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when questioned as to the attitudes of this dancer he had not seen, or did not remember. The Solicitor-General asked, 'Did he use any part of his dress?' swer, 'No.' Again, Did he move his trowsers?' Majocchi says his trowsers were always in the same state. Here, my Lords, was no shadow of proof. My Lords, I tell you plainly, that this dance has been witnessed by wives and daughters, as modest, virtuous, and unspotted, as any your Lordships are acquainted with. He next called the attention of their Lordships to the general nature of the testimony for the support of the Bill. Instead of witnesses being called to prove what the Attorney-General had dwelt upon with so much emphasis in his opening speech-instead of the ladies, who, as he had insinuated, had left the service of the Queen in consequence of the impropriety of conduct evinced by her Majesty, he, lest they should form a strange contrast with every witness brought forward for his case, with the exception of only two, omitted to call upon ladies who best knew why they had left this Princess, on whose character no imputation had been, or could be cast, and then he had left to the defence. If the case was closed here-if he brought forward no witnesses to rebut the testimony for the Bill-could their Lordships pass it? He thought not. Mr Brougham then, at one o'clock, expressed his wish that their Lordships would allow him some minutes to recover from exhaustion, and to take some refreshment. After having been absent for an hour, he resumed-He defied the wit of man to conceive cases of more flagrant perjury than those to be found in the evidence of Majoc. chi. In answer to the Attorney-General's questions, he stated that the room of Bergami was near and communicating with that of her Majesty, while those of the rest of the suite were distant and apart; yet when he is asked, on his cross-examination, where these other rooms were, he says he does not remember. As another sample of his veracity, Mr Brougham referred to his evidence respecting the positions of the rooms at the Villa d'Este, which he read, and demonstrated its inconsistency, observing that it was by much the safest way to build a conspiracy on a foundation of facts, which, with little address, and a good deal of drilling, might endanger the life of an honest man, or the honour of an Illustrious Princess. As further evidence of Majocchi's perjury, Mr Brougham enumerated the instances in which his recollection was so precise as to enable him to state, to the very minute, the time at which any fact occurred, while under the examination of the Attorney-General : but on his cross-examination he could not even state how many hours at night they used to travel. In excuse for which forgetfulness

he alleged he had no watch. Mr Brougham next exposed his shuffling with respect to the money he had received, and showed that the facts he was swearing to could not have existed, or he must have remembered better what he had stated at Milan, from which the Attorney-General had stated, that he heard Bergami kissing the Queen, while Majocchi only swore he heard them whis pering. Mr Brougham next exposed the absurdity of his testimony, in swearing that the Queen went through his room on her way to that of Bergami, when she might have gone another way, by which she might have escaped detection, while her going through the room in which he (Majocchi) was sleeping, in a bed without curtains, and to whose eyes she held a candle, rendered detection and exposure inevitable. What he swore respecting his leaving her Royal Highness's service must be gross perjury; for he said, in one breath, that he would rather eat the grass than live in a house such as the Princess's; and in the next, he said that he had applied to be taken back, on his own admission, once; and when asked, had he not often applied, his answer was-Non mi ricordo. Mr Brough am then passed to the Master and Mate of the polacre, who, he said, were the best paid witnesses, or even Italians, on record, and went on to show that the sums which they got for compensation far exceeded the income of the Italian nobility of the first rank. Eight thousand pounds a year was stated to be the annual profits of the Mate's vessel, which at Naples was equal to L. 16,000 or L. 20,000 in England; and this was what no ship-owner in the kingdom of the Two Sicilies was worth. But the evidence of the Captain evidently proceeded from spite, as well as from the hope of reward. It was bottomed in revenge; for he had quarrelled with Bergami about not receiving L. 1300, which he said had been promised him; and the only knowledge which the prosecutor in this case had of the witness was, that he made a claim upon the government of this country for that L. 1300. Mr Brougham then pointed out the contradiction between the testimony of the Master and Mate, respecting her Royal Highness being seen sitting on the gun, and Bergami and she kissing; and dwelt upon that part of the Master's evidence where he says, that on seeing the Princess and Bergami leaning together over the side of the vessel, he had sent away the crew to another part of the ship, lest they might witness this familiarity.He wished to remind their Lordships what kind of a person Madame Demont described herself to be; he wished to take her own account. She said she was the enemy of mankind; she did not like mankind in the abstract. She had, however, formed an attachment to one man-an Italian

