The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-10-25 00:00:00

rem herself innocent. I believe this is the
st prayer Oast Las been offered by any Officer
the Crown slue the cotnnsrurement of this proceed-
g for her Majesty ; sod perhaps it may prove the
it at step towa restoring her name tp the prayers of,
that Chatch, from which. it had been so improperly
removal. !flif Learned Haldeman went thritegh
the whole of the evideoce of 31ajoceiti anti Desildet:
with the complete motsadiction whirls he castrate
Pad bees establieted spina It. —Having tiles trotted
ail those farts whisk rest epos these tw plilezest
t•,» respectable ease, facts in shish they do tea_
flar eaeb ether, and much less are sorported
third person, be must come to facts supported by
souse Italian witnesses, to whltik it was Mammary el
rail the attentim of their Lordships. We now, my
ads, said he, distinctly state, that her Moja* b
attempted to be made the victim of perjury and sew
Iriraty ; ill what setae and how justly we apply dem
tr. ads, we shal prayed to *hew, by as examined,"
of those Hakim witnesses, who at so much cost aid
with se mock seal bare been brought here to is
the great precedent of dethroning a Queen for hanneal
combat. by whieb, even if it were proved, it latrine
door, as a wile, she could net he affected by it.
The word conspiracy means, I perceive, to sidle a
sort of horror. as if it bad never before been heard of
or witnessed on gnglish ground; as if it were some-
thing so monstrous and shames% to nature. that the
proofs required is a ease of adultery shrunk to no-
thing, when compared with those required to,
prove the possibilityof this unheard of trine!—The'
Learned (lent. then proceeded to thew the facility
.with which conspiracies might be carried on by pop
jury even in this country. He alluded to bankrupt
okses, in which bail and false swearing were coati.
sunray hired for small sums of money. Cases of con-
.piracy also were not uncommon ; one had been tried
it week ago; and about a year since, merchants, and
manufacturers in different parts of the country hid
been defrauded to the amount of several Isaadrodiker
-and pounds, by one which had been carried os yes
the most extensive scale. These things happesed
England where every step which the conspiratom
took afforded an opportunity for inquiring into their
saracter. If it were necessary to go Lather into tie
g terra! character of sock practices, he would refer to the
Elie of Elis. Canning. Ile might go still farther beck
to the Popish Plot, but no doubt I. all ages, gee&
natured persons might be found ready at the expresser
lissessur and character, to swear or do any any thing for
the gr 'titivation of the vitiated appetites of those use.
mortis it lio ounlti hold out rewards' or the pranks of
red arils, to persons so disposed. He did not make any
n of the past to the present, he needed not to
go so flu bark ; because the present reign &lorded facts
it •!, savoured v; ry strongly of conspiracy. It wee
es sly to recollect the enquiry of 1806, to make it in-
isassible to husk at any subsequent case against the
4,!nerti, without the slightest jealousy and snspicios.
That en ,uiry was strongly suspected to have bees
s.l;ported by perjury. If mot, why had the Counsel
;..,,ic out of their way, its the minutes, to prosaism
t+ verdict of ecquittal, spun an iadividaal, slimiest
.uhuan there was no barge. He referred to the
words in the minute, " suborned traducers." anti so&
• tended, that if no suspicion had been excited, the Cassel
1.1.1011 hive had no occasion to have noticed those exam-
▪ .111 quartet s of the II Will would produce
t 4n ear falsely, if well bribed, but the country orl=
r..uhl be purchased,— where a price was set OPIIN
a▪ ^
oath,—teas the country of all others from which the
ti itnesses were rimiest to swear in support of this BM
ought to observe shortly upon another part of
A:torney-fiensnars opening, in which he had
C. it he shoidil offer proof of adultery at Salon.
r,r, word of evidence in support of it had been addend.
lie knew his Learned Friend bail not thaws out
•els charges at random, he knew be bad been is.
-;teil by his witness lkonont to that effect in bee
s ;'t.•ll deposition taken at Milan. Hot when she
tabu into open Court she could not tatter a syllable
:h;. falsehood. It was the same here as at Lugano;
to did believe that any material witness from Lugano
w..s capable of deposing to any fact which would have
:;'ported the case. As to tisostory of the witnesses
mg been driven bark, without at all doubting the
i..varity of his Learned Friend, it was impossible
Is believe, if they ha -I been driven hark in June as
I td been represented, that they could not have been
spilt prodnresl by Septend er. It was the application
for time upon such grounds which had created in
I,:m that warmth which hail bees described as invective
and declamation. Never had an opening been oecost-
p;erelc disproved by evidence. It sometimes happen-
ed, that a eonassel had not time to read their briefs,
or :I, there, understand their case I—but that could
not be raid hear. They had had their Milan Com-
mission, their spies, and-their six weeks to prepare;

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-- -their prayers load been granted by the Hoare, while
h:s hall been Looked over. They were not young, or

siefi;:ient in knowledge or power, but on the contrary,
the rase hail been stated with the greatest clearness
and judgment. Although they had sufficient speci-
mens of what conspiracies might do eve, here, yet it

war his pride and his boast, that in this cuintry
they were least likely to he successful. Whenever
nhakespeare wanted a villain, he had laid his scene
ie. Moisina, Venice, or Milan—whether he wanted an
lazy, an laechitno, or any other, Italy was the soil
which reclined him. He then read part of a dialogist
from Shakespeare, and said, that its aliplication to the
pr”sent ca.r was borne_ eosin every part, for it was
Like?' from the last act of the einnedy of Much Ado
&mut Noshing.—{A langby—fle next proceeded to
reaurrk, upon the evidence of Gargiulo. Gargiulo
WA‘ the captain of a skip, and for the use of his ship,
for the interest of Lii money employed in it, and for
the whole of his expences, be received PO dollars per
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month. that he hail to do with royalty, and therefore,
be expected to receive in fees and other rewards
6040 dollar more ; of those 6000 dollars he
bad' been disappointed ; and Bergatni was the person
ho had disappointed bias. Then be came here
to wire his false testimony for 1,000 dollars
per month. But that was not all; he looked to the
I lovermaient with the expectation float they would
pay hint the debt of her Hoyal Highness; and in
proportion as he swore against her *ontd be the probe.
Ibility of lois receiving it. kly Lords, said the Learned
Counsel, it is idle to talk of Impartiality in a witness
I.ke this; it is impossible that any suan could cone here
with au unbiassed salad when stied upon by such tempta-
tions. I cheep this sae with being a bribed witness,
reining here to swear! that which is not ten*, with the
4111cut1on of giving inaiseesce the appearance and shape
ss. guilt. Wee it to be believed that her Royal High
ness would hare gess es deck In the epee ben of day,
sail la the view of the whole of tie crew lad paselagen of