The Lord-Chancellor asked her Majesty's counsel what it was their intention to offer next. Mr. Brougham. My lords, to save your lordship's time and trouble, my friend, Mr. Denman, tells me he is ready to go on. MR.DENMAN'S SUMMING-UP OF THE DEFENCE. Mr. Denman thus addressed their lordships: Under any circumstances in which it was possible for any advocate to be called on to discharge the solemn duty then imposed upon him, he was sure that it would be unnecessary to request the merciful indulgence of their lordships to the individual who had to address them; and perhaps there was something in the peculiar circumstances under which he himself came forward which made it more fitting and necessary that he should receive an ampler portion of that indulgence, of which he was fully sensible that he stood so much in need. For, certainly, after the application which had been yesterday made, and the wish which had been yesterday expressed by the AttorneyGeneral, that all the evidence which he had to offer in contradiction to that offered on behalf of the Queen should be postponed until their lordships had decided whether the evidence of Col. Browne should be received or not, it was only natural to expect that, besides the solitary witness whom he had called to a single point of evidence, there might have been a considerable mass of contradictory testimony to consider, especially as the whole of his (the Attorney-General's) crossexamination of the witnesses for the defence was such as led plainly to the inference that it was intended to go at length into evidence in reply, and was therefore such as kept his (Mr. Denman's) attention continually suspended, and diverted his mind from that connexion with the case made upon the other side which it was necessary for him to preserve, in the contemplation of being required to proceed immediately with his summing up. He did not intend to make any complaint of that circumstance; because during the time that had elapsed in proof of the accusations against her Majesty, and likewise of the defence, he should have been deficient in his duty as the Queen's councel if he had not paid the closest attention to the whole of the evidence. He should, therefore, without further preface, proceed to make his remarks upon the whole of that evidence-evidence which, he said it boldly, had satisfied his mind, had satisfied the minds of the learned friends with whom he acted, had satisfied the minds of all the people of England, and those too of all the civilized nations in the world, who were looking with a deep interest on these momentuous proceedings, that his illustrious client had estab lished such a defence as made it imperative on their lordships to give her a most complete acquittal of all the charges which bad been preferred against her. He wished to proceed to that examination with all that calmness and deliberation, and absence from all personal feeling and violence, which were so necessary to be observed in order to obtain a complete investigation of the truth. But it was not to be expected that, in the many interlocutory contests and debates which had arisen in the course of these proceedings, there might not have been exhibited a tone and a temper for which an apology was requisite-but it was no other than the enormous magni tude of the case, and its tremendous consequences to his illustrious client and the country, and the deep anxiety with which an advocate must be overwhelmed in coming to the consideration of it. They had been charged with making use of invective, declamation, and violence, for the purpose of producing an effect, not in, but out of doors; nay, he begged leave to state, that his learned friend had seemed to think that on some occasions they had borne personally too hard upon him; but he must disclaim all intention of bearing hard upon him, or of casting any imputation upon his honour and character; and therefore, if from what fell from him yesterday, he (the Attorney-General) supposed that he (Mr. Denman) questioned his veracity, he begged to say, that if any thing which dropped from him at that time could be clothed with such a supposition, and could warrant such an assumption, he unequivocally retracted it before the assembly in the face of which it was made, and was sorry that any language of his should have led to such a mistake. (Hear, hear.) He had no intention of giving uneasiness in any quarter; but he must say that he had felt it deeply, and often, in the course of this proceeding. It was therefore impossible for a man not to ask indulgence for any warmth into which he might have been betrayed; because the illustrious individual who was their client had been, from the first moment in which she had set her foot in this country, the victim of the most cruel oppression, and the most dreadful and irreparable wrong. That galling recollection had attended them through the whole of these proceedings; it must be their excuse for any undue warmth with which they might have expressed themselves; and having said that, he should proceed, without any further apology, to their case itself But, whilst he disclaimed all personal imputation on his learned friend, he claimed the right of adverting, with the utmost freedom, on his conduct as an advocate, inasmuch as from the conduct of an advocate not only the impressions of his mind might be collected, but also much of the nature of the instructions under which he acted, and of the spirit in which the prosecution had been commenced and conducted to its close. To have to conduct a case in such a spirit the! conceived to be a misfortune for which no rewards, no honours, could afford an equivalent a misfortune which had weighed down his learned friend throughout the whole of these proceedings-a misfortune to which he declared before God, that nothing within the scope of human ambition could have tempted him (Mr. Denman) to have submitted for a single mo ment he meant the office of prosecuting this bill of pains and penalties to divorce and degrade the wife of the King of England. In order to see the nature of the proof brought forward in support of that bill, their lordsips must look to the charges contained in the preamble; and, in order that they might fully understand them, he must refer them to the manner in which the indictment against his illustrious client was drawn up. It stated that her Majesty, "while at Milan, in Italy, had engaged in her service an individual, in a menial capacity; and that, while in that situation, a most unbecoming and degrading intimacy soon commenced between her Royal Highness and that individual; that he was not only advanced to a high situ ation in her Royal Highness's household, but that he was received by her Royal Highness with great and extraordinary marks of favour and distinction; and that she, unmindful of her exalted rank and station, and wholly regardless of her own bonour and character, had conducted herself towards him, both in public and private, in the various places and countries which she visited, with indecent and offensive familiarity and freedom, and carried on a licentious, disgraceful, and adulterous intercourse, with the said Bergami, by which conduct, great scandal and dishonour had been brought upon his Majesty and this kingdom." He was aware that their lordships were now upon the second reading of the bill, and that, in addressing them he had only one simple question to discuss namely, whether the allegations in the preamble were at all made out by the evidence adduced in support of them? It had been stated (and the whole preamble went to charge it), nay, it had indeed been proved, that Bergami had entered in a menial capacity the service of her Royal Highness, and that he had been afterwards promoted; that several of h's relations had been taken into her service; and that he had received several marks of favour, both himself and. his family. But when the next clause in the preamble came under consideration, that clause which stated that Bergami had received titles and orders of knighthood through the influence of her Majesty, he thought that it was only fitting that some evidence should have been given that they were really obtained by that, power and that influence. All that their lordships had heard was, that at one period he was without titles, and that at another he possessed them, There had not been a tittle of evidence produced to show how he had obtained them, or that her Royal High ness had been instrumental in procuring them for him, except |