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the house in Westhourne-place, nor did he assign
that as a reason for wishing not to give evidence be-
fore the -House of Commons. A second suromoos
Was seta him ae far as my recollection serves me.
taenk that Mrs. Clarke said she had honourably paid
his debtafter she had been sued. I don't recollect
corning to my house, nor, tjaat ground of
exam ding him as an evidence. T never recollect,
my having sued intention. He never stated to me
tear Wright's testimony was dangerous.
Mr. ATTORNE/ GENEItAL declined to cross exa-
mine Colonel Wardle, and recommended that he
aheuld quit the Court. ,
Mr. ALLEY here observed (when Mr. Attorney,
General was about addressing the Jury on the new
tastimony adduced) that it would be necessary to
call witnesses to the charaaer of Col. Wardle.
Lord ELLENBOROUGH never knew of any such
oroceeding, Unless it was endeavoured to impeach a
witness on his oath, there it was a qKestion of credit.
Mr. ATTORNEY-GENERAL then shortly made some •
okervarlooo in the course of which he-desired the
Sera to compare the evidence of Mr Stokes with
abet of Colonel Wardle, which he .cOntlanded was;
f:-oin the manner it; which he delivefed bianself, beta
autided to credit than the Colonel's. Ter 'iiie;,s
reasons he had wished the latter Gentleman not tq
remain in Court, aware that he trust make some ()IA
servatierria which .would not be agreeable.
'ALLEY rose to reply, which he did in a very
able manner, contrasting the evidence of Colonel.
Wardle and Mr. Stokes, and contended that the:
Colonel was as crutch entiled to credit as Mr. Stokes,
\vat) was' certainly to the full its ireerested a wanesta
as the former, for he had
_notless than three clients
for whom he was swearing. Mr_ Alley then corn-.
mented on the evidence, in answer to the observa-
tieus and comments of the Attorney-General. He
expressed his surprise why Mr. Stokes had not been
callaei on the former trial. If the charge of not call-
ing witnesses applied to his client, surely it applied
to an equal degree to the defendaets, for,they might'
have availed themselves or the testimony of Mr.'
Stokes.
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Lord Chief Justice ELLENBoRoup! -wkth all that
jus!iee and candour which so highkercharasterise him,
and which form the peculiar feateres',.tifyhe judicial
eliarecter of Great Britain, addressed,tia&:.Jury to the
full :wing purport :---
Tads is an inditarnent brouOt against three per-
sons o.vo of them have been witoe.sses on a former
trial, the third is Francis Wright. What has been
delivered by the forinstr two in evidence on that trial
x 3 made a charge against them now. Daniel Wright
:appears to have no other connection with this boat-
ness than as the foreman of his brother; but the
peculiar hardship of this case, to which his Lord-
ship particularly called the attention of the Jury,
was theineloding the three under the one indid-
tnent ; for had they been guilty ot the'perjury which
Colonel Wardle had endeavoured that'' day to 'prove,
they might each have been proseciat olt without
depriving them of that power of if*nde Which the
evidence of the other two alone 'afitiadede But •try
thus indieling all equally for cOnipiraty, Colonel
Wardle stripped them of all the means by which
they could manifest their innocence, and his Lord-
ship expressed his earnest hope, that the subjects of
