The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-08-02 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

wit, tae ii usury 11, , howevor, asetired me,
cif; 4,eei itsi I •` certai sty negative Birch's fool-
• 1146 notion," 41 I sway he went, leasing me in
WWI ,wreseil vii ti felt anxiety to nil dive
11r. Bocci% `• foolish llotion about No Popery;"
J taei se.) G •iitletuati after wits ac-
(,.ee▪
ls vote es the souse si to with Mr. Birch in
Lt. • r of his "foolish Aletion." But, nutwith.
• ',setae these_miserable shifts of canting hypo-
• I ail ask those who are now present,
are, in any simile instance, this Gentleman
lias expressed the slightest degree of satisfaction at
shit discovery sif abuses which gave to every true
le eel of his country tee /ratifying prospect of a
correction 44 the lavish asp •nditure of the public
money ? I remember nett even a solitary instance
in silica he has expressed any satisfaction at any
aeeeh diseosery of public abos s and corruptions.
T tit this apathy is not Ossified to that Gentle.
mot, was abundantly clear, from the expressions
used by other Gentlemen in a former discussion.
At that time they arrogated merit to themselves for
their forbearance t., oppose the measure wader
fs-i, t ortitl.4ration. " •e have made," say they,
" ne ()Nepal/ion to the JOte of thanks toCol.Wardle,
" bat we obj Tr to ministerial threats, and to (teeter.
g mg that theDeke of York was nu w evilly of his site.
464010,1.0 Such .1 the spirit by which those gentle.
MO are se.itYTVII ; and I have felt conviction from re.
pealed ~toservations, that upon say question having
hey. f•hj .et the correction ofroblic abuses, it was
seeJet.e. to 1 wk roe the .uppistt or co-hperation
of any contractor, peissioner, placeman, or place-
ueseraa.—[Heer ! hear! hear!] In no instance
.when such a question is brought forward, do the
Gentleman, and those who act with him, omit to
bear-t out into the old cry, that it is a mere puty•
qu stion,whica is vitt" a a roeg thing to agitate—
gime improper for Gentlemen to bring forward
party ,eat ..rs. Is there then, it may be asked, a
party to support correetiou ? I n tenth, if we
mat
tjudge of the conduct of 'the public prints,
sure a,iefit be the inference ; for all those newspa.
pers. with very few exceptions, which during
th. urestigation supported and commended theist.
el a Ole exertions ofCul. Watdle, h ave su d den ly a ban.
don d him, for no other reason as it should seem,
but that the seeding of his measures to destroy
Cro. uptitei, has, at the same time, an ultimate
tendency to destroy the Whence of both the par.
n this enuntry....the Outs as well as the Ins.
Tess notice of this elution, I cannot but consider
In any ;erns of view as most improper ; and as,
o ithei she Gentleman who gave that notice, • nor
say other G ntleman on his behalf, has thought
proper to urine forward the question, I am de-
cid illy of opinion, that such notice ought to be
tame i4e I front the record of oar proceedings.—
W e are a .w railed upon to enter into a considera.
lien of arcuentances, that have occurred seine.
qemole to OS Vote of Thanks, which was passed
by the. Court to Colonel Wardle, on whose con.
dart we are required to sit in judgment, and,
oeighieg all the circumstances that make
bo•
th for aid egolosi him, to express our opinion
of his .aoulect. It will be recollected, that when
Colossal Wardle lirsi brought forward his charges
is, , be House of Co ens, he had not, out of
s' . hole Body wrilibe Members composing that
A •seailily, sepport of one single indi.
vi e 41. The dillleipty and endless trouble of de-
laths.; am, sabstantiatiag the existeme Jr abuses,
I liadoen to be personally enabled to appreciate
very correctly—fur in the discovery and exposure
of the enormous abases that have been praztisal
in aritt's Hospital, I did igen- i d.gree of troll-
We, labour, and JO siet), tier. extent of which'
ia• beyond what I could have expected to bare
.• p.ea ible ; and after all my exertions, instead
at deriving the thanks of those ahem it was the,
ebj et of any ecertiotis to benefit, what did I meet,
we Obioqt.i,perteettgots,and misrepresentation
thef'scier himself has not set-allied to retire.
seat is. , an eteely to all religious and political
estaloriihments. That this Gentleman nas so many
=wit .s tor feeling sore at the institu ion of in-
quiry into public abases, I did not know, until I
accideutally discovered that his 6, other-in-law
ac.si rojil I a pension of no less than 17001.
