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LONDON:

TUESDAY MINING, OCTOBER 24.

STATESMAN OFFICE, TWO
,O'CLOCK.
The delay requested yestetday of the House of
Lords, by the ATTORNIT-GENERAL has not brea
granted, and Mr. Limas is proceeding in a resit.
of her MaJaarv's defence.

betters from St. Thomas, of the 9th September. hr
the Leeward Island wail, state, OW 4alasing kw
r had experienced a defeat in tit. Sim
and was obliged to retreat with akigo leas AS
had succeeded in cutting cIE $OOOlOll/10 4
N. Martha.
____.4calrio iaaam:i :
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The evidence in detente tif Obi tfirigits is now can.
eluded. On certain points, of high importance to het
Maiarry's cause, it had been the aim of her Counsel
to have made disclosures which would have exposed
to merited indignation the corrupt influence under
which the charges were collected and supported.
A witness, RASTILIA, whom the prosecutors had
placed at the liar, had been proved to be connected
with the Milan Commission. The fact Of sebum.

ation might have, therefore, been established, not
only against him, but against the Commission
itself. As if aware, however, of the fatal consexines.
ces to be apprehended from the re-examination of this
iniquitous agent, an opportunity was sought by the
conductors of the proseention for sending him oat of
the country ; and when required to appear in one of
the most critical stages of the proceedings, Rasratu
was not to be found. To balance this irreparable Joss,
an ample equivalent was promised to her MAJMIrI
defenders ; but, when attempts were made to estab-
lish the proof of the conspiracy of which he formed a
part, every teelenicil obstruction was thrown in their
way, and her MAJZOTT'S :C0111:140 were compelled to
abandon their intention in despair, as to this point of
the defence. They are left to rely, and they rely
with confidence, on the merits of their case alone.— ,
They might, iroleed, have trusted the judgment
of the intelligent and impartial portion of the mo-
tion to the evidence that bad been brought for-
ward in support of the charges themselves.--L
Never was there a more lame and impotent &mkt:
sion, than that which followed the !interstate clogs(
of the Arronarcv-CmyertAL. The malt was, that
of the mountain in labour. The Mesas or the illas;
strions and distrealtd. summed lien couipliteiy Mt
lieved from the load of anxiety with whisk tie
revolting charges had evervillefined their 'Week
The duubtful were iondrmed, the wspiclo-tt were
completely co
completely her /4..sarrer's ik-
sour ; and bad her cease been left, ewes at the end of
the liottrivoa-Gsattn•L's summing-up. to the dee-
' sion of the nation, her Blaurry would lave at ems
obtained an honourable; and triamplAnt acquittaL—e
Never, under charges, each as were broughtmgelis
her MAJeSTY, was a detmtlant placed in ciscametainitt,
more unfavourable for a direct defence. As 016
mock her tortured feelings, under the injitiied Iwo
endured, the ATTORNIII-OINEMAL hat arli 14811 We
1 yesterday, to assert, that her litansTv•lliiti fillet IA
extraordinary indulgence. " She had had a. debit
allowed in the opening of her debtor:el! I" Her
Counsel had applied cur' a list of witnesses wire
were to appear againot_ her, that they might some
prepared, if necessary, to impeach the ttstimony.
This indulgence was _denied! Her Counsel than
requested that the times and places in wbrilr
the imputed crimes bad bee* committed should
be specified, that they might have some clue to guide
them in defence. This indulgence, also, was refused,
Her Counsel were reduced to the necessity -of
waiting till the witnesses against her were completely
heard, and then of sending agents hundreds of milts, td
countries where every influence was exerted to thersit
their design, in order to procure evidence to costes-
dirt the hostile testimony. 'I his hostile spirit Hit
experienced to the very last stage in the execution st
-their task, both in this country a* well as abrosA
but. notwithatnnelisg the difficulties they bad sr re-
canister, for have conducted the cause of het M..
1 Jarti anienendally through. The currant ilia
under which the witnesses against her were coliellsie
and the contradictions and faleehooth they ad
ilaie been completer' 041.001104. The feel '
'in the •tar iage has been incontrovertibly Wiled;
that of the beat has espeeieaced a similes,
;that respecting the statues has been proved tells
ideally imPotieible; and the olbeozieee dasee',. le,
1-which so mach immodesty had been interred. by
shown to be -both simple •and decorous. The 'sly
j stand the enemies of the Qc SIN could take, sin this
whlilt was admitted by bre Counsel; that of the sled[
e
of a Polacre, is seta exposed• to storm earl pirate',
ainkist e crew of seamen, undistinguished by say r•
verence for rash or eel, she slept undressed, n
cover of a tent, In which her Chambeileln, undressed.
I, reposed as her proteciiri, in circumstances obi
1 removed all foundation or sus icier.. and re . .

