The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-01-27 00:00:00

I have the honour to be
Your obedient servant,
J. ASPINALL.

(Nu. 3.)

Evertor, January 161 h, 1835.

Itr.v. Sta,—l this morning received your note of yesterday,
atid -Italre:ttuestiauduLtwory:young man wit -is or Atas beiu for
tannwt.tintizt past connected with the office of the Liverpool
Standard, all of whom deny most positively ever having intro-
duced you to me, either in the way you describe or in auy other
way, Its tounected with that paper.

I recoll,,et, perfectly, the interview to which you allude.
Ywr came into the publisher's oined when I happened to be
there, and stated to the as au acquaintance (certainly not as au
editor) the grievance under which you laboured, by the non-
insertion of some letter, which to this day I have never seen.
That I did or could promise its insertion, I most solemnly deny;
and I do so, not only from my perfect recollection of the cir-
cumstances, but upon the ground that I have not, nor had I
then, any inoiv right than yourself to promise or to control the
Insertion of anyArVcle or letter iu that paper. I feel botiud to
add; that had I liossessed the power, I 'Cannot think I should
have promised the insertion of a letter written by you, without
having first read IL The letter you speak of shows that you•
have written for the Standard; but notwithstanding this, I can
assure you I have no intention of awarding to yotr what I dis-
claim for myself, either the merit of the able and powerful
articles which the enemies of that paper have been compelled to
admire, or any of those occasional remarks which even its
friends may not admire.

I,do not' think it necessary to notice the remarks you bitve
made on the purport of your letter to the editor of the Standard
the motives_ of Sir Thomas Brancker, or the talent and attaiu:
ments of Mr. Hull, having nothing to do with the present
question ; but I confess that I cannot conceive what motive you
could have in giving currency to a report concerning me which
I'arn at a loss to know how you could, yourself have believed,
The point at issue between us is this. Yuu stated to Mr.
Alderman Wright that you had been introduced to mo is the
editor of the Standard. This-statement you have repeated in
Your note to myielf. The statement I declare to be untrue, as
appears even upon your own showing, and I Claim from you a
contradiction of it. This I expect you will not refuse, otherwise
I shall feel ikonly an act of justice to myself to publish this Cor-
respondence. _ , .

I am,
reverend sir,
Your must obedient servant,
THOMAS B. kluasrALL.

The Rev. J. A!pinall.

(No. 4.)
January 17th, 1835.
Stn,--I have received your note of yesterday ;in reply I will
make a few remarks upon it as briefly as I possibly can. The fact
of the interview between us at the office of the Liverpool Standard
you now admit. '1 an glad. you admit so much. With regard
to your denial of my statement, as to what took place at that in-
terview, much as-I hate the use of hard words, and unwilling as
I may be to take you for my example, yet, on this occasion, I
feel obliged lo meet:you in your own languagq and to declate
the utter alt4' total untruth of every word and, every letter in
which the denial i$ couched, and again to vouch forthe correct-
ness of what I asserted in my former note. Your quibble and
harping upon -the word introduction is absurd. I never charged
any young man attached to die Standard office with fin-wally
introducing me to you as the editor of that paper., I said, and I
repeat, that having asked to see the editor, I was 'desired by the
young than in the shop to walk forward into the inner room,
where I should find hint ; and that, upon entering that room, I
found you, end to you stated my business, and from you re..
'ceived an answer. Your attempt at a sneer upon the subject
of writing fur the Standard, as it was,lieneatb a gentleman to
make it, so do I hold it. beneath one to give an answer to it.
You say that you are at a loss to know why I should have given
currencY•to tire fircts I have mentioned. Had I hadthe slightest
idea that there was any secret in the matter, I never should;
althongh I have had some cause of complaint against the
Standard, since, from its'first appearance to the'present day it
has (if not hysternatically, at all et, ents, so often accidentally as
to' approach to something like a system) been in the constant
habit of dragging my name before the public.
I have only further to observe, that your threat of publishing
this correspondence has no terrors for me. On the contrary, I
will cheorfully abide the verdict which will be thereupon pro-
nounced. 1-lad I:indeed; from the first been avva.o that it was
to appear before the eye of the world, I certainly should not, in,

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the course of it, have mentioned names and circumstances
which I brought forward, as I before stated, simply to mark
the time when our interview took place, as closely as I could, in
what Itonsidered a private communication to yourself. But,
of course, your own feelings of delicacy must be your guide.

However,unpleasant this altercation ►nay have beco►ne, I beg
you will not forget that, in the first instance, I sought fora
personal and ►uutual explanation through Mr. Robertson Glad-
stone, which you declined.
I have the honour to be, .
Your obedient servant,
T. 13. llursfull, Esq.

J: ASPINALL.

'• (No. 5.)
ilfonday, Jan. 19th, 1834.
Ruv. Sin,—l feel very sorry to be obiiged to address you
again, Ido not see any reason you have to congratulate your_