The National Register.
London, England, 1809-07-16 00:00:00

TO COLONEL WARDLE.

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TIM misery of your prdsent degrad situation, and the
poignant distress of your feelings woin disarm a more in•
veterate enemy than I am.-My indite
ed. by :my compassie- I admit,
the apology w:iich i,s:`,i4lnel by the
head, for the 4.7yor:r.beart.
excited 637 any thing oft Orsonal fiat

forgive ; but the injury which yOu bav
nature, and every man is entitled.to L.
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The baseness' of yout"oleeekit.:.nits °ln° exientiatiOn; but
in contrast rith the Rrifttlinti: . oOrisy of the means you
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have empleyed to Obtitin i . . • ~ . „will -you find a hiding
place from the just resett?,:.:- 'l**`.; -.' generous, but insulted
nation 1--.--Where will you •••:''. ' e balm of . lation flit.
a,
your wounded spirit.?—Can you expect i .: :. . s.of-an
indignarit.Wife, or
.will yO9 nestle for security iithebpsolin.
of the little Welch i'lltznteeata 7 In CCEBETT you will find_a
congenial disposition, and may pillow your disappoint=
ments on a breast* as vain, as malignant, and equally' dig.
graced :----His expiring popularity ways...-. _ 're a insi''
mentarY restlite froin. t he violence with „. .I'hity defend"
the • infamy of your conduct : but we rather expect
he will desert you., if he should undertake your de-
fence, you will struggle together in a sea of trouble,
and will ultimately strangle each other. The cre-
dAity of youth furnishes no excuse for your folly,
and the experience of age seems to have added but little tol
the stock of your knowledge : your whole behaviour is a
tissue of contradictious. You blame the meanness of his
Royal Highness, and follow his example. You extol the.
abilities of Mrs. Clarke, and try to overreach her: You
Submit to be the ready tool of a brother's rest-Wm:cut, and
sat up for a good faMily man. You deprecate the im-
morality of his Royal Highness in keeping Mrs. CLAII KE,
a,al you not only imitate' his example, but with prudent ,
economy intrigue with her maid. You clairn:all the me-',
rit of a victory, and now you would wilingly sha:,.. the dis-
grace and the expence of a defeat with the party. But Lord
li'vo(sT,...ss. is too 'Wary, Sir FnAs cis is too jealous, and Mr.
Wn ITS% EAD has a character to lose. With the docility of,
a school-boy, you conned over the lessuus of GLENNIE and
Donn, and these who knew you were:surprised at the fa-
cility with which you repeated them in the lionse of Com-
mons. Evea Mrs. CiataKr, although she *
des..-,'
s.: she
praised yon, and the man who is too rirtuou:,... -' . cge
in u.,l,*ch he lives.; bore testitnony in secret .the profiei-
elcy of his dupe.
You are mistaken when you suppose that the laws will
lose the]r power'ic opposed to popularity. In a mind de-
v:,id of lio.i•eir and feeling, it requires but little ingenuity
to e,aJ ! the 1a..1s of houour with impunity; afid the weak-
rot. il.—Au. LX.X,Vi, .

