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• • state. the Affirmative to the contrary. And yet he
came to a conclusion, merely, as witnesses were not
'examined
upon oath. Thus he would not allow
that the contradiaions should be taken to be veri-
fied in the same manner. The Leal nal Gentleman
next proceeded to animadvert upon the evidence of
Mrs. Clarke and Mks Taylor, between which be
drew some very pointed distinaions. Mrs. Clarke's
evidence was without any corroboration,- except in
one or two particulars by Miss Taylor. But taking
`it upon the w hole, there was
,not a syllable of it
• which went in any measure to prove that the Duke
of I'M; was privy to these corrupt practices, much
less that he participated in any 61 the profits arising
from them. It was not upon Mrs. Clarke's general
demeanour that he 'discredited her, evidence, but

upon the proof of certain undisputable faas. It was
notorious, that from the year 1804 she began the
business of an army-broker, and that she carried on
after her:separation from the Duke of Yoik ; dur-
ing the whole of that period she was engaged in that
traffic, and thew hole of her stock in trade consisted,
in lying and deception. The whole of those engaged
with her, all the witnesses on her side, Sanden,
Donovan, Corri, &c. contributed to confirm the
same notion and .charaCter of her dealings. The
evidence of Mrs. Clarke alone attempted to estas ,
Wish a privity and connivance. on the part of his
- Royal Highness ; nor did the documentary evidence
produced. afford any corroboration of her testimony.
Every thing, on the contrary, tended to shew that
Mrs. Clarke, instead
.of being a reluaant witness,
as she had been represented by some Gentlemen; was
a witness instigated by revenge, and prepared by de-
sign. Up to the very moment of the present in-
quiry, she was. known 'to be colleaiqg matters of
charge against his Royal Highness the Duke of
York, which she offered to deposit in the hands of
other Gentlemen betbre she entrusted them to those
of the Honourable Mover in this Inquiry. Witness
her letters to Mr. Adam ; witness her repeated
threats against his Royal Highness: yet after all
these proafir of an hostile intention, of long preme-
ditated revenge, some Gentlemen will continue to,
describe her as an unwilling and a reluaant evi-
dence, The Learned Gentleman next touk a retro-
- spea of Mrs. Clarke's transactions from the time
she opened a shop for the sale of commissions in
1304 down !to 1806., She pretends to haVe carried
. son thatiraffic during nearly the whole 'of that lime,
,with a view to raise a fund to enable her to defray
the expences of her establishment in Gloucester-
place ; and that during the whole of that period
the Duke of York had suggested and was the con-
triver of. the system she was carrying on. Yet we
have,. in contradiction pf this assertion, the evidence .
of Colonel Gordon, whOse'aceuracy, whoie eprrea-
ness it was im,possible impeach. The very sale
which hid Royal Highness is accused of conniving .
at and promoting, he himself, in conjnnaion with
Colbuel Gordon, had talon measures to prevent in
1804, when measures were taken to prevent or re-
pine the sale of CoMmissioni, to frustrate, not to
favour the traffic, for which lie is now accused of
participating. Besides, if the Duke Of York had
ever been coescions participating in or conniving
at such abuses, would he.ever have seleaed a man
Of Mr. Adam's principles, of Mr. AdaM's charater
and integrity, to whom to disclose his affairs ?—most
improbAhle. The Lelirned Gent. next set forth the .
resointion and ti,lnutess with which his Royal Highs ;
uess'had .lismissed i<li s. Clarke, upon finding she had
made an improper use of his natn in money tranti-
aaion!4. Thriconsciousness of his innocence enabled
him to set: her at. defiance.. . The same consciousness
of innoceece inapelled him for the Most public in-
. qniry into his condua' for. the most minute and,iins
'partial investigation of every charge That was brought
eminst him.. Yet, with all ,these proofs of itmo-
ceoce on his part, is -Mrs. Clarke to. be believed
against him, instigated as she evidently lirsby uspirit
of revenge, and upon an evidence uncorroborated
by any other witness The Learned Gentleman
concluded by s indicating nis.Right Hon. Friends
from the itinnitation of having treated Misit Tayler '
• with Unnecessary rigour amid, harshnisss, where no-
thing more was done than was indispensable to the
de tectiott of the truth. He had only to remark that
the same tenderness was never manifested by the
Gentlemen Opposite Win, :for the witnesses in
favoor. or the Duke: of York, which they wished to
be o.hsel,Yed towards the witnesses against him. He
had one' to exemplify the wanner in which Mr.
Nicholls, of Hampstead, had been treated by an Hen.
. • Gentleman (Mr. WnithrCad), Who. licensed 'Mt. N.
of having tided basely, clklionestly, and corruptly,
only because he had refused to deliver up papers.to
Mrs. Claykr, which were only called for after die
present in Yestigatioll 11434- began; and which Mr;
Nicholls might Justly have thought necessary to
• detain, in casts they might be called `for. during the
course of the inquiry. Upen the whole of the case
be saw no mason which could hidece bun to vote
fOr the Address of the Hon: .Gentlemati.
Lord Poottraorse end the ATI4II'NLY and SOLI,
CITUit GVNEILIGuff4ed a few wards in expleoation ;. ,
after. which
Lord CASTLERSA.CII tose, and moved; that the
House .do now adjourn,. giving notice.at the same
time, oVaent bet Question which he intended to
bring forward on 'Wednesday.
The. House then adjourned till this day, at Four
o'Clock this Mdfning:

