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London, England, 1822-04-17 00:00:00

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TO TlhlEe ItIITOR OP THE STAR .
[We feel it asthity both of humanity and justice to
niwines;rdlitos
ntti)lone following Nttlr; emitting t
feel u.uranted in 11'14°1;11er, inwehirct
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a hint-Having seen a most besit.rendbigi aciisMit in your
Paper of this day of my son lo America, you will Not he sir
prised that I saluulti take the first ;neaten; of my restinulnd
powers of reSectietr,. which yolk Paper had nearly deprived me
of, to remove, if posSible, the imp/union which such an account
Will naturally hare upon the world, and to appease the aginiaed
feelings of all friendly and humane Minds, which so awful a re.
poet may create; but which I cannot credit, until I see a con-
r6 matiaa
of his deplorable fate--and. I trust that you svillMsert
this letter to counteract, as far as it CAD now be done, the stigma
which the Glasgow and Baltimore account may east it its first
reading upon the piblic mind, both against my son and all my
lweetched fatnily.
" You will recollect that my son was declared by Mr. Pres-
ton, at one of his examinations, u being intoxicated at the sew
ceod Spa-fields Meeting: This declaration Preston Itai fre-
tjulmely declared-was fabtickted by hint, as an excuse for his
andticta most ignorant notion, as drunkenness aiwayt In every
smosible mind aggravates offence.
** My son, in. b 1 letters to me, as mere than once expressed
himself greatly mortified at the conduct of the party Who first
promised so fahe a report. .
_" My too gyrated upon that occasion before the Public, and
odds's.* the.people present unlike a drunken man; however,
his language may be deprecated by all who differed from him in
plinks, his tone of voice and delivery were certainly cool, steady.
sedate, and expressive; he had been up all night, was very warnsmad florid with walking froth Spitaldields to SpLfieldi. •
" In his own family, and amongst his particular friends, he
Was rerinikable fur his sobriety; ns, one of his own family knew
him (ft my inowledge) to have been ever in the least disguised
in liquors bin it may be believed Wit the vice might subsequently
Stow upon him; it might so, but I think that it did not.
" Soon after his landing in America, he journied to Pita-
burg, where his habits were sober* sedate, and steady ; from
'thence he travelled to Lexington and Paris, Kentucky, there be
was assistant to a surgeon, where he was considered the ism
and most scientific chemist in the.fitate a Gentleman, it was-
goon, now in London, was intimate with him there, and spooks
in the highest terms of praise of his conduct.
" From thence he removed to Nashville, he informed me, by
the desire of Mr. Poyaer."--(llere Dr. Watson enters into some
particulars relative to the Pilaff family, which we think better
omitted.)
" About March or April, 1820, an American called upirn me,
told me be had lately seen my son ; that he had married a young
Lady of Boston, the daughter of a widow of great fortune, and
that he had come in for the whole property. Subsequently, my
son sent me oVer two Nashville l'.pers, each containing an ad-
vertisement, offerinf a certain price (currency) for flax-seed ; the
Editor recommending the farmers to attend to. Mr. Watson's
advice, to Cultivate the seed, as it would be of advantage to the
State, the public being obliged to go to foreign countries for
the oil.

PIRTM,

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•" He afterward!, in rather a long letter for him (for he gene-
rally was brief), wished all the family to leave England, and par-
ticularly mentioned his mother—he wrote again to his sister, ha
Lincolnshire, to come over, that be could inttoduce her to a
most agreeable countrywoman ; be sent a letter about the same
time to my second son, inviting him over; and, in a second letter,
told hint he had erected mills which would have cost 420,000
(I supposed dollars) in England.
a It is remarkable that kr received very few of the many let-
ters I sent to him; but in some of his letters he spoke in severe
terms of me, without naming the cause, which I could not ac-
count for otherwise than from misrepresentation, and the lies of
some one either in America or England, arm I sent a !atter de-
siring hint, if• such fiend existed as could poison the mind of a
son against a father, to expose him, that the slimy reptile might
be held up to the hatred of the world.
" 'I have known my son to skew many traits of an ardent and
generous mind, to• express a high sense of honour, to have
evinced the warmest feelings of sympathy and regard far the
distressed and forlorn of every class, and always believed he
would have rather put a period to his esist,tice than die deeds
so foul as those which have appeared against him in your paper.
" I most respectfully beseech the l'uhlic send suspend their
opinions and censures, until a fartht r explanation of the Myste-
rious report; 14-taking into consideration his sense of honour-.-
his sobriety in England—the particulars of his letters—the ad-
vertisements in the Nashville papers—the evidence they contain
of his being• engaged in a respectable attd rxtriesive branch of
trade— the circumstance of a person wandering about tbr Atlantic
States of Americi personifying him, and using his name 'to ex-
tort money—and the fact that the law in America d es-pot in-
flict capital punishment but for murder and arson, altogether
cast more than a common mystery upon the account contained
in the Baltimore paper, and makes me hope it is a fabrication
of some evil mind.

