The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1809-02-11 00:00:00

(The letter trail handis.l in, wkieh'stated that
further alteration could be allowed.)
(By Lord loutsriltir)
Q. What saildil,)ll did you 110111 iu the army. be-
rme you went into the Liarrack Depart.nent --• 1.
1.410 1.4.1C1ft.4C010014 in the 9..1d iteginient, ansl
Assistant fililitary Commissary.
Q. How long in that capacity ?—A. Sem.
year.
Q. Wliat was you,. first rank when von wistful"
that office I was :04j0I iu the nlit Regiments
(4. Did you obtains y.wr co.uiritssiois by par-
chase ?--A. No.
Q. Did you ever join your regiment
never; I twice offered, but it was not accepted. ,
Ilia !VIA Iligliness refused, 4:4%11144, that my ser-
vices were seamed at the poise :mu that I
uroarernaiu there. I did not think it my duty to
isrge it afterwards nor world it have been re•nes- t-
fah Before I went to the, Horse Guards, I had
lava years in the service, and constantly with
my regimes t.
Q. Are you now in the army ?—A. Yes; whets
I first went into a civil situation, in the barrack
.I.y:it-uncut, Ilii filajesty, in consideration of my
rvicesota.4 pleased to allow me rank 1,. the army.
Q. Ditl you sell your Lieutenant-Coluiieley ?
A. Yes.
Q. For what sum did you sell it ?-1. I sol I it
iat the regular price—l kienv of no other.
(By Mr. PERCIVAL.)
Q. You said you hail served d 2 yintrs with your
regiment, where did you serve?—,l. I root-. 1 tour
cainpeigns in the American war ; I served seven
years in tlw West Indies, under Lord Grey, when
lie took all the West India Islands, and I have also
server' iipon the Continent.
Q. Did the levy go on regularly ?—.l. It went nu
through the regular coarse, though, a,:eoriling to
my own opinion, with more difficulties any
other appointment. My reason fur saying this is,
because I know General Heaitt had a natural pre.
indite against recruiting orneers in general.
Q. Were the suggestioina and alterations of Gen.
Hewitt commonly attended to by the Commander-
in-Chief ?—A. Almost always ; I believe I might
*ay invariably.
Q. Do you remember any proposal of General
Ileaitt that was not adopted by the Commanders
io-Chief?--.A. I cannot recollect one instance.
Q. Is General I lewitt pres..nt in England ?
A. No ; he is Com-nander-an-Chief in the East
Indies. (By Sir J GP 411A111.)
Q. Do the papers you have produced contain Cie
w`•ole of the written coirnsunications frost tile
Commander-in-Chief's OfE-e?—.l. It ,is itsymi-
j sable for me to answer for 61. d. -
Q. Then you cannot say they are all ?—A. No.
[Witness a 'dull-ea.)
Mr. PERCIVAL said, that as the artier of that
House had directed all the papers to be laid bef,oot
them—they had a right to conclude that ori.ier had
been complied with.

