of the Countess of Oldi ?—I had a very good opportunity. I sat next to her every day at dinner.

I now ask you, whether or not the Countess of Oldi is a person of low and vulgar manners?-Certainly not.

What are the appearance and demeanour of the Countess?-Very pleasing: she is rather good-looking, and is a very modest lady.

Upon any occasion, when Bergami has come to see you, or you have been obliged to see him, and the Queen was not present, what were his conduct and demeanour towards you, as to manner? On all such occasions he was more respectful than was necessary. He generally required to be pressed before he sat down.

You have been for a considerable time in Italy -I have been there almost ever since the Queen first went abroad.

I want to know whether, according to the habits of that country, it is usual for men-servants to go into the bed-rooms while the ladies are in bed?-I believe it is not at all uncommon. I believe it is very usual.

Did you know Baron Ompteda ?—Yes, I did.

Have you known, yourself, of your own knowledge, of his dining with the Queen, while her Majesty was Princess of Wales? -Yes, certainly; I saw him at the Queen's table, at dinner.

Once, or more than once?-I cannot remember more than once, at this moment; I mean 'at the Queen's table: I have met him at other tables.

You have been in the East, Sir William?-Yes.

Pray have you been ever in the habit of seeing a Moorish dance?-Yes, not only in the Eastern countries, but in Spain.

Mr PARK objected to any question relative to the mode of dancing adopted in foreign countries.

The LORD CHANCELLOR.-I see no objection to a question which tends to shew that a particular dance exists. The fact must afterwards be contrasted with that which has been previously given in evidence.

Mr WILLIAMS resumed.-Will you

describe this dance generally, if you can do so? (Much laughter.)

The LORD-CHANCELLOR.-Recollect, Mr Williams, that Sir William Gell has got the gout. (Laughter.)

Give me any description, verbally, of the manner in which this dance is usually performed?-I believe every one has seen the Spanish Bolero danced at our theatres: it is very like that. In one part of the dance the two performers come together, sometimes in an attitude of defiance, and sometimes in an amorous attitude. The same dance prevails throughout the south of Europe. Every body, ladies and gentlemen, saw it without making any particular remark. I believe it prevails from Madrid to China. It is common in every part of Italy.

During the time that you were at Naples, in attendance on the Princess, were there many families in the habit of visiting her?-A great many. Every body that was there, I believe. All persons of note.

Did the Neapolitan nobility visit her? -All the Neapolitan nobility, and all the English, I think, that were there.

Can you tell whether the English nobility, of whom you are speaking, were presented, or attended at the Court of the then King of Naples, Joachim?—I believe every one, without exception.

Can you name any of those who were in the habit of attending either the Court or balls of Murat?—The Marquis of Sligo, the Marquis and Marchioness of Conyngham, the Earl and Countess of Oxford, Lord Lynedoch, Lord and Lady Holland, the Earl and Countess of Llandaff, Lady Elizabeth Forbes, and many others.

And many others?—Yes, many others that I do not recollect.

Was it there or at Genoa that Lord Exmouth dined with the Queen ?—I do not know any thing of Lord Exmouth.

When you were at Rome on the last occasion, do you know whether Bergami was received in the families of the Roman nobility?—I do not know at all, but I do not believe that he went out.

By Lord ELLENBOROUGH.-Did you observe any thing in the conduct of the Princess towards Begami in her conver

sation, manners, or looks, to induce you to entertain the idea that there was an adulterous intercourse between them?Upon my honour, I never saw the Queen speak to Bergami but on matters of business, though I was in the house three months together.

I wish for a more distinct answer?(The question was read over to the witness) I never did.

Did you observe any thing in the conduct of Bergami towards the Princess that would have been different from that of an English gentleman?-Nothing, but that he was more attentive. (Some laughter.)

Earl of LAUDERDALE. - Did Louis Bergami dine at table at Villa Grande ? -Sometimes.

At table with the Princess?—At the same table.

