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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
tirscoreav Satre.—The Elizabeth, of Aberdeen, (a
mining ship), from Davis's Straits; and the Ellison, of Hull,
the former with 14, the latter with 15 fish, arrived at Strain-
ices the 26th ultimo: the latter spoke the Discovery Ships in
lat. 68. long. 69. and they had wintered in lat. 75. N. bog.
115. W.

The ship Cuttenden, limy, of Boston, from the Havannah
to Charleston, sprung a leak at sea, and sunk. Crew arrived at
the latter place.
The Boyne, -- ; and the Lord Wellington, ANDZIISON, for
Batavia ; and the Brailaford, —, all from London, have ar-
rived at Madeira. The latter sailed on the 22d of Septembc.r,
far Bombay.
The Charles Henry, Putman, from Wexford to London,was
driven on shore near Milford, on Monday, and it was feared
would be wrecked. About 1000 firkins of butter saved.
The Anna Sophia, Coaorxrus, from Rio Janeiro to Ham.
burgh, was totally lost on the 25th ult. on the Vogel Sand.
Th_ Mississippi, from New Orleans to Bremen, was carried
into Cuxhaven on the 25th ult. with much damage to vessel and
cargo, and loss of mast, anchors, and cables.
The Little George, KNOCT, has arrived at Norfolk from the
Havannah, with loss of foretop-gallant-mast, sails, rigging, &e.
Facstount, Oct. :SO.—Wind W.S.W.-LSailed De Jong Char-
lotte, Gazza•zca, for Havre ; and Enterprise, Howes, for

