Star.
London, England, 1809-03-11 00:00:00

CAMP lEFDRE SARAGOSSA, FEB. 9.

Since my last, whereby I acquainted you with our
march to Saragossa, we •have fought a severe battle,
in consequence of the enemy making an attempt to
break our lines, and throw succours into the place.—
To tell you that the sth corps was engaged, is to an-
nounce a victory, and this in fact was most complete.
Three battalions of foot, our gallant hussars, and
four pieces of horse-artillery, were sufficient to rout
the enemy on all points. Fifteen hundred Spaniards
were slain on the field of battle, and the rest fled into
the mountains, from whence, I hope, they will not
feel inclined to disturb us for some time to come. .

A s to Saragossa, we. are already within its walls,
and the who!;: of the town will soon be reduced. On
the '2:l initant we made a violent attack on one of the
suburbs, which was carried by the bayonet, and we
also rendered ourselvesmasters of two convents, which
were fortiAed and furnished with artillery.
For th9rest, Saragosia is in want of provisions and
ammunition. The troops of the line who are shut up
in the place, have thrown down their arms, because
they are not commanded by Monks.
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In the course of to-morrow, batteries will be erected
to destroy the Abbey of our Lady of Pilar, which the
inhabitants consider as their palladium. I hope, how-
our ',mils will find their way into it.

HAMBURGH, FEB. 14.
Tin following is a copy of an intercepted letter :
" Vienna, Feb. 4.
. . .

" For some time past, opinions-hare been much at vatianeti re-
specting pe.!ce or war, as well as with res?ect to the part which
Austria is liktly to take. This uncertainty has arisen principally
from igncrance, a.,tl at present it is nos positively known how
Austria st Ines with Russia. Though on the one hand, they
ettla.vuur to assure themselves, that, under a certain conjunc-
ture, Russi.t, attentive to her own interests, would speedily adopt
diff;rent sentiments; yet they cannot dissemble to themselves
:bat our great defensive preparations towards the North of Hun-
gray cannot be without design, and that they cannot but be direc-
ted agairst those who would endeavour to penetrate into Hun-
gary by the Carparhian Mountains. But within these few days
they speak yesitively again of war. All the Austrian forces are
to he divided into three armies; his Majesty the Emperor will
take in person the command of one of them, having under his
orders the Quarter Master General de Cbastrlar; the second will
14: commanded by the Archduke Charles, having under him the
Prince Lichtenstein, and the Quarter Master General Moyer, of
Heiden/etch ; the third will be confided to the Archduke Jelin,
having for bis Quarter Master General, General Bach. Appa-
rently this army is •destined to take its position in Austria inte-
rior. Yesterday the Councillor of State, Fassbapder, was appoin-
ted frtendart Central of the Army, and the ConataTattran and
Charles Zychy, Ministers of the Armies."

The Lords' amendment to the Irishßank Note Bill was read
and agreed to.
The Cape of Good Hope Trade Bill was read a first time, and
ordered for a menisci reading on Monday. 1
The Mutiny Bill was ordered to be read a third time on Mon-
day.
Mr. PaRISIFORD rose to give notice of a motion to refer it
to a Committee to imptire into the condsct of the Pon Otime of
Irdaud, on the second day of the /Lame room. lfib reside• for
this wits, the negligence of the Express Office, where in one in-
stance an express bad lain 69 hours.
CALL OF THE HOUSE.
*Lord FOLKSTONE said, that as be understood
it to be the general feeling of the House that it was
impossible to conclude their present debate to-night,
and that it was net adv keable.to proceed with it to-
morrow, he should, therefore, propose, that the en-
forcement of the call of the House be postponed till
Monday, and should first move that after the present
sitting, the House should adjourn till Monday.
This was agreed to without a division ; and on the
question that the call of the House be postponed till
Mon lay,
General .GASCOIGNE rose and said, he should
forbear to follow up his notice, fom a wish not to dis-
turb a quarter of the House, which it was unparlia-
mentary to name—(alluding to -galleries.) He hoped,
however, that the presentdiscussion would be conclud-
ed to-night, on account of the agitation of the public
mind on this subject, as well AS that of the Duke of York.
The effectof this continued late sitting on the Members
must be injurious, and ire thought they had better sit
till even eight or nine to-morrow morning, rather
than nct conclude the business at once. Nothing was
more likely to preserve and protract the discussion
than this frequent adjournment ; and he hoped Gen,
tlemen orators would in future compress their ideas,
otherwise it would be desirable that the clock of the
House should be embellished by some such figures as
ornament that of St. Dunstan's Church, so that
Members might be not altogether ignorant how the
time went, but might be reminded to conclnd( their
speeches by the frequency of the quarter strokes.—
This would have another good effect, that of awaken-
ing the drowsy, audience of the House, who had really
before some cxc:ise for sleeping. The Honourable
General's desire was to prevent any further adjourn-
ment.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
said, that there was no understanding that the House
were not to come to a division to-night. The great
questions of the House could not most probably be
decided till Monday, and the call II as useful to pre-
serve Members together till then : but the Right
Honourable Chancellor hoped that on the first part
of their discussion the House would come to a divi-
sion to-night ; end, though he did not wish the House
to sit to eight or nine in the morning, yet he thought
that to gain this end they had better protract their
s:tting to a later hour than they had lately done.—
There would, most prcbably, be a preliminary ques-
tion to decide, whether the Homo should shape its
opinions into an address or a resolution?
Lord FOI.KSTONE and the CHANCELLOR of the Ex-
CIII:QUER mutually explained.
The question was then put, and carried without a
division.