Did you ever see Bergami's mother?Never to my knowledge.

Where did Bergami sit at table, when you were there also?-Generally speaking, somewhere on the left of her Royal Highness.

Did he sit next her Royal Highness, or at a distance?-Sometimes next, and sometimes at a distance.

When you were at the same table?When I was at the same table.

Did you sit on the opposite side of the Queen?-I generally sat where there was no company, on the right side of the Queen.

And Bergami on the left?-Sometimes, but when the table was square, round the corner.

I also beg to know what situation Louis Bergami held in the establishment

of the Princess at that time?-I believe he was chamberlain at that moment.

Where might Louis Bergami usually sit when he thus formed one part of the company?-Generally at the other end of the table.

By the LORD CHANCELLOR, at the instance of the SOLICITOR-GENERAL. When the Princess appeared in the Turkish dress, did she not wear trowsers? I happen to know what the trowsers were, and I beg to explain them. (Explain, explain.) They were very much like the common petticoat, sewed slightly between the legs at the bottom; such as they are very often worn in the Levant.

Have you ever seen the room in which he slept?-Not the first room; I never was in it.

Do you recollect the second room in which he slept?-Perfectly well.

Was there a passage communicating with that room at one end, and at the other with the room in which the Princess slept? There was a passage which led from one end of the house to the other, to the end in which Bergami slept at the other end of the terrace.

Do you remember where Madam De Mont, the Princess's femme de chambre, slept?-She slept in another room, over Dr Holland's, the stairs of which led from the passage.

Have you ever been in that room?— Yes, frequently.

Have you ever been in that room by night, as well as by day?-Late as well as early.

At the time you have been in that room, has Madame De Mont been there also?-Yes, she invited me generally to go there.

When you have been in that room, has there been any person there except yourself and De Mont ?-There was, sometimes, Creci (Annesti we used to call her); but it was seldom long that she stayed when I was there.

Have you, then, been long in that room with De Mont ?-Very frequently.

At the time you have been so long with her, has the door been locked or not?Locked and bolted.

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL objected to the last part of the examination. It was impossible not to see the object for which the learned gentleman had put the last question; and that, he apprehended, was not an object which could be legally pursued by him. He supposed that it was unnecessary for him to argue the point.

Mr TINDALL.-We will not, then, push this matter any further, my lords.

The LORD CHANCELLOR.-Really you have pushed it already as far as you possibly could.

Cross-examined. In going along the passage had you Dr Holland's room in the corner on your right?—Yes.

Was there not a small room on your left?-Yes, there was.

Was it not an unoccupied room?—I believe so.

Beyond that unoccupied room, and next to it, was not the room of Bergami? -Yes.

So that Bergami's room was at the end of the passage you first described, and at the left of the small passage you now describe ?-Yes.

Was there not a door from Bergami's room to the passage you have first described?-I am not certain if there was a door.

Speak positively; was there not a door or passage?-I think there was a door or passage; but whether there was a partition between that door or passage and Bergaini's I do not know.

Was there any mode of going to Bergami's room by that passage?-Yes, there

was.

By a door?-Yes, I think so.

You have described Bergami's room as being a small one, looking towards the garden. Was it a corner room near a small cabinet?-It was a corner room; I cannot say whether there was a cabinet.

Was there not a small cabinet immediately beyond it?—I cannot say.

Was there not, in the passage you first described, a small staircase occupied by De Mont?-Yes.

Opposite that staircase, or near it, was there not another door ?-I am not sure; I cannot charge my memory with it.

Was it not parallel to the second passage you described between the Princess's room and Bergami's?—There was, I know, a sort of inward room or passage, or something of that description.

CARLO FORTI, [Had been head cabinet courier to the Viceroy of Italy. Entered the Princess's service when she was setting out from Milan to Rome.]

On the journey from Milan to Rome, in what carriage did the Princess travel? -In a small English landaulet.