the laud might never be liable to indiaments and
prosecutions, which front their very nature and
manner would deprive them of the power of defence.
i-le then called on the Jury to give the defendants all
the advantage of the evidence they bad heretofore
given, aid to allow them on this occasion the 'full
oete..fis of their oaths, deprived as they were of the
power of corning forward that day, by this artful
thersolidation of them in one indiament. His Lord-
ship reminded them that the defendants werebrought
before them bound and fettered, and unable to tes-
tify their innocence by any means whatever. He
then entered into a detail of the evidence which
Mrs. Clarl,,e nod Mr. Wright had giVen'en the trial
alluded'to. He observed that the- Itital. which had
been riven to the former on her golfig.fia the coun-
try, could be only looked on as a fee:fir that evi-
dence which she was to give, and would most just-
ly disparage it, and render Colonel Wardle liable to
a legit imputatiOn, or subject him to a prosecution
thr subornation of evidence. This, his Lordship
said was a tonus for her testimony'; and; whatever'
view's of poptilarity or ambition might have • ac-
tuated him, Colonel Wardle had,dealt corruptly 'in,
the first instance with his vaitties. Hia Lordship
expatiated on the circumstance of Colonel Wardle's
becoming respensibleao Wright for the furniture;
the rejection of one carpet, and choosing another ;
Mrs. Clarke's hbserv,ation on it, that since Colonel
'Wardle Wan to pay for it, he might have his choice;
Wreath's testimony, that the thing went home in
Mr. Wardle's name. To this declared evidence, un-
contradicted at the time Mr.Wardleop+posed,bL. own
testimony alone to-day, in which he said the whole
was a fiction. His Lordship remarked on the im-
probability of a woman like Mrs. Clarke exposing
herself qua scrutinizing examination for many nights
before the House of Commons, without any hope
of other remuneration than the paying a few of her
tradesmen's bills. His Lordship recommended de-
liberation and caution to the Jury, since here evi-
dence encountered evidence and oath encountered
'each. It appeartcl that in,the dealings with Wright,
Colonel Wardle was the ostensible- paymaster, but
that'vouched as he was by honour to the public to
produce uncontaminated witnesses, it was his espe-
cial interest to screen this fact. Now, when the de-
tendant's mouths are Padlocked, you are called up-
ur to decide against them. What, said his Lord-
ship, could be the meaning of that triple security,
Dodo's bill ? Was it not with a view to conceal-
meet ? He desired, the Jury to recollect when he
rii.ca Colonel Wardle, were they patriotic views,
etc t hey motives of public good alone, which ex-
Mrs. Clarke so give evidence betere the House
of Coalitions ? he said he believed so. COuld it be
true, said- his Lordship, that a women of her cite-
raaer could have been so actuated ? But in cor-
ruptina the course of Justice, Colonel Wardle had
coalleeted the highest misdemeanour. His Lord-
sta.ed further, that it appeared that Major Dodd
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had aoaoyed the ceefideuce. of the Bpyal Family ;
that tau:salt he did not lend entire assistance to Mr.
yet lie saw him daily while be -aela planning
a eenspiorey against the brother of his Royal Mas-
Ise ; end his Lordship asked could this be a well cast
riwind, could the human affeaious warmly

