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THE QUEEN.

Thursday, August 17th, being the period appointed for the assembling of the House of Peers, to resume their deliberations upon the Bill of Pains and Penalties (see page 79), the noble Lords met on Tuesday and Wednesday for the purpose of making some preliminary arrangements. On Thursday morning the civil and military forces were collected in the vicinity of the House of Peers. In order to render the performance of the duty assigned to the civil authorities less difficult, strong timber barriers were erected at the further end of Abingdon-street, in a line with College-street. Similar barriers were raised across from the stone buildings to the railings fronting St. Margaret's Church.

At 9 o'clock the assembled crowd composed one uniform compact and unbroken body, extending along the whole of Parliament street, Whitehall, Charing-cross, Cockspur-street, and that part of Pallmall, which leads from the eastward of St. James's-square.

At half-past nine the Lords began to assemble. As the carriages of the different noblemen passed the barrier at St. Margaret's church, the mob expressed their opinion of the Noble owners.

At twenty-five minutes past ten, her Majesty arrived in a close carriage drawn by six horses; she was preceded by Mr. Alderman Wood in his private carriage, and followed by about twelve or thirteen carriages filled with her friends and attendants. Her entrance into the House of Lords was announced by a universal shout of mixed triumph and defiance. She entered by the door appropriated for the entrance of Peers from the robing-room. She crossed the floor of the House at the foot of the Throne, and occupied a chair placed for her in that part of the House usually appropriated to the Members of the House, of Commons. She was accompanied by Lord A. Hamilton and Lady Anne Hamilton. On her entrance, all the Peers rose. On the motion that the order of the day be read, an animated discussion ensued, which will be hereafter given in our Parliamentary proceedings. At four o'clock her Majesty left the House of Lords amidst the loud plaudits of an immense multitude. Friday, August 18.

This morning her Majesty again visited the House of Lords, amidst the acclamations of the assembled populace. When she entered the House, Mr. Denman was arguing with considerable energy and warmth against the principle of the Bill. At the conclusion of the learned Counsel's speech the Queen withdrew.

GENT. MAG, August, 1820,

The Attorney General then rose, and contending for the principle of the Bill, justified, in a speech of considerable length, the mode of proceeding then adopted. He conjured their Lordships to apply themselves to the great and important question, on which they were called upon, in their judicial character, to pronounce.

Saturday, August 19.

In consequence of the fatigue her Majesty had experienced on Friday, she did not this day attend the House of Lords.

The Attorney General proceeded to recapitulate the charges. He stated that in 1814, her Majesty (then Princess of Wales) withdrew herself from this country, for the purpose of travelling upon the Continent, or visiting other countries. She went in the first instance to Brunswick, and from thence, after a short stay, she went to Italy; she arrived at Milan on the 9th of Oct. 1814.-She remained at Milan for a space of three months, and during that period a person was received into her service, of the name of Pergami, as a courier, or footman, or valet de place. The Princess, on quitting Milan, proceeded to Rome, and from thence she went to Naples, where she arrived on the 8th of Nov. 1814. From the situation assigned to Pergami, a direct communication was opened between his chamber and that of the Princess. Upon the evening of the 9th of Nov. the Princess went to the Opera, and returned very early from thence. She hastened to her apartment, and gave strict orders that young Austin should not be admitted to her room that evening. She then went from her own room towards that assigned to Pergami. On the following morning it was discovered that the Princess had not slept in her own room that night. Her bed remained almost precisely in the same state as on the preceding evening; and the other bed appeared as if two persons had reposed in it. This intercourse was carried on without interruption for a very great length of time. There was a kind of public masquerade held at the theatre St. Charles, in Naples. The Princess thought proper to attend it, and chose as her companion her courier Pergami, and a female servant, named Mademoiselle Dumont. The whole party wore dresses selected by the Princess. These dresses were of a most gross and indecent description, so much so, that on entering the theatre they were received with such marked insult and disapprobation, that they were obliged immediately to retire. Acts of familiarity were continued daily and without interruption. They were seen coming from their rooms in the

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morning at the same time. They retired at the same hour in the evening.