How many other carriages had her Majesty with her in that journey? Two

more.

What sort of carriages were these two? One was a bascatella; the other a ca-, ratella.

On that journey, in which of the three carriages did her Majesty herself travel? -In the landaulet.

Had the landaulet glasses, as is usual with such carriages?—Yes.

Had it wooden blinds?-Yes, it had. Had it any curtains?—It had. What sort of curtains?-Silk. Does the witness mean silk curtains that drew aside, or up and down, with springs? They were things which were pulled down by means of two strings that kept the curtain combined, and were lifted up by springs.

Do you remember her Royal Highness leaving Rome to go to Sinigaglia ?—I do.

Do you know a person of the name of Sacchi, or Sacchini, who was in her Royal Highness's service?-I know Sacchi.

Did he accompany her Royal Highness on the journey you have just been speaking of?-He did.

How did he travel on that journey?From Milan to Ancona on horseback; from Ancona to Loretto, and from Loretto to Rome, he set off, in the evening, a day before her Royal Highness, in the caratella, and I mounted myself on horseback, and accompanied the Queen into Rome.

Did you mount on horseback at Ancona or Loretto?-At Loretto.

Now, when her Royal Highness left Rome for Sinigaglia, did Sacchi travel with her, and how did he travel?-He travelled in the caratella, as before; and I on horseback, with the carriage.

How long before her Royal Highness did Sacchi set out on that journey in the curatella?-Two hours before.

What was it his business to do on the journey, which rendered it necessary that he should go two hours before her Royal Highness?—He had to order horses, and to pay for the horses.

How did you travel yourself on that same journey?-Always on horseback.

Did you accompany the carriage on horseback?-Always.

When you came near any stage, did you go before her Royal Highness's carriage?-Yes, about half a mile before the end of a stage.

Do you mean to say, that at this halfmile, before the end of a stage, you always rode before her Royal Highness's carriage?—I do.

Did Sacchi order horses for her Royal Highness in the way you have described, going before her in the caratella, during the whole of that journey from Rome to Sinigaglia?-He did; and he paid for them at the same time.

Did any other person ride as a courier for her Royal Highness on that journey? -No.

If there had been any one else, must you have seen him ?-Certainly, because I was always there.

Did any other courier, or person on horseback, except yourself, accompany her Royal Highness on that journey?No one except myself.

Now, who travelled with her Royal Highness in the landaulet on that occasion? There were in it, besides her Royal Highness, the Countess of Oldi, Bergami, and Victorine.

On whose lap did Victorine generally sit during this journey?-Very often she was on the knees of her Royal Highness.

Did you see her (Victorine) sometimes in the morning sitting on the Countess of Oldi's knees?-Sometimes I did.

Where did the Countess of Oldi sit in the carriage?-In the middle.

Do you mean in the middle, between the Baron and her Royal Highness?— Her Royal Highness was on the right, the Baron on the left, and the Countess in the middle.

Do you recollect whether, during any part of the journey from Milan to Rome, or from Rome to Sinigaglia, the Countess of Oldi was in one of the other carriages? -At Loretto the Countess fell, and went into the second carriage.

Whose place did she take at that time? -She took the place of De Mont.

Where did De Mont go when the Countess of Oldi took her place?-She took the place of the Countess of Oldi.

Do you mean that she took Oldi's place in the middle of the landaulet?—I do.

Was it on the journey from Loretto

Did you always see her in that situation, in the morning, when her Majesty arrived any where?-Morning, as well as evening, I saw her, for I was always there.

As courier to her Royal Highness, was it the practice to speak to her Royal Highness, or to any other person in the carriage, at the time you were travelling?

-When they arrived at the end of a stage, and that the carriage was stopped, then I knocked against the door of the carriage, and asked whether they wanted any thing.

While travelling in this way, in what situation were the windows of the carriage at night? had they glasses or blinds? -In the front there was the glass, and, on the right and left sides, at all times during the night, they put up the blinds.

