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HOUSE OE COMMONS.
MONDAY, MARCH 13.
The House was min-Intoned to at. end in the Mose
of Peers. to hear his Majesty's Commission read;
by virtue of . which the Royal Assent was de-
clared t the English and Irish Militia Enhsttnent
MI, the Distillery Ad,' the Irish Flax Seed A6t, dud
several private Aas.
Mr. it. WAttn gave notice, that he *ould mare, • •
to-morrow Aorleave to bripg the Marine aPtio:y
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The Attornies' Clerkship Bill watt read a second
time, and was ordered to be comtnitted.
Ordered, on the motion of Mr. FoiTtlt, that the
House do on Wednesday next resolve itself inn)
a Committee to consider of the saving Flax.Seect in
Ireland.

Lord TEMPtE called the attention of the House to
the motion he made some time since, With respect
to. the losses sustained by the last campaign, in
money, Sec.
Mr. LONG said, that every exertion .waa.tisk•
ing to, obtain the information required,. as agenti
were, at present, for that purpose at Portsmouth
.and Plymouth, and the return will be made a$ soon
as pos4ible.
Mr. Huskissfax- expressed himself to the same
effect, and observed-diet some of the Transports had
.put into Cork and other ports.
'Ordered, on the motion of Mr. tiostrisog, that
the latter from Mr. Coinfoissvy Elikine to the Lordt
of the Treasury, dated Lisbon, should he laid on the
table, which was done accordingly.
The MutinY,lllll was passed, and ocderrd:to
Lords. • . .

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DUKE OF YORK.
The Order of the Day for calling the illotne over
hoeing beet) rend, ..
• Lord Foi.KsToris moved ttfat it be caked over to.
morrow.. _ .

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General GASCOYNE repeated .his'obleOlons_to 1114
prolong:44m of the Coil. It had a and tendet:y,
because many; Members, who hoard the past pun"
meat of the call, anticipated the adjourninent uf thi
deb:ate, and consequently absented thernielves troui
the House. Of tlits tad the c tupstrative state ot the

1-I,luse at two o'clock uu Thursday morntng last, and
at ‘.2. o'clock on Saturday Tornio& I..st,,;:tibrcied
ticient i;roof,.. lie was_ convinOrd that not an in:.

dividnat attendatu could be produced by the cail,
inore4han what would have taken place without it.
But from the perpetual postponements of this motion
the_ House must sutler in the opinion of the pnblic,
who would iinagine that such a measure was nece.s..
nary to compel their Representatives to attend to their
duty. The Noble Lord treated the House of Com.
moils like School-boys ; but he trusted that he would
not find his controul so extensive as perhaps t-e flat-
tered himself it Was. He had risen with a determina-
tion, that the motion should not pass without com-
ment : if the feeling of the . House . appeared to be
with him, he should certainly psress„the question tO a

Lord Forts:rotiti defended ' himself from the
imputation of pretending to any power over the
House. It was for the _House to decide oil ties
question, and not for him. At the same time, b.„,
trusted, that fOrreasons similar to those which he had
stated on a former occasion, the House would adopt.
the motion whiCh he had the. honour of submitting
to ;hem.
Sir THOMAS TVRTON stated the inconvenience
which resulted .from prolonging the discussion on
each night to• so late an hour. In his opinion it
must ire destru&.tivc to the lives of some individuals,
and to the health of all. Under such circumstances
it was impossible to bring into the House the mens
suna in corpnz e sotto. He trusted also, Uric .on every
:intendment that might be proposed, no Hon. Mem,
ber who had already spoken, would conceive him-
gseuldfsettitottl.
itl7d again to enter at large inlo Ale crig:nal
The CtIAMOCLLOR,Of the .Exciteausa„ adverting
to the last observation of the Hon Ilaronet,
diselaiul-
ed any intention on his part of repeating the observn.,
tions with which he had; on. a recent evening; tres-
passed on the patience of the House. The only
object for which he should feel it incumbent on him
again to rise was, to explain, the various loistotto...
