Report of the Proceedings Before the House of Lords, on a Bill of Pains and Penalties Against Her Majesty, Caroline Amelia Elizabeth, Queen of Great Britain, and Consort of King George the Fourth: The defenceJoseph Nightingale J. Robins and Company, 1821 |
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admitted adulterous intercourse adultery answer appeared asked attended Attorney-General believe Bergami Brougham called Carlsruhe character charge circumstances Colonel Brown conduct considered conspiracy contradicted counsel Countess Oldi courier course court cross-examination defence Demont dence Denman dined divorce clause duty Earl Grey Earl of Liverpool evidence examined fact Flinn Gell Genoa guilty heard honour House inference justice knew Kress lady learned friends learned lord Lieut Lieutenant Hownam Lord-Chancellor lordships Majesty Majesty's Majochi Milan commission mind Naples ness never noble and learned noble earl noble friend noble lord object observed occasion opinion party person Pesaro Powell preamble Princess of Wales proceeding proof proved Queen question recollect respect Restelli Royal Highness Royal Highness's Sacchi Scharnitz second reading servant Sir William Gell slept Solicitor-General swear sworn taken tent testimony thing thought tion Vassali Villa d'Este vote whole witness Zancla
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Page 703 - But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
Page 755 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 736 - And be it enacted by the King's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal...
Page 48 - ... to any declarations made by him, or acts done by him, to procure persons corruptly to give evidence in support of the prosecution...
Page 627 - Blood hath been shed ere now, i' the olden time, Ere human statute purg'd the gentle weal; Ay, and since too, murders have been perform'd Too terrible for the ear: the times have been, That when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end: but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools: This is more strange Than such a murder is.
Page 727 - An Act to deprive her Majesty Queen Caroline Amelia Elizabeth of the title, prerogatives, rights, privileges, and exemptions of Queen Consort of this realm, and to dissolve the marriage between his Majesty . and the said Caroline Amelia Elizabeth.
Page 47 - ... proof of the matter, which is received, if by law it ought to be received. But the possibility that the witness may decline to answer the question, affords no sufficient reason for not giving him the opportunity of answering, and of offering such explanatory or exculpatory matter as I have before alluded to...
Page 688 - Bergami, was in her said service^ further unmindful of her exalted rank and station, and of her duty to your Majesty, and wholly regardless of her own honour and character, conducted herself towards the said Bartolomo Pergauii, otherwise Bartolomo Berganai, and in other respects, both in public and private, in the various places and countries which her Royal Highness visited, with indecent and offensive familiarity and freedom, and carried on a licentious, disgraceful, and adulterous.
Page 11 - ... act will be evidence against any of the others, who were engaged in the same general conspiracy, without regard to the question whether the prisoner is proved to have been concerned in the particular transaction.
Page 674 - ... indifference ; and, unless the course of these unexampled proceedings should bring the bill before the other branch of the legislature, she will make no reference whatever to the treatment experienced by her during the last 25 years.