viously carried her majesty from Civita Vecchia to Genoa. At that time Bergami was her menial, but he was now her chamberlain. The honourable officer who commanded the ship felt it would be degrading him if he sat at the same table with one who had formerly served him, and he remonstrated ou the subject with her majesty, whose conduct showed how deeply she felt the force of his objection. Had he obtained the dignity he then held by worthy means, would not the princess have answered this remonstrance by saying, he had associated with her majesty, and could not therefore disgrace captain Pechell by sitting at the samé table. If this failed, would not her majesty have said, "You are of fending me and the country that employs you; I shall make the proper report of your conduct, and not go on board your vessel." But was this the conduct of her majesty? If his advancement were a proof of his merits, and his merits alone, would not this, or something like it, have been the conduct of her majesty? No such thing, however, took place-she took a day or two to consider what she should do, and ultimately declined the table and society of captain Pechell for that of her paramour. She, indeed, observed that captain Briggs made no objection to Bergami; but there was this difference in the two cases, that the latter was totally unacquainted with the previons menial condition of Bergami. Her majesty, it would thus appear, consented to be iusulted by an English captain, who, however, had done no more than what he conceived to be his duty.

From Messina her majesty went to Syracuse, where she remained till the 30th of that month, and then proceeded to Catania. At first Bergami's bedroom was at a distance from her'sbut the same change here took place as on every other occasion where any interruption could take place in their secret communications. There the filles-de-chambres, sitting up one night later than usual at their revels, saw Bergami's door open, and the princess coming out in such a condition as could leave no doubt of her having passed the night in his room, She was undressed and had a pillow under her arm, on which she always slept. In common cases of divorce, such a fact, my lords, would be proof enough, but

when you couple with it her being undressed, I ask what must be the couclusion in your lordships' minds? That fact alone, if we cau prove it, fully justifies the preamble of the bill. Another circumstance occurred at Catania, which will serve to confirm the charge of a previous adulterous inter

course.

Her majesty had showu an extraordinary attachment to the infant child of Bergami, who slept in her room, and often in her bed, and was subsequently, I believe, dignified with the title of a princess. The child showed symptoms of gratitude for her majesty's attentions, and also exhibited her concern by crying when she missed the haud that fondled and protected her. The child was affectionate, and if her majesty were withdrawn it usually cried. The countess of Oldi in vain attempted to pacify her. These circumstances coupled with others, must satisfy your lordships and all reasonable minds that an adulterous intercourse subsisted between her majesty and Bergami while they continued at Catania.

SO

Having advanced Bergami to many honours, and now procured him a knighthood of Malta; he was designated his excellency, and afterwards she always addressed him as chevalier. What reason, my lords, can be assigned for all this? What but her guilty attachment, or the expectation of gratification from a degrading intercourse? While at Catania, she at first enjoyed the society of the first persons there; but after a short residence she became regardless of all other society than that of her paramour. She was rarely seen with the nobility; she became regardless of her person, and from Catania she proceeded to a place called Augusta, in that neighbourhood. Aujourued at 4 o'clock.

MONDAY, August 21.

The Attorney-General said, he had now to resume the statement of facts at the part which he left off on Saturday. It would be in the recollection of their lordships that in that statement he had left her majesty at Catania, in the island of Sicily. He, however, begged leave, before he proceeded with the narrative, to supply an omission which he made on Saturday. On that day he had stated that Dr. Holland was in the suite of her majesty, but he had not mentioned at what time that