MAJOR TONYN.
Mr. WARD r.c directed that Mr. Donovan shonld
be rolled. He attended at th bar, and Mr. War-
dle proceeded to interr%ate him, as follows!
Q. Do you know Major Tour', of the3lst Re-
giment ?—A. Yes. •
Q. Will you state to the House what you know
about his promotion ?—A. I recollect that in the
mouth of March, teso4, Captain Senden waited on
me, and said, that if I knew any Captain in the
army anxious to o!itain a Major's Commission,
he had It in his power to procure it. 1 heard,
shortly after, that Captain Tonyu had made ap-
plication for :1 Majority. and I proposed to IMti
to procure what he desired, for the sum of 5001.
I then informed Captain &laden that I knew nn
out Officer. who had served 23 years, and who had
a;reed to the terms proposed. The appointment
was not procured immediately, and Capt. Tonvu
told me that he would wave his agreement, for his
father, General Tonyn, had givtu him a recom-
mendation ; and, as a general promotion of Fiebl
Officers %as then about to take place, hr could
proem(' whit lie desir*il froin his own friends.—
In consequence of this, Captain Tonyn slid
Captain Sandell hail an interview, when the
litter irtormeil Captain Tonyit, lie would set his
appointment, but it would he through the inediam
(dins interest. The appointment took plawe,
•1 believe Capt. Sautleu received a sum of ni0,04
front ('apt. Tonyn.
Q. What did you know in IAOS ?---A. I knew
that Captain Tempi Was mailed blajor. I (lid not
know it till 1805. Ms promotion took 'dare in
1804 ; it appeared in The Gazette iii the general
promotions.
Q. Was the Hooey lodged iti a hanker's hands
prior to the Gaitettne• ?—A. 1 do not know.
Q. Can you tell whether the money was lodged
with any body ?-4. Not that I know of.
Q. Do yon kite whether iiilpnr did pay any
money ?—A. I do not know.
Q. Do you kisow who did ?—A. I do not know ;
nor when it was paid, nor hi)w it was paid. Cap-
tain Smitten said, lie had procured the promotion
through a friend ; but did not tell me who the
roam was till lately.
Q. Who was the person Captain Sanilen stated
as having procured the commission I—A. Mrs.
Clarke.
Q. Did Captain Siniden state, that he hail any
power whirl) extended beyond this one iustance ?
A. He said he could preinote Lieutenants to cotn-
panias, and Captains to Majorities. and Majors to
Lieutenant-Coltmels; be stud lie lead this power in
conseqiience of the new levy.
Q. Did he ever speak of any promotions un-
connected witit the new levies No.
Q. Wits no other application made to himl7--li.
bell. ve 3liijor Shaw applied.
Q, %%lint ptomains' did Major Shaw want ?—A.
He wanted to purchase* Lieutemuit.Colooticy, to
pay money for it.
Q. Did lie succeed in his desire ?—.l. Not from
that quarter.
Q. Throutzli what other channel did be elTet t it ?
—A. His lette.s were returned hick to him ; they
were b.-ought to me by a Mrs. Nl.Doutral, awl,
believe, •Iley a ere Teta awl to hnn. It was through
another Lady hr (•;!ecteil it.
Q. What Lady—what ass her name 1---A. Mrs.
Ilovetili
Q. Wher,, 1101.4 ,411.!ri•-itle now In Villier't-
.!drect, 2).

• Q. Was.th...t Lady with ybts at the Rouse the
ether night ?—..A. Yes.
Q. N 1 hat wus the remit of Major Shaw's busi-
ness ?—A. The Maio/ wps iotrod.uceil by Mn'.
I lovvitdeit to Mrs. Clarke, soil succeeded through
het means. .
I Q. Were there ally%d other promotions effected
through the medium that hid; ?--.A. I believe Lint.
Q. Is this the tio4 eiri:siiiistance of the wart, el-
r,,,,td air...o v. u‘cdium of that Lady.—A. I
i believe so.
Q. You have seated that you did not know
ithere WWI May money lodged s' for Capt. 'f onyia pro.
motion ; do you still adhere to that ?—A. I do not
know that there w:o..
.. .

Illere the Witter.., requested to explain his tvi-
ileum relative to liejoi Shaw.]
(By Lord ot.s.Tox
Q. You stated that Copt-44We is said he mold
pr to to the army; did you through hiui eft'.•ct
•uy other proiuotioas i-rAi No other than the
• I have stated. _ .