On the 6th of January 1816, the Princess left Messina, and embarked in the frigate Clorinde, the vessel which had previously carried her Royal Highness from Civita Vecchia to Genca. At that time Pergami was her menial, but he was now her Chamberlain. The honourable officer who commanded the ship, felt it would be degrading him, if he sat at the same table with one who had formerly served him, and he remonstrated on the subject with her Royal Highness. She took a day or two to cousider what she should do, and in the end declined the table and society of Captain Pechell' for that of her paramour.-At Catania, the Filles de Chambres, sitting up one night late at their revels, saw Pergami's door open, and the Princess coming out in such a condition as could leave no doubt of her having passed the night in his room. She was undressed, and had a pillow under her arm, on which she always slept.

It being 4 o'clock the House adjourned.
Monday, August 21.

The Attorney General resumed his statement. He said that at the different places which her Royal Highness visited, the sleeping apartments were so arranged, that the bed-room of Pergami was always near to or adjoining that of her Royal Highness. On her voyage to Tunis a bed was brought into the dining-room for the accommodation of Pergami, and was placed in such a situation in the room, that when the door of the Princess's room was open, she and Pergami could see and converse with each other while they lay in their beds; and the only access that remained to the room of the Princess was through the sleeping apartment of Pergami. At Jerusalem she instituted an order, called St. Caroline, of which Pergami was appointed Grand Master, in addition to the orders she had already conferred upon him. During the voyage to Italy she had, on one occasion, a bath prepared for her, into which she went, accompanied by Pergami. The most unbecoming familiarities were moreover daily exhibited. While at Villa d'Este, the Princess and Pergami frequently rode out alone in a vehicle, the Princess sitting on his knee, with his arms round her waist whilst he guided the horse. On the river Breseia they were often observed kissing one another. On the return of the Prin cess from the East, she brought in her train a man named Majomet: he used to exhibit himself at the Villa Branchi in the most indecorous and shameful manner, the Princess and Pergami being present.

After the statement for the prosecution, had closed, the Solicitor summoned a witness by the name of Theodore Majocchi. This person was, through the influence of

Pergami, placed, in the beginning of 1815, on her Majesty's establishment. The appearance of Majocchi had such an effect on her Majesty, that she, after uttering an exclamation of surprise at the sight of him, instantly quitted the House. Majocchi's evidence tended to prove that indecent familiarities had been exercised by her Majesty towards Pergami; but adduced nothing decisive, as to a criminal intercourse having been pursued.

Tuesday and Wednesday.

Tuesday and Wednesday the examina. tion of Majocchi was continued, and on Wednesday the cross-examination was concluded. Another witness, named Gaetano Paturzo, part owner and sailing-master of the polacea in which her Majesty went to Palestine, was afterwards examined, whose evidence bore more strongly against her Majesty than that of the first witness.

Thursday, Friday, and Saturday were occupied with examinations of witnesses.

Vincenza Garquilo stated, that he was master of the polacca that conveyed the Princess of Wales and her suite to Tunis, and afterwards to Greece. He had always seen her Royal Highness accompanied by Pergami, not only when she went to take the bath, but upon all other occasions.

Francisco di Rollo said, that he had been engaged as cook to the Princess, on board the polacca. He had seen Majomet exhibit once in the kitchen, and another time in the court, when the Princess was at the window.

Capt. Pechell and Capt. Thomas Briggs, R. N. were examined; but their evidence, proved nothing material that would mili tate against her Majesty.

Pietro Puchi, principal waiter at the Grand Hotel at Trieste, spoke to Pergami's bed not having been slept in, and the Princess's bed being tumbled, and other suspicious circumstances.

Barbara Krautz was chamber - maid at a post inn at Carlsruhe. Her evidence was the most material of any of the preceding witnesses. She stated, that the Princess and Pergami said at the inn about eight days. Between seven and eight o'clock at night, she had to carry water to No. 12. When she entered, Per-, gami was in bed, with his arm round the neck of the Princess, who was seated on the bed. On her entering, the Princess. let the arm fall, and jumped up, as if alarmed. Witness was surprised, and instantly withdrew. The following part of her evidence was so indelicate, that the witness burst into tears.

