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' was seat mt i 1 tam. OoTerlillte pentad lOW of
lead Brown.
Rimeonew.Nothrektehic h had faun Soft ids other
Waco to depart fro the question
litainetter:utc,llifitich lie would repeat (raid"' Manila)
*Si ask whether your Lordships are sittine as a Court of Jigs-
tta'r When it suited the purpose of the Ceased for the,
Bel, when they wanted to exclude an evidence which was
material for her Majesty's vindication, by tying him (Mr. B.)
down; by binding him round with nine-fold technicalities—
/whoa they wished to prevent him from brealtingthrough that
maze or cOnspirary and perjury in which they lad endea-
vaured to entangle his Illustrious client—then the word Court
of Justice was constantly sounded in their aim. But now
abandoning everything like form and regularity of proceed:
ling. flying the face of every principle that guides the
Courti\below. their Lordships were applied to, not as a Court
of Justice, but as a House of Legislature, to grant, but of
their great indulgence, a !avow which it could never have
entered into the Imagination of any man to apply for to
any 'ether tribunal. a I ask" said the Learned Gentleman,
" if in any Court since justice was administered in this land,
dace anything like fairness was dealt oat between, parties by
'what are called forms, those handmaids of justice, if ever a pro-
position so monstrous as that now offered to your Lordship, was
attempted to be made ?" And what was the delay asked for?
That the character, forsooth, of Colonel Brown might be
dicated--of Colonel Brown who was no party here, who was
not now en his trial, whatever he might afterwards be.—
Because things had transpired in the course of these proomdines
'wind her Majesty, which involved the character of Brows in
jeopardy, the Queen was to be forgotten—no, not forgotten
bet trampled upon. Let Colonel Brows defend his conduct
afterwards as he may, but let not the case of her Majesty,
who was here the only party, be delayed on his account.
The Counsel for the Bill bad said, that the charges against the
Milan Commission had come upon them unexpectedly. The
statement was not true. In the opening of her Majesty's de-
fence, he (Mt. Brougham) had affirmed, in terms which
could leave no reasonable meat in doubt, that the conduct of the
authors of the Bill, of the planners of the Queen's destruction by
the Milan Cominiasion, would be inquired into in the course of
the evidence adduced in support of that defence.The Counsel for
the Bill knew that it would, and they had prepared against it.
The moment that the awns of Bonfiglio Pomarti had escaped
his (Ile Brougham's) lips, out sprung from the owhich
they had so amply filled witledocuments for th prosecution, a
brief, prepared long before-hand, containing a statement of
all that Pomarti might be expected to prove with respect
to the Milan Commission, and from that brief he had been cross-
eaimilned with the greatest possible particulmety by the Learned
Attorney-GeneraL After this, it was something like audacity, be
would not say in his Unmet Friends, but in their employers, to
say that they had net bad die notice of the charge that was to be
broeght against the Members of the Milan Conuttitsion, for
their practioesin getting up this prosecution. The next thing be
supposed which they should hear on the part of-Col. Brown was,
that be bad not had a list of witnesses, nor any specification of the
charges against him. (A laugh). " We, My Lords," said Mr.
Ramensmit' " complain of such things, we have felt the want
of them ail through the course of this proceeding; but never
did we foresee or apprehend the possibility of such an ap-
plication as this. Will your Lordships, for the sake of Co.
lone! Brown, however favourite an agent he may be of timi
Milan Commission, again stop short in this extraordinary
proceeding? Will you suspend my Illustrious Client camel
more in that state of horrible anxiety in which she has bee*
'kept by you and by her persecutors? Will you continue'
het in that state of torture, by making such a plunge as yen
are now invited to make, out of all regularity of procedure, into
iontething as dark, as lawless,, and as unknown td Courts of
Law, as anything which the human imagination can conceive?
I ask if your Lordships will inflict such a cruelty on my Illus-
trious and suffering Client—a cruelty so needless. so gratuitous,
so shamelese—an injustice so beyond all example?"
Mr. Damns followed on the same side. The reason for the
application for delay was, that Colonel Brown was not in Eng-
land, but in Milan. Bet why was• he not here? He knew that
be must explain his conduct, that he must defend his practices.
Why then was he not here at the time when be was sure the in.
diary into these practices and that conduct would be entered into?