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SOLL DICERE. FALSUNI AUDSAT ?

LONDON,

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, isog.

We have been favoured with the Speech of-Buo-
NAPARTE to the Legislative Body.—We are com-
pelled to submit it to our Readers to-day without
cotnment: This speeCh was delivered on the, third
inst.

" Gentlemen Depties of the Departments to the
Legislative Body,
" Since your last Session, I have reduced Arra-,
on Kid Castile'to submission, as d driven from Ma-
drirl the fallacious Go% eru,, ent formed by England.
I v.aii march. ul;on Cadiz and Lisbon, when I
er the neeei-ity of .vading my steps,

animate his heart, who could this aft ? It appealee
that Wardle, Dodd, and Mrs. Clarke had left town enna. Three months have seen the rise and ternate
together ; that while in the country, Wardle and
nation of this fourth Punic war, Accustomed to
Dodd had been employed taking in writing the eve.
deece which Mrs. Clarke was to give ; no public, no , the devotedness and courage of my armies, I must
bonourenle feeling,- no gentlemanly principle! could neverthe)ess, under these circumstances, acknowe
incite to, or justify such an action, ,(bese as base it . , ~
the
particular proofs of affedion which my
i) thus to worm himself into o the secrets of a wo_ 1 'euis' ~
soldiers of Germany have given me.
man, and to take them down on paper. He fattens I
on the offel of any thing he can find amiss in the fa- ; ~ The genius of France concluded the English
mily of his Sovereign, and thus conies :florally re- 1
army—it has terminated its projeels in the pesti-
commended before you to-day. His Lordship then '
adverted to the professional talents of the Gentle- I lential marshes of Walcheren. In that important
man who opened the prosecution ; and expressed Is period I remained 400 leagues distant, certain of
considerable surprise, that he could allow himself to 1
the new glory which my'people would acquire, h-raa
be carried away by impetuosity, as to charge Lord I
Chichester with paying ten thousand pounds for the - of the grand- charaaer they Would display. -My
suppression of certain letters; and observed upon hopes have not been deceived-e 4 owe particular
the mischievous consequences to the administration ;thanks to the Citizens of the departments of the
of justice, if Gentlemen allowed themselves to speak 1
Pas de Calais and the North... Frenchmen l'' ever
of things which were utterly impossible to procure in I
evidence. There had been, he said, a very tragic l one that shall oppose you shall be Cianquered. and
lamentation over these whom it was averred were .1 reduced to submission. Your grandeur shall be in-;'
terrified from coming for on this occasion ; but i
I creased by the hatted of your enemiee- . You he aS •
this, his Lordship said, wm as erely sit address cal-
releted to inflame their passions. If, said his Lord- : before you long years of glory and prosperity. eltia'n
cell), you maittiain the high character of British ! have the force and energy of the Hercules 'etfj the,
Jurors (of which I have no doubt), your minds, - ,
ancients..
well poised and equal, cannot be shaken by asser-
tions, the truth of which have not, nor could i .•" I have united Tuscany to the empire. The-
not be ascertained. Wright, junior, the person ' Tuscans were worthy of it by the mildness 'Of their,
united in this indictment, though they have en-
• charader, by the attachment their ancestors have .
deavoured to prove him a partner, is not one : and it
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seems as it they wished to confound them. His always-shewn us, and by the services they 'have
Lordship then wished, that the character whictehad rendered to European civilization.
been drawn by the Counsel for the prosecutioil " History pointed out to me the =dud I ought r
mieht have been only the vision of an heated ima-
gination. He had drakkn him .as a man aiming at 'to pursue towards Rome ; 'the Popes, become So-
situations and influence which neither his birth or vereigns of part .of hely, have constantly sheWn
his talents intitled him to be trusted with. This-
themselves enemies of every preponderating power
idea was not embodied, and had no living person to
whom it applied. His 'Lordship said this was aon the peninsula—they have employed their spi-
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complicated indictment. The oral testimony W" ritual powereo injure it.—lt was then demonstrated
all on one side, and, manacled as the defendants'
to me that the spiritual iafluenee exercised in',.he
my
are, they must abide the pelting of this evidence.—
i n S was contrary to `'the
His Lordship then entered at large into the evidence States by a foregovereign;
of Mr. Stokes, his rernonsirance with Colonel independence of France, to the dignity and 'safety
Wardle, when subpwnaed before the House of Cern- •of my throne. However, as el acknowledge the'ne-
Mons, that be must injure his cause, His Lord-
cess
ity of the spiritual inflow) ce o
descend-
ship particularly remarked, that Mr. Stokes had
said, that in his cross-examination before the House, ants of the first' of the pastors, Lcould not conci-
he should he examined on other points, as well as ' liate these grand interests, but by annulling ' the -
that Mr. Ward:e wished him to be examined on ; • .
donative of the French Emperors my peedecessOrs, '
and added, " that as -Mrs.. Clarke 's Attorney, he ,
did not wish -to do herany prejudice;" Wardle's Cle, and by tinning the Rottikin States to Fraiice.