• standings Which had occurred with resped to several
parts of his speech and also declare what appear-
ed to him to, be the State, of tho question belipek
the. House, •and on what the House were attnaliy
c.iiiedupon to decide ~.for it was his,opinion, that
, without further elucidation the question were vet
, from the Chair) many Members would bout a loss to
know in what way to vote, so as to express their real
sentiinents. In declaring, however, th .ese LIM limits
which he shouldllrescribe to himself in agAn ad-
dressing the,House, he begged not to be understood
as denying The right of any individual who had
spolien„ and who might again choose to
speak on a fresh questioo,lego as much into de-
tail 'orr,the main Sltbjet. as be thought .proper.-;
Wiett respect to the minion of the Noble Lord, it
must meet with hiksupport. I..et the House. con..
rider the objeet of that motion in the first instancy.
It was not tor the purpose of preeorlott a full a:-
teodauce in the discuu:Lin, so Mitch as on the
teion,t He was prepared to agree to the obwi.vation
of the,Hou. &roues,. of the incovenience likely to
rpult to the he,ilth, and ev 4 pf Umbers, fro*
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ate prolonged debates that so closely followed each
other. Should circumstances demand a continua-
tinn of discussion for the whole of this Week, the
evil would be very serious. ' In tha! case, it would
°perhaps be advisable to make a break ; and if the
discussion-should not be completed on to-morrow
night, to adjourn over Woonesday,'in order to give
a pause to the Members, and to enable them to re-
turn with recruited faculties of body and mind to
the discussion and ultiMate decision of this most
important preeeeding.
Lord FoaaatoNiu'a motion was then agreed to.
,
On the motion for reading the Order of the Day,
for resuming the Debate on the cOudua of his Royal
Highness the Duke of York, '
Mr. Coawaa rose, and produced a letter, which
he bad received 'from' an honourable'Offieer (Capt.
Sledding), to' whose ellarader- he bOre the highest
testimony. With the permission of the House he
would . read this letter. The Hon. Member was
proceeding to read• Capt. Speddi(ig's letter, when he
was, interrupted by
Mr. who obseryed, that it had al-
ready been decided in the course of this proceeding,'
that to read a letter in the way intended by the Hon:
Gentleman was drsorderly.
The SEBAKEIt observed, that unquestionably no
letter of the sort alluded to could be read, except by
Abe indulgaiwe of the House.
Mr. CUR-waN stated, that the (Neal of the letter
was to declare, that Captain Spedding kneknoaany
thing of the , tiamsadious' imputed ab him, and that
if any sueh;hrid occurred, they were attributable to
his agent, and not to hit-itself. That Capt. Sped-
ding was one of the last men' who would be guilty
of any ataion in the least degree dishonourable he was
perfectly persuaded, ° and he appealed to.: bis Hon.
Colleague for his, opinion on the subject.
Mr. WALLACE declared the high estimation in
which be held Capt. Speddtag's charader.
The Order of the Day was then read ; and the
Speaker having explained the state of the question,
the Debate proceeded. The first Methber who ad-
dressed the Chair waaa--. , •
The SECIA atma at WAR., He observed, that be
rose to •oppose the• address proposed by the Hon.
Gentlethan opposite a (Mi.' Bankes), who had de-
clared, that although no charge of corruption bad
been established against his Royal Highne4s the
Duke of York,, yet that the House had :been just
put in possesion of fads sufficient to induce them
to believe, that his Royal Highness must have en-
tertained a suspicion of the abuses that-existed ; and
consequently qiat it was their duty to agree to a pro-
position, the tendency of which was, to deprive him
Of the COmmaild of the army„ In delivering his Sen-
timents on this subject, he felt his task considerably
lightened 'by the, conviction that a great majority of
that House were persuaded that no reliance Whatever
was to be placed on the testimony Of Mrs. Clarke.
