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-Whitehall, March 3,. iSoo.
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I, king has been graciously pleased to give
;hand grant unto lOHN BRIGGS, of Lincoln's Inn.
T., County of Middlesex, and ANDREW REID. of
I°"' Down, in the County of Hertford, Esqrs. (two of. the seen,"
named and constituted in and by the last will'
end testament of Sir TIIO MAS PASLE Y. late of Chilland
Cottage, in the County of Southampton, Baronet, Admital•
of the White Squadron of His Majesty's I, leer. deceased,)
on behalf of Sir THOMAS SABINE SABINE, Baronet,
Plow an infant.) the only son of john Sabine, late a Captain
et his Majesty's First Regiment of Foot Guards, deceased.
by Maria itis wife, the eldest daughter and coheir of the said
Sir Thomas Pasley, Baronet, his Royal licence and autho-
rity that he the said Sir THOMAS SABINE SABINE may
in compliance with the last will and testament of the afore-
said late Sir Thomas Palley, his Grandfather, take and use
bhsurname, and bear the Arms of Pasley only ; Such Arms
.._,ng first duly exemplified according to the Laws of Arms,
'nu recorded in the Herald's Office.
And also to command that this, his Majesty's concession
and declaration, be /41610 in his College of Arms otherwise
to'be void and of none etith.

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Who shall carry the same to the office of the Paymasters of
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1R the tiressl toccirreirtond, A 1)11:11 ON Ait Y of CONI.
ME.R.O E. TRADE,auirMANUFAC CURES. Pike zlzi.
6eards:-

Mr. 13,Axiim.t: was against
.bringing forward the,
Irish Taxes in this manner before ilie'llndget.
The CHANCELLOR of the EiCtiEVUEIi support-
ed the-Bill, and said it was tiecessary to hring it
forward in sixoweeksa4r the Comtnolevitient "of the
Session,' as. the Irish Distillery Bill ey.pired in that
time, and observed that the riou. Geatientui's re;-
maining in Ireland, and not attending his duty, was
no cause: for further delay. _

The Bill was ordered 'to be cornMitted on Moti,
dayM.
r. I-iostussoii said, he made an inquiry of the
total expence of . the Officers, Non-commissioned
Otfieers, &c. e. respeaing Colonel French's levy.. Th
number of inOn approved of at the depot, -.by Gene.:
ral Whitlocke, was
.219 which were gained by thp
service. It would appear .onfs half of. the serjeanti
were to be retained for the King's service, making
in the whole 269. The amount paid per man was
491. He concluded by moving for a siqtement of the
amount of the expence incurred by Colonel French'S
levy, which, was agreed to, and which paper he pre:
seined acordingly.
The LORD ADVOCATE for SCOTLAND obtain-
ed leave to attend the Committee of Douse of
Lords, and- a message was sent to inform thefii
thereof.

;The Cape of Good Hope Trade 1c..11 was brought
in by Mr. Rosa, and was read a first tithe, and
ordered to be'read a second time on Monday.
The Mutiny 13i11 was ordertd to be read a third
time on Monday next.
Mr. BERESFORD complained of miscondite.l in the
Post Office in Ireland, particularly in the Irish Ex»
press Office. An expresS, was detained, he said, re»
speeting the Distilling 81191110.45, erg hours, to the
great prejudice of the Mercantile Interest, and he
therefore gave notice, thatrhe Wouldhltive fora Corn=
mittee to inquire in the condud of the Irish Pat
Office after the recess: , _

Mr. Huincissbx obtained leave to brills in 1a lii+l
tnreelity miatakes in the Laud Tax Coniolissionete

CALL OF THE HOUSE.

Lord FoLks-rotsa said, before he moved that the
Order of the Day, be read for calling over 114
House, ,he wished to observe, that the opinion en-
' tertained was, that the debate respecting the con-
duet of the Duke of York would not be concluded
this night, anti as the House would not sit to-mot-
; row, he proposed to have the House called over city
Monday, having hist moved, that' the House at its
ristng do adjourn to Monday, whiCh was agreed to.
