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M. BARTOLOMO PERGAMI. Engative typecaipira fora a. Maisture in the propofice of Und Seruit.

Published July 26.1820, by G.Smarten, St Martins Church Yard.

ty's arrival at Naples, this lad was the object of her peculiar attention, and, in fact, being a boy of only 6 or 7 years of age, was in the habit of sleeping in a bed in the same room with her Majesty. The arrangement of her Majesty's own sleeping apartment devolved upon one servant, whose peculiar duty it was to attend to that branch of her domestic comfort. On the arrival of her Majesty's suite at Naples, it was so arranged that her Majesty's sleeping-room was at an opposite side of the house to that of her menial domestics, among whom was ber courier. On the first of her Majesty's arrival at Naples, (the 8th Nov.) to which he had called their lordship's attention, this arrangement was continued. Bergami slept in that part of the house which had been prepared for the domestics, and young Austin slept in her Majesty's apartment. But on the following morning, November 9, the servants of the establishment learned with some surprise, because no reason appeared to them for the change, that Bergami was no longer to sleep in that part of the house where he had slept the night preceding; but that it was her Majesty's pleasure that he should sleep in room from which there was a free communication with that of her Majesty, by means of a corridor or passage. He need not state, that such a circumstance was calculated to excite the surprise of those who were about her Majesty's person; and that surprise was increased when they learnt from her Majesty that she no longer wished Wm. Austin to continue to sleep in her room. For this she assigned a reason, which, if it was her only motive, was very proper: she said that he had now arrived at an age when it was no longer becoming that he should sleep in her apartment; and a separate room prepared for his use. He had already stated that, from the situation assigned to Bergami, a free communication was open between his chamber and that of her Majesty; and (he believed) he should be able to satisfy their lordships that on the evening of the 9th of November that intercouse, which is charged between her Majesty and Bergami in the present bill, commenced, and that it continued from that time till he quitted service. Upon the evening of the 9th of November her Majesty went to the Opera at Naples, but it was observed that she returned home at a very early hour. The person who waited upon her, on her return, was the maid-servant whose duty it was particularly to attend to her bedroom. She was struck with the manner of the Princess, and with the agitation which she manifested. She hastened to her apartment, and gave strict orders that William Austin should not be admitted into her room that evening. She was then observed to go from her own room towards that assigned to Bergami. She very soon dismissed her female attendant, telling her that she had no further occasion for her services. The female servant

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etired; but not without those suspicions which the circum

stances, he had mentioned, were calculated to excite in the mind of any individual. She knew, at that time, that Bergami was in his bedroom, for this was the first night of his having taken advantage of the arrangement which had been previously made. It was quite new on the part of the Princess, to dismiss her attendants, so abruptly; and when her conduct and demeanour were considered, suspicions arose which it was impossible to exclude. But if suspicions were excited then, how were they confirmed on the following morning? If I prove (said the Attorney-General) by evidence at your lordships' bar what I am now going to state, I submit that there will then be before their lordships, evidence which no jury would hesitate to decide that adultery bad that night been committed between this exalted person and her menial servant; for, upon the following morning. on observing the state of her room, it was evident that her Majesty had not slept in her own bed that night. Her bed remained in the same state as on the preceding evening, while the bed of the other person had, to those who saw it, clear and decisive marks of two persons having slept in it. On the following morning her Majesty did not make the usual signal on rising, but remained As she in the apartments with Bergami until a late hour. had recently arrived in Naples, some persons of distinction were naturally led to pay their respects to her: several called on her that morning, but she was accessible to none. He (the Attorney-General) had already mentioned the state of the beds, and upon these facts no man could well hesitate as to the conclusion at which he must arrive. But, taking into account the various attendant circumstances, their lordships could not doubt that this was the commencement of that most scandalous, most degrading, most licentious intercourse, which would be found to continue and increase. The natural effect of it was to lessen the comparative distance between the parties, and which ought to exist between persons of royal rank and menial servants. When once a Princess thus debased herself, it occasioned in the low individual, the object of her passion, a degree of assumption and freedom to which otherwise he would have made no pretensions. Such had been the result here it was observed that Bergami became more haughty; that he took upon himself an air of greater importance, which grew as the intercourse proceeded. A few days after the time to which he had now called the attention of their lordships, her Majesty gave a masked ball, or an entertainment of that kind, to the person at that time filling the Neapolitan throne, and at a house belonging to the King of Naples. On this occasion her Majesty first took the character of a Neapolitan peasant, but after a time returned to the house at which she had attired herself (not that where she resided,) and withdrew to a room for the purpose of changing her dress. To the

