were adopting of the child us, except, perhaps, the Attorney-General, who has not, first or last, been in love; and, did it ever eater into our hearts or minds to be doatingly fond of a person, and, at the same time, excessively fond of a child that that person had had by another? But the Queen gave the BerFIELDING says, that, when a gamis an estate. Why not? woman is fond of a man, and She did not place them on our especially when she has had the pension-list; she gave what she possession of him, she will go gave out of her own savings. above half way to hell, to pre- And, what more proper and vent another from participating just than to make the future life with her." Nothing can be easy of a man and his family, to truer than this; and will she, whom, probably, in that cutthen, do any thing to keep her throat country, beset as she was constantly in mind, that another by spies and ruffians, she owed woman has participated with her very life? We are told, that her? This Government-Law-Bergami's bed-room was always yer, this Ex-officio Gentleman, near hers; and, we shall find, represents the Queen as fonder that there was a very sufficient of Bergami than ever woman reason for this; for, without a before was fond of man; so ex-guard, she would have been cessively doating that she lost dead and buried long and long all sense of every other consi- ago. When a man, an officer deration; and he wishes us to in our pay, could get into her believe, that this doating wo-house, and break open her man, while she was ready to drawers, who will believe, that kiss the ground that this man a nightly guard of her person walked upon, was almost equal-was not necessary? She felt ly fond of the pledge of his gratitude to the man, who had connexion with another woman! so long and faithfully served her; This is too monstrous to be and she gave an estate: that is believed. It is a thing which to say, a sort of farm! Our cannot be true. It is against na-government has given Welling ture. To believe it is to give on a farm that has cost us, human nature the lie. And are seven hundred thousand pounds, we to give human nature the besides pensions of more than lie rather than reject the asser- twelve thousand pounds a-year. tions of the Ex-officio advocate The services of Wellington to and the swearings of his Italian us are not to be compared to witnesses? This great fondness those of Bergami to the Queen, for the child was wholly incom- The services of the former are patible with the asserted fond-doubted by thousands, while ness for the father; and, if we those of the latter were real and were, for one moment, to sup- undoubted. That famous man, pose, that the taking and the Sidmouth, has an estate too. He has a palace and the use of a sand pounds a year from Engroyal park. That gallant chief, land; which money, if the other the sometime lover of Mrs. parts of the story were true; Clarke, has also an estate, grant-which money, mind, if the fact ed out of lands which were pub-of his power over the Queen lic property. But, good God! were mot a lie, was just so much Only think of the immense sums, money placed at the absolute swallowed up by families, to no disposal of Bergami.-Fourthly, member of whom any service observe, then, that he did not can be traced; and then think take this money to himself; that of a farm, given to Bergami, he did not lay it out upon estates being taken as a proof of his in Italy; but that he, who, one absolute power over the Queen, would have thought, would and this power ascribed to his have liked travelling no better criminal connexion with her! than a footman likes to whet However, as to his power over knives, chose to lay this money the Queen, the fact not only be-out in long and wearisome jourcomes glaringly false, but the neys about Italy, into the Ausvery idea ridiculous, when we trian territories, through Gerlook at other parts of her Majes-many, over the Alps; and, in ty's conduct, which are matters tiresome, fatiguing and dangerof public notoriety. First, ob-ous voyages by sea! Is not this serve, that Bergami was anxi-a monstrous supposition? Mind, ous to get his family about the the money was his; it was his Queen. To get them in to be choice that was to be followed; living upon her. To get them it was his taste that was to be to share largely in the pickings: consulted; he had about him and at last he got an estate from a fondling woman that was her. Thus, then, he was anri-a mere worm under his foot, and ous to enrich himself. This is he chooses several times to emrepresented to us by the Attor-bark on board English men of ney General. Secondly, ob- war; he chooses to visit all the serve, we are told that his pow-islands in the Mediterranean; he er over the Queen was absolute; chooses to sail to the Barbary that she humbled herself in all coast; he chooses to purchase a manner of ways to gratify him; polacre, and to sail in that most that she even mended his uncomfortable sort of vessel from clothes; and, in short, was ready port to port, from island to island, to do any thing, even to the amidst all sorts of inconveniences washing of his shirt and the and perils; he chooses to visit blacking of his shoes. This is antient Greece, and to go even the picture which is given us of to Jerusalem to see the ruins of her submission to his will. Spa- that once famous city, to view niel dog was never more sub-the spot where the temple of missive to his master than our Solomon stood, and to visit the Queen was to this Bergami.