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se more natural anoNinvieites meaning; vs e had been properly Idlers' s ga rde her, this naturally end easily usa. iv* whole trans ction. Bet It vs4g.agreednhoirtialitibable she Mould recollect a single coneitrskoanisfaid at such a distance of tone; it should, liowefler, reme - bered she had stated, that iluftheingearquaitited with the name of Major French beteire tfien, and observing an air of. mystery:, she halt)* there fore her attention 'drown, to i the• einfitinstance, —The next point was 'stlsat of the noft- fhand at Captain shilitlenisirs siteivilly Captain TUnt i ii: Of the truth of that letter he Professed not to en tertain the sinalle.td"ubt. If lie were uctiug under t to solemn ohligatioc of a Juror, and that the life of a prisoner was to he the stake, he would have no hesitation in finding it to be origiiial ; lie could have no doald on the evidence. He considered it as not treating the Duke fair, to' assert his Royal Highness hail avowed he had never written 'te— nts Mast have been before the note itself had been produced ; and if the note itself hud oi en produced, he would have been as much a ionized as any of them at its existence. He had known instances in which proofs had been attempt ed, by comparison of hands, to establish that a paper was written by a tisrson ; but never before had he known an attempt, by such u mode of proof,. to establish that a paper was not written ; and he only regretted he bad not divided the House on the admission of such testimony, us be was confi dent that, however he might be in u large minority, lie would have every professional gentleman iii the House oat his stile. The note Intel( was evidently written in haste, and as an answer to one written to him upon business. I have received your note. and Tonyn's business shell remain as it is ;", that is, it is my pleasure it shall be so, in consequence of the note I have just received from you. He was not called on to say this was connivance, but only he could not say there is ins grouted to charge the Duke with the offence ; and this the more especially as his Royal Highness was not there in person, and upon proper investigation he may be proved wholly in usseent of the charge. The ;wet question for their consideration was, whether. iii the melit of their not adopting the Resolutions of the Right lion. Gentleman (llr Percevul) they should vote ao Address to His Majesty, praying the removal of his Royal Highness? Upon this head it had been asked, would they proceed to adopt the measure of praying far his removal without trial and conviction? This lie considered as unconstitutional language. Would they suffer even Ministers to remain in power till they had undergone the firm -r!“ of con victiou ? Had not that House proceeded to call for the removal of *Roisters, particularly of Lord Melville, without conviction, and even that for an offence committed in his former office? The House had even proceeded to expel its own Mem bers ; and yet, forsooth, they are not to addrm,for a rtenoval, without a previousconviction, ausk all tine because they could not exarnine winiessesopoisoadt. Woold they not out the Duke on the +ewe footle'g. with any other Nobleman ? Because, if Amnions of tie highest rank would accept of official station?. ttiey most take them with all their responeibility s If. then, it aoocared that his predecessor, or any other in that liieh station, had publicly kept a mistress, and that she had corruptly- taken money as a matter of pahlic ontoriety ; if he were cb. go to -go noted his way to solicit places for the inamershy, iu oeiggesoffmes team his own, ware they ready to slay thatonistence of such evils was not ground stir ticseut to justify thew in going up to the Throne. and saying the army was nut safe under such a Commander ? Shall it hr said at one moment that they should treat his Royal Highness in the same manner at thee would any other subject A:id shall they be lob' the next moment, will you run the risk of alteration in the succession to the Throne? For his part, he was, he believed, of all men, the loust to be governed by 'omelet* . ; still lie felt, that, osier the circumstances in which they Were placed, they should Anispeem !holy careful of their proceedings. after