The Sun.
London, England, 1812-10-05 00:00:00

Lilt. R. NEWCOMB TO THE

[FROM TIIZ LINCOLN; RUTLAND., AND STAI4FO2t3
isIERbURY.)
it) conseitnenCe of h .paragraph appeared
hi The San London xewspaper of yesterday, I am
compelled (extrerxiely against any inclination, and
v..holly in Opposition td previous inteatidu) to ad-
vert, in this paper (which is calculated for better
uses) to a rencOntre which happened ad TuOday
last, near London. The .paragraph. iu.question it
as follows ;

" DUEL.--In einiSetitience of a paragraph which
appeared in Nr.l.vcont's Boston Gazette, Mr:
Cietavius Gilchrist, of Stamford, accompanied
by Mr. Dubois., and Mr: Richard Newcomb by
Mr. Aytnn, met yesterday at font' in the afternoCni
on Sydeuham Comn:ron. Shots were exchanged
without effect, when Mi. Newcomb made a satii-:
'factory concession ; and a mutual apology, as it
respected former itritation between
.the partied
having been agreed to, the affair was amicably ter-
minated." -

I have yet to learn, to a certainty, at whose in=
LiTtigition the above communication has beenmade
to the pUbliC 7 b t being by'it dragged-into no-
tice,. I trust the liberal part of the coMmut ity will
iXOrierate 1 e frdni censure in being for a moment •
the her() of My owi, tale---which in my defenee I
any obliged to be, h 9 my friend Mr: Ayton is. at
pvcseut at a considerable distance; To provethe,
insidious cliaractea of the paragraph in
.7.71 e sun,i
have only to make the IW/owing 'siinple State-,
ment, which I will engage shall hereafter bE
.fied upon' time testimony of at least one honourae,
ble man, -and other wise proved beyond the
_possi-
bility of doubt.-
On the 26th of September, Is being then in
London,, was callEd upon by a Gentleman married ..-
1)11:1.1.o.i3, who, on the part of • Mr. o,cuivius Gil
Christ, demanded that I should publicly retract -
and apologise for some observations which I had
made in The Boston Gazette of the 22di affecting
the .Character of Mr. Gilchrist. Under a firm
conviction of the justice of what I had written, I
refused to retract or apologise, or do any thin
that shonld.have the appearance of retracting or
apologising; anti was in consequence immediately
challenged to give Mr. Gilchrist the satisfaction
which was to. be had by a meeting of the sort Ale-.
Scribed in the paragraph. The meeting wits de-c—
-layed (on no pretexts for its:postponetnent. on mi
part) until Tuesday afternoon, when it took-
on Sydenham Common. I went w give Mr. Gril
christ the only suti4factitin which (as I had‘dedar-
ed over and over again, during a mOst. I appre-
hend,' unprece:ientetlly long .parley). I could or
would;give. After an exchange of shots, autt
while "preserved my ground, Mr. Gilchrist pro-
posed to give we tue satisfaction of producing do-
cuments to provethat I was Mistaken in supposing
him to 'be the writer of some of the offensive'arti-
cies which had't!ppeared is The Stamford .11Tett.t,'
and Which had occasioned my reflections On his
character. .1 acceded (as it was suggested' to me
it would be ungentlemanly not to do) to the pro,-
position of having this proof laid befOre me ; and
agreed that, if that proof answered the descripti-
on given of it by Mr. Gilchrist, and did convince
me of a mistake on my part, I would then say
that I was mistaken ; but apology I would make
none, until Mr. Gilchrist had first apologised td.
me for having written that which occasioned me
to think lie had also written other offensive ar-
ticles.

appctl. to fhe 'public, vrhether thiS be pro.;
:
decribed by the epithet " concession,"
der_such circumstances;-=and if not, what must
have been the Motive of the statement in the Lon-
don paper For myself, I ant not One of those
who think that honour is to be obtained'by
with any man, however exalted hiS station ;, and,
certainly in the present case,. the bubble fame,"
or rather notoriety, was w'nat should—as indeed
I have studiously avoided'itfor, as my former
, connection with the. London press necessarily led
.meinto an ,extensive acquaintance AVith the 00-
ductors of newspapers,. the use I on this occasion
made of tivat acquaintance was, to beg that the
falling out of two tradeiruen of Stamford might
not be chronicled under the prostituted head of
" DuF.Ls ;'•—and, as far as my acquaintance led, I
succeeded in this ; but The Sun was a paper td
whose Editor I had no claim to introduce myself
without seeming to court what it might be thougirt
I pre' :ruled only to shy, znd that paper therefore
remained open- for the fake taste and insidious.
statement °fate person who procured. the inser-
tion of the paragraph I 'have copied above. The
documents were-to be produced at Stamford; and
Are yet to be produced ; and therefore, at presetA
the affair (I apprehend) is .not " terminated ;"
and it is understood that • I -am at liberty to pub.•
fish, in the, next Boston
.Gazette, an account of
the reasons of 01)111I011 aitd 9bservationS.
I no-v.- beg pardon of every sensible friend for
this new character which fOr a time I have ap-
peared in, and. trust that the iteeming, exigencies
of the case to a mind not vet entitled to claim a
maturity of judgment, ill obviate the sentence
they might be inclined in their wisdom to pass.
RicuALD NEWCONIB ,
Stamford, Thursday; O.A. 1.