His Lordship then movecii. that the House be called
over oti Monday..
General GAscoytig spoke from the Members' gal-
lery. He said he would forbear following up tits
notice he had given of dividing the House on the
call, as he would not wish to trouble the
nor give trouble in a quarter, which he could not
according to Parliamentary usage, with proVrieiy
name, (allUding to the Gentletik;n in the galh.,ry),
There had been two nights already of sucee,,s,‘,4
long sittings, and such fatigue would.oceasion more,
Members not to attend than the Noble Lord would
pbtain from hi 3 call. He was extremely anxious that
the question should be brought to a decision
night, as there never was a aubjea which so Leech
agitated the public mind, exclusive of the great Soli-
citude of the Illustrious Personage, whpse cond,,ltt
was the subjea of discussion. Tthat; repeated
slain;;' have elfiCt on the twine of the niosi

robust, and must be particularly injurious to the in-
firm Ivltnbers. He,wished that the House should,
sir till eight' or nine o'clock to-morrow,„ as it %yes
likely to last a week, judging by the very long
speeches which had been made, it only one Mem-
ber was to make a speech out of 100. ,He wished,
for the accommodation of the House, that the two
• men who adorned St: Dunstan's Church should be-
placed in a.coospicuous part of the House, to give.
the alarm to the Gentlemen Orators who made such
long speeches.
The CHANCELLOR ;of the ..EXCHEQUaIt said, he
wished the House not to,imagine, in consequence of
what had fallen. from,the Noble Lord, tha: there was
Any thing like an understanding, that the debate
which had been adjourned would .Oot,conclude to-
night. • He was anxious that the (*Mien should be
put into some. ibrio, and that the House Would agree
to the fern), hoWever,Geetletnen. may differ as
the substance ou which, the sense of the House
might be taken. If the form was agree,d upon; it
would considerably narrow the discussion, and he
would have no obyttion to sit as lung as his Hon.
Friend proposed, if that could be agieed upon.
Lord FOGKSTONE said, it was by no means his
Intention to insinuate that any understanding had
taken place oti the subjett.
The motion was then put and agreed to, and the
• House was ordered to be called over on Monday
next.
Mr. W. WYNtii deferred his motion respecting •
the Duke of York's letter sire die; and his motion
respecting General Clavering, w hich stood fete Tues-
day, till the discussion on t of York's con-
duet terminated. . •
THE DUKE OF YORK.
The Order of the Day being read for resuming
the adjourned debate on the evidence taken on the
Duke of York's conduct, the SPEAKER read the ori-
ginal, Address moved by Mr. I,VAlint.e, and the
Amendment moved by the Comsicieeoe of the Ex-
CHECZUER, and stated the question accordingly.
Mrs lisNe.es rose. He said he wtts donfident the
•
House would grant hint its indulgence, while he
took the liberty of stating, what to him seemed the
best mode of proceding to be adopted on the present
occasion., lie should teel concerned, if through his
ine,ms, any unnecessary • protraction of the affair
should take place. But when he considered the ne-
cessity of attehding to the tome in which their deli
-
liberations should with propriety ..be moulded, he
must express the conviaion of his mind, as to the
necessity et laying* before his Majesty 'an uniform
address. He had no oblation to concurring with
the resolutions of.the Right Hon. Gent.'(Chancellor
of the Exchequer) provided he agreed'to the amend-.
inent which he would propose. In this discussion
he was anxious forla full statement at once, iii order
that the .House may be assured of what it was en-
gaged in. There was nothing which he • so much
.‘klstied so obviate, ai any intricacy in the matter.
:His sole object was to amend the amendment, and
substantially to Maintain 'the preliminary part of the
Tesolutions. The propriety of discussion on the
point of form, he stated to be proved by precedents
in the years 1719 and 1783, which the Speaker was '
so kind as to a'tfold him. , Founding therefore his
mikes on those precedents, it was his intention to
bring the•HoUse to a division upon the amendment,
while he should wish to preserve the previous part of
the original motion. • In that House he was con& 1,
dent there , was no individual who attended the
pending inquiry with more reluctance titan he did.
