The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-06-27 00:00:00

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travelled to mese or Mil most distant pg. is of &mote. From
places so reroute from that in wh;ch, the tribunal was sitting
before Which she had to appear. it seas impossible to receive
a tingle witness, or even a letter. muter flee or six weeks;
Besides if they were to Watt. as the justice of the ease re-
quired, till the number of witnesses could be collected whose
presence would be n scessatty before they tussld proceed tt
single step—if those persons were brought to swear before
their Lordships. what they bad dared to assert abroad. then
six weeks was the Ire ,t possltde time within which they
(souk( be enabled to comfort:cc their proceedings. Let it
nut then be said. that this was the pleA of one wino kit her-
self in guilt. No! it was dictated by a eon osientiosisness
of innocence'. and the inure yule the calumUies the more ne-
cessary it was that the delay be was asking should be Fronted.
Iler Majesty's.sole obj"ct was to gain lime to bring over
those wituesses, and these doctortesits. which she knew would
confound bee accusers, and put to the birch whoever stare
come forward to slander her reputation. lie attoslld ask their
Lordships to consider the circumstances of nornilar hardship
in which her Majesty was Owed. Ile ns osisy to put the
:.use of a woman living in England to be iahostring touter
such imputations. to show how much more peinfol and diffi-
cult Was the situation of ber Jla.eetr, ' live the witnesses
would be English. and *one would hr reeeiied Withflat the
greatest raillion. whose principles lostg loos:etv abwat.thens.
No use who thought lightly of au oath would-be aliowevi
h.
'affeet the interests Ofible ammasellths a British L4ttrl of *Joh'
lie,. Here then veabbst tldtb whioillber Wiest% was
denied. lit the nest place, in the ease he W 4 stinveleit, oho
in woman would here nither aithartstg,. in the lir illieScr4
against her being her connived**, **let to the ealn'tstry
eamtrol ot publiceniorced by toe mural sense of n
well esincate I peopie, and still more powerfolty pet its pee-
-1 ration by • tree press. Let their Lordships rebeet, that
is tl e next place. she would have the advantage of -a rums
razor, 1. cseess, to compel. the attendance of witamsta,
end neither threats, nor bribes, nor promises. conld keep
them wit of Court, fur they must come forward: hut iis the
ease of his illustrious client, the witnesses were fn-eigneer.
vow of them said to be degraded and infernos:: is th.ir
eha-
fader. and it so, high as was the integrity of their I.ordsktre.
fearless and bold as they might be of alt missetsi um! he
made this observation with the great captain of the age be.
fore hini. yet nide!, of them would not ••irritsk beck (-on. smeh
witnesses. wren they produced seabed I.S• wife or d•mghter.
though enter aining the fen -st csonsielkor of her Ti ur:ts
perfect innocence. fie howl their Lordships to refieet. .
that the witnesses in this ease, or et least some of them.
rime frene('uoirts which had yielded to the itfitteoes of vivo'.
el,;ch existed in some quarters ill this eoantry. .
Sue hid also the disadvantage to have those witnesses eye-
sbbltt ed in a place far distant from the eyei of tl..!r neigh-
bours, whose presence might be some conics:il ern the
!Wens, s.t their accusations; awl the chaster sal a million
time • lee th it thev would sp.-.1.1 the truth here. ii they ecru
not scrnpulves at home. Whet, then, must he the strtogtli
of that conscious innocence. to demand that they siseelo pre-
read with the Int estigatiou under all these adverse elegem-
stoners Yet such wag the :'redact of her Majesty. Emit
was the proof she had given of the goodness of her eater.,
and such was her confideare of an honourable aesprittel
B It it was his duty to guard her against the risk, which tbo
nvott perfect innocence iueurred Ly preeipitass. y.
he knew more of the witnesses who were to be le 0-
duces'. anti some of them he did not know. how was t.
pus-lisle to cross amine a single of them. withrse
knonthe their neighbourhood, their character. sad thevs-
rious circumstances which may sleet their crest:batty,. art
deermine the value of their eaidence. He would rid tNe
ease, as was the fact, that one of these *Bar 4C.S was r ter-.
