cured for him the order of Malta, and the title of Baron della Francia-she obtained for him the Order of St. Sepulchre. Still, not content with this, she instituted an Order of her own, which was called "the Order of St. Caroline." After conferring this order on several of her domestics, she made Bergam the grand Master.-(a laugh in the house.) This might excite a simile among their lordships; but it was a circumstance which marked very strongly the state of her Majesty's mind. Why did she single out this man to be Grand master of the Order she had created? It was impossible not to conclude that this distinction proceeded from that attachment which she had so strongly manifested to him, which had led to an adulterous intercourse that gave bim a powerful influence over her. Why else should she have made a Grand Master of this man, formerly a courier,-now a Baron. There was no way of accounting for this, but by referring it to that degrading and humiliating passion on the part of her Majesty, the calamitous effects of which he had already described. It was that passion which had made Bergami Knight of Malta, Knight of St. Sepulchre, Grand Master of the Order of St. Caroline, and the Baron della Francia. He had, however, now a fact to state, which, if any doubt still remained with their lordships, would completely banish it. He therefore requested their lordships' particular attention to the statement he was about to make. Her Majesty embarked at Jaffa, for Italy, on board a polacre: finding it inconvenient to remain in the cabin during the night, she directed a tent to be erected on the deck of the vessel, in order to sleep in it. In this tent a sofa or bed was placed for her 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 day-time the canvass 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 canvass was let down, as he had 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 adultery. 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 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 man 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 circunstance. 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 favours, 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 occurred, 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 had described on board the polacre 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 lordships 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 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 mother 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 servants. 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 at that villa. On her return thither she often performed on the stage-she in one character, and Bergami 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 robe de chambre, out of the Princess's chamber to his own. Here he would ask how it had happened that at that hour, 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 desirous 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 Princess'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 ordi

nary 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 lordship's attention. It was called the Vila Bergami, or Barona. Not content with having previously la vished on him titles and honours, 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 motive or reason 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 lordship's 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 parts 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 unbecom ing sort of improper and indecent conduct, they ought not to be taken to prove the existence of an adulterous. intercourse. But when they were taken in conjunction with the other facts which he had mentioned, they certainly went to show, 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 the Queen'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 luspruck, in order to obtain a passport for the continuance of this 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 filles-de-chambre to sleep in her room during the night. Bergami returned from Inspruck in the middle of that 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 returning at the dead hour of the night he 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 conclusive proof of adul tery? 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 evidence of an adulterous intercourse, 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 Carlsruhe, where she remained nine days. At Carlsruhe a similar arrangement took place about the bedrooms to that which he had so often had occasion to call their lordships attention to. The bedroom 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 Carlshue her

Majesty was found in Bargami'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 situa tion by one of the femmes-de-chambre, who was going into the room by chance. Now, would a circumstance of this