Gentleman she called him; she would not call him a servant. She loved sweet liberty, and to its pursuit this mountain nymph had devoted herself. She has a talent for telling a story, and it was her constant practice to deal in double entendres, so that it is impossible to arrive at her meaning. The whole universe believed her testimony to be false, and he hoped their Lordships would not prove an exception to all the rest of mankind. One thing he forgot to mention, was the affection Madame Demont had expressed for her sister, who was just coming into the world at the innocent age of fifteen, and she did all in her power to obtain a situation for that sister; a situation, if her own account is to be credited, the most unfit for any virtuous person, especially for Madame Demont's own sister. Here he reverted to the evidence of Sacchi -a servant, an Italian, a courier, who pretends to be a gentleman, and says,"Thank God, he has always been independent.”—Indeed, my Lords, allowing that this man had received a pair of colours, this does not prove the Italians in the French army to be of a very scrupulous character. He went, by three names, two of which we only know. When he first came here, he commenced double entendres. He also said he was in the service of a respectable Spanish family, and that he intended to commence a law-suit against her. Now, my Lords, I take leave to ask, how he has procured the place he now holds with a servant attending him. We must suppose he gets his money, not in a very creditable way, and that he is paid by some unknown party. On asking him why did he change his name, he answered, on account of the tumult;" happily, he does not recollect that he came over to this country in the year 1819, and that the tumult did not happen till the year 1820. The Attorney-General very properly did not press him further on this point. But Mr Brougham then proceeded to comment on the improbability of the facts sworn to by Sacchi on his drawing aside the curtains of the carriage. He asked what would be thought if he proved that carriage was an English carriage, with spring blinds, which Sacchi could not raise without putting his hands through the window. Sacchi was asked whether any person beside the Queen and Bergami was in the carriage, and for that question he provided the device of his celebrated predecessor-Majocchi, Non mi ricordo. Mr Brougham remarked on the improbability of this forgetfulness, but said it should not cover the gentleman, for he would prove there was a third person in the carriage. After remarking on some other parts of Sacchi's evidence, the House adjourned; it being four o'clock.

Oct. 4. Mr Brougham proceeded nearly as follows: My Lords, How comes it that

there was an extraordinary want of talents in the deputies who were employed to procure witnesses? In the whole of the Helvetic League, but a single witness, a waiting maid, could be found. In all the circles of Germany, there was also but one witness discovered, and she was the waiter, or cellar-maid, or servant of the waiter at an inn. In the capital of Germany no witness was obtained. Mr Brougham then commented with great ability on the evidence of Krantz. If there was a want of witnesses from Germany, there was no want of agents there to procure them; neither did these agents want resources, activity, or industry.

I feel satisfaction, however,

my Lords, in adding, that they were all German agents, and that not a single British subject is to be found among them. I introduce fearlessly to your Lordships the Baron Rhaden, the Minister of Wirtemberg, whose throne was filled by a Princess Royal of England. He had heard the Queen was about to arrive, and he most courteously gave up his own apartments, from which, as soon as he separated, the Queen took possession of them; and the moment she departed from them he returned, and set about examining everything; "running everywhere," to use Barbara Krantz's expression, looking into the sheets, and taking notes of what had passed, to please those who, I know and feel, were about sending him on such a duty. Yet he does not condescend to come forward as a witness; he does not show the same boldness in degrading himself before your Lordships, as when he degraded himself and his sovereign before the world. But his absence is of paramount importance, as there is no witness produced to support his story but Barbara Krantz. Let us pursue the testimony of this only witness. She tells you she was brought over by compulsion, and at the same time she made her bargain for her loss of time. Your Lordships see in her evidence with what reluctance the amount of the compensation she had received was wrung from her. Were you examined before? Yes: at Hanover. What had you for going there? It was so little I can't recollect. It was little-very little."-page 193. Why the less it was the more easily remembered. But this nothing turned out to be a larger sum by five times than the amount of her wages→→ what if it was ten times greater? No man, in the employment of his plain understanding, will pretend to say he can believe this woman, who says she expects nothing in future! when her expectations must be measured by the past. I before observed to your Lordships, that the Ambassador is not here-there are others also not here. There are other persons belonging to the Queen's suite, whose absence I shall have to observe is most important. But let us

