painting the Princess, and he has slept in the house two or three nights together. I have of ten seen him alone with the Princess at eleven or twelve o'clock at night. He has been there as late as one and two o'clock in the morning. One night I saw him with the Princess in the Blue room, after the ladies had retired. Some time afterwards, when I supposed he had gone to his room, I went to see that all was safe, and I found the Blue room door locked, and heard a whispering in it; and I went away." Here, again, your Majesty observes, that Mr. Cole deals his deadliest blows against my character by insinuation. And here, again, his insinuation is left unsifted and unexplained. I here understand him to insinuate that, though he supposed Mr. Lawrence to have gone to his room, he was still where he had said he last left him; and that the locked door prevented him from seeing me and Mr. Lawrence alone together, whose whispering, however, he notwithstanding overheard. Before, Sire, I come to my own explanation of the fact of Mr. Lawrence's sleeping at Montague House, I must again refer to Mr. Cole's original declarations. I must again examine Mr. Cole against Mr. Cole: which I cannot help lamenting it does not seem to have occurred to others to have done; as I am persuaded, if it had, his prevarications and his falsehood could never have escaped them. They would then have been able to have traced, as your Majesty will now do, through my observations, by what degrees he hardened himself up to the infamy (for I can use no other expression) of stating this fact, by which he means to insinuate that he heard me and Mr. Lawrence, locked up in this Blue room, whispering together, and alone. I am sorry to be obliged to drag your To return, therefore, to Mr. Cole: In his Majesty through so long a detail; but I am con- third declaration, dated the 30th of January, fident your Majesty's goodness, and love of jus- there is not a word about Mr. Lawrence. In tice, will excuse it, as it is essential to the vindi- his fourth and last, which is dated on the 23d of cation of my character, as well as to the illustra-February, he says, " the person who was alone tion of Mr. Cole's. Mr. Cole's examination," with the lady at late hours of the night (twelve as contained in his first written declaration of " and one o'clock), and whom he left sitting up the 11th of January, has nothing of this. I mean "after he went to bed, was Mr. Lawrence, not to say that it has nothing concerning Mr. "which happened two different nights." Here Lawrence, for it has much, which is calculated is likewise another trace of a former statement to occasion unfavourable interpretations, and which is not given; for no such person is mengiven with a view to that object. But that cir- tioned before in any that I have been furnished cumstance, as I submit to your Majesty, in- with.- -Your Majesty then here observes, that, creases the weight of my observation. Had after having given evidence in two of his declarathere been nothing in his first declaration about tions, respecting Mr. Lawrence by name, in Mr. Lawrence at all, it might have been ima- which he mentions nothing of locked doors, and gined that, perhaps, Mr. Lawrence escaped his after having, in another declaration, given an acrecollection altogether; or, that his declaration count of a locked door, but expressly stated, had been solely directed to other persons; but, that he knew not whether any one was with me as it does contain observations respecting Mr. within it, and said nothing about whispering beLawrence, but nothing of a locked door or the ing overheard, but, impliedly, at least, negatived whispering within it ;-how he happened at that it. In the deposition before the Commissioners, time not to recollect, or, if he recollected, not he puts all these things together, and has the harto mention, so very striking and remarkable a dihood to add to them that remarkable circumcircumstance is not, I should imagine, very sa- stance which could not have escaped his recoltisfactorily to be explained. His statement in lection at the first, if it had been true," of his that first declaration stands thus:-" In 1801," having, on the same night in which he found "Lawrence, the painter, was at Montague" me and Mr. Lawrence alone, after the ladies "House, for four or five days at a time, painting were gone to bed, come again to the room "the Princess's picture. That he was frequently" when he thought Mr. Lawreuce must have "alone late in the night with the Princess, and much suspicion was entertained of him." Mr. Cole's next declaration, at least, the next which appears among the written declarations, was taken on the 14th of January; it does not mention Mr. Lawrence's name, but it has this passage "When Mr. Cole found the drawing-room, which led to the staircase to the Princess's apartments, locked (which your Majesty knows is the same which the witnesses call the Blue room) he does not know whether any person was with her; but it appeared odd to him, as he had formed some suspicions." The striking and important observation on this passage is, that when he first talks of [the door of the drawing-room being locked, so far from his mentioning any thing of whispering being overheard, he expressly says, that he did not know that any body was with me. The passage is likewise de serving your Majesty's most serious