A warm altercation then ensued, as to the propriety of cross-examining witnesses on subsequent occasions; after which their Lordships adjourned to Monday.

PRO.

PROMOTIONS AND PREFERMENTS.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS, &c.

July 22. The honour of Knighthood conferred on A. Christie, esq. Colonel of the 1st Royal Veteran Battalion.

S. Canning, esq. appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States of America.

21st Light Dragoons. to be Major.

Capt. T. Jones

Rev. F. Wrangham, M. A. F.R.S. the Archdeaconry of Cleveland.

Rev. A. Laxmore, Barnstaple V.

Hon. and Rev. Dr. Rice, Oddington R. Gloucestershire, on his own presentation as precentor of York Cathedral.

Rev. James Davies, M. A. Barrington Parva V. Gloucestershire.

Rev. Elias Thackeray, formerly Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, to the livUnattached.-Major J. G. Peters, Suing of Ardie, in the county of Louth. perintendant of the Cavalry Riding Establishment, to be Lieut. col. of Cavalry. 1

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Rev. Daniel Rowlands, Llanycefen Perpetual Curacy, Pembrokeshire.

Rev. John Overton, B.A. Elloughton V. Yorkshire.

Rev. C. S. Bonnett, M. A. Avington V. near Winchester.

Rev. John Edgar, Kirketon R. Suffolk. Rev. C. G. Jackson, Histon St. Andrew, with Histon St. Etheldred V. Cambridgeshire.

Rev. Dr. Carr, Vicar of Brighton, and Deputy Clerk of the Closet to his MaJesty, Dean of Hereford, vice Dr. Gretton.

Rev. O. Taylor, M. A. (Head Master of the Cathedral School, Hereford,) to the Prebend of Moreton Magna, in the Cathedral of Hereford.

Rev. W. K. Coker, B. A. North Curry V. Somerset.

Rev. Dr. Keate, Stowey V. Somerset. Rev. Jeremy Day, M. A. Hetherset R. Norfolk.

Rev. W. J. Rees, M.A. to a Prebend in the Collegiate Church of Brecknock.

Rev. Shirley Western, Rivenhall R. Essex.

Hon. and Rev. A. Hobart, Walton on the Woulds R. Leicestershire.

Rev. W. Cross, M. A. (Vicar of Amwell), Halesworth cum Chediston R. Suffolk, vice Avarne, deceased.

Rev. James Towers, Wherwell V. Hants.

DISPENSATION.

Rev. D. Williams, M. A. Rector of Bleadon, has been instituted, by a Dispensation from the Archbishop of Canterbury, to Kingston Seymour R. Somerset.

BIRTH

July 12. At Paris, Right Hou, Lady Sinclair, of a son.- 27. At the British Lying-in Hospital, in Brownlow-street, the wife of a gentleman's servant, of three fine boys. 29. At Gorhambury, the Countess of Verulam, a daughter.

S. Aug. 3. In North Audley-street, Viscountess Ebrington, a son.-17. At the Fort, Gravesend, the Lady of Major Sir George Hoste, of the Royal Engineers, a daughter.

MARRIAGES.

June 23. At Corfu, Major-gen. Sir Fred. Adam, to the Signora Diamantina Pallatiano.

July 18. Capt. James Thomas Lamb, of

the Hooghly East Indiaman, to the dau. of the late Capt. Morris, of the East India Company's service.

William-Congreve, son of Thomas Rus

sell,

sell, esq. to Elizabeth-Isabella, daughter of the late J. T. H. Hopper, esq. of Hilton Castle, Durham.

Rev. Heaton Champion de Crespigny, son of Sir Wm. Ch. de Crespigny, bart. to Caroline Bathurst, daughter of the Bishop of Norwich.

At Dublin, Edw. Shawe, esq. of Coolcur (Kildare), to Anne, dau. of the Rev. Dr. Ledwich, of York-street, Dublin.

July 21. Lieut. Phipps Vansittart Onslow, of the Royal Horse Artillery, to Harriet, dau. of the late Sir Edw. Winnington, bart. of Stanford Court, Worcestershire.

