Star.
London, England, 1820-08-29 00:00:00

TO THE EDIT OR Or THE STAR.

Lou:10n, Augugt 35.
I was yesterday present at the House of Lords,
and during the whole period of the sitting I paid
particular attention to the proceedings which tool
place. I had already entertained great doubts as to
the fidelity of the various interpretations ; but I cer-
tainly was not prepared to hear such innumerable
mistakes—such confused blundering translations of
the English into Italian, and of the Italian into Eng-
lish—as were now exhibited to my astonished facul-
ties. Not having had the means of taking written
memoranda, it is not now in my poer to point out
the whole, or even the fiftieth part, of the errors to
which I allude ; so for the present it must suffice for
me to state the following two or three, which, I
•doubt not, will be deemed of some importance:
It had resulted from the evidence of Majochi, of
Petruzzo the mate, and of Vincenzo Garzullo, the
captain of the ship, in which the Princess was ern-
barked, that from the deck, and from within the
tent under which the Princess and Bergami are said
to have placed their sofas or couches, there existed a
stair or steps communicating with the dining cabin
below, which dining cabin vas open to the ingress
of every person in the vessel, and in which Theodore
Majochi, when not confined to the hold from being
always, continually ill (" sempre non sano") occa-
sionally slept. Gaetano Petruzzo, the mate, deposes
that Camera slept in the cabin which was contiguous
to, and communicated with, this dining-room, which
was thus a place of resort and publicity. In the exa-
mination of the captain, Vincenzo Garzullo, at which'
I was present yesterday, the Solicitor-General put
the f0110...s ing question to him :
46 Was there any mode of going into the dining-
room from the body of the vessel, save by that door
which was open near Bergami ?"—" There was ; the
end of the ladder from the deck went into it, and
the door which led to Bergami's room."
" Ask him whether the ladder went directly down
into the dining-room,.or was there a door at the foot
of it ?"—" The ladder came into the room ; but at
the top of the hatchway was a dcor, which, when
willing-- ( A laugh ),—nligllt be shut op."
" You mean, to close the hatchway ?"—" Yes, to
close the hatchway, stop all communication that way."
" When that hatchway was closed, was there any door
into the room ?—No." To the first of these questions
the witness answered—" Si, c'era tura piceola scala the
calava gi t dalla coperta sotto la tende, nella camera da
mangiare—non c'era porta, ma in cima della scala c'era
'ma vetrina, the si levava a volonta." From this the
interpreter Made out " that there was a ladder, and
at Me top alike ladder there was a hatchway, which
Might, when willing (a volonta !), be shut up—co-
vered up I"
It may not be necessary, on this occasion, to quar-
rel with the translation of the word srala into ladder,
for, throughout the examinations of the Captain and
the Mate, it is generally rendered by " stair" or
" steps," and the choice will not be so fatal to the
original meaning in this instance as in the one where
I remember a French translator of a Latin author
tells us that a buffoon " danced up stairs" instead of
danced upon a ladder. It will be remembered, how-
ever, that a communication by a stair may be-consi-
dered as snore permanent, and better established,
than by a ladder. •
The translation of the word wiring into " hatch-
way," which was literally the case, and the conjuring
up a " door" to this hatchway, is surely more impor-
tant ; for vetrina means a small moveable glass co-
vering or case, through which, not only conversation
might be overheard, but Majochi and Camera, who
slept beneath it, Petruzzo who " often entered the ,
dining-room of a morning to see it cleaned," or any
• other person in the ship, might also have seen into
the tent in which it is stated that the Princess and
Bergami reposed in their clothes on their respective
couches. The question " when that hatchway was
closed, was there any door into the room?" and the
answer to it " No," was an evident misunderstanding,
for throughout the whole evidence one of the dining-
room doors is declared la have been left open, 'and
this is, indeed, mentioned in the first question I have
above quoted.
The Solicitor-General asked the Captain, Garzullo,
if, s' Upon all occasions, when the Princess went be-
low, was she .or not accompanied by Bergami ?
Always, not only for the bath, but iOr e*.crything she
had to do—for any other thing she did."
44 Were there any other occasions which rendered
it necessary for the Princess to go below ?—The
greatest reason was for going tb the —, which
was below,"

" And for whatever purpose the Princess went
below, she was accompanied by Bergami ?—Yes."
Here is a misunderstanding that I scarcely thiiik
myself warranted in allud.nz to ; and 1, certainly

