rials for a commission to work cumstances of living incognito, upon. In this case there is a changing names, shifting places 'double motive. When MAC- of abode, and the rest of the

traits that make up the disgusting picture; without any of these, the turning off and the quarrels about money, are quite sufficient to throw much more than suspicion on every particle of the evidence of these persons.

Viewing, then, as I do these witnesses to be as little worthy

BETH seeks for men to murder BANQUO, he looks out for such as BANQUO has offended; and, indeed, such has almost uniformly been the first movement in every conspiracy that has ever been heard of against men. Here we find, then, that Majocchi had been turned off; that De Mont had been turned off; that Sac-of credit as Castles was, how chini had been turned off; that can you have the conscience to the cook had been turned off; suppose that we are to give and we find also, that the mas-credit to their evidence. He ter of the polacre had had a was an indescribable villain, you quarrel with Bergami, on ac-said; and upon what did you count of the latter having re-ground your assertions? Why, fused to comply with his pecu- that he had been recently mary demands! Why these cloathed in rags, that he appeople were turned off; what peared before the jury in a good was their conduct and what was suit of clothes, that he had their character, we have yet to been frequently seen about with learn, and a pretty account we the agents of the Treasury, that shall have of them, I dare say, he had gone under a false name, But, without anticipating this, that he had been kept incog. I say that this turning off, al- and that he had been brought ways, observe, through the in- from a prison to the witness strumentality of Bergami, and box.

Upon these facts, and this quarrel about money be- upon the additional one that he tween Bergami and the Captain had been the inmate of a broof the polacre; I say that these thel; upon these facts you foundcircumstances alone, even with-ed the assertion that he was an out including all the other cir- indescribable villain, and that cun stances relating to rewards no person ought to be found and promises; without the cir- guilty upon his evidence, though

that evidence had been corro-hear of them. You may say, borated, in several parts of it, that these amorous goings on by witnesses perfectly credible. might have been observed by And yet you would now have the master and mate in the us believe, that, unless the Polacre, and they might wholly Queen can distinctly prove the escape the knowledge; never negative of the swearings of all reach either eyes or the ears of these your witnesses, we ought either of the two English gentleto pronounce her guilty! Such men, who were penned up in a monstrous proposition as this; the same Polacre. You may say any thing so unfair and impu- this, and Cooke, Powell and dent, never before found its Brown may produce a thousand witnesses to swear it; but, when you have so said and they have

way from the lips even of a Crown Lawyer.

Having nothing but such wit- so sworn, not one man, woman nesses to produce is the strong-or child will believe either the est proof in the world that your saying or the swearing. case was not only bad, but that No, and the question, the uniyou knew it to be bad. Your versal question is, why do they worthy fellow labourer took oc- not produce some of these Engcasion to mention the names of lish gentlemen or ladies? And, several English gentlemen and the universal answer to this ladies who were about the per-question is, they dare not do it son, and actually living under You ask, with simplicity enough, the same roof with the Princess why do they not produce the upon land, and some of whom Bergami's? I do not know accompanied her even in the what they will do; but this I famous Polacre. I assert it to know, that the Bergami's, or, at be impossible for the facts, re-least, Bergami himself, could not lated by these witnesses of yours be possibly brought as a witto have taken place, without ness for the Queen, seeing that those gentlemen and ladies he is a party accused; but this knowing something about them. I know, too, that you migh You may say that the amorous have brought him, and that he works might all be going on would have been a very good upon land, and the English gen-witness for you, provided that tlemen and ladies never even he could have been prevailed

upon to swear any thing against who is a cousin of Lord Liverher Majesty. But, the not cal-pool. This Captain Pechell ling of the English gentlemen stood, therefore, very peculiarand ladies, would, of itself, have ly connected; and, yet, when destroyed your cause, even if Captain Pechell comes, at last, the preparatory proceedings and he is able to produce no one the circumstances attending your fact against the Queen; though own witnesses had not destro-he clearly shows that he beed it. It is impossible to as-haved towards her in a most cribe the not calling of these unbecoming and insolent manwitnesses to any other than ner. This she punished in the one cause; and that is, the cer-only way that it was in her tainty in which you were that power to punish it; namely, by their evidence would falsify the refusing to sit at table with him, swearings of the gentlemen and and by refusing him an audience ladies from Cotton Garden. which he endeavoured to obYou'ventured to call only two tain. By what motives he might witnesses of a character differ- have been actuated in his conent from those of your Italians, duct towards the wife of his and your Swiss Countess; name- sovereign, as the Prince then ly, Captains Pechell and Briggs. was; whether he felt himself The latter swore that he knew secure from all harm in acting of no impropriety of conduct on as he did; whatever might be the part of the Princess, now his motives, upon that occasion, Queen, and the swearing of the no one will say that he was a former falsified the assertion of witness friendly to the Queen; the Attorney-General with re- and yet, out of his evidence, gard to her Majesty's conduct there comes not one single parwhen she went on board the ticle to corroborate, even by inClorinde. The Attorney-Gene- sinuation, the swearings of Maral asserted, that her conduct jocchi and the rest of the tribe was tame; that she put up with from the fortress. an insult from this Pechell.- Thus, then, your Italian proThis is false. She resented the duction; the production of a insult by not suffering Pechell Commission established for the to sit at the same table with purpose of getting at facts to her, and by refusing to see him make the Queen appear guilty; when he made a request to that these witnesses stand wholly effect by Captain' Briggs. Pe- unsupported by any thing in the chell's father was, at that time, shape of corroboration. If it gentleman usher to the late be asked why, upon the suppoQueen; his uncle was Receiver- sition of the whole originating General of Customs'; one of his in a conspiracy; if it be asked consins was a Captain in the why, if the thing were hatched, Navy, as well as himself! ano- more plump swearing, more ther cousin was a Judge in In- bed and bolster work was not dia, and another cousin was the introduced: if it be asked why wife of the Dean of Worcester, the witnesses were not, upon