the concealment of imuommillky• itapss 3bk. In ••
rake are the charges against her Marcelo now lei
the decision of her Piols6 )atiges and if those ill*
trills personages partake of the juderneat sad ail
*dings which pervade the natien;thert cannot be t
doubt of the result.
- r
Letters front all pasts re toe roast received this
,morning. bria.,f the disagreeable intelligence di
jyreat number of vessels being disaterted, losing tildi
linehuis, &r. in the lite prevailing gales of ill
a fate . hippl 4091 abatt.Josed by their erns.'
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striated.' • ' • •

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THE QUEEN. -

• isgsVele OF LORDS.--(Tsti Idoesine.)
pores were read at the mud hone and the peers
them called over. The defathers were Lord
, Viscounts Braseville and Anson, the karls of
preis sad Mayo, and the Duke of Argyll.
Earl OUT then rose and said, that as their Lord.
ba Dow be hoped arrived near the end of these
iophrlael Pr"eedings, he begged, to call their oaten-
that to a passage to Mr. Phillips's Law of Evidence,
',planter). of the usage of the Courts below. That
„ooze stated that the depositions of all the witn •
sp„, milich the committal and the sulieequent trial
ere
loauded might be called for, with the view to ob-
„ffing whether there were any variance between the
atcaaote Sinn by the witnesses before the Magistrate,
sea that given upon the trial. If there were any incon-
;Amy in tl.-. two accounts that circumstance tended
I, ego considerable doubt on the credit or at least on
dommary of the witnesses, and to the benefit of that
esebt the prisoner was entitled. By analogy to the
mini those Courts the deposition upon oath whiCh
lei boa laid before the Secret Committee should,
wooed, be submitted to their Lordships inspec-
tor*, do purpose of observing whether the two
aninkau given by the witnesses against her Majes-
totem consistent with each other. He was aware,
tibigan; depositions were extra-judicial and irregular,
bottliattittantstance formed no argument against the
pradvtioa si those depositions, since the object of
thaterotlactios was merely to try the credit of the
witsemeg. At present he should make no motion on
the object, because, be conceived, the time fur such
a motion, world be more proper, w hen the case should
lainitees entirely closed on both sides. He merely
anneibiic Lordships attention to the subject that they
might hare time to consider his suggestion, and, he
teme,,,g,,, notice, that on the closing of the case,
be should submit a motion for the production of the
depositions which had been laid before the Secret Com-
mittee, appointed in pursuance of his Majesty's Mes-
sage.
The Lord Cnsxcrt,sos, after referring their Lord-
_

