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XVIIIth.) ^j.|_At»EE f.m MAMrAim Tgi sOtereicktt Of the peopi.e. *y'' -l ' ■ ‘ [No. »*87.]
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HISTORY OF THE~ :
BAPTISTS
IN VIRGINIA.
THOSE friend* of 'the subscriber, who Hold
subscrip kxi paper* for the above work,
at« hereby informed) that the printing is consL
derabiy advanced, stnjJ wi'l probably be finished
by theiaat of Augost.. -He requests, therefore,
that list* of the subscribers names may be sent
on, by some safe private conveyance, directed to
him In Richmond, to the care of Mr. Robert
M'Kim. As the binding will keep back the
books, a short tirfte, iheRrat of Septambci will
b* soon enough VrecHye the Ikiyrthi" the
meantime,there W\b*w epportuivHwto cir
culate more e*teuaiwR those papers^mat may
have hem neglected. YAJthaogh it is nls inten.
tion to send on, agrcAUy to the proposals, one
copy extraordinary for Vrery 10 subscribers, and
in the same propwfioo, wvr a large Wumber, yet
he wishes bis fnejttls nOtlo understand that he
view* tb»* as an adcqujM. compensation for
their trouble. He believeswhem to have been
actuated from motives of a very different nature.
He wish** to be informed by-the holders of the
sulixnption papers, to what public places they
would wnh the books to be sent. For those of
the adjacent counties, he cao send them to their
court houses, on cour days. For those at a gtea
ter distance to some large town to the care of a
friend. Associations wtll answer as channels,
of conveyance, where they shad be hu den suffici
ently early.
A Urge supply will be kept in Richmond.
RO B. SEMPLE.
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osaw rri.
onday ioyAugust
atiic
-vicssrs. KCOCfn Randolph U
Randolph,
npAKE notice that we shall by of
a cnmumsiou by us lor that purpose
•obtained, proceed at Chesterfield Court
Houfe in the state ef Virginia, on the 8tn
of October next, to take the dcpo&inSIta of
sundry witnei>sos to be read it/ert^BcAin
the suit tkptnding in the ccArt ofjfleYj.
‘States for the 5'll circuit Tn«l JMpg*ia
district, wherein you are plY. ao^Jbhn
Ratte Adru’r. of John KandolpY dec^ohn
Archer executor of John ArOlwr'decM.
U'-ugald Ferguson, 'James Rooertsonj Ro_
b*.it Robinson, Charles Roche and John
Archer juo. are deiendants.
Dougald Ferguson,
James Robertson,
Robert Robinson,
Charles Roche,
John Archer.
yrstp.
NEW BOOl-LS.
- -T T AS just received a fresh supply of
a ■ Law, Medical, Miscellanious &
School hooks, which he w ill .sell on li
b* rid terms; a part of which are as
follows, viz. Coopers Equity Plead*
ing ; Wyatt’s Practical Register ; Tol
len’s Executors ; Peake and M’Nal*
ly’s Evidence Judge } Cooper’s Opini
on ; Graydon’s Forms of/Cqjfv^um*
piny and of Practice, ai(ew2’o^V—
Kell’s Anatomy, do. Suriery
tion, ahtidged bv Smlh; *mr\*fnM
Zoonomia ; Pleasures of xjppo ;j|far
uucon; Ossican BeautiesW"Snake
speare ; Confessions of James Conteau.
1 he Lake of Kiliarny, 2 Vols. price
2 dolls, by the celebrated Miss Por.
Ter; Life of the noted Burroughs;
Prince de Ligne | Gregory’s Letters ;
Boyer’s French Dictionary ; Murry’s
finnunar; Harrison, do. Tooke,s
Pantheon; Blossoms of Morslity ;
Looking Glass*, for the mind ; Guth
rus Geography ; Morses do. Virginia
k Nightingale; Sky Lark, &c. &c. &c.
July 10th, 18)0.
GENUINE
* Patent Medicines
For Sale at the Argus Office*
f
from the n. y. Columbian.
Ma. SAMPSON’S REPLY,
CONCLUDED.
