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the Noble tool would represent as tlse fairest, and
olost likely to be heard in • theecoarts of destitee.e,.
The Deice hadin Into denied the charges which she.
. hade made; and yet his evertions must give way to.
Mrs. Clarke's. The Noble Lord had proceedtd.to
defend her ;' but, for his (Mr. Leycester's) part, he
wi 'confident, that if she were to have given such
testimony on her oath, she would haft met with the
merited' punishMent of the pillory. It seemed to him
h 4-, a 1 as if she had met with credit proportioned to
theian6tion and solemnity den oath. From the ha-
bit of false charges which she had been discovered to
make againstet hers, he could riot at all conceive that
nnyeredit Ought to at t ach toiler in the present instance.
Out of 10,090 • military promotions, Mrs. Clarke
'could only fix on five, as obtained by her influence
with the Commander in Chief. She may posSibly
litive disposed , of more in an indire6t manner, but he
would assert that it came not withinehe cognizance
of his Royal Highness that they were so disposed of.
The entire conviction of his mind assured him, that
not only noecharge of guilt had been established
against the Duke of. York, but it was impossible to
do it. From these observations he deduced the ins
consistency of an Hon. Gentleman!s amendMent,
and of the original address itself. [We are confident
of having given but an outline of the Hon. and
Leaned Member's acute and lengthened observe-,
; but as the review of evidence and his argu-
nients upon it were only eimilir in most respe6ts to
what had come from lion. Members "in previous
stages of the debate, we have forherne from going
into a detailed accompaniment of the Honourable
and Learned Gent lemen' s Ternaries.]
Sir 'l'. `!.'
titans rose, amid, loud and repeated
cries of Question, question. He'said, he wascen-
scions how qieeetetary it was for him to claim
the indelgence. of the House. He. Would give his
assurance that he meant not to. take Op, its time on
the present occasion unnecessarily. He observed,
that, according to 'the 'authority of Judge Black-
stone, whom he quoted, that as neither the ordi-'
nary Magistrates. or the House o 1 dpmmons, had a
constitutional right to the punishment of persons
holding high official situations, and charged with
crimes its thediseharge of them, they should of right
be' brought before the other branch of the Legislature.
lie observed On the custom Of the roman and Gre-
cian laws in such cases, that it was not usual to con-
vitt, except on the previous testimony of persoril
Upon oath. If Cato had been exempt tram inch a
form, it was because his word alone was equivalent
thi -estimation of his country Men to an oath...-.
The Address,- which had prpfessedly for its ob-
' Sea the displacement of the Commeuder in Chief,
be could' luck upon in no other view but as a Milk
'find water one. He, would ask if it were not the
oeisesi of the Address to,degrade to the lowest sot-
title the Personage accused ? In Lord Somers's case
he, remarked, that the noble LOH bad not been
covieied without, an hearing; the seine indulgence
was granted, to Lord Melville. But in the case of
the Duke of York,, he was sorry to observe, that
hiS Royal Highness was deprivedof that which was
invariably granted to the meanest subjeer of the
realm. If his, privileges were, of a superior advan-
tage to him, it was but fair that they should in no
measure detre6l from whatit was just he should pps-
sass in common withothers. If the Duke of Ytirk
was guilty of the charges imputed 'to hiM, he (Sir
T. Tunis') would shudder with horror at the idea
of such a 'deprecation as was contained in the letter
of his Royal Highness to that House. Rut if, on
the other hand, it carne from the, conviaion of in-
nocence, be would say that letter contained only the,
genuine,.effusions of a British spirit. He would ask
of Gentlemen what had they got at, the means, of
removing the accused from his situation; was it the
Arindrvicat of the Hop. Gentleman (Mr. Bankes)
01 that he would say, that it only gilded the handle
of the dagger, while the point whdewith the Duke
was to be stabbed was evidently plain. He observed
that there was a great deal.too truch complication in
the entire affair. Too many cooks, he Said, in ge-
neral spoiled the broth, and he found that 'out of
doors the husiness was dressed up by worse nooks
than even within. He could nett think that either
the original Ad-dress, or the subsequent Amendment.
of Mr. Blokes, were adequate to the object which
Ote. louse should have in view. The former pos-
sessed the ferocity of the tiger, and the latter the
of the Spaniel. He could not account for
the influence which led his Noble Friend ()r.ord
Folketone). to vote fer such an Address as the origi,
nal one. ,Fie bed been the companion of his solitary
. jOut hies through the deserts of Hindustan ; and he
was thoroughly convinced of his firmness and man-
ly spirits The Addreot gently stated What no one
had deoied ; why, then, he would; ask, was not,
the statement acted .upon in the subsequent part of
the Address ? He did not eaticeive. it was 4'air to
punish corruption anderegligence Os; Same .Way.
