Burrell, find it impossible to come to the bar of the House to be examined in consequence of ill health. Do you consent to their examination being taken out of this House in any form the House may think proper to adopt? been taken by consent of parties; but I know of no instance in which it has prevailed in criminal proceedings. I am not much practised, it is true, either as counsel or judge in these cases, but if any such instances exist, I bèlieve they will be found to be ex The ATTORNEY-GENERAL.My lords (speak-out) I hardly feel my-tremely rare. With a view to do amseif authorized to accede to this proposition; and I rather apprehend it is matter entirely for your lordships' consideration. If your lordships consent to such an examination, I can feel no difficulty in giving my consent. --- THE LORD-CHANCELLOR. That is all the answer the AttorneyGeneral can give. Lord HOLLAND would not oppose the examination, but he wished to know if there existed any, and what analogy on the subject? Lord LIVERPOOL-I move that this House do now adjourn. The LORD CHANCELLOR.-Before that question is put, I beg leave to move that John Odi, Julius Cæsar Cavazi, and Joseph Visetti, be ordered to attend your lordships' bar, ple justice by the authority of an act of parliament, such examinations might take place; but even then, they should only be allowed in very grave and weighty instances. In this case the witness has a right to be examined in support of the defence, but it is impossible that this court can do justice, unless the witness himself appear before your lordships' bar. Such a proceeding should not take place unless in some important case. And here I take the liberty of saying, that the letter be read by the noble duke, does not convey to us that Mr. Burrell has any thing material to state. Lord REDESDALE, in cases of divorce, admitted that certain questions were put by this sort of examination. The India Bill also allowed examinations, but it first made it necessary to put such questions as their lordships thought proper to propose; and se take place by counsel before a judge, who was to administer all such other questions as might go to elicit the truth. There was no analogy between the India Bill and the case now before them. Lord ROSSLYN expressed his surprise that the Attorney-General had made the House a party in this case--that learned gentleman thereby shift-condly, that such examination should ing that character on their lordships, in which he himself then stood. There might exist some difficulties in the case, but he considered the consent of parties would take away all that injury, which was apprehended from making this indulgence-a precedent for future times. If their lordships agreed with his view of the object, he hoped they would not hesitate to grant that indulgence which might be of material importance to the illustrious party now on her defence. THE LORD-CHANCELLOR. There are instances, in cases of civil process, when such examinations have THE LORD-CHANCELLOR.The question I have now to put is"Is it your lordships' pleasure that this House adjourn to Tuesday the third day of October next," which was carried without a division, and their lordships adjourned to Tuesday the third of October, at ten o'clock in the morning. London: Printed by J. Turner, 170, Aldersgate Street. HER MAJESTY'S DEFENCE. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1820. THE House met this morning, in pursuance of adjournment, at ten o'clock. The interest excited in the public mind in this stage of the proceedings was intense, and before the hour of business had arrived, the space below the bar was crowded to excess. Counsel being called in, Mr. BROUGHAM commenced his speech to the House in a low tone of voice. He spoke as follows:-" My lords, the time has now arrived when it becomes my duty to address your lordships upon this momentous of all momentous cases. It is not the august presence of this assembly which impresses me, for I have oftentimes experienced its indulgence—nor is it the novelty of this proceeding that perplexes me, for the mind gradually gets reconciled to the most extraordinary deviations from the common course of things-neither is it the magnitude of the case that oppresses me, for I am borne up and cheered by that conviction of its justice, which I share, I am persuaded, with all mankind: but, my lords, it is the very force of that conviction, the knowledge that it operates universally, and the consciousness and feeling that it operates rightly, which now dismay me, and fill me with the apprehension lest my unworthy mode of dealing with such a case, may for the first time fail me. While others have trembled for a guilty client, or been anxious in a doubtful case-bave felt crippled by its weakness, chilled by the inference of guilt, or dismayed by the hostility of public opinion, I, knowing that, in the present case, guilt is no where to be found, save in the resources of perjury and falsehood, and that from the truth I have nothing to'dread, yet am I haunted with the apprehension, that my feeble discharge of the duty I have undertaken, may, for the first time, cast the case into doubt, and may turn against me, for my condemnation, those millions of your lordships' countrymen, whose jealous eyes are now watching me, and who will not fail to impute it to me, if your lordships should pronounce that judgment which the nature of the charge would extort; and I feel myself under this weight so bitterly oppressed, that I can hardly, at this moment, with all my reflection upon the indulgence your lordships have extended to me, compose my spirits to the discharge of my