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system, the obnosiousymple
menet but they live at the
at esce.the sham of the
it ; and the wont pd •
virlsot goodness timitnost
di this sitsedeos men
stern lieglerate; but are
The assda of destruct:ten
social hallitedes—the blood of wholesome kindred is infected...-
the tables and beds are surrounded with mares. AU the means
given by Paomemses to make life safe and comfortable, are per-
verted into iestrunmets of terror and torment I"
The Leasned Counsel condoned to point out the difference of
this trial and those In a Court of Law. A man summoned to a
Court of Ilnelish Junkmen bound to tell the truth, the whole
truth. and nothing but 6e truth; and such, ho believed, every
one thought be ought to do when he took the he in his hand.
But Socchi was a bribed witness—a witness not but who
voluntarily came forward to betray his Boyd and
Mistress. The first apostate to Christianity and to human nature
was not forsworn when he betrayed his Lord and Master,
and yet be was loaded with the execradon of mankind.—
Whenever he saw 1 witness come forward, and with the word
of Goo to his lips, ready to betray GOD and man, he looked to the
cause which could thus induce a man to become so abandoned !
Discarded servants had it in their power at all times to depose
M sets on which they could not be contradicted. If any ma;
Aimed dare to swear that the noble consort of one of their Lord.
alp had got out of her bed in the middle ef the atilsosnmeen
but through the key-hole or the crevice of a docoorsatare to
the bed of a domestic, how was it possible to inch a
witness, who had been dismissed, notwithstanding his posseides
of a secret so fatal, het by the generality of the characitur el
the illustrious accused, and by the of the accuser berg.
ing itself in the very &ulnas of his charge ? One of the serums
in the case of the witness to whom he had already alluded, being
questioned upon subjects of this foil sad fiklty description by
one of the persons who had attempted 111 Mists her had gimp
him an answer full of female spirit and virtuedeludiesdin—en
answei which he preferred to give in the orighede bseenne
was unwilling to diminish its force, and because being Ism
known, the coarseness would be less understood
linesporeparos TtyeAAirs le miaow * leervous rev var ire evit-

of the prosecution had they spier in all nations. They have
had plenty of time, and no other employment; they were
neither young in practice, ;or destitute of talent; and yet they
had failed completely, so far as related to the charges at
tnd the ether places he had mentioned. The Learned
hen abided to a Turkish merchant, who always found a fide
witness • surer guard than a true one, as he knew more cant
phrases, and made the best evidence. Where did the Poet of
Nature teed Mr. Denman) draw his best finished villains from,
when he had occasion to blacken the character of an ineemnt
wiF:—his lagas, hie lachimos?—from Italy ! In one of Shak-
espeare's Plays it was represented that a thousand dueats was
given at Messina for the evidence of a person who was to swear
away the honour of a Lady. Their Lordships might do well
t refer to the character, as there developed :
" Don Pedro—How now, two of my brother's men bound !
Caudle—Hearken to their offence, my Lord.
Don Pedro—Officers what offence have these men done?
Dogberey—Marry, Sir, they have committed false reports ;
moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are
slanderers ; sixthly, and lastly, they have belied a Lady; thirdly,
they have verified unjust things; and, to conclude, they are
lying knaves "—(Laughing).
And, my Lords (continued Mr. Denman), without meaning
any thing personal, I say we find such witnesses in the last Act
of the Comedy of Muth Ado about Nothing, which chews that
Italy and Naples were the proper places to procure false testi-
mony.—The Learned Counsel then commented in`strong terms
on the testimony of the Master and Mate of the polacca, who
came there bribed witnesses, one receiving 1,000, and the
slier 750 dollars a month ; and the Master, no doubt, felt
that he would be most likely to get the 6,000 dollars he ex-
pected from the Princess, by giving testimony against her. He,
next alluded to the journey from Syracuse to Jaffa, and denied
that any of the charges alleged to have taken place there had been
proved It had been said that rumours and reports had been circu-
lated against the Princess. He admitted ft—these were circulated
by the spies about her Royal Highness, and eagerly caught at
here, where they were made the basis of this prosecution. He
denied that the facts stated to have taken place on board the
polacet had been proved, and said that if truth was the only
object of this enquiry, Hownam, Flynn, and the whole of the
twenty-two sailors on board, should have been called.
