majesty, and also a sofa for Bergami. This preparation was made for their sleeping under the same roof, and without any partition or division between them. In this way they continued to sleep every night without intermission, until their arrival in Italy. In the daytime the canvas of the tent was drawn up to admit the air; but at night, when they retired into the tent, it was let down, so as to exclude the observation of the crew and her majesty's suite. This not only took place night after night, but frequently in the course of the day. After dinner her majesty and this man retired into the tent, and then the canvas was let down, as before described, to exclude observation. This familiarity continued during the voyage from Jaffa to Italy, where they arrived in the month of September, and landed at Terracina. What he had stated he considered not merely presumptive, but positive evidence. Was it ever before heard of, that a lady of rank maintained this familiarity with her chamberlain? Their lordships would see that this intercourse had been maintained for a very considerable time, and it was evident that it could be carried on for no other purpose than that of committing adul. tery. When their lordships were, in addition to all he had stated, told that she had often been seen during the day sitting on Bergami's knee, and embracing him; after this nobody could doubt for what purpose the tent was fitted up on the deck. At this time her majesty seemed to cast off all the restraints of female delicacy. It would be proved that at one period during the voyage she had a bath prepared for her on board the vessel, and into this bath she went, no person being present, or in attendance on her, except Bergami. After that fact could any man have a doubt on his mind of the criminal nature of the intercourse existing between them? Though it might be supposed that there might be so much virtue infixed in the mind of an individual, that two persons of different sexes could sleep in the same apartment without any criminality having occurred; yet, seeing that such a series of constant familiarity and unbecoming intimacy had been indulged in with this man before, what but the absolute banishment, the total oblivion, of all remains of virtue and modesty, could have prevailed on a woman to 1 admit a man and a servant at such a moment? From this fact every man' must be satisfied that the last intimacy must have taken place between two persons of different sexes before any female would allow a mau to attend on her in such a situation. Nothing but the existence of the adulterous intercourse to which he had alluded could account for such a circumstance. On board of this vessel, on the 24th of August, which was St. Bartholomew's day, great festivities took place. Their lordships were aware that Bergami's name was Bartolomo. At this entertainment the health of her majesty and the health of Bergami, the courier, were drank together on that occasion. What inference was to be drawn from this circumstance? None, but that those favors, distinctions, and honours were conferred upon the domestic Bergami, in consequence of a criminal, licentious, and disgusting, intercourse. While he was on this fact he should beg to state a circumstance omitted in the former part of his statement, which was that the same transaction had oc curred, the same festivities had been indulged in, on the same day, the preceding year, in the villa d'Este. There also a grand festival was held in honour of the birth-day of the courier Bergami. Now he apprehended the single fact he bad described on board the polacca, would in itself be sufficient evidence of the fact which it was the object of the evidence to establish. He would not fatigue their lordships attention by entering into a minute detail of the various degrees of unbecoming familiarity with her menial, and as he might express it, the indecent exhibitions to which her majesty had reduced herself on board that ship; he would rather leave their lord. ships to form their own general impressions from the evidence; but he could not forbear mentioning, that it would be proved before them that she had, throughout the voyage, occupied herself in the most menial offices for this servant that a woman could do for man that she had even at times engaged herself in mending his clothes.— On arriving in Italy, in September, the princess proceeded to the villa d'Este, on the lake of Como, which she had occupied before, and on reaching that place, Bergami's brother was elevated to the situation of prefect of the palace. His mother-who was familiarly termed the grandmother, not only by her majesty's suite, but by her majesty herself was now ordered to be called Madame Livia, and the mother and brother had separate tables provided for them from the rest of the ser vants. After what he had stated to their lordships he should not trespass on their attention by mentioning various other circumstances that occurred at that place to support the charge. He might, however, mention, that, during her majesty's absence from d'Este, a theatre had been fitted up in that villa. On her return thither she often performed on the stage-she in one character and Bergami in another. The characters she performed were of a very low kind. Bergami generally performed the character of the lover. He only stated this as another proof of the great