against the testimony, collected for, that they were all completely.

by the Milan Commission, and blind and deaf; and we must marshalled under the banners of further believe, that the Queen, the Solicitor of the Treasury! while she was carrying on an Is it possible, I ask, for Messrs. adulterous intercourse, the proof Burrell, Howland, and Flynn, in of which borne to England, May, 1816, to have been igno-would be sure to render her inrant of the rumours, if such had famous, and even deprive her of been afloat at Naples from No-the means of enriching her pavember, 1814, to March, 1815;ramour, availed herself of every and if the facts which gave rise opportunity of securing to her to them had been daily and enemies the means of producing hourly increasing in number and that proof! These are the mon in flagrancy? No action of afstrous things, which we must person so conspicuous as the believe, before we can believe Queen could be hidden. Her the Attorney General and his actions would, if of a scandalous troop of Italian swearers. nature, necessarily be the topic. The thing harped upon by the of every conversation, especially Attorney General, from the be amongst the English. And, ginning to the end, as the great though men might be less deli-corroborating proof of the guilt cate than women on this score, of the Queen, is the power which it is not to be believed, that, if Bergami possessed over her. these gentlemen had heard such The swearings are,he sees, worths rumours, and had had the small-nothing without corroborating est reason to believe in them, facts, proved by English witthey would have gone of theirnesses, or, notorious in themown accord to “join" the Queen; selves. For this purpose it was, while, as in the ease of Lady C. that he introduced the English Campbell, it is impossible to be-Ladies and Gentlemen, in order lieye, that the Queen would to make their " leaving"; the have invited them, or, indeed, Queen corroborate his insinnupermitted them to live under the tion about rumours, and those same roof, where she was lead- rumours corroborate the swearing such a licentious life; anders drawn out of the Fortress. that, too, while she well knew, He was compelled, however, to that the proof of that licentious notice " joinings" as well as life was eagerly sought after as leavings; and, upon the whole, the means, the sure and infalli-instead of a corroboration, he ble means, of her ruin, degra- has produced the most convincdation, and everlasting infamy. ing proof of the falsehood of his Thus, then, in order to believe statement. At last, he gets rid the assertions of the Attorney of all his English attendants, General and the swearings of his and asks, whether this be not a witnesses, we must believe all, proof of the criminal internay all, these English Ladies course. The simple fact, as apand Gentlemen to have been pears from the dates, is, I dare bawds and pimps and traitors; say, that the English attendants

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had no relish for voyages by sea; mony of other witnesses; or on and that they preferred remain-facts of notoriety. The only ing at ease in Italy to visiting one of the former description Jerusalem at the expence of cer- that is brought forward is this: tain toil and great possible dan- that the Queen, when on board ger. But if their "leaving" the the Clorinde frigate, preferred Queen be to be looked upon as a sitting at table with Bergumi corroboration of the Italian (now become her Chamberlain) swearers, ought not the "join-to sitting at table with the Caping" of other English to be tain (Pechell), to the eclusion looked upon as refuting those of her Chamberlain. The story swearers 4 She is not accused told by the Attorney-General is of ever having dismissed an this; that Pechel, who had, English attendant; and we see, sometime before, known Berthat she is always ready to take gami to be a mere servant, 1 such attendants. And therefore standing behind the Queen's the circumstances relating to the chair, had the impudence' and English attendants are, as clear insolence, I call it, to tell her, as day-light, proofs against her that he would not sit at the same enemies. table with Bergami; and that` The power of Bergami over the Queen, instead of rysenting the Queen is, as Lobserved be- this, took some time to consider, fore, the other grand, war-horse and then resolved, that she of the Attorney-General; and I would have another table, and should say, that, if it were sit with her Chamberlaingo The clearly proved by credible wit- Attorney-General dwells greatnesses or by notorious facts, that ly upon this, seeing that is to be he did possess and exercise great proved by Pechell. He says that power over her, that alone, her going on board; and not reà without any swearing at all, senting the conduct of Pechell, would convince me that he had is a strongly presumptive proof been absolutely her bed-fellow. of consciousness of guilt ; and For, when we consider the re-that her resolving to dine and lative situation in life of the par-sit with Bergami is a proof of ties, it is impossible to believe, his power over her; as mneh as that he could have obtained to say, that she dared not 'expower over her by any means clude him from the table ut but one, and to confess the ex- which she herself should sit. istence of that one is to confess the truth of the charges.