-sepulchre of Jesus Christ; a low, Thirdly, observe, that the Queen illiterate, vulgar-minded coureceived a clear thirty-five thou- | rier, who had been half harrass - ed to death a few years before money and her time in visiting in Buonaparte's Russian cam- Athens, Utica, and Jerusalem ? paign: yea, this man chooses to Would a woman so lost to all spend thirty-five thousand sense of every thing but mere pounds a year in this manner, criminal lust; would such a wolaying it out upon attendants, man have spent her time and: upon inn-keepers, upon captains encountered continual peril for and crews of vessels, upon ca- the sake of acquiring a knowmels, guides, and God knows ledge of countries and of the what, instead of keeping it to relics of antiquity? To believe himself; living at a snug house in the Milanese, which, by the bye, the Queen must have best liked, too, and purchasing estates 'till they swelled out into principalities! Every tongue will exclaim; every unbribed tongue; every unperjured man will exclaim, this is a lie! this is utterly impossible; and yet we must believe this or believe the Attorney-General to be the most viperous slanderer that ever opened a pair of lips. Observe, again, that the Attorney-General tells us that this. power of Bergami over the Queen, and consequently the li-. Then, can it possibly be be- centious and foul intercourse believed that it was his desire to tween them, continued up to expend the money in this way; the time of her Majesty's depar and yet, if it was not his desire, ture from St. Omers for Eng it was the Queen's desire; as land. Now then, behold a woit unquestionably was. Look, man sunk in sensuality, lost to then, at her journies and her every feeling of honour and of voyages. Read the list of places shame, doating upon a man; that she visited. All that is ve- clinging round him every night nerable in antiquity; all that is and lolloping upon him every rare in art and in nature; all day; caring for nothing in the that could tend to enlarge and whole world but for the enjoyenrich the mind; all these were ment of the person of this man! manifestly the objects of her en- behold this woman thus sunk, quiry and her pursuit. Let me thus possessed, upon the bare ask, then, whether a mind could reading of an English newshave been so occupied, and be, paper, by which she finds that at the same moment, sunk into the king is dead and that her the lowest and filthiest enjoy-name is left out of the Liturgy, ments of the lowest and most writes instantly to the prime mifilthy sensuality? Would a wo-nister, remonstrates with him man, abandoned to lustful en- upon the injustice of such omisjoyments, have encountered fa- sion, and requests that her name tigues and perils almost every may be instantly put into the day of her life for a series of mouths of the English people in years, and that, too, for the ma- their prayer. This we know to nifest purpose of storing her be a fact; and this simple fact mind with knowledge? Would gives the lie direct to all the such a woman have spent her disgusting representation of li centiousness, and to all the base upon the assertions of an Attorattempts to make us believe that ney General or upon the swearBergami possessed an absolute ings of Italian witnesses, brought power over her. If he had pos-forward by the Solicitor of the sessed that absolute power; if Treasury. Now, then, look once she had been the mender of his more; disgusting, as the picture clothes and worse than his spa- is, look once more, at the slanniel dog, would she ever have derous and wicked description written that letter? The Attor-given of the Queen by the Atney-General says that she saw torney General. There she was, with none but his eyes. Would living in all the luxurious enjoyhe, a Roman Catholic, have suf-ments of debauchery. She was fered her to write that letter? in the arms of a man that she Would he have cared a straw doated upon. She was lost, about the Liturgy, the Church, totally sunk and gone, as to the Crown, or about England every thing but this man. From itself? Would he have cared this man