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stele heade' one of the expression, t 'Chi. is earn ing mut- ters with a high baud ;' but that he did not do so in a coo- 'f imminent. winner. The Court is farther of opinion. Shot it if noeprotell slaet. a that onler to fall in was ghost an the Plisuaer bettite, be Oak bid post; nor is it proved, that. when kestin IN, be zraw,ith inattfest relucturce peetypeTuis. • 'e she '.artier being guilty .4 the is a lb. charges ah L reeseeed, in breach of the article,* R;iir the C4ol(4,Ofo- terwes haw to lw publicly reprimanded b} the t'ominanding.. °Wet of th e Berwiekshire ' " Cron a careful review of the n hole circumstances cif the case, the Coors is of opinion, that the prosectithr did oat median the rclivb of Ott division committed to his thew • with die order and attention to cliaciplitie ; and that, in bringii:g forward this prosecution, he Los at ater' actuated solely by zeal for MA ....11aiesty'sagetrtto." t'sousaisilor of the forces b... appeased of the sen- tence, and direst. that the reprimand lay he delirerui ac- ' co:dangly, et the beta of the Berwickshire Militia, by the • Comnituirling.Gicei of tbe regiment, the Arst tone the 11 4:0 11 -kbetal Onniamading the brigade sissy be present, ' on their rc;rintests 4 paretic., and that the Kiaoner ni.ty then • be released from Lis arrest. Die Lordship regrejs that be cannot me cause to dissent from opiniou, added by the enter. Mertuti, concerning V-e prosecution, nod etio.lact of Hit march of the division of tbs . Berwickshire Militi t, tinder the command of the Pruitt- I .OOF. tie mould feel ii his duty to siinuadrert, to the must t...riosts um ,ter, um the sialiect of dos march, bad be not auttaciast opputliniithe W - 41'4.1,614, from the state of dis- t:46e of the North littlish Militia, mad of tIOS reptnent in puliculPr flirt similar instances of MaNation of discipline d nen out I:. I. to occur. Loot Viviiiint Cathcart directs, test the foregoing ' clowges tad scutrni e, with 6ia Lotilship's approbation and (kiloton tb shall be retd at the heed of tetra' real- . • te-.t nied coin.:, North &Olio, and enbrivd in their re- spective utdrs ty loads. By older of hot L..rilsbip, the Commander of the Forces, (9ignc , l) JottN G. P TUCKLM, I.ieta.-( al. Asst. Arb.-Gencral. AfR. CLARKE A.t'l MU. WARDLE. Mr. M'Callnin, the friend of Mt. ll'ardle, last litoutdtt the folloring article to the Editor of tins rf•epkesting is in...diem, this dry, iit i Ter. Hut rtsit cake, drily considered, is owe of g,reat national importance ; and every 1 article, tetiiiiii4 to its eloviilation, will bud an easy ! ndMintiosi sate our Adtlie,s or col. %%fertile, iii three words : • "CIOLOTILL tiLOC, TO TUT rroeut OF TNT VNITFO &taut:too. . I " !lamed at my Parliaiorialstr emolitrt has been by I the aptierobvtia at.) snort of my eunatrymen, I furl iny- self crater/ ope i, eouserineure of xis event th it your' day took place, :mediate') to sddress iou, and that in vin- itheirar n a of my choreic., rialibwrd riimi to altirk GOO the i I *weak. of the Jury upon the evtdo,e; of :11m. :lathe and Mr. Wrir,lit, the brothel• of her rphoistervo, to • cities in which t w.is frudout, in the Court of •Eiug's Beuth The acted of the (tailrace the peblie priauwiil ages& with me to state, that my Counsel, eatiStiid to that Lodi that the Jury would Old, up it, such tetleVonV at had bees • gig ti by the rah:tiff'. brother and 31re. Clarke, slow., hid a verdict against ate, did not amnply et:ow:yawed ntreotv( re. • pastel te thew is erring:, Ateiro rt. trio!, is thu . shoe rest :erns), . that Major Dodd, Mr Gleine, and whim reilleetabile wit• u-s;ea, soispesitd . by chic Platotiffl and us ; self, might be auta- m' acid, lie I Wee., their testimony would be founded in truth, sod be indirect ventilation' to *bathed beeo sworn against we. Cutter seek eircemetearies the verdict was obtained. • firm Only remaini tar me now, before my Gil and