invstnqs, us it were, the publie to canvass their conduct, bystire mode of proceeding they had thought lit to adopt. Thus situated, they should be careful of the cc mar sequeacise if they were (wind to differ in the con elusion to be drawn from these proceedings. He had every cousideratiou for the feelings of the Royal Family, but lie had more for the character of that House with the public. Bit should nice go forth to the world, that that House heard of cor ruption with indifference, if they should ever lase the confidence of their constituents, there was No eayiug how far-spread or how total might lie the consequences. With respect to himself. he never gave * vote with more sleep reluctance, and wished he could s-tv there was no ground for accu sation. Ile might reasonably expect some share of prosperity, but in perilous nine% like them there WAS no knowing whet vicissitudes awaited us ; bait, happea what would, lie could hope for an possible advantage from the vote he should then give, which was for the original Address. Mr. H lIN RT SMITH made a few observations in favour of his Royal .Iligliness, considerilig the House as exceeding their judicial functions, not only by passing sentence, but inflicting punish. ment, and this upon a proceeding merely ex-perte. The So ticcroint: N ERA L followed on the same ssle. At that late hour of the ninht he should abstain from going at any length into the °pions!), he entertained, but trusted he should meet with their iodulgesice, anxious as they ,oust be to re ceive information even from the least capable ; als.l notwithstaiuhag the several opinions imputed to such of his profession as lied spoken on the same Indio of the question. he 7et hoped he shonhl meet with the credit of sincerity in those Ise shook' of. fee. lie proceeded to state whet he conceived to b • the precise question they were called on to de ale; tied what the form and manner in which they should decide it, ae his lion. Frieial, who spoke last hut once did not seem to him to consider it rightly. • The question was first, whether there existed say proof sof guilt--secondly, whether the Duke of York was guilty--and, thinlly, supposing the other whether they should proceed by way of address, ear in what other ini 1111 l eel With respect to the right of Cm. House to address His Thijesty to remove any Minister, without first a convict:3u of his guilt, he certainly never doubted it ; but he submitted whether it would not be but right to decide urn the question of wain, before thee came to the irWb2 louse of presenting such an Address ? AVto the . ' • .~ _' 11717ge ropes ty an Ron. Member Mr. BAN ICES) though it professed not to convict of cur. reption, yet it did that of participation ;and there-, fore he considered it as even more exceptiesselde than the original Address, as being more egoism:W.' If it were supposed that the Duke of York suspected Mrs. Clarke of disposin r ,. of commissions corruptly, and for money, to officers, however otherwise deserving, this amounted, both in mos lility and law, to corruption, or something worse., is acting in breach of his own regulations; on this out, he preferred the mode of proceeding bi way of Resolution, to that of Address. Another ob. jection he had to the hitter mode was on account of its ambiguity; but by that of Resolution, there could be no mistake whatever as to what they specifically meant ? The Address did not go far enough if there were guilt, and if there Wee not, it went a great deal too far. fie contended hot for the Prince, but the British subject. Where .then was the crime in the Duke denying the charge against him, and begging for trial, claiming the right of every British subject, by Mcgee Chartes, to ' be tried per jadiciera period* el per kgesterree?—. He had avoided intruding on them before, but he: should consider it a dereliction of his duty, it .be did, net call on them to pause before they 'Aporiseeed without trial. He did sot deur bet ninisop were practised by Mrs. Clarke.— She had ' bees an Army Broker from the year •1804 to led. and from that to 11108. The ques tion for dii House to determine was. whether the Constawader-iu•Cbief was privy to the trade, '--- be allowed her she eardmil oaf As as neoeMpilhalk to be a competent odium. lot. *wan.. her eri. dente required to be oareaborated, which had not been in a single instance; from the character she had given of herself, she ought not to be believed.