consideratiou on another ground. For it is one of those which shews that Mr. Cole, though we have four separate declarations made by him, has certainly made other statements which have not been transmitted to your Majesty; for it evidently refers to something which he had said before of having found the drawing-room door locked, and no trace of such a statement is discoverable in the previous examination of Mr. Cole, as I have received it, and I have no doubt that, in obedience to your Majesty's commands, I have, at length, been furnished with the whole. I don't know, indeed, that it should be matter of complaint from me, that your Majesty has not been. furnished with all the statements of Mr. Cole, because, from the sample I see of them, I can, not suppose that any of them could have furnished any thing favourable to me, except, indeed, that they might have furnished me with fresh means of contradicting him by himself.-But, your Majesty will see that there have been other statements not communicated; a circumstance of which both your Majesty and I have reason to complain. But it may be out of its place further to notice that fact at present. "been retired, and found the door locked, and "heard the whispering;" and then again he gives another instance of his honesty, and upon the same principle on which he took no notice of the man in the great coat, he finds the door locked, hears the whispering, and then he silently and contentedly retires.And this witness, who thus not only varies in his testimony, but contradicts himself in such important particulars, is one of those who cannot be suspected of unfavourable bias, and whose veracity is not to be questioned, and whose evidence must be credited till decidedly contradicted.--These observations might probably be deemed sufficient, upon Mr. Cole's depositiou, as far as it respects Mr. Lawrence; but I cannot be satisfied without explaining to your Majesty all the truth, and the particulars, respecting Mr. Lawrence, which I recollect.- -What I recollect then is as follows. He began a large picture of me, and of my daughter, towards the latter end of the year 1800, or the beginning of 1801. Miss Garth and Miss Hayman were in the house with me at the time. The picture was painted at Montague House. Mr. Lawrence mentioned to Miss Hayman his wish to be permitted to remain some few nights in the house, that, by rising early he might begin painting on the picture before Princess Charlotte (whose residence being at that time at Shooter's Hill, was enabled to come early), or myself, came to sit. It was a similar request to that which had been made by Sir William Beechy, when he painted my picture. And I was sensible of no impropriety when I granted the request to either of them. Mr. Lawrence occupied the same room which had been occupied by Sir William Beechy; it was at the other end of the house from my apartment. had been left alone with Mr. Lawrence at his own house; to which she answers, that she, indeed, had left me there, but that she thinks she left Mrs. Fitzgerald with me.If an inference of an unfavourable nature could have been drawn from my having been left there alone-was it, Sire, taking all that care which might be wished, to guard against such an inference on the part of the Commissioners, when they omitted to send for Mrs. Fitzgerald to ascertain what Mrs. Lisle may have left in doubt. The Commissioners, I give them the fullest credit, were satisfied that Mrs. Lisle thought correctly upon this fact, and that Mrs. Fitzgerald, if she had been sent for again, would so have proved it, and, therefore, that it would have been troubling her to no purpose, but this it is, of which I conceive myself to have most reason to complain; that the examinations in several instances have not been followed up so as to remove unfavourable impressions.I cannot but feel satisfied that the Commissioners would have been glad to have been warranted in negativing all criminality, aud all suspicion on his part of the charge, as completely and honourably as they have done on the principal charges of pregnancy and delivery. They traced that part of the charge with ability, sagacity, diligence, and perseverance; and the result was complete satisfaction of my innocence; At that time Mr. Lawrence did not dine with complete detection of the falsehood of my acme; his dinner was served in his own room. After cusers. Encouraged by their success in that dinner he came down to the room where I and part of their inquiry, I lament that they did not, my Ladies generally sat in an evening, sometimes (as they thought proper to enter into the other there was music, in which he joined, and some- part of it at all), with similar industry, pursue it. times he read poetry. Parts of Shakespeare's If they had, I am confident they would have plays I particularly remember, from his reading pursued it with the same success; but though them very well; and sometimes he played chess they had convicted Sir Jolin and Lady Douglas with me. It frequently may have happened that of falsehood, they seem to have thought it imposit was one or two o'clock before I dismissed Mr. sible to suspect of the same falsehood any other of Lawrence and my Ladies. They, together with the witnesses, though produced by Sir John and Mr. Lawrence, went out of the same door, up Lady Douglas. The most obvious means, therethe same stair-case, and