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surprise of her attendants, instead of being accompanied for this purpose by her females who usually assisted her, the Courier Bergami was sent for to withdraw with the Queen, to assist her in changing her dress. It seemed also to have been the attention of her Majesty to appear in another character that of the Genius of History; and she was to be accompanied by a gentleman. He (the Attorney-General) was instructed to state, that the dress she wore upon that occasion (or rather the want of it, in part) was extremely indecent and disgusting: but the material fact was this-that that change of dress took place in the presence, and with the assistance, of the courier Bergami, and no other person. Another character she assumed was that of a Turkish peasant: and this menial Bergami, in a corresponding dress, actually accompanied the Queen, then Princess of Wales, to this entertainment. It appeared, however, that Bergami did not remain long at this ball. He returned home, apparently dissatisfied with what had occurred. What that was he did not know. Her Majesty, however, came home soon after, and endeavoured to prevail on him to go back to the ball. She urged him strongly; but he declined going. She then went back by herself; but, after remaining only a short time, her Majesty much disappointed, returned to her house, the apar nents of which had been arranged as he had already described. It was observed by those who attended on her, that she and Bergami always rose at the same time in the morning, and it would also be proved that her Majesty was in the habit of breakfasting with this courier in a particular apartment, completety secluded from all the rest of the family,

lordships would recollect that this man while thus honoured was still a courier, was still in the same menial situation in which he had been when taken into her Majesty's There was a terrace in front of the house on which

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her Majesty was often seen walking accompanied by this nian, walking occasionally arm in arm with her courier. During her Majesty's stay at Naples this person received an injury by a kick from a horse, and this was one of the circumstances which tended to show the influence he had acquired over his royal mistress. He had obtained such an ascendancy, that he had it in his power to introduce into the house a servant to wait upon himself. This man slept in a room close to that allotted to Bergami, and during the time that he was in attendance he observed her majesty two or three different times advancing, after all the other domestics were retired to rest, with great care and caution from her own apartment to Bergami's room. Into that rooni she entered, and each time remained in it for a considerable period; and he had further to state, that on one occasion after she had entered; a sound was heard, which convinced the person who observed this

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proceeding that ber Majesty and Bergami were kissing each other. He was aware of the reluctance with which their lordships inust listen to these disgusting details; they were such, he was sensible, as must excite disgust in a certain measure even towards the person stating them, but that consideration should not prevent him from doing his duty. The painful duty of stating them was cast upon him, and the no less painful duty of hearing and considering them was cast upon their lordships. He was bound to describe the circumstances which formed the case, but he was sure their lordships would not censure him for stating in the way he was doing, those facts which it was necessary he should lay before them. Proceeding, then, with his narrative, he had to observe that her Majesty remained in Naples from November to March, and that it would be proved that during the whole of that period the kind of intimacy he bad described as existing between her Majesty and Bergami continued to increase. It certainly was not his wish to found any argument on statements which rested merely on public rumour, but he could not help alluding to one remarkable circumstance, and leaving it, connected with the others, for their lordships' consideration. It was certainly very singular, that on leaving Naples her Majesty was abandoned by the greater part of her English suite. Mr. St. Leger, it was true, had quitted her before; he left her at Brunswick, and he therefore admitted that no inference could be drawn from his case. But on her Majesty's departure from Naples, Lady Charlotte Lindsay and Lady Elizabeth Forbes were left behind. No, he begged pardon, Lady Charlotte Lindsay did not leave the Queen until they were at Leghorn, in March, 1815. At Naples, however, Lady Elizabeth Forbes, Sir W. Gell, the Honourable Mr. Craven, and Captain Este, certainly did separate from her. Thus of the seven persons who composed her Majesty's suite when she left this country no less than four left her in Naples. There might be, and perhaps would be, in another part of the proceedings, assigned on the part of these persons, rea sons for this act which had nothing to do with the conduct of the Queen; but he could not help thinking it extremely singular that she should at this particular time have lost so large a portion of the suite that accompanied her on her departure from England. He could not help supposing that, though these persons might be unacquainted with the intimacy between Bergami and the Queen, some rumours on the subject had reached them. In the mean time, until it should be explained how these persons happened to leave her Majesty thus suddenly, and all about the same period, he could not avoid regarding the separation as a most singular circumstance. Whether their lordships would, from this occurrence,

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