have pressed this part of the case, with an earnestnesss which shews that 1 have felt it. I have no wish to disguise from Your Majesty, that I have felt it, and felt it strongly. It is the only part of the case which I conceive to be in the least degree against me, that rests upon a witness who is at all worthy of Your Majesty's credit. How unfair it is, that any thing she has said should be pressed against me, I trust I have sufficiently shewn. In canvassing, however, Mrs. Lisle's evidence, I hope I have not forgot what was due to Mrs. Lisle. I have been as anxious not to do her injustice, as to do justice to myself. I retain the same respect and regard for Mrs. Lisle now, as I ever had. If the unfavorable impressions, which the Commissioners seem to suppose, fairly arise out of the expressions she has used, I am confident they will be understood in a sense, which was never intended by her. And I should scorn to purchase any advantage to myself, at the expense of the slightest imputation, unjustly cast upon Mrs. Lisle or any one else.

Leaving, therefore, with these observations, Mrs. Lisle's evidence, I must proceed to the evidence of Mr. Bidgood. The parts of it which apply to this part of the case, I mean my conduct to Captain Manby at Montague House, I mean to detail. They are as follows. "I first observed Captain Manby come to Montague House, either the end of 1803, or the beginning of 1804. I was waiting one day in the antiroom; Captain Manby had his hat in his hand,

and appeared to be going away; he was a long time with the Princess, and as I stood on the steps waiting, I looked into the room in which they were, and in the reflection of the lookingglass, I saw them salute each other. I mean that they kissed each other's lips. Captain Manby then went away. I then observed the Princess have her handkerchief in her hands, and wipe her eyes, as if she was crying, and went into the drawing-room." In his second deposition, on the 3rd of July, talking of his suspicions of what passed at Southend, he says, they arose from seeing them kiss each other, as I mentioned before, like people fond of each other; a very close kiss."

"In these extracts from his depositions, there can undoubtedly be no complaint of any thing being left to inference. Here is a fact, which must unquestionably occasion almost as unfavourable interpretations, as any fact of the greatest impropriety and indecorum, short of the proof of actual crime. And this fact is positively and affirmatively sworn to. And if this witness is truly represented, as one who must be credited till he is decidedly contradicted; and the decided contradiction of the parties accused, should be considered as unavailing, it constitutes a charge which cannot possibly be answered. For the case is so laid, that there is no eye to witness it, but his own; and therefore there can be no one who can possibly contradict him, however false his story may be, but the persons whom he accused. As for me, Sire,

there is no mode, the most solemn that can be devised, in which I shall not be anxious and happy to contradict it. And I do here most

solemnly, in the face of Heaven, most directly and positively affirm, that it is as foul, malicious, and wicked a falsehood, as ever was invented by the malice of man. Captain Manby, to whom I have been under the necessity of applying for that purpose, in the deposition which I annex, most directly and positively denies it also. Beyond these our two denials, there is nothing which can by possibility be directly opposed to Mr. Bidgood's evidence. All that remains to be done, is to examine Mr. Bidgood's credit, and to see how far he deserves the character which the Commissioners give to him. How unfoundedly they gave such a character to Mr. Cole, Your Majesty, I am satisfied, must be fully convinced.

"I suppose there must be some mistake, I will not call it by any harsher name; for I think it can be no more than a mistake in Mr. Bidgood's saying, that the first time he knew Captain Manby come to Montague House, was at the end of 1803, or the beginning of 1804; for he first came at the end of the former year ;* and the fact is, that Mr. Bidgood must have seen him then. But however, the date is comparatively immaterial, the fact it is, that is important.

* Before 1803.

And here, Sire, surely I have the same complaint which I have so often urged. I would ask Your Majesty, whether 1, not as a Princess of Wales, but a party accused, had not a right to be thought, and to be presumed innocent, till I was proved to be guilty? Let me ask, if there ever could exist a case, in which the credit of the witness ought to have been more severely sifted and tried? The fact rested solely upon his single assertion. However false, it could not possibly receive contradiction, but from the parties. The story itself, surely is not very probable. My character cannot be considered as under Inquiry; it is already gone, and decided upon by those, if there are any such, who think such a story probable.-That in a room, with the door open, and a servant known to be waiting just by, we should have acted such a scene of gross indecency. The indiscretion at least, might have rendered it improbable, even to those, whose prejudices against me, might be prepared to conceive nothing improbable in the indecency of it. Yet this seems to have been received as a fact that there was no reason to question. The witness is assumed without hesitation, to be the witness of truth, of unquestionable veracity. Not the faintest trace is there to be found, of a single question put to him, to try and sift the credit which was due to him, or to his story.

"Is he asked, as I suggested before should have been done with regard to Mr. Cole,-to whom he told this fact before? When he told

it? What was done in consequence of this information? If he never told it, till for the purpose of supporting Lady Douglas's statement, how could he, in his situation, as an old servant of the Prince, with whom as he swears, he had lived twenty-three years, creditably to himself, account for having concealed it so long? And how came Lady Douglas and Sir John to find out that he knew it, if he never had communicated it before? If he had communicated it, he would then have been useful, to have heard how far his present story was consistent with his former; and if it should have happened that this and other matters, which he may have stated, were at that time made the subject of any Inquiry; then how far that Inquiry had tended to confirm or shake his credit. His first examination was, it is true, taken by Lord Grenville and Lord Spencer alone, without the aid of the experience of the Lord Chancellor, and Lord Chief Justice; this, undoubtedly, may account for the omission; but the noble Lords will forgive me if I say, it does not excuse it, especially as Mr. Bidgood was examined again on the 3rd of July, by all the Commissioners, and this fact is again referred to then, as the foundation of the suspicion which he afterwards entertained of Captain Manby at Southend. Nay, that last deposition affords, on my part, another ground of similar complaint of the strongest kind. It opens thus:-"The Princess "used to go out in her Phaeton with coachman "and helper, towards Long Reach, eight or ten