per a :num for life—[blear! hear !]—so that
bete :es e It' V ear anti ills brother.iti-law, there
are nu trifling interests to protect ! The great
gr- and of accusation against Colonel Wardle ap.
pear: to be, that he has paid for that evidence on
se hick the Duke of York has been convicted of
connivance. Ad aitting now, for the sake of ar.
puniest, that fart in the (sliest latitude—in the
name of common sense, what has that to do with ,
the important service that has been thus rendered
to the country by Weisel Wardle? I would ask
those Gentlemen, whose morality is so atrakexed
aJ this alleged discovery, whether it was not ge-
nerally, if nut universally believed, at the time
ighes we passed our vote of thanks to Coronet W.
that he actually lived—cohabited with Mrs. C. ?
For my own part I candidly confess, that such
was m; belief ..and such' I dare say was at that
tints the opinion and belief even of the Gentle..
man himself who gave the notice of this motion.
Yet, thuegh we all believed the existence of thcl
fad at that !foss..-no elan—whatever he thought
—breathed a deeht or the propriety of our Vote
of Thank, to Colenel Wardle, notwithstanding
the rei sited and believed existence of the import-
ant fact, that he was living in a state of adultery.'
.--It is must strange, that the morality of the
Gentleman did not at that time take the alarm,
and state his moral objections to the passing of
the vote of thanks !..-From this imputation Mrs.
Clarke has fortunately delivered Colonel Wardle
by the leiblietation her letter, in which she cor-
rects the mistake into which the public had
fur thus clearing the character of Colo.,
nil Wardle from so gross an imputation, it is lin-
po,sible nut to feel grateful ; that such are my
feeliegs, I very freely confess, for it is my opinion
that iii esery public character it behoves us
not to he utterly regardless of the private
character of the individual ; although it tan-
nut be dented, Pi strictness of reasoning, that
the defective private character of an individual
should diminish the value of his public conduct is
a species of prejudice. It is, however, a weapon
that has frequr:stly been pied by the friends of
corruption) cud ttssl, 40 with sreat success, to

destroy the influence, and paradise the exertions
of men of public virtue. This re ntl?rs it roust
extraordinary that so formidable a weapon should
have been suffered to lie idle whcn we passed our
rote of Thanks. Nothing is more common than
fur the friends and participators or corruptihri 'oh
the discovery of (acts that arc clearly intlefeissffillle
---to turn short round and =tube the accurWibf
using that language called seditions...thkuitt.
tempting to silence the arguments they -ban.
not answer—by knocking every man on the
head who exposes their corruptions.—ls, or is it
not true---has it, or has it not been proved, that
there did exist a traffic fur seats in the House of
Commons ? If this important fact cannot be de-
nied, where is the man who will have the hardi-
hood to say, that it is not the part and duty of
every man who pays the enormous taxes, imposed
on the individuals of this nation, to • expose even
the immaculate Lord Castlereagh, or the conscien-
tious Mr. Perceval, who have served the arsntry
so long ? [Hear! Hear ! lhar !] T ;ic salivary
Bill-brought into the House of Commons by Mr.
Martin, was opposed, because it was thought ne.
cessary to have the power of rewarding services.
Of reward for scrt'iecs, Mr. Percent enjoys, in
addition to those of which he is in the twine! pos.
sessiuo—the pleasant reversionary prospect of
46,0001. per annum, which his brother now re.
ceivea.. It is not a little extraordinary, that among
the almost innumerable motions that have been
brought forworit, by the absent Gentleman and
his friends, it allots's! never have occurred to
them, in any one instance, to have suggeiteil
a single Fr:spoliation for the reformation of abisses
in any department whatever. It cannot be that
they are not accustomed to interest themselves in
public matters, for it might seem that they are not
a little fond of popularity, hoot the forwardness
with which they have been foand ready to vote
away the city money in swords and monuments,
and the city thanks to the no-popery ministers,
for turning out their predecessor:. Yet upon any
measure that is proposed for the amelioration of
the general condition of the community, by the
suppression of abuses, and the eradication of cor.
ruption, they seem to hang their heads. At such
unlucky periods their dejection is so extreme and
so apparent, as to excite even our pity and cum.
passion. In fact, the depth of this dejection can
only he eqnallrd by the height of arrogance that
was displayed when Colonel Wardle stated in
the House of Commons, that an office actually
existed in Threadneedie.street, for the sale of of.