Lord LIVERPOOL suggested, that as the Learned Counsel
must be nearly exhausted, he ought to have leave to retire.
The LORD CHANCELLOR.—" Certainly! Mr. Denman,
ask for whatever time you please, and if you wish to have un
to-morrow morning, I should have no objection."
Mr. Denman said, he would avail himself of their Lordships'
offer for half an hour.
After having been absent for 40 minutes,
Mr. Domes resumed. He begged to call the attention et
their Lordships to that period when her Royal Highness de-
termined on visiting the Archipelago, the Greek Islands, and
the Holy Sepulchre. For this purpose her Majesty hired
a polacca, slept in a tent on the land, and, though enduring
great privations, lived in delightful familiarity with all those
who accompanied her. The fact to which he was now going
to anode, he knew might be stated so as to excite suspicion
of guilt. For two days and a half of the journey, bdajocchl
says, she reposed under the tent • the Countess of MI,
lis:rganii, and the child Victorine, being under the same tent;
and Majocchi, and some other of the domestics sleeping in an
adjcining tent. How long they reposed that honest witness
could not recollect; but Lieutenant Hownam stated, that her
Royal Highness was often so fatigued, as scarcely to be
able to dismount from the mule on which she rode. " Can
there be one mural," said the Learned Counsel, " so uncha-
ritable, so uncaedid, or so unjust, as to look merely at the
words as they are' stated, and not consider all the circum-
stances of the case; and if so, is there a man breathing who can
lay his hand on his heart and declare that adultery was commit-
ted during that journey ? The Learned Counsel for the Bill had
asked if the beds were regularly made? expecting, no doubt, that
as much pains was taken with them as on a bridal night. But
what was the fact, why, that there were no bed clothes, no li-
nen, and 'these parties recline there with no other alteration
from their travelling dress, than one putting on a dressing
gown, and the other a cloak. De Mont had appeared to state
these facts strongly, but in her cross-examination it appeared
that this encampment was attended with as mu.l innocence
and as much purity as distinguished the 'best regulated
establishments of the best regulated families. There was, he
contended, no more reason to suppose that an illicit intercourse
took place before the Princess went on board the polacca, than
for any of their Lordships to suppose that It had taken place in
their own families, since they left home, merely because the
fact was not impossible. The Learned Gentleman said, that
up to the time that her Royal Highness stepped on board the
polacca, there had not been the slightest proof of guilt; and
when their Lordships considered the evidence as to what had
takes place on board, they would be compelled to deny thepos-
sibility not only that the crime with which her Royal High-
ness stood charged could have been committed there, but that
the slightest impropriety could be ascribed to her. Was it pro-
bable that the victim of such a passion as that which her Royal
highness had been accused of indulging, would have been led
to abandon the lower part of the ship, in which she could have
carried ern this criminal intercourse without chance of discovery,
because the animals kept there were offensive to one of the
senses? Was it prubable that she should leave that convenient
spot for the deck, where she must have been exposed to the
observation of the whole of the crew; and was she so totally
infatuated as to invite the gaze of those, and to give herself up ,
to the gratification of a vim passion at the very season she was
suffering from fatigue and terror? But there did not exist
an atom of testimony to prove that her Royal Highness
and Bergami had slept under the same tent. The circumstance
was only to be interred from Captain Hownam's statement,
and it had been said by him, that this unprotected, but bravest
of females, had chosen the deck for her convenience. The
Learned Counsel (Mr. Darman) thee commented upon the
evidence of Captain Flynn, who had, he said, unfortu-
nately laboured under the disadvantage of an overpowering
respect for their Lordships, which rendered hint one of the most