Mr.
.WILLIAM WYNNE put off the notice he
had given for Monday, and the adjourned debate on
General Clavering's testimony, which stood for Tues-
day, both to an indefinite period.
THE DUKE OF YORK.

The Order of the Day was then moved for the ad-
journed debate, on the conduct of the Commander in
Chief when •
Mr. SA,NKES rose, and moved that the question.
before the House be read, which was• accordingly

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Alma. "Tird*on."Member then began, his speed,
by prereisi, 0.4 that 'brevity, which an Honourable
lift~fberha4 jest now advised. He conceived that the
original-form-of the, motion before the House w.as the
'best, andehat it was betterte_caery..4se Tifroe of
their Alittipaila.e.aa Titre& at once, than to subdi.
-Vide The House-should take care, too, not to
be
.entrapped into any agreement to .certain resoln-
kions!,unless they were aware tp what effect those re-
solutions were to be carried. I: was the Honourable
Member's intention, to amend the amendment which
had been propoied, and, foonding himself upon_ two
precedents, on which he and the. Speaker had that
day conversed, to call for the first divisien-(w)ich by
hoped would take place tbiu, night), upon hie-amend.
went of the amendment, . .
Although the Honourable Member appeared to
volunteer himself in this great cause, there Was no.
Merino which he had entated with more telwetan ce.
After alt. the. examination which had been gone
through, it appeared w him that the result-of the in-
quiry was'imuch more detrimental to its object than
beneficial ; but he was anxious, . that having gone
through it, the. Hotise should de itself honour by its
determination. -The general evidence of the inquirr
had been so amply discussed, that the Honourable
Member would spare the House any further exami-
nation of it. It had been summed up. by his Right
Hon. Friend (the Chancellorof the.. Exchequer) in so
able a manner, that if it had not been worthy of at-
tention, from its great importance, it would have been'
so as a beautiful detail of evidence. It had a better
recommendation, toe—that of, upon the.whole,, great
fairness. On the other side all the material parts hid
likewise been adverted to; so thit the fronouraGle
Member should state merely the result upon his
mind of this m.tss of evidence. Because sonic -of the
evidence was very contradictory, and some would not
be regarded-in a Court of Justice, did it,eherefore,
follew, that no part of this was to be be attended to ?
and that you were not to take that evideneeiend pick
out of it what was true and what was false ?• Here it
was that the Right Hon. Gentleman laboored the
case: he argued that this evidence should.,heletally
blotted out from recollection ; but did it follow that a
person who told many falsehoods should tell no
truth ? The fact was, that it was- impossible for en
impartial judge to lay the whole of a person'S evi-
dence, true and false, out of the cafe : for an lionest
opinion must necessarily be founded upon general
conviction from erery thing as you hear it. Mahe
person whom the House saw the oftenest, truth and
falsehood were about equally blended. Many of the
facts she stated were established beyond contradic-
tion by persons brought unexpectedly into the cause.;
and of some of these-facts, their corroboration was. so
strong es 'to render them incontrovertible. The pi in-
cinel parts of the evidence which brought *the Unice
of` York to the knowledge of Mrs. Clarke's influence,
were three or four circumstances. The first of these
was the evidence of Miss Taylor; and the attempts
which bad been made to invalidate her testimony were,
in the Honhutable Member's opinion, not at all
successful. There was a suspicion about the witne::s ;
but the internal evidence of the conversation she proved
was ao strong, that it was very difficult to belieie the
very words of that conversation did not exactly pass.
This would establish a constant and unreserved inter-
course between Mrs. Clarke and the Dicke of. York.
It was nothing that she did not recollect-
other con-
versations ; the Right Honourable Gentleman told
them that she wes in a conspiracy ; in that case she
would have recollected something else. For instance.
the conspiracy wanted to prove that a- certain note
was shewn tit the Duke of York. Why did not Mrs.
Clarke bring Miss Taylor to prove that she saw it
done ? There was a witness at once. The Hon. Mem-
ber adverted to another point on the note, which had
been so justly called the .mysterious note. As to
'hand-writing, it was so easy to imitate this, to the
confusion of the person whose hand-writing was imi-
tated, that the Honourable Member did not think
much of this. Here again the best criterion was in-
ternal evidence. This was a forged note, it was
stated, to persuade a gentleman that Mrs. Clarke
had influence with the Commander in Chief; and
what sort of a note did she forge ? Something hardly
intelligible to any one of the House. To persuade
a person ? If that was a note to persuade, it was
the most unelognent peesuasicn he ever saw.—
(Heir, If the note might be understood
in any one lvay, it might be understood in a bun-
dled other ways. At least, too, Mrs. Clarke would
have produced a letter with the Duke's signa-
ture ; for, according, to the Right Honourable Gen-
tleman-, she was restrained by no tie wiztever, and
might as well have forged one thing as another.
He (Mr. Bankes) could not negative the Duke's
knowledge of the influence of Mrs. Clarke, but he
denied his personal corruption or participation in
the profit:. That the nterference of Mrs. Clarke
operated as a motive upon the Duke, Col. French's
levy proved. It was observable, however, that in
none of the Duke's letters, which had been.predeced,
was military promotion 4ireitly mentioned. That
rel.tting to Dr. O'Meara only proved the general un-
reservedness between the Duke of York and 'Mrs.
Clarke, and the folly and ambition of the -Dector.
It was not to • expected but that the thot.whts which
occupied the Duke's mind in business, stiould also
find their way into, his hours of relaxation, and not
leaTe him the moment he crop
the whole, it was elearto the