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had been published, after yonr charge had
,'orin, you would beip liable to an infoi-ma- ! •
*awe of your ails cialp hlq'el.t..t(pari '•
would have .coriiigned you to at le* 'ink I.
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r .nment...t/ie mo,rat nat4re of yourala rece, ••••
,d; not at ned. by,..145. circumstance of its notbeint'...,
illicit
punishable*); e law. You piefer au acCtisg4u'Of,pirh4 z.,..,,
against two unimpeachable witnesses, 'and .v.',6e Oil baser i.
and infamous accusation, made, in contemptAill'ojegantla,.) " •
of justice,, law, eind:CVen.LiiedibilitY, yot desjj•q'nepulke .7,... ;
to suspend their judgnientl--.-Sir, the paiblie egiig::taskt,stior ii Air
i; end its judgment an :instant,i..wioO.4 believing twhiet'4, 0?-
vou said : impressions force thinielves fipon .the most ear-: I', .."
1 inctant . ', , mid I will Venture kitell you thelitiblie tialie.'44
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Bo l s • eir judgement.—=Hats 11 jor.Don nbi Mr. -- • ,
kill L..
EN .4'.?:;•;:' , public what they coin?haveproved?• no
ey hi 'e no . But I and very protaiblyjiltall'; aLd I
challenge you to sabject them or either or. em to an exami-
nation, ueor OATH. •Sir..o LUNN I i will flare reason to 14-
collect the illustrious beast, he weAlit:rip hunted dow' and
Major DODD will- have to disgorge some,of the secres of
'illustrious patrou.-7-The declaration of " the most vir-
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man alive". in the }louse of Lords;and an advertise-
ment of his Private secretary, shall be explained. Mr.W.an-
Dikw ill neither be alloyi•ed to forget his note about Mr, PS R•
C.1%7A1,, nor Major Doon, his visit to Westliouhie-place, with
the letters and papers on the lastday of the investigation, and
the miserable politics of Carleton-noose, shall be exposed.
A divided house Cannot stand. If the key-stone of its great
arch were removed, the " Tale of other Times" may be re-
newed; die " White Rose" may be stained with blood: and
if it should happen in the present state of the public tn.
the evervs to winch it may lead are neither unfo .
problematical. If I :fie It upon to advise th
ii
tilers, '1 would not Mil ia. y . oolied politico, and 4,
to.wide the breach. i noujet say to them, heal these (Idle.
•)eunt.. : '
~yet there is..tlite ; not by public declarations,
b , explanations • not by suffering *the skin- to
heal o ~face, while the poison beneqth is sprcadiug
Ili
to ti-.e vital parts, but bringing the Mortified limbs to Cie
knife, and by submitting to those operations, which are I:A-
-fflict' only by a common sense of the most imminent dan..
4er. But to return to my subject.—The people of England,.
ir, have too much good sense to suffer you to take they ad..
vantage of the imprudence of Idts.ei.assa's private dia.
racter, to j nil ify the duplicity of your p6blic conduct, and all
the'sophistry of your partizan VI not be able to tug.

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euade them that to-day her. word is to be cfeditcd against
the DUKE OF YORK, and 16.. morrow she is-not to believed
upon her oath against you. .
They do not understand what distinction should be made '
between the justice that is demanded by a Duke, and that
which is to be measured out to a Patriot.—lf Mrs. Cmittne
is perjured now, what becomes of your wholefabric against
the DUKE OF YORK.—The machinery would want its main-
spring—for I defy the most ingenious lawyer on earth to
make out a case that could be sent to a jury, or call upon the
defendant for an answer; if her evidence be abstracted.
• Even Major Dodd has told you " that he has no hesitation
in saying that her co-operation will be more material than
-that of any other human being." But, Sir, I wilt venture
to assert, that so far as hitherto appears, not only the weight
of evidence, but even of probability is against yeti. You
know Mrs. CLARKE at a very early period discovered symp
toms of suspicion: nor was she satisfied till the **** of
4*-**'s confidential letters to Major DODD were produced?
'Was she even then satisfied till this same Private Secretary,
wro:e you a letter, to be given to her, which' he has
since in vain tried to get _ back again. Was,iit probable
that she vvould comtnit herself to a politicaV adventurer,
almost unknown, and almost without property—that she
would make no stipulation for the sacrifice of all her peg-
, pects- of being again reconciled to the fickle Duke?
Is Mrs. Ctsax r: to be credited when she states the terms
upon which her intimacy with the Duke subsisted ; sad is
she to be disbelieved when she exposes the terms of her poli-
tical connection with a patriot and a reformer!
It would be more likely to meet with pits,. assiocommisse-
Ar • ..
ration from a generous public if you wetto.state the fart.:
. candidly—that your virtuous patron has -disappointed Illi*
and that his nary 'ecretary has been too much for your
epcn, unsuspicious nature.
I neknowledge (as you have asserted) that he. was equally
Unheated hi 147Ru:ter's business, and as you prudently
avoided making him a witness, endeavOur to make him a
pa.-tner in your speculation.—"liou know how to play, at
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game: if you fail with the Major, you may succeeir
DANIEL Waiour.—Discontinue your appeals to heaven, they
induce us to believe you may have had a religiousisluca-
tion, and that would aggravate your crimes. Cood men
shudder at your 'solemn imivocations, and bad ones 1:!;:iTli at
them: be adirliird, Sir-, and discontinue the haiiit—'tis a bad

