The Sun.
London, England, 1809-03-15 00:00:00

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WarSle) had taken, agninst her content, the letters,in .
which the Queen and.the a•aneriei were mentioned.
Those.letters, he tvisbed the House to observe, 'w.ere
dated September, November, and Dece.niber. She
had stated, She'was angry with hint' for haying taken
them ; .it was probable she might be angry
,with
at h.‘ast she had reason so to be, more 'especially when
tlwy ere produced in public. The lion. Gentle-
man;_ had, however, acted honourably in bringing
liters for Ward; when be thought he merited praise, •
he would not be a niggard ot at'; he had acted ho
teerably in bringing themforward,'hut, in so doing,
he hadgiven a death blOw to the canse he had been in 7
chfcc.4 tin espouse; as, from the dates of those letters, it
was obvious and indisputable t hat she carried on that
tiefatioes traffic; which' she had pretended had the
sanction of hisiloyalHighnesst,without his know ledge,
even after h 4 conneetion with the Doke had ceased.
Pitt before he thus descanted on .the condua of Mrs.
Clarke, he ought ip have done justice to the .injured
testimony of n.Tionter witness. ;the evidence ot Co].
Gordon had Ineen-ill.spokett Ofhy those who defended
the testimony of Mrs. Clarke; that man's mind Must
• 1)P mcst unaccountably bia4ed who could say, that
C',;'iotiel Gordon had equivocated, and concealed evi-
dence, while WS. Odic') had given evidence wor-
thy implicit belief„and fit to be received by any tri-
bunal whatever Colonel tl.rdoo's evidence was
clear, perspicuous,' and unequivocal. "0! but,"
says the Noble 'Lord opposite (Lord Folkstono,
" when called on to Produce all the letters relating
to
the exchange. of Brooke and Knight, he had failed
to bring one for ward :" and what Was the letter which
he had thus failed io bring forward ? A kw letter to
the War-Office on other affaira ; at the eat& v.' inch
Knight's name was merely :motioned. .As to Col.
Gordon's taking notes with a pencil, of which it
L.
_bad •..been 'said that they. might easily be erased,
that very circumstance redounded to his honour, as
had not Col. Gordon been a Man of honour, the
' note Which he li.,d produced, written with a pen-
cil, would. 'have bean obliterated, and' never pro
duced in, that House. His supposed prevarication
with respect to. the Mahugs was not founded in
facet. 'lt had been stated; that it was mot:- likely
-that he should think the one who was. the 66jVct of
their inquiries, the sUbjed ot their interrogatories),
;bah that be should mistake the other ter the man ;
• 'but-here he could not agree with the Member who
made the assertion : not one circumstance' laid be-
'fore him appeared to attach to The one, but one did
seem connected with the other. The Hun, Mem-
ber then spoke at some length on the *propriety of
paying souse attention to the rank of •ain evidence-.
• With resped to Mrs: Clarke,' he had to observe,
• she Was not bound: by any tie,
.by any obist;Jtieti
whatever to spdak- the truth ; she Waft not eVerr
bound by regard for the opinion of the world to give
an •accurate statement. She was bound by hi) o*,
thciugh she migt,t in souse measure be considered
Sworn, as she-laid-her'hand'on one large, voleme,..the
volume of revenge and malice. When .he, con,ider-
. ed the conduct of this benevolent creature, this in-
controvertible witness, he was of: opinion ;:,at but
for her sex she should.hae been sent with Captain
,Sanden to Newgate. -•When asked if, she had not
Put some letter, into 'Mr. Wardle's hand,.she replied
no, in the most positive manner.. Two days after
(frosts her own statement) it appeared she had given
,IheLn to hint to forward some negociation, though
)4
\\C".4le• was a stranger to her meaning.' On
ever:Y 4cc4si(m, while affeeting relutlance, to speak
ngamst the Deice, she had Appeared anxious to place
;lib 014 1.40 C r ill the most unfavourable point ;of
View. When she applied to him for money she had
asserted that: his. Royal Highness threatened her. with
the pillory and the bastile, thoughno questions `.` Oa-
thrally leading to
her, such answers", had. been put to
'Throughout the whole of the evidence, she
appeared admirably adapted for the stage trick, The
Honourable Baronet had called it a drama, and .:he
readily admitted the propriety of giving it that demo
Initiation ; it bad a plot, :it bad fancy, but it had no
ruth.
Site .throughout, was ever prepared with the
s
tage trick, (This he instanced in that part of her
evidence which related to Taylor, in Bond-street.)
4e did not intend wading through the mire of the
whele
.of the evidence,' but some parts he would
• Speak farther on. She 'hid stated that: the Duke
wished her to plead her eoverture, and thus throw
the debt sine had cunrraaed, while under his protec-
tion, on her husband. This, it appeared, was ab-
, solutely -the reverse of the truth, as she had offended
she Duke by odering so to do. Titus she attributed.
!tier crimes to his Royal Highness, representing bite
as the most flagitious of men, where she hadiproved-
'herself the most flagitious of women. It hurt him
to see vice triutnphaut, and therefore he felt it his
duty to expose some of the glaring falsehoods which
abounded in her evidence In one of hei exautirla-
tinns sine hoped the House would forgive her, if
she spoke too dosely of the Duke's misconductimmediately after which she endeavoured to repro-
sent hint as capable of the most depraved &mind a
oran in his situation could possibly •be guilty of, by
stating that he had told her her power was ceual to
. hat of the Queen; and that if she was a clever woman,
he would hever have uccaiion to trouble him for ma-
ney. Could any 411ing be calculated to make his Itoyal
1-lighness appear more base, more despicable, and
'•vorthless ? Mrs. Clarke had stated, that six months
`liter she went to reside in Gloucester-place, that the
`juke of York, finding her finances exhausted, gave
Permission to recruit her store by the sale of
promotions, .Sze. bUt let it be remembered, the
"""ei of
.French Sandell, Tunyn, and Spedding,
were •
• poor to that period.- She lied said, that the
kg nit have been acquainted with the extent of
'Cr wants, and the expenses attending her esta-
'.• "ninvnt, as she told hint that the one thousand
iounds per annum which 'he gave her, was no more
vvs requisite .for servants' wages and liveries.
thought). perhaps, the to mbar of. her,servatits,
not have been inquired into . Now, when
'1 wasconsideted that she had but six servants, with
‘.)attniel C.hter, only seven, and that out of that num-
4'9 'AY wore liveries, could the Noble Lord
-pposite thank,' however extravagant she Might be, ,
tnat she could tell the Duke she
,expeuded ION!:
yell- that, way ? With resped to Samuel C,'lle•lro
l'Okved were glad that he had been -provided
.
ts the army but if there was one case which
than another induced -to look' upon .her. in
4 tight of it. detestable- fiend', it was Atte case of
; `'"tit.. oet Carter. Site had affeded a great objeCtien
• his case brhught fer Ward, and bad ilfrd
""ue had promised her that he would ..not men-
,. 11, it
: this could not .beirue. Yet she had repre-