In the tnenagement df 410,000 ;tool, and such a
sum as t 3,000,000 h some negle6t•May ;have Occur-
; but abuses were of quite a different nature horn
stegleft 'lt. was not eiglet, hoessids that' their opi-
oions should go forth in so ambiguous a matmere.se,
The House should come tea decision on' eome one
particular point. An Honourable' and Learned
Judge early ire the debate, lied insisted Much on legal
precedents and jury cases. He would feel inclined
to try the case ,on a legal principle, and it ha could,
not clearly cepnvct the. crone -with 'the. Accused per-
son, he world disregard the entire.case—(The
noureble Baronet proceeded at seine length it, re-
iewing the evidence given bribe several cases. Ile
contendtel, generally, for theeiedibility of that Part of
41ti testimony whieh Was opposed by Hon. Members
on the otherside of the House. lits thought it Was
ohlair that they should obje6t Idevidence, which, in
...elate oft heir atrusestut ihehey used fotetheir own pur-
poses.) trirepresent laquirb and theeandid and int,
lee ['mintier iii which' it had been tondOoted,woultl,
.• in his opio ion, infuse into hepeople the greatest con-
fidene in their Representatives, The result of that
inquiry was Stich, upon his mind,- that unless any
other Hon, Gentleman should make a proposition
more conformable to the opinions-which he enter-
weed, hi should •rnove, let an .Amendmedt, the,
substitution in the Right
,Honoutable Gentleman's
first Resolution, of the word " is," for the word I
" no." That Resolution would then .stand, the& :
" That nits the opinion of this House, after the 'bast full
and 'riot attentive consideration of the aviilence which had
beau -adduced, t there is groUnd for cllarging his Key al'
1 lighrlesg the' Puke or York with the knoWleilim of the cot.
ruin pl.:tali:es, which had, bee-wpm:tired at.;)10 nuns!,
Mr. RYDER said, lie would not unnecessarily de-
Cain the House by replying to many of this pi at.

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'mains alba Right Hon. tArOnet ; al thd 661ii6 titsd
he was ieady to allow, that the alteration in the ;
Resolution' of his Right Hon. Friend, proposed by
that lionaturable Baronet, was much more manly
and honourable, and, in his opinion, if adopted,
would be -more satisfaaorv, to the country than tho 1;
Address proposed by his Right Hon. Friend oppoa
site'(Mr. Banker.} He proceeded to an examines i
tion of the evidence that had been brought forward 1.
against the Duke of York, and commencing with
that of Mrs. Clarke, contended, that any one of ,
the objections which ,had been so justly stated to her
;credibility ought, in 'his mind, to induce the House
not to listen to her testimony. Taking theM cola k
ledively, he maintained, that in a Court of Justice
'it would be the bounden duty of the Judge to tell
the Jury, that it was impossible to give credence to
:such a witness; nay, further, that it would be his
duty to commit her for perjury. ' Adverting next
to the testimony oC Miss '.llaylor, 'he expressed his
decided opinion, that the improbability of that evi- 1
• dence was so great, as entirely to destroy her credi-
bility. In order to believe Miss Taylor, the House 1
' must believe that the Doke of York had aded against'
te principle on which, if Mrs. Quite. were to be
. believed, he had uttiformly aded, by making Miss
Taylor privy to such a transadiona This was at„
great improbability ; and the next improbability was, '
that if Miss Taylor was present at the conversation
respecting French's levy, she should never in any
other instance, however frequent her visits to
' Gleucester-place, be present at any other conversa-
tion on a similar subject. To these improbabilities
' were to be added a third; that Miss Taylor, professing
accurately to recoiled a conversation which look
' place about four years ago, was yet unable to relate
what occurred in a conversation with Mrs. Clarke
not more than as many weeks since ! , To prove
this, he read a part' of the evidence of Miss
' Taylor, and contended, that if the principles up-
held by some of the Honourable Gentlemen op.
posite; with respell to testimony, were adopted, '
guilt in many instances would be triumphant, and
innocence condemned. The conviction of a wits.