London.
Poaeasecitrrn, Nov. 3.—Wind N.W.—Arrived the Crown
transport, from Cork; Diligence ditto, from the Downs; Ceres,
Tnosaeson, front the Downs for Africa • and Volusia, Russzee,
front ditto for Jamaica. Went out of harbour his Majesty's ship
Zit, to Spithead.
Cowes, Nov. I.—Arrived the Avon, WILLIS, from Water-
ford for London, leaky; and Olympia, ROTIILIEOAD, from Vir-
ginia for RotteriLan, with her sails split.
Ltvaaroos., Ocr. 31.—Arrived the Magnet, Glee, front Que-
bec ; Amity, Rowe, from Labrador.; and Endymion, Tonn,from
St. John's, New Brunswick. The Peter, Eiets, from Mayan-
rah, is arrived at New York in distrese, with five feet water in
bee hold: she has thrown 20 cases of sugar overboard, and lost
fin of her crew.
GALWAY, OCTOBER. 28.—His Majesty's
ship r er, Captain
Corm, has taken the Maria, from New York, with tobacco, off
Broad Haven bay. This vessel is coppered to the bends, and
oopper fastened, and pierced for 14 guns. Seven of the crew
escaped, but were retaken. Two other smugglers, in company,
were chased in the same quarter, but escaped. Captain Correa
has also picked up a large vessel, the Triton, front bliramichl,'
laden with timber, without masts or rudder, and every appear-
once that the crew must have abandoned her more than a month.
HARWICH, Novenase I.—Sailed the Henry Freeling packet,
for Holland ; and Lord Duncan ditto, for Cuxhaven, each with
a Mail. Seventeen logs of mahogany, marked M. W. B. and
numbered, have been picked op in the Slain, and landed here.
Meat, Novettssa I.—Wind W. N.W.—Came down from
the River and sailed, the Llan Rumney, Manumit, for ihmaiea;
Palladium, Parreasox, for St. Vincent's; Henrietta, Simons,
for Genoa ; Salamanca, RAI; for Charente • Prince Regent,
TATtoa, for Tobago ; Colonist, SHIM for Barbadoes; Simon
Taylor, Mete, for Jamaica; A•me, Faevxr, for Hayti • and
Delaford, liennic, for St. Vincent's. Passed by, a large fleet of
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vessels from Ramsgate Harbour, ang proceeded down Channel'
fur their different destinations. The Sappho, ABRIAN, for Ja-
maica, lost an anchor and cable yesterday, its getting out.
Ara, OCT. 26.—1 t is with extreme regret we learn, that, on
Taursday last,the Friend's Increase, of llu'ness, having on board
413 barrels of herrings, bound to Westport, in Ireland, sprung a
leak about five miles on the south side of the Craig Ailsa, and
went to the bottom. Fortunately the hands got into the small
boat before she went down ; but no part of the vessel or cargo
has yet been seen.
HULL, OCT. 30.—The Rebecca, AI:DIMON, from this Port,
last from St. Lucar, arrived at Malaga on the 6th of October,
where she had to perform 40 days' quarantine, on account of
the sickness prevailing at Cadiz.—The New Shoreham, Wirrox,
from Jersey, last from this Port, arrived at Whitby on Mon-
day, havhig split her mainsail.—The Samuel Barnett, Mee-
LAY, front this Port to Miramichi, was spoken with on the 20th
oh. in lat. 46. 39. long. 40. 38. by the Union, arrived at Chap-
stow.—The Fame, Ilistrere, front Sundswall to this Port, was
totally lost on the 39 inst. on Oreground, Gulf of Bothnia.
Crew and cargo saved. I'art of the crew arrived here yester-
day.—The Integrity, StremiRLAND of Scarborough, from Lie-
bau to London, with oats, got on Lessoe Island, on the 13th In-
stant, and received considerable damage, but was shortly after
got off; however, on the following day, the crew abandoned
net iu a siuking state, having eight feet water in the bold, and
were taken on board the Friends, Roroxsoa, from Memel to
Yarmouth, which vessel landed them at Scarborough on the
231 instant.—The Sally, Nltreourea, front Trinidad to this port,
put into Smerwick Harbour, near Tralee, on the 17th instant,
and was totally wrecked, in consequence of her cables breaking.
Out of twelve persons on board, eleven met a watery grave,
is sight of numerous spectators, who could use no exertions for
their delivery. Among the sufferers are John Nelig.in and
James Kennedy, two revenue officers, of Dingle, who had
• boasded the vessel but a short time before the accident. The
name of the man who escaped is George Forster. The Master
was on shore, for the purpose of purchasing stores for the vessel.
CURTJK-HOUSE" OCT. 31.—Ships Entered Inwards:—The Sa-
lamander, front Pillau ; Prince of Waterloo, from Ostend;
Lek, from Qaebec ; Bonito, from Christians; Skylark, front
Genoa ; Esther, from Gibraltar ; Louisa, from Liverpool; En-
deavour, front Archangel ; New Union, and Julie, front Calais;
Admiral Berkeley, front the South Seas; Twins, front Palau ;
and John and Isaac, from Gottenburgh.—Entered Outwards:
The Neptune, for Venice ' • Waterloo, fur Havannah ; City of
Edinburgh, fur Calcutta; Louisa, for Stettin; Nottingham, for
Gibraltar; Tees, for Buenos Ayres; and Elbe, for Hamburgh.
Cleared Outwards :—The Frew Metta, for Bremen ; Stanley,
Hive, Frederick, and Ann, for Jamaica ; George Ilibbert, for
Antigua; Redman, for St. Thomas's; Helen, for I/amburgh;
Harriet, for Odessa; and Hope, for Jersey.
ilmuven—At New York, the Albion, Williams; Hercules,
Cobb; Magnet, Agden ; Belfast, 'Thompson; and Duke of
Wellington, Watson, from Liverpool ; also, the Thames, Peek,
front London. At I'hiladelphia, Tontine, Turley; and Electra,
Rubinson, from London ; John, Thurston ; Bingham, Fleming;
William Penn, I lamilton; and Neptune, Fisher, from Liverpool.
At Charleston, Sybille, Belcher; Octavia, Wilson; and lama,
Berry, front Liverpool; also, the Susan, Pollock, front Belfast.
At Boston, Mercury, Nickels, from Liverpool.
VE..scas scones KITH.—The Isabella, NIC/I.ILS, from Liver.
pool to Rio Janeiro, out eleven days, in let. 33. 20. long. 26.
Marquis Wellington, from the Clyde to St. John's (N. B.), on
the 14th ult. in lat. 43. 40. long. 48. 10. Lune, front Liverpool
to Madeira, on the 28th, 43 miles west of Scilly ; and the Pallas,
grunt Liverpool to Gibraltar, on the 16th ult. in lat. 39.4. long. 10.

Yesterday, the Dukes of YORK and CLARENCE
visited the KING, at his Palace in Pall-Mall. _

The Bishop oe•ST. DAVID'S had an audience of his
EST Y yesterday.
Yesterday, the Duchess of GLOUCESTER had an
audience of his MAJESTY.

