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viol of the Committee, and consequently with-
drew the qliest;on ; but having one or two other ques-
tions to ask, desired that the witness should be called

:main.
Q. (by Mr. 'WARDLE) Does the witness recollect
a hi:: which had been due from Mrs. Clarke to Mr.
ruvl, ?—A. There had been a bill due from Mrs.
Cidrke to Pugh, which I had paid by Mrs. Clarke's
desire,Q. Did you pay it on the account of Mrs.
Clarke ?—A. I did.
'ae witness then withdrew, and Mr. Pierce was
called in and examined by Mr. WARBLE.
Q. Is your name Pierce ?A. It is.—Q. Who in-
truducel you to Mrs Clarke ? A. The Honourable
Mr. Tufton (as we understood his answer).—Q. Did
with Mrs. Clarke in Gloucester-place, as her
you live w
butler, while she was under the protection of his
Knyal Highness the Duke of York? A. I did.—
Q. Do you recollect, that in the year 1805, his Royal
Highness the Duke of York went to Weymouth, and
mri. Clarke to Worthing ?A. I do.—Q. Do you
recollect one Lodowick, a servant, who used to at-
tend the Duke of York at Gloucester-place ? I do.
Q. Do you recollect his having been ordered by the.
Duke of York, on a particular evening in that year,
to take out a Bank note, and get it exchanged A. I
do not,—Q. Do you recollect any servant having
been ordered by the Duke of York to take out a Bank
note to be exchanged ? A. I recollect the house-
keeper, Mrs. Taylor, who was a favourite, coming
down, and giving a note to Lodowick to get chang-
ed, when Lodowick went out, and on his return
roe change to Mrs. Taylor, the favourite.—
Arend to the question. Do you recollect that
any other servant had been ordered by the Duke
of York to get the note changed ? A. No.—
Q. Da you recollect Lodowick having got the note
exchanged ? A. I do.—Q. Do you recollect by
whose order ? A. Ido : by the housekeeper's order.
.Q. Do you know the amount of the note ? A. I
do ,iot.—Q. Did you hear the housekeeper give the
order ? A. I did.—Q. Do you recollect in what
lords the order was given ? A. I do not recollect
particularly ; but the housekeeper gave the note to
Lodowick, and he went and returned with the change
to !wt.—Q. Are you positive that the note was not
gi•:en at night, and the change brought back in the
morning ? A. lam positive.
Q. (by Mr. BRAND) Do you recollect whether the
Duke was in Mrs. Clarke's house at the time the note
was given to Lodowick to get changed ? A. He was
stairs.
Q. (by Mr. WARDLE) What time in the morning
was it when the note was given to Lodowick ? A.
About eight o'clock.—Q. Was the Duke of York up
then ? A. lam not certain that his Royal Highness

WAS up.
Q. by Sir J. GRAHAM.—How long have you lived
with Mrs. Clarke in Gloucester-place ? A. Fifteen
months.—Q. State-whether any, or what servants,
came with his Royal Highness to Gloucester-place
during that time ? A. Lodowick only.—Q. Can you
state, that no other servant used to go there with his
Royal Highness ? A. I never saw any other'servant
come to the house but Lodowick.
Q. by Mr. LITTLETON.—Can yon state in what year
or mouth this transaction happened ? A.-About three
ye ;n ago.—Q. Do you know what was the amount
of the note? A. No.--Q. Do you think it was the
month of January, 1806 ? A No: it was in the month
of July or August, 1805. The weather was then very
hot. It was about the time when Mrs. Clarke went
to Worthing.
Q. by a Member.—How long was it before Mrs.
Clarke went to Worthing ; was it about two or three
flays before ? A. Ido not recollect exactly ; it was
but a short time before.—Q. Was it more than three
d is ?—A. I can't recollect exactly ; but it was be-
fore Mrs. Clarke went to Worthing.
Q. by Mr. LITTLETON. Is the note, which was
given to Lodowick, the only note which you recollect
to have been given to be exchanged ? A. It is the
only note I recollect.—Q, Did Mrs. Clarke go to
Worthing on the same day on which the Commander
in Chief left town. Did they both leave town on the
saw day ? A. His Royal Highness, I think, left
town at night, and Mrs. Clarke went off to Worthing,
about ten or eleven o'clock next day.—Q. (Colonel
Wool)). Was it the same morning, or rather the
morning of the day on which his Royal Highness
kit town, that the note had been given to Lodowick
to get exchanged ? A. It was some morning before.
rile witness was then ordered to withdraw, and
Capt. Ht7xi.Ev SANDEN was called in, and examined
by Mr. WARDLE.
Q. What interest had you in Colonel French's
levy ? A. I was concerned with him in the levy.—
Q. in what way, and to what extent were you con-
t!r:led with him in that levy ? A. The letters of
:mice had been granted to both Colonel French, and
ThYstif•--Q. Do you know Mrs. Clarke ? A. I do.
Did you or Colonel French ever apply to Mrs.
lo use her interest with the Commander in
in order to have the levy expedited ? A. In the
first illst.ince they had been informed that an applica-
tion miAt he made to a person who had great inter-
eq with a leading person in the Government ; but
they did not then know that Mrs. Clarke was the per-
son.—Q. When did you discover that Mrs. Clarke
was the person ? A. I did net discover that till we
had the letters of service.—Q. What passed between
you and the person whom you afterwards knew to be
iff-% Clarke, before you knew her to be Mrs. Clarke?
It. I do not understand the question.
Tile question was read again, when
Sir A. PIGOTT objected to the question, because
any conversation which might have passed between
the witness and a person whmsa he did not know at
the time, could not certainly be admitted as evidence
on a charge brought against the Duke of York.
Mr. WARDLE was not disposed to press this
quee.ion, though he did understand that as the wit-
ness afterw-crds knew the person to be Mrs. Clarke,
any thing that had passed between him and her on
the !.,abject of the levy, would be evidence applicable
to the charge under consideration.
, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
had understood the witness to have stated, that he
had son e conversation with another person, in
IV first instance, and not with Mrs. Clarke. He was
cpinion that the question should be put however
4:Tele...ant, as he did not wish any impediment to be
tlrown in the way of this inquiry.
Mr. BERESFORD adverting (amidst cries of or-
de orderd to the circumstance of the publication of
the Proceedings on this subject in the public pans,

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