-shouldnot have held any refutation to be recess ry,
had I not) the very moment it was received, had auri-
cular proof of the malicious exultation and beastly
avidity with which some of the ci mpany near me at
the time gorged their appetites wilt suckgarhatte.
On the first of these questions beitig pat-as above,
Gar z aoonedue aced >.;pap ol hat, arm w e red " Yes."
"Si per it bsgno, e per tutte issue operazioni—per tuft'
i sus: sfari." Ile was then esked by the Interpreter,
" if there were any other, and on vhat other occa-
sions, was she obliged to go below :=" " Per the
altri afari—in the altrc occasioni, era el.'a oldigata di
ander solo copertar The witness answered, he
knew of acne but to go to which was below.
Now, after a pause t)'e last question was put to him,
" And for whatever purpose,' &c. loc. • Now, from
the pause which had intervened, aj well as from the
manner in which the question was tendered by the
Interpreter, the witness took it to be a mere repetition
of the first, without any connexion %\ ith the second.
or with the gross assumition which the intermgatcr
intended: so he accordingly answered " yes.''
The 31Iarquis of Linsdown asked the same witness:
whether, while the Princess was ou board the ship, he.
ever ordered or desited the men, or any of the !lien, to
withdraw from that part of the.dedt where she and
Bergami were? To which the.lnterpreter gave the
following answer :—" Once I remember to have seed
the Princess sitting with Bergami or, the bed, and to
have ordered the Mate (Petruzzo) to go ray; as ie
was nct decent for him to be present. He being a
young man; I sent him awa), tot to see that I, hich.
was-Indecent.' NoW the Witness clearly stated, that"
the Princess was leaning or stooping ever the bed
speaking to Bergami.• 44. eindi:urva sopra it tette
verso Bergami," and that he (the tvititess) ordered Pe-
truzzi) away front the spot, because it was not be-
coming, or proper, or decent, for him, Pctrtt=o, to
stand staring or listening about the Prince s. He
added, that he frequently ordered his men to different
pat ts of the ship, whenever he observed them staud.
staring or listening near the Princess or Bergami.
Quando s' incantavano sicino la Principessa e Ber-
gami;" because, he added. such behaviour was inde-
cent, indecorous, improper in them (the crew)! A
very different meaning this.
At this juncture the same witness was asked by a
Peer, whether on this particular occasion—that
when, as above stated, the Princess was lerihil!gever
the couch of Bergami, and when witness ordered
the mate to withdraw—whether, at that very junc-
ture the Princess gave orders tor the arvitin..l; or te:-t
to be lowered and closed up ? This questn.n %vie; Sa
put to the witness, that he most evidently took it to
be a mere repetition of the one he had already several
times answered in the affirmative, that is. whet!...--,
when the Princess and Bergami were tinder the ter.t,
&c. in the day-time, they ever ordered it to be closed
up ; to he consequently answered—Yes.
On another occasion, the satire witness being asked
by a Peer, whose name I do not know, -I ‘Le-_i:er
he had any means of knowing if Bergami were
away, or whether the hatchway was shut or not after
the tent was dosed," the interpreter gave for answer,
" I cannot say whether the hatchway was- shut or
not; what I cat say is, that in the morning vhea
the tent was opened, I. se* the hatchway elosed."—..:
Now in this instance the Witness really said,Th.it
on being present at the iirstAtiening of ite tent; he'
had seen sweehnatilr s
have seen
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, i,uattrthat he remembered
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4-vata ; ma mi gicordo, (rover& veduta clause. •
The foregoing specimens of accurate hiterpretatiat .
I leave to. others to comment upon, if of
they shnuldise'dee' mea worthy. 'I refrain froth men--
tiotting a host errors, istit less reittarkable,ltnint
fear of extending this letter to an tnireceivabheienstk •
I am, Sir, your obedient huinble servant, - P.
. .

lintel Twelve o'Clack To-leiglic.—.As. Ole
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BIRTH 4.

At hia Lordship's house in 1E.:cc...1L:14i Pismilos of Rose►
berry, of a daughter.
Thursday, at Winchester, the Lady of the Rev. Limn, of
daughter.
Titrsee, at Nun.Monkton, the Lady of the Ffon. Henry
Butler, of a daughter.
: On the 19th iust. at Apley Rork, in Somarsetsbire, the L:iy
of Thomas ‘Vhitmore Fsq. 11. P. of a daughter.
The Lady of the Rev. Mr. Tripp, of Westergate,
of a dz.ugl.ter.

MARRIEU.
Thrrsday, in Ripon, Minster ('harks Oxley, Esq. of flirter.
to Mies Waddilove, eldest &tighter of the Very Reverend
Dean of Ripon.
Lately, at Pirmingharn, Mr. W. Hatton, of Hagfr.x, 1o;z1
Prezcher in the Wesleyan Methodist Connexion, to Wm.
Wrishtwn, of Birm.inghaxu.