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TOFF. EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1820.
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THE QUEEN.
The following letter of her MAJESTY'S Counsel,
authorising a demand for money necessary for her
defence, and which we inserted yesterday in our
columns, first appeared in a print devoted to her

MAJESTY'S prosecutors:
el We hereby certify, that it appears to us to be neoeuary
that a further sum of Ten Thousand Pounds should be forthwith
advanced to Mr. %Tamil), to be applied towards the expenses of

her MA/eerie defence now pending in Parliament

" Dated this 26th day of August, 1820. (Signed)
" H. HOUGH►N, S. LUSBINOTOW, T. DZIGLILX."
We ask not, by whose procurance this document
is dragged forth? We ask not, for what object? for
both are pretty palpable but we would ask, could
our asking avail anything, How much money was
expended on the Milan Commission ? How much on
the spies that were set to watch every word—every
action—every look of her AIAJEsTY for six years;
to people in her own service, and to the herd that
followed her to direct the scent, Cook, and dress up
the desert to make it palatable to their employers?
How much on Couriers and Messengers kept in con-

stant employ ? How much on foreign Advocates and
Counsel? How much for legal advice and LEGAL

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services in this country ?—We may ask these, and ten

thousand questions such as these, but they will not
be answered. There is, however, one question which

every person can answer, catnap, " Who pays the

piper ?"
But the Public must often have asked themselves
another question. How comes it, that with such a
willing, well-trained gang of spies, in her MAJErnes
own household too, that not a single act should be

pi.oveci against the Lady accused of constant habi-
t-.LI aelultery for six long years—that surrounded all
tl.e time by such a lieid aspics that she could neither
stani, nor walk, nor lie down, nor get up, nor dress,

nor undress, sleep, wake, eat or fast, sail or ride,
and these people not even suspected to be spies:—

how comes it, we say, when the confidence and care-
lessness which an uninteirapted intrigue would na-
turally inspire in six years, and surrounded by an
tnsuspectcd household, that no single act should be
proved ?
It is hardly possible to divine the intention with
which some questions are put. to the witnesses ; for
example, to prove that when her MAJESTY dismissed
her maid-servant at night, she was in the habit of
tycking her room door ; or, when resting in the day
time, in the habit of leaving it open, so that she
corrld converse, thi ough an interposed room, with a
person in an opposite apartment; aye, and that not
in any whisper! To shut the door is an imputed
crime ! To open the door is another crime. To lodge
in houses having doors, and stairs, and corridors, is
a crime. To dwell in any house in which there was
a possibility of going from one room to another,
along passages, or by any means whatever, was ex-
tremely indecorous
The following extracts from a pamphlet published
by au eye-witness of the QUEEN'S conduct at Naples,
a Gentleman of unimpeachable credit, will supply
the nation with a complete answer to that part of the
ATTORNEY-6 EN ERA L's speech, and of Madame Di-
mont's evidence, which imputed indecent levities to
her MAJESTY in that Capital, particularly at the
masked ball given by MURAT, the late King:
I was at a masquerade in the gay Theatre of San Carlo,
at Naples, in 1614 ; among the distinguished personages present
on that occasion I observed her Royal Highness. The Attor-
ney-General has asserted, in his speech, that she appeared that
night in three characters : viz. as a Turkish peasant, as a Neapo-
litan peasant, and as the Genius of History. I say, that I saw
her Royal Highness from twelve o'clock till three, when the
more respectable part of the company retired. As an Eisglish-
man I was naturally inclined to watch the steps of this distin-
guished character; at times she was in a box of the Theatre
=muted, with Murat and his Consort; at times she was in
the pit (which, according to custom, was cleared of its seats,
la.z.); and at times she was in the Ridotto ; but during the
whale of the time, viz. from twelve till three, when she de-
puted, she was habited in the character of a Neapolitan peasant.
" Her Royal Highness was accompanied all the night by two
Ladies, and at times a man was with her, who appeared to be
in the tank of an attendant. She had sustained her assumed
character in which there was certainly nothing of indecency or
lightness of carriage, with much grace and talent. Again, it is
e.s:ited that whenever her Royal Highness appeared at the
Theatre, she and her compaLi.ns were generally hissed, and
compelled to retire on account of the indecency of their dress.
This is a bold assertion, but it carries its contradiction with it. ,
Vhat ! hiss the Princess of Wales out of a Theatre! such a
thing never could have entered into the heads of a Neapolitan
audience :--they durst not do it; Murat would have sent the
best man in his dominions to the castle, or to the peiltes rsaisru
(mad-house), had be dared to offer such an insult to her Royal
Highness. How silly to make such an assertion !it carries a
li,—lie--written clear in its very face ; it required all the Igoe-
rat.ce of the asserter to broach it, and he has plainly 'hewn be
knows nothing of the language, customs, and manners of Italy.
A word whim by way of information. In the Theatreeof Na-
ides, soldiers are placed to suppress, per force, any sign of to,
*suit ; no hissing or hooting is allowed even towards the Actors
On the stage ; but, as for hissing or hooting a person in the house,
• they would as soon think of hissing their sun in the dog.days
bmai,se he :bone too hot. I repeat, they *Si nut do it. 4 rioate.