gentleman left her service. He now this voyage she hired a vessel of that thought it necessary to apprise their kind called a polacca; and here he had lordships, lest they should suppose again to state, that arrangements were that Dr. Holland had continued with made on board this vessel, similar to her majesty up to the last date of which those their lordships would recollect he had spoken, that that gentleman left he had already described on other ocher at Venice, in the tour which her casious, for having the sleeping apartmajesty made to that city in the month ments of Bergami and the queen near of April or May, 1815. She had pre- each other, and for obtaining facility viously taken into her service a Mr. of communication. Her majesty's Howuam and a Mr. Flynn, officers of cabin, as well as that of the countess the navy. He would now proceed of Oldi, communicated with the dining with his statement in the order he had cabin, and on the other side were some hitherto followed. He had, as already apartments for the other female atstated, left her majesty at Catania; tendants. There were two doors leadfrom thence she went to Augusta, also ing into the cabin, one for the queen in Sicily. This journey she made in aud the other for her female servants. the mouth of March, 1816. He had For a few days Bergami slept at some already informed their lordships, that distance from the queen's apartment. during the residence of the queen in But very soon one of the doors, that Catania, she procured for Bergami the which served for a communication to title of a knight of Malta. Upon her the servants into the eating room, was arrival at Augusta, she obtained for ordered to be closed up, leaving only him a new dignity-the title of Baron one entrance to the dining room and de la Francino. He was not aware the queen's bed room. A bed was what circumstances could entitle him ordered to be brought for Bergami's to such an honour, or that any thing accommodation into the dining cabin, could have induced her majesty to and this bed was so placed, that when procure this dignity for him, except the door of the queen's sleeping-room the influence which he had obtained was open, she aud Bergami could see over her, in consequence of the fa- each other while in bed, and hold conmiliarity and licentious intercourse versation together. The only access which he had shown to have subsisted to her majesty's bed-room was through between them. He had now to state the eating-room in which Bergamislept, another fact, which would prove the and when the door of this room was power Bergami had obtained over his shut, there was no meaus of access to mistress a power which, as he always the queen's. The door of the eatingsaid, was to be accounted for by not cabin was constantly shut afrer they only the existence of a licentious fa- retired to rest, and through it, as he miliarity, but an adulterous intercourse had stated, was the only communicabetween them. Either at Angusta or tion to the queen's sleeping apartment. Catania she sat for her picture, or for Now he would ask their lordships what several pictures. In one instance she conclusion could be drawn from this sat in the character of a Magdalen, in arrangement but that which the others a dress in which her person was very he had stated, had suggested? What much exposed. In another picture other reason except that of facilitating she was painted in the dress of a an adulterous intercourse could be Turkish lady, and along with her was assigned for her majesty having, either the child Victoriue in a similar dress. by land or sea, access to her sleepingBergami was also painted in a Turkish apartment open only to Bergami, and dress. One, if not two, of these pic-closed to all the rest of her suite? Her tures was presented to Bergami. Now he must here agaiu observe to their lordships, that to him it was impossible to account for such marks of favour, upon any other ground than that of influence obtained by the adulterous intercourse which, upon the facts he had described, he attributed to the parties. Her majesty having resolved to leave Augusta, set out on a voyage to Tunis, and afterwards visited Greece. For

majesty proceeded, as he had stated, to Tunis, and from thence to Utica. In the house in wihch she slept there were only two bed-rooms; one was allotted to her majesty and Victorine, and another to the countess of Oldi and the other female attendants. The rest of the suite were accommodated at the houses of different consuls in the town. It would appear in evidence, that when her majesty stopped at this

Their lordships would recollect that he had stated that there was only one passage to her majesty's bed-room; that that passage led from Bergami's room, aud that in his room there was no bed. In any ordinary case this would be sufficient proof to a jury that the crime of adultery had been committed that night; because, when their lordships found that there were no means of access to the queen's bed-room but through Bergami's apartment, and that her majesty's bed bore in the morning the marks of two persons having lain in it, they could come to no other conclu siou but the natural one-that they had committed adultery. When, too, they found circumstances of this kind oc curring night after night, from time to time, and in different places, there was no one could doubt that the evidence bore out the charge of a continued course of adultery. From the coast of Africa her majesty sailed to Athens, and touched at Malta in her way. They arrived at Athens on the 22nd of April, 1816, and afterwards visited the Greek islands, and stopped some time at Me lito. Excursions were also made to Troy and Ephesus. He would state a fact which occurred at Athens, which would show how little of the respect due to her high rank was paid by Bergami to the princess. At Athens, the captain of an English ship which touched there landed, and called on her royal highness. He was intro

place, Bergami came in the morning at a very early hour before her majesty was up, and entered her apart, ment. Without asking leave or giving the slightest notice, he passed into her bed-room, and there remained alone with her for a considerable time. Here he might be permitted to ask, why Bergami took this liberty? why he went to her majesty's apartment without being desired? Their lordships would say whether it was to be supposed she would thus admit him to her bed-room, if gross familiarity and licentious intercourse had not previously taken place. It was true, she had by this time procured for Bergami titles and diguities, but her having raised him from obscurity to distinction did not furnish any ground for thus admitting him to her bed-room. Their lordships might, perhaps, consider the details he had to state as fatiguing, from their sameness. But though many of the facts he had stated, and had still to relate, were unimportant in themselves, they were material as leading to the conclusion he had endeavoured to press on their lordships' minds-that the chain of circumstances could only be accounted for on the existence of an adulterous intercourse between Bergami and her majesty, He had now to call their lordships' attention to a fact which was calculated to remove every doubt from their minds, if any yet remained. Her majesty visited Savona. The house induced to her royal highness sitting in which she slept there had only two rooms, and the outer room, which was assigned to Bergami, bad no bed.

Here the Lord Chancellor asked at what date this took place.

The A torney-General: They were at Savona on the 12th of April; they had been at Utica on the 8th.

A noble lord asked where Savona was situated.