degree of familiarity which subsisted between them. Soon after her return to d'Este she made a tour to Lugano, and some other places. In the course of this tour a remarkable circumstance occurred :One morning a courier was despatched with a letter to a person at Milan, and returned with an answer late that night, or rather early next morning, while all the princess's household were at rest. The courier, feeling it to be his duty to deliver the letter immediately to Bergami, whose office it was to receive it, went to that person's chamber. He was not there; but in a short time he saw him coming in his shirt, and robede-chambre, out of the princess's chamber to his own. Here he would ask how it had happened that at that bour, when all the other members of the family were at rest, this man should be seen coming in that undress from his mistress's room? Observing that the circumstance was noticed by the courier, and being desirons of making some excuse, he told him that he had heard his child cry, and had gone to quiet her, and the next morning he desired the courier to say nothing about it. But the fact forcibly struck the man, and the inference from it was plain. Bergami having come out of the princes's room at that unseasonable hour, their chambers also being separated from those of the rest of the family, how was the occurrence to be accounted for, except by the supposition that a criminal intercourse existed between them? This fact alone would be sufficient to convict a woman in an ordinary case. No reason could be assigned for Bergami's conduct on the occasion, but that which he had been so often obliged to state to their lordships. After a short time the princess visited a place which had since been purchased at her expense for Bergami, and to this he particularly wished to direct their lord-bip's attention. It was called the Villa Bergami, or Barona. Not content with having previously lavished on him titles and honour, she finally thought proper to expend several thousand pounds from her own funds in the purchase of this estate for him near Milan. People do not in general act without reason or motive, and there was no assignable reason or motive, for the princess's conduct but one only. Her royal highness resided for some time at that place, and, during a carnival which was held there, he was instructed to say that the most scandalous and disgraceful scenes occurred, and it would appear that the house in which the princess of Wales resided deserved rather the name of a common brothel than of a palace. It was frequented by persons not corresponding to her station and rank, who properly maintained their dignity, and would feel themselves honoured by her patronage, but by persons of the lowest class. These were circumstances which he should not have brought under their lordships' notice, if they had not occurred, as he must presume, by the queen's permission. Undoubtedly, it might be said, that if they took place, in the kitchen, the offices, or in the lower part of her majesty's house, they ought not to be taken notice of in the slightest degree, as in that case it could by no means be presumed that she was necessarily aware of them. But, unfortunately, their lordships would observe that they did pass under her majesty's notice; and, so far from expressing any degree of dislike or disapprobation, she did know of them, and seemed to approve of them. Here, again, it might be said, that although they proved a very unbecoming sort of improper and indecent conduct, they ought not to he taken to prove the existence of an adulterous intercourse. But when they were taken in conjunction with the other facts which he had mentioned, 16 THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S SPEECH. they certainly went to shew, that such an adulterous intercourse did exist between her majesty and Bergami, and that the continuance of that intercourse so operated upon her majesty's mind as to render her entirely regardless of that decorum which she ought to have maintained. Their lordships must see that though these facts in themselves were entirely different from the direct charge against her majesty, they afforded but too strong a corroboration of it. After her majesty's return to the Barona, she made a journey through the Tyrol into Germany. A remarkable circumstance took place almost at the commencement of that journey, which would prove to their lordships beyond doubt, that such an intercourse did exist. On her arrival at a place called Charnitz, it was necessary that Bergami should return to Inspruck, in order to obtain a passport for the continuance of her majesty's journey. It appeared that Bergami was necessarily absent upon his departure from Charnitz to Inspruck, and, till his return, during those hours at which her majesty and her household were accustomed to retire to rest, upon this occasion her majesty had one of her fille-de-chambres to sleep in her room during the night. Bergami returned from Inspruck in the middle of the night, and what was the conduct then pursued by her majesty? What, he should ask their lordships, would have been the 'conduct of a person under ordinary circumstances who had gone upon such a mission? Their lordships would naturally suppose that Bergami, returning at the dead hour of night retired to rest? but no-he came into that room (her majesty's female attendant being