at the same time. Ac-fore, of trying their credit, by comparing their cording to my own recollection, I should have said, that in no one instance they had left Mr. Lawrence behind them alone with me. But I suppose it did happen once for a short time, since Mr. Lawrence so recollects it, as your Majesty will perceive from his deposition, which I annex. He staid in my house two or three nights together; but how many nights in the whole, I do not recollect. The picture left my house by April, 1801, and Mr. Lawrence never slept in my house afterwards. That picture now belongs to Lady Townsend. He has since completed another picture of me; and about a year and a half ago he began another, which remains at present unfinished. I believe it is near a twelvemonth since I last sat to him.Mr. Lawrence lives upon a footing of the greatest intimacy with the neighbouring families of Mr. Lock and Mr. Angerstein; and I have asked him sometimes to dine with me to meet them. While I was sitting to him at my own house, I have no doubt I must often have sat to him alone; as the necessity for the precaution of having an attendant as a witness to protect my honour from suspicion, certainly never occurred to me. And upon the same principle, I do not doubt that I may have sometimes continued in conversation with him after he had finished painting. But when sitting in his own house, I have always been attended with one of my ladies. And, indeed, nothing in the examinations state the contrary. One part of Mrs. Lisle's examination seems as if she had a question put to her, upon the supposition that I evidence with what they had said before, seems ment and these observations, and in addition to room alone. He was a person with whom the them, I most solemnly assert to your Majesty, Princess appeared to have greater pleasure in that Mr. Lawrence, neither at his own house, talking than with her Ladies. Her Royal Highnor at mine, nor any where else, ever was for ness behaved to him ONLY as any woman would one moment, by night or by day, in the same who likes flirting. She (Mrs. Lisle) would not room with me when the door of it was locked; | have thought any married woman would have behaved that he never was in my company of an evening properly, who behaved as Her Royal Highness did alone, except the momentary conversation which to Captain Manby. She can't say whether the Mr. Lawrence speaks to may be thought an ex- Princess was attached to Captain Manby, only that ception; and that nothing ever passed between it was a flirting conduct. She never saw any galhim and me which all the world might not have lantries, as kissing her hand, or the like."- -I witnessed. And, Sire, I have subjoined a depo- have cautiously stated the whole of Mrs. Lisle's sition to the same effect from Mr. Lawrence. evidence upon this part of the case; and I am -To satisfy myself, therefore, and your Ma- sure your Majesty, in reading it, will not fail to jesty, I have shewn, I trust, by unanswerable ob- keep the facts which Mrs. Lisle speaks to sepaservations and arguments, that there is no colour rate from the opinion or judgment which she for crediting Mr. Cole, or, consequently, any part forms upon them. I mean not to speak disreof this charge, which rests solely on his evidence. spectfully or slightingly of Mrs. Lisle's opinion, But to satisfy the requisition of the Commission- or express myself as in any degree indifferent to ers, I have brought my pride to submit (though it. But whatever there was which she observed not without great pain, I can assure your Ma- in my conduct that did not become a married jesty) to add the only contradictions which I conwoman, that ". was ONLY like a woman who liked ceive can be given, those of Mr. Lawrence and flirting," and "ONLY a flirting conduct," I am myself. The next person with whom these ex- convinced your Majesty must be satisfied that it aminations charge my improper familiarity, and | must have been far distant from affording any with regard to which the Report represents the evidence of crime, of vice, or of indecency, as it evidence as particularly strong, is Captain Manby. passed openly in the company of my Ladies, of With respect to him, Mr. Cole's examination is whom Mrs. Lisle herself was one.--The facts silent. But the evidence on which the Commis- she states are, that Captain Manby came very sioners rely on this part of the case is Mr. Bid-frequently to my house; that he dined there good's, Miss Fanny Lloyd's, and Mrs. Lisle's. It three or four times a week in the latter end of respects my conduct at three different places; at the year 1802; that he sat next to me at dinner; Montague House, Southend, and at Ramsgate; and that my conversation after dinner, in the I shall preserve the facts and my observations evening, used to be with Captain Manby, sepamore distinct, if I consider the evidence, as ap-rate from my Ladies. These are the facts: and plicable to these three places, separately and in its order; and I prefer this mode of treating it, as it will enable me to consider the evidence of Mrs. Lisle in the first place, and consequently put it out of the reach of the harsher observations which I may be under the necessity of making upon the testimony of the other two. For though Mrs. Lisle, indeed, speaks to having seen Captain Manby at East Cliff in August, 1803, to the best of her remembrance it was