Copy of a letter from Lord lthuron to Alderman
WOOD, Treasurer of the Plate Corn tnittee : _ _

" Sm—The investigation into her 111... arm's conduct before
the louse of Lords, has now been brought to such a point as
bas satisfied me of the groundlessness of the opinion which I had,
in common with many other persons, formed of her behaviour,
and which deterred me, upon her arrival in England, from pay.
ig her those marks of respect which were naturally due to her
exalted station. 1 have now, therefore, to request that you will
take charge of the inclosed Subscription from Lady M. and my-
Self, to the Service of Plate intended to be presented to. her Ma.
acvnr.-.-1 have the honour to be Sir, he. (Signed)
" Wentworth, Oct. 1820. " MILTON."
Her MoJerrr sends expressly every e!ay to South
Audley-street, to inquire after the health of Alderman
WOOO, who has been attacked by a severe bilious
f4ver. Such is the anxiety manifested by all her
MAJESTY'S Household and foreign fiend,, for the
health of au individual who has so greatty distin-
guished liimsplias the zealous and disinterested friend
of her MAJewrv, that they call daily tO make per.
tonal inquiries after his heath. We are happy to say
tit: Mr. Alderman WOOD. is bekter, though slirn con-
nets to his roam,

THIEEVENIkG STAR.

LONDON.

•
'THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1820.
THE FUNDS.
met 07 STOOKS THIS DAY AT 0147 O'CLOCK :
Rol Stock 5115;—S per Cent. Reduced 67; 66; 6?
5 per Cent. Cons. 67/68 67};-3; per Cent. 76
4 per Cent. 951-5 per Cent. Navy 1044 104
Lang Annuities 17 7-16 I—lndia Bonds Ws.
South Sea Stock 751-11sekequer Bills 41.6/. pre.
Cons. forAcceunt 671 69 67; 1.

We are happy to announce that letters from Aber-
deen of the 29th October, announce the safety of
the HECLA and GRIPE Discovery ships. The Ellison
whaler, from Davis's Straits, spoke these vessels, on
their return, in lat. 4S° long. 69*, all well. They had
wintered in lat. 75° long. 145°.

THE QUEEN.

The House of Lords met again this morning.—
While waiting the arrival of our messengers from
the House, we shall devote a few minutes to the sub-
ject on which their Lordships ate this day again to
deliberate.

We need hardly observe, that the feelings of the
Public are at this moment in a state of high excite-
ment, and no small degree of anxiety oxpressed for
the result. Were it a common proceeding, such as
frequently comes before the " Courts below," there
could be but one conviction as to sentence ;• but
many, let us hope unjustlf, allege that on this most

momentous occasion, the same measures have been
and are employed, to influence and gain a majority,
as on a Bill for a Canal or for a Turnpike-road; and
calculators, acquainted with this peculiar species of
arithmetic, have even gone so far as to form an esti-
mate of the numerical strength of the parties, which
gives for its probable result
82 for the Qur.za,
92 for the enemies of her MAJESTY, and
45 doubtful. •

These, it is said, are all that can vote on this ques-
tion, some being abroad, some having been excused
attending, and all who did not attend every day of
the trial being excluded.
We ask, are these all that ought to be excluded ?
Have none disqualified themselves, by spreading
slanders against the Illustrious Accused while the
trial was pending? Mr. DEbMAN seemed to insinuate
something of this kind. Have none actually canvassed'
for votes against her MAJESTY? We do not affirm
that any have— we know our duty too well to ven-
ture to say so—but, if any have, they ought not
merely to be excluded from voting on this question,
but to be disqualified for ever sitting again as
Judges on any question whatever.
Is there any similarity between the present pro-
ceedings against the QUEEN of ENGLAND and those
against Louts XVI. which deprived that Monarch
of his life? Startle not, Reader I It is surely impos-
sible that any proceeding of a British House of Peers
can find a parallel in the history of the French Regi-
cides. 'We would be the last in the world to insinuate
the possibility; and the facts which we are about to
call to the attention of our Readers, will shew to the
conviction of every one, that no similarity whatever ex-
ists between the Court that tried the K ING of FRANCS,
and that aow sitting oq the QUEEN of ENGLAND.
In the Trial of Louts, one of his Counsel (flesEze)l
said If you will try your KING, I demand of
you, where are those established forms to which every
subject has an imprescziptible right? Where are the
two Juries (lures d'Accusat ion et de Jugement)—that
double pledge which the law gives to citizens, as the
guarantee of their safety? In a word, I demand
all those religious precautions which the law has
prescribed, that a citizen, even though guilty,
should not be punished but according to its award.
—Citizens, I will speak to you with the freedom
of a free man : I look amongst you for judges, and 1
see only accusers ! You would decide the fate of Louis,
and it is yon who accuse him ! You have already
declared your wishes; and_your opinions are sent all
over Europe. Louis, then, will be the only French-
man for whom there exists neither form nor law !"