" Human nature k frail. My son certainly, in one of his
first letters irom Nashville, writes, during a fit of sickness, in a
dcspondiug strain, but accompanied with some beautiful lines of
poetry of his -own coinyosing, so chaste, moral, and expressive,
as to go farther to confirm me in my opinion that some malig-
nant fate or slander (which I know but too w... 1 the power of in
destroying human happiness) attends him ro destroy a mind of
great sensibility.
" 11 he has fallen a victim in an evil moment to a morbid
stare of mind—has ceased to exert those reasoning faculties,
I once so capable of reflecting deeply upon vice and virtue, I can
but deplore the infirmities of human nature—the evil, which
have befallen my family—the distresses which have fur a lung
series of years subjected all my children to more than common
trials ; but in the bitterness of my mind I can solace my wounded
soul, and blunt the arrows which pierce it,-in contemplating that
lin precept and conduct they have always received the most vir-
tuous and moral admonitions and correct examples of a fond
mother, and of parents whose hearts have been wrung with
grief at the Into prospects which have presented themselves in
times of uncommon distress to their views, and at seeing them
compelled to drink deeply of the bitter cup of adversity.
" I am, Sir, your obedient humble servant.
" Wo. 4, Greystoke-place.
" JAMES WATSON.
Fetter-lane, April 16, 1822. S
" As a proot how little any of my family were aware of the
unhappy circumstances reported from Baltimore, and how severe
are our trials, my two remaining boys, one nearly 16, the other
14 years of age, have determined at all hazards, and under every
difficulty, to make their way to their brother by the first opportu-
nity. The poor boys area course deeply afflicted with the account,
and the forlorn picture the world now presents to their minds."

Bow.rraimr.—The business of the Office experienced a tern.
pnrary interruption in the course of the morning, by the appear-
ance of a wild-looking and seemingly half starved man, with
tattered garments, and closely-shaven crown, and without a hat,
who, advancing with long strides to the bench, desired to be
heard while he made an important declaration. His appearance
and manner rendered any order from the Magistrate for the
most profound attention unnecessary, and the strange visitor in
a foreign accent, declared himself to be the true and rightful
King of Great Britain! Sir. HALL*, the Magistrate, did not
seem impr,ssed with any extraordinary „degree of awe at the
presence of so august a personage, and asked him, quite fami-
liarly, to favour Inns with his name.—" My name, Sir," thun-
dered out the soi-disanf Monarch, is" Philip Cromwell!"
Mr. ilata.s.—" Oh! 'I suppose, then, you are a descendant of
Oliver Cromwell?"
Philip.—" Yes, he was my grandfather !"
Mr. Hart s.—" And pray where are you now residing?"
Philip.—" At my hotel."
Mr. ilat.t.s.—" Where is that ?"
Philip.—" Somerset House. But I came not here to answer
questions; I want to make my declaration in writing."
lie then looked about for writing materials, but none went
given to him. Mr. NALL% asked him if he had any famlly_P-.
He replied, " Yes; the Queen and the Princesses are in Karp
sington." Mr. Haw., asked bliss whereabouts at Kensingtent
but he did not answer distinctly, and after a few elparpstiallla
delivered incoherently, about the " steps" be had st
tie
.oab=
cover his rights, he turned about and strode out of
spite of the efforts of Mr. Hates to detain him, by aokuliilllllll,
Lions with a view to aseertattswho he was. He was middle-aged.

Coen Bittaranoe,' blase-tAint, Aran. 7.—We had a few sr-
dials from the Suffelk,coast this morning, cbitly with Whey*
and Barley, and the former article, of tine qualii). 44.14 at Mos.
day's prices • but *e continua without any dem old for the In
ferior samples. Prime malting Barley fully supported blooday's
quotation, but the ordinary sorts were dull sale, and rather
cbeaper... Deana, l'eab,atid Oats.there Is no alienation.