that the charge in the leading
was in no dcgree proved, and
ceedings of a criplinal nature
to. It was_ then bur justice
and the country to declare th

not necessary to separatr: tha,
since it would be 3o great a c 4
find thAt the charge against In
of its virulence. The Honom

tooished however, that the

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t.ise and inquiry. The Honourable Member should
have mentioned, in its proper place, that many of
Mrs. Clarke's notes were underwritten tt burn this,"
&c. and that theretere she had no right to expect that
they would be brought either against or for her.
There was one remaining topic, on which the Hon.
Member wished to say a few words. The House was
no less the guardian of the public liberty and laws than
of the public morals • and it was impossible, after the
scenes which had lately. been discovered and placed be-
fore the public eye, that the House should puss lightly
over so great an infringement of mondity in one of
the public's greatrst Officers. This should not be cur-
sorily glanced at, but should form one of the consti-
tuent parts of the Address the House should submit
to his -Majesty. tfrekw -all the circumstances, the
Hosioui able Member did not conceive it possible-that
the Commander in Chief could any longer remain an
tisefillServant of the Country: It was said he might
reit-win : this the Honourable Member heartily wished,
and of this it did not become the House to despair.
The Honourable Member then -animadverted upon
the Duke's letter to the House. It was usual, hi
sail, when his Majesty condescended to communicate
with the House, to address to him an anr.ver, which
was -a tnefe echo of his speech; but the Honourable
Member hoped that the House would not pay the
same compltment to his son ( Hear, kear, hear!) whose
letter • had ventured almost to prescribe to them the
conduct which they should pursue.
In the Aenendmerit which the •I
-lon. Gentleman
sheill.l pri•pose, he should retain the ni igi ial para-
graph of .the Hon. Gentleman's (Mr. Wardle's) Ad-
chess, and conclude with moving, as an Amendment
to the Right Hon. Chancellor of the Exchequer's
4ar4ndrneat, that the whole should he omitted except
the word " and that the words " An humble
4.4lwsS be presented to his Majestyr sliduld be in-
poked. •If, upon the division of .the House, the Ho-
pburable Gentleman should gain this point,-
'mated that this Resolution would be to the foldingeffect :
" That an humble Address he presented to his Majesty,
humbly stating, that information had been con/monk-v.4d to them,
and that evidence had been examined to prove, that various
corrupt practices and abuses•leatilor a long time existed In ,the
different departments of the Militery Administration; and that
the evidence which had bee, given had been entered upon the
records of ?ornament 1 thaebis Majesty's faithful Commons bad
moo carefully examined the evidence, not only of the witnesses
produced at their bur, hut also of the vAitten and official docu-
nteuts ; and that it was witkethe utmost concern end astonish-
meat, that they felt therinelves obliged to state, that the result of
their diligent and laborious inquiry was such as to satisfy them
h at the existence of those cerrupt practices to a very great extent
IVAS fully established, at the same time that they assured his Ma-
jesty that there were no grounds to charge his Royal Highness
the Commander in Chief personally with aoy participation in
that corruption; but while the; admired the salutary regulations
which his Royal Highness had introduced fur the benefit of the
army, they felt themselves obliged to express their opinion that
ale... abuses could not have existed without exciting the suspicion
of the Commander In Chi, f; and, under all the circumstances, to
sugp•st, whether the commatni of the army could, with propriety,
be continued in the hands of his Royal Hightles4 particularly since
the evidence of their inquiry has unveiled•a conduct IA his Royal
Highness itighiy injurious to the chaise of religion and the wain
sp.-laas of social order."
Mr. YORIC.E. observed, that the distinction taken
by ti-e last. speaker, appeared to him to be one of the
eriou latraordinary that he ever recollected since he