— f A cry of hear ! hear!)—He meant as an army broker, whore trade was lying; how rent a prorci rimy she must have made in the profession, when . she imposed upon Donovan and other agents, who were adepts in deception, and made them believe she bad influence over the Duke of Portland, from the year ien6 to 1808 ? And would it be atter b eed to be contended she had the influence ? e harm t have acted in the seine way, while milt the protection of his Royal Highness. had she not the effrontery to tell you, at your' Bar, that Mr. blalby was her Dube of Portland, and might not Donovan or Sanden have been her C 6111.• minder-in-Chief ? Mid was not this made more probable by the evidence of Corti. who statea that she always entreated him to act in such a incnier, that not any of the tmnsactiot3 should come to the ear of his Royal Highness ? It is not by oral testimony that Mrs. Clarke is confirmed. but by documental evidence ; even in that there was not a particle of proof ; that the Duke of &"ark had connived at the abuses committed.— Then it was said there had been alert incidents secideetally fused, which brought it home ; if it was so, he acknowledgeil lie hail not the wisdom or ability to find then' out. lie then alluded to )11s. C.'s letters to Mr. Adam, and the threats they held out. Ile submitted, it was impossible that it could be argued she was all unwilling witness. would subwit to the House what she had stated passed-sie mouths after the commencement of the establishment in Gloucester-place;his [loyal . - !Ugliness suggested to her a plan of raising 26,(x0)1 a. year, by selbus; commissions in the army which were at his disposal, by setting up a shop. a n d carrying on a regular trade. Could any Member 10•111.1.1bly think that this was true; a person of his high rank, a Prioce holding the ele vated station he did, would commit himself to Semler', and the rest of the whorl sluts who made so despicable an appearance before that Hulse? He was of opinion, if he had 1:1 the smallest degree connived, that he would not have appointed each a man as Colon Gordon fur his official agent ; or would it he policy of him, if be was eng aged in the business of the shop, to write a circul ar letter to the Officers of the army, w a rming them spinet such practices? It could not be said that was inviting theni. lie also &lig- Prated a clause in the Mutiny Bill, inflicting a Grfeiturc of three times the amount given for a commission, gained by illicit means. Was not this sufficient to ainviuce the douse and the coma try that lie 1111111inunoceut? To soy reflecting mind it must he, when it was considered the impossibility of her rat gso large a sum, whea watched by Os. lonel Gordon and Mr. Greenwood. lie hail oat yet heard it asserted that they were charged with corruption, and he felt assured he never would they ware men who stood too high in publist estimation for the lash of calumny to reach them. Would his Royal flightless, if implicated in any improper transaction with Mrs. Clarke. knowing the talents of the woman, and knowing she hail the power of damning him for ever, have solicited the Right Honourable and Learned Gentleman (Mr. Adam,) to here inquired into her conduct as to money matters ? and when Mr. Adam called on her, would the not have told him of the corrupt trans actions they had been eonjoiotly earning on ? But she never did. His K. Highness heard her character was bad, and be throw/tar off. Could it be believed he would not hare given her au annuity if it was only to hay op the objectionable letter, if he conceived he had any thing to fear? But knowing his inno cence he diecarded her; and still conscious of it, he 'liked for a trial; and could they, or would they, deny it ? Thu Constitution of the country gua ranteed a trial to the poorest individual before he was condemned ; certainly his high birth ought net to pot Inm in a worse plight than the meanest of his Boyish Father's subjects. lie then took a comprelieueire view of the whole of the evidence ; and concluded. by observing, that the House ought to tote him either guilty or innocent,. before they came to a resolution