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dislike any thing that might, not exeite a fellow feeling in even by possibility, expose them those who have been oppressed to the danger of loosing these by the same hand. Being pogood things. They are born pular, she would be, of course, with hearts like other men; but a rallying point. This was what habit gives their hearts qualities Cauning confessed he feared in different from the general mass. 1814. He described her as afThey do not approve of the fable, frank, gracious, and fas- ' bribery, perjury, drunkenness, cinating; and therefore it was, and lying at elections; or, at as he confessed, that he wished least, many of them do not. her out of the country. Bat, when they consider, that, sin, and her only sin, then, is without these, that system which her being here. This is evident insures to them ease and plenty, from the endeavours made use could not exist, and that they of to get rid of her. might not find the same security would have gone away, even ander a better system, they are after the Green Bags had been very apt to console themselves laid upon the table, and after with the observation, that" no- Castlereagh and Liverpool had thing is perfect under the sun;" described their contents: if she and that we must wait with would have gone away, she patience for perfectibility in might have had a princely inanother world. In the mean come, a Royal Yacht to sail in, while, when times become cri- and might have been announced tical, they become alarmed; as Queen of England at a foand, they do from a feeling of reign court. There she might fear that which they would not have lived with all the imputed do from a less powerful motive. crimes on her head, and in the In the reformers they imagine enjoyment of them still, and they see the besiegers of their might have enjoyed thenr too at temporalities: they get fright-our expence. No fear on the ened, next angry; they appeal score of morals was apprehendto the sword instead of the ed in this case. The whole of word: they fear the loss of the Queen's sin, therefore, cleartythes, and they cry out blus-ly is her being in the country. phemy! I have now, reverend Sirs, This is the whole of the mys-pointed out what your conduct tery. It is nonsense to talk about towards the Queen has been, danger to morals from the pre-and have explained the true sence of the Queen: but you, cause of it. This is a time when reverend Sirs, imagine, that her presence, and particularly her triumph, would make a great stir, and you wish to keep all still and quiet as the grave. You know, that she would be popular, because it is impossible that one oppressed person should

men's conduct should be well observed, and their motives ascertained. You were, just now, lying snugly out of sight. I have brought you forth to the light.

WM. COBBETT.

London, 23d August, 1820. We have at last, in a tangible shape, the charges against the wife of our King and Sovereign.

used the speech with a sincere desire to come to a just conclusion; and that, conclusion, is, that the charges are as false as they are foul. I do not want to

or

Rumours and backbiting are, at hear any of the man to

against the charges; I take the speech, and suppose that the Attorney General will produce witnesses to swear to all the facts which he has stated'; and I am convinced, by reasons which I submit to your attention, that, even if all and singular the facts be sworn to, the conclusion ought to be, that the charges are false.

last, put an end to. I have the report of the speech made by the Attorney General, on the 19th and 21st inst. now lying before me. I have read it with attention. And, in it alone, without waiting to hear any contradiction of its assertions, I see enough to convince me, that the charges are false. Aware of the influence of prepossession; aware of the power of our wishes to Something in the way of narmislead our judgment; and feel-rative will be necessary before ing a strong desire that the I enter on the arguments concharges against her Majesty tained in the speech. The Queen should prove false, I have sub- went to the Continent in the dued in myself the propensity year 1814, not long after the to yield up my reason and inte- late Queen had, at the instigagrity to this desire. I have per- tion of the then Regent, signi

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fied to her a wish that she | same month she went from Tuwould keep away from the nis to Athens: from Athens she drawing-rooms held at that went to Ephesus," thence to Jetime. She first went to Bruns-rusalem, thence to Jaffa, where wick. She was accompanied by she embarked for Italy, and arLady Charlotte Lindsay, Lady rived in September 1816, taking Elizabeth Forbes, Mr. St. Led-up her residence in the palace ger, Sir W. Gell, the Honour-D'Este on the Lake of Como. able Keppel Craven, Captain In February 1817, she made a Hesse, Dr. Holland, and Mr. tour into Germany, and returned Austin. From Brunswick she to D'Este in the Spring; after went to Milan in Italy, at which which she went to Trieste, and place the Attorney-General says returned in August 1817. she arrived on the 9th of Octo- This, as far as relates to times. ber 1814. He says, that she and places, is the account of remained about three months the Attorney-General; and, on at Milan, when she set off for this you will please to observe, Naples by the way of Rome; and to bear the fact in mind, and arrived at Naples on the that the Queen was almost con8th of November 1814. She tinually travelling, or preparing remained at Naples from No- for, or resting after, travelling. vember till March, when she] This is an observation of great quitted it, and went successively importance to bear in mind, as to Rome, Leghorn, Genoa and we shall, by and by, see. She Milan, where she remained un- was settled no where for any til the middle of May 1815. She length of time. Her object evithen set out for Venice, and re-dently was to see as much of turned to Milan in August 1815, the world as she could. Later She now travelled on the moun- than August 1817, the Attorneytains and about the lakes of that General gives us no account of part of Italy, and settled, for a her movements, or of any of her short time, at D'Este, near conduct; except that he says, Como. In November 1815, she in one part of his speech, that embarked on board the Levia-her conduct towards Bergami than, Capt. Briggs, and, after was the same even until the day visiting Elba, reached Palermo of her finally parting from him; in Sicily, where she remained which is an assertion that we till January 1816. She then ought to bear in mind; for it embarked on board the Clo-will be found to be of great rinde frigate, Capt. Pechell, and importance as to the inferences went to Syracuse, from which to be drawn. she returned to Sicily, going first The object is to make us beto Catania, and theu to Augus-lieve, that the Queen is an adulta. From Sicily she went to teress, and the man fixed upon Tunis, in Africa; from Tunis is the Baron Bergami, whora to Utica, in a small vessel which the Attorney Geneval endeavours she purchased; and returned to to exhibit as, at once, the most Tunis in April 1816. In the beloved and most unworthy of

