The Sun.
London, England, 1809-02-11 00:00:00

HOUSE QF COALVONS.

PRZSRUA It 10.
Lord PRBCY, the ChairatAn of the We&ford Corn.,
mittee; obtained leave for the Cominitiee to adjourn
till Thursday next, in coniequenee of, the volumi.
‘IISUS Report, which they ,had received trorn the Cotn.
nitoionerslin Ireland.•

On' the motion of Mr. WARDLE, Captain Sanden
wag summoned to attend the Committee of the
whole lionse'o sitting to invebtigate the condu& of
the Duke .ot York:

Mr. Briers presented a Petition from the Debtors
in Newgatisi whicb was ordered to lie on the, table.
Mr. W. POLE presentegl several Letters from Sir
Chorles Cotton, tespeeting the Itus‘stan Fleet in the
erarlts.-i-Uritered to be printed.
Uia the motion of 'Mr. HUNK/SSOki an Account
NviiS ordered to be laid before the House of the Ex-
chequer Mlle on the aide of 1808, outstanding and
unprovided for' as also an .:tkocount of the exceeds
of the War Tl4os.

• The Malt Duty Bill, and the two Exchequer Bills
Bills, were read a second time, and ordered to be
committed on Monday.
APPOINTMENTS IN INDIA.
Mr. G. SMITH; in pursuance of the nqtice Which
he gave IaSI night, grounded on the circumstances
which then transpired, moved for the appointment of
a Select Committee, to inquire into the existence of
any corrupt praaices with regard to the appoints
ment or nomination of writerships and cadetships to
the East indie.s, or to any agreement, negotiarion,.ot
tsar ►in direaly or mairettly, for the side cat streb
appointnients. He stated, that this motion met with
the unanimous approbation of the Court of Direc-
tors, who were anxious that the matter should be
t h orwit;hiy probed.

Aill'Airk ANT seconded the motion;• he regretted
extremely not having been present last night, when
the sub e& was agitated. Nothing could be more
satisfaCtory to the court of Direetors than the invest•
igation now propilied. As public two they had fre4
queatly experienced the baneful effects or tile h-opt 34
tatioui which they had often suffered oh this subject.
They had, in consequence, endeavoured at various,
tittles, taking the advertisements in the papers for"
their clue, to discover the, individuals Who; in those
adverti.sernents, were declared to possesi the power
of p,recuriu4 thokt slttlatiens allukd tu,, but ib Takt.

S,,tne time ago they found, that a clerk at the India •
Menge had obtained from a worthy Direaor, now
no more, a Cadetship which he afterwards disposed
of: he was in consequence dismissed with ignominy
. tom the House. .Within the last week the Direc-
tors had .had a surmise of a, similar transaction, which
they were now closely investigating, and which
they were endeavouring, it ,possible, to trace to its
• source. He trusted that the House would proceed
to the fullest examination upon this important
subject ; and in order that no undue bias might be
16111)00%CA to exit in the minds of 06 CoMmittee
ahoutto be appointed, he trusted that it
,would be
coitlo.ed of Members uncouneaed with the East
India company.
Mr. G. 6MlTtlitt ntoli9n was then agreed to, and
150tet Com,nittee appointed of fifteen Members,
among .whriai were—
nr. Morton .•Pitt,' Mr., Nicholas Vansittart, Mr.
Elliott, Mr. Btagge Bathurst, Mr. Bankes, Mr. \W-
ilt. t' Whitbtead, Mr. W. Burnie, Mr. Pytu,
Mr. Yorke, &c.
'Jo the motion gi Sir JOHN SINCLAIR, a Com-
mittee was appointed to take into consideration
the ACts now in- force respeaing broad-wheels,
and report their opinion on the aubject to the House.
The StiORBTAItY at WAR presented the Army
whica were. ordered to be primed. He
gave notice th u, he would move
.them in the CQIII--
' mitter4 of Silpply Go that day ,seinnight.
TheSsotwritiy at Wits presented returns of the
;lumber ot' recruits raised by
.ordioury recruiting
during the last twelve months.—Ordered to Cu
.printed.
General STEWART presented an account of the two
troop 4 of the Drivers Corps, with the army sent to
Portugal under Sir A. W4lesley..6—Ordered'to be
printed.