of sending an Address up to I the Thrtii,e. Lord Fougnoist spoke a few words io explaoa. tion. I Lord Cave'.sasansi moved an adjournment, and gave notice that he would oe Wednevilay ask leave to bring in a for increvuung the Militia force of England and Ireland. Adjourned d at HALF -rArr Tmatz o'CLocs, to this ay. The Gleamore, GOWLDING, from Sueisaah is ri'rived at Liv,erpool with the low of her omen. mast, and having thrown most of her guns ever. board. • I T • if C~ r THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 14. A circumstance occurred last night in the House of Commons, from which un inference has been drawn, unfavourable to the COMMA N DER-I K CHILF.—TiIe SEC RETA RY at W• 11., in the course of his speech, having stated, that he was fully con vinced, from what had already passed ou the IttliF. ject of Mrs. CLARKE'S testimony, that her evidence was considered by the majority of the [louse us un worthy of belief, this expression was eagerly called by the Howse, and marked with disapprobation, .by eager exclamations of " Nu! Au!" from eery part of it. Although the Inquiry into the con lust of the CossM•NDER-iN-CHIEF, whatever be the ietiliet, must lead to good, yet it is not a good without alloy. Among the evil consequences resulting from it, is the complete suspension of all military pre parations or exertions. Neither at the Horse Guards, nor at the War-office, nor iii any department, is any thing stirring. Vet never wa, a moment so cnticul, or so favourable for action; lint, perhaps, it is pre sumptuous even here to complain. Mad it not been for this Inquiry, perhaps Ministers might have found time for another ill-concerted and unfor tunate expedition. Previous to the resiemptiou of the 'Debate last night in the I Iroise of Commons, upon the Charges against the Duke of Yoax, Mr. I'vacev AL intima ted, in the event of its not being finished on Tuesday, the propriety of an adjournment ontil Thursday. To afford the Members a respite from the fatigue of long and protracted sit tings, appears to have been Mr. PERCEVAL's mo tive ; but it had the effect of reviving the report of an intention on the part of Ministers to get rid of the question by a Prorogation. The Mutiny Bill will be reed a third time, this day, in the House of Commons, and by dispensing with the usual forms, it may he passed, and receive the Royal Assent in the House of Lords we Thursday. This circumstance was stated in support of the opinion of those who ventured Ito suspect that Ministers had determined upon a Prorogation as soon as they could possibly suffer it to take place. We are not, however, of that opinion. In the present advanced stage of the Doke of Yofte's business, and in the present state of the public mind, he must be a hold Minister, indeed, who would venture upon such a step. If Mr. PERCEVAL. in wishing for the adjourn ing over for a day, be in fl uenced by any other than his e rofessed object, it relates more probably to a partial change of Ministry than to a Prorogation. It was confidently reported last night, thatthree of the Ministers, the Duke of PORTLAND, Lord CAATLE ILEAGH, and Lord MULORAVE, as not being ufb ciently solar in the cause of the Cosfm•NDLR-IN• CHIEF, were to resign on Wednesday. Marquis Wittr.enst to succeed to the Treasury. iVe have reason to believe that there is much bustle, and some difficulty, among the Members of Ad ministration. Thee dare not advise His M—v to accept the D. of Y.'s resignation ; yet they dread carrying their own motion in the H. of C—s, lest the city of London and the counties should petition the Crown to remove the Cosi la AN non-t EF : it being well known that Lan doll, York, and Surrey, in that event, are prepared for that course. Above all, they dread their own dicnisral. Such is our situation here at home, while Boa 'assort over-runs the Continent unop posed, and transfers his forces from Castile to Ba varia and the Tyrol. Louts the XVlllth, and Madame Hoestx, have both received letters by the Messenger who recently made his way over to this country• from the Continent. The dispatches in question. though dated from different parts of Germany, concur in declaring that no hone rtmained to the House of AUSTRIA of avoiding a rupture with Bortarstm. The truth of this fact is