The Learned Counsel said, that no sooner had a word escaped
ippon the defence which related to the conduct of the Commis-
stau, than a crowd of panegyrics poured in upon every perion
concerned is that Commission from those who sat as Judges,
and the Qesecn's Advocates were itopped in the very threshold
of their case by ealogiums, some of which were applied to par-
titular persons, and others drawn up as blanks, to be applied
to any others, whose reputation might appear'vestionable--(t
teaa,h).—lt was false to aay, that those who were emploied upon
ilia Commission slid not expect to be called as witnesses. ,Every
rasa of th.: evidence gave the lie to that assertion—for every page
Dare an allusion, teat was not to be mistaken, fo the Coming of
CaL Drown and Vilniacarti. How eould it be asserted that suchaa
espectadoa was not entertained ? He did not'novr condenutroL -
Brown, and he trusted that the delay required, which, in a *case
concerning so delicate a thing as female reputation, the Penn
coula cot with any reiard to their own character grant, would
sot b: yielded. Why was the delay asked? Was the Bill a
pivorce Bill? At first it was stated to have that charactei, and
Etacked and defended as such, but soon afterwards the Divorce
ellase was removed, and then the Bill became one of Degra-
datior. ar.d pethronement. Was this proceeding analogous to any
thiag that had hitherto taken place in the history of Bills of raps
and Pecaltieß In any event, the whole question as it stood in the
3ra=ble &tumid be proved, and what had been proved? The
question rather was what had not been proved? It was cleuif this
indulgence was granted to one party, it must be also to the other.
'lle advantage must, as far as the House could make h, be no
ciprocal, and the consequence would be, as all knew who oh-
oervesi the occurrences of the world, that years would be ma
etipird in the investigation. Her Majesty would have to send
to Milan to procure additional evidence to rebut that which
Col. Brown and his associates would no doubt endeavour to rates,
and this process would become too unwieldy for the mind of
man. Her Majesty hid to contend with difficulties of no ordi-
nary stamp. It was amongst her labours to counteract the evi-
deuce of witnessla whose names she had not been apprised of, sad '
who accused her of crimes, said to be committed at places, and
at does, respecting which she had been refused all intelligences`
Was it not cruel to accumulate upon hei other difficulties, and to
attempt to mar her cause by this delay? In every part of the
evidence the conduct of the Milan Commission was alluded Ow
in en uucquivocal a manner as to destroy all doubt as to the no-
ceseity of having upon the spot those who were liable to the imps-
tatiens. Why were not those witnesses produced before, and why
was the Queen to be shut out from justice because it bad been
thought eat-dicta to allow the Commission to red at ease until
her case was closed ? Were they or were they not in a Court of
EnglithJestice ? He called upon their Lordships to hook at the
modes isiewhieh this whole business had been conducted, and to
sty whether her Majesty bad not been taken by surprise? The
Learned Counsel concluded, by deprecating the whole system
upon which the proeccotiou had been conducted, and declaring
that it had been demonstrated by evidence and could be de-
monstrated by argument, that the Queen had been foully and
falsely accused, and she was now entitled to an acquittal
The Anostite-Gauxaat addressed their Lordships with great
•rr .I`-e warmth. It was, be believed, the tweeds& time be was told
'. by her Majesty's Counsel, that the bad met with no
indulgence from the House. The algetivlas, and the House
Anew it, that she had met with mere indulgence than bad
ever been granted to any other individual whatever. She had
asked for time, and it was granted without hesitation. She bad
had the advantage of hearing all the evidence against her, and
of producing persons with the view of refitting that evidence.
Be was surprised that Mr. Brougham and Mr. Denman
should now. after -having so repeatedly accused the Milan
Commission, declare that they had made no accusation.—
▪ Learned Gentlemen had tailed in proving the conspiracy,
and then they set up, another sort of conspiracy which existed
nowhere except in their learned breasts, a conspiracy, to bribe
persons who had not been examined. Would their Lordships al-
13w a new eam to be opened without giving an opportunity of an-
swering/ The Learned Counsel defended himself from the many
Seporsions cast upon him in the course of the Investigation, and
ailed upon their Lordships to give hen the opportunity to rebut
the calumny that isc was playing upon their Lordships. His
. object was nuthiurbut substantial justice.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said it appeared to
the
to
• be the duty of the Attotney-General, considering all the cir-
atuoutances of this most important ome, to make tbh applique".
The application had been made for two reascof; one tar the
sake of the character of Colonel Brown, and the other with the
lodic effect of his midenesupos this cam. He coosideree
Lordships were bound to sailed apes all thi edition
destillaitell unit Pinang Or its ths'yeks.
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