The Sun.
London, England, 1803-08-22 00:00:00

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THE runic.

' Oil ihutsday last I expressed my r;Pinfon•ihat
Isihco.uulit,lo. -on ot:
,i hsauvbei-occasion :oiori apergasotiirai'l.ttootripoyube
sel;r!te as'
.Pitittl.
art
which occurred on. the 6th instant at my Offie, and.
in consequence of Which I was obliged, most re-
ludantly, to obtrude thyself unonpuye notice. 1
did• not consider, however, 'when I =formed. that
opinion, the character of the man.with whom it is.
my chance, I will not, under all the circumstances,
Call it my; inisferraine, upon thiiacisiOn to coNitfid-.•
.:. I (lid not reckon 7,tynnitiruntolusliind effrernierot is I
'his. primary statement, -or his.:perctAlkliqt.KPieetief,
lion, of what he himself knows to be the most atro.„
cious falsehoods. To the detail which J fortMity
gave of this most curious, and,' in thisielfurtly,
Surely some-what'extraordinary.trantation, I. have
nothing to add, tutd have in. it, certainly nothing To
alter. It was the plain unsophisticated truth,
which has geneitiflit produced, from the communica.
lions whiCh I have receiveti'dpolOhe‘sosjett, both
verbally and by letter,. Lam satisfied, ,must perfetl
conviction in the minds of:all classes of the corn_
anntrity—it has produced to me personally testimo
cies- of approbation from charaftersvmost 'highly
estimable, which, on a better occasion, would make
any man proud. . .
Mr. Cosa FTT, in an Address to the Public, in his
,IfTeekb, Register 'of yesterday, endeavours, by a se.,
I • -
Ties of the grossest falsehoods, which certainly ever
;sullied the Columns even of that Focus of accomu.
;wed' Infamy, to. invalidate the Statement I made.
Ter the the ptincipal of these falsehoods I shall only re::
ply by the subjoined testimonies, which .are merely
an anticipation of those that will be more solemn.
ly hereafter given—They are decisive I presume
With respect to the falsehood's stated by Mr. Cos.
,n rrr, of the number 'of persons. in the room when
he entered, and his pretended declaration, " that
the Gentlemen there might hear what he had to
say."—The same testimony applies to, the circum.
stakes which appeared 'Upon the same Gentlemen
reentering the room, corroborated-by' that of Mr.
IVIWILLANI wha came in , with thent These are
not the.whole. of the testimonies that can be pro-
duced iipon the occasion applyingTO the same tarts,
but they are, I think, enough for the present.
. All the 'circumstances which oecurred'whiiet I
was alone in the room with Mr. CO*.arTrand,liik:
amiable ilmerica(eAFriencl,• I have alseady. detailed,
To his lie of` my roarias; to Mr: I)ictiTiis, his Ai:.
;
sociate in his cowardly (attempt, I should hat krNv '
how to make a seriiitts.reply, were it not necessary
to allude, in rebutting it, to aperson,,the slightest.
allusion to whom naturally awakens my tenderest
feelings. My Wife was in the adjoining room,
who,- as well as the Genlemen in the room above,
inus.t -have.heard any such noise as, he asserts to
have been made, land it been uttered, and it is well
known•to many persons thar she remained totally
ignorant of * The -Whale traniaeiian, till she saw my
itaternent..of. it 'in the TRUE BRlropr, which was

not till nine days after it had taken place, viz.
MOnday the 15th inst.
With respe6 to Mr. COBB ETT'S statement of an
intended connection betweeit him and me,,-whithAipis
once mentioned to me, Lshall refer for an explanation,
if itshould at -any time be riecessark, to a Gentleman
Who field a h'gh Diplomatic Office in Aineried,'.and
who., if :110W, an Under Secretary of State in this
Country, lit Is abhorrent to. my nature to 4etray..
private and confidential conversation.
... -Mr. Coils E TT'S further statement of whatpasSed.
1, between the Gentleman who called from Mr. DIC

Kt NS and myself on the Wed.neiday, I 'positively
osicrt to be in every.paiticular false, except the of.
fur of a challenlefram Mr. DiCKINS, and if Mr.
CHAPMAN he the Gentleman that Mr. C. 'asseits
him, to. be, I atm. confident he 'never authorised the
statement which Mr. C. has'made.