. It was impossible for him to. conceal' his apprehen-
sions that the result of this inquiry would be.ot More
detriment' than service. limas the House bad so
• for gone into the case, he trusted it w ld ou aqui it-
self with honour.
opinions which he had formed, he' felt assured that
it would not disgrace him, As, however, he most
certainly now entertained no wish fur the same pro.'
lougatioii of 'debate as on former, nights, he should'
not add to the ample discuision which had _already
taken place oir the general question. What bad
been done by he Right Hon. Gentlethan (the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer) was not only perforitied
with distinguished ability and creditable zeal, but
with considerable fairness. What he had said he
believed to be from the genuine impression ' of his
honourable mind, and he conceived'that the whole
House would concur with him when he asserted,
that the speech of the Right Honourable Gentle-
. Man wart one of the ablest that ever was delivered
by any Member in it. It' would occur, to the mind
or any Honourable Gentleman, that of all other
kinds of investigation, the present should be one
least ieCumbered by the confusion which would in-
iallitily be the consequence of introducing into the
}loose, what he knew to be always to its disadvan
(age--a judicial form of inquiry. ' Great credit was
due to the Honse for the means which 'it employ-
ed in the investigation, and he hoped that its deci-
sion would be attended with equal honour. He
,could not but expiess his surprise, at the extraordi-
naiy grounds which Some GelltirMell bad adduced
s,,r the invalidation' of evidence. Because some
cuntradiakin had been proved, did it follow that
the whole Mass of testimony Vas' to be rejetled ?
:Was it conforniable to common tense to deny,'
that there was truth in any, because some parts were
taLe ? Would it not be more Cousimarit.: With. rea-
. son and, justice to separate the truth trout the false-.
hood, and alt upon ',that Separation its the conclu-
sion which would be drawn ' When A variety,of
were found to be -substantiated, would any
that they. :should not be -taken into con-
side..rarion'?. Sonic points hid been proved so strong-
ly,' to be out of the reach of coutradialtion,
"i'ltese, he conceived, were points which fully esta-
blished the connexion of corrupt prattices between
lien and the Itoyal. Personage concerned. .A to the
tempt of invalidating Miss;Thylor's testimony,.he
I,VOi convinced it was unsuccessful. Circumstances
themselves bore internal evidence with them. Miss
Taylor stated what she knew, nod he believed that
1. 'r state tnentof a conversation between his Royal
iglinesi and 'Mrs; Clarke' tended strongly to in-
eplye the bitter in considerable suspicion. It she
stat,! more, which, float the degree of inti-
macy hecti re a ins ra. Clarke and her, ,it was contend-
luight, was that- any reason why her veracity
in witat Slit; should be questioned ? The
01.ijdicrts t.iisett'i:egairilt the depositions of this wit-
it e.-; he eonsitiOred to be extremely weak. He would
tr.y ()late! note, which had.been- termed a mysteri-
ous one, that to- him it appeared thing quite in-
telligible. He considered_ it to be if fabricate I m.e,
amidsent by Mrs. Clarke to Tonyn the Duke's,

Tonyn being wholly unacquainted with the hand-.
writing of his Royal Highness the Duke of York.:
He believed farther, that, Sander) was the bearer of
that note. It was 'pculierfeetly deer to- .hitn, that
the transaCtion was Ir-sect-cc to his- Royal Highness.
He had no reason, if he were obliged to say aye or
no on, the occasion, why he should not answer in the
affirmative. Though it was not the-object--of the
.AmendmenEs which he: world proposeoo prove
any personal corruption in the Duke of York, yet
it was impossible not to snspeet its existence in a
considerable degree. There were many melancholy
confirmations of. it. , The case of French's levy
tr songly proved the general intercourse whiCh was so
highly 'discreditable to the Commander in Chief.
.The letter of Dr. O'Mara was another case. Why
should that.foolish and ambitious man apply to Mrs.
