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PErrY again ameettledihYinaving generally for any then with him ? A. She was.—Q" How lota did at.,
("ore= soot t the Government of this Country ter thin of Ire- live together ? A. I cannot particularly say : fl.r.
ithiad, upon the subject of that expedition. less than one year, or more than two.—Q. Where d
, Aeiect CASTLEREAGH moved for a Return. From the Coin-
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othisailat Establishment of Ireland, of the State and Coudkion of they live afterwards ? A. I do not know of e
the. Troops sent from that country upon. the Portuguese
el cape& living any where else, until lie was living in Glee,.
I tkin, previously to their embarkation at Cork.—Or lane, where he went to carry on bininess.---Q. eee,,,.
ORDER OP THE DAY. • ' was this ? A. He commenced business some tere
Mr. WARDLE moved the Order of tbe Day for about 179+, and • carried it on three or four years.the House to resolve into a Committee to inquire into. Q. Had Mr. Clarke a stonemason's yard i a.. ti.
' the conduct of his Royal Highness the Dube e(York. 1.-IA
&MMI after he Carat to Golden-lane. At Horton ee
The House resolved accordingly. :lived oar his fortune, and carried on ne business.--Q.
MR. WHARTON IN THE CHAIR.
•_. Did you visit at his house ? A. I never did visit ara
After some preliminary conversation between VII house where he lived.—Q. Did you know Mrs. Clarke
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, Mr. Waanee, and by sight :) A. I did.--Q..Did you knew when she se.
Mr. WHITBREAD, touching the necessary order dfpro- parated from her husband ?A. No.—Q. Have eel
ceeding in the examination of witnesses, • ino guess? A, No farther than that it was 'after bear
Mr. Pugh was called to the bar, and examined. ; left Golden-lane.—Q. Do you know who told you e
Q. (By the Attorney General.) What business do . their separation ?—A. The public.—Q. Yee ken
you carry on ? A. That of an auctioneer.—Q. Do nothing of it from your own knowledge ? A. Nee...
you know Mrs Mary Ann Clarke ? A. I did know
Q. Where do you yourself live ? A. In Charterhouse
her.—Q. Where did she live when' you knew her ? .
square
A. Tavistock-place.—Q. Did she order any furniture ' Mr. JAMES Coetere war the next witness called, el
from you ? A. She called at my house about some examined by Mr. WARDLE.
looking-glasses and atall-lamp, and 1 waited on her Q. Do you know Mrs. Clarke ? A. I dc),—Q.
in consequence. I was strewn into a back room,,and Have you been applied to by her in the way ef -ere.
I saw and conversed with her upon the subject.— profession ? A.I have.—Q. What is your profeseee ;
Q. Did she speak of herself at the time as a married A. A solicitor.—Q. Did you ever receive any eeee
mends from the Duke of York in respect to Me.
woman ? A. I then lived in Burlington-street. She
Clarke ? A. In consequence of Mrs. Clarke send.itg
called me into a back room. I drank three or four .
glasses of wine with her, and 'in the course of conver- 'for me, I said I would wish to have my instructions
sation she seemed to be acquainted with all the per- from the Duke of York. I did, in consequence, receive
a message in writing from his Royal Highness, and in
sons I knew. She talked her' late 'husband, and of
her three children being at school—Q. What ftitr- 1 coasequence thereof I waited on his Royal Highness
tber passed on that occasion ? A. Nothing more at Portman-square.—Q. What passed in consequence ?
particular: she seemed acquainted with every per- A. The Duke of York spoke to me or. private pro.
sons knew. I called several times afterwards, and fissional business. I, therefore, with great subrnie
she talked to me about some glasses and some bronze sion, appeal whether under such circumstanees I ael
figures.—Q. Did she give you any order ? A. Yes : bound to divulge it.
for a hall lamp and some glasses, amounting in the Witness ordered to withdraw. .
whole to about 271.—Q. When *ere those orders Mr. FULLER objected to any question being put
given ? A. At art the 20th of May ; and theigoods to the witness, which might lead him to disclose the
were delivered on the 24th.--Q. Did you see any secrets of his Royal Highness as his client.
body but Mrs. Clarke at her house ? A. Yes ; I saw TheCHANCF.I.LOR of the EXCHEQUER said
her sister one day, and afterwards her mother. She he apprehended that it appeared by the witness's own
Mid me she had. purchased a house of a Mr. Burton, account he was sent for as the solicitor of Mrs. Clarke,
for 12001. I spoke to Mr. Burton, and he said she and not as the solicitor of the Duke of York, and he
had purchased a house of him, but not for so high a was therefore bound to answer the question now pia
price.—Q. Did she at any time appear to you other- to him by the House.
