The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-03-24 00:00:00

" PURLOINING AMERICAN PAPERS."

TO THE PROPRIETORS OF THE LIVERPOOL CHRONICLE
I observe, by the Liverpool Chronicle, of thts day, a
paragraph, relating to an investigation which took place be-
fore Mr. Rushton, headed " Purloining American Papers."
In this paragraph you state several untruths ' • and you,make
use of my name in such a manner as would lead the public
to believe, that I had surreptitiously obtained your papers,
from the Mona, steamer, without authority. This, in fact,
you, Mr. Nightingale, swore, when you knew, at the time
you took the oath, that we had acted in concert for fully two
years ; and that you, Mr. Nightingale, as the representative
of the proprietary of the Liverpool Chronicle, had, in hun-
dreds of instances, authorised me, as I have you, to forward
the papers to London. To prove this, there are a great
many individuals willing and anxious to testify. I shall not,
in The Standard, enter into particulars as to Mr. Dignan's
charge • but will simply observe, that I challenged him, at
the police-office and do so now, to prove that any files of
American papers were directed for him in the parcel which I
forwarded to London for you.
The animus of the proprietors may be seen from the cir-
cumstance, that, about three weeks ago, a London morning
newspaper proffered to me the Liverpool agency which you
held, the editor stating, that Ross and Nightingale had so
infamously neglected the business that a change must neces-
sarily be made. Hence, the malicious feeling of all parties
connected with the Chronicle.
It is false that I was brought up before Mr. Rushton. I
attended at the office, in consequence of a message, or re-
quest, from Mr. Dowling, and which would have passed un-
heeded, but that I was desirous to gain some information of
my own American papers, which I ought to have obtained
by the last seven packet-ships, and which I believe to have
been stolen.
1 told you, Mr. Nightingale, when I left the Police-office,
that I wished you had pressed the case ; that I despised and
defied you, and, yet, you wish to show the public, that you
made it a matter of courtesy, or kindness, to refrain from
prosecution.
I beg to acquaint you that my solicitor is instructed to
commence an action against you immediately, and that all
the circumstances, together with matters relative to the Cus-
tom-house have yet to appear elsewhere.
I have the honour to be your obedient Servant,
JAMES HENRY REVIS,
Daily Correspondent to the Globe, London Shipping
and Mercantile Gazette, &'c.
Saturday, March 21, 1840.

There would not be a packet from New York for Liver-
pool on the first instant. owing to the Europe not having
arrived to take her place in the line.
MOST IMPORTANT TESTIMONIAL OF LIEUT. MASTERS
H. P. LATE OF THE ROYAL NEWFOUNDLAND VETERAN
COMPANIES.
(CERTIFICATE.) St. John's, Newfoundland,
12th March, 1838.
Conformably to a Garrison Order, dated 9th March, IB3S,
for the assembly of a Medical Board, to take into consider-
ation the state of health of Lieut. Masters, R. V. C., and to
report accordingly. We, the undersigned, Staff Officer and
Civil Practitioner, forming the Board authorized by that or-
der, after a strict examination of the case of Lieut. Masters,
consider him as entirely unfit for military duty.—Lieutenant
Masters has for several years been afflicted with Rheumatic
Gout, which has produced serious functionary derangements
of his stomach, liver, and other viscera, and finally given
rise to infirmity, weakness, and enlargement of the articu-
lations, especially of the ancle joints ; his general health and
constitution is much impaired, and therefore, in our opinion,
he is incapable of further service.
(Signed) ANDW. FERGUSON, M.D.
Staff Assist.-Surgeon.
EDWARD KIELLY, Surgeon.
LETTER OF LIEUT. MASTERS TO MR. TROUT, 229, STRAND,