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FRANCE. On the 29th September the Duchess de Berri was delivered of a son, who has received the title of Duke of Bourdeaux. The birth of a male heir to the throne of France had been anticipated in that country with much anxiety, and the event has been celebrated by great rejoicings. In honour of the circumstance, the king has created four new commanders and thirty-one knights commanders of the order of the Holy Ghost.

SPAIN. General Riego, the father of the Spanish Revolution, having, it appears, incurred the displeasure of the Cortes, has been deprived of his government of Galicia, and sent into exile at Oviedo. It is stated

that he had attempted to make himself the head of an ultra-revolutionary party, alike hostile to the King and the Cortes. Some agitation and tumult had been occasioned by his disgrace, but the troops, which remained firm in support of the Constitution, dispersed the rioters, and tranquillity was restored. The people of Madrid, who on the 3d inst. bore Riego in triumph through the streets, hissed him on the 6th, when he set off for Oviedo, his place of exile. It is added, that, being convinced that his conduct was displeasing to government, his behaviour at Oviedo was highly becoming.

The Cortes of Spain decreed on the 17th ult. that a general ainnesty shall be pro

The infantry amounts only to 11,742 men, of all ranks upon paper; but they have scarcely ever been mustered or drilled-are ill paid, fed, and clothed; and, indeed, completely abandoned.

AMERICA.

BRAZILS.-Private accounts have been received from Rio Janeiro, dated August 1st, from which it appears that the Brazils are by no means in a settled state, and that it is not improbable the revolution in Portugal will extend itself across the Atlantic. Letters from Bahia, Pernambuco, and other northern parts of the Brazils, from houses of the first respectability, are written evidently under the apprehensions of the occurrence of some important event, and it is even more than suspected that the projected revolution in Portugal was known in the Brazils so early as June last.

WEST INDIES.-Port-au-Prince, in the island of St Domingo, has recently suffered dreadfully by fire. The particulars are stated in the following letter from that place, dated August 20, 1820.

"I have to inform you of the dreadful catastrophe which has befallen this city. On Tuesday morning, between 11 and 12 o'clock, a fire was discovered in the upper part of Dr Cruchon's house, which com municated to every part of the building in so short a time, that the utmost exertions of the inhabitants were of no avail; scarcely any thing was saved. The want of water rendered it impossible to stop the progress of the fire, and unfortunately there are no engines in the city. The seabreeze coming in at the same time, caused the flames to take a north-easterly direction, and ten squares of the richest, most populous, and best-built part of the city, were in a few hours in ashes. Where lately stood hundreds of shops, filled with merchandize, are now smoking ruins. Such was the fury of the devouring element, that upwards of six hundred houses have been totally destroyed. With the destruction of the houses, and the property contained in them, the loss is moderately calculated at five millions of dollars."

DEFENCE OF THE QUEEN. HOUSE OF LORDS.-October 3.The House met this day at ten o'clock, pursuant to adjournment, and after some preliminary business, counsel were called in, when Mr BROUGHAM commenced his speech in defence of her Majesty, of which the following is as full an abstract as our limits will admit.

He began by observing, That, as the opinion of the public had already decided on the case of his client, as he had nothing but perjury to dread, he felt some dismay lest his feeble efforts should turn against him those millions of their Lordships' fellow-subjects who already pronounced loudly the innocence of his client; as they could not fail justly to impute it to him if that impression were weakened which the case against her Majesty had made in her favour. My Lords, the Princess Caroline of Brunswick arrived in this country in the year 1796, the niece of the Sovereign, the intended Consort of the Heir-Apparent of the Crown herself not a very remote heir to the Crown of England. But, my Lords, I now go back to that period only for the purpose of passing over the whole time till the year 1814, when her Majesty left this country. I rejoice that for the present the most faithful discharge of my duty to my client enables me to do so. Were it not that the cause of the Queen, as affected by the evidence against her, not only does not

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require recrimination-I should have felt it my painful duty to submit evidence on that subject to your Lordships. I abstain from making use of materials which I possess. And if I should be so far disappointed in the failure of the case against me, that the futility of the whole accusation should not be manifest to your Lordships, I am sure that not only I, but not any, the youngest member of the profession, would hesitate in the fearless discharge of the duty which would then fall on an advocate. It is false and foul to say as those who, under pretence of their duty to God, forget their plainest duty to their fellow-creatures, have asserted, and they know that it is false and foul when they assert it-that there are any improprieties admitted on the part of the Queen. I deny that they are admitted; I deny that the evidence proves it; I assert that the evidence disproves it. One admission I make, and let my Learned Friend take that and make the most of it, for it is all I shall admit: I grant that her Majesty left this country for Italy; that she associated chiefly with foreigners; I grant that she associated with company inferior to that among which she here moved. I admit that while she was here she had enjoyed, not the protection of her own family, but the company of your Lordships, and the families of your Lordships; 1 admit that, when she left England, she mingled with