Now, surely, no one will pretend that anything
similar to this has taken place in the moc:e of pro-
ceeding adopted against her MAJESTY : nor will any
one say that such language as the following is appli-
cable to those who are to decide whether the Bill of
Pains and Penalties shall be read a second time :
" You cannot be Judges, Ministers of the Law, Accusers,
Jury of Accusation, Jury for giving Judgment, Grand and Petit
Jury, having all, or almost all, of you given an opinion, and some
of you having done it with a scandalous ferosimuness I Let us
follow the simple, natural, imprescriptible, positive law, which
decides, that every accused person shall receive, upon his trial,
I all the advantages which the Laws of the country affurd Mau"-
4wech Of LANJIMIALS.
As these detestable proceedings relate only to the
execrated French Revolution, and do not apply to
our happy country, let us turn our eyes from such
disgusting anomalies to the regular proceedings in
our own Courts of Law, on questions like that now
before the Houte of Peers; not to see what are the
forms in the Courts below respecting the admission of
evidence, for these we have seen have been followed,
and: arc now done with—the evidence being closed ;
but to see the rules which guide the Judges in giving
his sentence,. afse; Qie evidence has been adduced,
and the parties hall been heard (by their Counsel);

on both sides:--and this is the more necessary as the
did& of precedent have tot been so fully quoted in
the proceedings as they might have beep. Let us
bear tra WILLIAM Scort in respect to the marriage
contract, in EVANS v. EIrANS :

Marriage is the most solemn engagement which one human
being can contract with another. It is a contract formed with
a view, not only to the benefit of the parties themselves, but to
the benefit of third parties; to the benefit of their common et.
spring, and the moral order of civil society. To this oontract is
superadded the sancdty of a religious vow, to which Heaven
itself is made a party. Mr. EVANS must be told that the oblige-
L dens of this contract are not to be relaxed at the pleasure of one
party. I may go farther; they are not to be lightly relaxed
even at the pleasure of both. Fee, if two persons have pledged
themselves at the Altar of Goo, to spend their lives together, for
purposes that reach much beyond themselves, it is a doctrine to
which the morality of the law gives no coontenance, that they
may, by pcivate contract, dissolve the bands of this solemn tie,
and throw themselves upon society in the undefined and dan-
gerous characters of a wife without a husband, and a husband
without a wife ! The law of this country, and of every Christian
country, does not allow a man to use the language—' I ►ill be
separated from my wife,' " &c.
And again, in the same case—

" Now, one cannot help observing, that taking it to be a cool,
deep.bid plan, to be pursued and Carried into effect in a secret
way, the scene fur the execution of suck a plan is as unhappily
chosen as can be. Everybody knows, that secrecy on beard a
ship is a thing not to be thought of. People cooped up in a ship
live, and are forced to live, in that state of miserable intimacy,
which makes almost everything that is done or said known to
every other person : there is, for a time (a very unhappy circum
stance it Is), almost a suspension of everything like personal
delicacy ; every word and every act is known to almost every
body. Now, to suppose that a man hi such a situation should
first think of opening a plan of this description, is to suppose that
he has nothing like common sense."---.