only once. She speaks to his mecting her at Deal in the same season; that he landed there with some boys whom I took on charity, and who were under his care; yet she speaks of nothing there that can require a single observation from me. The material parts of her evidence respect her seeing him at Blackheath the Christmas before she had seen him at East Cliff. She says, it was the Christmas after Mr. Austin's child came, consequently the Christmas 1802-3. He used to come to dine there, she says he always went away in her presence, and she had no reason to think he staid after the Ladies retired. He lodged on the heath at that time; his ship was fitting up at Deptford; he came to dinner three or four times a week, or more. She supposes he might be alone with the Princess, but that she was in the habit of seeing Gentlemen and tradesmen without her being present. She (Mrs. Lisle) has seen him at luncheon and dinner both. The boys (two boys) came with him two or three times, but not to dinner. Captain Manby always sat next the Princess at dinner.furnished. Wishing to make him some return for The constant company were Mrs. and Miss Fitzgerald and herself-all retired with the Princess, and sat in the same room. Captain Manby generally retired about eleven, and sat with us all till then. Captain Manby and the Princess used, when we were together, to be speaking together separately, conversing separately, but not in a is it upon them that my character, I will not say, is to be taken away, but is to be affected?Captain Manby had, in the autumn of the same year, been introduced to me by Lady Townshend, when I was upon a visit to her at Rainham. Í think he came there only the day before I left it. He was a naval officer, as I understood, and as I still believe, of great merit. What little expense, in the way of charity, I am able to afford, I am best pleased to dedicate to the education of the children of poor, but honest persons; and I most generally bring them up to the service of the navy. I had at that time two boys at school, whom I thought of an age fit to be put to sea. Í desired Lady Townshend to prevail upon Captain Manby to take them. He consented to it, and of course I was obliged to him.-About this time, or shortly afterwards, he was appointed to the Africaine, a ship which was fitting up at Deptford. To be near his ship, as I understood and believe, he took lodgings at Blackheath; and as to the mere fact of his being so frequently at my house-his intimacy and friendship with Lord and Lady Townshend, which of itself was assurance to me of his respectability and character-my pleasure in shewing my respect to them, by notice and attention to a friend of theirs-bis undertaking the care of my charity boys-and his accidental residence at Blackheath, will, I should trust, not unreasonably account for it. I have a similar account likewise to give of paying for the linen furniture, with which his cabin was his trouble with the boys, I desired that I might choose the pattern of his furniture. I not only chose it, but had it sent to him, and paid the bill; finding, however, that it did not come to more than about twenty pounds, I thought it a shabby present, and therefore added some trifling present of plate, So I have frequently done, 457] and I hope, without offence, may be permitted to do again, to any Captain on whom I impose such trouble. Sir Samuel Hood has now two of my charity boys with him; and I have presented him with a silver epergne. I should be ashamed to notice such things, but your Majesty perceives that they are made the subject of inquiry from Mrs. Fitzgerald and Mr. Stikeman, and I was desirous that they should not appear to be particular in the case of Captain Manby. If they are not both examined to these circumstances? But Miss Fitzgerald is not examined at all; and Mrs. Fitzgerald, though examined, and examined too with respect to Captain Manby, does not appear to have had a single question put to her with respect to any thing which passed concerning him at Montague House. May I not therefore complain that the examination, leaving the generality of Mrs. Lisle's expression unexplained by herself; and the scenes to which it But to return to Mrs. Lisle's examination. relates unexamined into, by calling the other Mrs. Lisle says, that Captain Manby, when he persons who were present, is leaving it precisely dined with me, sat next to me at dinner. Be- in that state, which is better calculated to raise a suspicion, than to ascertain the truth?―But fore any inference is drawn from that fact, I am sure your Majesty will observe that, in the next I am persuaded that the unfavourable impression line of Mrs. Lisle's examination, she says, "that which is most likely to be made by Mrs. Lisle's the constant company was Mrs. and Miss Fitz- examination, is not by her evidence to the facts, "I appeared," gerald, and herself, Mrs. Lisle." The only gen- but by her opinion upon them. tleman, the only person of the whole party who she says, " to like the conversation of "Captain was not of my own family, was Captain Manby; Manby better than that of my ladies. I beand his sitting next to me, under such circum- haved to him only as a woman who likes flirting; stances, I should apprehend could not possibly my conduct was unbecoming a married woman; she cannot say whether I was attached to Capafford any inference of any kind. In the evening we were never alone. The whole company tain Manby or not; it was only a flirting conduct."