she so came?—In the same cloak I have already described.

Was she in her night-dress?-Yes, she was.

Was Bergami then in his room?—Yes, sometimes he was, and sometimes he was not.

When Bergami opened his door at any time, did you see the door of the Princess's room open or shut?-I saw it, I think, generally open.

Have you made any remark about her expression to Bergami at any time? Yes, I have.

What was it? what did you remark ?— Sometimes she called him Chevalier mon tour, sometimes her dear friend. That was what I remarked.

Did you see Bergami on board the Clorinde? I did.

Do you recollect at any time during that voyage to have particularly seen Bergami in the Princess's cabin ?-I do; I recollect once.

Where was the Princess at the time you saw Bergami in her cabin ?-She was in her cabin also.

How was she situated there? was she sitting up or in bed ?—In bed.

Was it in the day or in the night time? It was in the day.

How was the Princess lying in the bed?-She had just laid down.

Where was Bergami?—He was on a bed in the cabin, near the Princess's.

How long was he there?—I think, as well as I recollect, he was there half an hour.

Was he sitting up or lying down in the bed?—I think lying down.

[At Syracuse, the bed-rooms of the parties communicated by a small stair-case, and Demont heard the Princess sometimes locking the door of the stair-case. At Catania, Bergami's bed-room was at first considerably distant from hers; but after an illness he was removed to that of the Countess Oldi, which was contiguous.

Do you remember her, during this illness of Bergaini, going to bed one night before you ?-I do.

When was that?-The Princess went to bed before me, I recollect, one night, when I was at supper.

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went to bed while you were at supper, did you make any particular observation? -No: but I did in the morning.

What morning?-Either the following morning, or the morning after that. What did you then see?-I saw the Princess come out of the Countess of Oldi's room, and enter her own bed-room. At what hour in the morning was that? -I think about 10 o'clock.

Had the Princess any thing in her hand, or under her arm, at the time?Yes, she had.

What?-The pillow or cushion which she always slept upon.

How was the Princess dressed?-She was not dressed then; she was in her night-dress, after being undressed.

At the time the Princess came out of the room, in the way you have described, with the pillow, did the Princess see you? -The Princess looked at me.

When the Princess looked at you, what observation did you make as to what she did? what did she do?-She fixed her eyes on me. She looked at me earnestly. What did she then do ?-She went on to her own room.

Did she say any thing?-No.

[At Catania, the Princess was painted as a Turkish woman, and also as a penitent Magdalen, with her breast open. This last picture Demont once saw in the possession of Bergami. He was also painted as a Turk, and the Princess assisted in arranging a turban for this picture. Demont afterwards saw it in a box belonging to the Princess.

On the voyage to Tunis, in the Palace of the Bey there, and at Utica, the bedrooms of the two parties were always near to each other, and with an easycommunication.]

Can you say where Bergami slept at Utica? I do not know.

Did you, in the morning, at Utica, before the Princess had left her bed-room, see Bergami?—Yes.

Was it before the Princess was up, or not?-Before she was up.

What did you see Bergami do?—Bergami passed through our room, and went into the room of the Princess.

How long did he remain there?—I do not remember.

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Did you afterwards go into the room? -I only went to the threshold of the door: the Princess asked me for something.

Did you see if the Princess was still in bed?-I saw that the Princess was still in bed.

Was Bergami still in the room?-Bergami was still in the room.

[From Tunis they went to St Jean d'Acre, and thence to Aun, on their way to Jerusalem.]

Did you sleep in any house at Aun, or did you encamp?-We slept in tents.

Did the Princess sleep in a tent?—Yes. Was it a single or a double tent?—As far as I recollect, it was double.

Was there any bed under that tent?There were two.

Did you attend to undress her Royal Highness?-Yes.

Where was Bergami?-He was lying on one of the beds.

Did you, at the time of which you speak, leave the Queen undressed or up? -I left her undressed, in the bed.