Hon. and Rev. R. Carleton, Rector of Boughton, Northamptonshire, to Frances Louisa, daughter of Eusebius Horton, esq. of Catton Hall, Derbyshire.

22. Capt. Chalmer, Royal Artillery, to Caroline-Anne, dau. of Keene Stables, esq. of Abingdon-street, Westminster.

Charles Hudson, esq. to Lucy Anne, dau. of late Gen. Bourchier, Royal Artill. 24, George Hooper, esq. of Keynstone, near Blandford, Dorsetshire, to Louisa, daughter of the late John Langton, esq. of Farnham Royal, Bucks.

Isaac Woodroffe, esq. late of Godstone, to Miss Willes, of Chelsham Court, both in Surrey.

Myles, eldest son of Myles Sandys, esq. of Graythwaite Hall, Lancashire, to the daughter of the late Thomas France, esq. of Bostock Hall.

.. 25. Mons. Albert Du Thon, in the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland, to Elizabeth, dau. of Dr. Lind, of Portsmouth.

27. Mr. Spencer Chichester, to Lady Augusta Paget, daughter of the Marquis of Anglesey.

Henry Porter, esq. of Chedzoy, Somersetshire, to Rose Aylmer, daughter of Sir Henry Russell, bart.

Rev. W. B. Young, M. A. of Reading, to Hannah, daughter of John Butler, esq. of Snelsmore.

29. Wm. Gale, esq. of Aldingham, Lancashire, son of the late Lieut.-gen. Richmond Gale, to Cecilia-Isabella, daughter of Jas. Losh, esq. Barrister-at-Law, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

30. W. N. Cole, esq. of Highbury Terrace, and Winchester House, Old Broadstreet, to Louisa, relict of the late John Whitbread, esq of Edmonton.

31. At Guernsey, Major E. Simons, of the Hon. East India Company's service, to Maria, daughter of Major Browne, of Canon's Leigh Abbey, Devonshire.

Lately. At Fochabers, Scotland, his Grace the Duke of Gordon, to Mrs. Christie, a lady about 40 years of age, and with whom the Noble Duke has been

intimately acquainted for many years. Mrs. Christie has one son and three daughters. If she now should have a son, he would succeed to the Dukedom on

the failure of issue male by the Marquis of Huntley. The Noble Duke made an ample settlement in favour of Mrs. Christie's children before his marriage with their mother.

Samuel Herbert, esq. of St. John's Hill, Wandsworth, to Mrs. Alden, of New Buckenham, Norfolk.

The Rev. John B. Monk, M. A. Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, to Jane, dau. of Robert Ward, esq. of Liverpool.

Aug. 1. The Rev. Wm. Watkins, Rector of Racton, Sussex, to Frances, dau. of Thos. Rhoades, esq. of Chichester.

Wm. Wiggins, esq. of Pullen's-row, Islington, to Miss Emily Rivington, of Colebrooke Terrace.

At Dublin, A. G. Lewis, esq. of the 68th reg. to Hester, daughter of the late Rieb, Westenra, esq. of Rutland-square, West.

Rev. Henry Hugh Champain, of Winchfield, son of John Champain, esq. of Gloucester-place, to Mary, dau, of Jas. Wickham, esq. of Bullington, Hants.

2. At Brussels, Le Comte Seigneur Clement de Berlaymont, to Miss Frances Farrer, of Brussels,

Anthony Williams, esq. of Old Park Cottage, Bush Hill, Edmonton, Middlesex, to Fanny, daughter of the late John Jewel, esq. of St. Columb, Cornwall.

John Windsor, esq. of Highwood, Staffordshire, to Ellen, dau. of W. Webster, esq. of Ashborne, Derbyshire.

3. Rev. Wm. Frazer, Rector of the Union of Killure, in the Diocese of Wa terford, to Helen, daughter of the Rev. Wm. Archdal, of Seaview.

3. Rev. Jas. Main, Vicar of Linslade, to Eliza Jean, dau. of the late David Fell, esq. of Caversham Grove, Oxfordshire.

8. Rev. Francis Lloyd, Assistant Master of the Charter House, to Frances, dau. of the late Rev. John Russell, Rector of Helmdon, Northamptonshire.

