Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1801-1806, 1802-10-23

that the trush Is not to be found in the aida.
VII of Rhody ChaPpell, on which sheir sasruen
is grounded.
Every candid man ought TO refsa ppon
the evil consequences likely TO follow from the
|feqUent practice ef f~esring iallely and TO
|Ieooiled that Detection is not often TO be ex-
|p,eted. If fer issasre. petjSa, znSsr ne elsak
|D fyfeH95i2. 4r6so, man infe ssEvsyja,e2 qciib
s,n. alone. ia ,ke svsp'sg. and ,bsn makss a fa5f
,spsy,. asS ft..esrs 70 a, bslp 10 fbe force II ks
sasb 10 Be rcEasd'
lie, evsfy honen man frown on thofe who
have again and again been detected in Offering TO
the public JaH sshss''.
RHopy CHAPPELL of Newport, being
dnly fsoro, declares, that fhorrly after Mr.
Rutedge's arrival from Carolina. ihe ~ss eni-
ployed by Mrs. Rutledge in making up linen
and other articles for the family. That for
three weeks after their removal (which ihc be-
lisves wss about the middle of Julyl Into the
hooie now occupied by them in Warrington.
Squafe, fhe was at Mrs. Rutledges very fIc-
qaently--lhe believes every other day--that
dunog thin period. Mrs. Rutledgc wn put TO
great Inconvenience for the want of maid FER
yapt--was dehrous Of hiring one. and had ap
piled 10 this deponent for the purpofe--,has ihe
was well acquanted with all the fervants OF the
family and that TO the bea Of her knowledge
ard belief theie Was no white girl or woman. no
young female doneNic ofany fort, n,he fani.
iy, az the time alloded TO; and that had these
been any fuch ihe is perfuaded il could not pof-
Ably have eicaped her recollection.
RHODY CHAPPELL.
State Of Rbed,- LGasS. is.
Srssrn 10. ibr i3'b day IF O7O6er. 4. ID. lSoa.
Bsfsr me b. HAZARD. \
DEP. See'y q PA5. Not. er. 1T.
! hereby certify, that Mr.. Rusledge receiv-
ed from me the keys OF Miis Mumford's houie,
in Wellington Square, on the 9th day of Ju-
ly, 1901 and that he took pchethon OF the
fame. on the faid 9th or the day following.
GEORGE LAWTON,
OF. "a, 1901. .igm for Myi Namfsyx.
HANNAH OsBoRYs, wife Of William or
borne, OF Newport, on oath declares. that her
daughter Polly lived with Mr.. Rutledse about
two weeks, lar fummer. so,, and lett Mr.. Rn'-
ledges ieryice about the lait Of July, to the bef
of her recollection.
HANNAH OSBORNE.
Nfqspou, Is. Newport, Ott. 10th, 1904,
In perfon appeared Hannah Oibornc, and made
oath 20 the truth of the above depo6tion. by her
fubicribed, before THOMAS PECKHAM.
Jyiae sfibe Peace.
The two mothers declare, that every word,
inherited in our lan. under the head of" More
falfe fwea,ing TO be expected" is true the Mer-
curry to the contrary notwithstanding.
The Citizens Of Newport, who have wit
ncfYed the part which C<iaad KixIoek has rakcn
in Rafkdge's efair. will give to his oath the
fame credir which they give to Rafhsdge''--
neither mole nor lcfs-When they read the
Ratcmcnr of the younger Richa'dfon l~hom
they know 10 be . man Of truth) they will rca-
dily form their opinions OF Knloek's report OF
the conversations between them, near the
Theatre, &C. SC. When they are ioformed,
that the elder Mr.. 'Richardfon (whoie credit no
one will dare to impesch 10 a court OF la~) did
relate the fads, to different perions. at the time
when the circumstances were freii in his mind,
prec;fely as they are related in his depohtion,
and thar minute, thereof were, in Aug. 1901,
icnt on 10 the feat of Government, they will as
readily form their opinions Of Kirlock's yeporf OF
the converfa,ion held between them, at Mr..
Rchardfoas houfe.
2mses.--Did John Rutledge. Reprefeo-
tatiye in Congre6 from Sca,h- Carolina, write
the two counterfeit letters, under Gefroys hg-
nature, directed to tho Pieiident of the Uoi,ed
States. anI publilhed under the title OF " Rat-
ledge's Letters :"
As/1Oey.---Yes.
BscAusr. that the opinions of more than
forty Of the hrit men in the State, as publicly
exprencd, after examination Of the hand writing
of the forged letters, and comparifon thereof,
with Rasedge's acknowledged hand writing,
are, that tie hand writing is she isme--which
is no more nor Icf, than that Tn Rafledss.
member of Congseis, did actually write the tao
forged Letters.
Because, that the Poa. Mater and his
Afiftsnt. ,ciiify that shefe letters we're broughr
to them by RnleIgts girl, and that they were
in Ra,Llgs1 hand writing, though difguifcd.