The Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1818-1824, 1820-11-07
LATE .ARRIVALS.

days from the same place, both arrived al
New York, continuation of London adyices
are received to the 4th of October and Paris
10 the LIST inclusive.
The trial oil the Queen was resumed on The
Sd agreeably to ADJOURNMENT DIR. Broagh-
am commenced>her defence at hall past 10 o.
eleck on that day and concluded his speech
on the next day. Ii occupies IA or 10 closely
printed columns of the London newspapers
lie fist spoke of the causes which induced her
10 90 abroad and 10 seek in ioreign countries the
attention which was refused her in her own.
II was the cruelty and neglect with which she
was treated at home, he said, that compelled
her to leave England. He commented al
great length upon the testimony in favour OF
the bill, noticed its numerous discrepancies
and lis variance from tbs statement of the
Attorney General. and also its glazing incon
sistency and imprcbabiIity in many parts, of
which the following is specimen.
But their Lordships would all along per
seive, that in proportion as these disgusting
scenes were of a nature to annoy and offend
every body of yriuous disposition-to inspire
with disgust, almost with horror, every well
regulated mind compelled TO be acquainted
with them, ~ the same proportion, especial
care had been taken that they should not be
acted in privacy, aud under the veil OF deco
rom and reserve. The things ailedged were
not done in those receptacles of inqulty ap-
propriaiea TO unlawful aud infamous inter
course not in auy Of those hidden haunls
which vice had consecrated to her purposes !;
not in auy luxurious retreat. whose seclusion
and delicious pleasures might pamper every
sense, and perpetually administer TO voluplu-
BUSINESS and sensuality not in any OF those
Cvprian islands Of old, devoted 10 the pleas
sres Of Roman monsrchs--no but before
witnesses: in open daylight, when the sun
was al its merriam; bit that was not enough,
.sre was to be taken that they were to be
,een by courier OF their own, man only
three or four days in their service, without e.
ven any furniture in their carriage, or their
own dress arranged so as TO veil their disgrace.
FIJI situations. lie asked their Lordshps had
vice ever before been known to be so unwary,
50 imnrsyident Z? whether upthnking folly,
even a, that period Of lie when Inc passions
swell hiph. and The blood boils IN the veins,
had pursued its bold career so openly reckless
~. aud carele.sly as them and he hoped
tha, this most material consideration would
sink into their Lordships minds, and have sa
due weight, and when they came 10 decide
on the weight Of the evidence. operate rs
.aasonahle check. =,
Mr.. B. then gave the character OF Italian
testimony in the time OF Henry 9Th, and
showed from documents and history, that false
oa,hs had then been purchased by the gov
eminent. even of learned doctors and others.
At very low rate. He cited case oil
more modern date, from document publish
I'd in 1872, the case Of General Acton, IN
which that officer says, That nothing IS more
notorious than that every species or exisht oil
perjury can be procured, suited either 10 Inc
necessity Of those who sell, Or the wants OF
those who require il, for three duca's.
Mr.. Brongham draws from 'his general
ronutalion of the lower classes oil Italians and
from the circumstances attending their tesii-
mony, the inference that they have been
bought and have purjured themselves IN the
pre,eat case and that the famous .N1an
commission was established to procure and
drill these witnesses.
II is impossible to follow in weekly
paper consistently win Ns ol'si eu'iSe, ,"
the outline of this long speech we shall
only extrac, his closing remarks.
"My Lords, pray your Loraships 10
pause you, my Lords, are standing on the
brink of dreadful precpice your Judge
unen, will 90 forth to the world /; ii that juds- !
;nent is against the Queen, il may be the last
and only Judgment you will ever pronounce ;!
That Judgment my Lords, will fail in lis OBJ
ieci, and il will return with yedoubed violence
On those who gave it Save the country,
my Lords, from the heaviest saamity of a civ
il wsr!! Save yourselves, my Lords, from the
situation in which you are now standing hes
cue that country of which you are the orna-
msn,, but in which you can flourish no longer
when severed from the people, and when the
blossom is cut off from The root and stem OF the
tree!. Save the country, my Lords, that you
nav be the ornament OF II Save the
Crown from demons and the ars,ocracy,
which is shaken, as is also the altar itself,
which never more can stand secure Ill your
Judgment be against the Queen, it will shake
10 the foundation the kindred Throne You,
nv Lords, have wiled the Church aud Crown
have villed that the Queen shall be laid out
of the solemn service, but she has had the
prayers OF the people and, my Lords, DO