THE DUKE OF YORK.
The House haying resolved itself into a Commit-
tee, ter the purpose of proceeding further with the
investigation of the Charges against his Royal High-
nos the Duke of York,
Mr. Wsanea rose for the purpose pf making a
few observations. The first circumstance that he
wished to speak upou was the letter read last night '
from Mrs. Clarke to Mr. DOl:lo‘nri, respecting- Mr.
Tucker, in which he was represented as having re-
ceived information frOm Mr.'Yamerty on tie sub-
jeCt. When Mr. Finnerty's name was before intro-
(Weed, he had expressly stated, that exceprwhen
he:' wrote a letter addressed to Major Hogan, and his
casual 'rencontre ill the lobby of the House, he had
never any communication with that Gentleman, and
that all that had passed oil the latter occasion, was
merely the relation of home circumstances respeCt-
ing Dr. Thynne. It was possible that Mr. Fin-
nerty might- have mentioned the subied of Mr.
Tucker to hint, but he di.l not know who he was,
or what was the nature of the attack upon him. He
Was thus ex plicit,
,on the sobject, because it was ex-.
tremely unpleasant to hint to hear iniiiiMatioo9 of the
most groundless nature
,thrown out, as if he had ob-
tained his" information, or a_ great part of
,it, from
Mr. Finnerty. His Honourable Filmic' near him,
had last night presented a petition from Mr. Flo-
ra:l.4y, praying to be heard at the bar. It would be
a great satts(iction. to hint that Mr. Finnerty shout&
be so heard, in order to put an end to the idea, that'
an acquaintance, existed between Mr. Finnerty and
himself, whith,',he wi,hud to withhold from the
knowledge of the House. On a recent evening his
-Honourable Friend Fleet him, (Mr. Sheridan) had
done hint the justice to declare,' that he be.
lievcd the motives ,by which he was influenced, in
the investigation now pending,,,- were pure and
correct ; but t tie Hon.. Gentleman
.hactaccomplmied
that opini:in with a:declaration, that he (Mr. W.)
was deluded by an infamous association of the most
absndoped characters. As to his (Mr. Wardle's)
bciug connected With such a set of men as those
described by the Honourable Gentleman, he so-
lemnly denied, it. .He knew no such men. If he
did, he would instantly avow it, Hail he the least
suspicion of such a conspiracy as that described
by the HonourAle Gentleman, he would be the
first to give up any information that he possessed
an the subjed ; but he had not the most distant
guess at what wars meant. He was not surprised that
.a Ministerial Print had attacked him so unjustly af-
ter the observations of the Hon. Gentleman. If the
f-lon. (..Gentleman still thought that such a conspiracy
existed, be was ready to give hint every possible aid
to sift the matter to the bottom, and bring the per-
sons of 'whom it was composed to jnstice. The next
subje6l on which he wished to say a few words, was
, Miss Taylor. He thought it a duty which he
owed to that Licly, to state, what he knew concern-
ing her. He had been given to understand that she
was respeetably connected, and that 'she had Iwo bro-
thers, one in the army, the other in the navy: 'When
he spoke to her yesteriniy of-the necessity of appear-
ing at the bar of the House, she " if neces-
sal:, I certainly must appear ; but I know that it
svili be the ruin of the dearest conoections that I
have in the world." Under. these cilcuinstatmes he
was desirous—
Mr. AACKHART spoliplp Order. Honourable
(t ntleet►iin appeared ntm to be entirely out of
older, in making stns Conuuttus at pi esent on the

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witnesses.
WA4II,I,TE did not think he was disorderly in
endeavouring to tesettc Alias Taylor from the odium
with which the questions of the Right Hon. Gentle-
wan oppositewere calculated to load her..
The CO ANGt,:r..Lott of the. EXCHECin tut deprecated
any ten:mitts, such as those made by the Hon. Gen...
hellion, until the conclution of the whole exouitna-
ti„n, lest there should be a .debate after the testi-
individual witness had been given.
molly cat evcry
Mr. StIgitIOAN 'allowed that his Hon. Friend
was, irregular in the latter , 'Art of his speech, but
he did not conceive that be had been so 'in the
kvith which he had' conitnrnced it. With
te,y, to that topic he could; only assure his. Hon.
thrit suspecting he unknowingly derived his
(ruin a tool and iuiproper source, he
t.4°.tit anxious to eoxird him a.;ains.t the. con--
(t. It Hon. Friend thou;:,iht it wOuld tend
to put,ethat ho Was tlocOrt-,
(t•6:0 •,.'.ingly) with such [ten as he had
to as happy as himself that Mr.
61• her person, should be examined
:11t.posc. What lid had Said on a
Bpolt,ort in the spirit ot justice
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