The National Register. — London, England, 1809-07-30 00:00:00

APO promised stun of 400 f. VV.taoLs called upon Mrs. Ciaunn the couversa:ion, leading to the subject of the book which Mrs. CLARKE was preparing to publish when the investiga tion should be finished, W4RDLE took the opportunity of sta4:ng t: ow very poor he was, and suggested to Mrs. CLA RICE, that, as PM LLars Rould be a proper person to publish the work, there would be nothing unreasonable in asking him to lend his acceptance for SOU which, upon the faith of his bei.4 the publishe7, Mr. Wsanuc further said, you would not hesitate to do. Mrs. CLARKE had no idea of having her book mortgaged to fulfil the Colonel's promises ; and, theioGre, with her accustomed discretion, waived the sub ject. Now, Sir, your Letter was intended to throw a sari of discredit upon Mr. WRIGHT'S assertion, by making its truth a matter of improbability, but what is the real effect produced ? Why, that if your Letter is at all to the purpose, it proves Colonel WA RDLE to have told another folshood. Sir Richard! Sir Richard! Weyer 1 should he guilty of fully or falshood—may heaven in its merry, avoid afflicting sue with the indiscreet friendship of conceited, half-witted look—But you felt it due to yourself forsooth, to *all the attention of the public.—You make the statement solely from respect to public opinion It—For God's sake, Sir Richard, do spare the public, if you really entertain any retried for Its opinion--do spare it the nauseating drafts which your vanity prescribes. It is a great pity that some ...‘ed natured friend does not prick the fuN blown bladder. 4 your pomposity, and reduce your own Opinion of your self to something like a natural sine. The public =l;i% as in Tato character, is made up in a was inat it is scarcely possible to alter. Through the gawdy trappings of an ill-assorted mind, it has ii i isi67:::"."! forty, falshoud, and meanness. In the Court of King'si ?each something inure than these peeped out, which has added a worthlessness to your character, and a character to your word that wilt never he erased. There is a blot in )our escutcheon, Sir RICHARD, which neither the Rivers of Damascus, nor alt the waters of Israel can wash out. " You are anxious, it seems, not to be considered as in timating any thing in spirit or iu terms (arrant nonsense), to theprejudice of either party with reference to the present flitpute:' tho way in which you whew your respect fur public opinion? Do you believe there is another fool in the country who is imposed upon by this declaration ?—Yon did, Sir, intend,to intimate that Mr. 'Wa ast had told a falshood, but you have actually proved that Vi AIpLS made use of your name without authority, at least if you are to be believed 11—But, Sir, this is not all, I charge you not only with having intimated something to the prejudice of one of the parties in this dispute, but with baying offered yourself as evidence, with having procured evidence, and having end:avoured to suborne evidence aglinst one of the parties, of hay lug identified yourself in the business, not only as a friend,but almost as a party. Did you not only a few days before this Letter of yours was sent to Os Newspapers, write a letttr to Lord FOLKSTONE, in which, as a friend to Mr. Wsam.r., you• apprised him that at tho time Mrs. CLARKE was negotiating for her book, she told vett that she wanted 2000/. in money to pay her upholsterer, And that you had got one Gentleman already w ho would attest that circumstance ? did not your letter go ca to sap that as Lord KOLLITOIVA Wall at the. period I.' . < '.E•je 4 1iN *WV* .:04$11 THE NATION. .L RgISTER. , JULY alluded to, a good deal with Mn.i CLARKE, you begged of heat, if he could recolkct any run , ATE oonvcrsotious with her that tended to that purpose, to kfurtn you or .Wr. Wardle of ekes? I will say nothing, Sir, of the obligations nsy Lord FOLKSTON S must feel himself under by your supposing situ to be such a scoundrel ; his intimacy with such charaCters as you and Colmrr makes even his private virtues as well as his patriotism, suepiciousl but after having th!:s volunteered your services in suborning evidence, and, after having ultroniously offered yourself and your friend —(was it Dr. Mavoa, or Sir ltonEaT, or Collier Sir RIcRARD )) for the rime duty. What will you say to the public, who cannot but-detest and abomiaate the vile ha-pr, crisy of your conduct, in stating that you do not wish to bet e.nsidercd as intimating any thing in spirit or in terms to the prejudice of either party ? Providence Sir It, cryt r has wisely ordered, for the security of honest wen, that when fools and roguos combine to do mischief, their folly shall very frequently defeat their roguery. But surely, RICKARD, common sense and common prudence must hare deserted you upon this occasion—have you forgot the lesson which you received when you gave evidence upon a rertairi Trial in the Court of King's Bench ? Is them a thing which your bitterest enemy could wish for with a greater earnest ness, than to see you once more in the Want* Box ? ' There, Sir, the literary plumage with which your t bsequi. ous parasites deck you lit Bridge-street, will be stripped from your person, and the city jack daw must disgorge the truth from his maw, or exhibit the unequivocal reachings of an empty stomach. But there arc other proofs that, notwithstanding you profess yourself to be only a recent ac. *uuaintance of Col. WAR lux's, you interest yourself very muc h i n affairs. Do you recollect when NlTet.r.vm cal led upon you at 7::Llilisteadt and told you that of di WARDLE'S promises he it. 7.1 onl) received 20/. ?—that he was ripe and ready t o expose the whole transaction against the I)nke of YORK --that it was a cori:7rwy of WA HP LU . O 9 Dono's and another person (who shall be brought ford . ward alt in good time.)- Do you recollect Sir It ten A l'eo what passed upon that occasion ? Do you recollect that Le told you he was at the bottom of the conspiracy, and knew it all ? You had a convenient witness too upon this occasion, whom you called out of the other room ; he will perhaps recollect all this if your memory is like your friend W ARDOR'S ; besides you may not choose to rement• ber now what passed then. I mention this corresponding defect of memory because you denied, absolutely denied, having wrote the letter to Lord FOLKSTONE which I have quoted above, till you were informed that Mrs. CLARKK had it ; and then, indeed, you told Dr. A ** that•you,had an imperfect recollection of some letter, but in the multi plicity of year transactions, the contents had escaped— quite—yes ; quite escaped you.'' Oh 1 Sir RicnAlLD—••• —I will tell you Cuz How to shame the Deiil--td/ Truth. The limits to which I am obliged to confine myself,Tlaco me under a necessity or concluding my letter before I have exhausted my subject; I shall therefore only add, that t, be the enemy of one's friendlis nothing new in politics, any more than it is for a man to bt: owa enemy in the al fairs of cuuunon Ides