HC Deb 15 March 1809 vol 13 c540
Mr. Whitbread

rose to correct a misstatement made as he understood, in some of the public prints, of a passage in his speech on a former night, respecting the evidence before the house, in the case of the Duke of York, and in which he was represented to have said that a letter was addressed to Mrs. Clarke by the Archbishop of Tuam, which representation, he understood, had considerably hurt the feelings of the rev. prelate's friends; he begged, however, to relieve them from any anxiety on that account, so far as he was concerned, by declaring that he certainly had never made use of any such expression. What he had said was only that in which he was borne out by the evidence; namely, that a letter written by the archbishop of Tuam, respecting Dr. O'Meara, was found in the possession of Mrs. Clarke, but it was addressed to Dr. O'Meara himself. He did not mean to make any complaint against the printer for this inaccuracy, which might have easily occurred without the slightest intention: he was only surprized at the accuracy with which the Reports of the proceedings of the house were generally given.

Lord Folkestone

then said, that he should defer the order of the day for calling over the house till near the time of its adjourning.—General Gascoyne said, if the house should sit till three or four in the morning without coming to any decision, he should move to discharge the order for calling over the house.