The Sun.
London, England, 1804-05-03 00:00:00

THE LIFE OF GENERAL WASHINGTON,
MP üblished by his Family, from his own Papers.
R. PHILLIPS. bast the honour to inform the
Public, that he has just received, from the Hon.
ticSHROD WASHINGTON (Nephew, and Heir of the
late (leLeral Washington) the Manuscript of the First or Pre-
liminary Volume of the Life of that Illustrious Charaeler,
lawn up from his own Papers, and edited by Mr. Marshall,
e Ciii:f I ustice of the United States.
In order to secure the Copy-right of this important Work
beln Great Britain and America, it has been agreed that it shall
published in London and in Philadelphia, on 't ULSDAY
te iith of May.
On that day, Mr. Phillips proposes to publish a very ek-.
PlEant Edition in Quarto, embellished with suitable Copper-
ates, price One Guinea and a II If, in boards; and, befofe
' ' ''h im.tvt.—be will publish another Edizitni cif the
-4xiit. Voli.h. L, prii.,teu ili ~etavo, price ..;>. ii, 0„):4,.r.
_ The entire Work will extend to four or five similar Vo-
lumes, and they will success..vely appear in London at the,
vim:. prices per Volume, as fast as Mr. Phillips receives the
Alacitscript from Mr. Washington, probably within the pre-
sent year.
No. 7t, St. Paul's Church-yard,
May 2, 18
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SCANDAI.UM MAGNA.TUAI. • • ' -
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HEREAS a Prnsecution- has been commenced
The against me JAMES COURT, of Old Cleo
Tilly ve, in
• County of Somerset, by the Right Hon. Lord Somer—
, for the Crime of Scandalum Magnatum (that•is to say)
• for -MALICIOUS and WILFUL Defamation against a
l't ER of the REA L:11 ; and whereas, in consideration of
the ruin which would be inevitable to my Family, and the
advice of his Counsel hereunto subjoined, his Lordship tfas
been induced to stop all proceedings against me ; I do declare
lterthat the Insinuations and Charges of Defrauding the
Vollar un-
4egiment of Cavalry
at , der te Cnd
ttiervi Ile, of a very large sum of, mohney,omma h whic have been
various times made, I am now convinced, and do verily
believe, to be UNP ' ROVOKED and UNTRUE ; and I.
t_tree, at my own casts, to publish this my Declaration in the
bath, Bristol, Sherburne, and Exeter journal•s, and in four
•I.ondon Daily Papers of extensive circulation, and to defray
all the legal expehces inc.orred by his Lordship, and to give
Ten Pounds fo.
troth` relict' of certain Debtors confined' far
small sums in County Jails of I Ichesterand Taunton, as
'Witness my hand this z‘th day of April, 1504. •
IANI IS COURT.
Signed in the presence of THosiAs TUCKER.
I am not much a friend of submissions °hi:red-by malicious
oft6iderS when•they tind the pressure-of the law uppti them,
but as the person against whinn the adion is t
Lord Somerville, disavows the Slander, and offers to disclaim
brough
it by public advertisement, it may enable
his Lordship-t byo
consider more favourably the applications which he -has r-
ceived. 'tut at the' same time, I wish to iinpress his Lone'.:
ship, if he does yield to theM, with the propriety Qf doing it
in such a manner, as that not only the ahsolute falsehood of
the Slander may be inade•manirest, but -likewise that the
Defendant who has unquestionably (even by the account of
these who interfere in his favour) been very busy and imper.
• linent. 'nay be made to feel, though in a mitigated ;nape, the
dap
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g",t his misconduct, so 4s to operate as a caution and an
example.

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