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, bn my lades** au#4l en my retorietion, they 'rote
such a character tato prove her worthy of the
reliance. With respect to Mot: Clarke hersi If. 1•1,--;
that the House will not be too hasty its drew/
upon 11,:r testimony. or too prompt in atisoliii
that imputisuon, upos the first vitw of
bps eireunistaucca,aml without mataredeliberatom,
sissy be inclined to attach. I can quote the ei•m.!
ut Samuel Cotter, w ho was relieved mid protretedlnv
Mr.. Clarke ; I can aopeal to • Captain Sotto,' ;
I can appeal to a Reverend- Dor:tor of Divinity,
w,iti liar had her patroosiAr ; and then I will io•k
whether be who talks of calumny upon our side
should not look to the possibility.of it ripens ;lie
other ?—(ltiear ! Hear!)—But allowing die alum-
ilimment of-Mrs. Clarke, admitting that she wave a
woman of those vices which the Right Hon. (;en-
tleman angina colleagues were willing to represent,
I will ask whether, when she• is emerging from
vice, the door is to be shut against her return, and
the hope of reform and amendment excluded 1.:.•
our ta:didioussiess i' Chastity I will allow is a gri:d
virtue, it is au ornament to the rex, but then it is
not their roily virtue or their only ornament. th-re
is a great Connuandustut, which says--• Thou
dialt not bear false witmos against thy iiri•Ahbou:
and perhaps loony who may not have oliseived ?he
dictates of chattity in their parity, may yr# hare
bowed down to the great dictates of truth and jos.
tux. The Right Hum Gentleman raid that it
Via s impus-,lde Miss Taylor could forget •••• hat had
happened four years.ago„het another forgot it inim.
I can rind) think it pos,ildeithat both had hero
deficieut in recollettioli ; !tits :Clarke appealed to
• the Crown Lawyers in the course of this Inquiry ;
but if she beard Use opinion of the Ht. lint.. Gem.
she would have selected her Counsel from another
quarter ; the tratintotiy- of M Taylor ettaldi•lies
this impoitant thet, that the Duke of 1 osk was
conscious of the trausactionsbetween Mrs. C. and

Col. French. The. Right Hon. (Jeittleman lips
• talked a great deal about Colonel French abd his
levy ;• but, sitter all, his levy was highly nhjectioii-
ahle to the Generals of the army. litre. Choke re-
ceived tine hendred guineus upon tins 'twines..—
. But mark the proceedings in Ireland---After Ow
letter of service was granted, Colonel Front+ went
to Ireland; a beating order is given to a mon of
the name of O'Reilly, sod Colonel Fawcett corn-
plaim that Colonel Taylor culls hina a crimp. Ilia
it ever I was astainised, it will at what the Rig:it
Ilunnuruble, t4eutleinait - said about economy.
a sithr:ct so distinct from the present considerntioi„
that it (eight nut in prudence to bete been in it-
emise'. 'I. he letters produced to Mrs. t -Nike's. re
not produced wader circumstances that should
Indust us to believe that she was acquainted with
them.- When they were sheen to her, she era., it,-
aired not to read them ; *vile Ka. desired merry to
• speak to the hand-writing, and pronounce whether
it was her own ; and irre did wait to it, she del
acknowledge it to be her own, under this anthill'.
note under this Ignorance of their t ontetits.• el telt
ittroceuce and only innocence could induce her to
trust to. Again, when Mrs. Clarke as; tusked whe-
ther she had given any letters of the Iluke ant of
her possession? Shit denied it ; but ou being perste,-
ad with one which was his hand-writing, she reeog-
isised it, 411141 said that it was his,. aid amsia-h *se
come from ,her.----Let those who are utt.alste n:
distiuguishiug between truth and falsehood.; let
those who are capable of discriminating hr-
tweet) those shades of evidence, which ajtarli
to, or detract from, the character of truth ;
let those imniochtte whether this woman has
nut evinced hei veracity in the manifest cam !our
elf acktiovile.igineuts in. the fearless asseverat ie.*,
which, to ties instance. she moles, after often I ;
her opteion that she gave none of the I)tike., It
OM of her powesetoit ? When letter Aft pro-
ducc.l to her winich are his. she does not deny that
they are, she 'marimbas that she most have. I ern
mistaken ; anti, by a Kenyans ad 1111.31,1) Of I. .•r
error. she proves the extent I. lain h she is
to be credited in her evislesito ow this import-
ant case, Mrs. Clarke writes to Captain Semler;
the tells bill that the Duke is- 11l a passiou shoot
the slowitess with which huflevy proceeds. The- is
all the reran Is for his deficieticy ; it is the re ly
step that is taken to diwoonteilance a peocei ihiiii
injurious to the interests of the army and of Ca.
state at forge. She represents its het letters to Co:,
fain Sanden that she spoke of him to the Doke ;
that-he said he was a d—d clever fellow, and he
enumerates at her circumstances, that evince nit tail-
leagues., or disposition to misrepresent. 1 say, Sir,
that a witness desirous of militating facts, -.souls
have been too gsarded to deviate into titter circuit*•
stantial attopk details in which she has indulgrd
The the is, that the dry of Colonel French a.
such a notorious job, that an Hon. Friend of mire
(Mr. Elliot,) turned for a return at that {ivy, t.
ascertain, and to expose the circumstances nia:r
which it was (Imam ted ; bad here I come to n t
',gement on wilts h much stress has been laid ; i
ass said that the elitrairsail of this woman was
pmof of the insiocence of his Iloysl Highness ; Lis
cause if lie were guilty. it was euppesicjithat h
would not comtnit hisneelf to her reveisge; hut
deny it to be the case that criminality is alas
so prudent. I eau very well iiiontiee that siege
maw tact W1%110111.1111 isiAlit, and thilicciitiost does ct
itself e. it hoot consi•lcration ; but to the detail
the caw. see what is brought Lehrer us li 1
weevil that she was indebted to the agents ..1110G
it is also proved that she paid 5061. for 'late;
aim which, to the grille! month of Mae, toss.
um.. have 18188 impended by that lads. The t.i ti
ni SS Dockery knew nothing *boat the rt.ctes. ; 1..,
that lOC was raid by the Duke of Fork; he did n
remember our coutersatoria that tusk place bets, r
`that
sad his itoyel Highness sit in th.l tenworin
vet I tau-t i.e allowed to couclude. that then: 1-
atteoge presusuptioB that a couversatioo reliant 1
In lessons* lOWA 11,1“. 01:CtlfTtal I mad I calms
help thanking it a sanoilai ciresstostarce that
shiwalsl hate been forguttets. Ihe Vigiat Hra
i ;gentleman asked how Ras bonnets enters to he
natio/eel tamers? As be metstanevi Ile siLite oft)
Dohs da Hem. I carnet help tbilvitme it a
artful reavilettan, mad one peculia*kg Spialwabl
to the ist.etest case lit recalls the e" soften
st a veinithition brook:Lit aboatsa I!? 0,
ii,
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