one.—Can
.you not discover that your party have de-

serletl, absolutely cut you ? Look at the miaow able com-
position called "Cobbet's Register, of yesterday.—Not a
word about W.Anoir.; not even the mention of your name.
". Desefied in your utmost need."
Is he waitioK,to see which side he ought to take, before
he commits himself again?—Ytminow he is venal, and you
know his price.% you know too, the assistance he rendered
to the cause against the DUKE OF YoRK ; and- you know
the reason of his enmity; if you. do not,.i ivilfranind you.
A short time previous to the quarrel between the Duke and
Mrs. CLARICE, the latter invited Cor,l3Err to dine at Gloster-
Place, with a view of making him friendly to Ills Royal
Highness.—ylic ACCEPTED THE what fol-
lowed ?J When hirs,..CLAßxr informed the Duke of what
she had done,, with a spirit that does him infinite honor, he
refused to sit,. dowp.with such a —, and Mr. BLDDULPII
was dispatched with. the ungracious message, that bid him
keep his distance.,—:.will tell you . another circumstance,
tkat places the yepity of this fellow in astronger light, and

JULY Id

will ifropably:oPeri the eyes of the peopie w the t.az.ii.e of
his poiiiirst,.
Notwithstanding. the brutal indelicacy of his cages, and
the manner in which .Mrs. CLARKE s paint %as !rel,e,d, this
fellow prevailed upon Lord of KST.) N E 0 rt)(ll.:Ce him at
WestboOrne-Place; !pit insiead r.i bchp.;- i!ed emain,
ins-ft.:ad of being treated with city to cot c;liate— what 1., as
the behaviohr of this siirited, (call her imprudent if you w ill)
but what I say was the conduct of this spiri;ed woman ? Per.
haps you are already infori,:ed. tie instant he sat d she
asked him how lie could have the impudence to apT,ear in
her house, after the 1-iiiiaa.4e. he had ..red respecting r r?—
Wbat was the wretches' ans.ver ? " fits! oit niwi.; 7, at
Wild that, I was oblized to bespatter you, If; make the pp,. ;:le
believe
.what I said against the teiont ! bespattered a
great deal more."--Lord VOLKSTONE can coetradict thi s
anecdote if it be false, or he can give it more correctly tf
(repeating it only from recollection), I have not gives
it-
that season ing which kept the risible faculties of his
ship in perpetual exercise during the visit. To use the em-
phatic words of Mil. CLARKE, " THINK ON T 1115," and on a
great deal more that you know, and which the public shall
know very soon.
ausu, Amass

MRS. CL/IRKE,
TO TILE .PEOPLE OF THE UNITED KINGDONf,
In answer to lir. Wardles Intemperate illddress, 11,1114
appeared in PIS NATIONAL RSGISTER of last .Sunday.
Honoured as my testimony before the House of Com-
mons has been, with the confidence of the country at large,
and Sanctioned- as my evidence has been, in a recent in-
stance, by a Jnry of my Countrymen, I fed myself called
upon (after affording time for the most deliberate rtfieetion)
to address you, in consequea-xe of a circumstance which
has arisen opted the Cause in which Mr. WrigH, an up-
holsterer, Was Plaintiff, colonel Wardle. Pefendant,. ;Led
Mr. Daniel lVright, brother of the Plaintiff, and mysei"l,
were Witnesses. In this cause it is well known thai Co!.
Wardle was cast, to the satisfaction of every honest tracks-
rtrAn, and, indeed, of eve! 7 body in the Court. The detail
of evidence the Public Prints will afford. As far as regards
my testimony these details are somewhat inaccurate, but
they arc sufficntly correct to have enabled the Public to
strengthen this verdict, with an almost universal approba-
tion. Colonel Wardle, inflated by a popularliv, the cxtent of
which vias as unexpected, as it will be found to have been un-
deservcd, had vainly flattered himself that this same popula-
rity wo:ild protect him against the Justice of his Country ;
disappointed at the Verdict, heAlas!ost his prudence with,his
temper; and, without giving himself time for reflection, has
made :.n unusual appeal to the people of the United Kingdom,
against the Verdict oca.Tury. As an excuse for this ahnosr un-
precedented circumstance, he has stated that lie; Counsel,
notwithstanding his earnest entreaty, repeated to them_ I*
wriiing during the Trial, in the strongest terms, did not
comply with his request to examine Major Dodd, Mr.
Gee, and others. However he may vapour about these

Witnesses out of Court, even Colonel Wardle will hesitata
before he ventures to subject them to an examination upon
oath,whiht the written documents exist which rill inculpate
more exalted personv, and shake the very ft:imitations of
his own ephemeral popuiirity. Colonel Ward! is no( ig-
norant of the reasons which may have indueed the sup.
pression of the written leslimour that would have unde-
niably corroborated my evidence. Coloiiel Wart?le knows
that Mr. Wright's serraNtl, a well as others, can prove