ne-s in a single falsehood ought, in a considerable
degree, if not entirely, to discredit the testimony df
that witness in other cases. .• He denied that from
the note of the Duke of York, respelling Major To-
nyn, any unfavourable inference cohld be drawn,
1 when the eentradidion between the date of the Post-
I mark on the envelopeof that note, and the appoint-
ment of Major Tonyn in • the Gazette, was consi-
dered; and he also denied, that from the mention
made by the Duke of, York In oneiof the letters to
Mrs. Clarke 'of General Clavering, that inferentle
could be drawn which it had been attempted to de- .
duce. At the same time he was willing to allow
that it 'would have'been more proper had his Royal
Highuess, in that letter, reminded 'Mrs. Clarke of,
the first conversation, which by her own evidence
he had with her' on military subjects. This letter
was', however, evidently written with carelessness,.
and • by 'tio means deserving the serious charader
which had been imputed to it. The conduct of his
Royal Highness, both before and since the termina-
tion of his'conneetion with Mrs. Clarke, had cer-
tainly been such as to induce the strongest presump-
tion in his favour. If the Duke had endeavoured to
bribe Mrs. Clarke, for the purpose of getting from
her the letters which might tend to. Criminate him-
self and of securing her : silence; if instead of , re-
dressing the abuses of the army he had increased
them ;- if instead of surrounding himself with ho-
Pourable men, he had reposed confidence in such
individuals as Donovan and Bendel): if, instead ' of
demanding the 'fullest inquiry into his condud, he
hit 4 shrunk from arty investigation, then indeed it
Might have been said that there were 'strong ma:
sumptions of 'pis Royal Highness's, guilt ; but when
the dired reverse of all these suppositions was tritea.
he could not conceive by what sort of revolutionary
logic the manly and honourable comlud of his Royal.
Highness could be perverted into an evidence of his
criminality. He:Wished to hear it accounied for how
it happened, that' with all the industry that had been
used in the search, aided by that parson who must
be the best informed on the subject, no other Cases of ,
alleged corruption had been brotight forward than
'those which had been produced ; or how it happened
that out of the 50 or 60 letters I rom his Royal +Egli:-
'less,- which Mrs. Clarke said she had in her posses-
sion, only two could he offered in evidepce, as tend-
ing to prove the connivance of the Duke of York in
lairs; Clarkeia corrupt pradices. ,With reaped, to
the acquiirnance which- Mrs. Clerke possessed with
military subje&a, • that was in, his mind sufßciently,
accounted for by the intimacy which* was known to
have existed between, Mrs. Clarke and. Mr. Ogilvie,
the army agetit, before her connexion With the Duke
of York. Acquitting, therefore, as he did, bia Royal
Highoess of any partieipation or connivance in, or
suspicion of the corrupt prediCes of labs. Clarke, his-
next consideration would be, what' was the most
'proper step Witte House to take, alteuld they con
Cur in that opinion ? Any further proceeding on
. their part would be notiudicial, but legislative and
' political. The question they would have before them
would be, whether the moral gailt which had been:
proved against his Royal Highness ,was, such as ought
to induce them to address the,Crown to remove him
from his situation. 'On the.best,view that he could
take :on rtas stibjea, he thought, that unless the
Hoitse felt itself called Upon by the imperative de-
mand of Justice and duty, they Ought not, .directly
or iodirekuy, to tia.;,,! any step tending to retrieve his
Royal Highness from office. To the duties of that of-,
fiee liia Royal Highness had shewn himself perfectly.
cortipetent. Under his auspices the
.British army
• had flourished beyond all example.. There was one
point on which be felt, hithself, in .some degree,
'qualified to speak, and on which, it might, perhaps,
be expeCted that lie
.should speak, namely, the ad.
ministration • of military justice. lie solemnly de-
clared, that in every Commonicatinn - which, in the
discharge of his official ditty he had had with his '
Royal Highness, respeetinga Courts Martial, &c.
his Royal Highness had evinced the strongestsoli
cituda for the welfare, interests, and charaator of the
Army; and that lie was ever, anxious to administer
straight,forward apd'imoartial,justice, without look-,'
Mg either to the right or to the left. I-1, .10 also,
that ha ahotild not do justice to his predecessors in
otliee, if he did 'net state, that the sentiments of , his
predecessor in office, en this subjea completely
corresponded Wit II 1111 OWIL Ile aptake, in the
.prea
ienceet those whit were among the friends of that
predecessor, and who knew his Opinions,. When
has predeceaset was , compelled by his ill health to t

?test his,. office), he eassured ,(Mr.