" Surely it is not a sufficient apology in such a case to say,
Ike it is a misfortune that it could not be proved because it is
a misimlnpe which must have been perfectly known, I appro.
bend, to tins petty, at the time when she inserted this article.
And I must says tbxt to blacken the records of the Court with
an accusation of so gram a nature, %without calling one witness
to support it, is taking something of a liberty with the Court,
and ii taking a pretty gross one indeed with the person who is
the subject of such an accusation."----
" It has been asked, and very properly asked, don't Courts of
Justice admit presumptive proof? Do you expect ocular proof
in all uses? I take the rule to be this :--If you have a criminal
fact ascertained, you may then take presumptive proof to shew
who did it ; to fix the criminal, having then an actual corpus
Spew me, then, in this case, that a crime has been com-
mitted, and I shall not be at a loss to fix the criminal : but to
take presumptions, in order to swell an equivocal fact—a fact
that is absolutely ambiguous in its own nature, into a criminal
fact, Is a mode of proceeding of a very different nature, and
would, I take it, be an entire misapplication of the doctrine of
presumptions. This fact, then, not being a criminal one upon
the face of it, and being subject to three or four different inter-
pretations, all of which are perfectly innocent, I think myself by
no means at liberty to say, that I ought, by presumption merely,
to make out this fact to be necessarily an act of delinquency.
" However, what weighs more with me than all this again, is.
what I perpetually resort to in this case, viz, the etidentia eel,
the conduct of the parties—that always arises in my mind.—
Upon any other supposition than innocence in this case, the con-,
duct of every person who appears in the business—the conduct
of the party, of the witness, of the agent—in short, the conduct
of every body, is the most unnatural that can be devised ; it is
directly the contrary of what every rational person in that sort
of situation would have pursued.
" Standing upon that ground, I trust he will act prudently
and generously, for generosity is prudence in such circumstances.
lie will do well to remember, that the person he cootaidt with
is one over whom victory is painful; that she- is one to whom
he is bound by every tie that can fasten the heart of one human
being to another; she is the partner of his bed—the mother of
his offspring; and, If mistakes have been committed (and griev-
ous mistakes have been committed most certainly in this suit),
she is still that person whose mistakes he is bound to cover, not
only from his own notice, but, as far as he can, from that of
every other person in the world."
• The case here alluded to, Sri War. ScoTT calls—

" An history very heavy and formidable in its commencement,
whilst it rests in mere allegation, but which grows weaker and
more budgrdficant every step as it advances towards proof.—
Comparing the charge and the proof, I think it, then, my duty
to discharge the debt which the justice of this Court owes to
the character of (the Quw) by declaring, that upon the most
careful and the most conscientious investigation of it, this pro-
secution, so far as it respects these facts, is unadvisedly and
unwarrantably broUght."
•
HOUSE OF LORDS, NOVEMBER 2.
PROCEEDINGS OF THIS DAY.
TRIAL OF HER MAJESTY.

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool-
sack a few minutes befote ten o'clock. Prayers were read by
the Bishop of Bristol, after which the list was called over.
Lord GAGE moved that the standing order of the House,
relative to the method of voting, should be read. This being done.
Lord HOLLAND said, the regular mode of proceeding
was for the names to be called over at the table, when each Peer
rises and answers to his name, and declares his vote, Content
or Non Content, standing up and uncovered ; the Lord Chancel-
lor then declares how be conceives the question has been decided,
and if any Peer is dissatisfied, the House may then be divided.
The Order of the Day was then moved.

The LORD CHANCELLOR.—" My Lords, the question
now about to be discussed by your Lordships, notwithstanding
all that has been said on the subject, is, whether this Bell shall
or shall not be read a second time ? I conceive, according to
the ordinary practice of the House, this is the only point for
your Lordship? consideration. In the ordinary course of pro-
ceeding on Bills somewhat resembling this—l mean Bills of
Divorce—proof of the allegation contained in the Bill is first
made, and if the individual occupying the woolsack is of °pi-
Won that the facts have been proved, and other Lords are
of a contrary opinion, then a debate arises upon it. Upon
looking into the precedents .of your Lordship? house, you
may be assured, beyond all doubt, that although the pream-
ble of the Bill be proved before the second reading, it is corn-
petent for the House to amend the preanibil,"and that has been
done in many, very many cases. The House, if it deems it
expedient, may even introduce a new preamble; but it is my
opinion, that no alt ration of the preamble, or the allegations,
can be made, unless for the purpose of mitigating them. In
addressing your Lordships on this subject, I can assure you,
with the utmost sincerity, that nothing whatever would in-
duce me to trouble you, did I not feel that I could not
at all avokt it, without a dereliction of my public duty.
would not ova 44.0 any part in this e►quiry did not a bi:ust of