Clarke, if he were,not convinced that she possessed.
the influence which was -necessary to the accom-
plishment of his views ) . This case, he svogld say,
entirely centradided the line of demarcation esta-
blished by the Right Hon. Gentleman, •on the sup-
position that the Duke avoided all conversation with
Mrs. Clarke on affairs of that nature. It was abso--
lutely impossible that such concern should escape
her knowledge, from the habit of unreserved cow-
municatiun with which he treated her. It would
not be proper, he conceived, to propose any. crimi-
nal proceedings. But it would be the part ot justice
to his Royal Highness, and the country in general,
that the House should state its opinibns on the sub-
jed to his Majesty, as the father of his country, and
an ztrfediOnate parent. He telt amazed that the con-
stant application of Mrs. Clarke to the Duke did not
create Wale doubts and suspicionsin his Royal mind.
In the correspondence between her and Sanders, she
spoke of a mutual jealousy entertained between her
and Greenwood and Gordon ;, she wished that San-;
den would burn alt her letters;' and expressed her
fears lest the cleverness of Greenwood's clerks should
detect the transactions' in which she was concerned ;
• yet, throughout, it seemed she had felt no appre-
heesions'from being seen with Sanden. This preyed
that there was
.o reserve between the'Commander iu
Chief and Mrs. Clarke on her commuuications with
Sandell. That House- (the Hon. Member said) was
net only the guardian of the country's liberties, but
also the guardian of public Morals. Was it poSsi-
ble, front. the evidence which had been unveiled to
thu House, to entertain any doubts of the publib
'scandal which:had' been given by the conduct of his
'Royal Highness ? Were the present case dis Missed
without its merited comment, he should say there
were just reasons for inveighing aga;nst the morals
of the country. He-considered that the substantive
part of the Address to his Majesty should be coupled
with a suspicion, that his Royal Highness must haVe
had some knowledge of the'corrupt Pradices which
bus..-existed. And he further felt, that the House
would only be discharging an imperative- duty in
stating to his Majesty their conviction that the pre-
sent Commander in Chief would nut any longer re-
main On nseful servant of the country. Such a pro-
ceeding would be rendered necessary, in order to do
away the-icandal whi'ch had arisen in the faCe of the
At the same time, it may be necessary to
t3.ly, that the existence of such a connexion as led to
those events was sincerely lamented by the House.
He would osktot any Gentleman, whether it ought
to be conceived that their proceedings should.be the
echo of a letter ? If there Were no other reason to
induce the House to the adoption of such a line of
condud as he proposed, it would be suflicient,of it-
self. To follow any other line would look like hum-
ble obedience to the instruCtion of that letter which
was received under such extraordinary circumstances.
What he proposed to their consideration proceeds
ed, he' trusted, from a pure and honest source.
In ,the propositiOu which be was, about to submit
to the House, he knew, that he was by no means
-singular in' opinion. 'He had found, in conversation,
'that his views_of the subjed were similar 'to these of
many of his friends..
concluded, by moving an
Amendment to the following effect ' . •
4, Thar an humble Address be presented to his Majesty,
stating to his Majestyohat information had been counpuni-
cated to the House, of various corrupt practices and 'abw.,es
prevailing in the administration of the Army, with respect to '
the disposal of commissions and appointments,' into which
1 the House had examiocil, and felt theinselves'obliged to ac-
quaint his Majesty, that the result of that Inquiry was a con-
viction, that such corrupt prattled and abuses hid unques-
tionably existed. To assure his Majesty of the high satistac-
don which they .experienced in timing no groundi to charge
the Commander hi Chief with personal corruption orcrimi-
nal connivance in those radices; but at the same filbert° o°.
scrO, that while the House were anxious to ito justice to the
advantageS which the Army had 'derived from the superin•
tendance of his Royal Highneas, and more'particularly to
the t.alutary, regulations which 'he had introduced (some of
Whit h were directed against the very pratticeScomplained of),
they were obliged to express their opinion tu'bis Majesty,
that abuses could scarcely have existed to the emetic to which
they: were proved to have existed,. without exciting some
suspicion in. the mind of the Commander in ,C hict. • l'o sub-
tnit to. his Majesty, that, if even that circumstance were left
out of the considerations, their opinion was, that the Com-
mand of the Army could no longer with propriety or Ind-
dcnce remain in the hands of his Royal Highness ; the recent
Inquiry having unveiled a course of COI duct tending to set
the worst example; in the highest degree injurious to the
cause of-morals and-religion ; and which, if not discounte-
nanced, must injure those tourcesof the tranquility and hap.
pints:Ad the country."