ther was what is called a considerable proprietor in the North of Italy; he had, however, the misfortune to get into difficulties-a misfortune, my Lords, which has befallen many honourable men, and his son sold his estates to pay his father's debts. Bergami was thus reduced; but he was a reduced gentleman; as such, too, he was considered and treated by all who knew him. When in General Pino's service, he dined at the General's table, while the latter was Commandant of Milan. During the Spanish campaign he was highly respected and esteemed he was encouraged, because they knew his former pretensions and his present merits. When he was hired he was proposed by a nobleman in the Austrian service as courier to the Queen, and was hired by her chamberlain without the knowledge of her Majesty.Mr Brougham then read a letter of the late King's to his daughter-in-law, then Princess of Wales, upon the subject of the charges then brought against her. The Learned Gentleman then read the celebrated Letter from the Prince of Wales to the Princess, in which he promised her tranquillity. I do not, he continued, call it a letter of licence, as it has been called, but I call it such an epistle as must have rendered it matter of great wonder to the person who received it, that her conduct should afterwards have been made the subject of such unscrupulous and unsparing scrutiny. Mr Brougham concluded his speech by the following eloquent appeal to their Lordships, which was delivered with corresponding animation." My Lords, I pray your Lordships to pause! You, my Lords, are standing on the brink of a dreadful precipice; your judgment will go forth to the world; if that judgment is against the Queen, it may be the last and only judgment you will ever pronounce! That judgment, my Lords, will fail in its object, and it will return with redoubled violence on those who give it! Save the country, my Lords, from the heaviest calamity of a civil war! Save yourselves, my Lords, from the situation in which you are now standing! Rescue that country of which you are the ornament, but in which you can flourish no longer when severed from the people, than can the blossom when it is cut off from the root and stem of the tree! Save that country, my Lords, that you may continue to be the ornament of it! Save the crown which is in jeopardy, and the aristocracy, which is shaken, as is also the altar itself, which never more can stand secure! If your judgment be against the Queen, it will shake to the foundation the kindred throne! You, my Lords, have willed, the Church and Crown have willed, that the Queen shall be left out of the solemn service, but she has had the prayers of the people; and, my Lords,

again cross the Alps. Except those I have mentioned, the other witnesses were merely make-weights. The character and nature of these were of the lowest class of society-some of them even degraded-whose testimony, after all the pains bestowed upon them, there was a total failure to clothe with the appearance of probability. Rastelli, who swears to the greatest abomination having been practised in the open face of day, had his lips practically sealed, never to be opened but before the Milan Commission, though belonging to a class of men who are appointed as gossips by their station. Was it possible for the Princess of Wales to be sailing on the Lake of Como, or riding in the open face of day with her servant, in situations which no person could look at without a blush? He never did conceal it. He might have concealed it till he had hatched the story, but he kept it secret no longer than the commission at Milan demanded it, and rewarded him for his invention. Do your Lordships remember a wretch who kept the inn at Carlsrhue? Do your Lordships recollect his physiognomy; the damnable expression of his eye; the brutal passions pourtrayed by that mouth? Do your Lordships recollect the damnable eye of that old lecher? Him I recollect perfectly. He shall not go without punishment; he shall not escape without receiving the reward due to his villany. I have him here. There are many others who may escape without punishment;-many who have sworn falsely ;-but him I will prevent. The Learned Gentleman here explained the horrible falsehoods of which this witness had been guilty. And then, with great ability, went over the fabrications of Demont, &c. respecting Naples. He next reminded their Lordships there were two witnesses who were not both called, though it was open to the Attorney-General to call them the two maids who slept in the room next to the Queen.-Perhaps in the sister of Demont she is harbouring this moment a second viper. I shall present her to your Lordships, assuring you that it is perfectly gratuitous on her part; and in order to prevent any person from supposing that there exists a witness we dare not call. My Lords, I am told that Bergami was promoted from an humble sphere of life, and that his promotion is a just cause of suspicion. I should be sorry, my Lords, ever to see the day when, in this free country, deserved promotion would become a cause of suspicion. Let me observe, however, that the rapidity with which Bergami was promoted has been greatly exaggerated, and that it took place in a manner which could not have proceeded from love. My Lords, he was promoted, not from affection, but for merit. He was, as you will find, not, as has been asserted, of low origin; his fa

I do pour forth my supplications at the throne of mercy, that mercy may be poured down on these people in a larger measure than the merits of the rulers deserve; and I pray, my Lords, that your hearts may turn towards justice, and not go therefrom."

