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In consequence of this resolution , witnesses were summoned to appear at the bar of the house , and many have heen examined ; officers of the army , members of the House of Commons Mrs . * Clarke and several Indies , and persons who had been concerned in money transactions with Mrs . ' Clarke , or had been her servants and tradesmen .
From them it appeared that Mrs . Clarke had lived in a very sumptuous manner with the Duke of York , to which her allowance fiom him was by no ' means adequate , that she had been engaged in the sale and exchange of commissions in the army , which she was supposed to obtain , and which she affirmed she did obtain from the duke , that considerable sums were advanced to her for these
purposes , and besides , that she procured for money employments in other departments . With these things according to the statement of Mr ? . Clarke , the Duke was perfectly well acquainted , and applications were made to her on the ground of her influence with him
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Of this very excellent person , an obituary was inserted 'in our last number , but it may be acceptable to the friend / , of genuine piety and rational religion , to know some further particulars of her . Her piety was without austerity or ostentation , her 4 < zeal without bigutry , and her candour without indifference . "
None more truly deserved to be styled < w art Israelite indeed without guile ; " as such , her character cannot be . too well known , or her memory too carefully preserved . Miss Price , like her mother before her , held for several years the office of a governess over an endowed school , the
arduous , duties of which siu" discharged with such punctuality and faithfulness , as to command the universal esteem of her pupils ; this situation though le « s lucrative thttii some others which she
xiught have filled , and which her great talents well merited , she chose to retain , because it enabled her with perfect freedom to afford an asylum to a venerable father , who is now in the 8-ad year of his age , and who most deeply
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by persons of distinguished eminence , both in church and state . It appeared that a foot-boy who used to wait on her and the Duke of York , was rewarded by a commision in the army , he was now on the staflf ; and a member of parliament high in the confidence in the Duke , had a son who was made licuterrant colonel by the time he was of age . Such a scene of things in short was laid open , that perfectly justified Mr . Wardie in the enquiry that he hud moved ,
and the pub : ic curiosity is excited to the utmost , to know in what " manner these very extraordinary thing's will terminate . Tvliich time was employed on the character of Mrs . Clarke , who seems to hs a * woman of v-erry great talents , but all the circumstances concur
to £ ive a great degree of credit to her testimony . It is evident thac corruption has prevailed to a very great extent ^ and that the interference of the house is neces ary to prevent similar abuses in future .
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deplores the loss of so va l uable a daugh-r ter . It was stated in our last that she had not been long in connexion with the particular Baptists before she became
di satisfied with some of their leading * doctrines as well as practices ; -and it should be observed tli it she became so , not in consequence of debating" with p < r ons of different sentiments , but by a clo ? c and impartial examination of the
scriptures , in this state of mind she eagerly sought for Christians after her own heart , bur none could be found among ; the religionists of her own neighbourhood , whom she described in a letter to the writer of this memoir , as " po ^ e- sing zeal withou t knowledge , and enthusiasm bordering ; on madness . "
** How different , " said sshe , < : from the beautiful simplicity of V ? ie apostolic age . " At length however she heard of a sttfall congregation of very inquisitive people , at a place called the bng \ ney near Swansea ; she ' paid them a visit in' the year 1796 , and was readily admitted a member . Here she found a people determined to call no man on earth master in religion ,
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Miss Price .
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further Particulars respecting JMTzss Price ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1809, page 107, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1733/page/51/
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