Mir. Youtte expressed his satisfaaion, that among
ihe'Members of the House there were so many,
who; from their situation► in the country its Magi.,
strafes and Grand Jurors, were familiar with the
rules of evidence, and would, feel the force of the
observations 'which be thought it Ina duty to make.
Adverting to a remark from the Hors. Gentleman in
whom this discussion orientated, he declared his per-
stlasiPn, that 'although that House was the virtual
repreSentative of the people, and ought not to aa
without a referencc to popular feeling; ye_t that
they- would on no occasion sacrifice their judg-
ment to popular clatimur. 'there were two general
,questions to which he should call the attention
of the House : the first was, whether his Royal
Highness was critninally implicated in the transac-
tions that had been developed (on the decision of
which questipp another would arise with respe& to
'the. further proceeding that it would be preper to
.adopt) ; or, secondly, supposing his Royal Highness
to he acquitted of any criminality, whether he
was still liliblz" to censure for negligence, or on
any ether ground; and what proceedings it sioUld
be adiisable for the House to pursue. Although
he eetirely differed-in opinion from his Right Hon.
Friend, who had, just sat down, he was far from
ascribing td him any purposed cvntrivrn es t ) ren-
der -difficult Lite course which the. House had to
wlopt. He could not, hOwever, help being sur-
prised to hear his Right Hon. Friend say, that the
course Which 'he had advised was calculabcd to avoid

intricacy. The direct reverse was the Cale. 1 k nt, ,
Hon. Friend, in the address which he- had proposed, ,
admitted in substance the first resolution of the Right
Hon, Gentleman near hint, namely, that it was
proper the House shoild come to a' decision on the
question ; but hi 4 Right Hots. Friend could not, it
seemed, agree to the second resolution of the Right
Hon. Gentleman, because t hereswas-a-seetence. in
the latter part of it to which he objected. Would I
not the most plain and obvious course have been for I.
' his RightHonoureble Friend; when that resolution" r-
was put, to_ propose to the House an amendment, '
, comprising his view of the. subject ? Such .a step,
welsld have been simple, and would haveavoided .
' all that confusion which must reult from the chanii
in the fOrm of the 'question before the House; in
the first inataoce, froni an address to resolutions-,
and now from :resolutions to an address. Having
made these preliminary. observations,' he would pre- '
ceed to' conerbent on the case before them. The
fedi were these ; that Ilia loyal Highness the
:Duke of York had most unfortunately met with an
:abandoned woman of the name of Clarke, w'elt
whom he .continusSd connected for three years,
during which period Mrs. Clarke; with the- assist-
ance of agents of the vilest charader, carried on to,:
a certain extent a ,System of corruption with refer-
' ence to promotions in the army and other transac-
lions. .Of these faCti, as proved by the evidence,
there could be no doubt. it temained to be proved,
first, whether his Royal Highness had any criminal
participation in these occurrences; or, secondly, if
not, whether he had been so negligent in his con-
dud as -to deserve the severe censure that it was
propoSed to had upon him. What was the uature
of the evidence that had beep adduced ; The prin:
cipal witness was Mrs. Clarke; and he cont'essed
that he could give no credit to that part of her testis
mony which' affeeted the Doke of York, unless
when it was corroborated by other evidence: There
was one circumstance relating to Mrs. Clarke,
whieli had not hitherto been adve4ed to: it had
gone to the public, that'Mrs. Clarke was a.married
wOman, who. having been debaucheri by the Duke
of York, and seduced from the course of virtue,
lived With him for a certain time, and that he then
abandoned her.. What was the fad.? it had been
distinctly stated in evidence, that Mrs. Clarke was
very intimately acquainted. with Mr. Ogilvie, an
Army Agent, before she resided in Gloucester- i '
place. She had beep exemined:on Ogilvie's com-
mission and bankrupt'cy, end her' iniwers shewed,
that if she aid not live with 11 r. Ogilviseehe lived
with her. Considering. her subsequent dendud, he
had not the least doubt that Mrs. Clarke came to
the Duke of Yerk, completely instructed in all the .
