mother was not received into the house, and the infant was withdrawn from the fostering hand best calculated to attend to its wants. Here, however, it was to be observed, that though her Majesty knew that Bergami was married, she gave out to those about her that he was not. She stated that the child which she was anxious to take under her royal protection was Bergami's, by some illicit connexion. That Bergami was an unmarried man who had had a child, was surely no recommendation calculated to increase the regard of a mistress for her servant: she, however, made no difficulty on this point, but, as he had stated, received the child into her house. In the month of May her Majesty removed from Genoa to Milan, leaving Lady Charlotte Campbell behind. She was afterwards joined by this Lady at Milan, but who soon afterwards quitted the family. In travelling from Genoa to Milan, she was accompanied by Bergami, who, though in the character of her courier, was seen frequently to go up to the carriage and converse with her. Their lordships would recollect that he had stated that Lady Charlotte Campbell did not accompany her Majesty on this occasion. It was, as he had said, observed, that during the journey her Majesty frequently conversed with Bergami, offered him refreshments, and showed him repeated marks of attention, he being all this time still habited and serving as a courier. When Lady Charlotte Campbell left her Majesty at Milan, no English lady remained in her suite, one would

have thought that, considering the high rank which she occupied-considering that she was in the situation of expecting soon to become Queen Consort of this country-one would have thought that she would have been anxious to have had constantly about her person some English ladies of distinction, or, at least, that she would have looked out for ladies of similar rank in her native country of Brunswick, or in that part of the Continent in which she resided. But, quite the contrary, she received here into her service and confidence, a person whom she had 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 Countess of Oldi, was received into her house as her principal attendant. Thus, their lordships had now under the same roof with her Majesty, two sisters, the mother, the brother, and the child of Bergami; one sister sitting at the table with the Queen as her lady of honour, while the other dined with the servants. The brother, who, he believed, was also a courier, the mother, and Bergami lived at this time with the sister among the servants. This was the state of things in May, 1815. Bergami was anxious that the new lady of honour should not be known to be his sister; but the fact existed, that this person, called the Countess of Oldi, whom her Majesty made her companion, and placed in the same situation which had been

formerly filled by the Ladies Elizabeth Forbes, Charlotte Lindsay, and Charlotte Campbell, was no other than the sister of the courier Bergami. He certainly did not ask their lordships to decide on suspicion; but he would ask them, what cause, what motive, there could be for the introduction of this woman as maid of honour, and the rest of Bergami's family in different capacities, into her Majesty's establishment. He did not ask them to scrutinize her Majesty's conduct too minutely, but could they for a moment doubt the inference to be drawn from these facts when coupled with the others which set out stated? Her Majesty did not continue long at Milan; she had been on a tour to Venice, still accompanied by her courier Bergami, whom she treated with the usual familiarity. In this journey to Venice, which took place in the month of May or of June, 1815, she was accompanied by Mr. Drummond Burrell.

LORD GWYDER here rose and stated, that the learned counsel was not correct. Mr. Drummond Burrell had not accompanied the Queen to Venice in the journey alluded to.

The ATTORNEY GENERAL was sorry he had unintentionally mis-stated the name of the gentleman who was at this time with the Queen. He ought to have said Mr. W. Burrell, not Mr. Drummond Burrell. [Here the learned gentleman was again interrupted by an observation made within the bar.] He again begged pardon: he wished to apologise to their lordships for the

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mistake he had made. He certainly did not mean to cast the slightest reflection on either of the gentlemen whose names he had mentioned. (A cry of "go on.") The noble lord would excuse him in mentioning the name of Mr. W. Burrell; he only meant to call their lordships' attention to the fact, that he was the only English gentleman who accompanied her Majesty to Venice. He did not suppose that Mr. W. Burrell was acquainted with the familiarities which had taken place between the Queen and Bergami, and had no intention to wound the feelings of any person connected with the gentlemen whose names he had mentioned. (Loud cries of "go on.") He was about to state to their lordships a fact which occurred at Venice.. Her Majesty resided at a hotel in Venice. One day after she had dined, during which time Bergami had waited on her at table, she was observed by one of the servants of the hotel to take a gold chain off her neck, and put it on his : this transaction was accompanied by much familiarity and playfulness. Bergami withdrew the chain from his neck, and replaced it on the person of her Majesty. This reciprocal toying was continued for some time. Why did he mention this fact? He did not mention it on its own account, but to show how rapidly the familiarity between her Majesty and Bergami increased, and how much influence that man had acquired over the mind of his royal mistress. After this scene, Bergami withdrew to a place where he sat retired

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from the rest of the servants. Upon the whole, nothing he thought could more conclusively prove that great intimacy which had grown up between this man and the Queen than the fact he had stated. On the return of the Queen to Milan, Mr. W. Burrell quitted her Majesty's service at the villa Villani. It was observed, that in proportion as the English left her Majesty she became less and less reserved in her intercourse with Bergami. In this villa it was observed that she presented him with a gown of blue silk which she had worn, and which he afterwards wore in the mornings; it was also observed that there, as at all other places, his room was very near her's, and that there was a communication between the apartments which might facilitate the passing from one to the other without the notice of the servants. After Mr. Burrell had gone, and there was no longer any English in her Majesty's train, her familiarities with all her servants became greater. She frequently played at games with them. He did not impute this to her Majesty as an offence, he only alluded to it as a circumstance arising out of her infatuated and licentious attachment. Having left the villa Villani, she visited, in August, 1815, Mount St. Gothard, still accompanied by Bergami. At Vannes a very remarkable transaction took place. Her Majesty stopped at an inn at that place, where she dined, and it would appear in evidence that she retired with Bergami to a bed-room, and was there locked up with him for a consider