In the conducting of the defence with regard to evidence, though a hundred objections could be made, I need mention only one instance; namely, that

was very clear to every one who attended to the subject, that, if the facts could be established, that the Queen did actually sleep under a tent for the

tor to the King rather than lose is not allied to contempt, it sight of the defence of his client. never leads to the inspiring of This speech was calculated confidence of success to the pito produce the worst possible tied object. impression. The faulterings of fear became manifest within six sentences of its commencement. At a time when nothing should have dropped from his lips that did not breathe defiance, and of neglecting to establish clearanticipate triumph, all was hum-ly the falsehood of the charges ble, all was submissive, all was with regard to the polacre. It reliance upon the wisdom and justice of the judges: nothing was heard, but of the enormous difficulties under which the speaker laboured; the dreadful weight of responsibility upon space of five weeks, and that his shoulders; the hardship of her Chamberlain slept under the unfortunate lady whom it was his duty to defend; and not a word about her cruel persecutors; about their atrocious very clear that, if these facts proceedings; about her undaunt- were clearly established; and, ed resolution to repel their at- that, if nothing was done to tacks; and about his resolution prove clearly the necessity of a to be amongst those who should man constantly sleeping under perish by her side rather than that tent; it was clear to every see another act of injustice in-one that if these naked facts, flicted upon her. In short, the without any explanation, were

the same tent for that five weeks, and that no other person slept there during that time; it was

established; the fair and honest inference was, that an adulterous intercourse did take place.

description of his client was sufficiently doleful to excite pity; and, perhaps, he thought that enough, forgetting that pity is the most short-lived passion that inhabits the human breast, and facts. that, in the few cases where it of the evidence against the

Now, then, the master and his mate had sworn to these This was the only part

Queen, which presented any drawn from this latter witness thing like difficulty; and the by cross-examination: tell any difficulty arose from the bare honest plain English family this, fact being true; and from the and, in spite of all their strong total disacquaintance of people feelings in favour of the Queen, in general with those circum- they will say that the fair instances, which, if properly ex-ference is, that there really was plained, would destroy the in- an adulterous intercourse carference naturally resulting from ried on between the parties. the fact. Tell any family of plain honest people, who have never been on board a ship, and who can have little more knowledge of the state of things there than they have of what is passing in the moon; tell such a family (and of such families the nation is composed); tell such a family that the master and Journeymen Bricklayers. All mate of the vessel have positive-these might have been left, with ly sworn, that Bergami and the great safety, to be destroyed Queen slept both under the by the characters of those witsame tent, one upon a sofa, and nesses. But, besides this, their the other upon a bed, every atrocious falsehoods were fully night, for five weeks, nobody met upon every point but this,

else being under the tent, at the

Here, then, there was something to defend the Queen against. All the stories about the disposition of chambers in dwelling-houses and at inns. All the signs and wonders and pretty little circumstances related by De Mont, Majocchi, Sacchini, Barbara Krantz, and the

by the testimony of credible same time; tell such a family witnesses. But this polacre that such a fact has been posi-scene remained. The testimony, tively sworn to in evidence here, so far from being negativagainst the Queen; then tell ed, by other witnesses, was conthem, further, that this evidence firmed by the testimony of the has been confirmed by the Queen's own witness, and by Queen's own attendant, and that most zealous person, too, one of her own witnesses, Lieutenant Hownam, who had and a Lieutenant in the Navy, sent a challenge to the picktoo; and further tell them that lock Baron.

this acknowledgment has been

Was it not, then, of vital im

portance to prove, to the Court, opportunities for the space of and more especially to the peo- nearly two months to question ple, that the description given Hownam upon the subject; and of this affair was wholly decep- yet he suffers the acknowledgtive; that it was made to appear ment of Hownam of the truth of before the public as being a this fact, to be drawn out of him, thing wholly different from as it were reluctantly, by a what it was; that, in short, the cross-examination! And he whole story was a lie in the leaves it after his re-examinawords of truth; that it was a tent by name, and not a tent, in fact; that the parties did sleep under it, and yet that it was not two people sleeping under a tent; that though the Baron was under the tent with the Queen every night, it was absolutely necessary for him to be

there, or for some man to be

tion, almost in its pristine state of nudity, unexplained by any questions and answers showing the existence of that necessity for the Baron's being under the tent in the night-time, of which necessity Hownam must have been convinced, and to which he would have sworn clearly and positively.