that lie . wou4 etpeiience, considerable satifac-.
tion in finding his -,Royal. Highness the- Duke of
York to be that which he found ,hint to be. The ex-
'Secretions which he had been led to entertain were
invariably and completely realized. He called upon
the House to look not only at the existing army, but
tit those .estatiliShments at Marlow and Wyeombe,
by which that -army would be supplied, and be still
improved. He called Upon them to look at the Mili-
tary School establiihed at Chelsea, originally founds'
ed for the: orphans of, soldiers, and the advantages
of which had since been extended to the families
of Soldiers, who were, fighting in the cause of their
country. The number of children educated at this
school amounted to 1500; rescued froM poverty anti
vice, trained to habits of industry and virtue, and des-
tined ultimately. to the augmentation of that army in
which their fathers bad acted so brave a part. Judgs
ing from his own, feelings upon the subject, he
could easily conceive,: that in the midst of the pain
and anxiety which the present question must Cost
.him,..his Royal Highness Would derive the sweetest
consolation trom refleding 'on the permanent and
extensive establishments Which had been instituted
urler his auspices for the benefit of 'the set vice. en-
trusted to his care. Ile then proceeded to compare
the Addresses which had been proposed, and eon-
, tended, that if the Honourable Baronet's (Sir T.
Turton) amendineot was rejeded, which lie con-
' ceived it would be, and if the reselotions of his
Right Honourable Friend (the Chancellor of the
Exchequer) were rejected, which heconceived they
would not be, the Address originally proposed would
be preferable to the others, •beeause it _ was more
manly and more honourable. He .herar read. the
Address proposed by .Mr. Bankes, arid; asked what
it meant should be obliged to his Right Hon.
Friend far an explanation of it. The whole tenor of
hisat. Han. Friend's speech had led him to expect
that, the conclusion would be very different from what
it was. Did his ' Right Hon. Friend acquit the
hike of-York of Corruption apd of connivance in
corruption, or did he condemn him ? Was it to; go
forth to the country,' that the House of Cornmom
declared, not hi direct words, it was true, but by
r implication, that a high crime and tnisdemeenot had
been committed, and yet follow that declaration by
no legal punishment ? Was there a -single instance
on the Records of Parliament of the. Home of Conte
mons sitting in judgment on spell a gross crime as,
that imputed, 'and,supported by Such testimony, ab-
staining froth: giving any dire& opinion, aye. or .no,
on the. guilt or innocence, of the party accused ?
Many Honk. Gentlemen had expressed their hOpe,
that the ptaceedings of the House would be satis-
factory to the.. Country. For his part, if the House
should Meet the proceeding recommended by hia
Right Hon. Friend (Mr-. Bankes), aware as-he was
of the importance to the House of the opinion of; the
Public, • mid aware as he was, that unless the .House
enjoyed the Public's good opinion,, they could com-
paratively do liot little good, lie yet hardly knew
,liew to entertain a hope that that ptoceeding
Might be satisfadory to the Public; beceteit such
a satithetion would betray in the public such a
disregard to justice, , and to every thing most dear
to Englishmen, as: must
,ultimately tend in an in-
jury to the Constitution itself. What should
he say to his Constituents 'when they asked
'him whether the Dike of York had been
vitted oraCquitted ? The charges brought against
'his Royal Highness the Dtike of York, -had been
so very clear, that he that run Might req, The
diidence was- perfectly intelligible. If the-Hbuse,
by inference,. Ibund his Royal Highness guilty; the
people would ask why no punishment fotlowed ? It
could not be answered ,that his; Royal Highness's ea-
MoVal. frOm office was punishment, because 'the
proposed Address,. by his Right Hots Friend, diss
tinetly stated, that whether there was ground 'or
not for the 'charges that had been made against
him, his removal was a prudent and advisable
measure. 'the adoption or such a measure, it
might be said that the House put the DUkeof Yoi`le
in a better • and in 'a worse situation than they
, would put any other individual. If they conceived
him guilty, they would refrain Irene punishing him
they other individual; if they me..
ceivecl whirrli
innocent, any
cent, they would refrain from pro-
claiming that innocence, as they ,would proclaim
that of, any other individual. In either ease, they
would consign him fis irretrievable infamy without
trial. They would be guilty of a double injuistice,
first to the individual, next to the Public. What-
ever, therefore,: might be the Opinion of the House
with respect to' the condud of the Duke of York,
he trusted they would negative the Address proposed
by his Hon. Frieed Opposite.