timid and nervous witnesses that ever appeared in a Court
of Justice. After several compliments to Captain Flynn for
the anxiety exhibited by him to clear rap all the difficulties that
lay in the way of a perfect understanding of what had taken
place on board the polacca, the Learned Counsel called upon their
Lordships to adopt no middle course in deciding upon this case,
to listen to no compromise between honour and shame. By a
compromise, the mind would suffer greater tortures than could
be inflicted upon the body by the judgment pronounced upon the
highest crime. He would rather see his Royal Mistress upon
her tried at the Bar, as Anne Boleyn had been, than the victim
of an inglorious compromise !—he would rather see her ascend
the scaffold, and lay her bare neck upon the block, than see
her )eave these shores the object of scorn and pity ! He
called upon their Lordships to treat this case as it would be
treated at the Old Bailey by one of the Judges, who, if he did
not desire the Jury to acquit their prisoner at once, would de-
serve to be impeached at that Bar. He (Mr. D.) called upon,
and entreated them to consider, that the polluted evidence
against the Queen was the evidence of discarded servants.—
There bad been no example in the history of any Christian
King, to which the present case bore any resemblance. In that
of Imperial Rome there was one, which he should state. It
was the only one in the annals of that or any other nation.—
Octavia, the wife of Nero, became, almost the day after her
marriage, the object of an unjust accusation. She was repu-
diated upon the evidence of false witnesses, and a conspiracy
was formed against her, at the instance of a slave ; but, though
many swore against her, the greatest number of witnesses were
in favour of her conduct, and maintained her innocence. She
was banished from Rome, but she returned, and her return was 1"11"""''''""
bailed by thousands. A second conspiracy was attempted, and Lieutenant HOWNAM, and some other witnesses,
she was convicted and condemned. Sbe was banished to an
island in the Mediterranean while all believed her innocent; and will probably be re-examined by the Lords : but the
there her miseries terminated by poison or the dagger. In the most important point as yet undisposed of with re-
words of Tacker, " Non aria mut visratigins oculos inajore miss-
ricordia Illentinerunt Whet quadri,* Agrippina a Teak spec[ to the evidence, will be decided by the motion
receiditor AA" muse is chsercabatur, Claudio pulse. Slut ills which Earl GREY has intimated his intention to bring
robe yetis easeena : /eta Atria viderant, et presentees seuitians f •
orwara namely, that the depositions made by the
mesiovis dies fart'sov roserdatione aUevabant. hole primness
',apiaries& dim loco fungal fan:, &chicle in donning, Is pia witnesses, previous to their examination at the Bar,
'mammon lidera." The dzAtlt of her father and her
brother had deprived her of her natural protectors who might I shall be drsid before the flouse. His Lordship grounds
have stood between her and misery, " him an:ige domino: this proposition on the analogy supplied by the prac-
ratirtiJr : et Popptesi mos nisi tx peruiciem envie aupta : Ps•
rice of the Courts below ; in which it is not unusual
Irmo cringecringecanna stale gratests."—Her Majesty had leftthls
country after the first conspiracy. She went abroad amidst to terminate the proceedinsl 4t once, if, on the trial,
deep affbctions—sbe returned amidst the congratulations of
thousands, and was now accused by the basest of slaves !! the witnesses swear differently from their previous
•
I never see (said Mr. Denman) dlstardedipervanta brought foe- depositions. This is the more necessary, as it cannot
.
ward, that the immortal worth WC Mr. Starke are not recalled be
doubted that these very depositions were in the
to en mind : Ile says, I
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novas
•
To such discarded suborners as Sacchi and Resnik might this
answer be applied. Swat had talked a great deal about his be-
ing a soldier and a gentleman : he had received the reward of his
fidelity on the field of battle, and one of the first proofs be gave
that he deserved it, was forward to betray his mistress.