T 1 E

S U N.

40Liti4 QUIS UICiItI PALIUM Alibi/P/

LONDON,

TUESDAY, MAKCII 14, 1809.

We this morning received the following Letter
from Faltimu:l3)--

" FAt.ourii a MARCH 1 I.—Arrived his Majesty'o
Ship Surveillan le, from the lirazilk, with a convoy
111,1 blited on the 22d apeCember. - Lieut. SCOTT,
of his M3jesty'3•Ship Hedprd, can in her, with dis 7
patchet.fruttt Lurd ST4tANOFORD, with which he is.
gotle .011' for Loptiott, On the 3d inst. in lat. 4(3.
3u. Long. 12. to. at day-light; saw a squadron of
iuur Sttipi of the Line and three Frigates, lying to

leeward, and in, tlie an of burning a Brig. Several
large Ships, apparently Men of War, appearing in
:sight', to windward, the above Squadron made all
sail and stood to theiwe4ward, (the wind at East)
when the Survgillnie lost s►ght of them.' Two
Ships of the pursuers were much a bead of the re-
mainder of the Squadron, and apparen►ly gaining
fast on the otherS."

The intelligence brought by. he Surveillanie is
so vague that it is impossible to draw any positive
conclusion from it. In all probability the Squadron
first seen ray the Survei(Mate was the one which
lately escaped from I..,'Orienr, and Ave are strongly
inclined to hope that the several large Ships which
afterwards hove in sight' were Sir JOHN • Ducx -
WORTH'S Squadron ; but the distance they were at
from the Sur veillante was so great, that she could
not ascertain that they were Line-of-Battle Ships or
even Frigates.

