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P.dRLIAMENTARr PROCEEDINGS.
- in the numbers recruited by the first of April, his
HOUSE OF .LORDS, THURSDAY, MARCH 9.
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levy should be discontinued." Accordingly, on the
Naturalization Bill, and another private bill, were read a se- the 14th of April, his Royal
Lord MOIRA said, he had looked oirer -the papers
cond time, return being made on
_iy.
fiHnidgihnnr
tsh,awt iathin two days tafter that retern, not
the war% Spain and Portugal, which were laid bre rtieleattioe
gtot satisfactory increase had taken place,
put a period to it on the I Gth. The Honourable
ytoestserday, and he observed, that a letter from Lord Castle
Sir Haw Dalrymple, referred to an application from the Junta Gentlerhan h commented m large on the mild
of Seville for an aid of ten thousand men Hit wished that the terms in whit is intimation had been dmae, he had
document alluded tosivight be produced, unlesest,here were some read a passage in the letter to illustrate that assertioo,
very particular reasons for withholding it. ..
The Earl of LIVERPOOL said, he was not aware until that bltt he had selected a part of the letter which it was .
day, that the taw alluded toveas wantitqt ; Ilse Should, howeier, ' by no means
fair to take. Independent of the parts
necessary inquiries respecting it. and if it contained connected with it, he had selected a middle passage,
nothing which rendered it unfit * palic, it
t for being., • • . should and. in so doing, had by no means done justice to the
be produced.—Adjourned. . . t : • whole, as, if the parts connected with, the passage .
- . • HOUSE OF COMMONS 11 ' ' thus singled• out were read with it, it would be found
The annual Indemnity Bill was passed, and ordered to the- sufficlenq severe ' that part of the evidence, there-
Lorna ." • fare, he ought ought wholly to be done away.—
Exiditequer Mlle Sill Wil teed a maenad timed and ordered I Much had been said o' the expence attending raising
to hecontepittedtormorropt. , . - , - , men in cilia trimmer, £l3O a man had been represent-
rtifiWlßAltTOl4, Sena& .up-fitilliVetal: eke Committee
Cl consider of the List of the
,•Bisr India Judicature— ea-as Antal:once as enormous as unnecessary; but it
The Clerk mid over the names of dill. MeMbers, which Was was. to be remembered, that this sum included the
agreed to. ~ , . •whole machinery of the plan ; and that had-not the
Lord MILTON wished to know from the Marquis of Titcto I • evies been raised in the manner they were, the er-
fiekl, whether Captain Sandeq was a Lieutenant Colonel in.the pence attending them would greatly have exceeded
Middlesex Militia ? then
Marquis replied, be, ebuld not Say. ~ . •• •
~,• . th. sum. He therefore asserted, from the continu-
Mr. CROAKER observed, that he signed himselflate Ideate, once of the service, it was economical in its effects.--
nant Colonel of the Middlesex Militia" but now Captain fianden He held in his hand the l •of Bradshaw,
levies
of the Royal Waggon Train. and Armstrong, each of which, without taking into
The Bill to prevent child murder in Scotland was passed, and
ordered to the Lords. consideration the machinery, &c. were not less expen-
.
CA LL OF 11TE norsr. •, . , :lye. The next case to which he would direct their
Lord FOLKSTONE moved the reading the Or- notice, was one which merited particular attention—
der of the. Day for calling over the Houser !with' I that of colonel Shaw. Mrs. Clarke, in her evidence,
view to postpone it until to-morrow, which order being part 255 in the minutes, stated that Colonel Shaw ap-
read, • . ..' plied to her for a promotion, for which he promised to
Mr. BERESFORD believed it was not cestomary make her .a coroplin:ent of RIOCO ; that the actually
to adhere to a call of the House from day to day, 'did receive esoo of that sum, but in consequence of
his
during the adjournment of a debate ; and to his kniow- failing to pay the remainder, the Commander
ledge it would, in the present case, be productive of in Chief had, at her instigation, placed him on half--
considerable inconvenience to Gentlemen of Ireland, Pale.. 4tu had farther stated, that he sent her several
by preventing their attendance on Grand Duties at letters, -but-she .did not trouble herself much with
their respective Assizes at this season of the year.— reading alit; pee of the letters she believed she had
If the Honourable Gentleman continued to adjourn given m that eight. Tne substance of the document
the call from day to day, he might do -so until after to which she refers (.olonel Shaw's letter), was
Monday se'nnight, a day for which he had given no- -wholly inconsistent with 119- story. The letter in
tice of some .new motion for further inquiry. But questien. contained. an offer ef mor:. money, but not
if the Honourable-Gentleman should persist in repeat- the. remotest allusicn was made to h. s having failed
ing his motion to-morrow, he should oppose him to pay her the sum stipuLtni as the price of his pro-
upon another ground, connected with the Union, and motion. But it cclstaincki a promise of pecuniary as-
the business of levying money in. Ireland by Grand sistance to a more considerable extent, as an annuity
Juries, upon which he should feel it necessary to oc. of £3OO a year was certainly far preferable to the sum
cupy the attention of the House at Least two hours. of £5OO. Colonel Shaw's letter did not advert to any
Lord PORCHESTER said, that the same ma- thing at all cm istenCwith the story she had tOld.
sons for which the House had already assented to the ". Do away the present evil," it concluded, " and
call, made it necessary .to keep the House together unite the apppintments I have mentioned, and I will
from day to &Tonna the business now pending was annually remit the sum of £3OO. Whilst I remain,
disposed of. • remember to do me justice,,let not any thing prevent
n.ces this; allow not self or family ever to say we owed-
Mr. FULLER thought it was originally un
bee- n
misfortune to such a hand " When speaking of this
nary to make the call ; and now that it had
made, it was unnecessary to continue it for the put- terence—" He sent Inc several letters complaining,
letter, Mrs. Clarke expressed herself with great indif-
pose of insuring :hull attendance, which could be had
without it. He compared the effect of the call al- but I did not trouble myself much with reading
ready to the beating of a trout stream, where, having them ; one of the letters I gave ia to-night I believe."
