The National Register. — London, England, 1809-08-06 00:00:00

494 title of public spirit? Is the payment of necessary ex pellees to a witness coining to, and during the time gives evidence to be pleaded as a precedent for suhor. 1 .. witnesses, and maintaining them in a state of affluence for months previous to the investigation ? Was it necessary o take Miss TAYLOR as well as Mrs. CLA RK E upon your par ties of pleasure ? Was it necessary to relax her inoralitl with Frencli wines before she would commit herself? and after all this, was you sot, Sir, obl , ged to cajole and threaten her with what she had said in her unguarded moments before she would appear in the House of Com mons ? You, Sir, deny having bribed Mrs. CLARICe but your defender, Mr. WAITIIIIAN, admits the fact, but can see no harm in it 11 It would appear, that although there is nothing too hazardous for you to assert, there may be something too infamous for your advocates to defend. But how are we to reconcile the contradiction. I thank sod, that there is not in nature a villain so confident as publicly to defend a falshood. Even if you bad cohabited with her, he could see no reason why that should alter the faestien.—What ! after you have taken credit for pure patriotism, and honest Upright motives t Nay, he asserts, that you were right to pay Mrs. CLARKE, at Government pay spies and Warmers. What would this moralist say, if Government under false promises had obtained the in formation, and thee swindled the informer out of his re ward ? What would be say, if after acting upon the in formation, and being persuaded of its truth,' Goverament had, instead of remuneration, proseeuted this spy - for perjury—Metal° itemise de to pinata uarratur. • But Mr.Warrnisae says your whole conduct to Mr. CI ARK V. was most honourable. Geod God are we to be bald, en, t t every thing which militates against law, sense, reason, or justice, is honourable. t defy the Orator to point out a more selfish, mean, tricking, contemptible tissue *1 co.aduct, than that which you have adopted respecting that woman. But, Sir, the value of flattery can only be known by the degree of estimation in which the person is held who administers it, and if the Orator will descend from his stilts, and try his own character by the rules of common sense, he will find that his testimony, no mo:e than that of Sir RICBARD PHILLIPS, can add to your ' respectability. Believe me, Sir, with all the fashionable laxity of morals and character which attaches to the pre sent age, there is a generosity peculiar to the English na tion, which revolts at what is mean, dishonourable, or dishonest. Mr. Waienrewe has not taken this into his cal culation; he has ventured to measure your character by Isis own, and has declared it—honourable. Sir, it is rea!ly impossible to keep one's muscles under any tolerable de gree of restraint, at reading such absurdities. But, after all, what is the triumph your partizans have obtained. A forth part of the Corporation have voted not to rescind the resolutions in your favour. If Mr. Dixow had at tended, the majority of fire would have been reduced to Asir; and this even, though your friends chose the time, and forced the occasion, contrary to all the rules •f de cency and propriety, is the amount of your majority t! When Mr. Dixois has waited to give you an opportunity of redeeming your pledge, and you have failed, we shall then see what the Corporation will do. rut, Sir, has nothing transpired, since the prorogation of Parliament, to alter the question ?—Has it not. appeared, *at je:i suborned Mrs. CLAR4II4 I wy, Pat bribed kV' THE NATIONAL REGISTER. i:h motley, a.,d si iU more wish promises; that you main • lined her in affluen.e; that you were all along supported a your schemes by the Secretary of the Duke of KENT, .ind his eteve, Mr..GLENNIE; that you have endeavoured £9 shale out of your promises, and to cheat a tradesman y denying them; that you have been convicted of this by a Jury of your country; and that, in a momeat of madness And desperation, you charted your own friend and coadjutor with perjury. Are these circumstances nothing ? Do they not prove treachery, malignity, falshood, and every thing that can debase a character, and make it the object of detestation to every honest man in the kingdom-1- - But do not imagine that any thing will bo concealed, notwithstand ing the infamous and vile attempts that are making to effect it. What, Sir, do you imagine will be the feelings of the public, when I expose to them what is now going on? What will every man of honour and feeling say to the fol lowing anonymous letter, which Mrs. CLARKH received last week. Of the quarter from whence it came, no one can entertain a doubt; but if any doubt should exist, either as to the hand-writing of the Officer in Sloane-street, the Printers are authorised to shew the abominable scrawl to any gentleman who is Interested in ascertaining the infa mous author of if. If you are connected with this trans- • actionjand your known intimacy with the writer leaves but tide room for doubt), something more than the cha racter of your understanding is implicated. (A Copy of the Anonyinous Letter.) " well-wisher acquaints you, that a sECOND copy of certain Letters, attested regularly, is in the possession of an Officer in Slo-e-street, whose name you mentioned in yowl evidence. The PARTY has tried hard to get them from him, to be used against you and your family, but he will not give them up. Col. W. and him nearly quarrelled. lie said all would depend on what you did or said about him. I there- pre Tat you on your guard, knowing the thing to exitt. " Mere is a talk of some FORGED 4(l7:P7'4:wens to be used ! against you farce cars of yourself. The off cer does not seem inclined to co-operate with the Party." " To Mrs. Clgrke, TVeTthurn-place, Sloane-square, Chelsea." This letter exfiihits internal evidence of the writer : The Officer, in Sloane-street, certainly had the letters alluded to in his possession; and, vriiat is more, he had them in his possession at the very times an advertisement was sent to all the papers declaring the contrary. So great a breach of trust, as copying letters for the purpose of injuring the party who lent them, can belong only to certain characters ; but that this second copy might injure Mrs. CLARKE and her family, could be known only to the few who were ac quaintesl with the terms of the negotiation. " The PARTY ham tried bard to get them," can only allude to you, Mr. WARDLE, Lord 1 1 01,RNTONE I and Sir F. BURDETT. The two latter gentlemen are men of honour; and, what will surprise you still more perhaps, they are men who have never lacrificed their veracity to their politics. They are men who will not tell Lno, Mr. WARDLE. That " Colonel WARDLIit and nil( quarrelled," identifies you with the writer. Did you quarrel with him, Sir, for not giving you copies of the letters, to make up the farrago that Connar•r and Sir RICHARD, you and M'CuLLem, intend to foist upon the credulous Public as Mrs. CIA RKE'S Me moirs, and from the : , ofits of which, it is said, the Ur- 110LSTBRIIII IS TO BI; SITTLED WITH !!! The expression, " he said all woule dopes '• on what y did or said about Will," was probab T int ;sided to prey e., AUG. t.