Now, in the first place, the Queen had no choice us to goThe Attorney-General says,ing into the ship. She must go that his Italian witnesses will in that ship, or in none. Then, swear to a great many acts as to not resenting the insolent proving the cristence of this conduct of Pechell, what could power; and they may, for me, she do more than she did? She swear till doomsday. I shall could not knock him down, as notice no proofs of this power, he deserved. She did that howhich do not rest on the testi-nour to her Chamberlain, which

she did not do to him; and this not a feather in the scale. He was all she could do; and she had got a good fat place himcould do nothing less, unless self; he was diligout; zealous and she had submitted to the dicta-faithful; and, it required no tion of this insolent Captain. great pains to persuade the This was what he wished, of Queen, which might also be the course. In this he was disap-fact, that all his family were of pointed; and, therefore, he might the same description. When likely enough ascribe to the men, or women, get into place power of Bergami, a step which themselves, they are always it was absolutely necessary for striving to edge in their relaher to adopt, in order to shew; tions. There is nobody, rich that she was not under the or pocr, who does not know this power of Pechell. It may not well. He, or she, who first gets be wholly unnecessary to add, in and finds good picking, inthat this Pechell is a son of a stantly calls the relations to parSir Thomas Pechell, who was, take, as naturally as a hen at that time, a Gentleman Usher clucks her chickens to her when to the late Queen, from whose she has found any thing good court it is well known the pre- for them to eat. In proof of sent Queen bad, not long be- this we, in this country, need fore, been excluded. only open our eyes. No sooner The facts of notoriety, brought did Addington (now Sidmouth) forward to prove this power of who had been a mere sessionsBergami over the Queen are, as lawyer, get into the Treasury, far as I can discover, only those than he clucked in brother relating to the introducing of his Hiley, brother-in-law Bragge, own family into the house of the his own son, Golding, Bond, Queen and to the riches heaped and every creature belonging to on him by her Majesty. The At- him. Mr. Canning clucked in torney-General insisted strongly Mrs. Hunn and Miss Hunn. on this. He returns to it again | Huskisson clucked in his wife. and again. He insists upon it What has Castlereagh and what as complete corroboratory proof has Liverpool clucked in, good of the unlimited power of the God! Whole families of chilChamberlain over the Queen, dren have been clucked' in by And, in order to impress it some. Six or seven children at strongly on our minds, asks if it once. Look at the "Peep at be common for whole tribes to the Peers:" look at that, Mr. be thus fastened upon employ-Attorney-General, and blush at To which I answer, that your proof of the power of Bernothing is either more common gami over the Queen! He will or more natural. As to all the say, that it has been the King's stuff about the rank that the pleasure to settle pensions on parties filled, I care not a straw. innumerable relations of men in Whether the women were call-place and power at different ed maids of honour, or cook times. And is not a Queen to maids, or milk maids, it makes lexercise her pleasure as well as

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a King is to exercise his pleasure. English gentlemen and ladies of Look at the Peep at the Peers," education, while the Bergamis and you will find, that the court- were wholly uneducated. This favourites, who feed upon us, last may be as false as the rest are not content to cluck round of the story; but, if true, what them mothers, sisters, and ground of charge is here? brothers. You will find, that Though they might not have they have fastened upon us, been bred in courts, they might uncles, aunts, cousins, relations be much more agreeable and near and distant, from the fourth instructive companions than to the tenth degree: wife's rela-courtiers; and much more