impel me; end I declare to 0.. I Jo it with the utmost

pia and reluctance. I say no onan can vote for this Bill unless Le
thinks the substantial parts of the preamble proved ; and mole*
I think the adulterous intercourse has bens proved, I cannot,
candendousii, give my vote for it. In giving my opinion, I
shall not deem it necessary to examine the evidence merlin dr.
mil. My duty is net to soot tip, bet only to state are "info.
We are all Judge,. an Jurors, am, An not proceed on the prin.
el* of summing up the evidence, but for communicadne
to each other our opinions, and discussing the same. Muth
has been said on the subject of a Bill of Pains and Pena.
ties, and it has been often repeated that they can only be
justified when the safety of the country requires that they should
be resorted to. nut not to go further. back than the Resolu-
tion, them have been since that period several Bills of Pain.;
and Penaltks, where no such necessity existed. I have stated
more than once, in the course of these proceedings, that a Bid!
of Pains and Penalties, if properly conducted, is more favourable
—(1 do not make any observation on its constitutional or moue
*Wisdoml character)—is more favourable to the accused. I mc..,
if it is proceeded in according to the rides of law and evidence .
In proceeding by Impeachment, the House of Commons de.
fides on eeparte evidence, and one single vote can decide whe.
they an Impeachment shall take place or not : and if the House
so decide, If has no remedy in itself. In a Bill of Paint
and Penalties, examinations take place on both sides of the
question, and in both Houses, so that an error committed one
day, may be rectified the next. But it has bees; said we
are submitting the judgment of this House to that of the
House of Commons; this is the case in all Bills of Divorce.
It bad been made another cause of complaint, that her Majesty
had not been furnished with a specification of the charges, and a
fist of the witnesses. But bow could the charges, se a list of
the witnesses, be more effectually furnished, than by producing
them at the bar, and then postponing the defence till such period
as the defendant herself chose ? lie admitted, as he had before,
IN the case of lintel, admitted, that great advantages are to be
gained by an immediate cross-examination of witnesses; bet
these were far more than counterbalanced by the immensity of
advantage given to the defendant by such postponement of the
defence. The House were also bound to keep in mind that impoe-
taut principle of British jurisprudence, that, in every ease of sens-
ation, that accusation was no proof of guilt; that the party may
be lament, and ought to be held to be innocent, until clearly
proved to be guilty. Their Lordships would, therefore, dismiss
every prepossession from their minds, and judge of the case sok ly
from the evidence before them. Ile admitted that there might
have been—that their Lordships might lake it u his opiniou
that there had beeu—a much greater facility in the product
tion of witnesses for the prosecution than in support of the de-
fence. Of that circumstance the accused party ought, of
course, to have the benefit. He admitted also that there might
have been corrupt endeavours to procure evidence, and that was
another circumstance of which the accosed ought doubtless to
have the benefit, not only as regarded the witnesses who were
the objects of that corruption, but as regarded others, on whoa&
it might throw a reasonable suspicion. He had, in farming his
own opinion, given all these considerations their full weight.—
The way in which their Lordships should look at the questions
was this :—Whether, laying aside all testimony that could be sus.
petted, and taking together the evidence which was unsuspected
ea the part of the prosecution, and the testimony in answer, wish
the negative evidence, or want of evidence, which might have
been produced—does it or does It not support the allegation of an
adulterous intercourse having existed between her Majesty and
Bergand ?He had so put the case to himself, and fir spree
to him—he was sorry to say it, but he could drew no whet
conclusion, than that—thee hod hem on adulterous insineuree
between her Majesty and Bergson. (Strong maths of sit
throughout the House). His Lordship did not care although the
wltiole evidence of Majocchi and De Mont were discarded;
he would only ask their Lordships to accompany Mtn while be
took a short survey of the circumstances attending her *Majes-
ty's voyage to the Holy Land. Who went on board the Poise.
ea with her Majesty ? Echiavini, Hownam, Flynn, Austin,
Countess of Oldi, kr,. If the simple issue which their Lord-
ships had to say war, whether her Majesty and &nand had
slept under the same owning or tent, could any man have a
doubt as to the result of the evidence? In the first place their
Lordships had the evidence of Gupta) the captaiNand Puerto
the mate of the vessel. No other observation had been made
on the evidence of these persons, except that they had been
paid a large sum of money as a compensation for coming here.
Is his opinion that was a matter of Rutz or no coosequeay.
There was no compulsitory process to bring ;hem to this
country; and it was well known that fauvism witnesses were
.never to be procured unless ilberelly paid. Wow, wIPMsiPt
the fact of the sleeping under the tent to ho proved by these
witnesses, could their Lordship; possibly believe that, if any of
the numerous persons who slept below could have proved the
reverse, that they would net have been produced ? Could their
Lordships believe that, if Bergami had slept below during the
period when it was alleged he slept under the test with her
Majesty, it would not have been incontrovertatlly established ?
The fact, however, of sleeping under the tent was one thing,,
and the existence of an adulterous intercourse another. In
coming to a conclusion on this point, their Lordships would
look to other circumstances—to the fact of the contiguity