professional duty. It is no light addition to this feeling, that I fear, though the apprehension is at some distance, that before this proceeding shall close, it may be my unexampled lot to discharge a duty of the most painful description, but which I certainly will not enter upon if I can relieve your lordships from the necessity of having your attention called to the subject to which the performance of that duty would refer. My lords, the Princess Caroline of Brunswick arrived in this country in the year1794. She was the niece of our Sovereign, the intended consort of his royal heir, and herself not remote in title to the crown of England: but I now go back to that period only for the purpose of passing over all the interval which elapsed between her arrival in this country and her departure from it in the year 1814. I rejoice, that, for the present, the most faithful discharge of my duty permits me to take this view of the case, but I cannot do so without pansing for an instant, to stand here to deny; for the charge is foul-it is foul and false as those who have dared to utter it; and who, pretending to discharge the higher duties to God, have shewn that they know not the first of their duties to their fellow creatures. It is foul, false, and scandalous; and they know it is so, who have dared to say that improprieties have been admitted to have been proved against the Queen. I deny that any such admission has ever been made; I contend that the evidence does not prove them; I will shew you that the evidence wholly disproves them. One admission doubtless I did make; and let my learned friends who are counsel for the bill take all credit of it, for it is the only fact they have proved. I grant that her Majesty left this country, and resided in Italy;—I grant that her society in Italy was chiefly foreign ;— I grant it was low society, compared to the one in which she had moved. After she was deprived of the protection she had received in this country guard myself from the misrepresenta- | the least and the lightest of which I tion to which this course may be exposed, and to assure your lordships solemnly, that if I did not think the case of the Queen, as attempted to be established by the evidence, not only does not require recrimination for the present-not only does not impose the necessity of one whisper by way of attack upon the conduct of her illustrious consort, but, on the contrary, prescribes to me for the present silence on this great and most painful head of the case, my detail of this period of the life of the Queen, and of her residence in this country, would not be closed. In exercising the power confided to me, and in postponing that statement of the case of which I am possessed, I feel confident I am waving a right which I have, and am abstaining from the use of materials which are mine; and let it not be thought, that if hereafter I should so far be disappointed in my estimate of the failure of the case against me as to deem it my duty to exercise that right, I shall not fail to do so. Let no man suppose, that I, or even the youngest member of the profession, would hesitate one minute, in the fair discharge of our professional duty, to resort to such a topic, if the interest of our client required it. I once before reminded your lordships, it would be unnecessary, but there are many whom I must remind, that an advocate, by his sacred connexion with his client, knows, what but one other individual in the world can know; and to promote that client at all hazards, is the highest of his duties: he must-others may tell tales of the consenot regard the alarm, or the suffering, the torment, or even the destruction he may bring on another-nay, separating the duties of a patriot from those of an advocate, he must go on, reckless of the consequences, though his fate should be to involve his country in confusion and conflict. But, my lords, I am not reduced to this painful necessity; I feel that I have no occasion to touch that branch of the case now nor shall I, unless some event in the course of the proceeding shall hereafter convince me that I have unhappily deceived myself. At present I feel that I do not approach that branch of the case-I assume to put the crown of innocence on the head of my illustrious client-I assume to be justified in pleading not guilty even to the charge of levities, or of impropricties, after the fatal events which she experienced-after having enjoyed the society of the families of many of your lordships, I do grant that she moved in a more humble sphere. The charge against her is, that she associated with Italians, instead of people of her own country; and that, instead of the peeresses of England, she sometimes associated with the Italian nobility, and sometimes with the commonalty. Who are they who bring forward this charge? Others may blame her for going abroad sequence of leaving her among Italians, and her not associating with her own countrymen; but it is not your lordships who have a right to say so it is not you who are to fling this at her Majesty. You are the last persons-you who presume to judge her, for you are the witnesses she must call to vindicate herself from the charge-you-you are the last persons to upbraid her, for you have been the instigators of the only admitted crime of which she is guilty. While she was here, she courteously opened the doors of her palace to the families of your lordships--she conde scended to mix in the habits of familiar life with those virtuous persons who composed your families-she conde scended to court your society, and as long as it suited purposes, not of her's, and was subservient to views, not of |