The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-09-05 00:00:00

Court, it is thse, Or " is it not that you tame over id
the service of a Spanish family ?---It is not true.
Did you ever say that her Royal Higher* owed
you money ?—I said I had a law suit agates' her
Royal Highness.
Did you then mean to say that you were one of the
witnesses against the Queen ?---No.
Was this then a double entendre of years ?—1 didn't
meant that.

The ATTORNST-GINIMAL again objected to the
course of cross-examination by Mr. Brougham.
Mr. Bacwommit contendetl, he had a right to ask its
to expectation, hope, and belief of expectancy in cross-
examining a witness. The Learned lientleman spoke at
mime length in defence of the line he was pursuing.
The Loan Cusmcat.t.oa.—The witness has answered
the question, and it appears to my, he cannot now be
asked this.

Mr. BROUGHAM said a few words, when ;the question
was allowed to be put.
Did you tell this to any one else than M. Marietta,
as a domble eateadre ?---Yes, as a doable extent/re.
flow long ago was that ?—About two the.
Did you not then know that they already knew who
you were?---\o.

Question repeated.
Who ?-1 was as a witness.
Tour name in the first place,! cute scat minue?--Ifes;
because 1 had told it to some one before.

But not to any of Marietta's family ?---1 bad laid my
real name to one of the brothers of Marietta seven or
eight months from now.

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TUISDAT EVEMINC, gRITIMBER 5, IS21).

We hair this morning received Paris papers of
Friday and Saturday last. From these we find that
the information we yesterday obtained respecting the
sudden fall in the French Funds was perfectly correct,
but we cannot ascertain the cause of this remarkable
depression. According to the opinion of some, it bad
been owing to the alarm excited by certain mo►ements
in consequence of the late conspiracy, which indicated
a more serious aspect of affairs than had been pre-
sented before, while by others it is ascribed to the
speculation of the jobbers. (h► the Ist instant, it
appears the price of the Five per Cents. were at one
time so low as the price we stated, 7rif. 110 r.; but on
Saturday the 2d (according to private accounts). a
return of confidence took place, and the price roar to
77j. 21/r.

The only article of intelligence that appears in the
Paris Papers to countenance the unfavourable impres-
sions that prevailed is the report that M. the Lieut..
General LAURIS rost, was about to set out fur Britain'''.
charged with an extraordinary mission. From thit.it
was inferred, that the spiritof insurrection which had
manifested itself at Brest, was spreading in that
quarter ; but the Ouvernment Journals assert, that all
has been pacified there.
By a private letter frum Madrid, we are informed
that the Minister of War, the Marquis de las AMA..
RILLAS, had obtained his discharge. The Boyd
Decree, which grants it, announces that his M tntsTl
has acceded to it only in consequence of the reiterated
requests of this lieneral Officer ; but the friends ot
the Constitution, nho found in him but a feeble
attachment to the new system, rejoice at Ms
retreat. His successor is) not yet known. The
Etxt; has already sanctioned many decrees of the
Cortes. Every department has much to do ; but that
of finance is indeed the corner stone of the edifice.
the whole depends upon it. Nothing in the ancient
system of finance can stand ; it is necessary to create
a new one, and to create .it promptly. Without the
union of the Sovereign and the functionaries of the
people, they declare it will he impossible for them to
emerge front the chaos in which they are plunged.
From Naples we learn, that on the 13th ult. tlatri
three suns of the Duke of CALABRIA were *hewn to
the publie, and received with the greate.;t applause.
A note from the Minister of War announces, that many
battalions of infentry and some other troopsare already
embarked for Sicily, and will be followed soon by
fresh detachments. From Rome, it appears that the
Prince CIMIT/Lf, Envoy Extraordinary from the
Court of Naples to England, had arrived, and after
resting there a short time, proceeded on his route to
London. On the 15th nit. an English vessel had
arrived at Livourne from Malta, with Ventral Ncotxv,
who would disembark as soon as he had completed the
usual quarantine.

The evidence given yesterday in the House of Lords,
against the Quaan, " was," say her II calm 's perse-
cutors," in some instances, stronger in its natnre, than
any thing furnish/41 even by the evidence previously
given." Yes, the odour of it au strong, even to
nausea ; and so was the whole of its character. It
was too gross to obtain a nooment's credit ; and for-
tunately for it, its ifortarre is such as to protect it front'
the exposure it so well deserves. But, like the evi-
dence that has born previously given, it attempts a

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great dial too much, and effects a great deal to, little.
Amid Oleg, from a Modest, the evidence to be
trues allowing, for the sake bf argument, that
the familiarities of the Quarts had been is gross, as
open, and is frequent is tie have been represented,
and more gross or unguarded condUct cannot be con-
ceived bt the meet depraved and vulgar minds, how
happen, it that with all those oppOrtunitiei for ob-
servation that are alleged to have been afforded, with
all that natural curiosity which the minds of females as
well as males, must haie had excited to parstieinquiry,
with all Mile additional, Mercenary incentives which
must have urged them to discover the ultinixte fact,
how happens it they fail in evidence in the " consum-
mation most devoutly wished i" Let all the circum-
stances of the case as stated, be but duly Weighed,
with the known understanding and subsequent conduct
of the Qucast taken into the account, and then let
any nuns or any woman of sense refer the question to
their experience of mankind, and to the nattier of
things, and say, whether the testimony addtieed by
the witnesses brought forward, is consistent with
their usual experience, or their conscientious belief ?