she must separate if she about any thing but the money? came to England; and yet, she and could any thing in the is teasing her friends to death to world have been so contrary to get her back to that very Enghis natural wishes as for the land. And at last, her impaQueen to do or to say any thing tience becomes so great, that tending in the most distant de-amidst a host of difficulties and gree to the removal of her for- dangers, she encounters a jourtune out of his clutches? To ney enough to half kill a stout believe that the Queen and that man in order to do that which Bergami could have thus acted with regard to the Liturgy at the same time that they were living in the state which the Attorney-General has described, is impossible; and yet we must swallow this impossibility, or the Attorney-General is the vilest of slanderers. must necessarily separate her from her paramour. As if this were not enough for us to believe, we must further believe that this all-powerful paramours who was very fond of enriching. his family, not only gave his consent to her departure, but still served her as one of the persons necessary to the success of the expedition, and became himselfinstrumental in sending away from himself the sum of at least thirty-five thousand pounds a year! This is all true: every word of it is true; or, the statement of the Attorney General is an impudent and atrocious heap of falsehoods. We know, too, that the moment her Majesty heard of the King's death, she resolved on her return to England. This is a fact well known. We have the word of Mr. Alderman Wood for it; for to him she wrote to send her a vessel to Leghorn to bring her home. From this time forwards, all was impatience on her part to return At last, the Queen actually to England. These are well-arrives at St. Omers, and if any known facts. These rest not man can believe: no, I will not put it in that shape: if any man of nature; any thing so comcan look at what passed there;pletely impossible never was beand after having looked at it fore stated in the way even of fully and fairly can deny that hypothesis. And yet, this monthe statement of the Attorney strous absurdity; this thing out General is a falsehood, such man of reason and out of nature; must be a malignant and black-these facts, to believe all which hearted villain. Before she ar- we must believe the parties to rived at St. Omers, there might have hated themselves; even possibly exist doubts in her mind, all this we must swallow and or rather in the mind of Berga- believe to be true, or we must mi, for, you will observe she saw believe the statement of the only with his eyes: there might, Attorney-General to be a lie. I say, possibly exist doubts, To reason further upon the subprevious to this time, as to whe-ject would be irksome to myther the same sum of money self and offensive to the underwould be furnished her annually standing of my readers, who if she did not return to England. will long ago have exclaimed, This is almost impossible; but say no more: we are satisfied; it is possible. However, when the Queen is innocent and she arrived at St. Omers, and" her accusers the basest of caBergami with her; not only was" lumniators." all doubt of this sort removed, Let those accusers now work but they found that they could their way. They think that by now have the security of receiv-sending forth daily portions of ing fifty thousand pounds a year swearings from the fortress, instead of the thirty-five thou-they shall, by little and little, sand pounds a year which they wear away the honest indigreceived before. They found, nation of the public. They are on the other hand, that if the deceived. They have this time Queen persisted in coming to over-reached themselves; and England, she was to be pro- they will find to their cost, that secuted by this tremendous Go-though they have been able to vernment, and, if found guilty, gag the mouths aud cramp the deprived of all maintenance for tingers of Englishmen, they the future, and probably of life. have not made one single step Yet in the face of all this; with towards blunting their feelings, consciousness of guilt, the Queen towards enfeebling their minds instantly resolves to come and or corrupting their hearts. It face her enemies; while, with a has always been a distinguishcertainty of losing fifty thou-ing characteristick of the people sand pounds a year, the interest-of this country, to sympathise ed and all-powerful paramour with the oppressed, and to lend suffers her to hasten to the Eng-assistance to the weak in their lish shore! Any thing so mon- struggles against the strong. strous as this was never before And this character will now be tendered for the belief of man; displayed in protecting against any thing so out of reason and her enemies a Queen, whose |