The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-05-12 00:00:00

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YBOM TMC INTERESTING TRIAL OF WILL lASI SPA/L-
-UNG, ESQ. AND 5. M. COLGZLITT, ESQ FOR 7RE
111/11IDER Or MR. EDW ARD GDP. YSON, SIUP-BUILDER,
A T LII LRPOOL

Coutinued from our I.lst.

(LITTER I.)
" Loudon, Webb'. fintel, Riot. t4-..t,
' SIR. Covesll•gL,tl•n.
" In my absence you have expressed a wish to
chastise me, and have asserted that you did not
know where to find me. Your assertion is tale :
yeu know where to fled me now. You will receive
this on Wednesday the 21st instant. Your answer
by return of post (and this I insist upon) will reach
me on the 23d, on which day I purpose leaving
Loin:tin On the following Monday I shall be able
to attend you at any place in the neighbourhood of
Liverpool that you may think proper to appoint."
" WILLIAM SPAIAING.
" hit. (kaywit. Sc, t. 19, 180 J."
(I.LTILt II.)
I` SIR, " Octotwr 1; 1803.
" Your reply to my letter of the 19th idt. reached
me this day. The possibility of your being absent
from Liverpool h'nslered my noticing your silence,
• otherwise than by desiring Capt. Colquitt (It. N.),
to contradi& your statement by minting my letter.
' Von deny, though in ungentlemanlike terms, hav-
i ing as'ervid that you did not know where to find me,
1 butt decline denying baying threatened to chastise
me. fearing that your language might have been
misconstrued. My atithorily is Mqpir Brooke, who
affirms having heard you use the expressions you
now deny. In a subsequent part of your letter,
you inform me that I should have heard from you
; at an earlier period. but that yon expelled to have
been anticipated by others. Yr ts add, that these
Q motives of delicacy cease to exist—as you are a fa-
-1
I may man you may claim delay. I have only to
add, that your summons will find me at I'etton near
Ellesmere.

" WM. SPATI.I.ING.
(LETrest lit.)
,r gR " P, trots. net. 9, 1803.
" I this evening received your letter of the 6th
instant; to prevent the delay of an alternate post I
send this to Chester. I will not explain my condusl
to yon nr to Ik. M.Cartney, hut briefly remark that
female honour, virtue, and innocence, have nothing
to do with the point in question ; those qualities of
Miss A. Renshaw remain as I found them. It is
"ittle7NPl Os "y par/ to netui44 you for your insulting
language, and hit. I udl execute, or perish in atlrtilpt-
tug tt. Captain Colquitt will inquire the motives of
your delay, if he admits them to be sufficieet, you
will inform him or me the moment they cease to
exist. "WM. Se•immo.
" To E. Grayson."
(s.tr Tut is.)
" Silt,
" Yonr letter bearing date the Ist inst. only
came to hand this pn•sent day, Thursday the 6th
Oanber, 1803. and I mean, Sir, to be as concise
with you, as the purport of your letter will admit.
Yon sae, Sir, you have desired Captain C.-.lquitt
(R. N.) to contradia my statement, by quoting
yrmr I••trer. I confess I am at a loss to comprehend
your meaning, hut know net, nor care not, what
directions you may have given Captain Colinitt ;
it is quite sufnciert for me to know, that in all
cases he will al like a gentleman, and with regard
to the lin•gnage I made use of in denying that my
reason for not chastising you. was because I did
not know where to find you, i- from your manner of
accusing me, snob as you justly merit ; and with re•
• sp -ft to my not denying that I had expressed a wish
I to chastise you, you must be convinced of my
evereasep, for, if what you assert be true, I CET-
I. tainly must have made use of such language, as
' you charge me with, as I am convinced, Major
I Brooks is utterly incapable of a wilful misrepresent-
, ation ; but the hare mention of that gentleman's
name, brings fresh into my memory a conversation
that passed between us, respeaing your unmanly,
• ungentlern inly, and most abominable conduct to
I my niece ; and had I then fell in company with you
, and known your person, which at this moment
I could not identify, I have no doubt but I should
' have put my words into execution; and was I so in-
• clined, I could mention numbers of most respeet-
, able charatiers who, previously to your atrocious
condua to my niece, had the most favourable opinion
of you, and who afterwards made use of similar
language to what I expressed to the Major—but
that at preset: has nothing to do with my corre-
r spondence with you. In a word, I glory in my ex-
pression, and if I had a thousand lives would for-
• felt them all sooner than retract, in an ungentle-
manly way, the language you accuse me of; and
. till you can make it appear clear, to both Doaor
ilM'Cartney and myself, that you ailed honourably
to my amiable niece, Miss Ann Renshaw, I consider
myself justified in the eyes of Cod and man, for
what I expressed to Major Brooks; arrd with re-
spell to your condescensing to allow me delay, on
account of my being a family man—l want no de-
lay from you, and would scorn to ask, what you
s could possibly construe into a favour ; I told you,
*,) and I again repeat it, I am ready to give my rea-
sons for some delay to your second, and if he thinks
them not of sufficient weight, am ready to accept
your challenge as soon as ever you please, in which
case my much esteemed friend Dr. M'Cartney has
honourably promised to be my second, and he can
have no personal ill-will towards you, being, for any
thing I know to the contrary, almost as much a
stranger to you, as I am myself—and we are both
afteted by no other motive, than standing like ho-
nourable men in defence of female honour, virtue,
and innocence, and which, Sir, I have every reason
to believe you attempted to betray.
s' To W. Sparllng." " EDWARD GRAYSON."

" To E. Grayson."