Next came the reverend Mr Poster.
To reverend men great reverence be
given. He has a claim against Paine’s,
estate for the tuition of the Httle Bon-.;
nevilles. It is dispute, I believe in
law. He was called
Historian on his own. _ ^ .
having written that Mr Paine seduced I
her from her husband.. What does I
he say f He a*ys that Mrs Bonneville '
might pnssibfy Have said as much aft’
that but for Paine she. would not have
come hereand that Paine was un
der special obligations to provide for
!her children. lathis Mr Poster has
proved the defended: more guilty than'
he was before; because these words,
if true, could never warrant him or
the historian, unless they both were
fools, to say that M[r Paine was iVfrs
Bonneville’s paramour. The- thing
was plain enough, when malice did
not warp it. Her husband had been
kind tq Paine in Paris. He promised
gratitude and mutual succor, if ever
terror or v disastrous, fortune should
banish the family of Mr Bonneville
from their native land. One child be
had adopted, he was his godson : the
others h« promised to protect. Who
but a fiend Would have inferred from
this, who but a slanderer have publish
ed in a history, that this old man se
duced that lady from her husband’s
ucn [ if sucn njstonana are tnus al
lowed to/write down character, it were
better to have that Lion’s mouth which
once belonged to the inquisitorial go
vernment of Venice, where every vile I
informer or denouncer might throw in I
wh,tt he pleased, and ruin whom he
chose.
Doctor Manley said, she wished
Paine dead, and Mr Chectham had
that news from him i hut whether it
was from feeling and compassion of
hi? sufferings or other motives, he could
not tell. These qualification,, being in
the work, we are contented to give up
that count, and I shall make but this
remark, that if there was not malice,
it was worse than useless to introduce
that fact into the history. And let me
just observe that Mr Manly hud also
a dispute touching his bill which was
objected to as being unreasonable and
reduced.
And now for Peter Underhill. A
few days since the defendant postpon
ed his trial, by swearing to the court
that Peter Underhill was a material
witness, without the benefit of whose
testimony he could not, as advised by
counsel, and as he ve; ily believed pro
ceed to trial. What does this stud
Peter swear to-day ? That he (this
Peter Underhill) one day told Mrs
Bonneville, that her child resembled
Paine, and Mrs Bonneville said it was
Maine’s child. It Mr Uuderhill said
this in any other way than innocent
mirth, he proves hiinselt unmannerly ■
and insolent, for having so insulted a-\
|ny lady. .11 Mrs tionncvil.e answered .
as he says, it must have been out of!
good nature, and that gaiety the char- J
acieristic of her country women, that/
plays around them like a lambent light!
even in their sorrows, which none hut
a sour and ignorant boor will construe
into guilt- Did Mr Underhill, or the
histotian who promulgated his slan
der for the love of God, believe that a
»y woman,, would and apropos of no
thing, without inducement or motive
whatsoever, seriously hold up hec in
fant .and say to him, I am Paine's
whort, and this my infant is his bas
tard. To the character of this materi
al witness we call two witnesses. The
first was Mr Pelton, who knew some*
thing particular of him that was wrong
but scrupled to declare his general
character i at the same time told you
that Mrs Bonneville was a modest
woman, and an acquaintance of his
own wife, and that her children were
all alike the objects of Pame's care.
Judge Su nmetvillc of Westchester
county, supplied what was wanting in
the testimony of Mr Pelton ; for he
said that in one single transaction he
could say good of him, but his gener
al character was bad. But as to Mrs
Bonneville, judge Sommtrville said,
(hat he often saw her, and never heard
the slightest word to her disadvantage ,
and that Paine always spoke of her
with respect.