According to letietsfrom the immediate vicinity
of Saragossa, that place- had not Wien on the 25th
of January, notwithstattling all the accounts in the
French Papers, detailed with so much apparent ac-
curacy. Our Readers, however, will remember we
stated that the Monitor, the official French Paper,
did not confirm the news. / The other accounts from
Spain are of a favourable nature. • The army in the
vicinity of, the Sierra Morena,..aecording to letters
from Andalusia, dated 17th uk. amounts to 21,000
infantry, and 1700 cavalry.. PALACICTS had bt%..fi
superseded, and Count CASTOGAL appointed to the
command of those forces, as well as to the army of
the centre. The Duke of INFANTADO has been dis-
'placed, and required to appear before the Junta of
Seville, to explain his candud. CUESTA, with
14,000 infantry, and 2000 cavalry, had fixedhis
head-quarters .at Truxillo. At Alcautara there was
an army of about 14,000, chiefly English and Portu-
guese. There was still a large French araty in Leon..
The siteatiun of Rost ANA, and the retreat of the Bri-
tish, were known' to Cu ESTA, who, however, was not
dismayed, but was preparing to attack the enemy, in
conjunction with CASTOGAL•With this view the Duke
of Autu€LERQUE had, been oidered to proceed with his
force, 8000 infantry and 2000 cavalry fromi La
Mancha to Toledo; whereilm enemy is in qtretigth;
The 40th Regiment. which had reached the
neighbourhood of Seville, and been joined by • the
British troop's, Were, by desire of Generals CasTo.
GAL, Cauz„ and ABADIA, to advance to La Carolina,
to assist the Patrhits.in that quarter.

The report that BULM/WA RTC has sent the Royal
Family of Spain to South America haS been 'again
revived, and it is now'said that they are on-hard
the Squadron which escaped from L'Orient.. It
is hardly necessary lo observe, that this, assertion
rests entirely upon canjedure„ as no intelligence to
that effett has readied this country., It appears to
us highly improbable t hat BUONA I'ARTR should adopt
such a measure, because we cannot, see any possible
advantagethat he could derive from itt unless it can
be supposed that CHARLES and FERDINAND, when
libetated kora Abe' power of 1:110NAPAIIT2, ,WOUld
bISCOITi, hi 4 uilling ingtrurnents to perpetuate their
own Slavery, and to destroy the independence of their
Countiy.

Among the rumours to which the late visit of their
PausstAN MaJesuits to Petersburgh •has.given oc-
casion, is the fellowing :—lt has been genetaily Utl•
dt•rStOOd that: the Qs.:een of PtiusstA had a great
ascendanctuver the mind et die Empery ALEXAN-
and , th4t she had induced the King to hasten
10s. visit to ItUsSia, that she might try the force .of
that asdendandy, iu prevailing upon ALEXANDEIt to
'join Austria it a new war with France, represent-
that when slain should be subdued, and the
Austrian Monarchy overturned. Prussia must be an
easy prey, and Itkissia could hardly kneel to escape
the tiall4e tato as had befallen so many ancient Go-
vernments. ALEXANDLII, it is said, was deeply
pressed by, the truth of all the Queen,urgedi bn
signified ifsut though he looked with horror upon
the French Usurper, yet he looked also with appre-
hension, and that, the engagements into which he
had enrered, r and the, finances of his Cbuntry, pre.
vented him .front entering into aaive hostilities,,and
that all he could venture to phimi3e was to main-
tain a rigid neutrality, if Austria should unfortunate
ly be unable to resist the overbearing pretensions of
BUONAPARTae•--.We have given this story, because
it. relates to a subject of great importance in the
present state of Europe, but without .having much
confidence in it. It is by no means probable that in
the humiliated condition of Prussia the King and
Queen would have embarked in so perilotis an enter-
prize with acelietle chance of. success ; and it is still
more improbable..' that it such
.an intercouse had
taken place between the Queen and the Czar, it
would have transpired, as the safety of all porties
imperiously demanded the Most solemn secrecy.
Private letters from Holland repot t, that, accord.
ing to a secret article of the recent treaty between
Great Britain and Turkey, the Porte is to join with
Ausitria in the war against France, and Great Britain
is to furnish the Turkish GovernMent with arms and
ammunition at Malta or the Morea. ThiS intelli-
gence% is is said, come. from 'Malta.
'Vt.:sic:n.4 a Cabinet Council was held at the Fn-
. reign Office.. The whole of the Membcrs were pre:..
-sent. Their deliberations lasted trout balf7after one
till half after fUur o'clock.