Did you ever see the Baron kiss the Princess at any time on taking leave of her, or at any other time?-No; I never saw him kiss the Princess. (The witness accompanied his answer by a serious shake of the head.)

Did you ever see the Baron take leave of the Princess on any occasion ?—Yes, I have.

What did the Baron do on taking leave of her Royal Highness?—He kissed her hand, and nothing else.

Did you yourself, on taking leave of her Royal Highness, kiss her Royal Highness's hand in the same manner?-I have.

Did the other members of her Royal Highness's suit do the same thing?Yes, the chamberlain; and it was done by all those gentlemen who came to visit her Royal Highness.

Were you in the practice of kissing the hand of the persons of rank whom you formerly served?—I did so to the Vice

Queen, as well as to the Empress Jose. phine.

Cross-examined. When did you last see Bergami?-The last time I saw him was at St Omer's.

Did Bergami travel with her Majesty the Queen as far as St Omer's?-He did. Do you know the wife of Bergami?Yes, I do.

Where does she live?-At Milan. I believe Bergami is called the Baron de la Francini?—Yes, he is.

Is his wife styled the Baroness de la Francini?-I never heard it.

Have you ever seen Bergami's wife in company with her Royal Highness?-I

have never seen her.

Whereabout does Bergami's wife reside? at Milan, or in the neighbourhood?-She lives in Milan.

In what part of Milan ?-She lives near the gate of Ticerina; but I cannot describe the place very exactly.

Have you ever been at her house?—I have.

What sort of a house is it where she lives?-It is a neat house, that suits a private individual.

In what manner does the wife of Bergami live there?-She lives as all other persons do.

In what manner?-In the style of a private person.

I wish the witness would describe, more particularly, the style in which she lives? In truth, for my part, I have ne ver been in her house, to inquire what she did, or did not.

Has she any servants?-She has servants, and a waiting-maid.-(Cries of No! no! intimated that the answer was not correctly translated.)

How many servants has she?-She has a man-servant, and a maid, who performs the office of waiting-maid.

Do you recollect Bergami's mother? Yes, I do.

Did she live in the house of her Royal Highness?-She came once to pass a few days at the Villa Caprini.

You say a few days; how many days did she remain ?-She remained two months, more or less.

When the mother of Bergami was at the Villa Caprini, where did she dine?—

She dined sometimes with her Royal Highness, and sometimes in a room by herself.

Where did Faustina dine?-Always in her own room.

Do you mean to swear that Faustina always dined in her own room?—I cannot swear that she always dined there; but I saw that she did not dine with the others.

Where did Louis Bergami dine?Sometimes he dined with her Royal Highness, sometimes he did not.

LIEUTENANT JOHN FLYNN, [Received the command of the polacre in which her Royal Highness went from Messina to Tunis.

Do you know the situation of the bedrooms that were occupied by her Royal Highness, and by Bergami, during the whole voyage?—I do.

I wish to know whether, at any time, in the situation in which the beds of those two individuals were placed, it was possible for them to see one another while in bed?-I say, no (emphatically.)

Did your duty lead you to attend her Royal Highness, and to see the arrangement of the apartments?—I have sometimes been called for by her Royal Highness to know how the weather was.

From what place did she call to you?
From her cabin.

Did she ever call you from any other place in the night-time ?—Yes, when sleeping under a tent upon deck.

What was Gargiulo's situation on board the ship?-He was captain of the ship.

Was he acting captain, or master ?—I was acting captain, by the order of her Majesty. All the orders from her Majesty were given to me, and by me to the master of the ship.

Did Gargiulo's duty call him to attend the bed-rooms, or the person of her Royal Highness?-No; most assuredly not.

Was it his duty to attend her Majesty, unless an order was given him by you to do so?-No.

Was he in the habit of coming into her Royal Highness's room of his own accord ?

He might have done it of his own accord; but he could not without receiving some orders from me.