etuis the black conspiracy apd
Conjuration for the lev© of God. And
now th© sickened soul revives,' and a
bright scene appears-^A groupe of
• matrons, led by those bands which
holy wedlock had joined to theus for
ever-—Heads of fa milies; beloved, dis
tinguished, full of respect and honor ;
m form so bright, and innocence so
lively • so pure in unsuspected truth,
so proud iu conscious worth and dig
nity ; who never till that hour had,
crossed the threshold of a court of jus-1
tice, or been wfiei'e discord reigns,]
whose lips -had never uttered other'
oaths tluu those whicMround them
by the willing ties of coQstagcy and
love; which when the teraph voice of
pity called them down first glided from
their sphere upon the -wings of hea
vea bora charity, and, having done
their mission, disappeared* But, Oh !
it was a holy sacrament When wife Sc
husband twined their oaths together
with such solemnity, such beaming
truth* as when they made before the
altar bftheir God, that so full at
once of^-oy and awe that linked their
future destiny together and made them
ever one. They would have told you
of the lady’s sorrows am^ her resig
nation cf her spotless cdtofiuct, of her
merit .* how they entrusted to her care
and tutulage,tbfc jewels of their souls
the children of their hefrt* ; with
what reproachless truth, anxious
du:y she answered to th© &u«; had
not the rules of evidence ai»4 ..techni
cal formalities of law cut sh^rc the|r
storv. Her ereneral ch.i r.'irfitr ur-is oil i
they were allowed to testily* ' Their
words were few, but like so many mes
sages of grace or high commands from
Heaven. *
Then as the day dispels the shades
of night, the ugly goblin* 0e<I. Then
the menaced and trembling victim, de
livered from their spells, camb forth
arrayed in the white robe of innocence.
[Then Lucifer was forced to bow in
| homage to the truth. Then all his con
jurations vanished like frightful dreams*
! leaving no vestige to the waking sen
[ ses, bat the vague horror that lingers
dike sulphurious odera alter extinguish -)
i ed dames; and the same tongues that
within one short hour had spoken such
; words as never honest men before (and
[honest men I still must think they are)
[had launched against the honor of a
[woman, then they too changed their
! tune ; aud he who last addressed you J
with palaiud tongue and eloquence
subdued, too good to persevere in spite
of Heaven, cried out peccavi. True
we have sinned said he, true we have
written lies and calumnies, but we are
innocent { lor what we wrote we are
set on to write. We were historians
and C^ver told it to us, it was in Car
|ver’s^per his scurrilous letter to his
.friend and inmate, and touching the
. companion ot his wife, how could we
, doubt that it was pure and faithful ? and
Carver was both Atheist and Deist;
what motive could we then suppose in
I him, but that which prompts us to the
:love of Christ* whn^ militant
are ! » »
And further say his counsel, the la
dy should have brought a civil action .•
but if we brought such an action and
sought damages, then they would have
|cned, see how this lady prefers h-r
i private interest to public justice, how
1 “he makes merchandize of reputation.
; 1 hey say we should have prosecu
ted Carver, and Mr Cheetham would
have been our witness to prove him
guilty. I will not answer to such
mockery. We scorn the testimony of
approvers and parties in the Suit, much
more of principals. However had
Carver may be, he is better still than
Cheetham. He was an atheist, he is
a deist, but he tells you boldly what he
is i and in that there is more honesty,
than if he did profess himself a chris.
tian and was not one. A deist may
be honest, many are so, and between
this publican and pharisee, he will go
Ijustllied rather than the othijr.
They say, that less will justify on an
indictment than a civil action, which
* The witnesses to Mrs. Honeville’s
character, were Mrs. Kdgar, Mrs. Lud
low, Mrs. Turnbull, and Mrs. Thotnp.
son, Mr Emmett, Mr Purdy,Mr I)o\
er, Mr Fulton, col. Few/Mr Jarris,
Mr Hitt, and Mr Rider; all of whom
seemed to vie with each other in the
cordiality of their applause.
1 /Mr David R. Ogden.