flees and plat's. What did this assertion produce?
a horse laugh, and a most bitter and severe re-
bake for ',mitt; dtred to catty his Majesty's Go.
vcrnment. Bet I would say to the Ministers of
his Majesty what I should not hesitate to say to
the House of Brunswick : let them skew some
anxiety to preserve their own credit ; for that is
what even common decency requires. And, most
marvellous to tell, notwithstanding the horse
laugh and derision of Ministers, and their host of
adherents, in consequence of the discovery thus
dragged forth by the intrepidity of Colonel War.
die, a prosecution has been instituted by the At.
torney.Geueral, and the very persons point.
ed et -by na ne by Colonel Ward!c have been
tried and convicted of an offence, wh.ch teoded to
bring his Majesty's Government into contempt.
Who then are toe men oho vilify and bring into
contempt his Majesty's Government—the man
who asserts the existence of such practices, and
orgies for their suppression...or the mini who de.
ride the assertion...attempt to bully Colonel
Wardle into silence...make that as-ettion the
ground of inquiry...the institution of a prosecu-
tion and the conviction of the offenders originally
pointed out by 'Col/m.l W irdle? N ivr, whim I
hear the Attorney. General state the facts relating
to this case, and at the same moinent seethe press
from e/inest every quarter, pouring furtlitOrrents
of abnse on the devoted head of Colonel Wardle,
cannot repress my astonishment—for he surely
most in (act be their very best friend, by dragging
forth to public justice those men, the tendency of
whose practices the Attorney-General charges to
be that of bringing his Majesty'sGsovernment into
contempt. The Gentleman opposite to me is the
only one who has yet ventured to open his mouth
in oliposition to the Ardendment of the Worthy
Alderman ; and even that Gentleman admits that
the "Trial has nothing to do with the question."
But he Sap that we ought nut to vilify Ada:biol.
stration—now I say, that the People have rights
as well as the Government, and where is the uti-
lity of the right of petitioning, if we dare nut
speak out ? Of what importance were it if Co-
lonel Wardle had actually given money to Mr*.
Clarke to induce her to divulge what she knew t
Has not the Government of this country done the
same thiug—have they not been in the frequent I
and constant habit of doing it ? Ira.ve they not paid
busts of spies and informers to make discovery of
these unfortunate men, who published what were
termed seditious pamphlets ? Have they not, on
the suborned evidence of spies and informers,
sent men ignominiously to Botany Bay for 14
years ? Did they not attempt to deprive others of,
' their lives by the evidence of informers who had
contrived to possess themselves of their cone.
! deuce? And for what were some convicted and
transported, and others tried on the bare in-
formation of authorised spies and informers ?
For asserting that men practised those corrup-
tions which have been since acknowledged
to exist by the Speaker of the House of
Commons, who expressed his reprobation and
detestation of that practice. [Hear! heart
hear!] Even members of the present administra.
lion haw,: been comps Iled to endure the accusation
of a traffic its seats in Parliament, which it was be-
yond all their ingenuity to disprove. [Hear! hear!
hear!] Hare we not even seen men executed on
the exidence of spies and informers, who have as.
sisted in plunging those unhappy persons into irre-
vocable acts for which they suffered ? Surely
I ant not incorrect in speaking of fact4,'Schich arc
known to exist as certainly as the light 6t the Sun;
and if, as we now see, men are liable to prosecu-
tion for such actions, we may surely be ifffOwed to
speak of them without incurring the risque of
transportation to Botany Bay, or of being ever.
whelmed with the alnite of venal hireling news.

papers, Zfo which I, however, believe no man iv
existeuce is more perfectly indifferent than myself:
With respect to the couueetion of the private,
character and conduct of Col. Wanlie, with the
Vote of Thanks passed by this Court, I see With
muck satisfaction that no attempt has yet been
made to-day to substantiate that position—a/1 I
will take upon myself to say, that no possible tar.
pitede, of which human nature could be
guilty, would justify our connecting the eolosi.ler-
sties's of. his private character with that of our
public Thttiksifor his public conduct. But even
had any thin unfortunately come out to diminish
the respect and interest which every unpre-
judiced unbiassed person must, I think, feel fo•
such a man—it had been more candid and more
generous to have suffered the imperfection of.
human nature to have passed unnoticed, than to
have seized that opportunity of attempting to pre-
judice the public against a mail, of whose private
as well as public worth and virtue, I have the
moat sincere conviction.-.it had been more manly so
to have acted, than to have come with a whining,
pitiful, and hypocritical, cowing pretence, of
being 6' ve hers" and of not wishing to huh
Colonel Wardle. I think I know all 'lO circuon.'
stances from the beginning to the end of Colonel
Wa.dle's proceedings in the prosecution of the in.
