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 charges

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J. Robins, 1821
 

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Сторінка 399 - 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 375 - 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 2 - 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...
Сторінка 466 - ... prius, the ordinary course has been for the counsel on the other side, not to object to the question as a question that could not properly be put, but to interpose, on his own behalf, another intermediate question ; namely, to ask the witness whether the agreement referred to in the question originally proposed by the counsel on the other side, was or was not in writing ; and, if the witness answers that it was in writing, then the inquiry is stopped, because the writing must be itself produced....
Сторінка 2 - Bergami, which continued for a long period of time, during her Royal Highness's residence abroad ; by which conduct of her said Royal Highness great scandal and dishonour have been brought upon your Majesty's family and this kingdom.
Сторінка 143 - The morning after I arrived at Messina Captain Briggs informed me that the Princess expressed some uneasiness at the prospect of keeping her own table on board the Clorinde. I therefore desired Captain Briggs...
Сторінка 467 - Lordships' question distinctly in the affirmative or the negative, for the reason I have given, namely, the want of an established practice referring to such a question by counsel; yet, as we are all of opinion that the witness cannot properly be asked, on cross-examination, whether he has written such a thing, (the proper course being to put the writing into his hands, and ask him whether it be his writing...
Сторінка 466 - ... negative, inasmuch as we are not aware that there is in the courts below any established practice which we can state to your lordships as distinctly referring to such a question propounded by counsel on crossexamination as is here contained ; that is, Whether the counsel crossexamining are entitled...
Сторінка 457 - Will you swear that you never entreated any one of the suite of her royal highness, after you had left her service, to have pity on you, or to take compassion on your situation ? It may be.
Сторінка 380 - ... make statements such as the counsel shall, by questions addressed to the witness, inquire are or are not made therein ; or whether the letter itself must be read as the evidence to manifest that such statements are or are not...

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