Star.
London, England, 1806-10-15 00:00:00

(COPY.)

SIR, Harley Rreet.67, tub September. silo&
Upon my return to town Intl night. I found your
letter of the ad iollant with its inclufures ; neither of
%hid' papers contained asy thingto alter my opinion,
or to weaken any conviCtion, erptelfed or implied in
any of my recent addreffes to the public. But I
mull decline betoming the agent fir communi.
eating to the public, what you appear to hope may
operate as a defence, or at lesft as a mitigation, of
your conduct. I (hall, however, by thit day's pod,
teadmit your letters, together with a copy of this let-
ter, to Mr CAA:mu, leaving it to him to do what be
pleafes with them. as documents belonging to a dif-
cufGoo, in which he has taken to large, in able, and
fo public fpiiited a part ; I myfelf anxiouGy wifhing
to fee them publifhed, and having no other objeCtion
to requeft the publication, than that, by the making of
fuch a requell, I might rill: the imputation of act
log in deference to you. As to the infirm:46on con-
tained in your letter of the ad infirm:, that I am only
As pretended author of the papers to which my fig-
natures are affixed, I have only to obferve, that the
eircumllance is quite immaterial, as I evidently was,
and as I hereby declare rnyfelf to be fulely and at all
times, refponfible to every one of the parties, who
may confider thernfelves as being by my flatement
affeCted ; to which 1 Leg leave jull to add, that, if
you had borrowed another name, as well as another
pen, upon the prefent occation, you mult,paye been
unfortunate, indeed, in your feteetion if your defence
had therefrom futtained any mate: ial injury.
I hare the honour,
(Signed) A. CrICHAAtit JOHCSTOME.
'to the ittiht Hon. Genera rtiz rATt.tCt.,
Secretary at War.
(.:OPY.)
SIR,
A rliugton• "tree t yth Sept. 5105.
. .

In reply to the hair I had the honour to receive
from you, on the tith inliant, I beg leave to obferve.
that my letter of the ad infant was not written with
any defign of operating as a defence or mitigation of
my condo& t and I will venture to Wert, that not a
fentence throughout the whole of it is capab'e of
bearing any fuch conttruflinn. My lag Addrefs to
you had for its objeCt, the afrveration of a Taft, in
contradietion to the Ratement you had publifhed, ac•
empiric& with written documents, proving .8 that
you received in the month of May !aft, ■ limiter
contraditlion to a flrnflee• Itatemeot in a correfpon•
dente, which at that time took place between us,
and that whatever mifunderflanding bad occurred,
had been fully explained, and from your acquiefeence
bad been fatisfaCtorily done away."
If my regime, that you would make my denial of
the charge you bad brought againft me as public as
the charge ttfelf, bore the appearance of a demand,
which indifpnfed you to comply with it, I am forty
my exprefEnns were fo far from correfponding with
my meaning ; but whatever interpretation they might
be raie@ to, it certainly was not polible to forefee.
that you would tren.fer an appeal to your own feast
of jullice and fair dealing, to fo very Orange and
whisulical a tribunal as the diferetion of Mr. Cobbett.
I dull not, however, complain of this eccentric, and
I moPs fay, untrarrantable, proceeding. mould it
lead to a faithful and untnu:ilated publication of the
eorrefciondence between us, feeling no appeehenfion
of my charatter luffering in the public eflimation,
from a toll and fair hate of the queltinn.
I am fully aware, that you incur an equal refpon.
fibility with Mr. Cobbett bimielf, for whatever may
appear in his paper und:r your lignature ; but as I
have already intimated to you, that n t variation 01
fignatare will lead me into any notice of what may
appear in 4trat paper, foteien in the goeniou between
us,. and-rtgarding only my public titanium). I thin
only add, ant In tor., ever you m.ty tliii.k pr per to
addrefs to me io ve!ciiig. I than always be ready to
returrf foch an atiNer ar one Ge-tleinan is en tilled to
receive frotn 1. Net —1 have, &c.
(Rfrnol a. FITZMILICE•
Hon. A. Coebrane J-1,11 itpae.
P. S. The circumltauces alluded to by you with

romi"hpparent difpkatnte, that et my hifiriartin:
ployed another hand than my nitik in writimeto7oo,
did not arife from any dirrefpra,. but bt searettenac
of thinking. that m cafe of a publication of the tette•,
it might be defiraltle it Amid be written in a !mfr..
writing more legible, and therePre lets liable to give
occafinn to errors than my own; and as yro may
probably fend this to Mr. Cnbbett, hari g 'orwarde..!
to him a copy of the letter to which it is a reply, I
have. for the reafon above Rated, now had recourfc
to he pot which wrote my MR.