say Country, to deelire, that it vs.. ohisiiird by perjurvalcne • eon reo ?MTV rntself to prove that feet the earliest meat the forms of the law will allow me to do so Anomaly, therefore, do I look forward to that period; and I fiat that td/ then the public will suspend their fairy:eat upon tbe ease. With sentiments of the deepest gratitude and respect, I re- main your ever faithfully devoted fiervaut, • " G. L. WARDLE." Jsraeastrett, Jolt 4, 1 "' " Such is Mr. Wardle's vindication of hioutelf--a vindicition called forth by the trial its the Court of King's Bench, of which we gave a full report yes- terday. Haviug thus green the defence of Colonel" Warder, in the same spirit of impartiality we add • the following posange, extracted from the Paper which has vatioteil itself the advocate and defermler of the puke of York ; and, at:coning to its Own . • account, miSerra martyrdom its the cause. The Pace/ to which we ;diode soya :- 84 This trial is one of moat important articles that the pahlk pinta has c had in constanuitaw iu those eventful times. It Billy Coalmen what we have repeatedly stated,that the pop.- las Imment, which mei ailed ins recent instance; the rte. sour that wee made the means of drowning the stare ofjus- tire, and of condemning, after a tio:soto neneettal by the grand inqne-t of the nation. a Prince of the Blood of Stilton, and the brat Commonder.thChef the British array ewer bad, er ever can taupe to have, was rut anointed in justice ; sot did the Inquiry that led to it orientate ia pore patriotism; hot, a the contrary, we see now folly warranted in saying, that the inquiry originatid in u c na- spree, of the basset description, and that thermoset.* bribery and corruption were employed fo sirgiity slid give effkrt to the means which the pa tes bud delimit to• accomplishing tiaras ofivria• - Itefore we indulge in a kw observations upon • Col. Wardle'. Addres,, we mean to mire an answer to these remarks of the Doke of York's* friends, in their favourite Journal. A short notice sun mother ; fur duller mutt they be than the fat weeds that rot upon Lethe's haok, iftney can suppose thAt the trial of Mood.sy wan redeem the credit of the Doke of York. When they talk o[the character of his lieiyul Highness as ahout to be re- stored. one mould suppose that Ntrs. Clarke. testi- loony hod hems %routed by i the Court. awl damned I by the Jury ; whereas the contrary is the fact; and her crani a / 1 10s has !teen fully esbiblislicd by the verdict. The Duke of Ytult's case is nut merely /as it was. It is. in truth. Baed more r • tinily in the publi c for this is the se- t coed time Hrs. Clarko's coedit as' a witness had been impeached ; and the second time id c • which she has come victorious out of the trial. fi That Mr. Wardle does not make hood...owe a h Lore, we grant ; but no new tliticoverf insane a.. of that Gentleman can raise the fatted elionti•- Sd ' is, of the Doke o f Y o rk. or alto the'iskfits ul his P. case. It is the common language of , i crFryJsisige, and every Court of Justice, to say to a Jury soa -to • .. ' • you believe the prisoner guilty, you havelisitifrag . to. do with the motives of the prosecutor;'—Ali, iii tile case of the Duke of York, it is to no purpose to say, that the niotives of Mr. War dle:oW not possess all that purity of which he bitisfed so loudly and ao repeatedly. flis miser:o -d-rictus Comniander.iii-Chief has been clearly ewer ta:toird, and the purity or iiiVpurity ofthe.p...rsoli who impeached it has nothing to do with the husiuess. 11A - inObtes dismissed the argnment and the hopes of his Hopi Highness's advocates, we come to the 'trial, and the address of Colonel Wardle ; the latter containing a direct (large of perjury against the wit moues, of want of judgment • against hie Counsel, aod . of want of sagacity in the Jury who tried the cause. The rage and sz_sation of Col. Wardle must, we admit, be very great; but, if the address had not been given to us by Mr. McCallum, his parti cular friend, and - the identical person oho iutroduc -ed him to Mrs. Clarke, we could not have believed 0 . .311 am- man of common se :ac would have put his sigriature to such an article.