Was this a matter to be left

there, in order to secure her against broken limbs, and pro-to the common-place drudgery bably against being killed? of Mr. Vizard; was the leavWas it not necessary to do this; was not this a part of that boun den duty of which Mr. Brougham talked so much? And yet, what did this lawyer do, what attempt did he make, towards the performance of this most important part of his duty?

ing of this matter to the scrabbling of an attorney; was this shewing that true " chivalrous" spirit of which Mr. Denman speaks in the close of his twodays' tissue of feebleness? Hownam's head seems to have been confused enough. The "blunt He had heard the swearings" tar," seems, indeed, in one of the Queen's adversaries, as to sense, to have fully merited the this fact. He knew well the epithet; but, if I had had such weight of the fact itself. He a fact to deal with, and had must have known that Hownam known that Hownam was to would be cross-examined with corroborate it, I would have regard to it: he had abundant planked him down to the same

table with myself; I would [undescribed even to the precise have got from him a description situations of the couch of her

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of this thing nick-named a tent; Majesty and the pretended bed I would have stripped it of its of her Chamberlain. name of tent pretty quickly; I would have made him describe would have made him tell me to me the dangers to which her that it was made up of old sails, Majesty was exposed from sudthat it was fastened with strings den squalls; from the violence of to different parts of the ship; the waves, and from other accithat it covered a space of four dents which are continually to hundred and fourteen square be apprehended in such a situfeet; that the place of the Ba-ation. I would have got at ron's bed was not probably with- a full knowledge of all his in sixteen or eighteen feet of slang about larboard and starthat of the couch of her Ma-board, about heeling and pitchjesty; and that, in fact, he only ing and tacking and wearslept, when he did sleep, upon ing and reefing and all the the same deck with the Queen. rest of the gibberish that trips I would have had from him, so glibly off the tongue of a or from somebody else, under sailor; and that fills his head his direction, a plan of the deck with conceit when he finds it of the vessel, showing the situ- not understood by persons on ation of this thing nick-named land. I would have caught a tent; shewing where the man him by the button and comat the helm stood the whole of every night; shewing where the binnacle was with the two lights burning in it constantly every night; shewing the station of the several persons of the crew during the night: describing the general station of the officer on watch; describing the hatchway going from the interior of this pretty little tent down into the cabin, or swaist of the vessel;ger of being dashed across the and, in short, leaving nothing deck every time the vessel took

pelled him to talk to me in the language of this world. When he talked of heeling, I would have taken my pen, held it up before him, and made him describe to me in what degree the deck of the vessel was made to become a slope upon certain occasions; I would have made him shew me how nearly the Queen must have been in dan

a heel: I would have made him deck near at hand to protect

her Majesty; being prepared with my plan, I would have put the polacre scene in the very front of my case. I would

explain what the shipping of a sea meant; and I would have made him, even from his "blunt" lips, prove to the public, that the shipping of a sea, which have saved myself the trouble might happen at any time of of making, and the Judges the any night, might, without speedy time of hearing, a fulsome assistance, have dashed her eulogium upon themselves, and Majesty to the opposite side of a most false eulogium upon the deck, if it had not sent her Pitt and Perceval; I would for ever beyond the reach of have gone at once into my all her malignant persecutors. case, and would have taken This is a part, and a part the polacre charge as a only, of what I would have striking instance of the maligdone with Lieut. Hownam be-nity, as well as the falsehood fore I would have placed him of the accusations against my at the bar. If I could not have client. I would have made this got plain common-sense an- a substantive point in the openswers out of his mouth, I would ing of my defence. I would have confronted with him some have had my plan in my hand; one of the many thousands of I would have minutely described intelligent merchants and su. every circumstance; I would percargoes, who are in this have cited every corroborative city, and who have sailed in proof of the truth of each cirthe Levant. I would have cumstance; I would have exclearly understood all about the plained the thing so clearly, whole matter, and I would that a farmer and his family, have made him understand who had never seen a ship or very clearly, or, at least, quite a wave, should have compreclearly enough for the purposes hended the whole matter as of truth, what I wanted to ex- clearly as I comprehended it mytract from him. self; and before I had done,

Having done this; having before I had dismissed this satisfied myself that I had got point, even in my opening proof of the necessity of some speech, I would have put forth man being constantly upon the that which should have filled