The recorder. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1802-1803, 1802-11-03

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years after her death. No manulcript IN hcr
hand writing has ever been produced nor
any authority, either real, or fictitious from
her relations, or under the fauctioh OF any
name good Bad, or Indifferent. IL rs ar
Armed by the Monthly Reviewers, thasa part
of the book was wrote upon a wager nc
file was affirmed TO be ini'n'taese, a bet
was laid and wen, that fourth volunsef
could be written that bou!d meet with equal
fucceis as ITS predeceiIors. The lady her,
felf was poeteis. She had quarrel with
Mr.. Pope, and ihc attacked him in poetry;
or At leait in rhine, with great BITTERNESS. IL
he had wrote tbole letters, ihe would have
printed them. They contain nothing that
prudence could have required her to 1upprelS,
except Ave hundred travelling hbs. We give
this Specimen OK forgery,, as one cat Of a
thoufand.
Arother impoRurc Of the fame kind APP
pcared, about feven years ago, in Phila-
deiphia. Letters fran General Y,aH5ingien,
da,'sng tbf lats mar. to Lind lpotSingieH.
They were f.iid TO have been toundiu tonne
OF The generals baggage, that had been taken
at New-York. A former edition of them
had been publiihed ut New Y ork !, snd Mr.
Bachc, who was candid, but fometimcs niE-
taken, obliged the world with iecund PHI
iadciphian edition. Il was itnpoiiihlc to read
"a page N this nontepic, without ohferYino
that General Wilmington hal never wrote
a word OF it. But Ike the puhiiiicr of Mon
tague's letters, rhc publitler OF the hrf edi =
ton did not pretend that he could exhibit ghe
original manuscript, ROT did he give any &C
count where it was TO be found. The thing,
therefore, juif Knocked itieif on the head,
and died without i3ual, or aroan,
Ii We pats from the forging of books u
THAI OF pieces for the newspapers. we find
rapid deiccnt from bad 70 worfe. We can,
for thc moi part, trnh them in the detail OF
deaths and marriages, of murders and exc
ecnsions, OF iires and fhipwrccks, OF ducls
and horte races, Of aiialins who have broke
Jail after Receiving lentenoe of death, and
of others, who walk the itreets with ilupunity.
bur very often, they fpeak of the lecret de-
hgns of Kings and Empcrors, of the wonder4
ful revolutions that are juf going 20 break
out, OF the deitination of aee,s, and the march
of armies, the Projected invaion of pro-
vinccs, and conqueit of nasions, and of the
confidential diicougle that occurs in the cio-
fee, between king and bis mipiifcr, when
not q joAl 1Oas frejfaf. In all theic cafes, ald
they are extremely numerous, it is ten TO
one that the whole tale is an utter fiction. VIZ
do not here lpeak OF An Ukale, a bulletin, a
London Gazette, or an address upon
liberty ana eqaaiity from she hrG Conful.
hcte papers often contain abundance of
iEnpoiturc. But for this the printer is not
accountable, unlefs when he writes them
hinlfelf, or gets ion,etody to write them
for him. Our ceniure is particular
" pointed at thofe profound rahjet7arai pa
ragraphs, which have been copied from a
London editor, who writes them perhaps for
half a crown q piece; and at thofc eternal ex :
frHf7s Of hrtfr5, 70 frequently wrote to
himielf by the Prefdentiai Gagbipf, the father
who bids you lax at bis cbiidreAt
In the iift Of newspaper inrpofufes, we
cannot help ranking ibis lEftfr fran Colam-
BIS. Mils Smith and the Moniteur tell us
that 1t bears every mark of authencty. We de-
fy them to fhew 70 much as one. Where is
the original manuicripei They fay that it
was found at Jamaica. At what time was II
found! BY whom was it found What has
become oft? We mutt fee the origina! let
Ter, that may be composed with the Spanifh
language and hand writing of the fifteenth
century Without 1 previous ard fat sfac-
tory aniWer 70 All thcic queries, lG cannot ;rc
worth while TO look info The letter. We ha1s
only the prompt ahcftiou of the bi0aiteHt,
a French ncwsprintct, perhaps as plr;, as
hpPant,and as igncrant,as Miis Smith herfelf,
or as impudent and abandoned as Jones, or
Cheetham. We have prompt aHcrton from
the hiitofians Of Robinfon Crufoe, of Hurlo
hrunbo, Of St. George and the Dragon.
here never yet was an impoAurc printed,
but what couSA have been Gipported by thu
affirmation q its pubii(her. a ffory without
evidence ct fome kind always goes .or no.
NOTES -.
She was mother to Montague, author
OF the treatic on Aneitnf RebabGtki. IL is
OF her that Mr.. Pope fpeaks in the following