unquestionable; ytt, down to the latest accounts transmitted through Holland. we see that negociations still continued to he carried on between the Courts of St. Cloud and of Vienna. Nsent.Eos will profit, no doubt, of this delay, to withdraw his choicest troops from Spain, and to march them towards the Danube. A vtssel arrived at Plymouth, on Friday. states that Admiral DuLawoarst has joined the fleet off Rochfort. A Mail from Gottenburgli arrived yesterday, with Letters and Papers to the 4th in.t. The late embargo is imputed to a misunderstanding be tween the ENtrusu Mistime and His Seri:nun MiJIMITY. The precise nature of the dispute is not stated, but it was amicably adjusted on the same day, and the removal of the embargo was the immediate consequence. The Dutch Papers to the Bth instant abound with military movements and preparations. The ARCHDUKE CHARLES is to be at the head of the Austrian Army. It is to 1:e divided into nine corps. The Duke of Anil/11'4DX vise daily expect ed from Paris, to ammo the command of the French army in Germany. The Hope brig of war, Capt. PRARCE, arrived on Friday at Plymouth, from Lisbon aryl Cadis, with dispatches for Government. It does not ap pear that the French had entered Portugal up to the 20th lust. The Portuguese, and the people is the South of Spain, are represented in high spi rits. The /lope, on her passage, spoke the Sur veil/ante, with the convoy from the Brazil, which informed her, that on the Ist lust. they saw a squa dron of four French sail of the line, and two frigates, steering W.S.W. They are supposed to by the ships that escaped from L'Orient, steering fur the West Indies. The Egeria arrived at Yarmouth on Sunday, from the Baltic ; she had captured the Dmuii.h na tional cutter AalbuttN, mid four other vessel, laden with deals. The Charger was at !amidst:roue on the 34d ult. with a convoy for England. The Egeria left Wingo Beacon on the 4th instant. On the 2d of last month, as some Deicers were returning to Bermuda, from a party at St. David's Island, the boat upset, and Lieutenant RAM. of the Royal Navy. Captain Passe, and a Serjeant of the Royal Marines, were drnwited ; their bodies were found on the following day, and interred with every honour due to their rank. ~, 7111 LITE ELOPI:ME • Lord Paget has made les appearance in toe n, good health; and the report of his having ter,,, dangerously wounded w a duel, is of 1:111UISC ploded. Eva biller the elopement, he has kept u p a constant conitimuicatieu with his brother, Sir Arthur l'aget, also was sent for by his father upon the first intelligence of this itilfo tutene affair. His Lordship, in his letters, exprtees the most puignaut sorrow, and. snicere tootrition, fur his offence ; and de , lures, that lie is in a state bor. Bering upon distraction, being suable to eat, drink, or sleep. Were it possible to effect a recotteeistrim between Italy Charlotte and ler friends, it would he, to him, he declares, a great alleviation of iira dc,tress ; hut however much he wishes for that re suit, lie would sutler death, sneer than do a letter to her feelings, by forcing her iiichisatit.o. Lady Pafet kept her bed tor two days after las Lordship r elopement, and has slot left her house, in Upper (;rook-street, ,leree that recut. Countess of Uxbridge sleeps at home, in Old Bur- Imp:toil-street, but spends all the rest of her time with her Ladyship. Lady Graves. his Lordship's sister, who hod conic to town, from Devousiiirsc 0.1 .• a visit to her father, was so much affected, that she was taken ill, and has been since delivered a terms, in the sixth mouth of her pregnancy. Mr. Henry Wellesley's house, in Curzon-street, is shut up, and he still rewrite., with his childen, with lug brother ut Chelsea. The Earl of Uxbridge is not gone to Windsor, as stated in the papers yesterday. His Lordship is on a visit to his tho Far! of Galloway, at Coolhurst, ate** Ilorsham, iu Sussex. It is hot true, as stated, also, in some of the papers of yesterday, that Lard Paget has re signed his regiment, end rank on the Sta ff . ._.