The National Register.
London, England, 1814-02-13 00:00:00

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COL I? I' OF KIN G's BENCH, MoNna v. FEB. 7.
TRE KING r. MAEY ANNE CLAnt&E.
The Alton ey-Getteral this day moved for the jull,rmetit of their
Lordships lotion Mrs. Mary Anne Clarke.-1. he i:ourt atel its aVCIMCS
Were much crowded, and it Was with tireat difficulty that Mrs.
Clarke could be brought Italia: di the multitude to the floor upon
which she was to receive sentence. She was dreSY,Ca in a lar,e •
white lace veil, a chip h it, scarlet velvet spencer. and white gown.
Site did not can ti-ey to the Bench; but on being led hi by a friend
and the tipstaf, she took her stand under the Jury•box, folding her
arms.
Judgment hat in:; been allowed to eo by default, the indirtment
was read, (-longing the Ortendant ttiili being the author of a like,
reandidons, maneimis Bunt I, ion:tiding to-delittne and v 34
Right lion. Williem Fitzgerald, ( kneel:or of the Exeliegfier for
11 eland, kr. It was contained in a pamphlet, purporting to be a
ktter to that ...;entlemini. It stated in substance
" Toot the character elf Mr. Fitzgeral 1 needed no additional re--
11'1714c disgl.ol-4': it was already of so deep a dye as pot to regnit r
ilil foreign shades to atld to its Wad:miss.. NV:iat, it Unwired, innst
the world in gvberal thin,. of him who seduces the wife of his
isiti-
)tutte friend, causes the husband to he sent to a distant and un-
healthy climate, that he might the sooner a victim to the hand
of death, then indulges his .Ih-cations passions, and when their tf-
frets began to be apparent, by deleterious stud poisonons thaw, at-
tempts to destroy the Mut cent for the guilty ; that hiN avarice
might he spared the charge of educating his offspring at-ions
! Can such a cold ;dot:ode:I m itster exist Such a monster east
exist--but who will believe (it inquires) that it will he found in Vie
person of a senater, of 11. e Chancellor of the Irish Excliegner, lof
at Lord of the Ticasury," &e.—it went on to observe, that Ms.
Fitzgerald !nest he ignore Mar she was not speaking without a
thistungh ham ledge of the Lei, pot of ilk ehariacter : throtiOcut
she t gild ti stile to ILe until of these a-sections, and 0:e aidhority
she %email adduce to pro% e them would he his awe. %%lien the se -
happy victim was hotgoishing ender the deleterious eCcets of the
drags he had admiuiste red, nod was hasteeing in the flower a her
oniii to a PI omit floc grave (it asserted) that Mrs. Choke was em-
ployed by Mr. Fitzgerald to use her influ;:tice to procure an asylum
for the unhappy female."
In another part of the same letter, she Unwired-1" "%VII() was the
grandfather of Mr. Fitz:..erald, but a pet tyfogging attorney at Ennis,
who got his living by sning out ditty writs ; his nude wes hanged
for horse-stealing, and his aimt mid sister were common street-
-walkers. It now remailied to be seen (added the letter) whether
the people of Great Britain and Ireland will allow such a mili-
tate to exist, whose vows and enticements were as common as the
air he breathed, who hail committed a crime for %Odell oor
gauge had no name, who was a deliberate destioyer of the naborn."
The readirg- of ;he indictment (dating which Mrs. Clatke often
smiled) hav nig been eonelndell, she pat in ;in affidavit, which Al
loth, that—" She felt great concern that she had been betrayed
i•ito a violation of the law ; that she had been intimatt lv af“raioted
with the prosecutor and his father few many years ; that his father
introduced the pro-emit or to he r before le went to coEege, consi-
dering aat she (livid do him much service in his progress in life ;
that the deponeot eid render him malty important services, and
that ti.cy were upon a looting of great intimacy; that she had been
long in habits of correspondence with the prosecutor and Isis tailor,
and that by these means she became possessed of many of bin letters,
and which It tters, in a late legally, were salunitted to the notice
et. the I louse of Commons ; that the contents of some tat thow let-
ters during that inquiry, transpired, and it Was suggested to Mr.
Voneral,l, that if those letters; were disclosed it would lie highly
detrimental to him and to his firmly, and that he would be no
longer aisle to reprem sit in Pariiiinicot the bornugh of Ennis, which
bad cost hint considerable sums of money ; that by these suggestions
the prosecutor was much alarmed ; and, in cc-Inciience, the
proeentor came to the deponent in grfat distress and agony
of mind, and obtained possession of,tbe greater part of his letters,
on a promise of reward and fayOur,;aud the letters were destroyed
in her presence; that thedepottent -having great confidence in the
prosecutor's lather, eutrusted him with various letters and papers
of importance, as well as a letter front- a person of high anthority,
resin Ctieg a provision for. his only soft ;, after he had obtained this
emiespen 'enee, time father of then prosecutor withdrew, and front
that time to the pit sent, lie had abstained_ trom the thenelly inter-
eimise that hail before existed between them ; the proseilitor nei-
ther w vote or called, and was no longer that, friendly visitor he had
previous!) shewu himself; that the lathcr uf the prosecutor assured