Was Bergami dressed, undressed, or partly undressed?-He was dressed, but he had no coat on.

Did you retire, on that occasion, at the usual time?-Yes.

Do you remember any day, during the time you were at Jerusalem, seeing Bergami in the room of her Royal Highness?

-Yes.

Where was he? was it in the bedroom of her Royal Highness ?-He entered the bed-room of her Royal Highness while I was there, and threw himself on the bed in a ludicrous or jesting way.

Was her Royal Highness in the room at the time?-Yes.

Did he remain on the bed?-Not long. During the day-time, while you were at Jerusalem, did you see her Royal Highness and Bergami in the gallery you have described?-I sometimes saw them in the morning in the gallery.

Was Bergami there?—Yes. What was he doing?—They spoke together.

Describe what you saw them doing, during the time you were at Jerusalem, in the gallery.-I recollect nothing but to see them talking together.

You have told us that Bergami slept

in the dining-room on board the vessel, and that her Royal Highness slept in the cabin till you arrived at Jaffa: where did she sleep afterwards?-On the deck. Was there a tent there ?-Yes.

What was in the tent?-Two small beds.

Did her Royal Highness sleep in one of those beds?—Yes.

Did you assist in undressing her?No.

Who did?-I do not know.

Did any body sleep in the other bed? -M. Bergami.

Did that continue during the whole voyage from Jaffa to Italy?—Yes.

Do you recollect her Royal Highness bathing on board?-Yes.

Did she bathe more than once ?-I only recollect once.

Who attended her?-Bergami.

Did they both come up together afterwards, or did Bergami come up first?Bergami came to call me on the deck to go and dress her Royal Highness.

At the time you were so called by Bergami to dress her Royal Highness, how long had they been together?-Nearly three quarters of an hour.

Who assisted in getting the water for the bath? I saw Theodore Majocci at the door with a pail of water in his hand.

[After returning to Italy, they went to the Villa d'Este, where the household contained the mother of Bergami, his sister Faustine, and his brother Lewis.]

You have told us before that the mo ther of Bergami was called "Nonna ;" how was she called after your return to the Villa d'Este ?-She was called Donna Livia.

Do you remember the theatre at the Villa d'Este?—Yes.

Did you ever see Lewis Bergami act any thing on that theatre?—Yes.

Did you ever see him play any thing on that theatre with her Royal Highness? -Yes; he danced, dressed like Harlequin, and her Royal Highness dressed like Columbine. (A laugh.)

Do you remember a black silk cravat worn by Bergami?-Generally he wore in the morning a black silk cravat.

Do you remember seeing that cravat any where else?-Yes, in her Royal Highness's room.

A Peer. What room?-Her Royal Highness's bed-room.

At La Barona, where Bergami had a villa and estate, they spent two months, during which the two rooms were separated only by a cabinet. Here balls were given, attended by people of low condition. Witness mentioned something of an indecent story told by Bergami of what had passed at one of these balls; but as she declined entering into particulars, the whole was struck out of the minutes.

On the road to Germany, Bergami went forward to his trunk for passports, and did not return that night.]

Do you recollect the room her Royal Highness slept in, and what arrangements were made on this occasion?-Yes.

Who went to bed in the same chamber with her Royal Highness ?-Myself. At what time did you go to bed?—It was nearly ten o'clock.

What time did her Royal Highness go to bed?-At the same time.

In the same room?-Yes.

Did Bergami return from Inspruck that night?—Yes.

As far as you recollect, how long after you had gone to bed?-I don't recollect precisely, because I had already fallen asleep.

Did you sleep in the same bed, or in another bed ?-No, there was a small bed laid on the floor for me.

After Bergami returned, did her Royal Highness give you any orders what to do? -Her Royal Highness told me I might take up my bed and go.

Did you see Bergami before those orders were given?-Yes, Mr Bergami came in at the same time that the orders were given. Where? in the room of her Royal Highness? Yes.

