence and
undue power had been exerted in procuring passes to swear
away the character of the Queen. Ths.enquiry had not, on the
part of her Majesty's advisers, been conducted with forgetful-
mess of this fact ; there was not a single witness whom they had
not asked whether he had received anything, or promise of
anything for the evidesee he was to give? But after the an-
swers given by the Captain and Mate on this point, the remain-
ing witnesses, hiving doubtless been properly tutored in the in-
terim, had cautiously and obstinately withheld alLinformetitne.
It appeared, from the evidence of Mademoiselle De Moot, that
her Majesty thought and believed that she was environed and
beset by spies, who were sure to report all she did to 'her ene-
mies, and to give the worst lasnible complexion, to everythine
that admitted of misconstructisa. And yet, with this cowrie-
don, was bar Majesty so Menutiorse, so open, so regardless of
all appeuaaces, as dm ease for the prosecution represatted !
This was another, in atididon to the many relearn stated by his
Learned Ftiond, her Majesty's Attorney-General, to thew the
veer improbability of the story which the witnesses had at-
tempted to tramp ts The Learned Gentleman next proceeded
is expose, at some Uft,th, the many gross contradictions in the
*videos, of. Mejoecki and ilacchi; and adverting to the various
important eireuntstearee which were extracted in the croes-exa-
ideation of these witnesses, but concealed on their eternisation
ftladefAke ohserved,• (hat she fact of that concealment, when
Ike witnesses knew net that they would afterwards have an op-
ff
;of mentioning theta, sheered of knit' that they were,
. • and had not intended to speak the whale truth as so
eirmtay and by their otitis& The Learned Counsel then pre-
.
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laded to she 4 *e contrast liftmen the statementa.thet come
out ip evidence, and those which had fallen from the lips ef
,the Attorney-General; and particularly dwrlt upon the tes-
timony of Mademoiselle De Mont, who had, he said, been
guilty of the most abominable and atrocious falsehoods—atro-
cious, because they were dangerous. to a mighty ',triple.*
Tht memory of this witness resembled that of 31ajocchi, who
wag renowned for recollecting all on one side-rfor an extraordi-
nary, an unnatural, an impossible memory. Ile called upon
their Lordships to examine the notes before them with the
moat scrupulous care. It was, in fact, unnecessary for bhn to
snake particular comments upon evidence, for the pi:l:pat
of beating down that which had already committed
.fifa de
se; but he begged to call their Lordships' attention to the
panegyric upon the Queen by De Mont. That be looked tip„l
ar an dfusion of the genuine sera; invents of that 1.:!.
withstanding her own efforts to give the lie to her VIVU dedart-
dons. . When he looked to tfrit eulogium, he could rot he:7
thinking of an eulogium passed upon her Majesty by
character of much higher authority, who called her the p:L,
and grace of life, and who, when he did so, gave gn
the result of observation and of a refined and accomplith
—The Learned Gentleman then commented, in qre;!F ttrin,
on the challenge which had been thrown out by th.! StAicitor.:
General, to bring forward certain witnesses. The cheticn
a.
he said, should be met, and witnesses, gtxxl and stif.iel,r.;
nesses, should be brought forward in defence of the queer.—
Was it only in ancient Italy, or in its capital, that perors
acted under the influence of such feelings as the Roman salsa:

" Curras;nus precipices
• Dum jacut in ripa, calcemus Cesaris hastens."
Yet that very victim of their hate was but a short time bef.-e
basking in the splendour of the Imperial-favour. It was bt-
cause there was little dithculty in persecuting by such ins::...
meats, that-the same writer demanded, as he lasi& deniacti sea
this case, who was the informer?
'` Quibus indicits? quo tette probavit
' Nil horum; verbosa et grandee epistola venit
A Capreis."
dellinibtdoth?e—r words, that a large and sworn green bag came stuffed
from Milan. Surely It could not be an unrewarded service to
tome forward against the Princess of Wales, warn it was known
that she became the object of .eersecutiou? It was now 1,0
it
longer doubtful that the (lovernment was concerned: Ogre in-
stance was superior to a thousand generalities. They h-d only
o refer to the evidence, and they would see that a brace of
Ambassadors, and a brace of Ministers were employed for the
purpose of packing off to this country that very valuab,c cart:,
Birbara Krantz. It was thus Barons Grimeand Itedit g
were employed:. And while power and authority sought suet
aid, there world always be rougd low, time-serviug, and ig-
noble natures to be its mercenary instruments. Ile reminded
their Lordships, that at the' cruse of the Attorney-Genetat's
ease (for he was bound to consider it as the case of. that
Learned Gentleman), he Made 'a singular apef.cation to. their
Lordships, to delay furtlicEr proceedings, on the ground that cer-
tain important witnesses, whom he expected, and who would
r prove the facts alleged against her Majesty, bad not arrived.—
By the analogy of all similar•applications in Courts of Justice, it
was impossible that, the requesvcould be granted, at least units'
the Attorney *for the case were called to state that iu hts opinion
the witnesses expected were necessary. -Was thafwitnes... c“lled ?