mysteries of ',army brokerage. When Mrs. Clarke
was asked on her examieanon, what could induce.'
1
her to adopt this system of trafficking in military
promotions, she replied, her distresses, occasioned
by findiiig that her allowance was nut sufficient to
defray the expences. 'Let the House consider dates '
is little. It had been stated by Mrs. Clarke herself,
that nopruceeding•of the sort to which he had al-
luded, took place until some months, he believed
half
,a: year, after' She had got to Gloucester-place.,
' The establishment at Gloucester-piece coinieenced'
about Jenuary't 804. Now. it was to be observed,
that the first proposal Made by Col. French to raise
a levy, .was dated the Ist of February .1804. (He
was fully satisfied that. Mrs. 'Clarke was acquainted
with Col. French and 'Capt. Sanden, &ring hereon-
. nedion with MreOgilvie). Coltmel French's propo-
eals .were accepted in April 1804. it was impossible,
, therefore, that the statement made by Mrs. Cierke,
that her ,having meddled with military transadiotis,
was attributable to her' diieresses, could be true;
. fur it was evident: that she must have been neg.()-
; elating, with Cola Frehch and Cept. Sanden in Fe-•
brunry and March 1804,
credible that her distresses eostici
. that early period. tied it whaaviriciontmititutehneceldeaastt
complete- thecontradidiernhisof:i•igeeaoreld t6mhoi most material nit9atb:rial
points of Mra. Clarke's evidence, and to shake the
,hido4linpeiritletrrU.:at.tlUserehowodli,iChis4?):o ly e v
ilendeavouredevidence
byt o:,
hui i4l
hd
Mrs. Clarke had been corroborated on this subject,
Was by that of Misi Taylor. To Miss Taylor's evi
deuce he could not attach any weight. She had
• Made one statement which it ,was clear she must
have known to be untrue. It :respected Mrs Favery.
-Miss Taylor allowed that she knew 'Mrs. Favery
when the latter lived with Mr. Elk, but she ne-
ver recollected her going by the name Of Farquhar.
He now put it. to the common sense of the HOUse
whether she could possibly be ignorant of thiscir-
CuMstance. When this circurnstaece was consider.::
eds--when Miss Taylor's intimacy with Mrs. Clarke
was considered—and whetethe defe& of her metio-
, ty on euery other point Was considered, hecontend-
ed that no weight could attach tu Miss TeyrOr'S'tes-
timony. But be that as it might, he was persuaded
that the conversation to which Miss Tayler bore
witness could tm} with justice be interpreted into any .
proof that his Royal flighnesehad a criminal knoei-
ledge of the tratisadion to which it related. le was
probable that some conversation might have taken
, place; and it was probable, considering his iloyal
Highness's 'Confidence in Mrs. Clarke, and consider-
ing that he Was. not aware t hat she came out of ~
hands .ot an army broker, that that conversation
might hive a reference to military subjects. The
probability, ',however, was, that --ti. utmost that
took-place might- tie a complaint on he part of.the
Duke of York against' Colonel i'esncli and his levy ;
and if the House could refer to dates, they would
find, that just about that 'Mice, (April, 1'805), his
Royal flightless was going to I.at an end to it. On
some such remark he had little doubt that the other
• circumstances were ingrafted. He knew that Mrs.