Mr...C. takes credit to hintselffor having brought
this affair, thrOuglt the medium of the Press, before
the Public. I leave him to the , full enjoyment of
any sa.tisfileticolLhAluaylderive from-siich:a 'citeutri:
:stance. Because Ila.vc the Public Precsii)l,l
extent at Ink command, I do not feel that to he a,
reason why 'I should appeal to the -Plabli'C'tipon
'occurrence that may be personal to myse.lt.—Upon
that particularly .which is thc. ,subjee't of this and
my former Addresses of a recent date, I should
have studiously al?stainecl, for very .obvious reasons,
frOm any such Appeal, had I,n9t found it necessary,
simply to contradin the most I;are6Ced falsehoods.
It is tint the btisiness of the Public Press to super.
spde the operations of the Law, and where an out.
rhge occurs,of a nature so extraordinary and atm-
cioUs as tit which has been attempted upon me, the
Law alone can and ought to avenge it.
JOHN' HERIOT.
Strand, „August .21., i 403.

• traving read, Mr,,.,CC18 a t<T•r's StatCrnent in his
• register' of yesterday, respeding the assault
can
'Mr. HER tor on Saturday the 6th, and having been
.present during part of the transaction, I think it
'right to contradki the assertions of Mr., Coo SETT,
•by narrating the circumstanthes which passed in my
'presence. He state-s, that when he came into the
:room there were three persons hitting at a leak, arid
that
.Mr. IIEaIOT was standing in the room--The
fa'a is, ihere wire but two persons present besides
Fluittor; viz. Mr.iPteodY and Myself, Who
were sitting at the desk. •s .
lienext stat4lllat'lle
_saidri Mr. tht.it lar,
have something to say to you, which perhaps it ,
would be better to communicate in private, but if
You elmse that these Qentlemen should hear me, I
have no objeClion."
:He•afterwards adds, sic I was very paiticularein
stating, that if he' had no objection tu .thesir routiti4.:
ingin the room, I had n.;ne.",
do InOsi And cbstlalik.aver' that
the only words uttered by Mr. CO lilrE TT hi:fool'
left the room were these : " Sir, your name, .I
believe, is Haßior, my name is Coup Ell', I "h
to speak to you aim.," Mr. HE)t iwr ;Inn ohk.ed
Mr. PROD V* and me to walk up stairs for a few
minutes, 'which we did. Mr, Cone wt.? next as.
serts that. he did not take up the tong's till Mr.-
H a tOT had. by' his- roaring brought hic Troop into
the room. White I was atmve stairs I heard the
sound of
,a scuffle, but not of a votce.--Mr.. P o_
ST, Mr. MeWitt.LAN, immtdi4telY •

went doivn, .and upon.open'ing tbp doot saw Mi.
7 E'Tt. I OT a mt. mr: CO B B RTT;Sfrugglie& for tile tongs,
Mt, (.791113E1:T. 44a holitiof ijii:lll, at etch e' and
Mr. Hiii beta diem in the tniddle•aiith his left
Thit is an e)0 0k statepept of p;itt of die
?Tit',is.t.iflit,il at •WilS, piesent, shall be at
readyaN tiiirfes to verify. it in the'ninst solemn malt
tic% -" • ' •
Airg, 2 131.

--"'

R. C. CLARKE.

The eircunil,taiic6sitiettl anove.by Mr. CLARKE.
am pteciedy what I s-aw anti heard, anti which
care ;1190 verify by my testinmy.
ta .W 4, CHARLES PROBY.
Sun-Office, Aug. 21, 18o3;

eontradiaion to an asseitiotLin Mt. Cos.
B Statement, that he did not seize the tongs
tin after several persons entered the room, I posi-
tively assert, that I was the third person who en-
tered the room-, instantly klowing Mr. ClilticS
anti tit, PROur, and that at that tittle Mr. CoB.
Hirt had hold of each etki of the tongs, Mr.
HE awls holding them by the middte.
2lit AuguJt, 1803. B. IVI'AILLA