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ally indructed to say is happening every day from the same
rause ; '4 cause which has 110 ciumect ion with ally eon -lite.
tioual malady; but which, throtigh the improvements of run-
dent practice, seldom le/re, any vestige fur kernisigl.t..il
malevolence to misconceive and propagate. 1 think myself
entitled to expect from you full credit for the statement J have
here male. It is true, I may be too sanguine in my ex•
perch-nista, as it frequeody turns out that unwilling people do
nut become proselytes .—But get it, or get it not, I think myself
intitled to it. because you may reweinber, that when you
turned the objection, I could not undertake to account for the
appearance till I had gained that information, which I did not
then possess. But knowing, us I now do, the calve, and criti-
vinced that I run not the smallest risk of contradiction, I will
confidently maintain that there is not a particleof truth in chaig-
ing the family, front whence I ant proud to have sprung, with
hereditary complaint. And mark toe, Sir, " butchers'
• curs are venom-mouthod•," that the representation, oli..re-
soever and by whomsoever made, is, in plain langnage, 1ie....
I would use an epithet to that, could I have found one to in-
crease the meaning and to add odium to the word. In your
letter to me,which I preserve as a curiosity, by which yore true
character in Iho2 may be known at any future period, you tell
me with all the cluracterkic frigidity of Mr. Spading, that
you will ever maintain a high esteem for me and me faintly.
I thank you, Sir, it is pretty, it has custom on its side, it is
sanctioned by very great authority. It was hardly ever known
that the assassin in intention who was convicted on the black
act did not, ken before he made his exit at Tyburn, take a
civil leave of those he had injured! And could yon, base
Sir, a viler assassin, who would have destroyed the peace,
happiness, and prospects of a family, dr, less at parting ? Mr.
Spading's esteem ! gracious heaven, what a matehless present !
What a soothing assurance! What an obliterating bonus
is here offered, iii extenuation of such dereliction of prin-
ciple, anti such turpitude of conduct, as it would nut be
possible, was all you can command turned into gold, and
that gold beaten into the thinnest plate; to conceal from
the eves of the world. Away, away with all your respect.
Take back again, I pray you, your proffered esteem : no such
wick 11 thing ; no such detested gift ; no such impure offering
shall remain under my roof; and if, aimed, as you are, with
apathy, seemingly impenetrable, arid bearing in your breast a
heart buttoned ur with steel, conscience can make 110 513.
preach to mesent a Telllo4lSltallCe and to dsturb your :Iliad;
to the fierier of receiving it hack again add yet another, that of
blotting me and ruing out of your remembrance. It will be
the greatest favour you can confer rap on us. To be connected
with, to be even rzineniberuil by you would contaminate us
beyond any thing else that eau be laid to our charge. Mis-
take me not, however, so far as to imagine that I am indifferent
to esteem ; that I court net raped ; you would wrung me by
such an inference. Yes, l always have done, I always will do
so, and I 110;.e nut iu vaiu. But then a question here arises ;
whose respeU arid whose eneein is it? The value of such an
etivialde poiassion &Tends altogether upon the charatier of
those who pr.,fets to regard its —lt is not the esteem of every
one, it is the esteem oldie honest, it Is the re:pea of the wise
anti tli? tit is alone worthy of desire and pursuit .
that of surthies, men, which is the vilest trash in the world,
while it must diateide tsb in the opinion of others, cannot raise
vs in nor own. Surely, then, you roust base been under a
temporary forgetfeilties, nr you could never in your moments
of coot cousiimmate vanity have imagined that the resped of
such acne as yourself; a main whom every worthy person mos:
henceforth view .rich contempt, and consign to infamy, would
not be spurned away with abhorrence by an limited parent ;
rO.lllll/11001 I can positively aver from my own short experience
to be without foling and without honour. What thick you
of the pictures drawn ? Is it tot a striking likeness ufan original,
which, skulk where you wilt, whether here or beyond seas, will
aliva's be in your possecdon I The merit of the pimire is, that
it is truly drawn If the colours are not bright, blame not, I
beseech you, the artist ; when the cause is owing to the Mir:k-
m:I., the totems, blackness of him whom it represeuti.
" I wouhl juit tell you before we part, that the anonymous
letter is truly every day less and les: a mystery; that its fabf,
cation seems of home purl materials, of maternal texture or
cumilvance ; that the post.office date appears to impeach in a
hMli degree your veracity as to the time of your acquaintance
with its contents ; and oesuppocitich that lam right iii my coo-
yecture, that I was net too hasty or too harsh, nay you yourself 31.
lowed the charge, iu telling you that your last visit in Hold-street
was that of a cued, abanctuned; determined, villain. Sa:nething
may yet turn up to give one an ..pportunity of again telling you
my amid, which, rest assured, I never shall be afraid of doing.
" SAMUEL RENSkIAW.

" Liverpool, Rohl-street, Dec. 11, 1802."
• The puiai.h. r it authorised to say, that Mr. Renshaw has
made oath behove a Magistrate that this representation is ut•
tray void of truth—nothing like it having occurred at the in-
terview alluded to, between him and Mr. Bolden. Mr. Spar-
ling's name being only mentioned, so far as it related to tie
obtaining of his addrtss, when Mr. R. requested that as they
thought diffeeently upon this subject, the conversation upon
it might wholly drop, which was actu.slly the PIM.
[To be continued.]