at that time there asleep.) Upon his so coming in, her majesty ordered her female attendant to retire, taking her bed along with her. In the middle of the night her majesty gave these instructions to her female servant, and Bergami was left alone with her. Now what was the reason for all this? He asked their lordships whether that fact alone, in ordinary cases, would not be held a couclusive proof of adultery? And he would ask them also, with great submission, whether, if it should be so considered in an ordinary case, it did not amount to a still stronger proof here-whether it did not amount to a still stronger exis dence of an adulterous iatercourse, as applied to the case of two persons whose rank in life was so different?What other inference could their lordships draw from the circumstance of her majesty's ordering the attendant to retire, but that she might be so left alone with Bergami for the remainder of the night? Independent of any other facts, supposing there were nothing else in this case before them, this alone must satisfy their lordships that an adulterous intercourse did then take place between the parties. But this was not all; in the course of this journey her majesty proceeded to Munich, and afterwards to Carlsrhue, where she remained nine days. At Carlsrhue, a similar arrangement took place about the bedrooms to that which he had so often had occasion to call their lordships' attention to. The bed-room distinguished by the number 10 was appropriated to the use of her majesty; No. 11 was an entry or passage-room between No. 10 and No. 12. No. 12 was appropriated to the count Bergami. A door opened from No. 10,, and another from No. 12, into No. 11, so that any one might pass without difficulty from the chamber occupied by her majesty into the room in which Bergami slept, or from Bergami's apartment into her majesty's. He had now to notice one very important circumstance. At Carlsrhuc her majesty was one day found in Bergami's room; she was sitting upon his bed, and he was in bed with his arms around the neck of her majesty. She was surprised in this extraordinary situation by one of the femmes-de-chambre, who was going into the room by chance. Now, would a circumstance of this sort take place, he would ask, unless that kind of intercourse existed between the parties to which he was se often reluctantly obliged to call their lordships' attention? In that bed was found a cloak which her majesty was afterwards seen wearing; and in that bed, also, certain marks were observed by one of the servants. These marks, without his saying any thing further at present, would lead their lordships, perhaps, to infer that which he wished them to understand. Those marks on that bed--the cloak which was found there-and the manner in which Bergami was seen with his arms around her majesty's neck-these were cie majesty's bed and bed-room. Here again, as iu all the other cases he had adverted to, an arrangement was made about the situation of the bed-rooms, in order for Bergami to be very near her majesty. There was a travelling bed and a bed large enough to contain two persons. From the arrangement he spoke of, Bergami's room was very near her majesty's, and these observa tions were made upon the state of those two beds. It would appear to their lordships in evidence, that there was cumstances their lordships could not lose sight of. After hearing these, could there be any doubt about the existence of an adulterous intercourse between her majesty and Bergami. These facts alone, he thought, would be conclusive evidence with their lordships of an adulterous intercourse having taken place between them: and thes, he had also to remark, that all the other facts of this case would go to show their lordships that that intercourse had so taken place, not now and then merely, but that it was a long-found the painful appearance of two continued one. When these should have been stated, they would sufficiently explain all the other circumstances which he had had to mention; the advancement of Bergami to the honours which were conferred on him; the circumstances that occurred at Carlsrhue; those which took place at Charnitz, and the others which were observed on board the polacca, would all demonstrate conclusively, if they should be proved (as he believed they would be proved in evidence), not only that the conduct stated in the preamble of the bill had subsisted, but that the adulterous intercourse had taken place between these two persons. From Carlsrhue her majesty set out in the early part of 1817. (A peer, we believe lord Ellenborough, here begged the Attorney-General to particularize the dates of every fact he stated, as nearly as possible.) The Attorney-General resumed. Her majesty set out for the Tyrol, in February, 1817; her arrival at Carlsrhue, consequently, would occur somewhere about the latter end of February, or the beginning of March, 1817. Her majesty visited Vienna, where she remained only for a very short time; and then she went to Trieste. Upon that journey to Trieste, a two-wheeled carriage was purchased by Bergami, in which the queen and himself travelled together. Before this her majesty had been accustomed to travel iu a carriage, in which were herself, Bergami, the countess of Oldi, and the little Piccaroon (her majesty's protegee). On her journey, however, a carriage was used calculated