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The SOLICITOR GENERAL said, that Dr. Holland had quitted the Princess at Venice long before.

Will you swear that Lieutenant Howman was not present when Mahomet played off those tricks? I did not see him.

Who else was there besides yourself, the performer, and her Royal Highness? I saw Bergami, the Princess, and Mahomet on the occasion.

Whom did they send for Mahomet-did they send you? I do not recollect.

Were you so placed that her Royal Highness saw you at the time, well as Mahomet? She was in such a situation that when Mahomet played his tricks she did not see me, but Mahomet and Bergami

saw me.

Was it in a room? No, in a Court.

And where was her Royal Highness? At the window of her bed-room or the cabinet.

Where was Mahomet? He was coming out of the door of the stable. Did Mahomet stand in the Court to perform these tricks? Near the window of her Royal Highness.

Was his back turned to you? I was at his side; he was then looking at the Princess.

The witness then described the relative situations; Mahomet was on one side of the Court, the Princess on the other, and the witness behind at the door of the lake.

Will you swear that her Royal Highness could not see you there? She could see me, but I do not know whether she did.

Who ordered this Mahomet to come and perform these tricks? I do not know.

Then for any thing you know there might be persons in the same room with the Princess standing a little behind her? I could not see if any body were within, but I saw her Royal Highness put her head out of the window to see Mahomet perform these tricks.

Did you never see this Arabian play the same tricks at any other time? Yes, at Barona.

Was her Royal Highness present then? Yes, with Bergami.
And any body else? The people of the family.

Men as well as women? Footmen, coachmen, kitchen people and scullions, were there to look at him.

Did you ever see Baron Ompteda at the House of the Princess? I do not remember his name, but I saw a Persian Baron dining with her at the Villa Villani I only recollect him twice there.

During the time you were in the service of her Royal Highness, do you recollect any blacksmith or locksmith being examined there respecting picking locks, and making false keys? I do not re

collect.

Do you remember no quarrel between Lieut. Hownam and the German Baron? I heard that they had a quarrel, but I do not know the cause nor the time.

Can you tell within a week or within two years? I do not res member the time,

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or Colonel Durin? I saw Colonel Durin at Vienna, and Colonel Brown at Milan.

Did you go to Milan merely out of respect to the order of your father? No: he told me that Colonel Brown wanted to speak to me, and when my father told me so I went to Colonel Brown directly. Had you ever seen Colonel Brown before you went to speak to him at Milan? Never.

The witness then stated that his father paid the expences of the journey from Vienna to Milan-his father was not a man of any property, but they travelled comfortably in a calashe, and wanted for nothing-at Milan his father introduced him to Colonel Brown-he has subsequently gone for three months into Hungary, with Marquis Onischalti, as his cook-he did not remember that the English Ambassador gave him any thing when he went to Milan-Colonel Brown paid for his journey and his father's back to Vienna-his father and his wife, but not his children, were now in London, he, the witness, lived with them, but he could not tell in what street-it was about ten minutes walk from the House of Lords.

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How many others live in the same house? I do not know.

Will you swear there are not not 70? I do not know the number. Are there any other Italians besides yourself, your venerable parent, and your amiable wife? (Some disapprobation evinced by the House at this question). I believe so.

Are there many waiters at this inn or house? I do not know the

number.

Do know the name or the sign of the hotel? No.

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Is it an inn at which you lodge? I never made the observation. Have they brought you any bill to pay? No (with emphasis.) Have you ever paid any Bill? No, but I shall have to pay. Are you to pay yourself for your entertainment at this inn? I do not know; I have not yet been asked.

But are you to pay for your own keep? I do not know.

Were you ever in such a place before where you did not know whether you were to pay for your keep or not.

Lord FALMOUTH here interposed, and asked the Counsel if he were near the end of his Cross-examination, as it was considerably past the usual hour of adjournment.

SIXTH DAY-AUGUST 23.

The Earl of LAUDERDALE wished each party to give in a plan of the different houses in which her Majesty and Bergami resided. He thought this would much assist their Lordships in the inquiry. Lord ERSKINE approved of this suggestion.

The Earl of DARLINGTON moved that instructions should be given to lay before their Lordships each morning the proceedings of the preceding day.

The LORD-CHANCELLOR thought before the order was made, it would be necessary to ascertain whether or not the order could

be complied with. What passed could be given in the papers sooner than by the short-hand writer, and the clerks of the House.