Italian nobility, and sometimes even with Italian commonalty. But who are they that bring this charge? It is not for your Lordships to do so. You are the last per sons in the world who should talk of this. You are the witnesses whom I have to call to vindicate her Majesty from that charge. While here, the Princess of Wales courteously opened the doors of her palace to the families of the Peers of England; she condescended to mix with those virtuous persons; she condescended to court your society and so long as your associating with her could second views which were not her views-so long as interests (which were not her interests) could be promoted thereby, she did not court it in vain. But when the lust of place and power, of which she was the instrument and the victim, saw that it was to be gratified elsewhere, she courted your company in vain. It was then that Peers and Peeresses, whom she had condescended to court, deserted her. In the midst of the injury thus heaped upon her, she still had one support in the undiminished respect and affection of her much loved, and revered, and lamented daughter. But when the marriage of that daughter was contemplated; when all England was occupied with this subject which so much concerned it; the only person to whom it was not announced was the mother! All she had done to merit this neglect was, that she, by the evidence which he had brought against her, had been proved to be innocent of the crime with which he had charged her. When that marriage actually took place, it was only known to the mother of the Princess Charlotte by a courier sent to announce the union to the Pope-that ancient, and valued, and faithful ally of the Protestant succession. A fatal event then happened, which was communicated to the Allied Powers who might sympathize in it, and even to powers not allied to us, by special messengers. But the person who had the most interest in the event was left to have her feelings stunned and overwhelmed, by hearing by accident of the death, as she had heard of the marriage, of her daughter. The decease of the Princess Charlotte of Wales was only signified to her mother by the issuing of the Milan Commission. See the unhappy fate of this Illustrious Woman! Her lot it has been always to lose her surest stay when the greatest dangers threatened; and hardly has there been one loss which she has sustained, which has not been the signal for an attack upon her existence ! Mr Pitt, her first defender and early friend in this country, died in 1806; few weeks elapsed before a charge of treason was made against her. Mr Pitt left her as a legacy to Mr Percival-Mr Percival was her firm, able, and undaunted advocate. No sooner had Mr

Percival fallen by the hand of an assassin, than she felt it by the renewal of the attacks which his gallantry and uncommon constancy had dissipated. Mr Whitbread was then her defender; when that catastrophe occurred, which good men of all parties lamented, she then heard the distant rumbling of another storm, which did not then approach her, for her daughter stood her friend, and the world then worshipped the rising sun. When that daughter died, all that storm which had been gathering burst on her head by the appointment of the Milan Commission. And, as if no day of loss to my Illustrious Client could pass without some act in the drama against her, the day in which her constant friend and our late revered Sovereign was laid in the earth, that same sun ushered the ringleader of the band of perjured wit nesses into the palace of her consort.-Mr Brougham then adverted to the palpable falsehood of the witnesses for the prosecution. His Learned Friend had first stated that he would bring forward witnesses to prove her Majesty's misconduct down to the present time, and then he produces witnesses who swear to her misconduct to within three years of the present time. Then at Naples his Learned Friend had stated, and he prayed their Lordships' attention to this, he should show there were decisive marks of two persons having slept in the bed. Upon her return from the opera, said he, she went to Bergami's bedroom, and was inaccessible on the following day. Every one of these facts, as stated in succession, rises in importance one above the other; and every one of which he not only fails to prove, but is actually negatived by the witness brought to support them. Demont, who swears to nothing decisive, denies she knew at what hour the Princess returned-denies she knew where Bergami slept, and says that her Majesty was up the following day at her usual hour. He came next to the masquerade. She did not go in her own state coach, with bedizened trappings, with all the pomp of a princess: she went in a hired carriage, says he, without the Royal Arms painted on the pannels; and she actually went out at the back door, instead of going by the front, and displaying to the world the great feat she was about to accomplish. He (Mr Brougham) wondered he had not added that she disguised herself in a domino. Then, says his Learned Friend, I am instructed to state that the dress of the Queen was most indecent and disgusting, and so much so that she was hooted from the public theatre. The witness, however, only said that her dress was exceedingly ugly, and that she wore an ugly masqke.—The Attorney-General had said, that at Messina the Queen and Bergami were locked up together at night in the same bed-room;