-Now, Sire, I must here again most sat together; nay, even as to his being with me alone of a morning, Mrs. Lisle seems to know seriously complain that the Commissioners should nothing of the fact, but from a conjecture found- have called for, or received, and much more, ed upon her knowledge of my known usual habit, reported, in this manner, the opinion and judg Your with respect to seeing gentlemen who might ment of Mrs. Lisle upon my conduct. call upon me. And the very foundation of her Majesty's Warrant purports to authorize them to conjecture demonstrates that this circumstance collect the evidence, and not the opinion of can be no evidence of any thing particular with | others; and to report it, with their own judg. ment surely, and not Mrs. Lisle's, Mrs. Lisle's regard to Captain Manby.As to my conversing with Captain Manby separately, I do not judgment was formed upon those facts which understand Mrs. Lisle as meaning to speak to she stated to the Commissioners, or upon other the state of the conversation uninterruptedly, facts. If upon those she stated, the Commisdaring the whole of any of the several eveningssioners, and your Majesty, are as well able to form the judgment upon them as she was. when Captain Manby was with me; if I did so understand her, I should certainly most confi- upon other facts, the Commissioners should have dently assert, that she was not correct. That heard what those other facts were, and upon them have formed and reported their judgment. in the course of the evening, as the ladies were working, reading, or otherwise amusing themselves, the conversation was sometimes more and sometimes less general; and that they some-explanation of what she means by "only flirting times took more, sometimes less part in it;that frequently it was between Captain Manby and myself alone; and that, when we were all together, we two might frequently be the only persons not otherwise engaged, and therefore be justly said to be speaking together separately. Besides, Captain Manby has been round the world with Captain Vancouvre. I have looked over prints in books of voyages with him; he has explained them to me; the ladies may or may not have been looking over them at the same time; they may have been engaged with their own amusements. Here again, we may be said to have been conversing separately, and consequently that Mrs. Lisle, in this sense, is perfect ly justified in saying that "I used to converse separately with Captain Manby," I have not the least difficulty in admitting. But have I not again reason to complain that this expression of Mrs. Lisle's was not more sifted, but left in a manner calculated to raise an impression that this separate conversation was studiously sought for, was constant, uniform, and uninterrupted, though it by no means asserts any such thing But whether I used always so to converse with him; or generally, or only sometimes, or for what proportion of the evening I used to be so engaged, is left unasked and unexplained. Have I not likewise just reason to complain, that though Mrs. Lisle states, that Mrs. Fitzgerald and Miss Fitzgerald were always of the party, -I am aware, indeed, that if I were to argue that the facts which Mrs. Lisle states, afford the conduct," and by "behaviour unbecoming a -To -Mrs. Lisle, seeing all the facts which she relates, and observing much of manner, which perhaps she could not describe, limits the expression "flirting conduct" by calling it 66 only flirting," and says (upon having the question asked to her, no doubt, whether from the whole she could collect that I was attached to Captain Manby) says “she could not say whether I was attached to him, my conduct was had been prosecuted before your Majesty's Privy Council, the more solemn and usual course of proceeding there would, as I am informed, have furnished, or enabled me to furnish, your Majesty with the questions as well as the answers, not of a nature that proved any attachment to him, it was only a flirting conduct." Unjust| therefore, as I think it, that any such question should have been put to Mrs. Lisle, or that her judgment should have been taken at all; yet what I fear from it, as pressing with peculiar Mrs. Lisle, it should also be observed, was at hardship upon me, is, that though it is Mrs. the time of her examination, under the severe opLisle's final and ultimate judgment upon the pression of having, but a few days before, heard whole of my conduct, yet, when delivered to of the death of her daughter; a daughter, who the Commissioners and your Majesty, it be- had been happily married, and who had lived comes evidence, which, connected with all the happily with her husband, in mutual attachment facts on which Mrs. Lisle had formed it, may till her death. The very circumstance of her lead to still further and more unfavourable con- then situation would naturally give a graver and clusions, in the minds of those who are after- severer cast to her opinions. When the queswards to judge upon it; that her judgment will tion was proposed to her, as a general question, be the foundation of other judgments against (and I presume it must have been so put to her) me, much severer than her own; and that whether my conduct was such as would become a though she evidently