—lt it not disputed that tlie furniture was supplied at a tiine o hen Mrs.• Clarke was only able to have a few articles on hire, end is it to be supposed that Mr. Wright, knowing her circumstances, would have given her credit to the amount of 1,6001.?—8ut admitting that the testimony of Mrs. Clarke, as a person shifting the debt from her own shoulders, is to be receiroil with caution, what can we object to tbe'other wit nem, the brother of the Plaintiff, who had no in terest in the cause ? IV:iy should lie perjure him self to fasten the debt on Colonel Wardle, when it i s very nvll known, that, althoulli Mts. Clarke mar not, as she says, have kid a guinea alien the articles were furnished, the profits of her I work, unfortitniitely burned in the lire at Mr. I , Giblet's, iii Salisbury-square, would now enable her to 411.0:hitrge it ? As to the charge against Serjeant 13. at. that he refused to call witnesses, who could prove his client's care, we Ought not to believe. spelt a charge against a gentleman of his talents •sitiel experience, upon light grounds; and therefore miry-lie allowed to ask who wyre these witnesses ? I ColAriel Warclle says, id hia-Address, Major Dodd and Major Gleuuie. But thejetwo officers were not prtswrssu, when all the Ifdiaittire was ordered •at Mk* Wright."). They only accompanied the Vitiated stud the Lady au the reconuoitring risie h ig i she Martell° Towers. They might, no dotthit, wove the terms upon which the parties liveJ, whether the intercourse was purely platonic, or *ohs-titer Colonel Wardle wait, as lie boasts, " a good faintly man." Major Dodd might., indeed. be able to say something about the bronze and scarlet Turkey carpet, having been present when Colonel NVardte chose it ; but he must have as much bronze in his fare, as there is hi the carpet, had he come forward to prove a bargain. made for articles, at which ha .as not present. Among low and vulgar minds, we admit, nothing is more common than an angry ebullition of a defeated party against Counsel and Witness; because, Among such, it is a received upiuion, that the inge nuity of a Counsel can make black white, and whste black ; and that, if they lose their cause, it is ' not bccaose their cause is a had one, .hlt u lpfmuse their Lawyers 'want ingenuity.- 401 4 s- more liberal conduct was to be expected from a Member of Parliarnmit, and a wan moving io the sphere of Colotntl io Wardle. Of such a man : surely, it was noti Voir be expected, that he, would indulge in inveiltis% against witnesses, Ana .heist that Mrs. Clarke; who was believed upossildisvord attainst the Duke of York, shottld hot be ciedited upon her oath against Colonel Wardle. The object of the Address is, ho ;s -ever, something inure than the gratification of splceu ; in it Colonel Wardle has sought to let his popularity down easy. Hi would insinuate that he means to 'move, in November, for a new trial.— We cannot persuade ourselves that be hues any such intention; arid, most 'assuredly, the trial does not appear to furnish the slightest groi,ndo for an up dication of the kiiitl. Had he meant, to have prosecuted the business in a Court of Law, he ought not to have withdrawn it from the proper tribunal, and appealed to the newspapers. THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON. WEDNESDAY. Jul.r 5. Caption Wears', or the Cadmus, arrived yester day from Spain, with a Spanish ()dicer, with dis patches, announcing some successes in Callicia; particularly a victory over a carps of 8000 French, cousinuuded by Marshal Nay. The substance will be finutd in our extracts front The Casette of last . , . The dispatches announcing the rit4iatiPatint of Ferrol and Corvine', by the Spaniards, bed nut reached