Star.
London, England, 1820-09-06 00:00:00

LONDON.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6. 1820.
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It is understood that, yesterday, after the adjourn-
ment of the House of Lords, the KING'S Ministers
went to his MAJESTY in his retreat in Windsor Great
Park. The purport of their audience we pretend not
to divine. Rumour, indeed, says, that as the great
body of the evidence for the prosecution is new
drawing to a close, they desire to take his MA-manes
pleasure as to the further proceeding on the Bill.
Whether it is meant by this that they will submit to
his MAJESTY, that the evidence has not clearly proved
all the facts set forth in the Inquisition at Milan ; and
that though his MAJESTY and his confidential ser-
vants conceived that they had sufficient grounds
for submitting the cause to public inquiry, the
evidence does not justify them in persevering, and
particularly with respect to the Divorce Clause.—
This, however, is only the report of the day—and it
does not seem worthy of credit, because, undoubtedly,
to persevere in the Bill without the clause of divorce,
would leave his MAJESTY in a worse situation than
that in which they found him before the production
of the Green Bag, since it would amount to this—
Before, there were Only rumours and suspicions of
indecorum and levity; but we have put them on re-
cord. We propose, therefore, by the Bill, to degrade
her, but in this degraded state she is to remain your
MAJESTY'S Consort, and in passing the Bill, your
MAJESTY will have to give the assenting nod—" Le
Roi le vent

Another report is, that the ATTORNEY anSI SoLc-
CITOR-GENEIAL mean to ask for an interval of five
days, as they expect other witnesses, and particu-
larly one, from whom they trust they shall draw a
strong incident which he witnessed at Lugano. If
this should not be granted, the case for the prosecu-
tion will close this day, and the SOLICITOR-GENERAL
may proceed to sum up.

The evidence given yesterday by Signor Giztseppi
Sacchi, alias Sacchini, alias Milani, alias ******, has
caused much speculation. Philosophers are anxious
to learn the new law of physics brought to light by
this new Professor—namely, how any person's hand,
that person being asleep, can, without glue, or any
other kind of fastening, support itself above the
centre of gravity ?—how—that person not being in a
state of volition—his or her hand can be suspended,
and not seek the lowest point of rest, without any
artificial means being employed to prevent the usual
effect of the law of gravitation ! And still further,
supposing one individual to possess this singular
faculty, by what means the same power could be
communicated to another? for this very circum-
stance increases the miracle a thousand-fold at least.'
Another part of this person's evidence also deserves
particular notice. At one place—the name of which
the witness could not recollect—having inquired for
the PRINCESS and BERGAMI, and had it pointed out
to him, he knocked at the door, and was told he
might come in:—" I saw (said he) the PRINCESS
and BERGAMI on the bed; but they were decently
dressed, mid at a distance from each other." 4g How
were they seated on the bed ?"—" They were lying
on the bed, as far as the middle, and their backs
leaning or resting against the wall."—The simple
fact is this : they were using the bed as a sopha, sit-
ting upon it ; but this person chooses to call this pos-
ture of the sitting-part and legs, " lying." Why ?
Were he not such a respectable personage—called
by some a Count—we would say he thought the words
" bed" and "lying on it," better suited to the com-
plexion wished to appear on the face of his evidence.

After what has been stated, we need say nothing
farther concerning the credibility of this philosopher's
evidence, who saw people keep their hands compa-
ratively aloft, while asleep 1 and asleep too iu a car-
riage jolting along a public road!!
Another circumstance occupies a considerable por-
tion of tho public attention at this time. A few days
ago, as our Raiders will recollect, Mr. Baouom..m