rummaged every hole, and shaken every bank, -Now, can,any pee think, but for a moment, that a
every thing was taught which was to be had, and as letter of this nature could be regarded by her with
fine a haul of
_fish was taken as ever he had seen.— that indifference she affected. That she could hardly
( 4 laugh) He thought it peculiarly hard to keep the (remember reading a letter offering her £3OO per an-
Gentlemen of Irelana from attending to the business miff% One thing was obvious, namely, that Mrs.
of their counties, more important, perhaps, than their Parke had been ananOng him with promises of assist-
attendance in that House. ing him. through the influence, she pretended, her as-
General GASCuYNE wished to understand, if it cendancy over the Duke gas e her, in the affairs re.
was the intention of the Noble Lord that the call was lacing to the army, but which in reality she did not
to stand for Monday next ? if so, he would take the. Possess. Great application had been made in behalf
of that Officer by Geyser. 1 Burrard, who confessed
sense of the House.
himself to be under obligations to the father of Colo-
Lord FOLKSTONE said, he had no such intention.
The motion was then put, and the House was or- net Shaw, who had been his particular friend ; anxi-
dered. to be called over to-morrow. • cue to day the debt of gratitude, he earnestly sought
Mr. BERESFORD gave netice.of hie motion on to promote the welfare of his son (Colonel Shaw).
the call of the House for to4nqrrow. • . General Burcard's application proved unsuccessful,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER., and Mrs. Clarke, with all her boasted influence, had
after a few preliminary observations, took a slight notn
then proceeded to skew, that Mrs. Clarke's
proved more fortunate. The Right Hon. Gen-
retrospestive glance at what he had already stated, tlema
and proceeded to speak of the conduct of his Rorl statement, that Colonel Shaw was placed on half-pay
in consequence of her resenting his omitting to pay
Highness the Duke of York, as far as it related to'
Colonel French's levy. There were certain documents the remainder of the .0 WOO was false : from a letter -
to which he was not enabled to speak, but from a g ared that Colonel Shaw had been in-
e- written by,Sir Harry Burrard, page '278, on the Mi-
neral,review of all the circumstances relating to Co- nutes, it appe
lotted French's levy, he could not discover any thing formed, that if the appointment could be procured he
y him. The would be placed on half pay immediately, and from
that went to shake the assertions made b
Commander in Chief's putting an end to the levy as. the letter written in answer by Colonel Shaw, it was
(.911y proved that he gratefully accepted the situation
he did, when he found that the country derived no
n that condition. He then read the following letter
advantage from its continuance, was alone sufficient 9
to exculpate his Royal Highness from all suspicion of from the Minutes :
"My Dear Sir—I am just honoured with your letter, and I
having participated in, or connived at the corruptions
trust that you will believe that I feel, though 1 shall not attempt
which had crept into the army, This fact, he did to express my gratitude for your present and many kindnesses to-'
conceive, most clearly established his innocence. He, wards me; and I can only add that my sense of obligation can
learned since the morning, that some were of opinion cease with my existence.
" have, as far as the present time allowed, given every cen-
his Royal Highness merited censure, on account of
sideratian to the proposal you have madame, and should conceive
--- hick had intervened between his A pelf most fortunate in succeeding to it, and should be ready to
' that

the length of time w...
having discovered the impropriety of continuing the proceed'_ .
n the timeyou mention. I haverha only to request, .
levy and his putting a final stop to it.; but, if Gen- ould the decision ve favour.able
arrange in regard to my family. It would be my wish, could °I
tlemen entered fully into the subject—if they-careful- an immediate leave orfoahsence, as I 'should hay.gehat great deal t
ly consulted and digested the substance of the docu-
procuredre an accommodation, to take my wife and two of my 611-
ments before the House, he was 'confident - they
„nAoustokerithwianrev.. and to leave the others in this country.
would be with him in opinion, that the time which ing for the post is short I must conclude b
best respects to Mrs. Burrard, au'd that you will believe
making of such an inquiry as it appeared necessary " 1. suave."
to institute on that occasion. In a letter from Colonel When the important evidence which these docu-
ments supplied had been maturely weighed, what de-
French, great complaints were made, on account of
the obstruction; he had to encounter in raising men ' gree of credit could be attached to the story of his
in Ireland. He then entered minutely into the cir- }having been reduced to halfpay through incurring
cumstances of the levy, quoting copiously from the the resentment of Mrs. Clarte ? The whole state-
minutes, and proved that General Taylor had acted ment, it must be seen by every one, was a grcss and
for the best, and that Colonel French's being restored palpable falsehood. But it might be asked, how C0..C0t.)
t.) that of which he had been deprived of for the space i
of two years, could not possibly be construed as an he knew, when he accepted the'appo*
abuse on the part of the Commander in Chief. The
delay which took place prior to the levy being dis-
continued, he thought extremely justifiable, as Colo-
nel French had not had that to which he was entitled,
by his letter of service. His Royal Highness was
willing to give him an opportunity of trying what he 1 tntment, that be
was to be put obi half-pay V This was to be done
very easily ; it proceeded fit4M that principle which
in every. transaction of'life actuated many others.
Having gained that which he had been anxious to
obtain, he felt as impatient as ever for freih,advan-
tages. When the situation was first offered him,
could do-- with the additional means thus afforded
though he was informed he was to be pit ou half-pity,
h;nl, but at the same time he gave him to understand be was anxious to obtain it ; but having gainesltit, he
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