waist. Irby had been tamed of for has in, stolen 40) ha-
preen* from a drawer brio ing to leer PAsieme. N. Iv he
could bring a British 14
ter, for he bad bled in his concur}' rause. to con rod t s
degraded indivi tual but even he am, now at Bonen. Would
t seir Lordships then drive hint into his cause, when he to:d
them that, without the necessary delay, he was usable to
sift t.c character or the es idence of a single witness. If ha
were asking fur a delay Itlieh world be an absolute loss of
toile. he should at once give tip his appeal to their Lordships.
hecelv.e his Russ ('Bent was anxious to proceed wiles all
psi 'le sapidity ; but let he • itnes-.cs be colic le', and all
the etiar..cc ou fur epee. Theft, when they did *teeth. they
w.ruld be able to proceed with order sod dispoteli. so as t s
bring the whole busines• to a conelst• iota. at a peim.l qv to
as rally as if they went forward tram the present moms
the character of her Mlle- ty had been hiardtened ull
es er Enrope. he would assume that no Court of Justine would
proceed to judgment, whether it was established in Eatiand
or at St ilan.without affording the delay e bleb we:' atieessary
to col:e•t the evidence. Ile was bound to believe that their
Lord-hips would grant the lime required :it was imptssaible
they essoW refuse it : they must allow the delay. because, in
the character of British Judges. they could do no other, if
they proceeded then, they would be making up their ellitlikt
to sire judgment before trial. and delay must come OW-
% iris, when all its uses were lost to the ju•tice of theca's,.
Ile was only asking for that which would be "ranted in p
common indictment against the :newsiest adlvides Pe'ss •
he concluded. he took the liberty of observin: so t wits
Voir., that one branch of the i.egislatere had pronsomeed
that which their Lordship' were about to do in this else,
disappointing to the hopes of Parliament. derogatory from
the dignity of be Crown: end iojeriour to the best interest.*
of-the empire." He listed them for the necessary indisPens
sable delay in the proceeding. which the Horse of Commons
Lad so described. in order that a legal murder might not be
committed un the first subject in the realm.
Mr. Dr.stssas thee proceeded to adders, their Lortithire.
Ile observed. that after the,very able speech which they hagl
heard from his Isaiseed Friend. he should, perhaps. !west
tmasult the intertmts of their Illustrious Client, by abitairishg
from troubling their Lordships on the subject. However.
,he kit it eeerissry to wake one observation. as it had filled
W hiin to bring dowa the petition which had that day beau
roseived from her Majesty. He had tbonktit it not at Tartans.*
with the foram of that House. for the % We snd Learned
Lord to be the medium at introdtwing that pr•ilion; end as
he was n• t aware that he was likely to refuse from Hwy per-
sonal motives, he had applied to him in the first instemig.
not lissirelieKlintt. that in a proceed*, of this hied, any dif-
ficulty could arise any where.—Hewever, the pettitiesi
been receiiicl ; but he Might observe, WA* all the tl Whets
of the resits had • right to have their petitions pres a rid to
tt(s' House. it was not to.foe him lo search out damsel* b t
fur those who felt Mete te explain their nature Oohs-le Leed-
snips. These things were passed. anA their Lerdalpte hai
wow to turn their attention to the more serions pert of Os
business : sad here the principal difficulty he bad to Me-
,lmed with. was the anomaly of those proceedlage midi bad
vow commenced. lie might see he was ememilhil with
shadows sad clouds, kr he amid not seg when do on t
step would iced them, or what would be Baehr mode of.pro-
eredinr. lie might venture Ie say. thet.tessewee SO the
authority to which those proceedings owedtbeir wow
WM. he wet net able to pressmen that It would dishMy
Ildire the 'or aof an impeachment; that saigbt, for he et
present knew. be the teed* Ovastwagg poldead. Or, ifs lees
*writ form was given he BM latitallh WC "r"
ried on to • Sill of pains sad pewiltieh teaks 0110040.
to c‘;to. to suaning. sod to doe* dsoor hod Vl* do•
tears d its testimony, when tappeetd to be esseptsble In •
revtaln carter:q end how probstite it was. when there was
see, • dernerd, eve supposed 4 mead. for evi?enee, h would
be supplied t reaper mapeeielly tioal:bee:Eull'm
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