Bloody news, bloody news, or, The conspirators detected!!! : vide Mr Whitbread's speech.
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Print shows the Duke of York, in regimentals, and Mrs. Clarke sitting side by side on a settee at the end of an oblong table. She leans towards him saying, "That will be a profitable job you know"; he answers "Yes my Darling, he had better use you well." Three other women sit at the table, with glasses of wine. One (left) says: "Only mind the Countess"; she holds a letter: [No]lekens Fleet Prison. Another answers: "Aye Aye, the Baroness has allways a good thing at hand"; she holds a paper, List of Prom[otions] ... Major Shaw. A grotesque footman, wearing officer's uniform with gorget, is so entranced by his reflection in a pier-glass that glasses fall from the salver he holds. In front of the Duke and Mrs. Clarke are papers: General; Sam Carter; Clavering; O'Mera; Dowler; Frenches Levy. No one sees Whitbread who enters at right, directing a broad beam of light from a dark lantern on the Duke and Mrs. Clarke. He says: "When men do deal in Deeds of darkness--t'is Woman are their Counsel."
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.