The National Register. — London, England, 1809-08-13 00:00:00

TIIE NATIONAL REGISTER. Our 'king, conotitution, anD tatia%. 'No. 85. SUNDAY, AUGUST 13; 1809. PR IC F 91 POLITICAL DISQUISITION. MUMBIeIt EIGHTV•TIIRFr. TO COLONEL WARDLE. Mark them, and let their names recorded stand, On Shaine's black roll, and stink through all the land.—Cxmcnits: Sta,—lt is an advantage peculiar to this nation, and which it enjoys beyond any other in the known world, that an appeal may always be made to the public at large, although refuied at efery other bar in the kingdom.— .You, ;; l i a r, have made an appeal to this tribunal from a ver dict obtained against you in one of our Supreme Courts, At the same moment when you impotently, and iutempe yately, threaten to resort again to the same jurisdiction. Indeed so long as the Printers of English Newspapers will • do their duty, there is little fear that the great body of the people will long remain uninformed. of what _belongs to the conduct of political bodies, or even to that of indivi .duali. Public opinion, Sir, is a power of so great import ance that the highest are not placed beyond its reach, nor are the Mealiest altogether insensible of its effects. Un willing to appear deficeut in the common forms of polite ness, i have to apologize for the abrupt manner la which I &nucluded my last Letter, and I hasten to fulfil my pro mise of explaining to the public what is barely hinted at in the anonymous Letter about forged Acceptances.-•-I . l' you, Sir, and the detestable gang' who support you for the sake of your politics, make it necessary to bring forward names that might otherwise swim down the stream of oblivion, it is not ,my fault.—Mrs. CLARKE having been Applied to by a Mr. Domovsts to obtain certain appoint ments, it. was stipulated that she should receive four hun dred pounds upon the appointments being made. It was ,necessary that the transaction should go through the regu lar forms, and the letters recommendatory usual in these cases were deposited with Mrs. CLARKE, and there was no doubt entertained but that the appointments would take place. A considerable lapse of time intervened, and the desertion of the DUKE of ionic embarrassed Mrs. CLARKE SS to money matters. In this situation she applied to . Mr. DoNoVAN for the sum of one hundred and thirty pounds, (I speak from memory, but I believe I am correct as toithe sum, but that is of no importance whatever). Mr. DONOVAN very civilly agreed to accommodate Mrs. CLARKE, upon her draft accepted by her mother, Mrs. FA RQUHA R. Mrs. CLAIIKE drew upon her mother, who accepted the draft, and acknowledges her liability to pay it. In the mean time you, Sir, possessed yourself of the letters necessary to the success of Mrs. CLARKE'S application; and When Mrs. CLA RE e told you and Dorm the situation she was in respec ting that transaction with DoNovsw, you promised (both of your prbmised her,) to enable her to take up and discharge that obligation to DONOVA N.—When you had obtained one great object of your imestigation, (the re- Vol. /I.—t Vs. LW - V. s!gnation of the DUKE of 'Yoits) and were disappointed of the other, (the appointment of the De EE of KENT ,to he Commander in Chief, and yourself that of Secretary at War,) how did you act ? Why, Sir, I will tell you and the public how like a you did act. In the first place, Mr. TRO:NAS HAGUE was employed to write Mrs. CLARKE to dun her for the money, - (not as a Lawyer indeed, but as a Friend) she accordingly referred him to the gallant Captain, and the still more gallant Colonel,• who meanly, shabbily, and contrary to every thing that ought to be held honour. able by Men and Gentlemen, shuffled off the payment; but that was not all, Mr. liAuus returned to• Mrs. CLARIER with certain insinuations that it would be adviseable for her to pay the bill on account of the incorrectness of the acceptance, for Mr. THOMAS HAGUE was himself too polite to use the word Forgery. You, Sir, who know Mrs. CLARKE'S mind, will easily conceive what the feelings of such a woman were at so vile and unprincipled an insinuation. Mrs. CLARKE told Mr. HAGUE that she • considered the debt as a debt of honour, and that it should ultimately be paid.• She now repeats that declaration in the fullest manner, and would scorn to retain the money an instant, if it were not.for the consi derations which instantly determined her not to pay it when Mr. HAGUE insinuated the incorrectness of the accep tance. -Sir, you knew her mother's hand-writing, and you and Doan both know it was at certainly her hand-writing • as the vile incendiary Letter, published . in this Paper, is the hand-writing of an Olicer in Sloane-street. But, Sir, Mrs. CLARKE will not pay it till a sufficient time has elapsed to put it beyond a doubt that you dare not bring the matter into a Court of Justice; that you dare not put the miser able. insinuations of your - profligate and prostituted gang into a tangible shape rand that you dare not eaueavour to prove what you all know to be false. She dares and defies ,vuu, Sir, your illustrious employer, and the Sloane-street Officer, to put this calumny in a shape that can be grappled with, in a shape that will enable her to appeal to the Laws of her Country. That her conduct has been imprudent in a moral point of view ; that her connection with the DUKE of YORK was wrong, no man will be hardy enough to deny or detimid ; but, Sir, if there is any circumstance of her life which more than another lowers her in the estimation of the public, it is her alliance with a man, who possessed neither veracity, honour, prin ciple, or any one of those characteristics by which gentle. men are usually distinguished. You, Sir, can scarcely avoid recognizing the portrait, but it may assist you to add that it is the portrait of a man whose name the people of Eng land universally repeat with contempt, bordering upon pits - . Think, Sir, for there are moments when recollection will haunt you ; think, Sir, what such a man might have been, and look at what he is. Your bitterest enemy, in the plenitude of malice or resentment, could not go beyond the wish that you were such a man. What shall we say then to a cause which is supported by such means? In common life ; what do we say of the man who will descend to the baseness of writing anonymous