9. Capt. Wm. Bowles, R.N. to the Hon. Frances Temple, daughter of the late Viscount Palmerston.

Col. Alex. Woodford, Aide-de-Camp to his Majesty, to Charlotte-Mary-Anne, dau. of Chas. Hen. Fraser, esq. Minister Plenipotentiary to the Circle of Lower Saxony.

10. Rev. T. B. Browne, of Huntingford, to Mary, daughter of the late Mr. John Salter, of Hammersmith.

12. Capt. Edward Hollingworth Delafosse, R. N. to Sophia, dau. of Rev. Geo. Young, M.A. of Lambeth Terrace.

15. Hugh-Thomas James, esq. of Liverpool, to the daughter of the Rev. F. W. Franklin, of Hertford.

18. Sir John Miles Winnington, to Hearietta-Antonia, dau. of the late Beding field Pogson, esq. and great nicce of the present Earl of Glencairne.

OBITUARY,

OBITUARY.

HER ROYAL HIGHNESS FREDERICA ULRICA CATHERINA,
DUCHESS OF YORK,

August 6. At Oatlands, of a spasmodic affection of the chest, her Royal Highness the Duchess of York. She breathed her last in the presence of her Royal Consort the Duke of York, and some of her most faithful domestics. The declining state of her Royal Highness's health had long been a subject of public anxiety, and had rendered the presence of her medical attendants almost constantly necessary,

On Monday the 14th, his Royal Highness the Duke of York arrived at Oatlands from London, to superintend the arrangements for the last solemn rites. Their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of Clarence, Sussex, and Cambridge, Prince Leopold, the Earl of Lauderdale, and several other persons of distinction, who were to form part of the funeral procession, also arrived at an early hour. The Duke of York had directed the poor

children who were supported and educated solely at the expence of the late Duchess, to be in attendance at Oatlands, in order to join the procession. Previously, however, to the removal of the coffin from the apartment in which it had lain in state, these children were admitted to take a last view of the remains of their kind benefactress. The scene was highly interesting and affecting. They were 40 in number, 26 girls and 14 boys, from 8 to 12 years of age; and, while they stood round the bier, every one of the youthful group was dissolved in tears. At three o'clock the preparations for the funeral procession were completed, and at four it reached the Church of Weybridge, where the body, with great solemnity, was consigned to its kindred dust. On the lid of the coffin was a large gilt plate, bearing the following inscription:

DEPOSITUM

Illustrissimæ Principissæ

FREDERICÆ CHARLOTTE ULRICA CATHARINÆ,
Consortis Illustrissimi Principis

FREDERICI DE BRUNSWICK LUNENBURGH,
Ducis Eboraci et Albaniæ,

Fratris Augustissimi et Potentissimi Monarchæ
GEORGII QUARTI,

Dei Gratia Britanniarum Regis, Fidei Defensoris.
Obiit

VI. die Augusti, Anno Domini

MDCCCXX;
Ætatis suæ
LIV.

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Her Royal Highness was born May 7th, 1767; and educated, under the eye of her mother, in those strict principles of the Protestant faith which govern the ecclesiastical, constitution of Prussia. She had been seen by the Duke of York in an excursion which he made abroad some few years previous to their union. His Royal Highness, in his German tour, had paid a visit to the Court of Berlin, and had there, imbibed those elements of military knowledge which prevail in the school of the Great Frederick. He had, at that period, formed an attach

ment for the Princess Royal of Prussia, who then shone, in the full splendour of her beauty, and whose numerous accomplishments, and many mild and amiable virtues, were the common theme of admiration. There was not, however, at this time an opportunity of cementing the union; but, in the summer of the year 1791, his Royal Highness again visited the Court of Prussia; and, by consent of his royal parents, demanded the Princess in marriage. The preliminaries were soon settled, and upon the 29th of September in the same year, the ceremony of marriage was performed in the presence of the Royal Family of Prussia, and the principal ministers of state.

It was stipulated in the preliminaries, on the part of the King of Prussia, that his Royal Highness the Duke of York should not, upon the failure of issue in the royal line of the pre

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