Star.
London, England, 1820-11-03 00:00:00

TRIAL OF THE QUEEN.

PROCEEDINGS IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS.
(to conatituitionfrom the first Eldon liesterday's STAR.)
Lord ERSKINE continued to address the Hattie, though
seemingly to 'abeam under indispositio&—The Lord Chancellor
had stated that the fact of adulterous intercourse was the only
one to be considered: he (Lord Erskine) denieii this. The
Noble Lord then proeeededoin a low tone of voice, to read
the preamble- of the Rill, and to comment on the gross indecen-
eke which her Majesty was charged for some years, and in
various countries: and yet this sweeping accusation bad dwindled
down to a charge of her sleeping on deck on board a polacca,
Mtunded by her chamberlain, and this only sworn to by two.
Witnesses who did not even declare, that they had any suspicion
oI a criminal intercourse having taken place. The Noble Lord
tins pnatasiled to comment on the evidence of lee Mont, wbicl
he said, Imams entitled to credit, and declared, that he wished be
had the Queen's case in the lower Courts before one of the Judges.
—He would pass from the witness De Mont, whom he looked
upon as dead and buried in her own contradiction, and proceed
to-another part of the ease. Great reliance had been placed on
the elevation of Bergman. He would admit that, if the indecent
fatttiliarities which were alleged;.but which he did not think
were - proved, had taken place, that elevation

satisfactorily .
would become a just ground of suspicion ; but, even admitting

them for a moment, did they prove the guilt with which her
Majesty was charged? He could not look upon the elevation
of liergami in the light in which his Noble and Learned
Friend had viewed it. Those marks of distinction conferred
on riergand were certainly marks of great favour, but were