ships to thews:in which had been left undecided
resterdar, upon the Attorney-General's motion fur de-
lay, promised togive his individual opinion upon that
motios. Ile had read over the whole of the evidence
applicable to Col. Browne; and, although he considered
t:,at the Attorney General could do so other thau
mate the motion he had, he (the Lord Chancellor)
twittered that the Queen's Counsel had done no more
thu their duty in resisting it ; and upon the best
Stallion he could give the question, he thought their
Leeditips ought not to delay the proceedings.—
(Bat, bear')---He observed that there were only
ire witnesses deserving (in his opinion) of any
reedit who spoke at all about Colonel Browne, and
that trident/ was given two months ago. But
at all event, he thought it would be an injus-
tice to the • Queen to delay the proceedings.
fry tiereforis, their Lordships view of the question
aiosld be consonant to his own, it mifhr be proper
to nil in the Counsel, and inform . the Attorney-W-
-ong that Moo &hi, he desired, mid not be grunted
If, out the other hand, their Lordships better opinion
should be in favour (tithe delay, it would be necessary
to inform the Counsel that the delay required would
he granted ; but he, fur one. should say, nut content
to any motion for the latter pttrpose.—(Hear, hear,
hear.)
The Earl of DARNLEY said, lie perfectly agreed with
the Noble ant Leaned Lord on the Woolsack, that if
this proceeding were suffered to continue at all, it should
tondos. without any delay; hut he entered his solemn
point in toto against the whole proceeding, from its
most unconstitutional commencement.—(Here there
were nuaptotns of considerable disapprobation atnong
their Lordships.) He was but an humble individual,
but he felt it to he his duty to give his opinion accord-
ie4 to the dictates of his conscience, regardless of either
impatience or clamour. Ile considered the whole of
time proceedings as illegal and unjust ; hut with a
choke of two evils, he should prefer the less, and he
it there should not be any delay.
Martinis Cassnam hoped that whenever the
whi4e of the transaction concerning Col. Browne
should be brought forward, that Isis character would
staid the test of the strictest examination. He knew
this subject was extraneons to the present inquiry, bet
he felt it his duty, notwithstanding the urpopularity
of it, to slate what by keen. of Min. Ile had been a
subaltern for 14 years, had received several wounds,
sad he believed him to be a most honourable man.
Lord HoLtawn said that the House were to judge
of Col. 8., by the statements that lay on the table.
And he thought that the friends of that Gentleman
Amid fibstain from any panegyric as carefully as he
woad el:stain from any remark whatever.
The CHANCELLOR then moved that the Colonel
shouldler called in. Which being done, the Chan-
cel* Wormed them of the decision of the House.
Captain BRIGGS was then called, and examined by
the Arrolar.-OrwEna
ClPtsbt Wtiw, you have stated that rou corn-
"latillid the Loviathao, when her Royal -Highness
was se hoard that ship ?-1 have.
Do yon recollect Lieutenant Hownam ?-1 do.
Yew lave stated that Berganti was also on board
that skip
Do you recollect having had any conversation nigh
Lim. lion nem on the subject of the Princess ?-1 do.
Was the conversation about Bergaini being admit-
ted to the Princess's table ?—lt was.
State that yon, said to Lieutenant !Towner's on that
occarioa.--1 °barna to 'Lieutenant Hownam, that
Captain Ileakett had told use that Bergami had waited
hPhitA his chair ; sad 1 asked him how it was that
Berganei was admitted to the table ; he told me ha
WAS sorry it was so, because be had intreated the
Prioress, on his knees, with tears in his eyes, not to
IlJtuit him to the table, but to no purpose.
Do. you recollect ; did he state to you when that
mss?---To the hest of my recollection he 'minuted—
r. BROVLUA3I.--What do yea mesa, Sir, by
luti-
mated ?
The Arroistv-Oettanat...--What did he state as to
the time ?—lle said it was the Pint time an alteration
had *en made about Bergami.
• Cross-ciao:lBW by Mr. Baonousu.
Where did , this osiovereatios war so .hoard
Leviathan the weir from Nihau is 11/4111Tho.
What yearil.:;.—lSJ,s, - . •

What month ?—November.
Who were present at Mb same time ?—Don't think
any one.
Did he ever speak to you place about it ?—lies. he
came down to Porters outh at seven o'clock in the
morning, and asked me same questions about dm tes-
simony I was to give in this House. I told him, I
would tril him nothing about it. He asked me whe-
ther any alteration had taken place in the cabins; I
asked him how be could forget it, as be was possent
at the time.

Did you mention this to any one else ?---Yett, to Sr
OeorgreocLbnim.

is he one of thelLords of the Admiralty?---Yes.
I believe you dined with the king, since you
were examined at this house ?----Yes. At • Ports-
mouth.