At least; such was his understanding of' the opinion
of 'the greater part of those whom he had the honour
..to address. If it: were not so, if the testimony of
it Its. Clarke were to be credited, there cauld be no
guastion but that his Royal Highness muss be imme-
diately condemned ;, but he was tirtilly.of opinion,
that in the most material parts of herevidence, Mrs.
.Clarke was disbelieved by a great 'majority of that
House ; and under such Cirs:ULDRLIFICeB, he could
riot but think, that what she had asserted 'ought to
be put wholly out of their consileratien: • In his
opinion, there was not 'onre of thecases that had been
adduced in which Mrs. Clarke'had;,not-direOly con-
tradieted herself.. The Hon. Gentlemen on -the
other side maintained two opinions, either that the
Duke of -York had himself been guilty of corrupt
pradicee, or that the circumstances Were so glaring,
that it was °impossible-'but he must have suspected
their existence in others. Both these positions he

completely deniQd, and he trusted that the House
WOW& pernuadbd his denial was not,founderl on
light grounds. To chew that it was not so, he'
Would enter into an examilvtion of the voriouscases
that had been brought forward. And filar, with
respela to that of the exchange between Colonel

lirooke and Colonel Knight. It was evident in this
instance, that Mrs. Clarke's objea was to procure
tnoney, by pretending that the gazetting of that ex.,
change Was ascribable to her infleeme alone. Brit
she had evinced an ignorance of the usual course of
of such proceedings, which in ins mind was the
strongestproof that the communications bet Ween her
and his. Royal Highnesk on milittusubjeds were far
from being -as unreserved as she pretended. Mrs.
Clarke observed, that she had made' the application'
to the Duke_ of York two or.- three days before the
exchange was notified in the Gazette. Now, it
was well known to. those who were conversant with
the details of military office, that a much longer
lime must elapse after the approbation of the Com-,
mander in Chief was expressed deny transaction of
that nature before it could be so declared to the pub-,
lie. This ignorance on-the part of Mrs. Clarke was
by no means reconcilable with the profession that,
she possessed that undue influence over his Royal
Highness which had been ascribed to her, _ fOr, in
that ease, would she not have made it her business to
'ender herself perfe&ly CAtiversant in all.those forms
and details of office by winch her objects would
have been forwarded ? took this opportunity, as
ohe was speaking of Official business, to defend Col..
-Vordon from the imputation of want 9f candour,
which had been thrown upon him from the oppo-
site side of the House ; and explained, in a very sa-
tisfactory manner, the evidence which Col. Gordon
gave' at the Bar, with respect .to the usual course of
military exchanges andpreeaOtions.Proceeding with
his consideration of the cafes which had been inves-
tigated, he adverted next to that of Col.French'.B IeVY.
it had been erroneously declared that the expence of
that levy had been enormous, .amounting to near
an hundred and fifty pounds.a matt; but the papers
on the table undeniably -proved that the expence
was only something more than forty ponnds a man.
Entering into an explanation of this transaction, he
*hewed that it was conformable to' the usual prac-
tice ; and that the permission which Colonellirenelf
obtained, resulted from, pure Motives on the part. of
114 Royal Highness. • He himself fully recolleded a
Conversation au this very levy, and hi was persuad-
at chat his Royal'Highness the Commander in
bad acceded to it because he thought it an advert.
„tilw:ous bargain fur' the Public. The very stopping:
of the levy was a convincing proof thatMrs.Clarke
did nct'po4sess the influence to which site pretend-
; for it was interest that it should be eanti
Itted, if, aS she,: `,-- she was to receive a guinea
for ever' matt th'. 'as raised. Ever . 61:cumitanco

allutdeJ proof cat theabsence of commonication be?
tweet) the Duke of York and. Mrs. Clarke en mili-
tary matters; and none more so than the promotion
•Of Major Tonyn. That promotion aanally took place
on the 9th Of August, hut was not Gazette,d till the
lath, during the whole of which interval :Mrs.