to contain only two persons; and in which Bergami and her majesty usually tra velled together alone, At Trieste she remained but a few days; but here again observations were made by persons at Trieste upon the state of her persons having slept in the large bed which was in her majesty's bed-room; at the same time that in the smaller bed neither Bergami nor any other person appeared to have slept. At this time also there were washing-basins left in her majesty's room, which appeared to have been used in that room, and by two persons. But the strong fact, as he had before had occasion to observe, was-not only were the rooms of her majesty and Bergami near each other, separate and apart from the rest of the suite, but there were those appearances of two persons having slept in the large bed in her majesty's apartment, and Bergami was the only person, who, from the arrangement of the rooms, could have access to that one, in order to sleep with her. No other person but he could have that access. Under these circumstances, their lordships could feel little doubt or hesita tion but that the two persons who slept in her majesty's room upon this occasion were herself and Bergami; and that not only from the state and situation of the room but from the state of the beds. He now came to another circumstance of a most extraordinary character. In the course of this jour ney her majesty and Bergami frequently, when they had occasion to stop, while the horses were refreshed or put to, and upon any other occasion where it was necessary for them to stop for a short space of time, would repose upon the same bed. They would frequently, it was observed, when some delays of this sort took place, go and sit there together. Now he was aware, it might be said, that no conclusion of a criminal nature could be drawn from the circumstance of Bergami and her majesty's being observed to repose upon the same bed. From that circumstance alone, unaided by others, their lordships could oc gami The boy Austin was called a (A peer asked when this occurred.) not deem it proved that an adulterous intercourse took place between the parties at Milan. But when their lordships observed all these additional circumstances, and particularly the facility, which was extended to no other person, of entering her room, and their familiarity-all these things naturally led to a strong suspicion of such an intercourse between them. Their lordships must be satisfied that the inference to be drawn, from these, and from other circumstances arising out of her majesty's conduct, was that such a one existed between them. It might be supposed, that the Princess of Wales, as she was at that time, wishing, on such occasions, to repose, used to be attended by some other of her household; by the countess of Oldi, for instance, or some other female attendant. But how was it that Bergami alone, on the contrary, could venture to use those familiarities with her majesty? How was it that Bergami alone retired with her, but because there did take place this sort of intercourse between them? Upon her majesty's return from Milan, where she had been for some time, to the Barona, it would be proved to their lordships that Bergami, his mother, and his brother (Ludovico Bergami,) who had formerly exercised some of the most menial offices in the palace, were permitted to dine with her majesty; they were allowed to sit and to eat at her majesty's table. Even to this fact, he was aware, it might be said that it was only indicative of great condescension on the part of her majesty; and that, though such conduct was inconsistent with propriety, and with her rank and dignity as queen, it proved nothing of itself, beyond a desire to show her estimation of the family, and to pay attention to Bergami's mother, and his brother Lewis. But it was not a little singular that these persons were the family of the man on whom her majesty had been bestowing these attentions, and who were daily growing round her. As for the mother of Bergami, he (the Attorney-night, or at an early hour of the morn General) could not find that she had filled any particular situation in her majesty's household. She not made lady of honour. The little Piccaroon was dignified by the title of "Princess," and taken great notice of. He did not mention these circumstances as going to prove any thing which was particularly applicable to Ber. was The Attorney-General replied, that it happened some time in the month of July, 1817. Their lordships would have it proved to them, that upon two or three occasions it was observed, that, either at night, or at an unseasonably early hour of the morning, when the rest of the family were retired to rest, Bergami was seen coming from his sleeping apartment and going into that of her majesty, and there remaining. He would ask their lordships what this fact proved? Could they doubt that a man, going in that way, at an early hour of the morning, when ber majesty was in bed, going to her room, and remaining there with her majesty, could they doubt that he was guilty. Would their lordships require any further evidence of adulterous intercourse between these parties? Could it be at all doubted in an ordinary case? Could it be doubted whether such an inter course took place, if a man under these circumstances, at the dead hour of ing, was seen to go, undressed, ino intercourse took |