those professions and assevera- fers of a brilliant fortune to De tions, by which you endeavour- Mont, having Majocchi and Saced to cajole, the public into a chini incog. in England; all belief that, from the bottom of these explain themselves, at your heart, you wished her ouce; every thing is natural, Majesty the Queen to be acquit-every thing consistent,, fitting ted, and to come out white as and in regular order of sucsnow after three whole months cession,

spent in endeavours to make

Therefore, you ought, to have her as black as the Devil himself. endeavoured, as a prelude to Upon the supposition that to your other efforts, to remove preserve the morals of the coun- this impression about a conspitry has been the care of your racy from our minds. This ought employers; upon the suppo- to have been amongst your presition that the dignity of the mises; but you leave this mateCrown, the happiness of the rial question behind; jump into, people, and a strict love of jus- the middle of your case, which tice; upon the supposition that you chuse to regard, as an ordithese have been their objects, nary case, and take your wittheir actions have all been un-nesses, one by one, just as if they natural and preposterous from had been discovered by ordinary the beginning to the end. Upon means, and had been examined the supposition that they had but a day or two before, instead these objects in view and had of their having been hunted up not been misled by sinister by spying commissioners, at an workings of any kind, nothing enormous expence, and having can be more absurd and monstrous than their proceedings; nothing so foolish, nothing so likely to defeat the ends they tulated you upon your monopoly had in view. But, on the con- of the knowledge of the law; trary, if we suppose a conspiracy but, really, you are not to be to have existed, then the send-congratulated upon your knowing out of spies, rumagers for ledge of the public opinion; for witnesses, hunters after the in that opinion a conspiracy was Queen's turned off servants, of the foundation of the whole;

been bringing on to a state of maturity for the space of two years. Mr. BROUGHAM congra

tending to remove this deeprooted opinion.

and not one word did you utter were to be produced before me, his swearing would have no more effect upon me than the whistling of the wind.

It is said, that, people could not swear to so many things, unless some of them were true; that such things would never have occurred to them, if wholly untrue. You say, that it is mon

had ever happened. You ask how such things could have come into their heads, if they had no foundation in fact. This is a poor and contemptible way of reasoning. Did it not occur

The credibility of a witness that has been in a state of progressive preparation, and that has actually been in the pay of the party, on whose side he is brought forward, for a considerable length of time; whose pay can be stopped at any moment strous to suppose, that all these er continued for any length of witnesses could think of such time; who can be punished by strange things, if none of them immediate dismissal in a country far distant from his own; who can further be punished, at the sole will and pleasure of the party in whose pay he lives, by being driven out of the country, under the Alien Act, at a to you that things might be put moment's, warning; who, if un-into people's heads? And was able or unwilling to remove, can be seized and forced away, or shut up in a prison, and this, too, by a law, the execution of sert any such thing as this. God which is in the hands of his em-forbid that we should imagine ployer: the credibility of a wit- that the Countess of Colombier ness so situated, placed in such had any thing put into her head eminent peril on the one side, by the kind gentleman that and under such great tempta- found her out, and that offered tions on the other side; the cre- her a brilliant fortune in Engdibility of such a witness, be his land. God forbid that we character what it may, is not, in should suppose that so virtuous my opinion, worth a single and grateful a lady, as she in straw. Were I a juror between her letter describes herself to the King and one of my fellow-be, should have undergone the subjects, and such a witness vulgar operation called tutoring,

there not plenty of time for this during the space of two years? God forbid that we should as

You assume, that, because the things have been sworn to; because they are numerous; because, in short, many things

during the 18 months that her [nifest existence of which was ladyship resided in England; so well calculated to produce and occasionally, nay frequent-crowds of admirers to come ly, condescended to honour with with half-conquered hearts to a tete-a-tete that amiable gen-shake her by the hand. God tleman, Mr. POWELL. God for- forbid, once more, I say, that I bid that we should imagine that should assert this woman to be this estimable personage, who a bribed, suborned, perjured had written a journal full of wretch. I assert no such thing, anecdotes proving the amiable I can know nothing of the matcharacter and virtuous conduct ter. But this I am not afraid to of her Majesty, God forbid that assert, that if I had thought her we should imagine that any part to be such, your speech would of the eighteen months which not have had the smallest tenthis lovely little Swiss had sub-dency to remove the impression tracted from the days of her in- from my mind. nocent enjoyments at Lausanne, could have been employed in new modelling that journal, which had given so much delight in the sentimental circles have been sworn to, some of of those Cantons where the sim-them must have happened. Is plicity of the people is such not this the most miserable that one brother sells his car-attempt at sophistry? It is not case to fight for one sovereign, sophistry. It is not worthy of while the other brother sells his the name. Admit this, and then carcase for the purpose of car-there can be no such thing as rying a gun to shoot at the false swearing in the world. If other. Oh! delightful simpli-the incidents be numerous and city! God forbid that we should the witnesses many. Admit this, suppose that the Countess had and then every man may be been tampered with, or that her hanged that cannot prove, by name had been changed from oral testimony, the negative of De Mont to the Countess Co-what is sworn against him. Aclombier from any other motive than that of keeping her mind in that state of naireté, the ma