and that at Zavouna, on the 12th of April, the only access to her bed-room was from his. The witness, however, only swore to one of these facts. His Learned Friend had said, that she remained a very considerable time in the room with Bergami, during which they were heard kissing each other. He (Mr Brougham) had no doubt his Learned Friend had this fact in his paper, but he had it nowhere else. A courier, he said, who returned from Milan, would prove, that upon his entrance Bergami came from the Queen's room-that he was confused, and explained the reason of his having been there, saying he had heard his child cry, and had gone to see what was the matter with it. Sacchi not only does not speak of such a thing, but denies it as strongly as a man can deny any thing, by denying all recollection whatever of it. Mr Brougham then observed upon the statement of his Majesty's Attorney-General, that no respectable person had kept company with the Queen, and asked how he had forgotten Lady Charlotte Lindsay's joining her after all this shocking conduct, also Lady Campbell, &c. She was courteously received by the legitimate, (so far as descent can legitimize,) by the legitimate Duke of Baden; she was also not only received but courted by the legitimate Stewarts of Sardinia, who were, according to some persons, more legitimate than the Brunswicks. Now her Majesty was not only thus received by these Princes, but by a Sovereign, whose legitimacy was, if the lapse of ages gave legitimacy, more legitimate than his Excellency the Bey of Tunis. She was also received by the Representative of the British Nation at Constantinople. In short, everywhere, and on all occasions, she was received by persons of the first distinction. Suffer me now, my Lords, the indulgence to look a little more narrowly at the case opened by the Attorney-General, and which has not been proved by him. The first thing worth remarking, which must have struck your Lordships, was, that it was marvellous, with all the means which the other side possessed, they had not only fallen short of the case which was opened, but short of any foundation for the charges against her Majesty. The parties are said not only to have used no caution, but to have cautiously used every means of discovery on themselves which their most malignant adversary could wish for. In proportion as the acts alleged are criminal, in the same proportion are the witnesses numerous and their opportunities good. In short, unless human nature is altered, no human beings could have acted as her Majesty and Bergami are said to have done. They are asserted to have several times saluted; but a kiss never occurs without care being taken that witnesses should be present. One of the

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witnesses at Naples had left the room, and they wait until he returns, before they em brace. At Terracina they retire into a room, but not alone, and they wait until Majocchi enters before the familiarity takes place. They are seen sitting close together on a gun on the deck of a vessel; this is an act of a still higher colour, and it is therefore stated to be done in the presence of eleven persons; but when they are sitting in such a manner as to leave nothing to the imagination, this occurs in presence of all passengers and crew, and in the height of open daylight. But the case is not left here. The parties are nothing less than the allies of their accusers.-So far is this done, that Bergami cannot retire into a room with the Princess to change their dresses, to strip themselves from head to foot, but the honest Swiss waiting-maid is placed at the door, and told what they are going to do, and that she is to remain there until their purposes are accomplished. ever vice so unwary, was ever such folly exhibited, was ever passion so unmasked? Even when the blood was boiling in youth, was there ever beings so recklessly—so insanely regardless of every consideration that belongs to human nature? Queen comes to England and confronts the witnesess which are brought against her, notwithstanding the threats with which she was overwhelmed, and refused every offer to compromise her honour. He (Mr B.) had read human nature very erroneously if these were not the symptoms of innocence unsuspected. First, what was the description of evidence brought forward? Servants who had lived for years in her Majesty's service; servants who had been well tutored abroad, and then were brought to this country, to which they might never return, and to speak before a tribunal of which they were unacquainted, and from which they had no reason to dread any thing, and in a country where they had no character at stake. These were the very persons conspirators would employ. All foreigners are not made of these materials; but if there was one nation more adapted to such a plot than another, he was convinced it was the country of Augustus, where. it was proverbial that evidence could always be procured for money from among the lower classes in Italy. You remember the Attorney-General opened his case with the description of a dancer; and endeavoured to illustrate an exhibition the most brutal and humiliating to human nature. He describes the most indecent attitudes. I will show you how the Attorney-General knew this to be most important. After an interval of three or four days, he brings others to prove what the first witnesses had not swore. This ought to speak volumes against the evidence. Majocchi's general answer was, (you all know,) Non mi ricordo,