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you believe the prisoner guilty, you havelisitifrag.
to. do with the motives of the prosecutor;'—Ali,
iii tile case of the Duke of York, it is to
no purpose to say, that the niotives of Mr. War-
dle:oW not possess all that purity of which he
bitisfed so loudly and ao repeatedly. flis miser:o-
-d-rictus Comniander.iii-Chief has been clearly ewer-
ta:toird, and the purity or iiiVpurity ofthe.p...rsoli who
impeached it has nothing to do with the husiuess.
11A-inObtes dismissed the argnment and the hopes
of his Hopi Highness's advocates, we come to the
'trial, and the address of Colonel Wardle ; the latter
containing a direct (large of perjury against the wit-
moues, of want of judgment • against hie Counsel,
aod.of want of sagacity in the Jury who tried the
cause. The rage and sz_sation of Col. Wardle must,
we admit, be very great; but, if the address had
not been given to us by Mr. McCallum, his parti-
cular friend, and -the identical person oho iutroduc-
-ed him to Mrs. Clarke, we could not have believed
0..311 am- man of common se :ac would have put his
sigriature to such an article.—lt it not disputed
that tlie furniture was supplied at a tiine o hen Mrs.•
Clarke was only able to have a few articles on hire,
end is it to be supposed that Mr. Wright, knowing
her circumstances, would have given her credit to
the amount of 1,6001.?—8ut admitting that the
testimony of Mrs. Clarke, as a person shifting
the debt from her own shoulders, is to be receiroil
with caution, what can we object to tbe'other wit-
nem, the brother of the Plaintiff, who had no in-
terest in the cause ? IV:iy should lie perjure him-
self to fasten the debt on Colonel Wardle, when
it is very nvll known, that, althoulli Mts. Clarke
mar not, as she says, have kid a guinea alien
the articles were furnished, the profits of her I
work, unfortitniitely burned in the lire at Mr. I,
Giblet's, iii Salisbury-square, would now enable her
to 411.0:hitrge it ? As to the charge against Serjeant
13. at. that he refused to call witnesses, who could
prove his client's care, we Ought not to believe.
spelt a charge against a gentleman of his talents
•sitiel experience, upon light grounds; and therefore
miry-lie allowed to ask who wyre these witnesses ?
IColAriel Warclle says, id hia-Address, Major Dodd
and Major Gleuuie. But thejetwo officers were not
prtswrssu, when all the Ifdiaittire was ordered
•at Mk* Wright."). They only accompanied the
Vitiated stud the Lady au the reconuoitring
risiehigi she Martell° Towers. They might, no
dotthit, wove the terms upon which the parties
liveJ, whether the intercourse was purely platonic,
or *ohs-titer Colonel Wardle wait, as lie boasts, " a
good faintly man." Major Dodd might., indeed.
be able to say something about the bronze and
scarlet Turkey carpet, having been present when
Colonel NVardte chose it ; but he must have as
much bronze in his fare, as there is hi the carpet,
had he come forward to prove a bargain. made for
articles, at which ha .as not present. Among low
and vulgar minds, we admit, nothing is more
common than an angry ebullition of a defeated
party against Counsel and Witness; because,
Among such, it is a received upiuion, that the inge-
nuity of a Counsel can make black white, and
whste black ; and that, if they lose their cause,
it is ' not bccaose their cause is a had one,
.hltulpfmuse their Lawyers 'want ingenuity.-
4014 s- more liberal conduct was to be expected
from a Member of Parliarnmit, and a wan moving
io the sphere of ColotntlioWardle. Of such a
man: surely, it was noti Voir be expected, that
he, would indulge in inveiltis% against witnesses,
Ana .heist that Mrs. Clarke; who was believed
upossildisvord attainst the Duke of York, shottld
hot be ciedited upon her oath against Colonel
Wardle. The object of the Address is, ho ;s-
-ever, something inure than the gratification of
splceu ; in it Colonel Wardle has sought to let his
popularity down easy. Hi would insinuate that he
means to 'move, in November, for a new trial.—
We cannot persuade ourselves that be hues any such
intention; arid, most 'assuredly, the trial does not
appear to furnish the slightest groi,ndo for an up-
dication of the kiiitl. Had he meant, to have
prosecuted the business in a Court of Law, he ought
not to have withdrawn it from the proper tribunal,
and appealed to the newspapers.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON.
WEDNESDAY. Jul.r 5.

Caption Wears', or the Cadmus, arrived yester-
day from Spain, with a Spanish ()dicer, with dis-
patches, announcing some successes in Callicia;
particularly a victory over a carps of 8000 French,
cousinuuded by Marshal Nay. The substance will
be finutd in our extracts front The Casette of last
. , .
The dispatches announcing the rit4iatiPatint of
Ferrol and Corvine', by the Spaniards, bed nut
reached town at a late hour last night.
If the Ballerina, fabricated and issued from the
camp of thVeorsicauEnaperair, tver siuce his lull de-
(at orr the sod Ma}, whateveringenuitysblll have
tSi cu exerted is titbit comodlAin, can afford little
subject Ear exultation to bis uoJ penple of
rs hid matter of plesaiug tußectiou can Be ir
►Aar s'ileei?re ia palliest ittimt4i•etsbrotiit. rroW:
retaga!l4lr tlit.4BoM and BOW N teal dtspitClin. ,teat
to him by Sovur sod Say. These two Dignitaries