Clarkewas ignorant that Captain Tonyn had obtain-
ed his:MajOrity, an ignorance which shetuanilested
by her solicitude. Was it to be believed hat Monett
kcase, threatened as she washy Captain Satiden;
that he would withdraw the promise of the .500 l.;
that if she possessed the influence ascribed to her,
she would not have questioned the Dtike of York
on the subjeCi ? - And was it not probable that his
RoVal Highness's answer .would have been " Major
Tonyn is a6tually made, and will be Gazetted on Sa•
turday or Tuesday next ?" But she,slid not venture
on •-Such an inquiry, and Captain 'Tony') was ac=
tuallY a Major for several day's before Mrs. Clarke,
interested as she was in Thetransaetioo, was apprised
of it. A more convincing proof than this of the lit,
tle communication that piisted between the Corn-
milder in Chief and Mrs. Clarke, he could not well
conceive.' As to the case of Colonel Shawe, nothing
could be more clear. Colonel Shawe had obtained
hys appointrmint in the usual way,, and with the un-
derstanding that'he was immediately to go on ball-.
pay. It was impossible, therefore, to believe that
his Royal Highness, to revenge the to trrel of Mrs.
Clarke, should order Colonel Shawe to be put upon
half-pay ; well khowing, as he must have done,
that such was the original ceridition of Col. -Sliawe's
appointment. :Much had been said 'with respetho
the mode in which Major Turner's promotion had
been stopped., With 'respect to the character of
the Ornate, by. whom that delay was occasioned, it,
appeared to him of little consequence, and that it
was unfair to, assign that as a cause why justice
ought Snot to be done. Considering the question in
this point of view; he-confessed that' he felt asto-
nished at the. Ohservationa that had been made, and
at the questions that had been put to Colonel Gordon
upon it. • Proceeding to thtt case'of Mr. Dowler, he
observed, that -it- had already been so ably haudled,
• that he did not feel it necessary tolrespass upon the
'time of the House longer than to observ'e, that
it was impossible that could be made a Matter.
of grave accusation against his Royal' Highness.'
As to SaMuel Carter, it was most prabable that
he would have bad his commission without any.
interference on the part of Mrs. Clarke. He could
not help olnerving, by the way, that this was the only
instance adduced of Mrs. Clarke's successfully ex-
erting her influence for the obtaining of an En-
sigitcy, although it could not but be evident that there
were mans; individuals who would have been very
happy to have given her-two or three hundred pounds
for het recommendation. So far from her influence
having been notorious, he contended, that this fact
proved the very reverse. A Very exaggerated 'state-
ment had been made of thekpxpencti attendant' on
Mrs. Clarke's establishment, which was trivlal, com-
pared with what it had been asserted to have been.
On a general review of the whole circumstances of
the case, lie Could not perceive that there were any.
just grounds td induce the House to agree to a pro-
position, the teniteney 'of which was, to removefrom
the command of the army an Illustrious
to whoie exertions the army and the country were
eminently iiiilehted, His Royalkii&hnews the Duke
of York assumed the command 01 that army at 'a
period when, aftlr a long peace; it was in the worst
possible state, and required a complete and radical
reform. That reform his Royal Highnesi had under-
taken ; in that reform, he had completely succeeded;
he had made the Briti'shartry "what it was o 4 present;
he had made it equal, In point of itharacter and dis-
cipline,-• to !..13k of any military power Europe.—..
With the utmost 'attention to the arrangements ne-
cessary for the improvement of our military force,
his Royal Highness-had combined the utmost atten-
tion to the comfOrt and convenience of the
Of whom that farce was composed. Oh such
grounds as those which had.been adduced, grounds,.
which to him appeared completely insufficient, he
could never believe.that the House of Commons
would consent to a motion that: would eventually
tend to dismiss from his. high office the Illustrious
s:
Individual to whom, in his opinion; the public wa ,
so deeply indebted.