Tdetiv; the reason is written in the
law, which says that no man shall dis
turb the peace by ottering reproach
ful, malicious and provoking savings,
however true. And it is plaiu and
simple. If any have committed crimes,
** duty of others to bring them
to justice and to trial; but no man has
the right, not even an historian, to u
surp, as £ have said, at once the pow
•tfs of legislator, accuser, ^irotecutor,
judge ahd executioner, And mow down
all before him. But in a civil notion
there may be mischief done, and yet
no right to damages, as in die case of
common libellers, who hiai** wolves*
heads, and being in hostility with all
mankind have no claim for that right
of private reputation which they do
no* respect. English judges have goue
much farther, and have said, the grea
ter the truth, the greater still the libel
ler. £ do notjustify that saying, alt hough
it was the saying of the great lord
Mansfield* It was wrong and I have
always struggled against it, even at my
peril, and to my loss.
I have cited English cases, where it
was held that good intention would
not justify, because no man Is allowed
ta justify himself. And if that was
here to be the justification, the coun
cil should have maintained, not that
the client was a wise and great histo
rian, but a maniac without a lucid in
favt’Al m L‘._ L!-.L nrv.
-' WIIUI, t lie
guilty act alone is evidence of malice,
and-the face of being mi historian no
more rebuts it, than if a man should
murder, and then say I was told to
murder ; I saw a letter which made
me think the man I murdered guilty ;
I murdered him but not from any mal
ice ; I am an assassin, and I live b>
killing; I kill none bu: thoseT am told
are guilty; I do it then for God ’s iake'jl
I have no malice. I have shown A
nuncan cases that bear on the same
point ;• but above' all the statute of this
state which says, tha-. in such prose
cutions as the present^the truth itswl;
Shall never justify, uftiess it 1>c moreb
ver made satisfactorily to appear ir.
evidence, that the publication Wat
from good and justifiable motives.—
The truth is now abandoned, the false
hood owned. But it is said, tn= Eng
dish cases are rio'.law, 8c that the statute
here does not apply. 1 never likt d chr
| ERgliajhlawollib'danoreveruudersto.d
it. - It seems to me to have its roots
in the Star Chamber, or iw l;i>ve shot
in storms and convulsions when the
powerful part still shaped-and stretch
ed it to its purpose. I have often de
fended prosecuted printers against its
oppressions, but never till this day pro
secuted any. With utmost deference
I say it now, I do not like the law
laid down this day : J\ud if the right
of taking ajj| exception extended to a
criminal case, and why it does not 1
know not, I would humbly and respect
fully do that. The mighty judge that
I have mentioned. Lord Mansfield,
erred on the same subject; and the
finding of juries against his charge,
who by the constitution in such cases
are judges of the law and of the fact.
were sanctioned afterwards m r.ngland
by parliament and people, and brought
about a statutory law, in confirmation
of their right. If any law be stated
now to you, to which your understand
ings or your consciences cannot assent
I would then refer you to that para
mount sanction which is above all hu
man law. The wives of your own bo
soms are not more pure than this in
jured lady is proved ; nay more, ad.
initted now to be. If they were stig
matized by an historian, what would
you say of him, that he was innocent or
guilty.
You have heard the witnesses for
Mrs lionneville, and you may judge
if this historian had inquirer! of them
instead of grunbing fiitn from every
dunghill, how bright a name she wouki
have deserved, who has been, never,
iheless, doomed by this terrible man to
misery.
If he had begged access to any o
those hi|»h distinguished persons tin
| Jer whose roof she lived, whose cbtl
dren she had taught; of Mr, Emmet
who oppresses no one, but protects fhi
innocent ; or of Mr. Fulton, who
knew her and her husband in rheii
“tru Country ; if he had a-ked of Mi.
,aryis — —»that man of keen 9apacit>,
>»f obs- rvation with knowledge oi mao
kind, and of all the parties—if he hari
both satisfied with Mr. Hilt's word,
ft* U
■ ' 11 1
rat her than that of44 pious nurses, and
kind attending doctors,” and reverend
teachers, who had disputes and law
suits, he would have known what ail
but his mutinous genius now concedes,
I have no cause of privato malice a
gainsf Him, but quite the contrary;
When hi had any spark of character,
be praised me mote than ever I could
merit, apd I could not but thank him.