"mitigation —and a more h.mourable man, I do
declare, from the bottom of my heart, I firmly
believe never did exist. llo'cver, for the sake
of argument, I will allow bin to have broken
his word,- to have bribed Mrs. Clarke i At short,
to have dooe whatever the absent
sr-Antitoxins might
please; let him have dents what he will, his eon.
!feet cannot have altered the nature of the thing
The seeps:aims against the Duke of York had
been fully proved by the concurrent testimony of
unwilling witnesses, corroborated by the ir-
refragable proof of written .docoeueuts,—of
letters under the hand-writing of the Duke
of York himself. The absent gentleman has
attempted to obtain a pitiful triumph over i
that man who so lately he durst not have
faced. I have already asserted, that no act of pri-
, vete turpitude of Colonel Wardle, however fla-
grant or atrocious, can affect the consideration of
his public conduct; but for the sake of placing
this position in the strongest possible point of
view, let us suppose that Colonel Wardle was a
member of the Society for the Suppression of Viee,
let otS suppose that he had in this court called un
his fellow citizens for protection to their wives and
daughters—Let us suppose that he had attacked,
and afterwards debauched the wife of hr, bosom
friend ! !!—still I say, that infamous as must be
his private character, even these circumstances
can have no weight in the consideration of his
public conduct. Let us suppose that Colonel
Wardle had passed his nights in gambling--that
the debts which he contracted to support himself
in that scandalous practice he refused to pay—
that. iu his progress through the streets at miduight
he should be guilty of outrages sealost d:•cency
and good order,by getting into midnight broilc,and
rescuing from the hands of justice prostitutes and
their associates. Lot us suppose, to form the cli-
max of his moral depravity, that lie had increased
his fortune by plundering the public under the
sanction of an Act of Parliament, passed tor the
accommodation of commerce in the metropolis of
the empire. Still, I say, these atrocities would
not alter the facts established by Colonel Wardle,
of the existence of corruption, or less, n the
beneficial consequences of their exposure: If
even the conduct of Colonel Wardle bad beau
marked by treachery, hypocrisy, and la:vning
meanness, by writing a letter to Lord Grenville,
soliciting advancement for a relative, and addbsg.
that much as he desired his relative's ailvancemelit,
be was unwilling to accept the favour from a y
other hands than those of his Lordship...and f
he had then bad the basemen, when he found hi•
Lordshi- 's power was tottering—to strike down
the reelinelin;ster---in order to make court to his
sucresser, it miter be asked, whereshall we find a
cavern lark enouell to mask such infamy? Yet
even this concentrated mass of infamy heaped on
the head of Colonel Wardle; nay, even his cue.
viction fur a highway robbery on Hounslow
Heath, c sub, no' alter or at .ct the facts which lie
has established by his exertions in the House of
Commons. But of none of these outrages
upon human nature and human society has
Colonel Wardle been guilty... Let therefore no
man cast stones at another, till he has looked
around him I I trust I have thus convinced
the Court, that so far from any circumstances
having occurred which can induce us to re-
scind the thanks that have been offered to
Colonel Wardle, the facts that have since been
made public entitle that exalted character t.) the
further Thanks of the Corporation of the City
of London.

/fir. DIXON said, he was prepared to receive
any species of rebuke from Mr. ‘Vaithman,
whose praise alone he dreaded. On propr
occasions, he should be at no loss to justify his
toon.duct ; frith respect to the denial of Mrs.
Clarke, of the cohabitation of Colonel Wardle
with her, all that he could say was, that Mr.
Waithman was very anxious to prove the chas-
tity of Mr. Wardle
_, but, " for my own part,"
said Mr. Dixon, " if I had been with her at the
" Martello Towers, I certainly should have had
" more intimate connexion with Mrs. Clarke,
" than Col. Wardle states himself to have had."
Mr. MAWMAN would have voted against re-
scinding the motion, but was averse to concurring
in Alderman Goodbehere's Amendment on the
principle of its, being foreign to the purpose of the
day, and taking the Court by surprise.
