Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1820-08-23

judicial habits and forms would enable them
to proceed more effectuslIy in The progress
Of the distressing inquiry. Hear. hear.,--
As TO the billwhicE he meant TO introduce,
the preamble would state, with as muchpar-
tcuiarity as the nature of the offence admit
ted, the specific charge. It would then.
proceeding on the assumption that that
charge were substantiated before their lord
ships in evidence. go to deprive her majesty
Of her rank and title as queen, and conclude
with dissolving her marriage with the king.
There were no penal consequences over and
above what he had mentioned included in
this bill With the exception OF the degra-
dation of the queen from her rank, and the
dissolution of her marriage, should the al
legged crime be substantiated against her, it
was not intended to bear more severely on
the individual than the case called tor.
The charges contained in the preamble were
then to be gone into, and if the house should
be assured by the evidence of the correct
ness of these charges, their lordships would
so on to the second reading. He trusted
that their lordships would discharge their
duty as they had done on every other occa-
sion wherein they had been called to exer'
else their judicial character, SO as to secure,
as they we'll deserved, the respect and con-
flence of the country. He would then pro-
pose that the bill should be read first time,
after which he should move most respectful
ly, that copies of the bill, when printed,
should be delivered to her majesty the
queen. Then their lordships would be a
BILE to postpone the second reading until the
queen should be consulted as to the period
in which she would prefer that the bill should
proceed. 1t was matter of Indifference to
him. II she wished it, the second reading
might be delayed, as well as intermediate
proceedings. until her m@esty's counsel
were ready to go into her defence; other
wise, ifit was her wish to proceed forthwith
If would be Sor their lordships TO fix an early
day. He would propose that day fortnight,
in the mean time he would propose next Fri
dayor Monday for further proceedings of an
intermediate nature. Their lordships bad
a painful and distressing duty to discharge !:
since his majesty had intrusted the admins
tration of the executive government to his
present servants, be Lord LiyerrooD had
not been calledon to perform any duty so
painful and distressing to his own mind and
feelings.
Their lordships must endeavor, notwi,h-
standing to discharge that duty with firm
ness and resolution, but with the utmost pos
sible !enity and mldness to the illustrious
accused at he same time Ii the charges
| which we're to be advanced should, after
being proved, fail to convince their lordships
of the necessity for proceeding with this
measure, it would not be only the impunity
of guilt but the triumph of guilt. They had
straight forward course TO pursue, and
| from which they were rot to be deferred !,
they ought not to be driven by the effects OF
prejudice or popular clamor. He then mo-
we'd that bill of pains and penalties for
| depriving Caroline, Queen of England, of
her rights. privileges, and prerogatives,
should be read first time. The hill, of
which the following is literal copy. was
then read by the clerk:
Whereas, in the yearlSl4, her majesty,
Caroline Amelia Eliza beth, then princess of
! Wales, and now queen consort Of this realm,
beng at Milan, in Italy, engaged in her SER
vice, in mental situation, one Bartolomo
Pergami otherwise Bartolomo Bergam. a
foreigne, of low station, who had before SER
we'd in similar capacity:
And whereas, after the said Bartolomo
Pergami. otherwise Bartolomo Bergami. had
so entered the service of her royal highness,
the said princess of Wales, most unbeco-
ming and disgusting intimacy commenced
between her royal highness and the said
Bartolomo Pergami, otherwise Bartolomo
Bergami.
"And whereas her royal highness not only
advanced the said B1rtolomo Persami, O.
therwse Bartolomo Bergami, to high stu
alton in her royal highness's household, and
received him into her service. and that in
high and confidential situations about her
royal highness's person. but bestowed upon