town at a late hour last night. If the Ballerina, fabricated and issued from the camp of thVeorsicauEnaperair, tver siuce his lull de (at orr the sod Ma}, whateveringenuitysblll have tSi cu exerted is titbit comodlAin, can afford little subject Ear exultation to bis uoJ penple of rs hid matter of plesaiug tußectiou can Be ir ►Aar s'ileei?re ia palliest ittimt4i•etsbrotiit. rroW: retaga! l 4l r tlit.4BoM and BOW N teal dtspitClin. ,teat to him by Sovur sod Say. These two Dignitaries • of the ne* Pretteh Empire, hive, if possible, more especially the forrqer, been eve■ less fortunate than their predece,sor on the acme theatre, the Duke of ADR ANTLS. lie, at least, though he evacuated Lisbon and Portugal, obtained from the benignity, the facility, or the want of enterprite in our Com manders, n Convention, which transported hi. heat en army back again to Apaiii, as mvon, or sooner than our own troops could reach the scene of action. SOULT, by the adinisl‘ion of the Freisoh Bulletin it self, after retrograding from the Vouga to the Dou ro and the Mash°, sod after being successively driven from post to post, "found it necessary to pass through the defiles of Sidainonde ; and io order to gain two marches on the enemy, to sacrifice a few pietma of Calllloll and their caissons, which he order. ad to be destroyed." This confewion is reline suffi ciently explicit and intelligible to satisfy the greatest sceptic, sail csu leave no doubt on the mind (deny Officer in N APOLEON'S army, that the fortuneoftheir Ruler seems to be as much obscured io Portugal, NS in Austria. The inflated and exaggerated rela tions given of Soo ur's victories over the Portuguese. en the 19th and g9thlof March, afford uo conso- let ion for his subsequent defeats and disasters. Nor will the sneer thrown upon Sir AnTuea Vi aLLes- Listr's " pompons relation" of the action which took ',lace hetween - Sint.T's rear-guard ut Oporto, ansi the British furors, even though it were in no point of view a military one, as the French official publication asserts, compensate for the flight of the Duke of DALMATIA across the Minh°, and his total abandonmeut of Portugal. Nor, as is evident by the sequel, did &mix, on his arrival in Gullicia with the miserable remains of his di►conifited aril diminished forces, find that province much more tranquil, attached or disposed to support . him, than was the country which lie had just quitted. arrival," (Sou LT'S) says the Bulletin, " iris been useful in every point of view. It has dispersed die bands of armed peasants, who, profittiug by the movements of the Duke . of ELCHINGEN (NsT) against Oviedo, had endeavoured to take possession of St. Jago and Lugo, assisted by the few English troops who still occupy Yip." A clearer awowal than this is, of the actual state of imuirectiou io • which all Gallicia may be considered, against their invaders, language commit well convey. , It may however reasonably excite some astonish+ meat. that though the French have been corniolcLly driven out of Portiq,oal, we hear nothing of the opt• • rations of our own victorious army, fur so long* p.riod of time as has aireinly elapsed since Sir "Alf= TRU le% last dispatches. Is he, at so critical a iwo■ ment, stationary at Coimbra, from the total want of almost every supply requisite to enable him to march Against VICTOR, or SEBASTIAN, Are there any political impediments to hie passing the Spa nish frontiers, arising from the jealousy ,ok the dis inclination of the Supreme Junta to allow a British army to enter Extremadura ?—We fear that one, or perhaps both these Causes, may cooduce to his present inaction. The hliaisterial papers, indeed, • insinuate, though they do not venture to assert, that " Sir ARTHUR is closely pumping VICTOR." This l'act va•e by no means believe. 7 -tror where was • ACTOR, according to the accounts of the 6th of June from Lisbon ? If we can give credit to the very loose, doubtful, and inaccurate information from thence, " he had altogether abandoned Alcaii tara."