Lord Teeing began by observing, that be had
withheld his opinion on this most important sub-
. jed, until thus late in the debate, because it was pre-
eisely that kind of question on which it was impossi-
ble to form ajudgment without the most ample dis-
mission. It was a question wholly unconneded with
party feelings-and party prejudices ; and however at
other times he might consider hiaiselt as attached to
a 'party, this was an occasion on which he could al-
:low no party consideration to bias his decision. He
confessed that he had, never risen with feelings of
sock real anxiety and pain, as those 'by w hich he
was then 'oppressed, The eyes of the-country were
etedfastly fixed on the House of 'Commons, and the
Ote of the. country might eventually depend on
`their decision.. The House had not to determine in
what family, the right of the CrOwn should be vented
-they had not to deterrnine by what Constitution the
people would best be governed.; their attachment to
the' family in possession of the right of the Crown
was', aily increased by 'their increasing Ara-lion feel
the virtuous and venerable 'by whom
the throne was ; their attachineut to the exist-
'Mg Constilutiotiwas drily increased; by. the- sacri-
Aces which they, thetisselves made, and which at
their Mitigation the people had made, to main-
tain it inviolate under circumstances most fatal ,to
every, constituted, authority in the world. But the
duty which the House had to perform was not' leis
important than. those to which he had alluded, els
though it ia* a s o re unpleresnot. It. was not to coo-
sider whether the confidence which had hitherto
been plieed in the. Royal Family of the country,
should be maintained. unshaken, but whether one
in:liVidual of, that family was sot thy, any longerof
filisring in that confidence: It. :it Should be deter-
mined that his Royal Highness's conduCt had proved j
him unworthy,, therewould still be a choice of ditfi-
culties. The House would have to decide whether.:

thee ‘votild hurt the' feelingi of thieir Soveregit, by
Mating the opinion which they entertained of lot
son, or 'whether, by fcirbearing from • such a state-
rnent,-they Would is rfeit the-confidenceesvhich their
co'untr'y .reposed in them.-;-That such should be
the duty of the iletese of Commonsi must be 'a Sub-
jed of.. most general.' arier4 eerio,us regret. Fer ,him-
self, he most deepleelarbentedii.-- ;,:-Te would with,
satisfaaibn !ewe shed. his blood, drop bY".i.!reele to'
have prevented,such a,. necessity ; bit the cup was
poured out, and must be drank ; the shaft had flown,
and must take its course. He had heard it repeated:-
1y said,- that the House had dealt clic:air!), with hiS
Royal Highness, and that they were prepariug to
.ciidemn him without ,trial.' A Noble; Lord, and
after him -an Hon.. Gentleman, had asserted, that
he was judged in his 'absence. It' lied been alleged, n'
that frien the D41,-.e of York %v as withheld the privi»
bel°,9g.ng to the meanest of the King'e stibjealw
to hove the evidence brought against
, him examined t
.onerath. 111,4 if thes trajection. was taken, it ought-
Uet to be tekert in tie present stage of dee busieess ;
it c.ught_e6 Lite 'been advanced at the tornMeticee
'meat, whettethese by. whom It was now brought •
forwerd. were cautioned on .thCranhjea,. and Wileh
, ' the' thode of preceedhig by, trial or by impeadlirneut
was', recommended. It would be too triudi toellow
the asserters of thisobjedioleto take the:bentlfit of
' the course
.originally adopted- at their suggestion,
and then to take the benefit of the objedions that
Might be.urged ageinst that course. In the letter-, which
his Royal Highness had been advised tp write to the
House, but which he (Lord ,Temple)
d ly. ree
greeted he had written, and., wKcli he siecerely
eep
wished with his Hon. and Learned Friend could be
blotted for. ever horn, their recollettion, liiv Ruyan
Highness objected to
.the evidence against him bee
ing received without the sanaion of rue oath ; but ail
in the former case, se in this, he 'contended, that
his Royal Highness aught., to have macho that ob.,
jedion at the commencinent of the Inquiry, and that •
not having-done so, he had no right to make it at
the conclusion. Numerous complaints had been made"
of the prejudices that existed on the subjed. .
prejudices existed he most willingly allowed.