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this supposition, instructed to therefore, has not at all tended swear that they actually saw, to strengthen your case, but has with their own eyes, the thing assisted in strengthening the which it is the object to cause conviction that the whole orito be believed was so frequent-ginated, in that desire, which ly done; if this be asked, the has been so clearly discovered answer is perfectly ready. It is in every stage of the proceeda rule in all courts of law that ings, namely, to keep or get her numerous strong and well con- Majesty out of the country, let nected circumstances, are worth it cost what it might. more in producing conviction In conclusion of your speech, than any fact positively sworn you say, that the preamble of to. Upon the supposition that the Bill; that is to say, the this evidence was the fruit of a charges against her Majesty are long laid and slowly matured fully made out; and that the conspiracy, nothing could be so Bill must accordingly pass, unwell contrived as to abstain less she be able clearly, distinctfrom positive oaths as to the ly and positively to prove your real fact itself. Such abstinence evidence to be wholly false. would naturally give an air of This I deny. I say that she is scrupulousness to the prosecu-called upon for no such proof. tors as well as to the witnesses; To prove a negative was never and if the prosecutors could yet required of any human bemake out, by a concatination of ing. How is the Queen to circumstances, the certainty of bring any body to swear that the fact, it would be ten thou- De Mont did not see what she sand times better for them than has sworn that she saw? Alki to have the fact positively sworn that the Queen's advocates have to by eye witnesses. So that to do is to show that these witthis beating about the bush is nesses are unworthy of credit. what deceives nobody; but, on This is all; and, as the case the other hand, has tended now stands, the public think strongly to produce that univer- that this has already been done sal conviction which prevails, by the witnesses themselves,. that the whole thing has ori- viewed in connection with all ginated in a conspiracy; for, the circumstances attending the this over-strained caution, as to Milan Commission and those swearing to the positive act, other circumstances, which I has led to this question: how is have stated at the outset of this it possible that this incessant letter. Mr. Brougham might adulterous intercourse, could be have safely gone on instanter; going on, day and night; for so his statement, together with the long a time, and in so many and evidence of a few witnesses of such different situations; and credibility, would have been no one single person should, much more than sufficient for upon any occasion, ever have the satisfaction of the public. witnessed the act itself. The trial might have been concluded before now; and we

This over-strained caution,

might, on this very day, have| POWELL and BROWN? Who was been waiting to see whether, it that compelled them to send upon such evidence as you have the far-famed Hutchinson to St. produced, the House of Lords Omers? Who was it compelled would have passed this unparalleled Bill.

them to send down the Green Bags? Who was it compelled As to the case of her Majes- them to instruct your dear broty, in the public opinion, it was ther of the law to promulgate` decided when you closed your throughout the world that the case, which case had produced Queen had witnessed an imitadisgust in the public mind; had tion of the sexual intercourse? produced a feeling towards the Who was it compelled them to prosecutors and their agents go into a trial which the House that I shall not venture to de-of Commons had declared" must, scribe; and had produced a de- "terminate how it might, be gree of affection and attachment" derogatory to the dignity of towards her Majesty, such as 1" the Crown, and injurious to believe never was before felt" the best interests of the countowards any human being. try?" Who was it that comYou have closed your case: pelled them to do any of these your charges and your evidence hings ;for, if they have not been are before the world; and the acting under some compulsion, warm-hearted addresses, pour-the proceedings are all their own. ing in upon her Majesty from They cannot have been de every town and every village, ceived. They well knew the form the appropriate answer to nature and extent of the evithose charges and to that evidence. We find Majocchi, the dence. simple Countess, and the disFeeble, indeed, was your at- interested Sacchini all residing tempt to apologize for the pro-in England for a long time. The secutors and their agents. We Ministers must have been well could discover, however, from acquainted with the circumthat apology, that you were not stances relating to the witnesses; sensibie to the weight of your and, what is more, they had all present troubles, and not blind their swearings down in black to those greater troubles which and white in the green bags. you behold in prospect. You All that we know now, they appear to see that your patrons knew before; and, as to their and employers are beset with exponditure of money in this difficulties on every side; and business, they have not conyou make a lame attempt to descended, even yet, to give us cause it to be believed that the a glance at an account. Theredifficulties were unavoidable. fore, there is no excuse for the But, who then was it that com- Ministers. The whole of the pelled the Ministers to send out proceedings is their own volunthe Milan Commission? Who tary act. They are responsible was it that compelied them to for that act; and, I trust, that expend our money upon Cooke, you will find that you have to