Did you, in consequence of the orders,

go away for the night?-I left the room at the same moment.

When you left the room, had you left Bergami there, or was he gone?—I cannot exactly say whether Bergami was in the room, but I believe he was.

[At Carlsruhe, the witness observed Bergami with his arm round the Princess, and her head resting on his breast. They then went to Vienna, by Trieste into Italy, and by different stages to Rome. At Villa Caprini, near Rome, the following incident took place.]

Had her Royal Highness a small cabinet below?-Yes.

Was there any sofa in that cabinet?— Yes.

Did you ever see Bergami on that sofa? -Yes.

Have you ever seen him there when the Princess was?-Yes.

How was he? Was he sitting on the sofa?-He was lying down on the sofa.

Where was her Royal Highness then? What was she doing? She was sitting on the edge of the sofa.

What was she doing? In what position was she? I do not recollect what she was doing; she was sitting on the side or edge of the sofa.

Did you ever see her Royal Highness in pantaloons ?-Yes, at Pesaro.

Was Bergami present at that time ?— I saw him once.

Tell us what he said, or if he said any thing, or what passed between them ?Bergami said, "Your Royal Highness looks better so."

Tell us the phrase he made use of, as far as you recollect?-Bergami turned round, looking at her Royal Highness, and said, "O, how pretty you are! I like you much better so."

At the time when her Royal Highness resided at Naples, had she any chaplain as a part of her suite ?-Prayers were said at her house every Sunday.

Was it so at Villa Villani, Villa d'Este, and at the Barona ?-No.

Did you ever see it so after you left Naples? Yes.

Until what time?-Till we were at

At the time you were first at the Villa d'Este, was her Royal Highness visited by the nobility in the neighbourhood? Sometimes.

How was it at Villa Villani, before you went to Villa d'Este?-They visited her sometimes.

Did her Royal Highness ever say any thing to you about the Cassino, at Milan? Yes.

What did she say?—She said it had been put to the vote whether she should be admitted at (or into) the Cassino, at Milan.

Any thing further?-She said it had been negatived.

Cross-examined.-Since you have been in England have you always gone by the same name of Louisa Demont?-No, I had another name.

If it be not giving you too much trouble, will you be so good as to tell me your other name?-I took the name of the place I come from, Colombia.

Did you also take a title, that of Countess?-No.

Were you never called Countess?—I was once so called.

By once do you mean one time?-I mean one time.

By once do you also mean by only one person?-I only recollect one person to have called me Countess.

Did that person call you so only once, or frequently?—I only heard it once. Where were you living when that person so addressed you ?-In Frith-street. Do you mean in Frith-street, Sohosquare? Yes.

Before that time had you lived in Oxford-street?-Yes.

How long did you live there?—About three months, as far as I can recollect. I do not know exactly.

While you lived there, did nobody call you Countess ?-I do not recollect that any body called me so there.

Will you swear that you were not called Countess Colombia in the house in Oxford-street?-I will not swear that; but I do not recollect it.

Will you swear that you did not pass in the house by the title of the Countess ? -I cannot tell what Mr Cross, who placed me in the house, called me; I do not know by what title he announced me.

Will you swear that while living in the house in Oxford-street you were not called by the title of Countess, not behind your back, but in your presence ?—I will not swear; but I do not recollect.

Was it not something new to you to be called Countess ?--I do not remember being so called in Oxford-street. I remember being called Countess in Frith-street.

I wish to ask you whether, when you lived in Oxford-street, you did not answer to the title of Countess ?--I do not recollect.

Will you swear you did not?—I will not swear; but I do not recollect.

Was it a matter of no singularity to you the being called Countess?-(Here there was a loud cry of " Order! order!" by some Peers.)

Where did you sleep yourself at Naples?-In a little apartment above that of her Royal Highness.

Did you sleep alone in that room? -We had two rooms; in one I slept, and Annette Triesson in the other.

During the time you remained in the house did you sleep alone in that room? -Yes.