When he had no hing pood to give but
his abuse, without offence or change
in me, he gave me that with equal
liberality, and I thanked him* If I
could ask a favor of him now, it would
be to abuse me more and more, but
riever let his malice go the length of
praising me*: for although m friends
who know me well might not despise
me, yet in this community whefc I am
little known, Ik still almost a stranger,
I may not have formed sufficient cha
racter to stand against his praise,' nor
be entitled to so much indulgence tha*
it should be believed that ! loulu-have
his praise and yet be honest.' *
I have not chosen to be his historic
an, nor to inquire into his private and
domestic virtues ; that it is beneath
me. . 1 have not used those common
topics of abuse, that he was bred an
ignorant mechanic; because, if he had
raised himself by talents from that
st. tion, it would be to his honor, and
. »v« vw w vAvuijg uiu tunrseness
of his style and manners, than to ag
gravate them. I call the Judge of All
to witness tor the honest feelings with
which I have arraigned him: And
having labored faithfully, in a good
and sacr.-d cause, to do my duty, £
protest against injustice from whate.
yer quarter ; J. register that protest
in the archives of Heaven, and leave
the rest to yon.
New.Yokk, July 16.
Extract of a letter from the Havanna, of
Jane 33, to the Spanish Consul in Bos.
ton.
1 1 lately wrote you, and inclosed a co.
py of the near or ders reducing the duties
<>n imports and exports, and enforcing the
former orders requiring Consular Certifi.
~-a.es us requisite to admit the vessel and
different shipments. I congratulate you
s.ucerely on the favourable effects of the
two orders, so fat us regards the interest
of our countrymen—and hope that the Be
g acy wi.l not fiad it necessary Again to
shackle the trade of this growing St vaiaa.
ble i-kand, whicti, with a liberal policy,
wou d be worth more to the crown of
Spain than the Province ot Mexico.”
| It was on Thursday reported at Boston,
that a British schooner of 12 guns, etui,
sine N E. of Cape Cod, for a French
lugger, as the officers said, had detained
an inward bound ship on Tuesday—and an
outward bound ship a few days before. v
Philadelphia, July IT.
Yesterday arrived the brig Superior
capt. Holt, from Madeira via Santa Cruz
and Port Oratava, Teneriffe-Capt. H.
saited from Port Orat&va on the 2d of June,
ana informs that a few days before, two
Spanish ships of the line, under convoy of
a British seventy four, arriveJ at Sant*
Cruz from Cadiz, and after landing 4000
French prisoners and a quantity of specie,
sailed for Havanna. So exasperated are
the Spanish at Ttnerlffe, owing to a pre.
vailing idea among the lower clasi (hat
the island will be over run by the French
that they commit all Freuchmen to clos*
confinement.
From London Papers.
There n In nil parts of England what are
called flying hankers. The persona wha at.
rend constantly on market day mornings at
«nns in ihe great towns, not to rece*v<» mo.
ney or bank notes, hut so ely to exch mge
paper forpaper^sto discount the I# ils of in
dividuals by giving m exchange ihc notes of
, country bankers, with whom 'heyarecoa
nected. The terms ot this connection >re
tnesea»A, a discounter, agrees wuh a
country banker, to “ keen o»t” a certain
1'iantity of hi* notes, May 10_,0k0/. Toe in
terest of the lum^ AO©/, a, yerr, is divided
between them, so that the discounter takes
250/. a year, tnvdffcs his legal interest upon
the hills he discounts. Tins Is the perqut.
iite for flying banking, and 11 keeping out »”
winch latter opeiaiion is thus Contrived/
d. the country banker, in.ikes a private
nark upon nil the notes he gives to A to
if put in circulation by bn discounts, mid
»n« never any ol those notes come into B’s
ank, ne sends them to A who ia lionnd to
ve him bank of Englaud notes for ilium,
The frequent minorities in which the
ninis'era have lately been, w>is thus hap»
>iiy commented on by an oppositii n l.aw
.ord U reminds me strongly £"bscrv»
1 lus Lordship] of shooting at wild.fowl
i ft large lake, tor though yru are 'or;u
.-te enough to knock them down, it ««
xtrcoueiy diffi :t»U X• get sh^m out,”