—" The cavalry of the vanguard was station ed Trusillo, to which place his sick and wounded had been sent, ii► 300 covered carts, from Caceres:" while " a considerable part of kit forces are, it is said, in the vicinity of the bridge of Almeria." Now, Almaraz lies on the northern bank of the Ta gus, within two leagues of the froutiers of New Cas tile, cud abort half way between Placentia and Talaveyra. If, therefore, Sir ARTHUR WELLES LLT were , . closely pursuing Vicroa," he would he already far advituceil on his way towards Madrid. from which canital Alinarit is not more than ICS English miles distant. The long silence relative to all the English or Spanish operations, bider the de feat of Sou LT, and the retreat of Vicroa, is not cal culated to impress with u favourable opiniou of OUT affairs, or those of our Allies, beyond the Pyre nees. jai fact, if, et a crisis like the present, when BON A-. IPAILTE evideiitly stands at bay. sr the borders of Hungary, NW miles frog■ the Spanish frontiers ; when he has sustained • signal defeat ; and when insurrection, famine, diseases, and all the cala mities of protracted, or unsuccessful war, are per haps about to assail him at such a juncture, 'the Spanish nation does not come forward, to rescue ' the Capital, and the Palaces of their Kings, from revolutionary pollution, we may pronounce, that whatever Mr. FREER may write, or Lord C/1111.E.. SEAM: and Mr. CANNING may assert, ,there is no Spanish nation ; or none that possess the energies . requisite to expel the invaders. Can &Mint 80. . NAVIN re vesture to remain at Ararquez, or at the Escurial; can he even hazard his person at Madrid ; i f , while NAPOLEON is nimble to alrord him any as aist.ince, the Spaniards of Valenti*. Murcia, Anda lusia, and all the yet witsulojected provinces, exert it/tail-efforts to drive him out of Spain ? and if they will not now exert those eif,rts, when are we to ex pect them to be made ? These are questions and sublepts, which it wolied well become the Cabinet .to discuss, sort which are of vital importance. Our nextedvices frora the interior of Spain, will enable us to form a tolerable estimate of the state of the public mind in that country, relotive to which. leer, that this country has apl grossly deceived. EitherJOSEP/1 lutist toe expell e d ( rein ' New Castile, during the pre,r:it ..itin•ner, or we may consider hirii or too sealed on his Throne, to be easily driven from' at u e., mad time. How deep, and how *mini, as well as general, it the impression made nom the public mind it: France, by Outs late disnotrous events 08 the Da. nube ; and hew much the revolutionary contti trued authorities at Paris, deprecate, while they dread,any ebullition of popular discontent, we l e v y are most eloquently tlepietureil in anurticle, dat e d Irmo " Paris, the 19th of June." Its oliect evidently to eft:ace, or, at lea‘t, to diueinjxh , the eon-termitiou 'spread over that capital, liy kiting long list of absurd facts, all fauourable to E n _ land, iu the••highe‘t degree, and %Inch. it is pre. tended, eerie fabricated io •• l, t Mot. iii:y and hatred toiv,irde Prams ." not, however, have originated at Aaibttrilala, .17 Ut the Heger, except front reports of more oli o !allay, relative to divisters PA ETC in Au-trio. We t tt• n • ~, t, , . .ventca or circulate,: after the iaolles of A or of Friedleold. not rite Cors'.2ait is to i :it Jens, or on the Nkomo. lie may tool: ha: Ic to those h, inlaid ',triode of his career with h. , ill:c -hild regret. If he fall, his waut of mod. rntion, and that alone, is the pose; for, so gutty ens lie established on tber awful and tueredible etnineace to which hr bad ottaiued, such uonerard temper t and terror elll lii ainleties and triumphs SO much was , %run , remaiaing Power , :r t hivera. toent disposed, u1:1•1, we are perNusded, it 1!:•.