had the honour of a seat in that House.

He felt the

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specting the Duke's conversations with Mrs. Clarke
but --when it was considered

that not one of these proceedings were in themselves
improper They would have taken place without

greatest confidence that the House would come to ain every instance Oat- improper, 7 - _ ....., taken p,
comsciattions decision hn the subject, which was one that she was the constant comeeinion of Mrs. Clarke I the interfarence of Mrs. Clarke. . There was nothing
of the must important that had lotion under the cog- he meant no imputation against her morals on • that improper or detrimental to the public in doom—
nizance of Parliament within his memory. There account, for the nature of the relationship between 1 Bit his Honourable Friend said she had an interest in.
were many Members, who, in their capacity of ma- them would justify their associating), that she had advancing these promotions. How did it appear ?
gistrates, must have acquired a very comrotent know- been often relieved by her, surely it could not be too Was it from the letter respecting General Clavering's
ledge of the principles of the laws of evidence, and it much to presume, that she would not hesitate to shew I application. It was very mound that, between a
was upon these principles only that they could decide her gratitude and attachment by endeavouring to Lady and a Geotlemen living toget'oer on the terms
respecting the credibility of the evidence they had serve her friend on an important occasion. It was i these did, such a cemmenication might take place,
heard at their Bar. That House he would -always impossible to find the Duke of York guilty upon such I without any corrupt view whatever. - Mrs. Clarke
consider as the representative body of the empire ; evidence as her's. He would however admit, that it said at the B:no that she had between fifty and sixty
tins!, though there might be occasions in which it was probable some conversations might have taken i letters of the Duke at York, and yet this was the
may be proper to refer to popular opinion, yet he was 'dare in presence of Miss Taylor ; for the Duke had only instance in their conespc.ndowe re hive to mill-
certain they would never sacrifice their own dignity goott confidence in Mrs.. Clarke, not knowing that tary promotion. He was aatonishod, therefore, the
and justice to any popular cry. He felt confident, she came out of Cogilvites hand!. It was impassible Honourable Member should assert, that it was clear
therefore, that the ultimate decision of the House indeed, on the terms ihat this man- and woman were, that the- Duke of York was in constant habits of coin- •
woula be satisfactory to the public. There were two that the Duke of York should not have placed great. masuicating with Mrs. Clarke on military matters,
questions before the House. The first was, whether confidence in her in matters relating to his own pro- whee there WAS only one solitary instance ia which it.
his Royal Highness the Doke of York was implicated fession. He must admit, that such confidence did appeared to have token place ;if there was, the
io these transactions of personal corruption or corrupt take place,. but the expression did not imply that House' might be assured that either Mrs. Clarke or
cennivance A question week! arise upon this, es to rit related to any corrupt practices. ' the /*neural-do Member who preferred the charges
whit the proceedings of the House should be. The With respect to Tonyn's care, the only circumstance against his Royal Highness, would not have neglec-
second question was, olietlicr, even in the suppoeition that connected it with the Duke of York WAS the note ted to avail themselves of such' documents. As to
of his Royal Highness being acquitted of corruption which had been found in Sander's possession. not it Dr. O'Meara, it was to be lamented that the Duke,
or criminal participation, there was net sufficient evi- was eery doubtful on the face of it, whether that note I on such a recommendation, should . have interfered
deuce 'before the Committee that his conduct had been was written by his Royal -Highness or not. So much . for this man, or made use of the expression that he
incorrect, and was therefore liable to censure ? These doubt, indeed, had he about it, that he could not re- , did respecting him. No such connection should have
two questions, in his opinion, embraced the whole of concile his mad to believe that it was, and that it re- existed.- He must agaiit recur to Tonyn's note. -Ile
the proeeediags befiess the House. The Address toted, -as changed, to a criminal transaction. He rat could not consider it as hiffecting 'the Duke in the
moved by the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Wardle) related then believed that it had been finehred by Mrs. Clarke .!
smallest dtree. In his opinion, there was no proof
to the first question ; the Amendment proposed by for the purpose of defrauding I onyne through the before the House that could warrant it to inflict so
his Right Hon. Friend to the second. That Amend medium of her agent Sanden. No one who coast- : heavy a ptinishment upon his Royal Highness as his .
