The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1809-02-17 00:00:00

ROY.IL LOVE-LETTIRS.

The Duke of Yu- lore letters to Mrs.
CLARKE, produced upon the charges against his
Royal Highness, have attracted tenth Donee.—
They Irive been Compared with the amorous epis-
tles of the late Doke of CeMBEaEAaD to Lady
Geosvmson, written shout tiv.--intl-thirty year
ago, mid some persons contend that the Untie owl
the Nephew mu t have studied the art of love-let-
ter writing ia t.,e same school. A volume of the
Duke of CesteEat.ANa's said letters is now before
us, from which, to assist the judgment Of our
reader+, we Innes made the following extents:—
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" NIT BEAR LITTLE ANGEL !—I "STE this It:steel`
ping
out of town, ten thousand thanks fur your k,td ni.tc,
ate sure nothing could make my aching heart t.i-ni;;ltt
arabl.- to me titan when you say you are sensibly bow
Mauch I love you, pray Cod it may be over before ni.irtai.g,
or that you way he triter, I shall be in town at eight o'clock,
for I shall long , , know how yoa are. dim'? surittion to 14.
that I wrote by her act sant to you f e I li. VC urt't•ted him nut
to tell—Adieu gaud night Gu.l Mess the augrl of my wed joy
and happiness wit!t,4,l. whom I have no et.usfoit and with
whom all the happ.m.ss alive as rovir I hoot: vsry sooti."
" To Lady G--•''

" MT 1)/AR LITTIA ANGEL wrote my last letter to
you yesterday at eleven o'clock just when we sailed t dined
at two o'clock and as for the afternoen I bad some tousle:
I have my own servant tiii hoard that plays and a couple of
hands from London for the six week-a i sin out wo were a
good instil at dinner I hail abort 9 p.,uple yesterday sod
shall have more when the rest of my squadron join me the
staid with me till tallr seven I get to supper about 9 o'clock
hot I could Pot eat, and sa gut to bed about the*
prayed for you my dea,:t lout kited your deorra: neck hew
and lays Gluon and dreamt of you had you on the .Mar litt!e
tench ten thousand times in my mom ktesinx yogic and tellin;
.0n how much I loved and adored you and you NA, nit .1
pleased but alas when 1 woke I f PuuJ it all 'Winston a 4 God?
by the tot nt *ea 1 rose by tune at half past live and
went upon ...Al there I found my frieud 11111, sad walked
with him for about nu hour till Barriagtoss route to me we
then breakfasted minuet right o'clock and by nine 1 begad
and exercised the stuns tinder my cmilanand till twelve it is
now 011.., awl when I finish this letter to you my dear lure
I shall hewn and t,.;ti to dimmer at two o'clock it is a rule ou
hoard to dine at two, breakfast at eight and sup at nine—
always if nothing hinders me I shall Ito a-bed by ten or 110,111
after mut up by half past a is the morsiiiitt is order ta have
if there is any occasion orders ready fur the Dist under toy
cominasid before I begin to exercise them—l am mire the
account of this days duty can be ..e pleaaitte to you my love
yet it is exactly what I have dune and as I promised you
always to let you know my motions and my thoughts I have
now performed say pnunise this day to you nod always will
until' the very last letter you shall hare from use which will
ha when I between a and wc•l:s hence scud th.i Admiralty
WWI that I am arrived at Spithesd then I shall only wait
for their answer which will be wits me in a few boors to
strike my flag and then I shall return to pm that instant IN
my hive runs aid happy beyond myself to jell you !now I
Imre you."
Now we will only Mly a few words upon the Duke
of Yeast's letters to Mrs: CLARKE, as compared
with those of the late Duke of CumagaLAN
Ilk folly, or rather in defect of iutelligeuce, the
former may perhaps vie with the latter, or indeed
with any other ever exhibited in a Court of Ecele-
siwitical, Civil, it Criminal Law, not even except-
lag the biliste-dons of the Marquis of BLAND-
!Was, to Lady MARIA ANN'S: STVIIT. But there
is this mark difference between theta : The let-
ters of the late Duke of CIIMBEILLAVD exhibit
sulk proofs of weakneoa. They display uo bus
?luaus circumstances of culpability. There is no
CLAVERI ae is, the Duke olCustettaxasn's letters.
This makes a great difference iu the merit of
these eases—lt haviug bees, suggest:al to Fir-
DaItICIL the tlitgai, that one of his Grenadiers hail
an extraordina taste, the King answered, The
fellow is a soldier, what have I to do with his
amours ?" ' we say of the Dote of YORK. Eng-
land nerr boasted a finer Army than that which
has grown up under the command of his ltoyal
Highness. Let him then chew that he has not
epported Mrs. Clarke out of the Half Pay Fund
and the Compassionate List. Let him shew that he
has not, by breuking in upon these sources, robbed
the poor box, to support a lascivious harlot, now
become it politico( prostitute. Let hint prove this
case, and the people of England, however they
ta3y lament the weaknees of his heart, and the
blindness of his passions, will forgive his errors, mud
say with FILEDERIMIL, his name-sake, what have we
to do with his amours? It is really disgusting to
read in some of the public papers the puritanical
canting denunciations against Ddlilas, adultery and
fornication, when we know that the writers are
among the identical men in society, who plume
themselves upon those very acts, ea graces, which,
in the Duke, they reprobate as arimes out to be
forgiven iu this world nor in the nest.