Mr. STOKES did not approve of the Irusguage which bad
been held to-day respecting placemen and place-hunter 4 • he
thnught it unnecessarily personal, although it did net *feet
himself ; for he disclaimed all connection wlt (iovernment,
and as,,ured the Court that he never begged any favour of arse
Minister. He objected to the proposition of the worthy Al-
derman, because pew mattcrwas brought up by it, ruch as su heti
ant the purpose for which the Members of the Court had been
summoned ; to that purpose, and to that only, *Anna its at-
tention be directed.
Mr. WAITHMAN explained what he kit to bait been
miwooceived of what he had snit concerning some persum;
he had east no rettection upon iadividnals. lie thee proceeded
to support the propositiAs moves) by has worthy fnerd, Mr.
Aid naaa Goodbeherr,—" 1 am surprised *id he) that m) ,
worthy friend (Mr. Ma wiser') Median to pis kt los on the pi*
sect ocessitm r he sap he would de se en =quiet. occasion

hut w ;II ant on this-list wily qt ? Every fact stated in env
714ffeistra-AMeatimeat has oadhpordas it i..iod spotalate, there
I- n'" it fi'11ef".0111661,144,04:4111 the Amend:lieut. that io
sot fouade ron a riehßi itottnieTts and thercfbra Cietalemesi
-who ea lain of ilmisustemestroom th- lreiZA of 1 over;
Orr hit tiicaers,i.i se dieno it L.4thr b:•,1 nay uf re ctiog
el
t*eer pa ase--rttey Mut 't4.•Putraltdpg el-- trey romplain
at the' rnewthrtnit ...f ette-mortisv4itierinua involvrt new
) merits Jawritnt aptitit tharp.7try jsiorprtse. There is too
1
t.
ondatrikyttoo.milirformathiat,,
ociis.tniolitya. lietati:lo• antie:6lfliwaiiplui
t,victeiltaareortotalseinyc,
t at thbre !vim' htdryidM lesabisineurt 1. ss liable than the
t h Cdhlilir 11* turpnre-we ttlier (DJ:Choy hotly b) tairprhie.
la the preheat inaauce there • ' ins prettelice for Clentleraeu to
contplaiii'sithurprim. The ole*,.:et of.t:.e motion of whkh the
Worthefdpaabee gavt Police, and which he has shrunk from,
MI to take-,iate teottlenditiii circumttances which hate hem-
pen:4 since oroir Reside:lmi of the gnat. April, spats t!'...- rub-
Jell of the nitNrit of 'Mr. .SSardle, pod the services he has ren-
dered le his cuitalsg,b,y his, exertiom In (tie 'loose uf l'em-
mons io various departments of the state. That is the pro-
fessed object of the roiliest of the antic, of the mitiott. de
conceived that she arrainateuces whirl have transpired .face
out' Resoletion or she Gth or April, ale such as to cairup.a
es to rewind that Itmolutiou. My Worthy Friend and ine.
telt think taat the circumstance. which have siace trampirjd
ere SA Elf from detrooling groan the mutt of alt. Wardle,
that they Mid to iiis Cif tBo4s upon the ire:Wade ilf AB C0101(ril-
own, •ind deinwod /wade opprosation; thiszot mil r.yes us
a right, but naturally calls upea as to state what tee circitat-
stauees are which have trairspired since the taste of posing
oar Vote of To•tidrai to that lientreimui t-tuat ,s tar ou-
Jett of the Ame stiment of :ay Worthy Fr:rad. If that
be an, I ask la.. court can we. do better thou sate those
fates? I say cat " Ice" do better, tor Ido oat disguise say
things I lir JII 111 it 1 .tax had rime colicern in the frahtiag
10( Ibis 1431i•I ~ nAll which, tuerero e, it is .iota, I' in a J.
shaall support. \ir d '••. time Motion go in far as It skis
wi.o J.:in, f ,• ? %or, tr.. f.elt, not it led to .t, fr am *awls leas •
prove Mr. W adle's further viola to 11 asks. Le. liP rip.
collect that Mr. Wardle was enarri sti.a itasiog iepre-
seti.•d things a 4 _rieviuwes, winch :hJ nut cabal, sued witch
are primed, h, the aitaseauent coed et u( toe omist. - , i
',elves, to ii lye c tined. air. Wardle stated in the House of
Comment-. that user,. were three branches of the pubis ex-
awaslaistre iti %slica there were great abuse., and to march
lyre might he introdored great maims, witioot detriment
to the public service. 11: descend .'d to particulari., goad
facts on which his assertion re-ted. lie was cuatradined
Is, Ministers, they Itemizer bu s.ateueut of toe Lest.