of the be is at almost every place whcie her Majesty. so-
journ (1.43 the extraordinary circumstance of the eleva-
tion of Bergami, and all his family--and partieuhrly to the
introduction of Bergand's sister, the Countess of Oldi, as her
sole Lady of Honour. They were always to keep in mind,
that ocular evidence of the adulterous connection was not
to be looked for; it was enough that there were such cit.-
ffinststances as led, in every reasonable mind, to the inference
of guilt. The Noble and Learned Lord proceeded to animad-
vert with acuteness on the evidence of Lientestanto Flynn and
Hownam, as contrasted with the evidence for the prosecu-
tion, as to the circumstances on board the polacca. Why
had not Schiavini been called? He it was wbo gave the
orders to Oarguilo and Puerto; and- if they could be con-
tradicted, he was the man to do it. Could there be found
in the evidence the slightest trace of necessitg? But, sup-
posing there had at any time existed a, necessity, what was the
meaning of having the tent shut of at different periods of
the day, and when the weather was calm—when there was
net a breeze? Where was the necessity of having the tent
closed then, with the Queen and Bergami inside? Now, let
their Lordships look to those wbo had been called to contradict
this part of the evidence, and form a fair and rational comparison.
Let their Lordships look to the communication between_ the

awning on the deck and the place—to the uneontradicted
clezee of the Captain upon that point—as to whether it wits
open or shut. Why bad not the persons who had slept di-
rectly below the place been called to deny that fact? In
Eases of this nature, where the act had not been seen, an
inference must be drawn from a combination of the &cum-
staneei. Now, U their Lordships would look to the case at
Aum, making what allowance they pleased fur the necessity en
board the polacca, what necessity existed for the regulation at
Aum? What possibly could be the necessity for the istrode:-
don of a person into the tent, inclosed by soothes tent, in the
latter of which Theodore Aiajocchi and another servant ,lent

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at each side? There was no wins( there that readeted the
presence of Bergami necessary, there was no heeling, no tossing Of
the ship up and down, to command his attendance upon his
m:,!ress. Let their Lordships only look to the Management as
to the contignitY of the sleeping apartments, from the dine of
:I,c arrival at Naples to the retarn frOm the long voyage, and
say what the meaning of that management was. Why had not
the persons who might, if contradiction could be given, have
contradicted that very powerful fact ? Then the promotion
of Bergami! Great indeed 'was the difference bersten pro-
motion of a faithful servant, after a long life of service, and
the sudden prornothni of a man who bad not distinguished him-‘
slf by any. It was one of the greatest blessings of this glorious
Constitution, that a man could arrive at the greatest honours by
the performance of sighal benefits ; but here was a person who
had not only been elevated himself for nothing, but whose family
l'ad been elevated through his means for services of the same
value. M. Sicard, who had given his evidence with great pro-
priety, knew that Bergami had been in the employment, but
be knew nothing more. hit. Craven hoped that he would be
promoted, and Sir William Gen said he was to be gradually
advanced! Gradually advanced! Now, let the gradual 'ad-
vancement be looked at. Was there ever so rapid an ele-
vation? Not only litrgami himself, but every one of his family,
had been raised to an extraordinary height. All, with in-
deed one exception—his wife ! Now, by combining this cir-
cumstance with the unimpeached testimony of eight or nine
witnesses, as to the indecent familiarities, and adding to those
the possession of time, place, and opportunity, which certainly
existed, their Lordships would be led to a, conclusion which, to
him, appeared inevitable. Why had not Bergami himself been
produced? There were casts in which the person charged
with having been concerned was produced. Major Hook was
called; but here there was an absence of a person, who
seas under such obligations as never man before was under.
As to the evidence of what took place at Senegaglia, he con-
sidered that kreconcikable with truth in many parts, and

therefore he dismissed it altogether from his memory. So
also with respect to Trieste. When he heard of the dis-
tribution of the transactions there into six days, and found
that the Queen had nut been there half the time, he alto-
gether dismissed that case from his mind. But then there
was Barbara Kress, who had spoken to circumstances to which
there had been no contradiction; except the evidence of Vassall
was considered such—and that evidence was rather strange, for
he had mot said a word in opposition, until the Counsel for the
Queen bad helped bins to fill up the vaczncy. Vassali's evi-
dence be looked to with great jealousy. Now, as to Catania :
taking all the witnesses together, and coupling all that passed
at A um, in the polacca, and at Carisruhe, with what occurred
at Catania, no inference could be drawn from such a chain but
an adulterous intercourse had taken place. One word more
a:.l he shouid have done. As to what had passed out of doors,
he should take no notice of that, for he must be supposed to
know nothing of it. But whatever he might think of what was
said, he should conscientiously do his duty. He had beard from
that bar what it had given him great sorrow to hear—something

