The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-11-07 00:00:00

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Aigburth, 3rd November, 1848.
REV. AND DEAR SIR,—Mr. Inman has just informed
me, to my very great satisfaction, that you do not insist
on an acknowledgement of your right in this matter, as a
preliminary to our reconciliation and Christian intercourse,
but that you are willing to refer that to subsequent dis-
cussion by competent tribunals.
This being the case let us meet as brethren, and, in such
a conference, I will gladly and readily repeat to you what
I have already said in full committee, of my sincere regret
at having been induced to use words which ought not to
have been used under any provocation, and which were
calculated to inflict a wound not designed by the speaker
of them.—l am, reverend .and dear sir, yours truly,

HUGH M'NEILE.

Rev. W. Withers Ewbank.

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Everton, 4th Nov., 1848

REV. AND DEAR SIR,—I am quite willing, as I always
have been, on the supposition that it could be done fairly,
to refer the question of right to some competent tribunal.
I stated, therefore, to our mutual friend, Mr, Inman, and
I conclude that he communicated to you, that the resolu-
tions sanctioned by yourself, which, while they pronounce
no opinion on my right to speak, distinctly assert your
right to prevent me, placed us in unequal positions. I
am, therefore, to understand that, in the event of refer-
ence, those resolutions, against which I protest as most
unjust, are to be distinctly excluded from any case to be
submitted to referees. Such being the case I have much
pleasure in saying, that I am quite satisfied with the
latter portion of your note, and, dismissing from my mind
every painful feeling which late events may have caused,
I am quite ready to meet you on our former terms of
Christian intercourse.—l am, reverend and dear sir,
yours faithfully,
WM. WITHERS EWBANK.
Rev. Dr. M`Neile.

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Everton, 4th Nov. 1848:

REv. AND DEAR Stn.,—Mr. Tnman made no mention
to me of the resolutions of the committee, nor did I even
think of them, when I wrote you a hurried note last night.
I have never had any idea that there could be a bona fide
reference of the matter, because I do not see where a tri-
bunal, on all hands acknowledged to be final, is to be
found. When Mr. Inman and Mr. Barker told me that
you no longer required an acknowledgment of your right
to speak, as a preliminary to our reconciliation, but that
you were willing it should be referred, I wrote what I di],
not with any distinct notion that there could be an actual
reference, but simply to set the question of right in abey-
ance. You supposed that Mr. Inman had mentioned the
reso'utions to me, and, 'therefore, you appeared to have
conch lered my note defective in making no allusion to
them ; but Mr. Inman appears to have thought that they
had nothing to do with the matter immediately in hand,
and, therefore, did not mention them to me.
I never thought of them, nor do I think now that any
reference to them is called for as a preliminary. They are
the resolutions of the committee, not mine : though it is
true I gave my opinion at a meeting of gentlemen, (not a
committee,) that they ought not to be suppressed,—that
no unauthorised meeting ought to suppress what a com-
mittee had resolved.

As an expression of the deliberate judgment of a majo-
rity of our committee, I cannot agree with you in calling
them " most unjust." My feeling is that unless we yield
to a majority, we can have neither unity nor peace. I
wrote to say so to the secretaries, before I knew hcw the
committee would decide; and had the' dechion of the
committee been, that you had an " undoubted rig] t" to
speak, I would long since have publicly acknowledged my
mistake in preventing you. They decided that I had a
right to prevent you, but you did not deem yourself bound
by that decision ; and now you require, that I should agree
with you in allowing them to go for nothing in a reference.
am content to do so ; and, should this explanation of
how this matter stands be satisfactory to you, we may now
leave all matters of difference.—l am, reverend and dear

sir, your's truly, HUGH M`NEILE.
Rev. W. 'Withers Ewbank.

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Everton, 4th Nov. 1818.

REV. AND DEAR SIR,—As you state, in your rote of
this morning. that you are content to allow the resolutions
to go for nothing in a reference, should that reference be
made, I am quite satisfied, and shall be most happy to
sume our friendly and Christian intercourse.-1 am,
reverend and dear sir, your's faithfully,
WM. WITHERS EWBA,NK.
Rev. Dr. M'Areile.