took occasion to Solite that A* *Mt if ills prom
cation now carrying on against the Quarts was in
a more thriving *condition than that of her MA-
JESTY, with respect to pecuniary means, Lord Ltvnit-
Poor. expressed surprise at such a remark, which- his
Lordship thought the more extraordinary, inasmuch
as Mr. BaoueaAM knew that unlimited TESOIMCES,
were placed at the Qintex 's disposal, in drder to carry
through her defence, and that even £lO,OOO had
just been granted, en the signing of a certificate by her
Meszsty's Counsel that such a sum was necessary
for seeking up witnesses wherever her MAJESTY had
been, and forwarding them to England. Would not
any one have concluded from this, that thitmoney had
been then advanced to her MAJESTY, to assist in the ex-
penses of her defence. Lord LIVERPOOL must himself
have believed this at the time : but, mark the fact. On
the day after this remark fell from Lord LIVERPOOL,
the certificate, signed by her MAJESTY'S Counsel, ap-
peared in a Ministerial Paper (afterwards copied into
all the others), stating that ten thousand pounds were
needed towards the expense of her MAJESTY'S de-
fence; and this publication was the first notice which
the Queues Counsel had, that their certificate had
received any attention. Mr. BROUGHAM'S statement
was made on the 28th ult. and by way of paying
him a handsome compliment for candour, it was
published that the money had actually been paid on
the 26th— and yet up to last night, not one farthing
of the £lO,OOO had been advanced ; no, nor even the
receipt of the certificate acknowledged, except by
publication in the Newspapers. So much for the
candour exercised towards her MAJESTY and her
Legal Advisers —so much for the facilities afforded
to her MAJESTY to repel the calumnies of her enemies!
It is also known that none of the monies previously
advanced towards her MaJr.srv's defence were given
without an undertaking that every part of them
should be accounted for to the Lords of the Trea-
sury, with a detailed particular of every item : not a
single sixpence can be expended which is not subject
to their inspection ; and yet the very journals who
daily calumniate her MAJESTY, more than insinuated
that the £lO,OOO (not yet paid) was being squandered
away in suborning witnesses for her MAJESTY!!—
We may surely be allowed to ask, whether the monies
expended and expending for the prosecution are to
be submitted to a proper examination of the items,
before any but the accusers themselves and their own
proper agents?
Every lay brings forward new facts respecting
the kind of witnesses brought against her MAJESTY.
See Sir Cita arzs WOLSELEY'S Letter, given in a pre-
ceding column, and the article entitled " Milan Com-
mission Courier," given in our fourth page.]

HOUSE OF LORDS.
EIGHTEENTH DAY'S PROCEEDINGS.
At ten o'clock Prayers were read, and the roll
having been called over,
Lord KENYON rose and said, that seeing a No-
ble Earl (Liverpiol) in his place, he now begged to
make the two motions of which he had yesterday
given notice. He would not detain the House with
repeating the reasons on which he grounded these
motions, but content himself with observing, that,
considering the strong public feeling which existed
on the subject, he thought the House would not be
doing their duty if they did not afford to the Pub-
lic the fullest information as to everything regard-
ing it. The Noble Lord concluded with making his
motions :

lit. For Copies of all Correspondence between his Majesty's
Government and her Majesty's Advisers, on the subject of pecu-
niary Supplies, since the month of June last.

2dly. For an Account of all Supplies of Money made to htr
Majesty, since her arrival in this country.

Lord KING observed, that the motions submitted
to the House only applied to the expenses on one side
of the pending inquiry ; but, in his opinion, the
House ought to inquire into the expenses of the whole
transaction. It must have been very evident to those
who bad attended to the evidence given at their
Lordships' Bar, that large sums of money had been
received by several witnesses—as much, indeed, had
been distinctly confessed—and it was important to
know by what authority these payments had been
made, and from what funds they had come. There
could be no doubt whatever that the expenses
of these proceedings against her Majesty must alto-
gether form a sum of great magnitude, and it was
not right that so much of the public money should
be thrown away without the strictest enquiry being li
made into the manner of its expenditure. It was,
above all, of essential importance that the Public ,
should be satisfied that proper means have been fur-
nished to her Majesty to prepare for her defence, not
merely means of a pecuniary nature, but all other
means which may be necessary to compel the appear-
ance of witnesses. It was true that the House had
received the most solemn assurances from the Minis-
ters for the Cr3wn, that every aid and facility would
be afforded to her Majesty to bring witnesses from
abroad, and no doubt this would apparently be the
fact ; letters might be written to foreign Courts, de-
siring their interposition in behalf of her Majesty's
agents; but what surety had the House that these
letters might not, like other letters they had heard
of at the bar, be double entendre:, asking one thing,
but really desiring something very opposite. The
House and the Public ought to be satisfied that her
Majesty really had all the means ensured to her,
/MIMI were requisite for her defence; it was not
enough that there was the shew of everything, they

ought to be convinced that all that was promisel
had been realised.