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termination then not to call him at alle—wl _ten s, By the Treaty of Vienna, all Kings
n .and
Wright Ki - d
. .
Wright was called, his observing to Wardle that , es me so many
Wright would do him more harm than he himself overeigns, my allies, who have given
couldeas he had not hesd to conceal what was ne- proofs of the constancy of their friendship, have ac-
could,
--•. : . e
cessary. On this his Lordship observed, that 'here, coifed and shall acquire a fresh • of territory..
increase
in this transaction, an intention was taken up.-and ~..
(e The Illyrian Provinces stretch the 'frontiers of
then abandoned., On what ground, said his Lord-
ship, could it be taken up, and on what ought it to my great Empire to the Save. Contignoue to the
be . abandoned ? This evidence heard no more of Empire of Constantinople, I shall find myself ins .
i.•.
the business ; he Dever assigned arty other reason ,
situation to watch over the first interests of my
to • Wardle as an objection to Wright,- than the
Commerce in the Mediterranean the Adriatic, *pd
danger of his evidence discovering the connection .
,
between him and Mrs. Clarke. Colonel Wardle the Levant. I will protect the Porte, if the Porte
then was compelled either to take leave of all withdraws herselfpre- •.
n.
from the fatal influence of E-
tensions to character or directly to contradict this
witness, who had so positively sworn to those . land. I shall know how to punish her, if she offer
things which Wardle had so often and so solemnly ' herself to be governed by conning and perfidious
denied before. But what can you think of the counsels.
hesitating, recollecting, denial of Wardle, -when ' •
• " I have wished to give the Swiss Nation a new
opposed to the absolute and direct evidence of Mr. i
Stokes ? ! proof of my esteem, by annexing to my titles that
IlTis Lerc'ehip rereireiccl the Jury that three per- ,of their Mediator, and thus putting an end to the
Sans were contradicted, not on the day they gave
uneasiness endeavoured to be spread atnong:that
evidence, but to-day ; not by witnesses who were
remote, but who then, as well as to day, were pre- brave people. .
sent. Wardle, said his Lordship, ack nee ledges that " Holland, placed between England and France, .
he gave a discretionary power to his Counsel to eau is equally bruised by them. ' Yet she is the de-
or not to call witnesses : - .. .
tion to the People of the'Uuited Kiegslom, night
bouche of the principal arteries of my Empire.—
he not have come on that day into Cour', and have - Changes will become necessary ; the safety, of my
had this business discussed ? His Lordship again frontiers, f and the well-understood interests of the
said, he thought it necessary to retniud them that , ,
this complicated indictment deprivA the objects of i two countries imperiously require their.
every means of defence, and that theretole it rested " S'weden has lost, by her alliance with England,
with them to consider the evidence whicii had been after a disatrous war, the finest and most important
given by the defendants as if they lied that day •
of het provinces. Happy would it have been for
sworn to it ; and to consider how ;hat evidence had I
been contradicted, he asked theth, could they I CCOn- i that nation, if the wiie prince that governs her now,
cite it to probability, that Mrs. Clarke would sute-L-t '
had ascended the throne some years sooner. This
herself to the danger of public examination before
that the alliance of
the highest tribunal on earth for the paltry consider- lexample proves anew to Kings,
time of paying her baker's or her butcher's bill ? he ! Eneiand is the surest presage of ruin.
said the sum of money which had been given was i “m-
-y Ally and Friend, the Emperor, of Russia,
for the purpose of influencing her evidence, but that
. has united to his vast Empire, Fitilaad, Moldavia,
were it only a loan, was still improper.
His Lordship here concluded, and the Jury, after Wallachia, and a dibiriet of Gallicia. lam not jea-
n very few moments deliberation, and without luus of any thing that can produce good to that Eni-
quitting the Box, returned a verdict ef--eNOT
~pare. My sentiments for its illustrious Sovereign
GUILTY. . 0
are in•unison with my policy.
" When I shall sliew myself beyond the Pyrenees;
the frightened leopard will fly to the ocean, to avoid
ehause,defeat, and death. The triumph of my ,arms
will be the triumph of the genius of good over that of
evil; :of moderation, order, and morality over civil
was, anarchy, and the bad passions. My friendship
and proteaion will, I hope, restore tranquility. and '
happiness to the people of Spain.
" Gentlemen; Deputies of Departments to the Le-
gislative Body, I have directed my Miniver Or the
Interior to lay before you the history of the legislation,'
of the administration, and of the finances of the' yeai
just expired ;- you will see that all the ideas I had
conceived, tor the, amelioration of my people, have
been followed .with the greatest activity--that in
Paris, .as in" the most distant parts of my Empire,
the war has not produced any delay-in the public.
works. The Members of my Counsel of State will
submit to you different projects of. law, and eve...
dally the law upon the-Finances ; you will see in
it their prosperous condition. I demand of my
pe-'ple no new sacrifice, though circumstances have
obliged toe to double my military means."

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