Clarke was perfectly oval to the invention of these
circumstances, and he did not know that Miss Taylor
' w s not equal ti) declare them true 'when. inventet:
As to the case of Major. Tonyn, the only eircum-
, stance that connected his Royal Highness with it
, was the note. On the face of it it was doubtful,
whether that note:was written fly the Duke of York
or not, and it could not be adiiiitted as es idence of
his knowledge of the trensaetion to which 'it referred.
No one couldidoubt, from the abandoned charades
of Mrs. Clarke, that she would not hesitate to forge
a note for the purpose of forwarding her objeCts. it
had been proved that she pOisessed great facility in
the inetation of hand-writing. The charades of her
, . own 11: rtiswriting hal some sesemblance to that of
his Royal Highness the Duke of York. One of the
witnesses, an individual conversant -with hand-writ-
ing, had cleelated, that, on a-second inspedion, he

was by no means satisfied that the note in question,'
was nut a forgery. Mrs. Clarke had an interest in
forging this note. It was to procure for her the
speedy payment of 5001. But whether the note W3S
forged or not, it' was of such a vague description that
is could nut be received ai evidence. It was withoia
a date, and the name of Tonyn, a name by et),
bseans otreornmonrrnight-referto some other inch-,
vidual ot that name. In an inquiry, .the tendency
.of which was to Mill& such a severe punishment as
that proposed, it was most essential that not any do-
etenentary evidence
.shOuld • be admitted, the au-
thenticity of which Was, got completely established.
Adverting to the case of Carter, he observed,' that
this subject had been so tiuccessfully bancile.d by the-
Rig!it Hop. Gent. near him, that he would say no-
thing upon it, except that the Duke of York had 35
highs feeling of what was due to the honour of an'
army as any man of the country ; nor would hede-
tain the House. with any observations on Col. Shaw f
appointment=alransattion in which' t was.impos
Bible that any criminal connivance on the part of hit
Royal Highness could exist. On the case of Dowlei
also .he-ghoold only refer to what had been said so
ably by that Right Hon. Gatitletnan. Mr. Dow'.
ler was evidevaly the favourite paramour of Mrs.
Clarke, wham he had known for several years,- •
and on whom, i: appeared by his own evidence, he,
had eiperideclecnisiderahle Sums of money: Was
to be believed, that under stich circumstances Dow-.
ler could be required, by Mrs. Clarke to pay tier
doubt
for the
but
tbateiXbeisrciiisaed of her
bee
ninfluence ? h41)(}1
pose of getting 10001. out ot
to the actual appointment, it was. to scan
clear, that Dowhn• bad obtained it from Sir Broolio
Watson;_ and indeed he: 11,id himself declared 'Oaf
in. his subsequent cativi.:isati4)n with , Alderman
Combe. He would now.proue.,(l to bake so!ne ob-
servipions on the general view or the ,whole case,
anti on the course of pi Oc...eding which, in hi4opi
nion, the Houseougill lu pursite. The address Pro--
I)3'e-a by'the Hon. (I:tittle-man opposite containei
11,1 di:stienq opinion outhe criinioality or innocence
of his.. Royal Hiettess...ll insinttoede‘eryTthiafr
a tid'ilietierifoiritog. Wit yet it e:Thellifeit w'
questing his Aajesti to dismiss his ROyal'Highoe.ei
Trorn the'coMMand of the army. TO'suCh
positioa. there were iti3surtnount;tble .bbjea‘,tions.
If
'his Royal Highness were thought by
guilty of that which wits impeted tpt him, they
,aught to impetch hitn. oe that impeachment
Royal Highness were found guilty by his Pee''
of criminal paiticipation in corrupt PorP"s""0 or
participatiop in these purpOsei, did atty, ingn
thirik, that merely to' remove him from his
:mend would be enough ? No ;. under Such' oil'
entbstancea, it would be the duty of lob 106"
of .Parliantent to carry to the foot of the do:este a .
