An Accurate Report of the Trial of Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Caroline, Before the House of Lords on a Bill of Pains and Penalties: Charging Her Majesty with Criminal Intercourse with a Foreigner Name Bartolomo Bergami |
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... never could believe would be established ; and whatever might be enacted by means of suborned perjury , or a foul conspiracy , he never would pay to any one who might usurp her situation , that respect which the laws of God and man had ...
... never could believe would be established ; and whatever might be enacted by means of suborned perjury , or a foul conspiracy , he never would pay to any one who might usurp her situation , that respect which the laws of God and man had ...
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... never be disclosed . He wished that the House and his Learned Friends should never be made , as it were , spectators of those disgusting and licentious scenes , which the evidence would unquestionably disclose . Upon these he could not ...
... never be disclosed . He wished that the House and his Learned Friends should never be made , as it were , spectators of those disgusting and licentious scenes , which the evidence would unquestionably disclose . Upon these he could not ...
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... never seen before , a person of vulgar manners and totally uneducated ; and ( was it credible ? ) this person was another sister of Bergami's . Such was the power of this man over her , that this person , dignified by the title of ...
... never seen before , a person of vulgar manners and totally uneducated ; and ( was it credible ? ) this person was another sister of Bergami's . Such was the power of this man over her , that this person , dignified by the title of ...
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... Never . Never told any body that you had ? Never . ( A few cries of " Order " was heard when the last question was put . ) Mr. Brougham appealed to their Lordships , if it was fittting that he should be admonished , as he proceeded in ...
... Never . Never told any body that you had ? Never . ( A few cries of " Order " was heard when the last question was put . ) Mr. Brougham appealed to their Lordships , if it was fittting that he should be admonished , as he proceeded in ...
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... never happened to be ill yourself at Naples ? No. Did her Royal Highness make the slightest difference between the highest and the lowest of her attendants , in asking after their health , when ill ? The SOLICITOR - GENERAL objected to ...
... never happened to be ill yourself at Naples ? No. Did her Royal Highness make the slightest difference between the highest and the lowest of her attendants , in asking after their health , when ill ? The SOLICITOR - GENERAL objected to ...
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Page 475 - Highness's residence abroad ; by which conduct of her said Royal Highness, great scandal and dishonour have been brought upon your Majesty's family and this kingdom : Therefore, to manifest our deep sense of such scandalous, disgraceful, and vicious conduct on the part of her said Majesty...
Page 475 - Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted, by the King's most excellent Majesty, by and- with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal...
Page 4 - ... all the prerogatives, rights, privileges, and exemptions appertaining to her as Queen Consort of this realm; and that her said Majesty shall, from and after the passing of this act, for ever be disabled and rendered incapable of using, exercising, and enjoying the same, or any of them ; and moreover, that the marriage between his Majesty and the said Caroline Amelia Elizabeth be, and the same is hereby from henceforth for ever wholly dissolved, annulled, and made void, to all intents, constructions,...
Page 459 - Those who avowed themselves her prosecutors have presumed to sit in judgment upon the question between the Queen and themselves. Peers have given their voices against her who had heard the whole evidence for the charge, and absented themselves during her defence. Others have come to the discussion from the Secret Committee with minds biassed by a mass of slanders, which, her enemies have not dared to bring forward in the light.
Page 4 - Bergami, which continued for a long period of time during her Royal Highness's residence abroad ; by which conduct of her said Royal Highness, great scandal and dishonour have been brought upon your Majesty's family and this kingdom...
Page 4 - Bergami, was in her said service^ further unmindful of her exalted rank and station, and of her duty to your Majesty, and wholly regardless of her own honour and character, conducted herself towards the said Bartolomo Pergauii, otherwise Bartolomo Berganai, and in other respects, both in public and private, in the various places and countries which her Royal Highness visited, with indecent and...
Page 474 - An Act to deprive her Majesty Queen Caroline Amelia Elizabeth of the title, prerogatives, rights, privileges, and exemptions of Queen Consort of this realm, and to dissolve the marriage between his Majesty . and the said Caroline Amelia Elizabeth.
Page 459 - To the Lords spiritual and temporal in Parliament assembled. " The queen has learnt the decision of the Lords upon the bill now before them. In the face of parliament, of her family, and of her country, she does solemnly protest against it. Those who avowed themselves her prosecutors have presumed to sit in judgment upon the question between the queen and themselves.
Page 3 - Committees appointed a Secret Committee to examine the papers laid before the House of Lords, on Tuesday, the 6th of June last, in two sealed bags, by his majesty's command, and to report thereupon, as they shall see fit ; and to whom have been since referred several additional papers in two sealed bags, by his majesty's command...
Page 40 - Did that stair-case lead immediately from one room into the other ? Yes. Was there another entrance into the bed-room of the Princess, for the use of persons waiting upon her ? There was, from the great chamber where they dined. Do you remember seeing Bergami go into the room of the Princess without being entirely dressed, in any house before they went to Syracuse ? Oh, yes. Do you remember where it was ? If I do not mistake, it was in the Villa Villani.