mint proposed to lay aside any Vote of an Address, sidered the abandoned character of this woman could; removal froni the command ef the army, whatever
but to ceme to certain Resolutions on the most mate- hesitate to believe that she did not seize onevery thing censure it might an its wisdom, determine to pass on
vial part of the coo. The first of these Resolutions within her reach, with the rapacity of a harpy. Many . him. The object of the Address as well as of the
pr ee sed, indeed. to conic to a (EStinCt vote on the Gentlemen, well acqoaintod with Various hands, Amendment, seemed to be to remove the Doke from
subject. The object of the second Amendment (that whose business it was to detect forgeries, and in which the command of the army. • If he were brought to
prep see by Mr. Bankes) was to srt aside the proceed- they sheaved themselves very clever, had doubts •as , the necessity of agreeing to such 'an Address, 4s Ull-
irg 'r. Reeution, and i esti ae the neighed Address. to the note being the band-writing of the Duke. In- doubtedly he was not, he should still eetremely de-
This, lo nelint deed, ws he the effect of it ; fur, deed, any Mealier, who took the trouble of carefully' plate such a circumstance, as affecting the ioteresta,
eleeigh liie sesood Ameedment lola original Address examinine. Mrs. Clarke's letters, would perceive that the discipline, and the feelings of the army.
.Much
;tepee ed to be ilia... Tent in some points., yet, in oil). they contained a basis for a facility_ef imitating the had been said of die danger-of placing the Princes at
stance, they to.•tr precisely the semi.; as he would be I Duke's hand ; and there were two short notes of his the head of any establishments, on account of their
able to !near preoently. 'lie w(ollii ant ascribe to the Royal Higheess, in particular, which she might make . not being responsible. But Look at the military his-
Honourebh. Member who hid just sot-down. any in- use of as autographs to counterfeit the Duke"s writ- tory of the country, and it would be foeed that the
tention of embarrassing the proceedings of' the House, ling. But snppoang it was written by the Duke, • army never was in such getai condition as when tw-
in order to render them dialeult and intricate; but if might it not have ratted to some other Tonyn, or Princes were at the head of,it. This suns the case in
he did, he certainly could In.; have adopted any pro- to sonic circumstance respecting this same Tonyn the time of 'King William, who was himself a jot-
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ceeding hct:cr talcolateA to attain such an object than other than his promotion ? It was impossible to give (Per, and who managed the Whole of it with the as-
that which he he i ;List submitted to the House. It lup any pereen to censure and punishment on such sistance. of • Mr. Braithwaite. It was also the case
loos intricate zed. cemplicatesi to the last degree. . Tu• i evidence. On Carter's case he would say but little,. when the army as under the coemoond of the Duke
stead of the Ilense having to decide upon . the eriga 1.! as any imputation against Ms Royal Highness on the of CuMberlandOin the war of the succession, when it
red proceedine. eaniely, the Address thev would have i subject of his promotion seemed to be given up by all ties crowned with eternal glory by the victory of
to detetmine Lass en the two Amendments. He le- 1 sides of the llousto There was great reason to Minden, and 41i: names of Townshend and others
quested the ioduleence or toe otre.oe, while he briefly I suppose, that the Duke knew he was the son of Cap- . were rendered illustrious under the Councils of Lord
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adverted the et iiierce thev had heard at their bar. tain Sutton, and it is possible that he may have at- Chatham. In addition to these instances, there was
.?t appeared a. m this that :qrs. t Take haAlived with I tended Ins person. But his Royal Highness had. the army formed b)' the Duke of . York, than which
the Duke of Yorl.for about two y ears and a half, and I shown, that he had always been very anxious about there could not be' a better. • No. Juan would deny
it. was made .a • i urge against his Royal Highness, ' the character of the army, and that he was
,careful that it Was equal to any in Fenspe. This the coon-
this
.dorieg tho time she it her aeents had engaged that no improper persons should intrude into it. It try owed to the indefatigable zeal and application of
in as oe.etloi sestein of corruption relating ti pro- war; one of the chief and first objects of his care,when the Duke of York.. It was impossible, therefore, not
nio.,cns M !he ;Irmo, and other appoint meess. Tos he took the command of the army; the character of to deplohe that such a note should he removed front
war 7. t. ' roishfie or end of IS(.(i, ias Royal Highness which was far different now from what it was when it, and. that the command -.should be placed in the
e.irt with this \semen, and it was to the was put at the head of it. 'With regard to Shaw's hands eta person or persons, 'he would. not say, not
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by ateply rtrttruted that he bad not e(,m, to this re,
scitLion mod-, sooner. I.'hese ccrinpt tr-ns,tetions:
di •efore have occurred in thelinterval betweeti