Sir FRANCIS Btrancir rose to perform a duty,
which might well be called a painfUl one, but
which it still behoved him, as a Member of that
House, and a judge upon so important an occasion,
to fulfill. Atter the able and ample manner in which
the evidence had been goee through, and detailed on
both sides, it:would be wrong in him teadd to the
time already spent in discUssion, by repeating it in a
more imperfect manner.. All he had to do was to
state the result, and the groUnds for his decision upon
the question. Before doing this, however, he could
not help making some otiservations on the extra-
' ordinary mode of .conduct .puratted towards the
Honourable Gentleman who brought forward these
'charges. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, a
public officer, and the Attorney.:General, the ptib.
lic accuser, instead of being engaged, as it was
natural to suppose they would have been, upon
the side of the public, were arrayed on the side
of the party accused—were arrayed on thei.aide
of the party accused, not Mutely as Members of
the House ofCommons,,doing justice to all, but es
men sbewing minds skit to conyidion on the side
which they had espouied—Wry of order, order
With respect to the Hon. Gentleman•who brought
forward these charges, it had been said by another
Honourable Gentleman on the floor, that he had put
to sea in a small skirt, braving the winds anti waves.
For his part, he slid not inquire into the size of his:
vessel; but this he could say, that hs bad steered by
the polar star of truth,which had guided him through
every difficulty and danger. Another Right Hon.
Gentleman had threatened him with the alternative
of infamy. He had said that infamy must fall some-
where. He trusted; that at the present stage of the
business, and after hearing the evidence, which it.
had been in vain tried to do away, no discredit could
be' attempted to be att,ched to the flonoutable:
Mover of this question. He left then the charge of
infamy to the Right Hon. Gentleman who made it,
and it he knew. not where to pliceit, it must test
upon his own shoulders. He had now to notice,
the defence set up by the Bight Hon. Gentleman
Which appeared to him so utwandid, that not as a
judge delivering his opinion upon a case), but evtn.
as an advocate hired ,to defend a side, it was to un-
fair it would have done him little credit. In his
opinion, upon the evidence of Mrs. Clarke he stood

albite, and wateste. blinded to one stee, thatliis sen-
timents could 'have little weight with, the House.,
}4e could not see the Plainest objeds in the broadest !
idayslight, when they militated against his cause,
but was able to discern the most minute. specks in.:
the dark, when they'appeared to make for him.;
But the 'attempts to do away the evideece of Mrs.
Clarke were in vain., After telong examination, con-
tinued for successive, hours, tracing her from her
cradle to the moment She was before them, nothing •
Could be made out against her. • They saw; the worst
of her apt first, and cia every succeeding occasion,
she Made impressions of a very different nature, and
rose in their estimation. What could hsve supported,
her in these continued examinationa ? Nothing but
that her story was simply founded in truth., All
the lawyers who examined her, fur hour after hour,
had been foiled ; and the Attorney-General, with
all his labours, could not succeed in obtaining any
thing to her prejudice. But to obViate this consist-
envy, she was now to be called a most extraordi-
nary genius, reconciliog every point into perfect
order, -and- he would say, that she would have been
a most extraordinary genius indeed, she could
have got up such a drama as this. ,He believed
Mrs. Clarke Was:as competent' to write Macbeth as
to accOmplish such an achievement; unfortunately,
in the present case, very little depended on her.