tions; wife's brother's wife's likely to be faithful too. Mr. relations; daughter's husband's | Alderman Wood and his family relations. In short, we are sad- are not courtiers; but who will dled with such tribes as never say that they are not more were seen, except of the Chil-worthy of the society and confidren of Israel. Look at the dence of the Queen than are the Peep at the Peers," under heroes of the "Peep?" Rethe words, Hertford, Liverpool, collect, that it was a polished Westmoreland, Londonderry, courtier, who tendered the moBalcarras, Beaufort, Lauder-ney and uttered the threat at dale, Sydney, Gordon, Welles- St. Omers. The family of Berley, Waterford; and, in short, gami might be, and I dare say look into any page of the work; was, composed of very agreeand then say, what impudence able and useful persons. The it was in the Attorney-General to Queen was merely passing away cite this introduction of Berga-her time in Italy; and, it was mi's family as a proof of his perfectly natural for her to prepossessing over the Queen a fer the society of persons, power founded on an illicit intercourse with her Majesty.

amongst whom she could live without that restraint and formality which she must have observed amongst courtiers.

It will be observed, that the Queen's situation was a very singular one. She was not only So that, even supposing what in a foreign country, but, as the Attorney-General says to be she knew well, she was living true with regard to the low amidst spies, and, as she had birth of Bergami's family, here but too good reason to suppose, is no proof at all of his power was exposed to even bodily dan- over the Queen. But, there is ger. It was, therefore, very a child introduced! A-second natural, that she should draw child. And the Attorney-Generound her a particular family, ral seems to wish to have it beamongst whom she found, whe-lieved, that this child was really ther from motives of interest or the Queen's. The child was, he not, a disposition to be obedient says, in the summer of 1815, and faithful to her. She, the about two or three years old; Attorney-General says, prefer- so that, if this was the Queen's red this Bergami family before child, she must have had it, at

are called the pledges of love; but was it ever before heard of in this world, that a lover made his court by bringing to his mistress a child that he had had by another woman!

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least, a year and a half before his mistress by putting into her she left England, and, of course, arms a child that he had had before she saw Bergami! We by another woman? Children know that, upon reflection, such an idea must appear monstrous; but his business was to prevent reflection; to blacken her Majesty in such a way, that no one should take time to reflect on the subject. To assert Nevertheless, the Queen is, all manner of evil things of her, in order to keep up the exhiand leave those assertions to bition, said, by the Attorneywork upon the public mind in General, to have been very fond preparing the way for her de- of this child; excessively fond struction. of it; that she called it prinMalignity, however, some-cess, and that the child not only times works against itself; and called her mama, but cried after that has been the case here; for, her when she left it, preferring of all the persons of the drama, the Queen to her nurse. this little squaling lady, of only this I can easily believe, though three years old, serves the canse coming from the lips of the Atof persecution the least. The torney-General. It shews how Attorney-General tells us, that fond the Queen is of children, Bergami brought this his child which, indeed, was well known to the Queen. What man is not before. Every father and moready enough to shew his pretty ther knows how cunning the children, and what man does little creatures are. They disnot think his own the prettiest tinguish, even at six months old, in the world? Besides, he might persons fond of children from naturally hope, that the Queen such as are not. Their sagaciwould do something in the way ty in this respect is quite sur of providing for the child, espe- prizing. I have observed it, cially as he must have known and remarked upon it, a thouher, fondness for children, be-sand times. The Queen is one cause it is impossible, that he of the persons who are excesshould not have found out the sively fond of little children; history of little Austin. Thus, and, let me ask, what, in wothen, as a father, his conduct man or man, can be a more was perfectly natural; it be-amiable trait? spoke a man of sense, and one Thus, upon the supposition, anxious to get a good provi- that the Queen had no improper sion for his family. But, as a feelings towards Bergami, the lover, as a paramour, his con- conduct of both was natural and duct was the most unnatural consistent; but, if the Attorthat ever was heard of. Could ney-General's assertions were this man, this keen and clever true; then the conduct of both man, possibly believe that he was a monster in human nashould gain in the affections of ture. There is scarcely one of

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