The Attorney-General: The place was in Africa, near Tunis. It was called either Savona or Savenha. He had it Savona. As he had stated, at this place, the outside-room, assigned to Bergami, had no bed; the inner room, which was occupied by her majesty, bad one, and a very large one. There was no access to the bed in the juner-room except through Bergami's. It would be proved in evidence, that in the morning, after her majesty had slept here, her bed had the appearance of having been slept in by two persons.

an alcove in a garden, in which were also the countess of Oldi and Bergami; the latter seated, and wearing a foraging cap. Her royal highness rose with the politeness which distin guished all persons of high rank, to receive the officer, and desired him to be seated. Bergami continued seated; and, after a short time, left the place without making the least obeisance, or paying those marks of respect which the officers of a court were always expected to pay; he left the room as if he were a person of equal rank to her royal highness. Why did he mention this fact? Because it showed that the familiarity which had taken place between them had been carried to such an extent that be considered his royal mistress to be reduced to a level with himself. This fact was nothing of itself, but it was one which, taken in connection with others, was very im portant, and would have weight with

and he might venture to assert that such familiarity could not be supposed to exist between such persons without a guilty intercourse. No woman would allow such a liberty to be taken with her, unless by a man to whom she had

be said not only in the case of a princess and a man who had been her courier, but in the case of any man and woman of respectability in any rank of life. From Aun her majesty proceeded to Jerusalein. Here, not satisfied with the diguities she had already procured for her favourite-nor even with having made him her chamberlain, and procured for him the order of Malta and the title of Baron della Francia-she obtained for him the or der of St. Sepulchre. Still, not content with this, she instituted an order of her own, which was called "the order of St. Caroline." After conferring this order on several of her domestics, she made Bergami the Grand Master, (a laugh in the house.) This might excite a smile among their lordships; but it was a circumstance which marked very strongly the state of her majesty's mind. Why did she single out this mau to be Grand Master of the order she had created? It was impossible not to conclude that this distinction proceeded from that attachment which she had so strongly manifested to him, which had led to an adulterous intercourse that gave him a powerful influence over her. Why else should she have made a Grand Master of this man, formerly a courier-now a baron, There was no way of accounting for this but by referring it to that degrad

a jury. It plainly showed the assumption of authority by Bergami, and how completely he thought himself relieved from the necessity of paying any mark of respect to her majesty. From Athens her royal highness proceeded by the way of Constantinople to Ephe-grauted the last favour. This might sus. Here another circumstance of a very remarkable nature occurred. her majesty directed a bed to be placed under a vestibule, which fronted a church shaded by trees. Dinner was prepared, but the weather was hot, and her majesty had retired to the vestibule to repose herself. Bergami was seen coming from this vestibule in dishabille, when no other person was supposed to be there but her majesty Dinner was afterwards ordered to be served in the vestibule for her majesty and Bergami. She sat on the small bed and he beside her. None of the attendants were admitted, to the vestibule, and she and Bergami remained alone together for a considerable time. Now, if ber royal highness required any attendance within this vestibule, why were not the females of her suite employed for that purpose? Why was Bergami and Bergami alone, admitted to her bedroom? Soon after, her majesty proceeded to Aun, a place in Syria, where again Bergami was treated with the same extraordinary familiarity. A tent was erected for her royal highness, and a bed fitted up for her within it. While she was in bed in this tent, Bergami was seen sitting in his shirt sleeves, and almost undressed, on the side of the bed. From this tent he was afterwards seen coming in a state of undress. Now if her majesty required any attendanceing and humiliating passion on the part in this tent, why had she not called upon the countess Oldi, or some other female of her suite? How did it happen that Bergami should be the person required to attend her while she was in bed, and that he should wait upon her dressed in the unbecoming manner which had been described? This was certainly a circumstance of strong suspicion. But it perhaps might be said, that it required something more to prove adultery. He must observe, however, that he believed that in any ordinary case this would be enough to prove the commission of that crime before any court. But their lordships would besides recollect, that, strong as it was, this was not an isolated fact. I was one of a series of the same sort,

of her majesty, the calamitous effects
of which he had already described. It
was that passion which had made Ber-
gami Knight of Malta, Knight of St.
Sepulchre, Grand Master of the Order
of St. Caroline, and the baron della
Francia. He had, however, now a fact
to state, which, if any doubt still re-
mained with their lordships, would
He therefore
completely banish it.
requested their lordship's particular
attention to the statemeut he was about
to make. Her majesty embarked at
Jaffa, for Italy, on board a polacca;
finding it inconvenient to remain in
the cabin during the night, she directed

a tent to be erected on the deck of the

vessel, in order to sleep in it. In this tent a sofa or bed was placed for her