Lord LIVERPOOL bad no objectiot to the mo-
tions of the Noble Lord ; and, as to the obserratiolt
made by another Noble Lord opposite, he would
(only say, that at the proper time there would rot
11* the least difficulty in laying before Parliament art
account of every hem of expenditure connected wit:-;
the presenttransaction, though at present such 3
account could obviously riot be rendered without tl
greatest inconvenience.
The Marquis of BUCKINGHAM rose merely t,
observe, that as her Majesty had no responsible ad-
visers, the words of the first part of the motion
would require, in that respect, to be altered. Per•
haps it would do to substitute the words—" Het
Majesty's law servants."
Lord LAUDERDALE thought that any accout
of expenses connected with the present proceed-
ing ought to embrace the whole expenses, as wet!
on one side as on the other. He doubted whetitc:
he ought to agree to so limited a motion as that
before the House.

Lord DARNLEY agreed with the Noble Lord
(Lauderdale) who had just spoken, as to the propriety
of having an account of the whole expenses. The
costs of the pending inquiry could not be otherwise
than •ery great; and to satisfy the public mind the
fullest account of them should be furnished. If a
motion to that effect had been before the House, his
Lordship would have agreed to it ; as it was, how.
ever, he could not but give his hearty assent to the
motion of the Noble Lord (Kenyon) for information
as to so much of the transaction.

The LORD CHANCELLOR suggested, that
stead of the words u Her Majesty's Advisers," 44 Hcr
Majesty's Counsel and Agents" should be substituted.
Lord KENYON agreed to this alteration.
The first part of the motion, in this amended shape.,
was then put.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said the Contents
had it.

Lord LAUDERDALE thought the Non-coatents
had it, and demanded a division.
The House then divided, when the numbers were,
Contents 133
Non-contents - 73

Majority foe the Motion .
The second part of the motion was then also put,
and adopted without a division,

The LORD CHANCELLOR now repeated the
grounds of the objection made yesterday to certain
questions put by the Attorney-General, and objected
to by Mr. Brougham, in the course of the re-exatni-
nation of Sacchi. His Lordship suggested, that the.
opinion of the Judges should be asked as to two points:
First, Whether an answer having been elicited on a
cross-examination, relative to a confession made by
a witness in a conversation with a third person, the
witness may be re-examined as to the conversation
preceding that confession, and which led to it?—
Secondly, W hether a question may be asked in re
examination, as to the conversation subsequent to
that confession ? (which appeared in our raper of yes,
terday). These points were submitted to the consi-
deration of the Judges, who immediately retired to
consult.

Mr. BEM/GUAM requested their Lordships would
permit him, while the Judges were occupied in con-
sultation, to advert to a circumstance of which he
had great reason to com plain. He was at ally times
unwilling to complain of errors in the Press, knowing
the incOnveniencies and difficulties which those en-
gaged to report the proceedings, had to encoun-
ter ; but he had to complain of the abuse of all
the bounds which were universally pmcsibed.—
He thought proper to address their Lordships with
reference to a gross and flagitious misrepresentatiori

not with the view of punishing, but of warning. In
giving the evidence of yesterday, one of the Morn-
ing Papers made-. a most flagitious mistatement--a
mistatement flagitious in its motive and purpose.. In
answer to the following question by the Attorney-
General—" Did any conversation take place between
you and Marietti at that ti me, relative to your being
a witness on the p resent occasion r—the Morning
Paper to which he alluded, bad given the following
as the witnesses answer :

When he told Marietti that he was going against the Princess,
Marietti told him that Mr. Brougham, brother to her Royal
tress's Counsel. had said he would bestow favours on those who
would not go.

The course of proceeding that struck him as most
necessary to be adopted, if such an answer had been
given by the witness, was, that their Lordsbips should
suspend all inquiry, and have Marietti brought before
them, to give evidence of so daring an attempt upon
the part of an individual to tamper with an evidence•
But the answer to the question put by his Learned
Friend, was not at all similar to that which was said
by this Paper to have been given by the witness. It
was as follows :

Marktti came to me in the morning, and told me, that ane"
titer Marietti had told him, that /dr. Brougham's broth(
(brother to the Counsel for the Queen), had desired him, aril
as Marietti had received some favours of those two brothers"--
-He (Mr. Brougham) then interrupted the witness,
as deviating from the strict line of evidence, and no
'further communication took place relative to that
subject. Now he would submit to the House, whe-
ther ever a more gross or flagitious mistatement had
been made in a Court of Justice, and he trusted
that their Lordships would enable him, by making
inquiry into this business, to clear himself from