The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-11-04 00:00:00

JO 1N TAYLOR, Esq

" The Original, of which this is a Copy, was posted on
Saturday Night, 29th October, 1842, at a quarter before
Ten o'clock, by me, DANIEL SIMMINS."

* The Address referred to contained a statement relative
to the degree of support afforded to certain Public Charities,
and is the one out of which the subsequent controversy arose.

[2.]
" Liverpool, 31st October, 1842

" Mr. D. M'CLELLAN, "
" SIR,—In reply to your letter, banding me a statement of
Charities I do not contribute to, I also hand you enclosed, a
List of what I do give, and insist upon your publishing it im-
mediately, or 1 shall be compelled, in my own defence, to
take proceedings against you. It would have been only cour-
tesy on your part, to have informed me earlier, so as to aria-
ble me to counteract this, and other malicious and personal
aspersions, unfairly made by you.
" Who is Mr. D. M'CLELLAN? the general inquiry is.
" Your's respectfully,
"JOHN TAYLOR."

The List above referred to, as enclosed, is identical with
the one published in the Reply issued by Mr. Taylor's Com-
mittee, and which, with the original statement, is already be-
fore the Public.

[3.)
(COPY.)

,
" Tuesday Morning, Ist November, 1842,
" Quarter-past Seven o'clock.
" To the Chairman of Mr. Taylor's Committee.

Six,—l hereby distinctly avow myself to have been the
author of all the Addresses issued by Mr. Fawcett's Com-
mittee, as well as of one signed ' An Elector.'
" I do not hold you responsible for any of the Addresses
issued by Mr. Taylor's Committee, but fully believe that
you have been grossly imposed upon by somebody : first, in
having allowed yourself to be the Chairman ; and secondly,
in having been prevailed upon to sanction the Address issued
last night by your Committee, and bearing your signature.
" Now, Sir, 1 have a right to demand (and you, as a fair
and honest man, cannot refuse to grant it) the names of the
gentlemen who compose your Committee, and who with
you, have dared to sanction an Address in
which I 4111;called
an atrocious liar.

" I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
" DAVID MICLELIAN.'

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A Letter, explanatory of an Expression used In No. 3.
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may be considered as having been intended to be offensive
t(:) you ; and as this was and is very far from `my intention, I
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beg to convey to yon the following exPlanatlon;
"The passage to which I allude is, ..I fully believe that
you have been grossly imposed upon in allowing yourself to
be Chairman.' In using' this expression I did not mean to
say that you had been imposed upon by allowing yourself to
he the Chairman of the Conservatives of Pitt-street Ward,
but in becoming the cinti„,au tof a Committtee to return
Mr. Taylor. In fact, I.bad forgotten that you were the
Chairman of the Conservatives last year, and in that cap •
acity
I neither say, nor think anything disrespectful of you.
" The moment I observed what I had written this morn-
ing, was open to this construction, 1 sat down to write this
explanation, which is due to you. Assuring you that I have
no feelings but of respect for you,
" I am, Sir, your obedient Servant,
" DAVID NI'CLELLAI.\ '
"To the Chairman of Mr. Taylor's Committee." .

[s.]
Copy of a Letter sent on Wednesday, the 2d of November,
1842, to Samuel Holme, Esq.. and also forwarded in du-
plicate to the• Chairman of Mr. Taylor's Committee;
" November 2d, 1842.

To SAMUEL HOLME, Esq
sin.—con behalf of Mr. Favrcett's Committee, I band you
a cheque on the Bank of Liverpool, for £2O, to be placed against
a similar amount from Mr. Taylor's Committee, to be divided
among the Charitable Societies of Liverpool, for the relief of
temporal human svffering, on your deciding (after having