Re-examined by the ATToRNEv-OrNgial..

Do you command a ship at Portsmouth i—Yes.
Did any of the officers at Portsmouth dine with the
King besidet ?---Yes, all tilt Captains.
By a Peea.-1 understand you to say that you took
no memorandum of this conversation, and that It oc-
curred in November, 1815. 1 put it to Captein
Briggs, whether he recollects a private common coo-
cessation which took place five years ago ?—Thp an-
swer was in the affirmative, but we could not distinct-
ly hear it.
When Lieutenant Hownam mentioned to yeti. the'
first time of Rergansi's dining at the table ofjber alp-
jesty, did he tell you that it arose from any circus-
stance which occurred accidentally at the moment, or
from a previous arrangement 1 understood it• to
to have taken place on the day of his leasing her
Royal Highness's service and becoming her compa-
nion.

The witness then withdrew.
The ATTORN Ce•OCNCRAL said, as the ease DOM
stands, I shall call no other witness.
The LIMO CHANCILLOR said, it was now 'for the
Couusel in support of the (lettuce, to proceed with the
s ttttt ining-up of their evidence.
Ale. liaoccusto.—l believe my Learned Friend is
ready to proceed.
hlr.Damsasx.—My Lords, under any circumstaaees
in which an advocate discharges the solemn duty im-
posed upon him, it is not quite unnecessary, that he
should require the merciful indulgence of the House.
And there is something peculiar to my situation, which
renders it necessary that I should receive the amplest
portion of that merciful indulgence of which I eo much
stand in need. After the application is hick was made yes-
terday to your Lordships, it was nut until your Lord-
ships had decided, whether the proceedings should be
stopped for Colonel Browne, or not, that we could
know what coarse must be pursued. When that de.
cision was conic to, instead of this solitary,wituess which
has been produced, we were led to believe, that there
wonld be a number of contradictions to the evidence
which we have not brought before your Lordships,
because, almost all of them were examined in a
manner which led us to expect, that such an ha-
tention did exist. We -srtiv thus called °poi' to
direct our attention to this poict, without en-
tering into that correspondence Oeirb was necteugy
before I came to the arduous duty of summing up the
evidence. I make no complaint of this, because,
during the time Aids has elapsed from various causes
since the commencement of these proceeding!, I should

have been deficient itturtinty, if I had tot paid the
most unremitting, the most painful attention to the
whole of n►y Illustrious Client's ease. Without fur.
ther preface, my Lords, I will go into the consideration
of that evidence which has satisfied my mind, which
has satisfied the minds of my Learned Friends, which
has satisfied the whole people of England, and which
will go forth to the whole civilized nations of the
world, establishing a defence which will entitle
the accused to a complete acquittal of all the
infamous charges which have been brought against
her. My Lords, I wish to proceed to this
inquiry with all the calmness, and with that total
absence of
can lead to

It would be

Importance
bounds of pi

and expressii

so fallen from

•ed he required
magnitude of '