wise than as a married woman ? A. I called one The witness recalled, and the question repeated to
morning at her house to see how a new glass was him.
hung, and I saw a cocked hat in the room. I made A. His Royal Highness wished to know if I coup
some observations to her servant upon the circum- raise for him a sum of 10,0001. in mortgage.
stance, and she answered, her mistress was a gay Mr. WARDLE said, it was because he knew k
young widow, and had been at the Masquerade the was impossible for Mrs. Clarke to obtain money to
night before. Nothing more passed at the time.— the extent she did without such aid—that he had said
Q. Were you paid, for your goods, by Mrs, Clarke ? on a former night, that a professional man was inure.
A. No ; I was obliged to brmg my action at law to duced to the Duke of York for that purpose by Mrs.
recover the amount; but I was nonsuited.— Q. How Clarke; and he hoped he should be allowed to prove
so ? A. By a point in law ; I don't understand the that fact, more especially as he had been so flatly
distinction.—Q. Do you think it was on the ground contradicted upon this point.
of her being a married .woman ? A. I think it was. Mr. ADAM feeling that the last remark of the
Q: (By Mr. 'Wardle). , Did you ever write any let- Hon. Gentleman applied to something which had
tors to Mrs. Clarke on the subject of her marriage ? fallen from him on a former night, begged leave now
A. I am pretty certain I did not.—Q. Do you ever to explain what he did say, and meant to be under.
recollect writing any letter, threatening to expose stood, namely, that the affairs of the Duke of York,
her? A. I think I did threaten to publish a hand- with which he was confidentially intimate, were those
bill, to caution all persons against trusting her with with which he was charged confidentially as a trustee,
goo-cis on her own account, as they could not recover for liquidating the debts of his Royal Highness.
against her, being a married woman. I drew up the But with that part of his Royal Highness's revenue
hand-bill, and sent her a copy of it ; and - I after- reserved for his own private expenditure, he had no
wards received my money, and so got rid•of her.— interference.
Q. Did you send the hand-hill to any one else ?A. The question was repeated to the witness.
Yes : one to the Duke of York, directed for him at A. I answered that I could. Ilis Royal Highness,
Portman-square.—Q. Do you recollect writing any after some Conversation, referred me to his man of
thing along with the hand-bill ? A. Ido not think business, Mr. Adam, of Bloomsbury-square, andlasked
I wrote a single letter with it ; I am pretty certain I me if I know him ? I answered, not personally; bat
did not. I knew him by reputation as a man of high character.
Here Mr. Wardle produced a letter, which the Shortly afterwards I called at Mr. Adam's house, and
witness acknowledged to be his hand-writing, and saw him. We proceeded to discuss the business;
which the Clerk was ordered to read, viz.— and Mr. Adam said his Royal Highness had occa-
" MADANt—As I have not beard from you In reply to my last sion to raise that sum of money on mortgage, to pue
letter, I think it necessary to inform you of my intention of pub- chase some tythes in the vicinity of Oadands, and
fishing the inclosed hand-bill, in order to prevent any tradesmen
in your neighbourhood from being imposed on. As this hand btu that he would order the proper abstracts to be pre-
oared by Messrs. Ferrer and Atkinson, Solicitors, ant
has received the perusal of persons of the fir eminence in the ,- - -
' law, lam perfectly indifferent to the tonsegyences." sent to me shortly. .1 accordingly applied to a ano-
HANDBILL. Died Gentleman in the Temple. He made the ob.
4' This is to give notice to all tradesmen in the neighbourhood ' jections usual on such occasions—but the money MS
of Portman-square, that they cannot recover any money at law I
from Mary Ann Clarke, as she is a married wotriao : and though ! ready to be laid down. However, ultimately, the
she herself did not know where her husband lived, yet she con- .
abstracts were never sent to me, the loan was de-
trived to bring proof of her marriage into a Court of Law, and ' dined, and I was desired to send in my bill.—
not only obtained a nonsuit against a plaintiff in action for goods tQ. Had you ever any conversation at this or any
sold and delivered by a tradesman, but afterwards sent an exe-
cution into the house of that tradesman for her costs in defend- I other time with the Duke of York respecting Mrs.
i Clarke ? A. I liad.—Q. Do you recollect whether
ing herself against said action."
i his Royal Highness stated any thing prejudicial to
Q. By Col. Wardle—Was your Bill paid after you
threatened this hand-bill should be published ?A. ; her character which induced him to part from her ?
