The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-11-17 00:00:00

TO THIS ICDITOR OT THE BRITISH TIM.

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" Sit—We think it necessary to declare, that we have not in.
meted, or been Instrumental in inverting, any statement whatever
in any public journal, relative to Mr. Henry Fauntkroy. skim the
11th day of September last, except two paragraphs CR kites*, to
which our names have been 'filmiest and published.
" We are, Sir, your obedient servants,
" WM. MARSII.
" J. H. STUN:EV.

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"London, Nov.lli, 1821." " G. E. GRA 11 AM."
Assuredly, Mews. M aut and Co. have not done wisely
to put forth so quibbling a declaration u this, if they con-
sidered—u manifestly they must have done,—that an im-
pression had been produced on the public mind, no matter
bow, that the article in the Times newspaper of the 514th
September, which held tin Mr. FA NT LE /MT to the public
as a character of the very worst cast, and gave, as the
particulars of hies private life, such a picture of profligacy
and crime, as, had it been true, could not fail to consign
him to public execration, while it tended to beget
the sympathy of the public on behalf of the PARTNERS,
who, it would be inferred, were the dupes of his guilt, and
the victims of his vices—we say, if any remarks of ours
had, in their opinion, tended to convey an impression that
this article had been fabricated in Berners-street, surely,
if having kept their lips sealed so long, they feel, at
length, compelled to break silence, they should have done
it to better purpose, and with a very different sort of de-
nial than is contained in this short, silly, ainh4ruous dis-
avowal, which goes to confirm the suspicion instead of its
contributing to remove it. Why was not this documentary
disavowal sent for insertion to the Times rather than to
us? If they did not receive the articl- in que•tion from
any individual connected with the firm in Berners-street,
the above document, if worth anything, could alone be of
wake to the proprietors of that Journal, as tending to re-
move from them the charge of having had any conference
or communication of any kind with any one of the partners
of Mr. FAUN T I.EIIOT, previous to the appearance of that
article in their Journal : it would also have tended, to a
certain degree, to exculpate than from the charge of liar-
ing received such a sum ,'f money /:,r the insertion of that
article, as should indeninfly them hr rqiising to give up the'
same of the writer if it ; since, as NO one but an individual
deeply interested in circulating the falsehoods against Mr.
FAG NTLEIIOY, contained in that article, would have de-
famed him at so mach expense. The Times was there-
fore the Journal to which this formal attestation of Messrs.
A awl , r AFL y, and GRAHAM, ought to have gone, and to
have found there a prominent and conspicuous place. How
happens it that this course was not adapted ? What amid
possibly stand in the way of this sound and straight-for-
ward policy? Without claiming to be gifted with more
than ordinary penetration, we think it may be easily ac-
counted for. When a consultation between the writer of
this article in the Timrs, in allusion to which the unfor-
tunate Mr. FA!' N714:1101' thus closes his defence—
" 'rims much has liven extorted fnim me boll. fhefirliricanoire whirl*
hare &ex cruelly spetod ',monk Me puhne, that very public from
whom the arbiters Ding fate were to he 114 limit. Perhaps, how-
ever. I ought to thank the I WIN r ido besieged the pivot with hit
slantl.T., that he did so Irbil, coy lu.t wad .pared to refute them,
and time he waited not until the grdre to :Odell he would hurry ow
had closed at (MCC on my answer attd my forgiveness'"—
when a consultation between the writer of the article
we are speaking of and the 7'inics Journalist took place, as
no doubt it did, as to the humiliating condition to which
they were reduce,!, by being constrained to submit in silence
to the exposure which had been made of them with regard
to the article alluded to, the necessity would naturally sug-
gest itself that something must herein forth, in some shape
or other. that would have the effect of at lean weakening, if
possible, the suspicion which the public appeared to enter-
tain, that the " old and experieueed 11A N t It" from whom
the Times declared they had the authority for saying that
" there was not in the whole metropolis one man that he
would trust in preference to Mr. FA TLS Roy fora perfect
knowledge of the banking bUSillt`l9," WM Me senior partner
Aimarif ! to whom alone his superior know/edge in the con-
duct of the banking business could be so accurately known.