Q. Went yea to remise any thing for the nitro-
deiction.—A. Yes, col..
Q. Do trio recaect any negneiations besides
those you have already stated, crice you were last
examined ?—.l. ! have never thought of any since.
Q. Are you critaiu these are all ?—A. 1 am not
ccriain.
Q. You stated that Mrs. Clarke said she had
eceiveil money for Capt. Tonyn's couaniimion ;
w hen wns it she told you so ?—A. Some time in
the month of May, I sot; Capt. Tonya was Co-
zened in 1904.
Q. Where did you hear it ?—A. At Mrs. Clarke's
lodgings ill Clouctster-place.
Q. Why dill you cab there ?-4. lo conse-
quelice of a report that was circulated ; I ass re-
po-wilted as the author of some paragraphs against
the Duke of York, which I then traced to Mrs.
and from her to Mr. Sanden.
Q. Was this at the first, second, or third meet-
ing Slalom the second.
Q. Do you recollect ally particular conversation
at that meeting?—A.
Q. Are iou certain that you had not any conver-
sation respecting Maj. Tonyn ?—A. 1 Jo not know.
Q. Del uny take place at coy other time. ?—A.•
Yes, I Omit: there did relative to Major Shaw.
Q. I hive yon never had any other butthose rela-
tive to Major Tonyil and Major Shaw ?—A. Nu.
(By Sir .1. tltr.r..)
Q. Did Mrs. Clarke ever idiom you that his
Royal Nighties's was aware that she received money
for Major 'lingo's commiseiou ?—A. Never, until
November last.
Q. What d.d she say then ?—:1. She told me
that she was extronely ill used by the Duke of
York ; and that, unless he came to her terms, she
would expose many transactions that had passed,
respecting promotions.
Q. But not relative to Major Tonyn ?—A. No.
Q. Did slat ever say that the Duke of York was
aware she received money from Major Tony u ?
A. Never till the month of November last ; on the
contrary, she was so much ofirined at toy beint;
i.o.oduced ::• the fitend of Major Shaw, that Ma-
jor Shaw gut his papers hack, he paid Mrs. Doyen-
den tot. fur them, and said he would have nothing
to do with Mrs. Clarke, mud that he had lost ins
advancement by the mention of my name.
(By Genera/ N ottrord.)
Q. Did yon not say that (Seismal Tonyn had
re.comineuded his sou ?—A. I said that Major
Tun} a informed me so.
Q. Do you know how long Captain Tony"' held
that rank it. the army ?—.t. I sot tut ccr.atu ;
believe about eight or ten years.
Q. Is not that a long period to remain without
rising Yea.
Q. Can you take upon yourself to say, that it
was not by brevet he rose ?—A. I am sure it was
nut by brevet, because he was appointed Major of
the 4Jd; and if it had been by brevet, he would
still have remained is MR. Lis own egimeut, the eath.
(By Sir T1i0111•S .1.1.11 TON.)
Q. You said that his Royal highness was repre-
sented to you by Mrs. Clarke as acquainted with
the circumstance of ber rccasiug as :y for corn-
?—A. 1 said she received money--riot that
she made his Royal Highness acituaiuted with it.
[I lere the short-hand writer referred to that part
of his evidence, ill whi: li he had stated, that she
represented the Duke as privy to her transactions,
it, the conversation of the month of November last.]
The Witness ass ordered to withdraw.
Mr. BARRON thought there was a great impro-
priety in permitting AVitries.es to alter and amend
their testimony ; not in those points winch might
be supposed to result from inadvertency, but in
those which were drawn from them in the cross-
examination. lie proposed that they should let the
answer stand, and also insert the alteratiou pro-
posed by the Witness, that they might both form
part of the evidence.
Sir T. TURTON explained.
The Witness being called in, was desired to cor-
rect his statement. by altering it from " No, not
till the month of November last," to "No, in the
mouth of November last." The question was them
repeated.
Q. Did Mrs. Clarke give you to understand
that his Royal Highness knew she received money
from Major Tonvo ?—A. No; in the month of
November last. she informed me that the Duke of
York treated her very badly, and that if lie dal
not act by her as he ought, she would publish the
case of many others.
Q. She did hot then tell you that she informed
the Duke of her receiving the money ?—A. No,
she only said she would publish that case,
.and
many others.
Q. I understand yon to have said, that Mrs.
Cloi ke was desirous to conceal this circumstance
foci Wan ?.—A. Yes, she said that if his kioyal
11:0incses knew she received any motley fur promo-
tato-, she would Its- disgraced, and the officer lose
his commission.
Q. Are you awe this was the reason she as-
signed ?—A. I 41!:I•
(By Mr. Wssitts.)
Q. When Caption Sandeu stated to pm. that
lie could obtain promotions in all gradations, did
he mention the terms on which he could procure
them ?—A. I recollect that he said he could pro-
cure a majority for WO giiiiiess. Ido Inn think
he mentioned the terms of unv other commission%
Q. Whet were Vie aeries ot her demands ups..