A. The Duke of York said, he had been served with
Of course it must have been after. I should hardly
a sub
have sent it, if I had received the amount of my hal. peena to attend a trial of Mrs. Clarke's, accom-
panied. by a letter, which stated some very improptr
—Q. Did you receive your bill by any person in the
I conduct on her part, in pleading her coverture to as
profession of the law ? A. I received it by a Mr.
action against her in a Court of Law, to recover the
Comric.—Q. Am I to understand that you received
amount of some goods sold and delivered, or a bill of
your bill by desire of Mrs. Clarke, after you sent the
hand-bill ? A. I cannot say it was by glue. Clarke's exchange, lie did not know which ; and his Royal
Highness stated that as his reason for the separation.
desire, I received it from Mr. Comrie. ' which immediately took place-.-.Q. Do you mean to
Is Mr. Comrie a lawyer ? A. I believe he is.
;
! state that you understood from the. Duke of York, she
--Q. Do you know that he is Mrs. Clarke's lawyer ?
bad done so without his knowlercelt A. lie did not
A. It is impossible for me to know that.—Q. Did
A. I !
Mr. Connie defend the action for Mrs. Clarke ? state so ; but said, that he app Lied, after that, it
No ; it was a Mr. Stokes.—Q. Mr. Comic paid you
was impossible but he must separate from
Q. Did he complain of any other ill conduct on hoc
the money i A. Yes, for Mrs Clarke. I part.? A. I do not recollect that he did. --eelV Do
The next witness called was Mr. STOVERS. i you remember.any further conversation ?A. err
her.—
Examined by the Attorney-General--Q. Did you !
, was something passed at the-time about a settlement
know Mrs. Clarke before she was married to Mr.
Ito be made by his Royal Highness. It was alea'
Clarke ? A. No.--Q. Did you know her after her
i tioaed in the presence of Mr. Adam, that an allow•
mama e with Mr. Clarke ? 'A. I did.-7Q. Do you her • bat
once of MOO a year was to be settled upon , .
the time Mr. Clarke married her ? A. I: it was expressly insisted she must pay her ourn debts
never knew her before that.—Q. What business did : I stated this would be a matter of great difficulty. as
Mr. Clarke carry on ? A. When I first knew Mr.'
she had been very short of money for some time
Clarke he was not in business.—Q. What business did ' past ; balls Royal Highness said it was impossihte,
becarry on afterwards ?A. A stone-mason.--Q. Was he could pay them ; but she had some furniture and
.
that soon after he was married ? A. 1 cannot speak to other valuable articles which she might sell for tbe
that ;I do not imagine 'he was married so soon, I purpose of paying her debtse
understood he was acquainted with the lady.--Q. Did [Here the.:Cf;A:CCELLOIt of the Excitor:TEß Baer'
be carry an the business of a stone-mason while she fered, and appealed to the House and to the. Houour;
lived with him ?A. He certainly did.—Q. How able Gentleman (Mr. Wardle) whether it was at all
long ? A. Not less than three or four years.—Q. proper to.proceed any further in a species of inter?'
Wasaheliviag with him all that time ? A. I never gasion totally foreign from and irrelevant to the sub'
visited the, and ' cannot say all the time ; but I ject of inquiry, and which could throw no light what'
think. a ptincipal•part of the time.—Q. Had they any ever upon die charges of corruption rred by the
children'? A. Not less than three.—Q. Were these Honourable Gentleman. He. .rather, indeed.
children barn while lieWaS carrying on e business ' put it to the good. sense alii.discretion of the 1:1011011r:
of a ttonarnason 1 A. Some of them were. : it svolua
I able Gerltlemawhicaftlf, whether he•thaughtto.
(ilyldr. Wansee).-e-Q. Where did Mr. Clarke at all coattibute to his purpose, or be &mow '
line at the time !peak of ?A. The first part of ' wards the House, thus to occupy, Its time with a 5_,11%
the *nabs • nare, Horton. He did net then etesofetamirtatinn so,forrign to,theotrie;l:egsru'l
awe as bubilirrtlibillatou•—Q, 'Wu Um auk: Mr. WARDLE acceded' to what a to bo.