The National Register.
London, England, 1809-07-30 00:00:00

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promised stun of 400 f. VV.taoLs called upon Mrs. Ciaunn
the couversa:ion, leading to the subject of the book which
Mrs. CLARKE was preparing to publish when the investiga-
tion should be finished, W4RDLE took the opportunity of
sta4:ng t: ow very poor he was, and suggested to Mrs. CLA RICE,
that, as PM LLars Rould be a proper person to publish the
work, there would be nothing unreasonable in asking him
to lend his acceptance for SOU which, upon the faith of his
bei.4 the publishe7, Mr. Wsanuc further said, you would
not hesitate to do. Mrs. CLARKE had no idea of having
her book mortgaged to fulfil the Colonel's promises ; and,
theioGre, with her accustomed discretion, waived the sub-
ject. Now, Sir, your Letter was intended to throw a sari
of discredit upon Mr. WRIGHT'S assertion, by making its
truth a matter of improbability, but what is the real effect
produced ? Why, that if your Letter is at all to the purpose,
it proves Colonel WA RDLE to have told another folshood.
Sir Richard! Sir Richard! Weyer 1 should he guilty of
fully or falshood—may heaven in its merry, avoid afflicting
sue with the indiscreet friendship of conceited, half-witted
look—But you felt it due to yourself forsooth, to *all the
attention of the public.—You make the statement solely
from respect to public opinion It—For God's sake, Sir
Richard, do spare the public, if you really entertain any
retried for Its opinion--do spare it the nauseating drafts
which your vanity prescribes. It is a great pity that some
...‘ed natured friend does not prick the fuN blown bladder.
4 your pomposity, and reduce your own Opinion of your-
self to something like a natural sine.
The public =l;i% as in Tato character, is made up in a
was inat it is scarcely possible to alter. Through the
gawdy trappings of an ill-assorted mind, it has iiiisi67:::"."!
forty, falshoud, and meanness. In the Court of King'si
?each something inure than these peeped out, which has
added a worthlessness to your character, and a character
to your word that wilt never he erased. There is a blot in
)our escutcheon, Sir RICHARD, which neither the Rivers of
Damascus, nor alt the waters of Israel can wash out.
" You are anxious, it seems, not to be considered as in-
timating any thing in spirit or iu terms (arrant nonsense),
to theprejudice of either party with reference to the present
flitpute:' tho way in which you whew
your respect fur public opinion? Do you believe there is
another fool in the country who is imposed upon by this
declaration ?—Yon did, Sir, intend,to intimate that Mr.
'Wa ast had told a falshood, but you have actually proved
that Vi AIpLS made use of your name without authority, at
least if you are to be believed 11—But, Sir, this is not all, I
charge you not only with having intimated something to
the prejudice of one of the parties in this dispute, but with
baying offered yourself as evidence, with having procured
evidence, and having end:avoured to suborne evidence
aglinst one of the parties, of hay lug identified yourself in the
business, not only as a friend,but almost as a party. Did you
not only a few days before this Letter of yours was sent to
Os Newspapers, write a letttr to Lord FOLKSTONE, in
which, as a friend to Mr. Wsam.r., you• apprised him that
at tho time Mrs. CLARKE was negotiating for her book,
she told vett that she wanted 2000/. in money to pay her

upholsterer, And that you had got one Gentleman already
who would attest that circumstance ? did not your letter
go ca to sap that as Lord KOLLITOIVA Wall at the. period

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