But bow has it turimd out two.: to Mr fit is? Way,
wry Is ird, Ministers nay ~ by their own acts, suSseeuent to
Tint statement, proved tie existence of the very facts which
tlieN denied in toe Busse of Common, 'hem tue 'eaten. ot
of Ibsen by Mr. Wardle. T ~e fr ts stated by air. :'. -ei '
Aid to wiack I as now alluding, were Obeyer-That id the
mmon,r irf c ',Adding the business of sae LAO: Atifitfo. toere
was moth abuse, and there erght be great .tlrt.trottaa J. d a
great saving, without detriment to toe public service-pat_
oisters dci:ied the existence of any such ..one is in t b -Inch
of the peddle service; but. .4ace the disctielan, hoe love
thee Wei, for that it the teat The, h.rbti giteu orders there
shall be " no further proceediegs in th.• affairs uf the Loral
Militia." thereby adulating. I sa.,. the ex:smote of the
ahams stated by Mr. Wardi.c. Lund dein ut b. teem i,, :e
/louse of Oominons. The next head *of public smelt? is
which Mr. Wardle stated there was much abate which
mig*it be corrected without den illifin, was in the cloothhee
of the frolsraloers. Miniatern denied the et istetico.. us (sae
abate also. Flow have they acted up to it? They :are
given orders, " that there shall be no further proceeding no
the subject of the cloathing of the Voluntee:t." (ha Hem
bead of service was that r* " a supply of tor:. artit le of
Correost:" iti which Air. Wardle stated there was great
abate, and rcigbt be moan ret..mehroeat *Abaft injury to
the Oleic sfrrlee. MMisters delved the existence tinny
suchelbese -Look at tb' actions afferwards-They lime dio.
cAarjr.! the Irerpector of Csoustris 1 Such, soy Lard Major,
are Vie facts; aui after this. are Ire to be told that sils..t has
0 empired since our Vote of TIMM!, to Mr. Wardle has been
such at wive to (tbdurC as ID mused that Vote. I ,ay that
what tau transpired si .c.?, calls i.pea sp, in tile cll.:charge of
oar public duty, to enlarge Ad' to extend those Thanks
to a mon who has rendered soca etential service
to his country. I say, it is high time fur us to make
become voodoo, that ab lest than 2410.J011. of the
a stand against the torrent of Corrupt; el, when it i.
public
tummy is .m
riven to individuals in pent.;r, as I have al-
ready described-when we see that one I idiv,dual has, in
nine mouths, defrauded the pub is of 90,)J01. t and shall we,
after this, say that these matters coat: ova* the Members of
this Court by sorprtre? Why slinald th • ierfenteat of :hem
surprixe any of Ili, iiretz we all know of their exist.- t. P bat
it seems that to wine persons the existence of t tem things Is
not so shockine as the stoteascit is-who cannot bee.- 1., star
pay thing raid to the discs.Att. of mtg. (fomenters. Bat it has
teen asked, with an air of triwupb over Mr. Wardo. Vivi he"
erares to c moplain of eorruptioo in the See of Seat. .ot rasa
Hoare of Co:normal P-W I:ether he dill not purchase hit or.*
sent there? To which I twister, I do not know aow that fact
steads; bat this I know, that Mr. Wardle, like ea. other
individual, has a right to shift for himself In that retpect,
while the userket, 1 say, politic the market resurias open. I
bate had tirry Seats oTerzd to myself iii that Assembly, uptio
cgrutio temw-the very imiividual who is stated to have Dego-
gig that concern under my Lord SLlilo, toll me be wi,sld
,e me a seat If I would,' procure for him a writer-
attlp ender the East Imlia tAhpany. Tite,e are indeed
101011119, and the are toonstrien -.tames, but they are only
If ur of tie JIDUIC9 under %silica tits comtry labnum,-
an* .tech bar h ird 1/ .t the holt it p art of the comisiouit. itt
,elilehr welive. Sure they havVilliten roved to exits—mace
taw are admitted ai exis'.and ireavowed by too roil f •ed
(tom them, will .to., man 1., pia Maud swot his Ile art, 4.4 5,9 r
tid*thingstoug•et t, cautiouto-o.'say, c at ne ta 1a 1. A sYr *beg
tbissal unwell II yof his c.o.'''. ar ile pubs:. eiri :a t; man
sayjtat a great iiariug. mayusot be made in the psitlic et-
pr iture °film cowor., liy rite i inlaid. tem to . tat.e more
contrasts' hair Lilo sonar of the depart of tee Stat.. ?