She was the connecting link, and the only.evidence
the nature of the circumstance admitted of. The
money, no one would contend, could have been
paid inn:vale hands of the Duke of York; and the,
only thing they had to loOk to was, whether there
were grounds for an opinion that his Royal Highness
had reason to be aware of its being paid at all. To
the shame of the Dultii. of York, lie must confess that I
such was his conviction. The Right -Hon, Gentle-
man Had began his speech by laying down such Lair`''
and candid premises, that they must hare expe6ted
a very different seperstrudure from'that which he
ereded,,. He had drawn no right conclusioe ; be
had asserted that Mrs. Clarke was not to be be-
lievedeand he had declared to be unworthy of credit
the unimpeachable testimony of Miss Taylor, by
• whom she was corroborated. Mrs. Clarke's contra-
Miens were alleged as proofs of her being unwor-
thy of belief, but.there was no disctedit on earth in
the testimony of Miss Taylor, but the surmises and
suspicions of the Right Hon. Gentlemen. 'The very
contradidions of Mrs: Clarke were a proof that she
had entered into no conspiracy, which if she had,
.they would have been guarded against. If they had
conspired against the Duke of York, they, must in-
deed have been the boldest women upon earth. It was
'argued again, that the words to which' Miss Taylor
spoke meant nothing ; but ode part of his argument
overturned the -other. For, if the stories' did not
hold together wit hone the invention of these words,
it was surely the silliest thing in the world to
forge what had no meaning, and would not bear
them lint. All then that the Right Honourable
Gentleman did, was ingeniously to invent hypo-
theses, and surmise on surmise, of what Ought to
have been done or what might have beentione, leer-
sing out all that they had to' round their judgment
upon-•--the evidence. The Hen, Gent. who proposed
an athendment, had followed different and more
rational 'course, for he had, given Op what st un-
tenable to gain his point, and left it tie( he Chancellor
of the Exeneouer, who was the only.man withal the
walls of the House, to say that Mrs. Clarke bad no
influence over the Duke of Yolk. A Learned Judge
who, sneke early in the debate (Mr. Burton), had
also toed to destroy Mrs. Clarke's evidence; 'but
after Saying she was guilty of twenty-eight contra-
(haloes, nothing was produced against her but her
situation to life. Nothing more could be done; and
the House must consider that as the extent of the
impeachment of her credibility, when they recol-
lected with what acrimony and injusticethe slightest
subjects had been seized, whereon to chew that she
had been guilty of
.contradictions. There was an
essential ditferenue bet weee
,Contradiating other wit-
nesses and contraditting herself ; the latter was a
diredt'falsehood, while, in the' former,' such as in-
the contradiction bet Ween. Mrs. Clarke and , Mr.
Knight, on a Matter of ,recollpetion at the distance
of tour years, the one was, as positive and as likely to
ebe correct as the other. AlittitTaylor was also to he'
impeached, because she did not know her father";
wvut by, the ,name of, Chance, although her's was
the most complete evidence to be had on this otca-:
aion. The Right Honourable Gentiemantbad alsce
gone through the ether cases, always putting aside
the eVidenee, and building on' his' own conjectures.=
The Aitoroey-General too, 'to whom, from :bite
great opinion of his legal knowledge, hp had liatened'
with ',extreme attendee; expecting at -every turn
some luminous point; had followed the same course'
with'still less success. He'.seetned quite stunned by:
the badness of his cause, and reminded hitu of .a
story told of Cennsellor DUnniege Who/ on behig
applied to to recommend the parties in a latue action
to an Advocate, told them' trechuse the most stupid
Counsel in Court ; for, said he, if you employ an
able man be will-get puzzled and confounded with
the arguments against yeti, which he will never be
able to surmount ; but it you chutes a stupid fellow
he will not see these things, but go nonndering,qa,
saying a great deal, which will give . his speech the
appearance of a'good deal of reasoning on your aide.
Thus the Attorney-General appeared as tette:: weight
of 'the evidence had sunk him to the earth. Atter
turning round and round, and distorting- himself
in every way; he gave it up, and like Christian,
iu the Pilgrim's TrogreSs, left hitnielf and the
Duke of York 'sticking fast in the Slough of De
spend, efrom which all. the Antielecotnes in the
Kingdom could net drag him. . In the end,' he toad
flewn to' the lase refuge in et bad cause, and made an
appeal to the. Judges, which, with the weakness of
his preceding arguments, strengthed the impression
on his (Sir Francis's) mind, that the cause of the
Duke of York was indefensible against the body of
evidence produced. The Right. Honourable Mem-
ber for CaMbridgeshire (Mr. Yorke) had given up
one part to save another, but there seemed some-

thing very strange in itis continuing to ded4t the au-
thenticity of the note in the case of Majoi-runyn,
after it was proved by the.hest evidence that cuulti
be adduced, and not. disproved by the curious evi-
dence of Clerks, afterwards called. Atter this, he
knew not.how to convince his trkind„ or alter Lk
opinion ot: the testimony of Oat vioritan, w horn he
'ad: denominated a " harpP This barley had
ttnued out more virtnowt thinj could have been cit..
