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London, England, 1809-03-11 00:00:00

his opinion they were proven' to exist 11 it d'al
go to the full extentati the proof, he sueeeettei
from motives of delicacy,, and not &,o o a veee „
evidence., „ With respect To the dhar;-..;5, in .
nion, that the; Commander in C:,iet: :11e.e.te!il see.,
ff mistress to carry on a corrupt. trac, in eete..-1
corruptly participated, was completely made otie
was proved imy Clarke's evidence:: In inent on-
ing this person, he begged to state, that he o“trIonli.
ed, and diSpised the imputations 00-m1.111e:1%M, :red
was not conscious of any motives of the bcrt as-
cribed to him. The'Noble Lord here took a revieev
of what was said by Mr. Burton on, the head of the
evidence of accomplices, and from a precedent in
Leech's Reports, and from the nature ;if die ease, .
contended that no other description of witnesses
could possibly speak certainly to such .fa&ts.
evidence, of accomplices, he contended, though
.ought to-be received with''Caution, was not to
entirely overlooked, as he conceived the argument ef
the Learned, Judge td be. If they excluded the tes-
timony of accomplices, they excluded all restimoey;
cut oft' all proof, and the House conld never be able
to come to a decision. With respea to the testimony-
of Mrs. Clarke in particular, he malaained that it
was not liable to the accusatioteof being produced bj,
revenge and hatred, as stated by several Ileneurehle.
Gentlemen. He agreed with his 1-1-4. Friend (M:.
Whitbread), that it was a strange way of evincing
malice, to burn all the documents' and Keel-sof faCta
- which could rifle& the party and do service to the
prosecutor ; , and yet Mrs. Clarke hi:el dour; this,
which might probably eccount for there Only
four cases now befornthe House. If she had kept
a:I" her papers, theretimight have beim ten ttronsaud,
of which the documental were now destroyed,i and
the metnury passed Away. 1n less •opueon it was
inarvellons, not that there were so let(' cases, but
that there were so many as fit e fully ma, le
It had been stated over and over,again, its allusive
to his Hon. Friend, that he WASIIO.O tfte p 1 ::I(lppi in
this basiness, bur brotight forward .by. s. Chu
, whose agent he was. This was stated from belief, ,
not from lertowledge, and t eaet was precisely the
reverse. His Honoureble Frietid,was nut led by the
blandishments of Mrs. Clarke; he had got clees to,
these:transactions, which went a certaitritegth, and
heleund out that he could not go etriferther with •
out Mrs. Clarke. It was nut so eev to lay held Of,
her; and to get any thingeim of her. flieaSserted,
that Mrs. Clarke came terward as his lion. Friend's
witness, and, has she said, unwillingly, whieleirom
his heart, he believed. • His Hen. Friend spoke to
her first, and she did not come opeuenouthed.e—
Being brought for*ard, what kited of t witnesa was
she? he appealed to the House that forgetihlpe.4
was not her fault ; she brought out things unawares taiaa
which were afterwards found to be truth from tl‘e
production of letters, they suppesed had been burnt
by' Mr. Nicholls, and others supposed to have neve
destroyed by Sanden. When. she first talked of
Clavering and O'Mara, lie and every one disbelieved,
her; but the matter was afterwards proven--she ter-
gets Tonyn's case and states,, that atter reedinge he
newspaper account of it, she knows no mere line
before. It she had conspired, would she have :tent
thus ?_ ,No ; ahewoold have come :arward, and teed, '•
in my bed last night rreeolletied this.case which I
had forgot before. It was the S3llll with regard to
the note, which she stated site hail forgot ; but w het,
she saw it? and that it was the hatta-writing,of the
Duke of Yolk, she ssid I have been wrong ;it
must be so." She had seta in private to him, tit t
stie cud not recollect giving Senclerr that note, end she
imagined he had stolen it tram her. lee& ne ;az
coutlua, he, from his cteescieuret believiet trial
, capable of doing .so,. that he did do so, and he as
tirMly believed ' that the note was in the: letrid-
writing of the'Deke of York. It was unaceoutes.
ble to consider it as ct forgery, which bore. its
'every point the stamp ni truth—eollice rpor---.t!)1
- water-mark 003—the feigned name—the God
bless , and the slur at tottotll, which
'woura
have induced a person forging to have -written it
over loin, rather than let that go, were all indithit-
ablip Iproofs of its authenticity. The evidence tit ,
General Brownridre, Colonel Gordon, Mr. Adele,
and General Hope, ?roved the same thingeevith '
thtiir partiality (he did not mean improper) for the
,other side.' The House had been disgraced by
e"rnieneoe of other witnesses on thitisubjea—fer
whe,-would take upon them tejnage a canoe Merely
from a•serap of writing, when they knew how mei),
different timings operated to create a trifling del',•,,e-
ence, such as' pen 3, ink, paper, temper of the bAy,
and a hundred other reasons. l The-Noble Lord leer
went into the case of the exchange, and argned,"th
' there,was tiocontradititon het ween Mrs. Clarke' an,l
Mr, knight. That it tnieht hsevery natural
though she corinnumicated these Matters to time 1.).t.i1e !
herself, to wish them not to come tehis ears freem a
third tetarter, which would expose her to the charge
of being incautious, And this reconciled their em
deuce,
,ax to a desire exple'ssed to have the husineso
kept secret. As, for the -bi'COllll'alleaed centr•idie-
tion,,',,natuely, her threats to ttxpose theeDoke of
'York, hr also contended, that' a 4 Mr. Knight Wilti a
Very reluetaot witness, and indignant at Mrs. Chile.,
lie:might give a stronger interpretation to her lets
page than it' stridly bpre him out in doing. "%Jet-
; ther of the coetradidions which had been anti:let-
! ed to Mrs. Clarke related to the statements she etas
made to examinations concerning her hush:w.f.
Mr. Stower had been called to prove that he hue e
I Mr. Clarke to be a. Stone-mason . but , howet er
ft l might be established, the contradiaket in • .
Clarke's evidence wait' not of sufficient twigtl;tw:,..,
shakt: the credit of her testimony. He did tea hno
what tO, make of the toestioni put to tier ; taut
aoM them he did suppose Mrs. Clarke's huseand to
,he.bot of low origin ; but on, inquiry he timed I,e
,was of a very wealthy family, end that his COI/ -
tions were in the :highest degree respeCiable. tle
c ,u1;1 state to the House that, so far (rem beio,;
circumstanced as he- had imagined, be had heard Mr.
Clarke kept a coaela and fear; and lived in'a Vle
corresponding magniticenc.

CHANest.t.olt of 111 C EXCURQUER Said, Cvit
a his Lordship merely stated this (ni his own know
!edge, it should not' be likened to, illjt could' not ne
considered as evidence.

Lord FOI.KSTONE•33Id, he did: not state That it
evidepce, but he wishd to bt,...‘ allowed tfl
tact to the . With respe4t to lie! !,.; !--
proitNited herself as Alm. Dowk!t, oh hie',,
charge 11:41.been grootided v •
1,1(.1 only beeh proved lo evicit!),/
(:;:illed b 1 that_ id3uto, but cotli !1!--7