, 1 I believe Ate Mr. Wardle bat skid tsp..' moat ..iuiect, suet
the Illif(11.11 would be very nearly to the &Daum of the ir.-
1 rime Sm."

Mr. TAill)Y admitted that where had known, and bid
talked of, " Abuses." but nob,ily Rad acid so eticieal to
wards taeir procreation, aa well as di. W .rile, aid toerefore
that c,eafieosaa was sk very lit subject fur toe thanks of the
public.
Mr. Alderman ATK iNS whhed the Resoluthe of the
worthy Alderman to he withdrawn, because t emornced
%natter, for the discussion of which to • Court o a. 'MI ,i)n.
'med. ile had no idea of rescinding the Vote of ram*, to
Mr. Wardl.., for nothiut could be more uc•....st t • that On.
tleman, than to condemn him before be has been heard. Mr.
Wardle, said the worths, Aid:rialto, has eon hied hineelf
to the public over awl over/spin, that he :will prove that: the
matter which kr. here stated to his , anti ape
which the verrli:t of a Joy has been Obt•timr,l itgain.t info,
has he,', tbeetlect of perjory. Until aka h aseertalaed, we
should sa-pend oer jadrttten'sa meanwhile, du wit 1•.!t us
withdraw from Mr. Wardle the Thanks we have g!vice to
him for his exertions in the sersice of the Public.
That would be treating ourselves, as well as Mr. Ward e, un-
haudsonwly—if we had bees unfoi•umte enouJi to place
ear esteem, or bestow our boleti, upon an entsil.th, object,
that might be reason why we asi..ht regret :cur mistake, Is dh-
oti being a reason for our retraciiag the donation. 1 ,her -
fore wish, by all meals, that we mould not reach.' the rota
of thanks which lee have paned in fav-ine of Mr. Wardle;
hut I canwit help recommending, most strive 9 s to the wor-
thy Alderman t:• withiraw his proposition, 6ecaase it cm-
lwaces matter, for the discussion of w sich we wee,. nut, this
day, coaveried—it tends to cast, unnecessarily for the present
pup 15?. at le•rt, reNvtions on Ws Majesty's Milistets. We
arc aaw calic.l upon to vote charges against penman who have
not been heard upon them before us—charges uptiu which we
oarsvises have had no tine for considered m. We are called
nom! to come to a eissrlasion before we have had lime to deli-
he.-ute tip •m a great deal of crintiontieg matter.
[Front the groat length of 11. la Report, and the Pro:red:age
on Lord Gast bier's Petal, we are under the n:csssi:j ef defer-
ring Ike Remainder till to-morrow, and i.terefwe briefly state
the erneu ion.)
Mr. MAW MAN then pr 'posed an Amendramt to the for-
mer Amendment, the sehstacce of which was, that the 0)411
saw no reason for rescinding the Vote prised on the lit:, of
April last, repressing the thanks and gratitude of the Coert
to Mr. Wardle.

Mr. WAITIIMAN thought thit Gmtlemen malting
Amendment upon Amendment wen• speakiag agisiust time.
After vies conversation, the trestim wm pus, and the
phew of Ip4oge,gppeared nearly equal. 'l'he Court then di-
vided, sherl It* numbers were,
row tbr 'Ameadmeta-lA4lerosan, 51 Commotsen, 2 Teiien
fflti't All. rinodbehere'ilK•iolution,. 3 Aldermen, 54 Com-
rinliers, 2 Teikrs-59 41,6;4 , ~ i.
.....t.i.t..iirij0r.......
n Tzt.ccaAnwrc th,r.t.t:te was ticeived at the Admi.
iltal yllils morning, fr0..1 tqrtlinnutb, announcing that Lord
itittiliaa bad been nitht WO ;OUR AIL Y •CQUITTED.
"Oletile operations of the Wspedltion.an intelligence btu vet
tbeeisiemived44.llll rnmeasetof Bon A r % t. ilfs return to Kris
• c tittionee In be -cinsalalmitgrith comidnce. If web be the
fart, vreurtyagir !aboard lar prevelet in the neighbour-
/laid of ) ~