cording to this account of yours, Susanna was guilty. The judgė ought to have concluded, at

once, that the Elders were to incog. his being brought from a prison to the witness box: mark me well, I say, every one of these circumstances was dwelt upon by you and Mr. Wetherell as being of great importance in the case; and the sum total of these circumstances was, that the witness was an indescribable villain, wholly unworthy of the slightest credit; and the result, the result at which every one

be believed. The woman had no proof that they had sworn falsely. Nevertheless, the old bucks were caught out; and though they had sworn positively to her guilt, she was acquitted and they were punished. They were guilty of a base and infamous conspiracy; not a more base conspiracy than we ever heard of, and, perhaps, not quite so base. Yet conspiracy it was; rejoiced, was, an acquittal of the but, according to your mode of Prisoners! The evidence of reasoning, there never could be Castles was, however, as to se-, such a thing as a conspiracy in veral points, and those essential the world. When, indeed, you points, too, corroborated by had to defend Watson and This-other witnesses, and those, too, tlewood against the swearings credible witnesses; yet, you inof Castles; when, indeed, you sisted, and the jury determined, had, upon that memorable oc- notwithstanding the charge of casion, to shew the Ministry the judge which pointed a conthat you were a man worthy of trary way, that no man ought to notice! The French call it se be found guilty upon evidence, faire valoir; that is to say, which at all rested upon the make oneself worth something." indescribable villain," Castles. When, upon that memorable! Come, then, let me ask you, occasion, you were acting the what witness have you produced,. part of a defender, how you upon the present occasion, who tore the ruffian witness to pieces. was not recently clothed in rags, Now mark me his recent rags, who was not, when produced his present good clothes, his by you, dressed in clothes purbeing seen frequently with the chased by the prosecutor, who agents of the Treasury, his go- has not been frequently seen. ing under a false name, the pay with the agents of the prosecuhe had received from his cm-tion, who has not gone under ployers; his having been kept a false name, who has not long

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been in the pay of the prosecu-destitute of truth? Have we ors, who has not been kept not, in the story of NABOTH, an incog. who was not brought instance of pure falsehood, of from a prison to the witness-taking away a man's life in orbox? You know well that all der to confiscate his estate? these circumstances precisely fit The King wanted the man's the present case; and yet, so estate. The Queen, in order to far are you from calling your procure the man's death, hired present witnesses indescribable false witnesses to swear, that villains, that you hold them forth Naboth had blasphemed God as witnesses entitled to full cre- and the King. Upon what ground dit, and call upon the House then, would you have us 'supto condemn the Queen upon her pose, that there must be some testimony, though uncorrobo-truth in this statement against rated by that of witnesses of any the Queen, merely because it other description; and, at the has been supported by swearconclusion of a speech in which ing. There was no truth in the you do this, you have the un-charge against Naboth; yet Naparalleled hypocrisy to put up both was convicted, condemned, a solemn prayer for the acquittal and put to death. of the victim, whom you are pursuing with such deadly malignity.

Indeed, you may say, that we live in an age of uncommon purity; that false swearers are

To hear you, one would sup-not now to be found in any pose, in good earnest, that every part of the world; and, that, as fact sworn to, though the Devil to men in power, they are himself were to swear it, must known, ever since the prosecuhave some foundation. To hear tion of the tinman of Plymouth,

are so

one would suppose that to be above every thing rethere was no such thing in the sembling bribery and corrupworld as the hatching of a tion, in the most distant degree; charge. The history of the that their consciences world abounds with instances clear that they wish us to look of such hatchings. Is there a into their very bosoms; and, man in England who does not that, lest we should not do this, believe that the charge against one of them in particular, is ANN OF BULLEN was wholly leverlastingly making appeals to