When the four persons of the Princess's suite left her,then the
conspiracy against the Princess was formed in their hearts,
and was sure to be carried into execution. There was, however,
in the wont of natures some moments of compunction, and for-
tunately De Mont bad destroyed herself se a witness against
the Princess, by one of the most cordial, sincere, and energetic
panegyrics that could be pronounced, on her Royal Mis-
tress. While that document remained, it was impossible to
believe one particle of the testimony which she had given
at their Lordships' Bar. It was a happy circumstance for
her Majesty, that De Mont had been called against her, since
in her letter written to her sister, she had given a testi-
mony which invalidated every part of her evidence. The
Learned Counsel continued to remark further on the evidence
of De Moat: had she been put into the box and repeated the
eulogy which her letter contained on the Princess, on the cha-
racter of any prisoner, it would have been sullicieut to procure
the acquittal of the accused. Could any one now believe, that
if the charge had been brought against the Princess two years
ago, Du Moat would not have been the best and most valuable

'witness in favour of her Royal Highness? And here he was struck
with the conviction of his Learned Friend's (Mr. Brougham's)
remark—powerful and profound as it was--when be endea-
voured to spew to the House the prudence, and even neces-
sity of his exercising the discretion of an Advocate, so far as
to dispense with calling the sister of De Mont, since there
could have been as little reason two years ago to suspect the
troth of De Mont the elder, as there was now to suspect that
of her sister. He trusted, therefeqi, that this would be a
sulkies* excuse with the House Ott DM calling bar, and that
the Ingenuity of his Learned Friend& on the other side in &c-
-lowning for this abstinence on grenade prejudicial to his case
would not have an effect en theirLordships' minds, and that
they would more readily be beelined so adopt this apology, when
they remembered that the Miftenrshy. unhandsome manner, In
which Captain Flynn was led hue an involuntary, trifiirg
sistency, ought to operate as a warning upon him (Mr. Denman),
bow he.axposed to such an ordeal, a nervous, alarmed witness.
It was now hia intention to pursue the examination of the other
part of the evidence.
It being now Fuer o'clock, the Earl of LIVIMPOOL moved
the adjournment of the House.

THE EVENING STAR.

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the Secret Committee for re-.;
proceedings to be instituted against
•
pretested in tato apsass
the Sills upon the lonfe
viz. the Impossibility
lowing up the clue to discover the manner in Whicisl
the evidence hod been collected—the abstractiOnftil
Rorrittm, and ti ;e non-appearance of the Baden,
Chamberlain, Ban d'Exne.
Mr. DENMAN commenced his recapitulation of the
evidence for her MAJESTY, which occupied the re-
inainder of the day, and will be resumed again this
morning.
At an
don and
the Mi'
Strand, ,
in a -bustle
the Glass-wor
As usual,
every appearance
`very favc
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This morning the Loan Carancu.roa took his seat on the
Woolsack at five minutes before ten o'clock. Prayers were read
by the Bishop of Beisiroz. On the list of Peers bring read over,
excuses were admitted for the Duke of Sr. Accent's, the Bari of
throats, and Lord &Min;
Counsel were called in at twenty minutes past ten o'clock.
Mr. Dzawai then rose, and resumed the summing up of the
Defeace.—" My Lords, in referring to the evidence which has
been produced in support of this Bill, 1 am naturally brought
to that individual whose natne forms so prominent a part in
the charges that have been brought against her Majesty.—
And certainly no person ever entered into any situation with
better character, with a fairer claim to promotion, or better en-
titled to hope for access and advantage. Mr. Craven states,
that the Marquis Guisjilleri treated lingual on a footing of
equality, and recommended him to her Royal Highness as an ie.
dividual who was deserving her confidence and patronage; disk
he was of a respectable family, which had suffered in its for-
tunes during the French Revolution; that he had served in the
Frost* army, where be was admitted to the society of person.
of rank and distinction; but that now, in his humbled fort.
he was compelled to accept of a situation below his rank, or his
deserts. Sir W. Gel stated, that the Marquis Guisiglieri, se for
from treating him ai a menial, or one of mean origin, saluted
him in the manner in which the Nobility salute persons of eclat
rank ; and the French Colonel Oliviera, who knew him at Go-
neial speaks of him in the highest terms. lam oak
my Lords. defending Bergami, nor is it necessary that I
should do so; but I cannot advert to the manner in which
he was introduced to her Royal Highness, without declaring
my firth conviction that he was a person worthy of patronage.