The Earl of DARLINGTON, after what had been said of the diffi culties that lay in the way, declined pressing the motion for the present.

The names of the Peers having been called over, at 20 minutes after 10 the Counsel were called in.

Theodore Majocci was then placed at the bar.

Cross-examination Resumed.

Witness did not recollect a German Baron visiting her Royal Highness at Naples, nor at Genoa, afterwards on her way from Naples to Milan, but at the Villa Villani, during her residence there, there was a Baron, who visited her at Carlsruhe, but he did not know his name-it was the same person he spoke of yesterday, he could not recollect that the name was Ompteda, or something like it he could not recollect his name, because it was such an extravagant one-he did not recollect whether it was Ramptdon, or any thing like it—he remembered that Baron, whatever he was called, sleeping there more than once. He remembered, that he had a servant, but whether he lived with the servants of her Royal Highness he did not recollect. He did remember a room there being called after that person. Did not remember a thunder storm on a Sunday, when her Royal Highness and a party got very wet. He remembered the position of the beds of her Royal Highness and Bergami at Naples, but did not remember where the rest of her suite were. He remembered well where the Princess and Bergami slept, but as to the rest he could not remember.

In answer to a question, "Did the rest of the family sleep near or at a distance?" did you or not say they were separated, on, your oath? I remember the position of the beds of Bergami and her Royal Highness.

You must answer the question. It is true.

Did you not give in, answer to that question the following an swer? (Answer repeated to him.) I said they were separated; but I meant that they were so situated that they could not com municate together.

Did you mean by that, that persons could not pass from one part of the house to the other?

A Conversation occurred between the Counsel on this question. Witness said, what he remembered he had answered at the time. He had seen no other way from that part of the house where the rest of her Royal Highness's suite slept, to her Royal Highness's apartment but through the chamber of Bergami. He had seen no passage-no door, but what he had mentioned. He did not rememDer where the rest of the suite slept. Did not remember that the rooms in which Dr. Holland and Hieronemous slept were close to the apartment of her Royal Highness. When he went from Vienna to Milan to his father, he lodged at his own house. He supported himself on his money while it lasted. Did not remember how long

that was. He did not remember that any body gave him money when he left Milan. When he left Milan he had money given to him. Did any body give you money at Milan? I remember not. (This answer was interpreted to mean, that he remembered money had not been given, that he had received no money.)

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He remained at Milan between eighteen and twenty days: he could not speak precisely. When returning with his father, he had paid, himself, for his ventuzino that carried his bags. Colonel Brown had given him money at Vienna to go to Milan. His father had given him money to pay for his journey there. He remembered nobody else to have given him money. Nobody gave him money when he was at Milan. He recollected that he received no money while he was there. He remembered he did not.

Lord LONGFORD from the gallery, submitted that it would be proper the last answer should be read to the witness, to know whether it was the answer he intended to give.

The Marquis of LANDSDOWN inquired of the Lord Chancellor whether it would not be better that the examination of the witnesses should proceed without the interference of their Lordships, and that their Lordships, if they thought fit, might put any question afterwards.

The Lord CHANCELLOR said, he understood that these proceedings were to go in the same manner as the proceedings in the Courts of Law. As such, the course would be that the Counsel for the Bill should examine the witness first; the Counsel for the Queen would then cross-examine them, and the Counsel for the Bill would then re-examine them.

Mr. BROUGHAM.-My Lords, this regulation is extremely proper. In any ordinary case, I might perhaps be induced to ask such a wit ness as this other questions. On the present occasion, however, I shall abstain, and ask him no more.

Witness re-examined by the SOLICITOR-GENERAL.

Did your father conduct you from Vienna to Milan to be examined as to the knowledge you possessed of the conduct of her Royal Highness while you were in her service? Yes Sir. Had you any other, business in Milan? No. After that examination was done, where did you go to? To Vienna again. While at Milan, before you returned, and when about to return, did you receive any money? Before my departure I did. For what purpose? To make the jourDid you receive before that? any I don't remember. What do you mean by "questo non mi ricordo"? When I say "non mi ricordo," I mean that I have not in my head to have received money, for if I had received the money, I should say "yes ;" but I do not remember now the contrary.

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On the motion of a noble Lord, whose name we could not obtain, the Lord CHANCELLOR stated, that the House expected that the Interpreter for the Queen would interpose whenever he thought the Marchese misinterpreted the answer of the witness.

The re-examination resumed. Who sent you to this country now ? Colonel Brown. Do you not understand my question-Who sent

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