charged with

to captivate
say, if my Learned
felt that we were bearing personally hard on him, I
totally disclaim any such intention. From that whirls
Sell from my Learned Friend yesterday, it would seem
that I had questioned his veracity. I beg leave to
say, that if any thing I have said can bear such a eon.
erection, I most unaquiveirally retract it, and mist
aliamaly disclaim any smelt feeling—{bear, bear). • It
~bas bet been my object to create uneasiness, for Shave
Infielf telt it too deeply. The immediate interest of
ley cheat has been from the first moment that she set
bettoet in this eount, the only subject which has neaps
pied my mind. And when I, have seen, during the
whole .of that period, the most cruel oppression eget,
*lied towards her, it has been that galling sensation
which may have created any intemperance with which
we have been charged. But while I disclaim all per-
sonal imputations against my Learned Friend, I claim
the right as animadvert upon hie sliaracter as an *deo-
eateLlitems% as an edentate, to possess mach sof the
siktit isi which. this Hill . is founded, is my Learned
Friend's greatest tnisforitinei It. is a misfortune for
which no personal honours can compensate; it iv
II misfortune which has Weighed him down throughout
lbw proieediarst mid with me, I declare before tied,
.deal winald not have been tempted to till his °lwo bj
the highest object that hanian.ambitios can obtain.
Pleas the office of supporting a .Bill of Pains and,Poitsis
'ties against the wife of Oohing of englawl. I wilts's"t
'Zrefer to the mode in which this indictment is iadi
' The learned °enshrines end the Bill and•stki hersv4w
bialllealit low proceed 'sr a re of the evidenee be.
which the preamble of that Oil had been support
First with respect to the advancement of Wrenn, hitr. H.) +dunned that 13Oritual rewind the service or
rM
r Royal Highness as a mental; that he was preowned,
Amt he remitted aevesal warkrat her Keys' tfigimitee's
&vow, awl that his family shared in those advirsimies.
'Ms laieliags him/seer, that steao.preief bad bieeieffieged
It show that hiestraslai ba4:TK•i-tad his tabors soden
Aruogh the insteumestality at. her Nord ilighlanall-
for all that appeared in evidence it presestirag, ass at
was time Bergami was without thou works et &tine-

time, and at another time he had them. Thee
was entaiily the enlist of St. Caroline iv hit* had
beam trailed by hie Royal Highness; and of Which
she had made Bergatni the principal member. Hi
would endeavone es Weal ibis pact of the ease with se-
riousness, for it appeared to be a very seriessapart of the
Bill, and a most important ingredient in the charge
against her Royal Highness. It had heed argued that
her Royal, Ilighttese, by creating this order, had thumped
the rights of Royalty ; bet he, with aH the attention
be had been able to give to this part of the subject.
could not find it had lay where been laid down, that
the creation of orders was a privilege confined to one-
Mtn persons; soil certainly, as far as custom could be
allowed to shew the negative of such a privilege, there
were numerous instances to shew such a custom.—
In France there were very many instances of Or
dies created by, the Dukes of Orleans and other perione,
some of whom were not of the rank of her Royal High-
noes. He found one instance of the creation of an order
by three Italian merchants who were brothers. It ap-
peared to him that it was not at all immaterial or ins;
peeper, if when her Royal Highness had accomplished
her journey to that spot which had become so memo-
rable in history, if pleased with a scene which could not
bet be pleasing to every liberal mind, if pleased with the
fidelity and attachment of her followers, who had par-
taken tier fatigues and then retook the pleasures of her
learner, he could see nothing unnatural or improper
tit her Royal Highness treating such an order as
shelled created ; and if her Royal Highness had done that
which had been done by others without reproach, be
trusted she would not be visited with any very great
degree of severity, and still leis tha: such an act
woad be construed into the proof of adultery. Indeed,
he should not say any more upon a circumstance which
appeared to him to have been brought into notice
equely for the purpose of swelling the charge. lie
should now come to the charge of adulterous inter-
amuse, and he conceived the only question was, whe-
eler such an adulterous intercourse, as was charged,
bad taken place, to the dishonour, in it was charged,
0 her Majesty's Royal Consort, the King of England.
' Many and important were the disadvantages under which
he and his learned Friends had to inset this charge.
Until the hour of trial they were in utter darkness as
to the particulars of the case they had to meet, and in
bet the opening Teeth of the Attorney-I leneral was the
ladict nient. He should look at that speech as the charge,
* statement, he should then examine the evidence with
firbich it had been attempted to support it. The first
lie might call it the first count or overt act of the
rge,passed
was the statement of what at Naples on
night
of the Opera; and bete hr would premise that
Mere never was a series of facts so calculated to make
M unfavourable impression than the statement of his
Learned Friend upon this part of the ease. That
statement went not only to Omar the completion of the
adulterous intercourse on this occasion, but it went
W give a similar character to the transactions which
Ie to follow. It was staled, that Austin had been
Wonted to sleep in the same room with her Royal
beers'; that on the evening in question, she re-
tuned home from the Opera at an early hour, and
was agitated ; and that it was discovered the next
morning, that her Royal Highnesses bed bad not
boon occupied, but that itergami's hmk.had trident
Palltieth Of itd having been occupied by two persons. It
was stated also, that the 'sect morning, her Royal High-
ness did not appear uniil an unusually late bone, and
that several persons of rank who came to visit her
, could not have admission. It was stated that from
this moment, Bergami was observed to be insolent to
his fellow-servants, sod the conclusion drawn Clain/nil
these facts by the Attorney-Ueneral was, that the adul-
terous act had been committed. lithe facts had been
proved. be should hare agreed With his Learned Friend ,
in the conclusion he had drawn from them. lint
what would their Lordships any, or think, 0' no one
of these facts, should appear to have been proved?
What would they say, or chink of it, should it ap
pear that the boy Austin, had been removed in conse-
quence of the precious remonstrance of her Royal
Highness's own cbasuberl sin, who considered hies tett
big a boy to sleep in her room, his age Wag
between twelve end thirteen, and nut six or seven as
had been stated ? What would be said if it shorn'
appear that her Royal Highness came back unusually
late that evening, and that so far from not proceeding
to her own town, she had actually been attended to that
room b 1 Sir Wan. tall ? ut ltatentent of the witness
)Ifenes4, as to the *opposed agitation of her Royal
Highest's, was in itself too vague to be met by coun-
ter evidence ; but the statement of that same witness
as to the •beds, it was not noteisoly to meet by any
evidence at all, for it destroyed itself. and contained
intrinsic proof of its falsehood. lie should refer,
first, by point, to the evidence--he should do so with
the utmost attention ; but if he should make the
slightest mistake, he would takeie as a serious favour
to be set right by any of, their Lordships, erby either
of his Learned Feint's. •Not only was the statement re-
specting the opera night at Nelda . not' picts&
but in many material pinMii mai cump:etely negativ-
;ed. The Learned GelltillaSiew, refuted to tin mi-
nutes of the conflicting ensimmeraffikmaild Caniegton,
Sir William (hell, and Mr.-Clove& ea she cue hand,
and of Dement on the other, to *heir thole, with res-
pect to all which bad passed on the night is question,
thalatter witaesehad beat contradicted as as far is it was
possible to oontredict her. Then, with reference to the
statement of Merging's insolence, and his overhearing
man ners..hrweeld conlideistly ask their Lordeltips, who-