-betted, for she had not turneift her talytts to het own

OtCol.l,ilt I 3tlV had malt, pfiyli'vtut,! for livri`eif;

bat, 'with the money raised by iter trarfic in Coat:
initiSiOnS, she had paid the trad6people's bills, alien
with what she teazed out, of the Duke of 'York, shti
had paid the servants their wages. To the s tuation
in which she' came to the Bar, he ,coodeirined the
manner ih which advantage i had been take.) of her.
If there was no truth .in - her; she hid at ;east the
property of eliciting - truth twin others; acid, like
flint when she came in collisioo with them, alWays
brought something_ to light. It might be legal to
say, that from the nature of such a, testimony as Sang
den's, and others, hothi`og he or they said -Was to be
belleved ; but, lil Lis opinion, they were rattier ,to
be conSidered its being nearer the truth, troM their
wish to conceal the facts they were coinpelleti to dis 7
close. Mrs. Clarke would not have dared In ati is
the way she did unless her 'evidence was true. She
durst not have told them that Donovitti was likely
tti deny a fact, which he accordingly did deny, .tiit
was extracted from him, unless . she was convinced
of her reelitude. Let them then. do justice on all
sides, our condemn to tiiScredit a eoesistent witness.
Potting thepoSitive evidence out of the question, the
circumstantial was so strong, that it would convict
any man in an ordinary case: But men.some-
how or other always Seetned 'to losr their abilities in
that House. The Attortiey-General. *.'',ls so asto7
niched in his examination, that he thought he hail
got a witch at the Bar, and conceived it nothing
that his Royal Highness theDakeot York bad been
enslaved by such an enchantress. Truth to a law-
yer was like a red rag to a viper; It extracted all the
poison from his tooth. It was painfel r°saY that the Duke of York's honour was pledged against this evi-
dence. Were they to declare that rank, or even cha-
raaer was to balance all that they had heard ?—they
.could not do so.- Mrs. Clarke's evidence was fair and
Just when compared with any thingithey had before
them. Col. Gordon's had peen called very able: for his
part, he had no idea of evidence, but true or false.
Did they who gave it this commendation mean that
it was entitled. to admiration because it was de"
trues ? He dal not mean to 'say it Was so ; but
atter. the first mistake into which Col. Gordon had
fallen, he had ever after given his test anony like a Jar-.
chant's account; with " arruts excepted." It wasthe
grand stalking horse of the cause, and the regularity
of the,othce was to answer every- thing, thoueli Mrs.
Clarke had told them- that, she only recontmended
the parties to promotion, and that their business Wag
done alter the regular manlier. They now came to
some case, where the-evidence of Mrs. Clarke had
nothing to do, The case of O'Mara was shuffled over
by the Right Hon. Chancellor of the-Exchequer) be-
rause it wak not a military one. 'To his mind it Was
so much the worse. Flow could he preach a'atiost
vice, .
tintirerality, and deadly sins \Vhat dreadful
hypocrisy this must be. It tee Rialit Hirai Gentle-
man Chancellor of the EXchequer) had followed
the example of the t Right. Honourable Uentlernaa
.on the floor (Mr. Batikes),-they might have beau
spared their now painful duty of giving opi"
afion upon this charge,, which was of as beav)ol
nature as the mind of man could conceive.