Mr Williams, by permission of their Lordships, followed Mr Brougham, and commented with much ability on various discrepancies in the evidence, which had been passed over by the former. He then proceeded to call witnesses.

Oct. 5.-Mr Lemain, clerk of the Queen's Solicitor, had been sent to Carlsruhe with a letter from her Majesty to the chamberlain of the Grand Duke of Baden. The chamberlain was perfectly willing to give evidence for her Majesty, but the Grand Duke would not consent to his departure. Lord Liverpool here offered to send off a messenger to the court of Baden, to request the chamberlain's attendance.

Col. Butler St Leger was chamberlain to her Majesty. Went abroad with her Majesty in 1814, as far as Brunswick; went no farther on account of his ill health. Received a communication from her Majesty in 1819; joined her when she came to England, and requested permission to resign his office, solely on account of ill health. The Earl of Guildford saw Bergami at Naples, when he was a courier. Remain ed at Naples only a few days; saw the Queen at Rome, and remained there a few days. Next saw the Queen at Civita Vecchia. Dined with her Majesty every day. Again saw her Majesty at the Villa d'Este, on the Lake of Como. Dined with the Queen. Bergami sat at the table. His Lordship saw Bergami and the Queen in a boat on the Lake of Como. Bergami rowed the boat. The Queen did not introduce Bergami to his Lordship; but she did introduce Countess Oldi to him, although not as Bergami's sister. Never saw any improper familiarities between the Queen and Bergami, at any time, The Countess of Oldi was affable, very modest, and not in the least vulgar.-On dining with the Queen, never saw any particular attention paid to Bergami, or any thing remarkable between them. Bergami's deportment towards the Queen was very respectful, but nothing particular. Noticed that the conduct and manners of Bergami were unassuming, unobtrusive, and not at all forward.

Lord Glenbervie met the Queen at Genoa; Lady Glenbervie volunteered to act as lady of the bed-chamber until the arrival of Lady Charlotte Campbell; the best company of Genoa visited at the Queen's house, where Lord Glenbervie frequently dined with his lady. Bergami was treated as a servant, without any undue familiarity; he behaved towards his mistress with becoming respect.

Lady Charlotte Lindsay quitted the Queen at Brunswick, according to an agreement made before they left England, in 1814. In March 1815, saw and attended her at Naples, where all the English of distinction, and many Neapolitans, and other foreigners of rank, visited her Majesty, and frequented her table; accompanied the Queen to Rome, Civita Vecchia, and Leghorn-left her Majesty there to have the advantage of her brother's (the present Earl of Guildford) escort to England -never saw any unbecoming familiarity with Bergami-resigned the Queen's service, in 1817, in consequence of the advice of her brother.

Oct. 6. The Earl of Llandaff.-He and his lady visited the Queen, whilst in Italy, in 1814. He never saw any thing improper in the conduct of her Majesty, or such as to render it unpleasant for the Countess of Landaff to be there. He saw Bergami there constantly, and never witnessed, in the demeanour of her Majesty towards him, any behaviour at all improper.

It was customary in Italy for ladies to see both men and women visitors in their bed-chambers, and he had thus fre quently visited her Majesty, in the morning, sometimes with a little child in his hand, of which she was fond. In a similar way, he had visited several other ladies of unimpeachable character, and frequently whilst they were in bed. There was nothing in the conduct of her Majesty to reflect disgrace on her own country.

The Hon. Keppel Craven was in her Majesty's service in 1814, for six months. One of the couriers of her Majesty being dismissed for misconduct, he applied to Marquis Desiglari, in the service of the Emperor of Austria; who very strongly recommended Bergami as fit to be received and trusted in her Majesty's service; adding, that he knew his family very well, and that he was much interested for him. Witness accompanied her Majesty to Naples, and remembers perfectly well the three dresses worn by her Majesty at the masked ball, given in compliment to the King of Naples. The dress of the Genius of History came high up about the neck, and was not in the smallest degree indecent or improper. He never observed any impropriety of conduct or degrading familiarity between her Majesty and Bergami. The manners of Bergami were those of a gentleman.

Sir W. Gell, her Majesty's Chamberlain, had accompanied her abroad. Remembers a courier having been discharged in Italy, and the Marquis Desiglari recommended Bergami as a proper person to succeed him ; he said he had known his family, which was reduced, but that he knew him to be honest, faithful, and honourable; that he was above the situation of courier, but he