„ The Countess Dowager of Servos is severely in disposed, at her house in Hill -street, Berkele)- square. Lord Monson was taken very ill, last night, at his house in Seymour-place. Mr. HEATMUK sent for at ten o'clock from the Convert :looms, in Ilanover-square. A meeting of several of the tumbles of the Dewy-law Company, and other !tercets interested is *elate Theatre, took place yesterday at the beim a Mr. DELORES. in Curzon-tercet, on which eetmeion it appeared that any delay that had arisen in forming some new arrangement for the re mainder of the season, was owing merely to ed.- eoneeption, and the result was au amicable deter mination to retrieve, by onanimons exertions, the delay that bad taken place. Their perforitiatice will commence on Thursday, under a license front th LOKI/ CNAIISLALAIN to the Duke of BLOTORD and Lord KIIINAIRD, obtained by and with Cie entire approbation of the proprietors. The Ease 11•111111141TON'll boote e in the Stable-Yard, St. James's Palace, is ordered to ho Rot iu readiness for the reception of her Ladyship. who is expected in town in the course els fortnight from Ireland. A Morniug Print of yeAterday stated that His Madam seat for the Earl of HALLINGTON, on Friday ' s/el signified to his Lordship, that his ser vices woad be warned in the Mee of Cotrnsautdia in-Chief, now tilled by the Duke of Yore. It may be sufficieut to be observed upou this intelligence, that the Earl of Ilatinancerois is in Leland. The lilidasorss higete capeureek on the 113th tilt. in the West Indies, the French National brig (*abbey, of 16 guns, and ninety-fire mep, after a severe action of about an boor ; the french Ira five men killed and twelve wounded ; the frigate none killed or wounded ; she is a new brig, sad her first voyage, from Cherbourg, in France, hosed tb St. Domingo. laden with flour and goopowder. We are assured that, daring the late visit of Their PLEBEIAN MAILLTIES to Petersburg'', the Queue made every posible exertion to indsice the Emperor Aeliattrien to break off his connection with BONAPARTE. She stated to him the inevit able necessity of Austria again entering the field. or of her certain destruction, as soon as the subj us wino of Spain should be accomplished ; teed sl.e added, that though he might be spared, by the yeti cy of the Corsican, for a time, yet tilat Russia must necessarily follow the fate of the other ancieet European Monarchies. Her remoastrances are said to have effected the CEA!, who replied— ,. Madame, be persuaded that I detest and dread NAPOLLON not less than you can do; hut neither my finances nor my engagetnents permit me to break with him; vet if Austria is necessitated to take up arms, I will remain ueuter." Ministers here believe in the truth of this coaversation; but. even though it mny be authentic. Catmint:outer will probably force the EMPEROR to take as decid ed a part against Austria, if war commence, as he has done against Sweden. Never, perhaps, in the history of Parliamentry debate, was a more sublime, or a more effectin,e allusion made. than that of Mr. Warrussap, on Thursday evening, when he mentioned the curious circumstance of the Duke De Beast's service of plate being purchased by M. CLARKE. How could a Duke of Yose, while eating off a magni fica sit silver service, once belonging to a Prince of the House of Boeason. now ass exile and a wan derer, forbear refleeting on the rinstabdieyof man dignities! How could he forget what the fa mily of Bouasox is, and what it wail The an cient Egyptians are said by HZROIMPTVII to have ti placed skull upon the ta ble, at their most splen did banquets, in order to remind the guests of mot tality. but what skull, or what funereal emblem, could impress a mind capable of reflexlen, so deeinly as the spectacle of a Duke of Biases Ogle, pawned, and passing into the temporary poems sion of a woman of pleasure A vessel is arrived from St. Kitts.—She hes not brought any news relative to the Exredition spina Martinique. . ••••••••• • /Ms satuitT. 3 per Cala. Camila it per Cent. Navy ........... ........ 9711 1 / India Bends... I. a press. Exebeepee Bilks in larva. Ditto Fundable lO 11 poy. Brothels tottery Tiekets.. ....... ism. Condole fur T. IlltSH, heaeldiegiker a. Curdled', and 9. Cliariai-reams. " , - LON VON Penned by G. DIVIPSON, No ilk tli Briawrlt.enart, Carty-strret and pablialed at dee ()See,' No. Is, Bark of St. Cleinent's Charlie, Seised, by J . • WHITE, of Pnnw &e. fur this raper s seat to ths odic - „part paid), wiil be July WWwled W, • • .•k ..