Bill to eat:hide-his-Royal' highness from the woe,
_As'
Sion. If .it were deemed proper, inra tormeF,Prr"
-,01- our history, to discuss the propriety of ex.oluditi‘.
a Princefrom the suecessitio, because he ecns'eti (!*2-
ttie.retigion of his fOrefatlt,ers, he wetild Say, that if
a.Prince in the preseal
Peers, •of transataiotis so. base and criminal, d 5
tarnish the brilliancy of the Crown on the bead of
Majesty, and sully, the ermine.on his rci)e., the 14°I;
poSition agitated in, the.; line of Charles 11. sh°
cloud
now be carried into elle& and a to
day, w'aeconvi4ed by his.
such a Prince from the Toone ott:Ot to be agreed
•to by both Houses •of .Parliament. But that •
Royal Highness the Dike of York hid bee,"
platy of arty such dereliction of duty he absulitt,4"'
denied. There was not a.tittle of evidenee to or
.putt suck p charge. ;There vas not one of the fiAlt"
cases uheged to be improper appointmen-t5,
in
which it was not sliewn that those appointments
would have taken }dace bad Mrs. Clarke abstain-
,ed from any intetrference. The evidence of Col-
Gordon '-distinctly established this C7..0101'4;1'
Gordon,deciared,, that he' neVer-reeolleetecl
to have been-expressed by. the Commander in Chief
to depaet from the usual course of military promotion.
Tne Hon. GAL opposite had laid a great stress ott
the evil consequences of the correspondence het We'
the Duke of Ynik and Mrs. Clarke on military
matters ;• but the only solitary instance of sitclit
communication,' was to be sound in the letter?
Mrs. Clarke in which his Royal Hirialiness own'
tioned General Clavering. lie Wa, therelige°
• astonished to hear • tha Honourable Grentleincil
go on, and state that his Royal Highness Wits I°
the habit of corresponding with 'Airs. Chrlie
military. subjeas. Mrs. Clarke had hei-seif
sitivelyrdenied \that -there was arty thing which re'
tn
lated to militatyprootions in the other lett,-0,1b"„,
hattreceived .from.his..Royal I ligito cA ,
a,, 011-
'v. hole Re was convinced, that the evi.:etice that 10
been brought forward on thettO 'oases was:- far. °it:
being 'such to induce the House to accede to t
.propositions made to -.chant, and the teodencY of
which would be, to displaee front the con'ortu,l4.'l.:";
the army, Ins Royal 'Highness' the Doke ot
an event which he shradil extremely de; lore, ho
with a view to the. interests of the army, a"'i
view to . the, interests of the country, Wt
with the aratv. Tice 13rhish army 113,1 slevfir -
tii
ri
‘,.;•aishecl itself Clime-num at those tit titer
coalman.: of it was vested in a roi?.•
ilnstanced. The.. case cal' Kit% \\.l`.`l
,;
%Oa) assutned the cdtinit:uld of his own atTY.,%.i-ar''
the officers fetotta: s 6 nobly 044,.;,...
guished thettisel..‘'ei in the glorious Sr" Wot
cession. Another ilblAtiee was, 111°
was under the come-et:ld of the Doke of Ci'tnii ti
laud, when it Signalizecl itself st
other parts of Germany.' In additioo 1-1 D•
stances, he would say, without fear of ccoteloa-,
I",thot the army, Waled by his Royal
Duke at York was not only the belt this
posseSseri, but that, p t ing nuuihers trotof the (iroe
lion, it was the titu.staro iy in 'Europe; At
.°
like the present, it 'woeld he to matter it
deep regret, if any. circurnsowee should
necessary to placerthe chief cot:inland ot that Ana,
in other hands. In -better it coufd. nor lte;
Was more than probable that the 'greatest inc
niences „and evils must be the reit .ot
An l-ton. Gentleman opposite Whitb"'juirson
said; that his lioyal Higlincs4 was not a fit'
for-the chief co,nmand of the army, because aut
i"a)
other things be waS irresponsible (A cry of "1 .1c.,,;1;
St) he had understood-the Von. Gentlet.Po"•
at least her know, that such was the pibpolar ni);.;o'
Nothing orsuld be More .gtettildhiss. he V' ..,,,
York was just as responsible as any other t'ej
• That he was so, the present proceeding