like a threat to their Lordships—(Hear). Whatever might be the
opinion out of doors, he would take upon him to say, that the con-
duct he alluded to, was never consistent with the duty of an Ad.
vocate, and the threat ought to have no effect upon the decision
of their Lordships!—(hear hear). They stood there to protect
the liberty, the character, and the lives of their fellow-subjects,
and he would not hesitate to say to them, " Be just and fear
riot." They would do their duty, and leave the rest to the wis-
dom and justice of GOD !
Lord ERSKINE agreed with the Noble and Learned Lord
nn the Woolsack, that their Lordships ought to come to the
discussion with temper and firmness, that they should not suffer
themselves to be influenced by any extraneous causes, but that
they should be jest, and fear not ! He would go still farther,
and say that their Lordships should be prepared to do justice at
any hazard, and to adopt, as the rule of their conduct, fiat jas-1
firma runt =him ! He (Lord Erskine) did not know how to I
discharge his duty better to their Lordships than by laying
his breast open to them, and stating his opinion on those
proceedings. Before the commencement of this business, and
on the death of his late Majesty, he was at some distance
from town, and heard with surprise, that the first step that
was taken was to strike the name of her Majesty out of
the Liturgy and thus deprive her of the Prayers of the
Church ! And yet the Learned Lord on the Woolsack, who
had just sat down, had declared, that no person should be pre-
sumed guilty before trial,_and that the scales of Justice should
be held even ! However much he might condemn such a pro-
ceeding, he certainly then thought that the Ministers must
have had so strong a case against her Majesty as to render her
guilt evident beyond the possibility of a doubt. When he
came to the Houle, he found laying on their Lordships' table
the informations on which this inquiry had been founded; and
a determination to proceed by a Rill of Pains and Penalties, be-
ceuse, as was stated by a Noble Earl opposite, the crime of adul-
tery was not treason, when committed with a foreigner beyond
seas. The charges bad been sent down to the House of Commons,
where they refused to inquire into them; and would any man
now say a Bill of Pains and Penalties was the proper mode of
proceeding, when the House of Commons refused to proceed
in the inquiry at all ? The House of Commons came to a
resolution, that such an inquiry was derogatory to the ho-
-tour of the Crown, and injurious to the morals of the
people. When this Resolution had passed, the House imme-
diately determined to address her Majesty, to accept the
terms offered her of a compromise ; but she, with that firm-
ness and consciousness of innocence which she possessed, deter- I
rained on putting herself on her trial in the House of Lords.—
What should have been the duty of Ministers, but to restore
her Majesty's name to the Liturgy, and, according to the re-
cemmtndation of the Noble Lord on the Woolsack, suffer no
prejudice to go against her Majesty until she was proved guilty.
Would it be said that depriving the Queen of the Prayers of
a whole l'eople was not declaring her guilty—it was doing
more—it was punishing her ! What were their Lordships doing
now—debating on reading the Bill a second time, only to read it
a third time, and then send it down to the House of Commons
that had alrealy decided against all inquiry on the subject. He
(Lord Erskine) was afraid of the consequences of the two Houses
being at issue on this question. The Houk of Commons were
the Representatives of the People ; and, after they had declared
that there was no round for impeachment or inquiry, but that
they believed the Queen innocent, how could their Lordships send
that Bill down to them and request they would inquire into what
they hadpreviously decided not to inquire? The Noble Lord con-
tended that there was no ground for proceeding by a Bill of
Pains and Penalties, since the charge against her Majesty was
high clime and misdemeanour, for which she might have
• -ea uied by constitutional means. As this had not been
case, if he believed the Queen as guilty as from the
he believed her innocent, he would vote against the
because an unconstitutional mode of proceeding was
nn.o, where a constitutbalal one was open. I must ,said
Noble Lord (Erskine) soon terminate my life ; but happy
s! 41 Ibe if I die advocating these great constitutional prin.
:71,5, the vindicating of which, in early life, raised me from the
rauk of an humble individual—Left speaking.

This morning the Paris Papers of Monday came'
to hand. On Sunday morning. a tire broke out in
rite cellars beneath the New Exchange, occasioned,
i* is believed, by the carelessness of some of the
workmen, which did considerable damage. These
ripen present no other topic of interest.