men. He relates more wonders | I suppose, that any man might of this man and the Queen than get made a Baron for five golden romance ever contained before; guineas; and, in countries where and, we shall find, very soon, men without titles are lookal that, if what he says and wha upon and treated as scum of the his witnesses will, doubtle, earth, it was very natural for: swear, be true; then human na- the Queen to wish to get some who ture herself is a liar. It is a sort of title for the man, w question of fact; and all that, principally managed her affairs. we shall have to settle is, whe- But why was BERGAMI the ther the voice of nature, or that principal person, about the of the witnesses in the Fortress, Queen? He is called a Coapier, be the most likely to speak the or Postillion. But words have, truth. There will be the cross-different meanings in different. examinations; there will be countries. He had been a milithe witnesses on her side: but,tary Courier; or, what we should without waiting for any of these almost call an aid-de-camp, 05, we shall, I think, determine, at least, a Messenger. So that that, upon the Attorney Gene- this degrading appellation of ral's own showing (including Courier is made use of merely what is notoriously true) the for the purpose of contrast. facts he has stated and the in- the Queen's intention to travel, ferences he has drawn are false. an intention which she put into In order to lay a broad foun- full execution, we see a very, dation for the charges, Bergami good and sufficient reason, for is represented as being, when employing a man of this, de-, he came into the Queen's ser-scription; but, yet, we, who, vice, a menial servant. It is have never travelled on the Con-, on that fact, presumed, that tinent, can have, but a very imhe must have been a para-perfect idea of the necessity of It mour, in order to account. for such a person on a journey, his great and rapid advance- is not calling a post-chaise, o ment in her service. But, be- rather, driving up to an Inn gale, sides that this is a very uncha- and waiting five minutes, and ritable presumption, is it any being taken ou again in perfect thing uncommon to see men safety; and thus, from stage to rapidly advanced from very low stage, as from Southampton, to to very high situations? Sir JOHN Edinburgh, sleeping half the MMAHON, whom the Regent time, if you like. This is not made a Right Honourable, and the case upon the Continent. placed at the Council Board with But, on the contrary, to obtain Dukes, Earls, and himself, was horses, to secure lodging, and notoriously, at one time, a fuel- to secure your throats from be-. boy! Numerous instances of the ing cut in those lodgings, is a kind might be mentioned; but, in the next place, what were the titles of distinction, which the Queen conferred and obtained?

business to be entrusted to none but clever men, and brave men, too. To fill such an office with ability is no small merit; and, it

was precisely this sort of merit, his bed without taking the smallof which, at that time, her Ma-est precaution to disguise the jesty stood in need. A man of fact; and this, too, as constantly a thousand times as much merit as a wife sleeps with her hus-"" in other respects would not have bad. Not by night only was been so valuable to the Queen this love affair going on; but at the period to which we are by day also, and at theatres, alluding. She was bent on tra-balis, at inns, openly in the vel; and to travel with con-streets, before the face of all venience, or even with safety to the world. The Queen breakher life, she stood in need, in fasted with Bergami alone, and, absolute need, of a person like in short, they were openly man' Bergami. It was necessary and wife, except that they were that he should have zeal and so excessively fond. It was a fidelity as well as ability; and pair of Turtle Doves, continually was not to reward him highly billing and cooing." the best and most effectual way of securing that fidelity and zeal?

Now; observe, all this while Lady Charlotte Lindsay, Lady Elizabeth Forbes, Keppell" CraBergami was (upon whose ven, Sir W. Gell, Dr. Holland, recommendation the Attorney and Capt. Hesse were living in General does not know) taken the same house with the Queen! into the Queen's service in the Is it possible, that the abovefall of 1814, at Milan. There mentioned scenes could be must be some mistake in this going on, and they know nothing' part of the speech; for it says, of them? I ask if this be posthat he entered the Queen's ser- sible? Remember, that these vice about 15 days before she scenes were going on, not for a quitted Milan to go to Naples, day, a week, or a month; but and that she had been three from November to March inmonths at Milan before she clusive; that is to say, five quitted it, though she arrived months. These English Ladies on the 9th of October, and ar- were maids of honour, and the rived at Naples on the 8th of Gentlemen were chamberlains November. However, the At- and equerries, and one a Physitorney General says, that Ber-cian. Where were their eyes gami, as soon as the Queen ar- and ears? They were living in rived at Naples, became her the same house; under the Paramour. On the 9th of No- same roof; and yet they never vember begins the history of saw, or heard, any thing about these wonderful amours. From this time, just three weeks after he entered the Queen's service, he became her bed-fellow. They carried on openly all sorts ofindecencies. Their conduct was so flagrant that every eye observed it. The Queen slept in

these open and lagrant and shameful doings! Will you say; will any man of sincerity say, that he believes, that such things could be going on without any of these six persons, all living in the same house with the criminal parties, hearing any thing at