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appointment, he should not det.iin the HOuse a, mo- fit for it, but cettainly not so fit as his Royal -High-
mem on it. There was no irregularity imam); instance neii.• One Word l'aS. to responsibility. Could any
relating to kiii:wks placed on the half pay as a one say fluke Wit not resp msible ? ViTAat

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abe beginning of 180 aild the period- that 4tie wirs nattefof-contse.. • The.' peocilled ndte, In niucti ad- was he now—(l-(1 11,0r!).—Was he not now
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discarded. It appeared also front the evidence, that sisted, on, aid not retard his apteeintreient
,fee &Awe'
his Royal Highness had a great affection for this un-'s sock; ''"lt 'didnot4peer; Vogl 0e:4041.6=4' 4 . to sty the ppria.liy of She neglect that was imputed
.:i4141—:11‘144411 she ese:upt.i'lliin ofgiwghhtiel7i lint:tat-: ealaccitej,e,lll7
fortunate woman, and that he placed unlimitedtione Ciddiel Cordon's i tee,- that Ay letter had been
&fence in her. The testimony of this Woman was the etrei.seihtei;. of whiththis presufaed rejection of his. _ln the four VanSaCtloll6 m'flich 'sere brought foreara
chief support or the different charges that were pre- proposal was the basis.. The-next case was ,thaft of there "Vas not, :be would contend, the smallest peek
ferred. Now, for himself, he would say, that lie Dowler; and here 'R. must say there was -no et-edit of personal cerru.peiou or corrupt Ni And
would give no credit ehatever to the testimony of whatever "due to the testimony of this Man. For so absolVed, skas he to he re*e.Yed from his am.
Mrs. Clarke, as infecting the Duke of York, except years he had- been the Favourittrftour of Knit: mand'aorhi:tiled with indignity, because a arrow
where it was corroborated by others. She had the Clarke, long before'she came to live with the Duke,- cry had bmi industriously raised weep A wra ?.....
strongest motives for endeavouring to destroy the cha- He had expended considerable sums on her, at/dem- Was it. becoming the diguity of de:House nut a
ratter of the Duke. Wounded pride—the fallen and thing was more likely than that he should have 'hid ' mean and slavish deference to this popular cry_
adopt
embarrassed state in which she was—revenge, and recourse to this stratagemto get 1001)1. out of old Mr. (lewd cheering)—tot he Resolution proposed?
that fired hate; which, when it once takes root in a Dowler, for the purpose-of eirpepdieLit on this wo-. .—to humour this most ineensideeite and unjust tee
female, breast; is hardly to be satiated, urged her . man. It eras proved that they were te. the habit of positiviii,.ocirculeted With 4 repinity and moigne,
on, and produced those various contradictions. in- draWing- bills on etude other, and one of theses t° the quite incouceivalle.? lt was natural tha-.. the pee, I.
her'' evidence,- which ;tripped it .01 all •credit. It , amount of 3001. was discounted at-Parker's, .and re- eho-41- compleio.ofe; .many occasions, and it e•e, -,
was not .* ibles that-attr-rnan; who was not tin- i mined unpaid to this day. 'There was no doubt*. 'fitting that the limit* should sympathize ~/iih
, . . • prejadiced by something extraordinary ! his mind that the application in favour of Dolt ; them; .but, this. eras a... IllfillaAlt that was me a:,
in the manner or habits of that woman.: woldd be.. W
came from Sir Brook •'atson. It appeared froni e wile t° be . 9 induloed. The peoPleyere never lone'
,
Heim What.she si4d, if it was uneorroboratecl.by other :. correspondence with the Treasury, that thtee ciii of .iit-discoverieg tneir errors, also experience proved that
testimony, There was one eireninstance ill this' evi- ' the five,Assistant Commissaries for which he applied' they felt an extraordinary gratitude to those srim
deuce nothitherso adverted to. It would seem, from had been recomthended by Mee. tbis presumption were. the means of involving or continuink them in
het representation, that she was a married woman, was corroborated by Dewier himself.; ;fee in his con- : the. wrong path. Let the House speak out neinfeey
who had been seduced from her husband by his Royal versation with an Hon. Meinher-of the 1-feusei (Al- ,pa say if t Was.not.preiared to tesist this Addre,s
Highness. The fact was, that she had previously ; derrnan Combe), he said that lie was persuaded he 0b..: to remove_the Duke of )(LW Irons the command of
lived with Mre Ogilvie, or he lived with her, an army i tainedlds appointment through Sir Breok Wetiori.l the army, asswelle4 tlie—POinlir cry, which, by else
agent, who afterwards became a bankrupt, and from ' He should say no more respecting the criminal part ; fell from the fl pourable Gentleman, he must consi.
Whose hands she came, deeply versed in all the myse lof the transaction. If the Duke wished to make e i.det: as the foundation of it. •
teries of army-jobbing,. to the Duke of York. In thii': profit of his patronage, had he tot 'hundreds of .en; 1. On Mr. YORKE's sitting down, a number of
school, a woman of-her talents Could not but have., ogncies and cornetc:es every year at his disposal which) Members rose to deliver their sentiments, and a cry
made great proficiency in thatseience, which • she so.; he might have turned to account ? The sale of these] ot Jeveral names, Hear, hear: .Ord-r,mykr; pre.
dexterously and 7SUCCeaftllirg%ltsed, while under I might have prcidu6ed him thousands, if he' was. base ; vaiTad fora considerable time.
the protection of his Royal Hi According to i and mean enough to endeevour to derive advantage ; 'ilte SPEAKER .having mentioned the Goole,