Bergami entered the service of the Princess in the year 18146
and in the following year be was promoted from the situation at
a courier to that of a page. I may here observe, that a courier
to a Royal Personage, though wearing a peculiar dress, is not
to be considered as an ordinary livery servant. In the course
of that year, I believe, he became her Royal Highness's Chain-.
berlain. I will admit that it was desirable that her Majesty
should place in that situation a person of high rank, but we
must oonsidex the circumstances in which her Royal Ilighleis
was placed, and what hope had she that any young Nobleessit
would enter her service when likely to incur the displeasure
the Court at home ? At this time, Mr. Craven had left her Royal
Highness, can account of a domestic misfortune, and Sir William
Cell bad also left her, on account of his health. I therefore
do not know that the Princess could hays dome better than
binding a man of booms and Maley to bar service, by coo.
faring on him these Aces and those honours which it it
the privileges of Royalty to bestrew. And when a Royal
Personage does confer rank ant! honours on an individual,
he who is thus distinguished becomes what • Royalty chooses
to make him. I do not blame Captain Pasha for refusing to'
sit down at the table with a mu who had waited behind his
chair ; but no individual would degrade himself by yielding re-
spect to those whom royalty delighteth to honour. Mr. &card
says, he considered it necessary that the Prince,' should have a
guard near her person ; and that at Naples, he placed Ber..
gami in the cabinet, near the garden, without the know-
ledge or participatioa of her Royal Highness, and with-
out any interference en the pert of Bargain!, who thus dis-
charged a most important service to her Royal Highness;
for no one can doubt that the Princess was surrounded with
spies from the_ moment she quitted this country; and when
Bergami had faithfully discharged the important duty of guarding
. her

Royal person, was k not natural that on Sicard quitting her
Royal Highness, she should prefer him to the offices of Page,
and, Master of the Household ? Sicard left her Royal 'nehmen,
because his pecuniary affairs required that he should come to
England, and Bergami was then promoted to his situation ;
for let it never be forgotten, that we are speaking of a
man sf good manners, who might be received into the
Sat society, and who never betrayed meanness nor servility,
althosigh his fallen fortunes, had doomed him for a short period
to serve in a very bumble capacity. It was natural to sup-
pose that the other persons in the service of her Majesty
should have been indisposed to speak, with kindness of one
whose merits had raised him so much above them in the esti.
manors of his mistress. The %try circumstance of his having
discharged his duty with seal and fidelity was sufficient to excite
against him the evil thoughts of those whose ambition received
a check in its Right from their unworthiness. Whom, be would
ask their Lordships, could her Majesty have promoted with so
much propriety ? But it appeared that the virtuous feelings of
this Illustrious but unfortunate Lady were all to be turned into
crimes. Amongst other causes of censure, was her Ambles,
for young children ! In Genoa, the infant Victorine was threw*
in her way, and the felt for it the affection of a mother, ter
are pawed that it was without a protector. There bad bee*
is trauma to the connury. At the former period of penult.
don, a similar circumstance had taken place. It was then a charge.
which demanded investigation, for the succession was con:

cerned ; but now that no danger of that description could be
apprehended, it was thrown in as a supplement to the other
proofs, which were dwelt upon as evklence of a gross and cri-
minal appetite. If Berpmi was promoted to the dtuadon of
chandrrlain by his Royal Mistress, was it a proof of guilt that
he was publicly declared to be so, that he should appear
in the proper rank and introduced to her Majesty's visitors as
person filling a situation to which his talents and fidelity entitlid
him? What would have been said if be had skulked Into the
kitchen? Would it Lot have been hinted that then, indeed, he
was kept for the gratification of a criminal passion ? What if,
when on board the Leviathan, his situation had been concealed
from Captain, Brings; what if, when upon going en board
the 'same ship afterwards, his Royal Mistress had deposed
him from her table from the apprehension of being seen
by Captain Bothell in a station to which he had before been
elevated ? This publicity, so far front raising a presumption of
!Ot wet the proof innocence. • Then •

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in early hour tins morning the whole of Lan.
td Westminster' especially in the route from
inories, through Chenpside, Fleet-street, the'
I, and Pall-Mall, to Hyde Park Corner, was
istle to witness-the Processions arly
ass-workers), with Addresses • r 4.1
inl, on the Quagre s days, the • to
appearance of the momin. .; mit to be
ivourable. . •
VENTIETH DAY OF "niE DEFENCE.
HOUSE OF LORDS.