The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-11-22 00:00:00

AFFIDAVIT OF JOSEPH CURT.

.T6Serli (-VAT, of Coventryainted, Haymarket, in the
Count) of Middlesex, Coffee-Knave lie:epee. nri'..rt I, oath and
saith, that in the month of October, 16US, At • ',Lary-Anne
Clarke, now of Weabourneiplace, Chelsea, in the said
Chanty of Middlesex. bat thou of Bedford-place, Russell-
square, In the sew County. called tapas this Deponent a Ith
our Captain Thnmpene, whom this Deponent understood is
be her brother, for the purpose of taking of this Depnneat
the house the now occupies is Westhanrne-place aforesaid.
And this Deponent furtlwr smith. that at time lime Mrs. Clarke
so came I. this Deponent, she said her name was Farquhar,
and retried this Deponent to the Plaindff above tamed fur
character. And this Depositing farther smith, that lie ac-
cendiugl). called upon the said Plaintiff for the character of
Mn. Clarke, whose name this Devotion then understood to
be Mrs.Farquhar: that he saw the said Plaintiff; and re-
quested of him, as between isle tradesman and arrither. to be
candid ; whereupon the saki Klima assured this Deponent
be would be ; and told this Deponent that Mrs. Farsolsor
was a mint respectable Cady, that he had taken sever..:
thousands of pounds of her money, and that if be bad fifty
houses to let, the skean have her choice of them all.
—And this Depooent further saith, that he then en-
(pared of the sali Plaintiff whether Mi.. bpcAk-
ing of her by the tianie of Farquhar, was married none, to
which the said Plaiatit replied, that he ' eh's ed she
had been starrier!, hat whether her b.. hard was living
or not hi k-.sw n.d. Awl this ncp aunt fu. then
that beiti,l tatis4est,,,,with. the ehanseter be had so re-
eeired from the said Plaintiff of the sold NI 1.. Clarke,
he, this Deponent. 'expressed suela las satisfaction to the
saia Plaintiff, aria• aft:rwards acquainted Mrs. Clarke,
that.she should have his !aid bane. And this deponent fur-
ther With, 1641 he sholiatlerwards went to, and saw the said
Mrs. Clarke. in Bedford-place aforesaid, for the porprise of
completing the arrangement about the terms of the said
house; abets Nis Deponent, in a conversation which then
took place, thinking that the furniture which he saw was
her °via observed to het,the said Mrs. Clarke, that he thought
the furniture in Bedford-place would suit the house she had
taken of horn, this Depinaait ; to which the said Mrs. Clarke
replied, that the furniture he, ibis Deponent, spoke of, was
inn old-fashioned, and that she only intended to take with her
•t new articles of it, such as beds and drawers, and that the
• nd Plaintiff was to new furnish for her the house in West-
linurr.e-place. And this Deponent farther saith, that some
b!,nrt time before the lease, which was granted by. this De •
palest to Fliz. Farquhar, the mother of Mrs. Clarke, was
executed, and which lease was executed mid hears date ea'
the 9th day of November last. he, this Deponent, was return-
ing from the house in Westbourne-place aforesaid, and met
the said Plaintiff in the King's P•sid, going there for the Pur-
pose, as the said Plaintiff then informed ibis Deponent, of
taking measure for the carpets and fenders, to be put down in,
and sent to the said house. And this Deponent fort her with,
that it was only just before the said 9th of November that this
Deponent saw the mother of the said Mrs. Clarke, and was
given to understand that the house was taken for her, aced that
the person he had before seen was her daughter. But this
Deponent did nut heftier acquainted with the real same of
Mrs. Clarke, until after the execution of the said lease; and
h hsn he did so, and found ant whom she was, he, this Depo-
nent, winuastrated with the said Plaintiff for the deception
he had practised epos him, which the said Plaintifdid not at-
tempt to deny,hut told this Deponent be thought he bad know n
whom Mrs. Clarke was. Aid this Dermot thrther smith,
that after the house bad bon so taken as aforesaid, the
esecutioe of the lease was delayed for a time, on
arrount of the said Mrs. Clarke wishing not to pa)
this Deponent for the grates and ether 6 stare, in the
said house until the end of twetve mouths, when she ac-
quainted this Devenalshe should purchase of him the ori-
gins.] lease of the said baste, and for which purpose a clause
is inserted in the Icise stemeled by this Depnnent. Bet this
Deponent saith, that baying himself takers and paid fur the
said ft elutes at a estimate' Mew time that be bought the ori-
ginal lease of the said ham, be, this Deponent, objected to
Mts. Clarke's prom/shoal imbued open having the money
whereapna the said Prowls Weight, as the day and at the
time of the exotanian of the said lease (which lease is wit-
' nosed by the said Plaiatiff.med Ww. Stokes, the Attorney of
the said Plaintiff and of Mrs. Clarke), gave this Deponent a
draft epee his bankers for one hundred and six pounds fourteen
shillings sad sixpence, the sanauot of the valuation of the
said grates and fixtures. And this Deponent further with.
that the first quarter's reel of said Loose becoming due and
ant being paid, this Deponent employed Messrs. Rabies to
dist. ain for the said real, and suet, rent was thenpaid by a
hill nr draft of the said Plaintiff, and the second quarter's
rent was also paid by a draft of the said Plaintiff on his
bankers.

AFFIDAVIT OF SIR RICHARD PHILLIPS.
fir RICMARD PaiLLirs, d Bridge-oneet,lackfrian,

tWm Kaij staked' oath and Pith, list
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as tier moo the lith day of Mardi but, this Depend was
applied to by Mrs. Mary Agra Clarke, of Weetbourne-
*se, (Melee, in the amity of Middlesex, N NOUN her
Memoirs, and arta* Lotten written to her by his Royal
Righteous the bake of Turk, which publication this Depo.
seat declined to eagage ht. And this Dermot further saitis,
that In the latter mid of the same month of March, this De-
posed, seder the supposition that he was the proprietor of
the saki hook, was applied to by the Earl of Moira, sad at
his reqsealtinamenord a negotiation with Mrs. Clarke for
the suppression of the said book about to be published by
her as aforesaid. And this Deponent further saith, that in
the course of the treat . f.ir the pAblicatioa of the said book,
the said Mary Anne Clarke assigned, as a rea;on to this De-
posal IN asking the most of the said publication, that she
had /CUM to par to Francis Wright, the Plaintiff above-
awned, for the furniture sent in by him to her house in West-
harm-place aforesaid. And when this Deponent afterwards
negotiated with the said Mary Anne Clarke fur the stippres-
sios of the said book, the mid Mary Anne Clarke touted,
that a sum of money must be given her for the payment of
her debts ; and amongst the debts enumerated by her, she,
the said Mary Anne .Clarke, me itioned the debt so due from
her to the said Plaintiff as aforesaid.