No. ' The application was allowed to die. away, rather. titan than
her Majesty's Counsel ".cold have the oppottunity et ascertain-
ing Whether it was injurious surmise, or unfounded.' suspicior,
Loot only that witnesses might be purchased in Italy, but tba:
large sums had been sent to that country, to secure the attend-
ance of the motley Crew of witnesses who had appeared at their
Lor4shipe bar: Why was not MT. PaWell, or some ()thee per-
son acquainted-With the merits of the ease, called in support of
the applieatios of the Attoreey-General,'but for such an appre-
hension? Reiting, therefore, not oh conjecture or surmise, sea
on any general iodination of human infirmityanoton any dons:-
fur suppositions, but on the examination of the witnesses for the
Bill, until they became informed of whil had been 'drawn
froth the Captain and slate of the polacre, and osithe nature e
the application made to your Lordships by the Attorney-Gete-
rel, and refused, he challenged the opposite party fo deny the
assertion, that means and opoortunity. . reined, :and that tun.a
were furnished for taking advantage o( that means and oppor-
tunity, to procure such evidence as was coosidered.desirable.
Had that not been the. case, it was evident that,theewitness ;0
(whom he had alluded, or some ocher equally isgu'ainted Wii
t:e case would not have been withheld. He wished to m...e
!another general remark. It was by no means hill intention o
travel over the ground taken yesterday and that 'Morning by
his Learned Friend, with refereuce to the improbability a:-
tendant on most of the circumstances imputed* to her Majesty.
1 His Learned Friend had irresistibly sheWn that the disgiattr;
familiarities, as they were termed, which were attributed to i.::
Majesty, seemed to be invariably committed, not .in privacy,
but openly, and in the presence of numerous witnesses. 'fa
that statement he begged leave to add a fact deduced from the
evidence. It appeared by the evidence of De 'Mont, in p-7
364, that her Majesty, during the whole of the mostextraord:-
nary, open, profligate, and convenient (to the party wishing to
draw the imputation of guilt from it) course attributed to her,
was environed by spies ! What ! Would the Princess of Wall
—who could not have forgotten the proceeding' of 1806-wlito
mold not bat know that she was not regarded with favour in a
powerful quarter—would she have eonimitted the indecencies
attributed to her in the presence of a crew of twenty-two sailors?
Can your Lordships believe that a person so circumstanced, with
arch recollections and such impressions, would thus have sur-
e renderecilerself willingly and at discretion to the malice of her
' enemies? He would state to their Lordships another* circum-
stance from the evidence, as much more valuable than any ge-
neral remark. They could pot have forgotten the statement by
Majocchi, with reference to. the cabinet at Naples, between the
room of Sagami and that of her Majesty. It would be found
in the Otkpage of the Minutes.- It appeared that Majocclii oils
lest stationed there to attend on Berganni, in consequence of the
Visas of the latter. It appeared that there were betia:a fire
and a light in the room. It futther appeared that there was
- bed prOvided for Majoccbi ; but that' he must r;pose, if
he did repose at all (which would be contrary to his duty as 4
attendant), on a sofa. Majocchl also declared, in the early part
of his evidence, that the access to the rooter of Berptni front
that of the Princess was through the particular:{oom in which
be (hlajocchi) was statical:id, 'leading their LOrdsWps to believe
that that was the only access. It would be found at the bottom
Of page 5 of th.e Minutes, that Mejocchi„ to the qdestion," Did
the other people of the suite sleep in that part of the house, sr
at a distance? fearlessly answered," They were separated" It
subsequently, however, turned out, in thi course of Itiajocclis
efidaice, that so far was the room in which Majocebi was ee
timed from teing.the only mode of communication by whielt
the Mesa, if she had the object in vies:, which was imputed to
her in the Bill 4 might arrive at Bergami's chamber, that there
was midair iassage by another part of the house by which de
mightauendou saftet havethegonsiae,,without encountering any watchman, asf
pared
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59
of
theor any
min uothteztpheartionwhlhatuaieveocr.
chi ft
Waist-
asked, " Will you swear that if a person wished to go front the
Princess's room to Dergami's room, he or she could not go a 4
other way than through the cabinet in which you slept?" he re-
plied, " There was another. passage to go into the room of 13eo
gang:" and when further asked, " Without passing thrash
the cabinet where you slept r he answered, " Yes." "5"
that it sappetued, that unless hers Majesty wished to give 6.-
tinct note of what she was ablaut to the persons employed bf
her, he challenged the other side to chew what ostensible came,
what reason there was, consistent with common sense, or wi:h
resagemmehtedthe foamy of humanto
letiaadtturoee,xtpotdreucane
dhernorhingajestelsy
et,owadhoeop:sla
it appenialbythe evidence, she.might have taken a mode
access free front any such-danger. In this case, of the
*MK, their Lordships would surely do that whits
Otheritidapossimpsdasseekin human affairs, always did—requnf
that the evidence against the accused should be consistent will
calauson* asses If there were no other grounds for the disbelief
FOIE thik testilsony (and he would .hew that there were abunda
grounds for tiering so) their Lordships would be slow to credlt
Its self-condemned as it stood by its own gross improbabilill-
He would mention another circumstance of a similar nature to
their Lordships. He was aware of the tediousness of the course
lie was pirating, more especially after the sillignificent ealsila- I
than of Me Learned Friend ; but the great importance of the
ale be was persuaded would serve as his apology. Ile felt hoe
loisseicia chit Minute exainination was, both to their Lordshics
to himself .As it regarded himself this was wholly logo.
AS It regarded their Lordships, he entreated them 0
111111,14011•119,4 Material it was toxin discharge of their high de,-_
Wpm thisactosioo, to it themselves thorough masters i
the tatters estate awl bearing of the evidence that had beeu ad:
41140 d apes Ir. 14 had already adverted to the declaratioa of
Slairrefist isf MI alliMinition in chief, that as Naples the sot (1