her account, it was not till:4oooe'dint.after the-estab- i from the power of disposing of them. Was it to be; man who first catight_his eye, • •
lishment it Gloucester-place WWI set up, when she f supposed then; that he' would emtiloyethie Woman in j Me. LEACH could not bring himself to concur in
discovered that the allowance was not sufficient to
.1 tilts abominable traffic for the sake of a feW hundreds ? ; either of the-Address:A for the removal of the. Duke
maintain it, that she felt herself under the necessity.of i He would say one word more respecting French's , of York. - There was no evidence against hint of mr.
taking upthis system. Nutlet Gentlemen examine the I levy. - The expence of it did not exceed 414 per.man; i ruption-or participation. Mrs. Clarke, in his (phew,
minutes, and there they' would find it in evidence, that I a very reasonable price considering the d Acuity of : was not entitled to the smallest credit, in ane instuee
the proposal for-French's. levy was made on the Ist l obtaining men at tit it time. It did not, in fact, costa in whiCh it washer interest to deviate from.thetxute,' ~
of February, 1804, before the establishment at Glou- as much as other levies that were on foot.—He would She,had, in the course of her esramination,repeates4
eester-place Was set up, or just-as it had commenced. now examine the second question. The question was, contradicted herself, and she was, mereever,.centra.
in fatt, she began to put her knowledge in practice, supposieg the Duke of York to be guilty of the cri- dieted belanimeet'reble:teldeisce. e She was contra.
before, by her own account, she became in the least minal transaction,-what was the prociedinif to be .clicted by Mr. Knight, particularly with respect to a
embarrassed. Was he not justified in saying that, taken ? The Address left every thing undefined; it conversation that, had taken,place a few days before
this woman came out ofsMr. Ogilvie's bends well-ac- asserted nothing, and he n-sisted the House would not she appeared at tie Bar cif that House. She was also
quainted with all the mysteries of military services? agree to it. If the Duke of York was criminal ' 6 contradicted by an Hom Member (Mr. Wardle) re.
The application from Sanden and French .must have not send him to trial at once ? why not impeesh lees . spectiag her having seen him on the clay preceding her
been before she went to reside in- Gloucester-place.— before his Peers of *high crimes and misdemeanors? .first•etatifusation: - -On the \Vednesday she peremp.
Would any one believe what she said respecting; her If he was found guilty by that tribunal, •Parliament, torily asserted that she had not seeti the jrion.hlenibtr
distresses having arisen some months after she had Gould 'not go too far. It would k the daty of both :tt all on the Tuesday. when it was proved that she
'come to Gloucester-place) It was proved, by her t lima of Parliament to bring in a Bill -for Air exclution had seen him no less than duce times, and that he
connection with Sanden and 'French, that the story from the Throne IHe had no hesitation in saying, that,. had even rodeipher carriage with her. She was also
of her distress was invented to bolster up that fact. if he was guilty of these practices, he never ought to contradicted I'4 -Mr. Ellis, respecting her visits to
With respect to what she said on the subject of sit upon the throne. This was the Constitutions Law Mrs; Favorite. She stated, that during the whole thee
French's levy, the Honourable Gentleman whosspoke of the Land. It was the penalty of apostatisingfrom; the latter was in that Gentleman's service, she Called
est said it was strongly corroborated by the terms of the established Religion of the State. • The -brilliancy upon her but once, andehat was in a hackney-coach.
the levy itself, and the evidence of Miss Taylor. Now of the Crown would be tarnished, the ermine that de- They had the evidence of Me: Ellis, that she had cal-
with regard to Miss Taylor, he had a very strong sus- corated the Royal robes would be sullied, if a Prince led repeatedly on Favorite, or Farquhar, as she was
picion on his mind, whether any credit was due to so disgraced should ever be destined towear them. .It then called; that she stai3 in hiitir at a time, and that
her evidence. There were many contradictions in it, was impossible that a Prince, convicted of such prat; they were so familiar, that he concluded they were
and particularly in what she had said respecting Mrs tices,. could sit upright upon his throne, or look his ,-sisters, ornery near relatives at least. He might refer
Favourite. She had stated that she never recollected people in the face. These would be the coosequences of. to this head of contradiction what she had said re-
Mrs.- F. went by the name of Mrs. Farquhar.He I acceding to this address. With respect to the undue in- specting Dowler. She-stated at the Bar of the House,
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would put it to the House, whether such a circuits- fluence said to be exerted over theCommaoder in Chief, echet see had only seen Dewier tier a few minutes,
stance could have been unknown to her ? When it the extent to which it was exercised, he thought that; on i when, as it appeared afterwards, , she bad passed
appeared that she was wholly devoid of memory, re- . a fair aamination of the evidence, it would appear whole night' with him at Slaughter's coffeelotee,
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--'lv ' where the represented herselfae h's wife. What credit