limits her opinion, and by married woman, possibly her own daughter's con saying "ONLY flirting" impliedly negatives it as duct andwhat shewould have expected of her,might affording any indication of any thing more im- present itself to her mind. And I confidently proper, while she proceeds expressly to negative submit to your Majesty's better judgment, that such it as affording any proof of attachment; yet it a general question ought not, in a fair and candid may be thought by others, to justify their con- consideration of my case, to have been put to sidering it as a species of conduct, which shewed Mrs. Lisle, or any other woman. For, as to my an attachment to the man to whom it was ad- conduct being, or not being, becoming a mar dressed; which in a married woman was crimi- ried woman; the same conduct, or any thing nal and wrong. What Mrs. Lisle exactly like it, which may occur in my case, could not means by only flirting conduct-what degree of occur in the case of a married woman, who was impropriety of conduct she would describe by not living in my unfortunate situation; or, if it it, it is extremely difficult, with any precision, did occur, it must occur under circumstances to ascertain. How many women are there, most which must give it, and most deservedly, virtuous, most truly modest, incapable of any a very different character. A married woman, thing impure, vicious, or immoral, in deed or living well and happily with her husband,could not thought, who, from greater vivacity of spirits, be frequently having one gentleman at her table, from less natural reserve, from that want of with no other company but ladies of her family; caution, which the very consciousness of inno-—she could not be spending her evenings fre cence betrays them into, conduct themselves in quently in the same society, and separately cona manner, which a woman of a graver character, versing with that gentleman, unless either with of more reserved disposition, but not with one the privity and consent of her husband; or by particle of superior virtue, thinks too incautious, taking advantage, with some management of his too unreserved, too familiar; and which, it ignorance and his absence;-if it was with his forced upon her oath to give her opinion upon privity and consent, that very circumstance it, she might feel herself, as an honest woman, alone would unquestionably alter the character bound to say in that opinion, was flirting?- of such conduct,-if with management she avoidBut whatever sense Mrs. Lisle annexes to the ed his knowledge, that very management would word "flirting" it is evident, as I said before, betray a bad motive. The cases therefore are that she cannot mean any thing criminal, vicious, not parallel; the illustration is not just; and the or indecent, or any thing with the least shade of question, which called for such an answer from deeper impropriety than what is necessarily ex- Mrs. Lisle, ought not, in candour and fairness, pressed in the word "flirting." She never would to have been put.I entreat your Majesty, have added, as she does in both instances, that however, not to misunderstand me; I should be. it was ONLY flirting; if she had thought it of ashamed indeed to be suspected of pleading any a quality to be recorded in a formal Report, peculiar or unfortunate circumstance in my situamongst circumstances which must occasion the ation, as an excuse for any criminal or indecent most unfavourable interpretations, and which act. With respect to such acts, most unques-deserved the most serious consideration of your tionably such circumstances can make no differMajesty. To use it so, I am sure your Majesty ence; and afford no excuse. They must bear must see is to press it far beyond the meaning their own character of disgrace and infamy, unwhich she would assign to it herself.--And as der all circumstances. But there are acts, which I have admitted that there may be much inde- are unbecoming a married woman, which ought scribable in the manner of doing any thing, so to be avoidedbyher,from an apprehension lest they it must be admitted to me that there is much should render her husband uneasy, not because indescribable, and most material also in the they might give him any reason to distrust her manner of saying any thing, and in the accent chastity, her virtue or her morals, but because with which it is said. The whole context serves they might wound his feelings, by indicating a much to explain it; and if it is in answer to a preference to the society of another man, over question, the words of that question, the man. his, in a case, where she had the option of both. ner and the accent in which it is asked, are also But surely, as to such acts, they must necesmost material to understand the precise mean-sarily bear a very different character, and receive ing, which the expressions are intended to convey; and I must lament therefore extremely, if my character is to be affected by the opinion of any witness, that the question by which that opinion was drawn from her, were not given too, as well as her auswers, and if this inquiry a very different construction, in a case, where, unhappily, there can be no such apprehension, and where there is no such option, I must there. fore be excused for dwelling so much upon this part of the case; and I am sure your Majesty will feel me warranted in saying, what I say with |