Excerpt from A Correct, Full, and Impartial Report, of the Trial of Her Majesty, Caroline, Queen Consort of Great Britain, Before the House of Peers, on the Bill of Pains and Penalties: With Authentic Particulars, Embracing Every Circumstance Connected With, and Illustrative Of, the Subject of This Momentous Event Interspersed With Original Letters, and Other Curious and Interesting Documents

At her usual attendants on such an oc casion? Why should she require the assistance of a man, and that man one of her menial servants, in her dressing room A man who waited behind her chair at dinner, and who went before her as her courier, Then she travelled from place to plate. What, I ask, could her reason be for selecting this man on such an occasion, unless for the purposes alleged in the preamble of the bill? But more. Her majesty returned a third time from the ball. She then changed her dress to that of a female Turkish peasant, - and who was her companion on this occasion Her courier, her menial servant, Ber gami, he accompanied her majesty, dressed as a Turkish peasant, to a ball given to royalty, and to the first no bility of the country. It appears, how ever, that Bergami did-riot long te main at this ball. He returned home, apparently dissatisfied with something that had occurred. - I know not what. Her majesty came home shortly after, and endeavoured to prevail on him to go back to the ball, she pressed him much, but he declined going. Her maicaty then returned alone to the ball, but she did not remain long. It was observed by those servants whose business it was to be more immediately in attendance on her majesty, that at whatever hour she rose in the morn ing, Bergami rose at the same period and also, that her majesty was in the habit of breakfasting in her apart ments in company with him alone, her suite being in apartments at some distance from her 5. Notwithstanding this great familiarity and preference, the situation of Bergami remained the same, he still acted as her courier, her valet-de-chambre, and continued to wait at table as usual in short, he appeared to the English ladies who attended her royal highness just in the same character as when he was first hired. It was only in secret, or at least before her majesty's innus diate attendants that those familiari ties of which 1 Speak were at all visi ble. Her majesty was in the habit of occasionally walking on a terrace, and there she was seen at various times, leaning on Bergami's arm with the greatest familiarity. It happened du ring her majesty's residence at Na.

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