Jere u,. _
could be given to the evidcace of a woman of her de-

seription,—. convicted of such repeated prevarication
wed falsehood Though he was convinced, that a
s tigular note respecting Tonyn was written by the
Duke, and was reudy.to allow,-that so far it exhibit.
ed proof of his Royal Highncs'.'s
.permission o£ her
iiiterference, sill it furnished not the sligleest proof
of a corrupt menive. With respect to Miss Taylor s
evidence, he was not disposed to deny, slut the patti•
mar conversation which she hid stated to have
passed in. her presence, between the Duke and Mrs.
Clarke, had really passed : neveetheless, he would
Contend, that k would not wan ant any unfavour-
able construction. The etpression so much clwek
orlon, of " how dees he behave u you, darling i"
meant no more than to inquire whether Col. French
tweet/Mrs. Clarke, as he did the Duke, who was stated
by Miss Taylor to have deck +red, that he himself %ea
perpetually. teazed by Wes. Col. French, however,
bed obtained his levy in the regular way. Bled!
stress had been laid on the allegation ef each man (e.
this levy having cost £150: that there was, however,
e fall proportion of officers to the corps, had been d-
eluded from all c-nsideration ; the great charge t r
the inert actually raised, arose horn the seethness of
the number : and had it IXx•n ever so high, still theta
was no mark of speeel favour to French, whese he;
was. equal with that of the puhlic, he and bat-
ing sufnired to the amount of .CWX). Ac to M.:I 1
&ewe his appointment was plainly proved to le ,e
been owing to Sir H. Burrard ; and a pIeVICUS ::!013:•
meot had been made that he should go on hell-ray ;
the 'neaniamion itsef was peelectly proper. Ie ie.
jected both to the Address and Resolotions, leeeie
he saw no reason for parliamentary interfereece
if
either shape. It had been said that every Monk'
must do his duty, he (Mr. Leach) knew no other
r
way! rot. them to do their duty, than to examine dv-
roughly the evidence, and to pronounce an hVirMt
judgment upon it. Celle n prepnssession s perha es
have been finened by the public ; hut the pahiic knew
that these prepossessions must heft .rined iteperfert
evidence, for the full evidence was only befere
Members of the House of Commons. All that
just and rational of the.public would wait ter the e •
cisien el the House.
Len' FOLKSTONE rejoiced diet he lied given
way to thee Learned Gentleman, because it gave hiin
an opportunity of replying to the arguments whichte
had le..eight forward. But Wine he should n:
w:!at had fillen from that Learned Centic:nan,
shoeld bey a word or two upen what bed been urged
by the Right Honourable Gt.n opposite (M:.
Yorkel. With respect to what had been Axed h!
the Right Honourable Gentleman on the tiocr, wit 3
reference to the proceeding prepesed by the 1-hinour•
able Gentleman (Mr. Banker), he would refer to the
explanation given by that, Honourable G,.ntiania,
which sheered that it was neither intricate nor diffce.
The Honourable Gentlerhan who prripoeed that pri;)•
ceeding, had explained its nature in a kw wor.
and fully demonstrated to the satisfaction of the Hoi
that the course he recommended was neither invo.red
in intricacy, nor embarrassed with dieiculty. It ells
t,, is

perfectly wear, that.no question co:thi ac.
regularity, 'and he was confident that no doubt cor.4
be eageTr.ained 43 to its props Tl:c rrowt%
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