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his vote for the MIL But he thought the House were , -.ace to •
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they ist themselves proofs 'of her nlajeity's guik2 Her Mae between young Gentlemen and young Ladies often led to
jesty, it was said, had gone so far as to institute the Order danger ;inn heie was a secret confined to the breasts of a Prin. ettend their views beyond the mere facts- of the ease, -He .
of St. Caroline (whether with or without authority he would etas and keteisereent.
VBe hoped he was not exaggerating; but . trusted that they would not be induced by anything that hot
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Cot stop to inquireand to confer the first rank in it ors Tier- rally this ,fact snuck him as very strong. What ! a secret be-
fallen from the Noble laird on the cross bench (LordLau (I,
gami. This was said to have occurred on her Royal High- tween a Minikes eltd'a person, who had entered her service but dale), to exclude from their comideratiwa the possibility of tubs- •-•
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nests visiting the Temple of the Resurrection—arid certainly, on five months beficofora job !I • Upon the evidence foe the defence, Bill not being entertained by the other Hour of Pashamente
' looking to that circumstance, he took the fact not as a proof of it appeared that pa sooner had aW the English domestics kit her Ile thought that they Were bqund to look at the whole •ort the
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guilt, but as moral evidence of the contrary. They had just then Royal Highness, she set to at playing bitnehnan iebuff with probable effects and consequences of the •nneasuse. He was
visited the spot wherethe &wove of the world had bled for man- this melee relation.. To• what ;weld ail this be attributed ? die last man wk° could „Pill their • Lordship lo act are ear
kind, and in commemoration of that visit her Royal Highness The courier of a Princess gets his sister into the situation of any imeresalon„'of iittimulation from without; but he knew
instituted the Order, with which she invested her principal at- Lady of Honour, and himself into a place at table and a state of Of no good that was to be seined by concealing from theme
tendert:s. Taking into consideration the time, the place, and okee companion hip with hie enietress. . Whet inference could selves thaetheir character was, Uhe might se speak, upon trial
the cause of this transaction, he thought that, instead of its af- be drawn from this The Noble Lord then proceeded to cons-
before the country.—not by the mere rabble, but by all the more
fording any evidence of guilty intercourse, it was, in his mind, meat upon the evidence of Mr. Hownam, who, .he said, had valuable and sensible saqrtions of the lkitith community. He int-
a strong proof of the existence of directly a contrary feeling in dexterously wedded the acknowledgment that any entertain-
planed their Lau debner to weigh well the efts is which the passing
the mind of her Royal Highness. He now same to the evi- ment had taken place on St. Bartholomew's Day on hoard. In
' of the Bill might probably have; to view it not only us qmstilon
deuce as to what occurred on board the polacca—to the sleeping that evidence the grossest prevarication had been made. As to of justice, but as one qf expediency. If any doubt—if the lout
under the awning or tent ;—and here he Would observe, that, the Theatre, Hameln's recollection had been guilty of treachery. doubt existed oar the minds of their Lot rkships—if there ova
if the evidence went to skew any instances of her Royal High. He had not recollected whether her Royal Highness played
any deficiency in the evidence, the bets
nem passing from her room to the bed of Bergamo, it would, if on Columbine, but he remembered that she played an Automatoo, into the scale for the defendant.
,Such being his view of the
creditable testimony and unexplained, be presumption of guilt; a thingehat could be wound up to. anything; and she was sold subject, he could not, with any satisfaction to himself, with-
'but the case was quite different on board the, enlaces, and, of as a machine ! Now, could their Lordships suppose any case efit ought to be threwn
hold it from their Lordships, and he now, therefore, declued,
vaunt, the same presumption could not follow. When first the stronger than that of a Princess taking her courier to her table
that whenever the question for the second reading of the In 1
parties went on board,tberewas an arrangement of the beds,wbich plasma* bias to such tiersectident honoun, and playing with should be put to their Lordships by the Noble and Learned *r
was, on all hands, considered unobjectionable : afterwards that and for the amusement of his family; and all this within the Lord oar the Woolsack,. he should feel 1$ his duty to sayee•Not •i
was partially chacged, in consequence of a surgeon coming on short spate of eighteen months ! And what service bad this:per- content—(hear, hear, law). •:v• ; i • 1
board. The beds were at this time below. Now he would ask their son •rendered to he,r, Royal Higbee's?. Ooe of her visitors had Lord RELIES DA Lt thought the proof was NUE *mow ~
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Lordships, if an adulterous intercourse was sought for by her taken notice of his figure, but forgot 'every other circumstance and absolute. He could not conceive how there soul best doubt ~
Royal Highness, would she not have continued the beds below, attending hire. It was yet to be kennel. how the circumstance on the subject in the mind of soy reasinebie man. He hid con-
where intercourse of that description wquld be less open to ob- of appearing with a sword drawn when 'there was a fear, og' sidereal the evidence attentively.--he had examined'it 'over and
servation ? Instead of this, what took place? Her Royal High- robbers, could have entitled Ilergami to such distinction.-ti over, and his impression was, that the- ease had been more 1
ness went on deck, where her actions were not only exposed to Then there was the change in the apartments on board the Le-fr fully proveeCtban was ever any case in which a contrariety of ,
the observations of her attendants, but also to those of the viathan. lt would be recollected that Lady C'herlette Lindsay :opinion existed. lie (Lord Redesdale). had much legal eel„.-
whole of the ship's crew. The tent opened on the deck, and, said, that in .the Clorinde her Royal Highness's female aura- rlenci ins a country (Ireland) where there was a gseat.disio.
besides, there was an opening from below, to whichehe suite dents slept 'near her; but, on board the Leviathan, the most sftion prooog thepeople to swear against' each other; he knew
had access. But it was said that her Royal Highness was at- suspicious arrangement had taken plate, and Captain Pechell all the difficulties of extracting 'truth from a mass of con-
tended in this tent by a male attendant. Good Gon! was that refused to sit at the table, in consequence of the fact that this meting testimony; but he never knew. a case where there
circumstance to be taken as proof of adulterous intercourse? courier, who had waited at table on a former occasion, 'bad was less difficulty to encounter. than there was in the pre t.
What was to become of society if a woman having a male at- been dignitimi be a scat at it, Captain Pechell had acted by this It had been proved by the very evidence brought to disprove it.
tendaut was to be taken as a proof of her guilt ? , Wm it not a refusal in manner highly creditable to himself—(Hear, hear). The 'Noble Lord, after ate inganoue encomium on the evidence
+ matter of every day occurrence, that women were attended in Why, nothing would then gratify the liberal feeling of her Royal of Majocchi and De Mont, of both of whom, he said that he
their rooms by men, and also men by women; but who ever in- Highness, but the keelthil a senaralletabk for`the entertainment thought them entitle!! to credit, and gave them credit, prtf-
furred guilt from that circumstance? Taking, then, the whole of this hilhiy.faeuured nun. This she,tlid, notwithstanding the ceedtd to consider the proceeding in a constitutional point of
of what moaned on board the palaces—and it seemed that upon I admonitions Whir& she had received frOm CaptainPectiell, and view., Ile thought it surprising that a Bill of Pains and Penal-
the tent scene the whole case was rested—be contended that even from Ain Himont.. Tbe Noble: Lord then called their eiee should he objected to as an unconstitutional measure-when
there was nothing in it which could support the statement of the Lordship' anent* to the evidence of Lieutenant Flynn and the whole, Conetuution of the Country depended on oni—the
preamble, that her Majesty's conduct was s'seandalons,disgrace-* Mr. Hoentann'which, proved howfar those Volunteer witnesses exclusiokqf .t Stuarts•by the Act of Settlement. AU Divorce
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Ink and viMous." If the whale of her conduct were taken to:: exposed thenunivea, and•tiewhat gidslity-they were entitled e— Bills were. t Nobleett, Bills of Pains and Penalties. The Noble
get/y:l.. It did not amount to arta of the preemble ; but sillier He read'tbat part of. Mr. Hoorn WS evidence which stated.
He'latd t 'ear Lordships had to 'consider the nature of the evi- •
Lord hi - ed to comment on differneeparts of the evidence,
Majsety'e acts, whether of " private or public" character, had that the iiittleits had not observed Aliethei, on St. .Bartholin '
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been abandoned by his Noble and Learned Friend, except those mew's Day, Remand 'sod the itacen had Walked or= *arm / demo by Majocchi, as well as the difficulty of distance,"
which took place in the polacta.—[The Lord Chancellor here on the deck—dhole they walked as jigkml--thal they err have ioteilre*g his pace, some= correctly. Great affeyedne
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signified his dissent.)--The Noble Lbrd neat adverted to the walked arYnin artn;ifte: This the Ndblb Lord cilledltteArobed oughtAghltdore, to be wads on this score.. But consitimeng
evideter of lidajocehi, wbieb, be elide was positively cootts- prevarication ;and unless the evidenseid Mr. Hoemeneetni tone. the 4oht of his evideuceefront beginulng to end, he would say,
dieted in most material pans, as he would sheyr, independently termed, he wild not, credit a word of it.. Indsed, orill thtli i..., thit'lla (Majocchi) was entitled to credit. Majoechi had wig;
.of Ma COntrieliCiloot'ef hi&self: He Was contradicted with're- . ships were to taakva choice *Kites IrMithr add 110teight eltea • *wails,/,, acammemsualiod, and re-es/mined, until be humorist