the public with indignation dence was all-important. It reagainst the prosecutors, and with lated to things going on upon admiration at the bravery of my an element of which the people client. Tears of compassion knew nothing; and was such a for her sufferings, mixed with witness to be left to a mill-horse those of joy at her approaching of an attorney, to a mere grinder triumph, should have bedewed of briefs! the cheeks, not of my hearers, perhaps, but certainly of my just and generous readers.

This man's story, this "blunt British tar's" story, to Capt. Briggs, and which story, by the by, this other "blunt British tar”

When I came to the production of my witnesses, the bung-kept as safe and as snug as ling Lieutenant should have a pocket-pistol, and did not re- ' been the first. I would have mind Hownam of it when Howleft the-perjuries and amours of nam went to see him a little De Mont, and the rest of that while ago, though Hownam then tribe, to bring up the rear. My asked him what evidence he Lieutenant should have taken had to give, and though the the lead, and I would have had Captain could remember not to such a harvest out of him, as to forget to relate the story to leave the Solicitor-General not Cockburn, one of the Lords of the a single ear to glean. I would Admiralty! This man's story to not, as Mr. Brougham did, have Captain Briggs about his having run scrambling over the head gone upon his knees, and with of the crop, and left the clean tears in his eyes, to beseech the reaper to come after me. Every Princess not to take Bergami to doubtful thing; every thing to her table; this story shows which suspicion could be made what a sort of man Hownam to attach; every particle of must be; and should not I, if I matter that had adhesion in had been a sharp-sighted lawit, would I have had out of yer, like Mr. Brougham, have him, or I would have left him discovered what sort of a man without either brains or tongue. he was; and, having made that Mr. Brougham had known this discovery, should I have flung Hownam long enough: he had him down to be rummaged and had nearly four months of oppor- raked and turned inside out by tunity to talk with him. His evi- the Solicitor General? Should I

have brought such a man there, Hownam? Of what avail can

these be, while the idea of a tent; of a snug tent; of a couch and a bed near each other, hidden from all eyes, quiet and

knowing what point he was to be questioned to, with nothing but the brief of Mr. Vizard in my hand, and without being prepared with the means, even secure, during five whole weeks; of an efficient re-examination, while these impressions remain after a cross-examination of three unremoved; while the agitation whole days!

In every case where great attention and great labour is required, an ounce of industry is

of the vessel, the buffettings of the waves, the constant peril, the incessant danger of broken limbs, or of being washed overboard; while the interior of the

worth a ton of brilliant talent; and, as Mr. Brougham possesses tent remains looked on by the puban extraordinary quantity of lie as being as level as a chamaptitude for labour, as well as instead of being frequently as an extraordinary quantity of ta- much a-slope as the roof of a lent, both brilliant and solid, house as long as nothing is the failure, as to this point, is done, either in speech or in evithe more inexcusable. Of what dence, to remove these impresavail has been the poor feeblesions, of what avail, or, rather, stuff of Mr. Denman upon this how directly mischievous, are great point? Of what avail can all the innumerable proofs of be a few flimsy, pointless re- the Queen and Bergami sleepmarks, without order, and with- ing in their clothes! Oh! wise out any one single quality, cal- and zealous advocates! Just as culated to encounter facts like if the affairs of love were never

those sworn to by the master carried on except the parties and the mate, and fully corro- were naked in a bed! SWIFT, in borated by the testimony of observing upon the admirable

judiciousness of the minds of that his being under the awnlawyers, supposes a case wherein ing, nick-named a tent, during

the night, was absolutely necessary to the safety of the person of the Queen; though, as

a cow has been unjustly taken from him by his neighbour; and he says, the questions on which the lawyers would lay the we shall finally see, whatever greatest stress, would be, not may be done by the House of whether the cow really be- Lords, hostile to her Majesty's longed to him, and had been honour, will mainly rest upon unjustly taken away by his the want of proof of that neneighbour; but whether the cessity!

cow were white or black; If this part of the case had whether the field in which she fed were round or square; and whether she were a good milker

been well and truly attended to and carried through, there would not have remained the fragment of a pretence for say

or the contrary and of this judiciousness in the practice of ing that any part of the prelawyers, Mr. Brougham's con- amble of the Bill had been duct with regard to the Polacre made good. There are, howscene is a most happy illustra-ever, other things which have tion. A great deal about Ber-been omitted. Why were not gami's dress. Most satisfactory the witnesses called to give proof that he did not sleep in proof respecting the characbuff. Testimony upon testi-ter of Barbara Krantz? Why mony that the Queen was never was not the witness called seen naked; and that Bergami who went to Carlton-house was on no occasion seen without with Majocchi? Why were not the covering of small-clothes; witnesses called (and plenty but, no attempt at all to make were at hand) to prove that it out clearly and satisfactorily the Master and Mate had been

in England with their vessel] the way of testimony: Yet his after their sailing with the Prin-presence would have been greatcess, and that they always spoke ly favourable to the cause of the of her in the highest terms of Queen. He would have been praise, and declared their opi- there in person; and that pernion, that the rumours in circu-son, of itself, together with his lation against her were false? deportment and manners, would Why was not Count SCHIAVINI have been the bitterest of recalled, who, was on board the proofs to the calumniators of polacre? He could have talked her Majesty. It would have plain common sense, if a slang-been seen that he was a man of gabbling sailor could not. He rare endowments and qualities, could have described the dan- In his person and manners ger of a woman sleeping upon would have been seen a presuch a deck without a man at sumptive proof of his fitness for hand to assist her. Why was the situation which he had so not the Countess of Oldi called? long and so honourably filled. Why was not Louis Bergami called? and, finally, why not the Baron himself!

In the very phraseology of Mr. Brougham and Mr. Denman, there has been someUpon this latter point, I have thing tending to do great inalways been of an opinion dif-jury to the cause of their Royal ferent from that of some of the Client. In speaking of this real friends of her Majesty. I gentleman they have talked expressed that opinion from the about "that man," "that permoment of her arrival; not only son," and never have called in private, but in three separate Registers. I do not say, that actually to call him to the bar would have had much effect in

him by any name other than that of Bergami; just as they would talk of Vickary or Cribb!

They should have left the pro

secutors and their malignant to the Society for the Suppresagents to talk in this way. They sion of Vice, the son of an old should never have spoken of him woman who kept one of the without calling him the Baron lowest pamphlet shops that Bergami, or the Queen's Cham-ever was known in London ? berlain. When the object of It became the advocates of the enemy was to lower him in the Queen to adopt, as far as the eyes of the nation, they possible, even the very feelings should have taken care not of their client. It was their to assist in the furthering of bounden duty to dwell with that object. What would they particular emphasis on the serthink if any one were to call vices and endowments of this Sir JOHN ELBY, Lieutenant- gentleman. They should have Colonel of the Royal Horse- had at hand, and running glibly Guards," Jack Elby, the pot off their lips, a long list of men boy?" yet Sir John's mother distinguished for talent filling really kept the Furnival's Inn high stations, wearing the highCellar, a low pot-house be-est honours, select companions tween Leather-lane and Brook-of Sovereigns, rising from the street; and Sir John began his very lowest walks in life. What career, just as the Baron did; a figure might they have made that is to say, as a Quarter-here! Almost the whole of our master in a regiment of horse. celebrated writers, a very large What would they say, were we portion of our most famous lawto trace back a considerable yers and judges, generals and portion of the long robe them-admirals, they might have selves to beer cellars and chand-traced back to the shop or the lers' shops, and were to call cottage. Here was a subject Mr. GURNEY, who is a King's perfectly inexhaustible.

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