It is said that the evidence for the Bill of Pains and
Prue Meals to close to-morrow. Ministers give out that
a large party, including some of their principal wit-
nesses, took fright at Beauvais, and fled on herring a
the reception given to those who landed at Doter,
and that they have no hopes of being able to produce
any of them. It was understood that if the Queen's
Counsel insisted on crow-: camining the witnesses ft r
the Bill a second time, the Counsel for the t'rowu
should not he obliged to stun up the eti.lence till after
such cross-examination lint ay have heard that it is
intended (perhaps on an understanding that there
shall be no future miss-examination) to suns up the
evidence for the Bill at present, and that an adjourn-
ment to November next will then immediately be pro-
posed, in order to allow time to her Majesty to bring
forward her witnesses. It is rumoured him ever, that
the Queen's Counsel are satisfied that they can with
ease diserove the statements of the witnesses for the
prosecution, and dirt redit their evidence ■nd that
they mean to demand that there should be no inter-
ruption in the pro ceilings.
Marocut.--As evidence of the character Majocci
obtained fur humert.o and returity, while in the service
of 11r. Hyatt, at Gloucester, the authority of The
Jourstal has been exultingly referred to by
the Ministerial prints of London. Without disputing
that testimony, we could only beg lease to add the
evidence respecting the ci ~duet of Majocci, at Mon-
rester, as furnished 'ey The H,irlu/ Me reoro. "We
have, ourselves," say the Editors, " perused a letter
from a gentleman at Gloucester who had seen him,
and who states that he was constantly in the habit of
speaking in the highest terms of his late Royal Mistress,
and that, if she returned to this country before he left
it, he intended to wait upon her, not doubting in the
least that she would assist him. Taking it for
granted, as we are required, that " Majocci's cha-
racter fur honesty and veracity was unimpeachable at
thoactiter." we know bun to receive the declarations
he expressed while there but what are we to think of
the evidence he has given here ?
1 here is a very general expectation that the Divorce
Clause will at all events be given up and it is under-
stood a majority of the Brach of Bishops have de-
clared, that under all the circumstances of the case,
they cannot possibly reconcile this part of the measure
with the principles of the Christian Keligiou.
In tin- list of the division on the Earl of Ilarrowby's
motion, given in our paper of yesterday, Lord Car-
rington, who voted against it, is, by mistake, stated
to have voted for it. Lor.l Hutchinson voted in the
majority with the Earl of Li eerpool.

Iter Alajesty dispatched a courier yesterday morn-
ingto
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We understand that it is the Queen's narlicular
wish that her defence should he proceeded with ion-
! niediately after Ministers have closed their ease.
Letters from tienua of the 21.1 August, mention the
arrival of the King of Sardinia in that city, accom-
panied by his daughter. whose hand hr is about to
bestow on the son of the ex-King of Etruria. This
is that Prince ut Lures, selected in the noted French
project as the head of the new monarchy in South
America. Oesioa is :tiara to be perfectly tranquil.
The wish of the people fur a free constitut• ,prompted
by the example of Naples, was, however, ntanitested
by placards posted up by night. They appeared
resolved ta abstain from all acts of violence, but re-
tained hopes, founded on the more favourable dis-
position of the army, of receiving it as a free boon
from the Sovereign.
Advice', have been received from Madrid to the
Dith ult. A committee of the Cortes had made a
report hostile to the existence of the Jesuits in Spain ;
and proposing to sell forthwith their effects fur use
of the Junta of Public Credit, and to seise on their li-
brary, in order to its being placed at the disposal of the
Curies. Don Alexander IrDonnel, brother to the Count
de l'Abisbal, who headed his regiment of the Imperial
Alexander, during the defection of the Conde at deans,
in the beginning of the revolution, has petitioned the
' Cortes to be• put upon his trial, be baring been dis-
nrissed the service fur his conduct on that occasion.
The proposition fur introducing juries in judicial pro-
ceedisigs was read a second time. The Commission of
Finance has made a report, recounateuding a law pro-
p hibiting grand ecclesiastical dignities, councillors of
state, and others, from holding two livings or (dikes.
In Majorca, in 5 days preceding the 3.1 ult., 21 per-
sons had died of the pestilential fever, making the total
number of deaths 1,1491. The vessel seat to Mexico with
the news of the late revolution reached Vera-Crux on the
213th of May, and the deseatehes were instantly fee-
Warded to the Viceroy. All was tranquiil in Mexico.
The Constitution was pr uclainied in a must enthusiastic
manner on the 6th June, in Caracas, La lluira and
Puerto Cavell°. In order that the Inquisition may bt
the more effectually abolished, the property of that es-
tablishment had been put up fur sale, beginning with
the sumptuous Palace formerly occupied be the !aqui-
sitor-lieneral in Madrid, the one used by the Tribunal,
with secret cells, &c., toghlier with I houses si-
Mated in the capital. The proceeds are to he applied to
the liquidation of the national debt. The King, on his
return from Saredon, was received with the greatest de- '
woourations ()flu!. It was expected that the liameal
budget would be laid before the Cortes is the course of
the promos osonth. A large portion of vale reales bad
been entingaislitu.