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it, he was solicitous to get the condition of the grant
removed, to enhance the value of. ttis appointment.
The case of-Dowler. he Would next call the attention
'of the House to. Dewier, it should seem, had peel
10001. to Mt's Clarke, and had been placed in the
Conunissariat. AVietther he did give Mrs. 'Clarke
)0001. was one question, and if he did give it, whe-
ther he gave it for his appointment is another. He
might' have paid Mrs. Clarke one thonsand=poundir,
not for „his appointment-, but for otheecensidera-
tions, as various accounts existed, between them • for
a short time after that transattion had been stated to
have taken place; it appeared they•harl been etideiti.
vouring to raise :money by their joint note, and from
a variety of circrinastantes.it appeared that he had all •
alotig, been her faVotirite paramour.; To him the
worthy Alderman's, (Mr. H., Combe's) ,exposition
appeared much more satistaCtoryietiiiich set forth
that Dowler 'had told him in..the Haymarket that
he, had-obtained his situation' through the influence
Broak Watson, The Hon. Geoiluiriali then spoke
of the unjustifiable means that had been made use
of to poison the public mind. The snbjeti bad been
taken up in such a-manner by the weekly and.diur-
nal journals, that had any coalmen trial been pend•
it would prabably have. been put.off. It would
have• been considered as Unjust to the accused to
have attempted bringing the case to an issue, while
the public mind was so much influenced. He next
came to the case of Kennett, but he conceived it
difficult to enter into this case, as the Hon. Gentle-
man had but slightly-mentioned it, and declared his
reason for not going into it weir,- because some one
more competent to investigate it, he expeaed,
would take it up. From Colonel Taylor's evidence,
it appeared„, Mr. Kennett first came forward, and
offered a loan on a mortgage. Colonel Tey.lor did
not know his bUsiness the second or third time
of his coming, when it appeared, he wished Col.
Taylor to exert his interest with the Duke of York
to procure him a place, stating, at the same lime,
that by so doing, he would confer an obligation on
Sir Horace Mann. There were some parts of Ken.;
nett's note which were by ne means-clear; the
meaning appeared to him dubious. Now, as it was
probable that Colonel Taylor did not &hew the note
to the Commander in Chief, but only stated to him
what he conceived to be the purport of it, was it not
probable, that that which was in itself obscure, had
. been so represented to. his Royal Highness, that he
• might not correCtly comprehend its meaning? In
this case was' it fair to view the circumstance in

an obnoxious light only ? The case of Elder-
, ton next fell under his consideration. It appeared
from certain letters, that. Mrs.. Clarke had been in
the habit (*receiving various applications .from his
family. From one letter it was obvious that Mrs.
Clarke ,had deceived Mr. Elderton, by giving him
to understand that the Doke of York,, through her
good offices, had gained him leave of absence from
Ills regiment, while under the command of General
Abacrornble. It WM impossible this could he the
fad, as the Duke of York could not have had it in
'his power.togiVe Mr.'Elderton leave of absence un-
der such circumstances. This letter was found
among her papers, without any .mark of a seal, from
which it 'was probable, that the Duke of York had
never seen it, but that Mrti." Clarke taking, to herself
the merit of having accornpanied it through, her in-
fiuctice with the Duke, ,had received this letter of
ucknowledginent to Ott Commander in Chief in-
closed in another. Hr. reasons for not forwarding
it to his Royal Higfines.s, ha thought obvious, as it
was not her interest to let him know or liberties
she was- its the habit Of 'taking with his name. He
next adverted to the case of Major Turner, who wish-
ed. to retire, still retaining the rank of Major, but
prevented for a short time through a letter being re-
ceived from Mrs. Sutherland, bagging that his resig:
nation might not be, accepted, as be had behaved ,ill
towards a lady, to Whom it was important to know
where he might be found for thaensuing six months,
and from whom he intended to secret himself. The
Hon. Gentleman had said much of the impropriety
of listening to such a woman, as the Duke of York
must have known her evidence ought not to have
. been taken. •He was surprised somewhat at such a.
remark from a Gentleman who had brought forward
such evidences as had lately appeared at their par,
who had brought forward a woman like Mrs. Clarke
to speak to fats of the greatest importance, to give
evidence on one of the must important cases that
had ever occupied their attention ; • that he who had
thought himself justified in bringing forward charges
of the most serious nature against the son of his SO-
wereigo, on the evidence, et such witnesses should
think .his Royal Highness wholly, inexcusable in
taking any notice of the letter df Mrs. Sutherland,
But what did the .Duke of York on the receipt of
this letter? Nothing more thanihesitate two or three
weeks before he finally decided on closing with
Major Turner's wishes ; for on the. 23d, he (Major
Turner) writes that his resignation is accepted. A
charge was preferred on which he might have been
couviaed of ungentlemanly condu&. The Duke of
" York did but direa inquiries to be made where 'he
authentic ieformation might he gained, re-
epeCtitig the'clfaraCter of ;Major Turner. The in-
quiry occupied three weeks, at The expiration of
iflitele time he immediately complied with his
vt,ialies by accepting his resignation. The next
case lie would touch, on, had been so edmirably
handledS by his Hon. and -Learned , Friend behind,
that but little remained for bin) tO;say on the subject.

The case Lie now alluded to was that of Carter, to-
,,wards whom 'he thought the Commander in Chief
hadiliSplayed a degree of humane atention,
in his opinien, must be extremely. grateful to every
feeling heart. A real obje& of compassion, wor-
thy re become the obje4( of Royal munificence, pre.
sewed itself, and the Commanderin Chief, awake
to the liveliest feelings of humanity, had not negle6l7.
ed the opportunity of succouring the orphan son of
an officer ; 4,311 events, 3 poor boyrepresented'ai
Such, for whom ari :application had been made by
his supposed father, in 1801, at. 3 time when, from
the •redudtion of the army, cotnniissions were ditfi-
eult to obtain, He had been contumeliously called
a toot-bc.iy; but was not that too degrading an epi-
thet ?111 had been said,' tbaChe had been in the ser-
vt:e of Mrs. Clarke of Gloucester-place a year' but
cs is ti it was considered 'he' was-appointedin A.pril
HO4, and th it Mrs. Clarke Was not established in
(7,;(ane,tcr-place till. the eotritneneetrieu t of that year,
it ..v;ti, obi. ions lie could riot` have been in her service
more than thr6e natinths;
_might it trot have been,
104 114.1yal Hig finest had 'forgot ten the application
niaade in 10's behalf; but accidentally seeing him,