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some of those prejudices he confessed that he pareci•
paced. It was tiatutlal that those who in their own
persons, or in their families, had received obligations
from the Royal. Duke should, he prejudiced hi his
favour. It was 'natural that those who contemplated
the benefits that 'had accrued to the army during Ow
administration.of his Royal aighnesi (benefits which
lie admitted to their fullest extent), shOtild be PN"
judiced in his favour. it was natural thateliose wilt)
felt as he did at the (Naming of thebusinese,and trier
could not. 'believe that the fads then alleged cola
possibly be
itl
his favour. Of such. veils-thee* no man need he
substantieted, should be prejudiced
ashamed. Unquestionably these were prejlidic('
of a different ' description ; prejudices inseparal4o
from the publicity of the course 'of proceeding -
that had . been leopted in that House ; but the•►s
prejudices could not now be urged in bai of judg-
ment, by- those at whose recommendation that
course of proceeding had been preferred. Ho "nil-
pletely coincided in opinion with the Right ifon.
Geut. opposite, that it 'was incumbent on thwinl"64
to come to a specific decision on the question ; and
lamented that the charges were not'of 100r0
cific nature. was much to be regretted that (hot •
had; not been produced on the table.,
tious against the Duke of York had beee 014,'"n.1
made in the preliminary speeelt'of the Hon,. Gerl te.
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mare behind him ; evidence had subseqtiently beiea
heard'ar the Bar; and out of that evidence the chows
had arisen. It was the bounden durvol the Hou6e to
determine on all the charges that had been preterrene,
Of
to
'interfere in military matters, and to make recom-
.ne°neonstsnlinal)l7'olcoeern,mtbihineognostu'rEccloilBircra:ipw'dtoii't:ili:).lraisPi ifasirlitrlisCl.lia°lll'eg
mendations to him to which' he allowed himself to
listen. 011 all these accusations it Was the duty of
the House to decide. Bet did he therefore thiek,
thatehey were to be decided upon in tht; mass ? 'riot
they. were 'to be decided upon without distindion?,
Certainly not. 'Whether the mode of proceeding
by 'Address, or the mode of proceeding by Resoltl',
lions, shotild be adopted, he should take good cr''
-before he 'voted to ascertain on which specific chat
• he was called upon to vote ; , whether on the cliareee
of corruption---on the charge of connivance-e-or ""
the charge of permitting Mrs. Clarke to interfere 41'
the official duties of the Commander, in Chief. Th"
question, however', now before the House was, l'ec
whether these separate charges were to he 4rlialg37
mated into one, but only wlither they should Jiro"
edesiesei:,:endbLytt‘laridttilltrtiethseseldoorirgnr:eleistro;l,3eostfi it was
tlolh'ioiesr,tl,ll:o:,ip(e)ak;rilidt) loleco::111;
most conducive-to the ends of justice. It al)Pe3re,
to him, that the first and second 'resolution of ,t"d
Right Hon..Geutleman, if dthe senstr
of the T3ouse, might neeor lng with
and 'be conceived, tin such n iOrii
be
.filb°4iediiti, 1a111;.: ‘ll:dtslil
be, equally efficient in point of justice to his !toyor
Highness. In voting, however,: for the iiitt,oll.'
the Right lidn. Gentleman near him (Mr. Bankes),
he begged to be ilistinelly understood, tint, as len(111,1.:4
u,iris opinion, that
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ticipation in corruption,. or of connivaticepit cori`l,
n tan opposite, .He did not thin:: that his 11`));,!
tie
either
litem, het g
ighness tleltre')eet-ei
odaDn't
connivance at come:elm., The evidence by. t` hi'!
the
.chargte, corruptibn, of p;iriti:ipaiion,in
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lion, and of connivance at ctirruption, were el)°:::.;
%c'otaurld. b.e:Supptortiele:, sei`iees‘%tyla"s-Itie9V;et7o
, say came before the House Under every CO
of doubt aed.suseicion. She was fielf-accilsed• lire:
charatter teas Sett-Ca: Slie had no claim 16,a._
deuce except whatshe eAabiilll by the ni.ot7.
lazdtic)eirrcetrcintsetatiince7dseoefiihico.r,ieroerituht..:;l.l.iii,cit4iers:x.
witnity on the evidence of •Mrs.• Chirke, Jie shs):::`i
lee very sorry to ctirdpelltd- to make sip
mind en`,evitieute of stiell ' doutithai co'qkx")oo
mid he Could wily ,arrive et et. dilded ()Rini"
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Abose points in which Mni. Clv.rke's testitnuny
corroburved by that of others. Thee :hie Witt) 5'