And this you will now swear?-Yes, that I slept every night in my room alone. The whole night?-Yes.

Alone?-Yes.

Every night, and the whole of the night, alone?-Yes, I slept alone.

If I recollect right, you said you one night saw Bergami coming out of his room in a state of undress while you resided at Naples ?—Yes.

How soon after your arrival at Naples was this?It is impossible for me to say.

You need not be particular as to a night or two?—I cannot say precisely.

I do not desire you to say precisely; say within a few nights, as near as you can?-We were four months at Naples, and I cannot recollect precisely.

I do not ask you precisely, but to tell me within a week, more or less?—I cannot recollect. We were four months at Naples.

Was it during the first month ?—I cannot recollect.

Was it during the second or the third month?-I again say I cannot recollect, it is so long since the circumstance took place.

Was it towards the beginning or the end of your residence at Naples ?—I do not recollect.

Then you have no memory at all as to whether it happened at the beginning, the middle, or the end of your residence at Naples? you have no notion of the time?I do not recollect at what period it happened.

[She acknowledged that when she made her escape from the Princess's room, she ran a few steps towards Bergami. At the court ball at Naples, she did not go into the room where the company was, and could not say whether there were any others dressed in the same style as the Princess. When the Princess went to sleep in the tent at Aun, she merely threw off an open gown, which she wore on the journey.

Did you quit the Princess's service of your own accord, or were you discharged? -I was discharged.

Were you not discharged for saying something which you afterwards admitted to be false ?—Yes; in fact it was not

true.

I believe you were applied to for evidence, by some person or other, very soon after you were discharged from the service of the Princess ?-Not very soon.

I don't know what you call soon: I say within half a year?-Not so soon as six months. I had been out of her service nearly one year. It was nearly one year since I left her service.

You say that you were applied to, as I understood, to know what you had to say with respect to the Princess? Is not that so?-One year after I had left her service.

Now, do you mean to represent that an application was not made to you much earlier than a year after you were discharged from the Princess's service?—No.

Is it, or is it not, true that an application was made to you within half a year of your quitting that service?-No ap-. plication was made to me earlier than one year after I quitted the service.

Will you swear it?—Yes.

Neither by means of a letter, by personal application, or otherwise, in any manner?-No. As I know what it is about, may I be allowed to explain the matter?

Mr WILLIAMS.-First of all, as I submit to your Lordships, the witness must give an answer to my question, and then she may explain, if necessary.

The Earl of LAUDERDALE directed the question to be read, which being done, he observed that it had been answered.

The witness then proceeded to give her explanation, which some of their Lord-: ships did not think necessary to be interpreted.

Mr WILLIAMS begged that it might be interpreted and taken down.

Mr BROUGHAM, to the interpreter.Do you understand it?—Yes.

Then translate it, and let it be taken down.

The Interpreter.-The witness says, that, six months after she left the Princess, she wrote to her sister to say that an application had been made to her, but that communication was a double entendre between her and her sister.

Have you never said that the Princess was surrounded with spies when she was in Italy?—I don't recollect having said it.

Did witness ever say it or represent it in any manner?—I do not recollect. Will you swear you have not?-I will not swear; but I don't recollect.

Have you a short memory-a treacherous memory?-Not very short; but it is so long since the thing happened, that I have forgotten.

Do you know Baron Ompteda?-Yes, I have known him.

You have seen him?-I have seen him.

Have you spoken with him? - Not

often.

You have spoken with him?-Once, at Villa Villani.

When he was on a visit with the Princess, I dare say?-When he was staying at the Villa Villani with the Princess, I believe.

Was he often there ?—I recollect only having seen him that once for some days.

Was there not a complaint made by the Princess relative to the conduct of Baron Ompteda?-Yes, there was.

On which of those occasions was it ?As far as I can recollect, it was when Baron Ompteda was at Villa Villani.

Was the complaint about locks, or false keys?-I remember that the Princess