Report of the proceedings before the House of lords, on a bill of pains and penalties against her majesty, Caroline Amelia Elizabeth, ed. by J. Nightingale. 3 vols. [issued in 83 pt. Wanting pt. 57,58, 67,68. Pt. 11 wants sheet 2i, and pt. 74 wants sig. 4a4].

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Joseph Nightingale
1821
 

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Сторінка 497 - ... ask all questions, which may be proper to draw forth an explanation of the sense and meaning of the expressions used by the witness on cross-examination, if they be in themselves doubtful, and, also, of the motive, by which the witness was induced to use those expressions ; but, I think, he has no right to go further, and to introduce matter new in itself, and not suited to the purpose of explaining either the expressions or the motives of the witness.
Сторінка 403 - I cannot sufficiently thank her Royal Highness and the Baron for their kindness in sending Ferdinand to accompany me; he has paid me all the attention and taken all the care of me imaginable ; I know not how to acknowledge so many benefits; but I will endeavour by my future conduct to merit them, and to regain the favourable opinion which her Royal Highness entertained for me during the days of my good fortune.
Сторінка 2 - Bergami, 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 intercourse...
Сторінка 376 - One of the reasons for (he rule requiring the production of written instruments, • is in order that the court may be possessed of the whole. If the course which is here proposed should be followed, the cross-examining counsel may put the court in possession only of a part of the contents of the written paper, and thus the court may never be in possession of the whole, though it may happen that the whole, if produced, may have an effect very different from that which might be produced by a statement...
Сторінка 376 - First, Whether, in the courts below, a party, on crossexamination, would be allowed to represent, in the statement of a question, the contents of a letter, and to ask the witness whether the witness wrote a letter to any person with such contents, or contents to the like effect, without having first shown to the witness the letter, and having asked that witness whether the witness wrote that letter, and his admitting that he wrote such letter...
Сторінка 366 - You know, that when this august princess is my. subject I am inexhaustible, consequently my Journal is embellished with and breathes the effusion of my heart; my greatest desire having always been, that the princess should appear to be what she really is, and that full justice should be rendered to her.
Сторінка 2 - Highness's person, but bestowed upon him other great and extraordinary marks of favour and distinction, obtained for him orders of knighthood, and titles of honour, and conferred upon him a pretended order of knighthood, which her Royal Highness had taken upon herself to institute without any just or lawful authority...
Сторінка 396 - Dear and good Mariette ; " Although you have not said four words in your last letter, yet I love you too well not to pardon you for it, and it is with real pleasure that I reply to you. I am enchanted, my...
Сторінка 345 - It was a room near that of her Royal Highness. Was there any communication between them ? — Yes. Had her Royal Highness a small cabinet below? — Yes. Was there any sofa in that cabinet below ? — Yes. Did you ever see Bergami in that cabinet upon the sofa?
Сторінка 497 - ... against a party, without giving to the party, at the same time, the benefit of the entire residue of what he said on the same occasion. But the conversation of a witness with a third person is not in itself evidence in the suit against any party to the suit. It becomes evidence only as it may affect the character and credit of the witness, which may be affected by his antecedent declarations, and by the motive under which he made them ; but when once all...

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