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an Assistant Commissary eau he appointed ts, her
taflueoce, where is the wonder that this deportment
of our military arrangements should be 'Cob tnitserw
ahly executed ?At the heg gof thisilitoiri,
Ministers attehipto turn the attebtlon of. the
public from it by the atieurd tale of a amiapiricy to
write and lulls down the Monarchy ; but this was
two absurd, even for credulity, and this
()tighter has fallen, still-born, to the ground. A
conspiracy b is, however, been detected ; vice, with
iiiiklitahin.l frost; corruption, with coneerled art ;
have attacked with Noll violence or secret moan-
mations, the very foundations of social order, and
threatened the subversion, not only of the Throne,
Mat of our independence as it Nation. And we re.
joke that there is so much mon l i 11l ity of feeling 011
this iinbject; every individual, of every party, feels
*that it involves the safety, the honour, and the in-
dependence of the country_ On the contEiet of
the Duke of vyk, there is, there eau be, but one
opinion ; what this opinion is, every man may
know by consulting his own heart. After what has
been developed in the !louse of Common., it is
evident that the Duke of York must be placed in
a situation where his conduct can be judicially and
fiwilly decided upon ; he must 'abide the judgment
of his Peers."—/Leeds Mercury, February.)
The Duke of York's letter to the Mouse of Corn-
coons, given in our Express of this unoruing, will
he read with attention. While nothing but mis-
fortune seems to attend our arms abroad, we have
a prou.l scene exhibited at home, which will dis-
play, before the whole world, the blessings which.
are derived from a free Constitution. It will be
oven, tact no patronage or rank can shelter a public
delinquent from the severity of the laws; and that

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if corruption does prevail, a- remedy is provided to
ariest its progress, by resorting to those legitimate
powers with whi..ll the valour of our ancestors in-
vested the Illoininons of Cireat Britain. The most
desirable purpose, m every national institution, is
to prevent the perpetration of political vices ; hot
if the imperfections of human institutions eillitiot
preserve us from this condition of pith its depravity,
the next msst desirable 0bi...0 is to insure its degra-
&tin, aid punisbuieat.--' York 11..rahl, ..!3.)
TO THE EDIT.-11R of: THE PLYMOUTH
DOC:: 'TELEGRAPH.

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1" Permit me, worths Sir, throng!' the inetliom of
your valuable paper, to congt At ii!Jte the !mirk oil
the ten ll i l Afton of Spalli,ll and the re-
* viva! of British hilarity. ..l fig for a hard day's
work wilco 'tis over !
"On the convocation of Parliament. J folly ex-
peeted the Senate-house aould be convertedinto
the Temple of Nicibe, and overflow with tears; in-
stead of winch, its Journals staud fair to outvie the
facetious whimsicalities of Joe Miller. Bonaparte.
doubtless, will be dreadfully crest-fallen, when,
(notwithstanding his, mighty aeliievemetits already
performed, and hereafter threatened), lie finds our
Goverioneut sill agog, and as brisk as a bee.—Well
done, Old England ! There's molting like &nog
things genteelly I Vice la bagatelle
a Know all tongues are wagging, tke Uncle mama.
'Rout the zallaut exploits of as insurossepark
Wee the groves of Parnassus shall sweetly nseented
•• • With the s von:test of sweetie—even sweet Mrs. Clarke
a The Senate fur gravity Greed, way be sees,
With sides all a.sisaking, r gay aa a lark
As night after night, to the bar sidles is,
The d of dears--eves dear Mrs. Clarke.
Resewn'd for her prowess, is eno:ng and wars,'
Of her birth we cols newer he lon to the Jeri.,
*Uwe all who have heard of Dame Totes sad Mars, '.•
Know the mammy tad daddy of sweet Mrs. Clarke.
" Hum! foe the 'nay of laglasd so brave !
Wherever they p they most neck hit the mark,
Shire each Chief is iospired, mei devoted' a
slow,
To the" dear little darlingl—ycleVel Mrs. Clarke ! !
Plesseuh egad Deck Trkgrophi JO. QUIZ."
" Still the Duke of York .and Mrs. Clerke !
Although the peril of the times .pseressep onwards
with rapid and awful speed, although the Genius of
Botiaparte's boundless ambition As every where
working with visible and invisible agency, yet, in
Great Britain, the p object of his daily toils
end sleepless nights, nothing is done and nothiug
heard of, but intrigues of the deepest profligacy,
at war with every precept of morality soil every sen-
timent of shame. It is a grievous reflection, that
such things should ever hate hail existence, and it
is not less to be lamented, that their develop,-
went should become the tension's of the nation, at
a period when concerns, bearing upon her moat
vital interests, ought to occupy het couneils, and
bring into action every physical and moral teergy.
The cause, however, bar unhappily oecorrtil. and
imperious necessity demands that it blloUla be
brought to a conclusion. What that conclusion
may be, it were fruitless to conjecture, but the
details which have already transpired have given
rise to reflections, of which the English press has
uttered time free and unqualified expression. It
has not presumed to decide on the official Built, or
•ence, of the Duke of York, but it has spoken
pots 'nosily boldness of counections at Once
*latent with the parity of the boatman.] and the
dignity of exalted statism. Mrs. Clarke has
charge:ll the Duke of Volt with a breach of
contract, and unfolded scenes of mutual vice, truss
which the virtuous mind recoil', with inexpressible
disgust. From both his Royal lll:gimes) bus the
opportunity, and, we charitably hope, that lie has
also the power, of redeetimeg his repunition. If
her allegutions 1w true, the censure of offended
and inelignaat rectitude cannot be too stroug. Vi-
cious men may he willing to indnlge then. crimbial
properisities a ithout coutroul ; but we will venture
to assert. that there does not exist is the Empire a
single individual so lost to decency, who will have
the Ls nlihond to express his approbation of that
tale of infamy which Mrs. Clarke has told. if the
alleged contract did actually take place, his linyal
Highness was bound to bare fulfilled it. That
it could not have been legally enforced, appears
evident ; but Mat circumstance, on every principle
of houniir, increased a thousand fold tl,. strength
of the obligation. In private life, the man who
protects himself, in the violation of premises, by the
deficiency of legal forms, is regarded as having
abandoned every principle of integrity, and every
claim to social respect, esteem; and cOnhnence.—
Such is the aspect of this extraordinerytminaetion.
according to the principles of virile, aod on the
supposition that he story'' of Mrs. Clarke is
!loaded iu truth. The little of York is subjected

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