ther diet* was a single passage in any sae page of the
estiskausoritieb speaking of Bergs:are manners, did.
101 esusphtely disprove this stately*. .And upon
this Pin or the tau be 'begged to saber ells, most ustesi
ui-
Neally to the Attorney-tieneral's views-of the subject.
d
he cordially synced with. him, that if bugling had
leen admitted to the embraces of his Royal hi isms*, sach
ra conduct as bad Amen demriliodwoald hare bees; the
jegenurs the Irq dWe foreellillaCes• 'Mid,
contrary it apppamalltalit Ass Metimasy of est"
am wbo hAil_baemlatramiaost ,:oo this pails
the soltastt sf alai,* we* precisely chat al 41
respectful! mint. Is an . afrolde -.mistress. . bottom
who bad new, hot . Mesa af hen sligailled. Wise
It appeared tap that in seq. fitestion which issik,bess-
Oiled by limp** b 4alipted liiptssy ipas
aer becoming dill sitsatisin tjle Ae Ira? to his Wit
capaeity he Ciaesitsid with Vcipitiflii pro-
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all passion and violence, which alone
complete and satisfactory investigation.-
. difficult top • li4gh a case of this
without be Y.beyond the
wopriety. in r language
ions. For • mighti hare
corn him, h 4 ,rst, ~t apology ;
'iced Do other' ' enormous
of his east. "0. Awns been
ih declason ‘''" intended
t out of doors:" • beg leavifo
•
Learned Ftieed, nrnev-General. has
•