The Sun.
London, England, 1809-08-11 00:00:00

70 GgIILLY2II LLOYD IFARDL.E; ESQ.

SIR,

Lt TIER n

Before I proceed to inquire any, further into the
justice of your claims to popularity and gold-boxes,
I think it incumbent upon me to state my reasons
for not being able to comply with your:wishes, ad-
dressed, under a very solemn pledge, to the Peeple
of the United Kingdom, that all judgment and opi-
nion upon youtcondua should. be suspended: It is
tint
,the long and indefinite term, during which we
tray have to expea the Trial of Mrs. CLARKE, to
jvhich you are committed; it is not. the gouty pace
of law, nor the more than doubts I entertain that
mite Grand Jury will throw out your Bill; which are

in:perative'w:ith me to withhold my assent to.your
Petition. It is altogether from error and a falSe
principle, that you have preferred so unreasonable
a request, and one cannpt but feel pity, and some-
thing more, for the weakness and vanity it be-

trays.

Between You and Mrs. CLARKE, a flame has
been kindled froth One end of the kingdom to the
other, and by the effea of your joint malice and
Combination, a person of the most illustrious tank
"Las been covered with the most unmerited obloquy,

aid driven from a station in which he had rendered,
and was continually rendering, not only the greatest
services to the State and the Army, but services of
auch.a'oature• as could only be derived from the
union of the'same talent and indus►ry with the Royal
Influence and Charaeler, in order to enjoin and en-
force obedience to regulations, calculated to. repress
the ituportunity and ambition of great and aspiring
•

The Resignation
,of the Duke of YORIL, Sir, is
Your joint work ; the palm is divided between you
and Mrs. Cr..a.arts, whose credit you are now

Wedged to impeach, and whose head you must carry
to the pillory, or brand your own forehead with an
'ndelible stigma. As far as relates to you, Sir, per-
-B"alih tir to this unfortunate female, I would not

have withheld from you that suspension of opinion
Which I,ou crave. It might not be unfair towards
I her, as she stood in a better predicament than your-
self, as the Jury and Court who tried the issue be-
t tureen you, who decided upon your respe&ive claims
to credibility, had determined in her favour ; and
tog, in spite of all your weight of charatier,
Your fire new popularity, and patriotism. But,
Sir, there are other parties to this cause, to whom it
Wt* 1d be the grossest injustice if we were to suspend

Our opinion. There is the Duke of Irom, Sir, who
Vitas been worried and hunted down by you; there is
' that wise and firm majority of the House of Corn-
Inons, who were not to be duped or intimidated by

3'our artifices or your threats, and of whom so many
Inembers are individually labouring under unjust and
:! taunting censures from their weak and misled Con-
Stituents. To all these parties it is indifferent whe-
, Cher You or Mrs. CLARKE are consigned to infamy.
They
have no interest in the issue you are to try ;
and as they cannot be placed by the event in a beher
°f a worse situation, it is against every maxim and
principle. of law and justice, that they should be
made to wait for it—for your exclusive convenience
and accommodation.

It was an ill-advised, a selfish, and a silly request ;
it vvis not the course of an ingenuous and honour-
able mind. Your own interests, Colonel WARDLE,
ought not to have been the sole, nor the first, which
presented themselves to your mind, upon the im-
portant discovery you had made of the real charac-
ier' and the species of credit which was due to Mrs.
p
''L444i; and when you found that witness, whose
testitnony you had bolstered up (as you had bought
its upon whose evidence you had wounded your
Sovereign' and his Family, misled and inflamed a
great portion of the Public, infused amongst the
tower classes a base and poisonous suspicion of al-
most general depravity and corruption ;—I say, Sir,
*len you discovered the gross perjury for which
You are now the Prosecutor, I appeal to the. corn-
reon sense and feeling of eery Englishman, whe-
ther there were not due some ad of reparation and
aton,
t'not, to your God and your Sovereign, your
Country and
Lave presence
d itself to a
Your Vietirn ? Whether there would
pure and well-constituted
:Lind, betrayed by
menu error into your unhappy predica-
, no ' )uster and
more pressing Care, than of its
selfish interests and factious popularity ? Whether a
noble, virtuous, and, independent spirit, having dis-
covered the ptotligacy and perjury of the testimony
upon which he had procured punishment upon an-
other, and derived advantage to himself, would have
first improved the suspension of public opinion, Os
it regarded himself, or the person be bad injured ?
Whether he would have suffered the hope of en-
trapping a few more Bones during the Summer to
have preceded the desire and the duty of offering
sazisia'Stion and expiation to the innocent and the
oPPressed ?

Sir, tht illustrioqs objea of your vindi6live ma-
when you unfolded your conspiracy with the
14C.P•ired CLARXE, 'did .rQt request delay or vapen-