- tain nut less elf thin others, to reco4h:se, mad tv to guarantee, the sceptre of Lot, is XI . I. ti.. adventurer of .t j aecio, in Corsica, that it ree f r,. .1 his own arm to destroy and demolish the eel— that he had reared. That the Papers, printed et Paris, may er•, if not invent ; that they may misrepresent tact,, tlio not intviitionally ; and that they,in.c, have reccur ,, i to pious fruuds, iii order to sestina the gnat of N *FOLSOM, ugaiiivt Siutaivii rebel. red traitors, who are unworthy of the benign protection of this es.cudlent Corsican, may be pretty clearly ilen.on strated, by a perusal of the French public-curia. We there learn, to our surl.•.i,e, but taut to our oonsternation, that the two Dishes of ELcut muse rod DALaterta, alias SOU LT and NET, " bRIT tabliblied communications en the illinho." That another Duke, A'actott, " has made a movement in the direction of Alcantrira, to term a jaliction with St.V LT. who has resumed his pa%i:ivii at Jai.- 'wattle, after leaning 4000 men at Oporto." now ill-iliformed, it seems, We are in tondos, of what is goiog on in Portugal ! arid how 'nosh hos Sir A. 11 . Lt.t.ust.mt cited, in believing that he had driven Sotri.r, not only out of Oporto, butt out -of- • all Portugal, lute the inonutuins of Gallicia !-- From these accurate. Paris Piper', we find, besides, " that General NottEr is Governor of St. Au dem ;" thatr Arragoti es the ,post sillimissive Pro- since of Spa and, " thauhe army of Spain must be very inactive, if, uuited with the .I)stke of Ilauxito, at Alcantara, it make nu use of its dr. visions to fall upon the rear of Lord WkLuiswlT. who has imprudently adrineedfar front ;purto."— Now, really, though The ,Uortdag Post and other Goveroinent paper. iu this capital, do now and theta ituiult aud initiate the public mind, by paaegyrics on Lord CAITIAREMiII, or on the Cabinet tively, it must be admitted, they du not carry their raillery quite so far as the Government papers on the other side of the channel. Tim haye not, indeed, readers equlilly sebmie.ive sad subdued to their and. standings, us ire to be faund.where Ns- Poi.stion condescends, through his official Org3l:s and channels. to enlighteu and instruct an ignorant iwople. Nor have they, if we except The Testes, any exclusive information, either,- as is evident, front the " Shores of the Bey of Biscay," sir from Oporto. We Inuit again remark, that the cause is iu a had way, which resorts to deception, fraud and falsehood, for support, whetherit be in England or is France. iii London or at Paris. , A Messenger ea, ACUL all aL rtK , ht 0 . 4.1001 last night front the SPANISH AMDASSA DOR to the Su patine Junta at Sevilir. MS MAJESTY is expected in town thisday, to hold a private Levee and Privy Council, at the Queen's Palace. Yesterday Sir DAVID DIINDAS held a public ,Tay at his office, in the Horse Guards. and gave audi ence to, a number of military °Meese, Sir Demo gave notice that in future he should only hold pub lic days once a week during the parliamentary m ega*. The horses helonging to the teth regiment of Light Dragoons, ordered on foreign service. die in the finest order possible, and the men are is high spirits. • A shocking accident occurred lately at the Cspe of Good !lope. Threeßritish officers, from the gar rison, having goue out en a patty of pleasure to the Tal.le Mountain. were overtaken by the night, lesser they could regain the plain ; they lost their truck, waistlercil, and seperateil ; our of them, with much difficulty. at length found his way into the town, but no intelligence Luting been received of his coin:ninious, a party went out in search it them. They were both found at the foot of a pro digioits precipice, ctitsbcd mid mangled in the most dreadful manner. One of them (an Aid-da- Cempto to. Earl of CA LLDO):) had already expired. and the tither was just at the ppiat Of death. Both of these ualortunate seiii)l-ressi were than in the prime of iifr, and most protisT34q; officers. . .