SnaWiti case they had seeenedlo think nothing at
ail. The ;Right Honourable Gentleman troll)
professiooal habits had taken up an argawent °I 4.
novel kind that it could ant be the case, but ttier's
Was Major ShaWe'S letter, which /dove,' jos seas:
and. the general feeling 'ot the army u;,on the
%ion. 'lt W.ls singular tl,.ir whit, oaerioolOng
important cases the lioa. iar'-aidearan tour 'llllc. -
pains with the evidence of Favery, The ,
Gentleman who-bteugtit forward I l:-Jse OstitgeS
had
not even mentioned tier name; ilial to-. Jim pieceedingsr,
i in this respect only evinced how anich •liey 'resisted
on one of these little miserable pcantg•Witicit:
Could not .atfeet the general queaioo. Here 1.0
Hon. .Baratiet Cornrhentect on the evidenae by
Mr. Adam, and contended that the t.„'ilanc,
thn
'Exchequer, in endeai-ouring to ovia-t ar, LK: tea..
Outcast of. Mrs... Clarke, had left 4;i tits other
..ut.,t
evidence untouched and unsouchaeie. then
adverted' to the case of Major 'Punier, and • re-
marked, on. Mrs. Sutherland's asking it as a mere
trifle of the .Commander in Chief, not to comPli,
with his manorial. It was ruinous to the army
,i 1
such pradices were allowed to exist as to stop the
progress of an excellent. Officer, because a wont
represented him as haVing behaved ill to another.
Tha etrett it had on Major Turner's mind was cleor,
from the letter of indignation it gave rise
e
which.he almost threatened to expose the Duk
0
York. But what military law was broken ? Wbat
article of war was violated, by thus behavinglin 11)
lni•
a lady ? How had the Duke of York behaved to A
Clarke ? *After living with her in excessive fond'
ties,, Without any cause, he could throw her 0'1%4
an old shoe, with infamy and disgrace. What 1611,,
messageof was it that he sent to her by Eliex,s°,:l-
- (Taylor the Morocco Ambassador), who,
to
not been true, might have been called' to the n'r
rebut it ? Who,,that had a heart, would have Jett:
the woman that had lived' under his proteatea, ".,
debt. Against the testimony of such a woa4ll/j.
they had the honour of a Prince. His royal or
had also been given for an annuity to her, to PaY
her debts, and then he could resist the PaYlnr-it, •
and_
_say there --is no. bond, no legal demand i
gredients in the honour of a Prince as
there was honour for it. If there were thc fin'"otiik•
wan, if truth and justice were tin exiled 1.111"3
more wOrtliless pledge never was ptudoced,
should not weigh as a teather in the scale. 1.111,1'e e. a
of Kennett Was • another 91' corruption,
Bankrupt of infamous ChalliatCr was 10 be "C",roi
mended to a situation übtler GOvertunel4'bec"'fbe
he was raising it ItraO for the Duke of York'
,;,
of oar .t a
Hight Honourable the Clifoiceilor ot
quer had saidthat this was an age the least col,iird
of apy in the history' of his country.' H~
rem
seeme4 to,. think it a golden agta—a Par'dileifety
gained. But lie had lost' to his view, that 0,
thing led to Corruption, that the burdens 91'
like. e tiro-edged
award, redueed men to paveri.je
and exposed them t 9 be seduced by briber.V. kora
argued that there was no Corruption, b
was hone tif diet base, open, daligerous hi lad
in korner days used to put ti,e hunch..cc! 011.110
into i INleniher's hand -in the lobby, or o-tc,./.,.„0t
der the name
plate. when he d•oed with the Seaer. 110 ""'"t.v;
that_ men now blinked, arid tookp it k
unpunislied,.or
rila
"Aber d :Vs. When Geatlemen acquitted the
of Otlice Emolument; and in r,
lac
Y.-1-1,; (it corruption,- because he took DO ITI0P('10;
tal. , consider that corruption -ladatothills
du e ,ih inotaey, but was to be tbund in the .had".!
motive fora uicrn.--undue influence swaylog the Miria